Compare Constellations

Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892. Papers of the Randolph family [manuscript], 1790-1903.

Title: Papers of the Randolph family [manuscript], 1790-1903.

The collection, which contains correspondence of the Randolph and Nicholas families, centers on Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Topics include slavery in Virginia, particularly the emanicipation bill of 1832; University of Virginia, national, state and Albemarle County politics and government; internal improvements; the Second Bank of the United States and the independent treasury system; scientific agriculture; the disposal of the estate of Thomas Jefferson and the impecunity of the Randolph family; Thomas Jefferson Randolph's biography of Jefferson; John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina nullification crises; Thomas Jefferson Randolph's political campaign in 1832; and the building of a railroad through Albemarle County. The collection also contains scattered business and legal papers including an 1801 land grant to John Lewis signed by James Monroe; correspondence, 1870-1871 of Sarah Nicholas Randolph with Harper and Brothers, N. Y. regarding The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson and an edition of his letters; and correspondence, 1889-1891 between Ellen Wayles (Randolph) Harrison and J. R. Lamb Co., N. Y. regarding a stained glass memeorial window. There is also a considerable amount of miscellaneous printed material. The accounts include one small slip docketed by Jefferson April 22, 1819; and three accounts with John R. Jones, one brought over to the estate of Jefferson and two directly with the estate. Also of interest is a letter (in another hand) from Madison Hemings to [Thomas Jefferson?] Randolph, 1833 Jan. 15, requesting payment for his work. Correspondents include Philip Pendleton Barbour, Charles Lewis Bankhead, James Breckinridge, William H. Cabell, Dabney Carr, Wilson Miles Cary, Charles Cocke, John Hartwell Cocke, Francis Corbin, John Andrew Gardner Davis,, Robley Dunglison, John Patten Emmet, William Maxwell Evarts, Edward Everett, Alexander Garrett, William Branch Giles, Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Duff Green, Randolph Harrison, Madison Hemings, Samuel Leitch, James Murry Mason, Philip Norborne Nicholas, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, William Cabell Rives, Samuel Smith, George W. Spooner, John Timberlake, Valentine Wood Southall, Nicholas Philip Trist, Daniel Wolsey Voorhees and Joel Yancey.

ArchivalResource: 3,200 items.

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/u3902961#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=8&xywh=-129%2C-136%2C5085%2C4227 View

Brisseau, Peter. Papers of Peter Brisseau [manuscript], 1840-1849.

Title: Papers of Peter Brisseau [manuscript], 1840-1849.

In a note, 1849 December 22, Peter Brisseau writes to "Dear Sir" enclosing money for a subscription to the "Planter" and requesting information on the purchase of pigs. Included are a list of commodities and a statement of trade on the James River and Kanawha Canal.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647809809 View

Cabell family. Papers, 1774-1941 (bulk 1831-1879).

Title: Papers, 1774-1941 (bulk 1831-1879).

Chiefly correspondence, 1833-1879, accounts, 1847-1879, bonds, deeds, agreements, and land, legal, and estate papers of Henry Coalter Cabell (1820-1889) of Richmond, Va., while a student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, as a Confederate Army officer, and relating to his law practice and his land and real estate interests. Subjects mentioned in the correspondence include the estate of James Alston (1774- 1850), the Coal Valley Coal Company of Richmond, Va., the James River and Kanawha Company, the Kanawha Salt Company of Charleston, W. Va., the Kentucky and Great Western Railway Company, Norwood High School and College in Nelson County, Va., and the Richmond and York River Railroad Company. Some of the accounts concern visits to mineral springs in Virginia and West Virginia. Also included in the collection are letters, 1831-1838, and commonplace books, 1840-1850, of William H. Cabell (1772-1852) of Richmond, many concerning repairs to his home, "Grey Castle"; correspondence, 1835-1876, and legal papers, 1848-1851, of Edward Carrington Cabell (1816-1896) of Attatulga plantation, Jefferson County, Fla., and Tallahassee, Fla., while a student at the University of Virginia, president of the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad Company, and while serving in the U.S. House of Delegates, including correspondence with his overseer and lists of slaves, and correspondence concerning the Tredegar Company, Richmond, Va.; and estate materials of Ephraim Stanfield (d. 1841) of Hanover County, Va., and John D. Webster (1816?-1873) of Richmond.

ArchivalResource: 886 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30385395 View

Poore, Robert H. Business ledgers from the town of Palmyra and Fluvanna County, Virginia [manuscript], 1789-1875.

Title: Business ledgers from the town of Palmyra and Fluvanna County, Virginia [manuscript], 1789-1875.

The collection contains day books, journals and ledgers documenting mercantile and milling activities, chiefly of the Shepherd, Timberlake and Hartsook families, including A. G. Shepherd, R. C. Strange, Martin Tutwiler, and Thomas H. Tutwiler. Also a lawyer's account book of Robert H. Poore, lawyers' fee books, and some Fluvana and Louisa County court record books, particularly sheriff's receipt records. Includes entry for Thomas Jefferson(vol 44), the James River and Kanawha Canal.(vol. 27), a loose blacksmith account (vol. 9), the estate of Martin Tutwiler evaluated in U. S. and Confederate currency (vol. 33), and a smiths shop with Sunday School records (vol. 54).

ArchivalResource: 58 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694087753 View

Feamster Family Papers, 1794-1967, (bulk 1813-1946)

Title: Feamster Family Papers 1794-1967 (bulk 1813-1946)

Members of the Feamster (Feemster) family. Diaries, notebooks, correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, and miscellaneous material illustrating the activities of four interrelated families from 1794 to 1967 whose members were engaged in farming, the law, medicine, the military, politics, religion, and other pursuits in Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and Maryland. The collection also contains genealogical information about the Cary (Carey), Mathews (Mathews), Alderson, and Feamster families.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items; 5 containers; 2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010313 View

Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay), 1809-1885,. Washington Family papers, 1770-1883.

Title: Washington Family papers, 1770-1883.

The papers consist chiefly of correspondence and documents related to the Washington family residing near Winchester, Virginia. The papers include household account, 1770-1772, of Ann Washington; a petition, 1 June 1784, of landowners in Lexington, Va., for a year's extension to complete construction of buildings delayed by the Revolutionary War; a letter, 22 October 1784, to Benjamin Stoddert, Georgetown, D.C., regarding shipping concerns; and correspondence, 1787-1791, of William Fleming, regarding the settlement of a friend's estate, including a letter from Caleb Wallace. There are also miscellaneous papers, 1784-1842, of the Washington family, regarding financial matters; trade between the United States and Great Britain; household accounts, including rent due to George William Fairfax; claims for military service; and land for sale near Red Sulphur Springs, Va. (i.e., W. Va.). The collection also contains papers, 1790-1805, of William Augustine Washington, including accounts for household supplies and shipping costs, and a receipt; an appointment, 19 February 1791, signed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, of Arthur Simkins as judge for Edgefield County, S.C.; a letter, 22 March 1794, to Bushrod Washington, regarding the disputed ownership of a slave; and a letter, 2 October 1795, to Etienne Dutilh, Philadelphia, Pa., regarding cargo shipments from London. The papers also contain a waxen seal, 1799, of the State of Georgia; a letter, 18 December 1800, from George S. Washington to James Madison, regarding the impact of the Hessian fly on wheat crops; a letter, 23 December 1800, from David Holmes, Washington, D.C., regarding the election of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States; and a letter, 26 June 1803, from Henry Lee while at Botetourt County, Va., regarding business matters. Also an unsigned letter 27 July 1814, regarding campaigns around Buffalo, N.Y. during the War of 1812; a letter, 1 February 1819, to Samuel McDowell Reid, Lexington, Va., regarding legislation to improve navigation on the James River; a letter, 1 June 1820, from William H. Cabell, Richmond, Va., regarding financial matters; papers, 1826-1828, regarding 202 acres land in Troup County, Ga., granted to John McDowl; and a letter, 4 November 1837, from George Corbin Washington, regarding financial matters. Also a letter, 29 December 1837, from F.W. Pickens to his father, regarding Southern politics, family matters, and the health of his slaves; a letter, 3 April 1839, from David Campbell, Richmond, Va., to William C. Rives, Albemarle County, Va., regarding appointing an agent to secure foreign loans for the James River and Kanawha Company; and aletter, 30 September 1841, to A.P. Upshur, Washington, D.C., soliciting a naval appointment. Also a letter, 13 August 1842, from Thomas Clayton, Washington, D.C., regarding President Tyler; a letter, 5 November 1843, from James McDowell, Richmond, Va., regarding financial matters; a legal opinion, 4 December 1844, signed by George Corbin Washington, regarding lands abandoned under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819; and a letter, 13 January 1845, from Edmund W. Hubard, Washington, D.C., to Winfield Scott, regarding possible changes to the militia system. Also a letter, 26 July 1845, from William Smith, Washington, D.C., to James K. Polk, soliciting a promotion in the U.S. Department of the Treasury for his brother James; and a letter, 17 November 1845, to John Randolph Tucker, Winchester, Va., regarding deeds issued to his father, Henry St. George Tucker. Also a letter, 8 December 1847, from Gideon J. Pillow, Mexico City, Mexico, to his wife, regarding a painting of the Battle of Chapultepec, the court of inquiry initiated against him by Winfield Scott, and family matters; aletter, 6 July 1848, from James McDowell, Washington, D.C., regarding a visit to Stauntan, Va.; and a letter, 24 October 1857, from T.S. Arthur, Philadelphia, Pa., accompanying a shipment of a volume of his works. Also a letter, 20 December 1857, from Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Washington, D.C., regarding financial matters; a note, 19 December 1858, from John Letcher, Washington, D.C., complying with an unspecified request; and a military bounty, 10 March 1860, signed by James Buchanan, for eighty acres land in Hudson, Wis., granted for service in the War of 1812. Also notes, 13 May 1861, from F.W. Pickens to R.S. Ripley to Edward Manigault, authorizing the transfer of a "twelve pounder" cannon from the Citadel; a pay certificate, 1863, for a Confederate soldier killed in the Battle of Sharpsburg; a letter, 22 February 1864, to David D. Porter, regarding the fitting of naval vessels; and a detail pass, 5 August 1864, for William A. Pierce to oversee work on a plantation in Jefferson County, Ga. Also a letter, 20 March 1876, from Fitzhugh Lee, Stafford County, Va., answering a request for an autograph letter from Robert E. Lee; an autograph, n.d., of G.T. Beauregard, from a letter addressed to Robert E. Lee; a letter, 2 May 1878, from Jefferson Davis, New Orleans, La., to G.T. Beauregard, regarding an invention to manufacture inexpensive gas; and a decree, 19 February 1883, of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, calling for a runoff election for the coroner of Columbia County, Ga.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56133192 View

McDaniel and Lee. Bills of Lading, 1851.

Title: Bills of Lading, 1851.

Lists of goods shipped by McDaniel and Lee, from Lynchburg to Richmond, Virginia, on James River and Kanawha Canal boats; 2 of the lists are on printed forms, others are manuscript lists.

ArchivalResource: 1 binder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29677076 View

Reid, Samuel McDowell, 1790-1869. Papers, 1776-1867.

Title: Papers, 1776-1867.

Papers of Samuel Reid, a planter of Lexington, Virginia, who succeeded his father, Andrew Reid, as clerk of the Rockbridge County court; consisting of receipts and promissory notes, accounts for the plantation and mill and for estates of which he was executor, charges made to him for blacksmithing and iron repairs, and stock certificates and reports for the James River and Kanawha Company.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 3 oversize volumes) and1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145786493 View

Talley, Madison. Madison Talley papers, 1812-1928 (bulk 1812-1879)

Title: Madison Talley papers, 1812-1928 (bulk 1812-1879)

The collection consists of the papers of Madison Tally from 1812-1928. The papers contain 67 items dating from 1812-1879, and a smaller group of six dating from around 1903-1928. The majority of the former group are letters from members of Talley's family, including his sister Martha Gay and cousin Robert Anderson. These contain mainly family news, but there are also references to hog, cotton, and tobacco prices, and the buying of slaves. Scattered among the letters are a few itemized business accounts of Talley's, including two for groceries and clothing. The collection contains twenty-six receipts for money paid by Talley from 1834-1862, twelve for the purchase of slaves and fourteen concerning transactions with Hannibal Harris, the majority of these involving Talley's purchase of two tracts of land in Powhatan County. A surveyor's map of one of these is in the collection. Also included is an agreement for the lease of a mine in 1879, and an 1837 circular concerning a meeting of the James River and Kanawha Company. A folder of six items circa 1903-1928 contains clippings and personal correspondence of the Thomas Bolling Gay family of Atlanta, Georgia. These contain some references to Gay family history and genealogy.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77672646 View

James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.). Mortgage, between this company and the Board of Public Works of Va. in return for a loan from the State, signed by the president of the company, Joseph C. Cabell [manuscript] 1842 May 9.

Title: Mortgage, between this company and the Board of Public Works of Va. in return for a loan from the State, signed by the president of the company, Joseph C. Cabell [manuscript] 1842 May 9.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647958790 View

Bernard family. Papers : of the Bernard family, 1742-1867.

Title: Papers : of the Bernard family, 1742-1867.

The collection includes the will of Robert Bernard (1742 November 25) of Gloucester County, Va.; John Bernard's correspondence (1785-1797), accounts (1766-1799), sheriff's accounts (1787-1791) in Buckingham County, Va., Tillotson Parish accounts (1773-1774) and meeting minutes (1785), and estate inventory (1801). Also includes William Robert Bernard's correspondence (1788- 1802), accounts (1794-1799) concerning land purchases, deputy sheriff's accounts (1788-1793) in Buckingham County, Va., deed (1804) for land in Buckingham County; and a list (1775) of subscribers to pay William Cunningham for training the Buckingham County militia. There are letters (1811-1816) to Willis Wills (Ky.) concerning land in Buckingham County; an affidavit (1841) concerning the value of two slaves belonging to Elizabeth Bernard Wills; a copy of Elizabeth Bernard Wills' will (1855); Wills' family deeds (1832, n.d.) for land in Buckingham County and Richmond, Virginia; and shares in the James River and Kanawha Canal Company. Also includes a Page Mercer letter, 1863 July 10, to Heningham Elizabeth Blair Claiborne concerning the Gettysburg campaign.

ArchivalResource: 74 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29391696 View

Bolling, William,. Poe-Allan-Ellis papers, 1803-1881.

Title: Poe-Allan-Ellis papers, 1803-1881.

The collection contains letters, personal records, and financial accounts of John Allan and his business partner Charles Ellis and their families and friends. Includes twenty-nine letters written by Edgar Allan Poe, mostly to his foster father John Allan, and a manuscript page of Poe's "Poetic Principle." Also includes correspondence between Thomas H. Ellis and Edward V. Valentine, letterpress accounts, price lists, and letters sent between London and Richmond concerning the Allan-Ellis business. The business records consist of letterbooks, cash books, tobacco books, journals, and ledgers of the firms of Ellis and Allan, Thomas and Charles Ellis and Company, and Ellis and Sons of Richmond, Va., general merchants and buyers and sellers of tobacco. Included are papers of the counterpart firm in London, England, Allan and Ellis, as well as those of several subsidiary companies organized in Lynchburg and in Amherst County, Va., for the buying and selling of tobacco. Charles Ellis, Jr. wrote descriptive letters from West Point during the 1930s. Other correspondents include Archibald Cary, Carter Page, William Bolling, Armistead Gordon, St. George Tucker, Powhatan Ellis, Thomas Mann Randolph, John Randolph, Jesse Burton Harrison, James Maury, and John H. Cocke of Bremo Plantation. Included are papers, 1830-1850, of the James River and Kanawha Company, chartered by the state to build a canal from Richmond to West Virginia along the James River.

ArchivalResource: 1, 030 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30352495 View

Abell, Alex G., fl. 1844,. Virginia letters, 1818-1910.

Title: Virginia letters, 1818-1910.

A letter, 1818 May 25, J.H. Eustace, Richmond, Va., to Dabney Minor, discusses his business as a broker, and the profit he can make for Minor. A letter, 1821 December 9, William [Z?] Hall, Norfolk, Va., to E.A. Russell, Petersburg, Va., concerns commodity prices, particularly corn which is in demand for the West Indies trade, and also discussing salt, flour, rum and lard. A letter, 1835 September 9,Thomas A. Ogden, Abingdon, Va., to the Rev. Cortlandt van Rensselaer regrets not meeting and notes [Presbyterian?] church matters in Abingdon, Va. Letters, 1839 January 7 and February 8, Campbell Tarr, Richmond, Va., a delegate from Brooke, to his wife Frances, discusses family matters, particularly a land sale by her father. The second letter has an affectionate addtition to his sons John Curran and William Hunter and a note concerning the delivery of some wood. A letter, 1841 November 13, William S. Coates, Richmond, Va., to Edwin Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., urges Lewis to settle in Richmond, describes a tableaux, notes that all the young men belong to debating societies and that a recent topic was South Carolina and nullification, the lack of subscriptions to a dinner in honor of John Tyler, "his accidencey" and a successful one for John Minor Botts. A letter, 1844 March 21, K. Tyner, Macon, Ga., to Alex G. Abell, Washington, D.C., discusses a political biography of John Tyler Abell wants distributed, and notes that there are "so few Tyler men here ..." A letter, 1845 January 20, John J. London, Amherst Court House, Va., to his brother Daniel H. London, Richmond, Va., concerns an execution against "William" due. He has persuaded the sheriff to sell stock and furniture rather that "the girl." He is hiring out the slaves again and hopes the land will soon be sold and the matter closed. He also mentions some stockholders against Joseph C. Cabell's re-election [as president of the James River & Kanawha Canal Company.]. A letter, 1847 July 21, James T. Sutton, Jr., pension agent, Richmond, Va., to William R. Allen, Burlington, N.J., concerns [a pension?] for a Mrs. Welch. A letter, 1848 January 11, G[ideon] D[raper] Camden, Richmond, Va., to Colonel Burton Despard, Clarksburg, Harrison County, Va., reports on transportation and politics, including an effort to get proceeds from the sale of forfeited lands for an academy, favorable legislation for roads, turnpikes and macadamizing in Harrison County instead of a railroad, and reapportioning representation in the General Assembly to give more seats to the area west of the Allegheny. A letter, 1847 October 6, R.D. Shepherd, Boston, Mass., to his brother Abraham Shepherd, Martinsburg, Va., comments on the wonder of trans-Atlantic travel by steam, and travel of a "James" on business matters interrupted by the yellow fever in New Albany [Miss.?]. A letter, [1848] John H. Kain, [Winchester, Va.?] to John Brocklesby, Hartford, Conn., discusses the "warm devoted piety in the Epis[copal] Church of Virginia" and the difficult task of raising children. Draft of a broadside to merchants, [1840s?] for a William Wallace, Richmond, Va., concerning fines levied by the James River and Canal Company for overweight shipments. A letter, 1849 February 22, John Kenney, Harrisonburg, Va., to James McDowell, reports that the "danger of a split in the democratic ranks is over" and no one is interested in opposing McDowell. A letter, 1852 October 15, James Thomas, Jr., Richmond, Va., to Fisher & Co., Boston, Mass., concerns cigar or twist sales in California. A letter, 1854 March 16, E.P. White, Port Tobacco, Md., to Edmund Ruffin, Hanover County, Va., invites him to Caroline County in his capacity as a commissiner of the state agricultural society. A letter, 1854 August 28, Nicholas Mills, Richmond, Va., to Motz and Boehm, Philadelphia, concerns a tobacco shipment. A letter, 1855 June 25, T.H. Bakewell, Elizabethown, Va., to Mary Tomlinson, West Middletown, Pa., sends family news and comments on deaths in the neighborhood. A letter, 1856 March 6, from a journeyman woodworker in Richmond to his brother Edwin N. Bowers, in Ohio, discusses living expenses, his work in his cousin's pattern shop, the weather and the Episcopal Church. A letter, 1859 March 5, Benjamin F. Dickinson, Richmond, Va, to Motz and Boehm, Philadelphia, Pa., concerns a shipment of cigars or twist. A printed circular signed in type, 1859 June, from Archibald Thomas, to J.R. Nelson of Amissville, Rappahannock County, Va., requests payment for a bond donated to the New Orleans Baptist Church. A letter, 1869 June 11, J.E. Jones, Richmond, to R.S. Burrows, regarding the purchases of horses for a street car company and the selection of a route. A letter, 1910 July 15, John S. Wise, Cape Charles, Va., to "George" inviting him to come visit and bring the automobile, commenting "What a glorious thing to feel that one can move in July without killing the thing he's driving." A letter, 1910 November 11, Henry S. Huidekoper, Philadelphia, Pa., to John S. Wise, praising Wise's "delightful" book on the presidents, twelve of whom he knew and noting that Wise's estimate of Garfield is "just right." A letter, 1910 November 20, John S. Wise, Cape Charles, Va., to Henry S. Huidekoper, responding to Huidekoper's letter, disparaging Theodore Roosevelt whom he finds a "disappointment ... uncandid & untruthfu ... crazed with egoitism," and also commenting unfavorably on Wiliam Jennings Bryan and agreeing with Huidekoper's assessment of Hayes.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64589714 View

Harrison family. Papers, 1725-1907 (bulk 1790-1837).

Title: Papers, 1725-1907 (bulk 1790-1837).

Chiefly correspondence, 1807-1837, accounts, 1800-1832, and miscellaneous papers of Randolph Harrison (1769-1839) of "Clifton," Cumberland County, Va., member of the Virginia State legislature, 1825- 1827, and Commissioner of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company. Correspondents include Dabney Carr, John Hartwell Cocke ([1780-1866], mentioning the Southampton Insurrection), Asbury Crenshaw (of Virginia Mills, Buckingham County, Va., concerning financial arrangements with his wife), Walter Lloyd Fontaine (lawyer representing Mrs. Asbury Crenshaw), and Moncure Robinson (while in France and Philadelphia, Pa., concerning canal development). Correspondents also include Harrison's wife, Mary (Randolph) Harrison ([1773-1835] in particular concerning his business and political affairs in Richmond, Va.), sons Archibald Morgan Harrison and Peyton Harrison, and daughter Williana Mortimer (Harrison) Irving (concerning her education in Richmond, Va.). Accounts concern, in part, agricultural operations at "Clifton" and other Cumberland County plantations and include accounts for the hire of slaves. Also included are letters, 1790-1835, written to Mary (Randolph) Harrison, primarily concerning family and social affairs, from her children, including Susanna Isham (Harrison) Blain (concerning, in part, her education in Richmond, Va.), Archibald Morgan Harrison and his first wife, Catherine (Heth) Harrison, Henningham Carrington (Wills) Harrison, Mary Randolph (Harrison) Harrison, Peyton Harrison and his first wife Jane Cary (Carr) Harrison, and Jane Cary Fitzhugh (Harrison) Randolph, and from friend Elizabeth Meases (Barclay) Harrison.

ArchivalResource: 1, 247 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31276635 View

Hagley Museum and Library. Regional Economic History Research Center. Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

Title: Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

The Map Project Data Files include all the work undertaken by the project team, including much that was excluded from the final publication.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122397685 View

Fontaine family. Papers, 1760-1892.

Title: Papers, 1760-1892.

Primarily papers of Walter Lloyd Fontaine (1787-1860), lawyer of Buckingham County, Va., including correspondence, 1810-1860, accounts, 1810-1861, and miscellaneous legal documents. Correspondents include Archibald Austin ([1772-1827] concerning abolitionists), William Sheridan Cabell ([1793-1862] concerning internal improvements), James Caskie ([1792- 1866] concerning the Bank of Virginia), Cary Charles Cocke (1814-1888) and John Hartwell Cocke ([1780-1866] concerning the construction of a dam by the James River and Kanawha Company near New Canton, Buckingham County), Walter F. Smith (concerning Hampden-Sydney College), and others (concerning Asbury Crenshaw (d. 1851) and Virginia Mills, Buckingham County). Accounts concern fees paid to Fontaine for legal services and fees paid by him for medical services, as well as fees paid to the Female Collegiate Institute, Buckingham County. Legal documents include land grants, deeds and agreements, many concerning Virginia Mills. Also included are estate papers of George Nicholas (d. 1812), David Ross (1740?- 1817), David Ross (d. 1821), and James Henry Fontaine (d. 1827), all of Buckingham County.

ArchivalResource: 929 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30658848 View

Minor, John, 1761-1816,. Papers of the Stanard family [manuscript], 1761-1865.

Title: Papers of the Stanard family [manuscript], 1761-1865.

Papers, chiefly of Robert Stanard [1781-1846], of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., and Richmond, Va. The papers consist mostly of Stanard's legal and business correspondence. There are also scattered legal documents, copies of Spotsylvania Co. court records, and some personal correspondence from his father Larkin Stanard, brothers Hugh and Thomas Stanard, and Beverly Stanard, and son, Robert C. Stanard, a University of Virginia student, General John Minor and Alexander Spotswood. Topics include tobacco shipments, slave hiring, agriculture, estate settlement, an 1815 suit against Henry Lee and Bushrod Washington, land sales, the James River and Kanawha Canal Company, and the Whig Party.

ArchivalResource: 822 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647896501 View

Ellis & Allan Company Records, 1783-1889

Title: Ellis & Allan Company Records 1783-1889

General merchants and tobacco traders. Business and personal correspondence, journals, ledgers, daybooks, cashbooks, tobacco books, and other mercantile records of the firms of Ellis & Allan, Thomas & Charles Ellis, Ellis & Sons, and Thomas and Charles Ellis & Company of Richmond, Va. Includes records of the counterpart firm in London, Allan & Ellis, as well as those of several subsidiary companies organized in Lynchburg and in Amherst County, Va., to buy and sell tobacco.

ArchivalResource: 80,000 items; 633 containers; 132 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998014 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. James River and Kanawha Company records, 1834-1896.

Title: James River and Kanawha Company records, 1834-1896.

Contains letters sent to the board, reports, financial statements, petitions, resolutions of the company, cancelled bonds, coupon bonds, warrants from the company to the Second Auditor to pay interest due on bonds.

ArchivalResource: 1 ft. 2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/256857174 View

McDowell, James, 1795-1851. James McDowell papers, 1770-1915 (bulk 1820-1850).

Title: James McDowell papers, 1770-1915 (bulk 1820-1850).

The collection includes correspondence, writings, financial and legal material, and other papers of James McDowell. Most of the papers are letters, addresses, and essays relating to affairs in Virginia and the nation, including slavery in the territories, internal improvements, temperance, nullification, Democratic party politics, colonization societies, collegiate and literary societies, and colleges in Virginia.

ArchivalResource: About 1900 items (4.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14409797 View

Botetourt County (Va.) Maps of the land taken for the use of the James River and Kanawha Canal, 1848 circa

Title: Botetourt County (Va.) Maps of the land taken for the use of the James River and Kanawha Canal, 1848 circa

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi03525.xml View

Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 1761-1820. Papers of Wilson Cary Nicholas including material on William and Mary College [manuscript] 1751-1850.

Title: Papers of Wilson Cary Nicholas including material on William and Mary College [manuscript] 1751-1850.

Papers of Wilson Cary Nicholas chiefly concern the management of his estate Mount Warren on the James River, and discuss slaves, crops, plantings, tobacco sales and mill operations, as well as further litigation about the Ambler estate. Specific topics of interest include the Albemarle militia (1795); investments in western lands and interest in the James River and Kanawha Canal Co.; contracts for supplying pork to the U.S. Navy; papers for his term as collector of the port of Norfolk, Va.; accounts of his flour mill at Warren, Albemarle County, Va.; Agricultural Society of Albemarle; and Central College subscriptions. Also papers of the Richmond branch of the Bank of the U.S.; correspondence with John Nicholas describes politics in New York in the early 19th century; James Morrison's letters contain material on Kentucky politics; material on the War of 1812 when Nicholas was governor; notes endorsed by Thomas Jefferson, 1817-1819, and a letter 19 Aug. 1796 from Jefferson. Among the more important correspondents are John Adams, John Ambler, Mary Ambler, Samuel Athawes, Richard Barbour, James Breckinridge, Brown & Rives, Joseph C. Cabell, William H. Cabell, Dabney Carr, Ellen Carr, Hetty Carr, Hollins Carr, Peter Carr, Sidney Carr, Wilson Miles Cary, John Hartwell Cocke, Peter V. Daniel, George Divers, Ellis and Allan, Ferdinando Fairfax, George William Fairfax, Joshua Fry, Robert Gamble, Gibson & Jefferson, Francis Walker Gilner, William B. Giles, William Waller Hening, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John Marshall, James Maury, Thomas Walker Maury, Robert Morris, John Nicholas of Albemarle County, John Nicholas of New York, Philip Norburne Nicholas, Richard Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, William Randolph, Henry St. George Tucker, John Wickham, William Wirt.

ArchivalResource: 3,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962716 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Semi-annual interest on guaranteed bonds of the James River and Kanawha Company, and on bonds of the various connections as per act of March 23, 1839, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1856-1887.

Title: Semi-annual interest on guaranteed bonds of the James River and Kanawha Company, and on bonds of the various connections as per act of March 23, 1839, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1856-1887.

These records contain a chronological list of interest payments on bonds for the period between January 1, 1856 and January 1, 1887.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427872211 View

Baugh, Leonidas, 1816-1884. Papers of Leonidas Baugh [manuscript], 1819-1930.

Title: Papers of Leonidas Baugh [manuscript], 1819-1930.

The collection contains correspondence, business and legal papers, genealogical data, photographs and political papers. Correspondence of Baugh often concerns Abingdon and Washington County, Va., politics, particularly the Funder-Readjustor controversy over the Virginia debt. Other topics include internal improvements, the California gold rush, the literary fund and politics in 1851, and school teaching in Alaska, 1925. Financial and legal papers pertain to estate settlements, nail and iron production, wool carding, tanning, harness and shoe making, newspapers "The banner" and the "Abingdon democrat," and other business ventures in Abingdon and Washington County. Political papers, chiefly re the debt controversy, include broadsides, speeches by Frank G. Ruffin, Justin S. Morrill and others, tickets, election returns, registered voters lists, and editorials. With these are some children's school records, unidentified photographs, a copy of the military record of a black man, Henderson Wells, genealogical material re the Crawford family, Abingdon property assessments, 1880, and some financial and legal papers of the Whitehead family. Correspondents include Isaac Chapman Fowler, Abram Fulkerson, and Fayette McMullin.

ArchivalResource: 544 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647825799 View

Reid family. Papers, 1763-1880.

Title: Papers, 1763-1880.

Includes business transactions and correspondence of Andrew Reid, 1751-1837, and of his son, Samuel McDowell Reid, 1790-1869, both clerks of the court of Rockbridge County; business and legal papers relating to their extensive enterprises; family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 ft. (183 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23434016 View

Bolling, Robert B., fl. 1843,. Cabell family papers [manuscript, 1796-1867.

Title: Cabell family papers [manuscript, 1796-1867.

Papers of the Cabell and related Bolling families contain slave censuses from "Bolling Hall" and "Pocahontas," Goochland County, Va. Individual topics include the War of 1812, a tedious legal case involving Judge Tucker, construction of a mill and a barn, "Soldier's Joy," "Corotoman," "Edgewood," the Female Seminary, Lynchburg, transporting hired slaves to Richmond, the James River and Kanawha Canal Company and company, tobacco prices, a Federal raid near Farmville in 1864, an attempted polygraph purchase, the building of a boat to transport wheat, Joseph C. Cabell's interest in running for office, and a "delicate chemical apparatus," possibly for the Universityof Virignia. The collection also contains account books, including one for tobacco sales, 1791-1792 and 1827-1845 that also contains miscellaneous accounts for Thomas Eston Randolph. Account book, ledger, memoranda book, and slave censuses for the Bolling family, 1796-1866, contain plantation records including crop lists, expenses, manager's wages, midwife accounts, slave hires and sales, and rations and clothing allotments for field hands with the note "All lost when freedom came." Estate papers of William C. R. Newburn, William Bolling administrator, 1835-1836, pertain to the sale of Newbern's slaves and includes names of slaves, purchasers and prices. There are also lists of taxable property, 1844 and 1862 that mention slaves; a note on the death of Anne Blaws Cocke Cabell and slave girl from diphtheria in 1862; an 1814 marriage indenture of William Newburn and Sarah Randolph, listing slaves; and an Hungarian Fund one dollar note, 1852. Correspondents and recipients include Robert B. Bolling, William Bolling, Arthur S. Brockenbrough, John Grattan Cabaell, Joseph C. Cabell, Nathaniel F. Cabell, Patrick H. Cabell, Sally F. Cabell, William D. Cabell, William H. Cabell, Dr. George Callaway, John Coalter John Hartwell Cocke, Isaac A. Coles, James Dinsmore, Thomas Dobson, G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Jacques Flouest, William J. Lewis, John Neilson, Reubens Peale, Charles Perros, C. C. Read, James Scruggs, P. G. Tucker, and the Rev. R. H. Wilmer.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31253978 View

James River and Kanawha Company papers [manuscript], 1856-1877.

Title: James River and Kanawha Company papers [manuscript], 1856-1877.

The collection includes lists of slaves hired to work on the James River and Kanawha Canal for the years 1859 and 1860. The lists include the owners' names and places of residence, slaves' names, occupations, and rate of hire. Among the slaves hired are men owned by Albert Gant, and J. H. Briggs of Albemarle County, Va. The 1859 document lists 81 slaves; the 1860 lists 94 slaves. The collection also includes three receipts for slave hires: 1865 Jan. 1, for the hire of a single slave; 1865 Jan. 20, for payment for "63 hired slaves ... for returning to the service of the company this year" and "33 hired slaves ... who did not return to work for the company this year"; 1865 May 20, for the hire of a single slave. The collection also includes two bills of lading, 1856 Nov. 25 for the canal boat "Dart" and 1857 Feb. 16 for the canal boat "J. Rowland." The collection also includes 9 bearer bonds dated variously 1867, 1870, and 1877.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648007930 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Sinking Fund : monthly statements, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1857-1865.

Title: Sinking Fund : monthly statements, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1857-1865.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Sinking Fund. These records list totals for redemption fund (balances and disbursements), interest on public debt, and James River and Kanawha Company for the period January 1, 1857-April 3, 1865.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429234788 View

James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.). Papers, 1839-1975, 1868-1881, 1940-1975.

Title: Papers, 1839-1975, 1868-1881, 1940-1975.

Photostatic copy of $5 bonds dated 1839; printed "Tariff of Tolls" (1868, 1871, 1877, 1878); "check roll of mechanics and laborers" on Boat No. 6 (January 1881); printed freight tariff rates of Richmond & Alleghany Railroad (1880); newspaper and magazine articles about the canal (20th century).

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30083831 View

Davidson, James D. (James Dorman), 1810-1882. Papers, 1805-1885.

Title: Papers, 1805-1885.

Papers of Davidson, a lawyer of Lexington, Virginia, including correspondence, personal financial records, legal accounts, travel diaries, and memoranda concerning his court cases. Also included are correspondence and records of members of his immediate family, especially two of his sons who practiced with their father until Greenlee was killed at Chancellorsville in 1863 and Charles A. died in 1879; and ledgers of Dorman and Davidson, kept by Davidson and his cousin, Charles P. Dorman, while they were partners, 1832-1841.

ArchivalResource: 31.4 c.f. (74 archives boxes and 13 volumes); plusadditions of 0.4 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145787585 View

Breckinridge, James, 1763-1833. Papers, 1805-1831.

Title: Papers, 1805-1831.

Chiefly correspondence of Breckinridge of Botetourt County, Va., and Washington, D.C., with Robert Gamble, a commission merchant in Richmond and at Balcony Falls, Va., and in Jefferson County, Fla., concerning the Breckinridge family, William H. Cabell, Claudius Crozet, Letitia (Breckinridge) Gamble, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Watkins Leigh (concerning a duel), James Monroe, John Hampden Pleasants, John Preston, Miles Selden, and John Tyler; and the Botetourt County courthouse, Fincastle, Va., fruit trees, the James River and Kanawha Canal, and slavery.

ArchivalResource: 110 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31752365 View

Garth, Jesse. Business papers of Jesse Garth [manuscript], 1816-1844.

Title: Business papers of Jesse Garth [manuscript], 1816-1844.

Business papers of Jesse Garth, including papers from Charlottesville, Va. and Albemarle County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647893874 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. James River Company : ledger, A, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1823-1839.

Title: James River Company : ledger, A, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1823-1839.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Internal Improvement Fund: Canals. These records contain ledger A which lists revenues from the Blue Ridge Canal, Kanawha road, and Kanawha canal in the form of tolls and rent. Also included are accounts for salaries, various expenses, loans, dividends, and a surplus fund. Records cover the period between June 30, 1823 and September 30, 1839.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427399560 View

Jordan and Irvine (Firm). Records, 1803-1871.

Title: Records, 1803-1871.

Business papers of John W. Jordan and John Irvine of Rockbridge County, Virginia, ironmasters, builders, merchants, and millers, representing their activities both before and after they formed their partnership in 1821. The records contain communications with local planters and merchants such as Robert Brooks, John F. Caruthers, William H. Graves, James McDowell, Jr. (1795-1851) who became governor, John Ruff, and William Willson; with business agents and dealers in Lynchburg and Richmond such as Samuel McCorkle, Bernard Peyton, Robert White, and Lewis Webb & Co.; and with ironmasters such as William Lusk, William Weaver, and Jordan's son, Samuel Francis Jordan. Included also are letters and receipts from lawyer James D. Davidson and county clerk Samuel McDowell Reid; one volume showing property tax levies and collections for residents of Rockbridge County in 1806; and an iron forge account book, 1843-1844, kept by Joseph Y. Trevey and Washington Jackson.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 c.f. (7 archives boxes, 2 index boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145786574 View

Locher, Charles Hess, 1821-1889. Ledger for the James River Cement Works [manuscript], 1854-1879.

Title: Ledger for the James River Cement Works [manuscript], 1854-1879.

The volume contains accounts, 1854-1856, with the James River & Kanawha Canal Compnay; Charles Irving, editor of the Lynchburg Republican; the Farmer's Bank of Lynchburg; Phoenix Foundry; Daily Richmond Whig; Blue Ridge Railroad; James River & Kanawha Canal Co.; North River Navigation Company; James River Quarry; Virginia Central Railroad; Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company; Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad; Orange and Alexandria Railroad; York River Railroad; and the Virginia Military Institute. There are also pages of accounts for "Negroes" [no individual names] including labor, insurance and clothing, 1854, 1855, 1856. There is a separate account on page 38 for "Ned Hudson Free Negro." In 1878 and 1879 the last half of the volume was reused as a general store and family account book.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776906781 View

Williams, James Peter, 1844-1893. Papers of James Peter Williams [manuscript], 1854-1889.

Title: Papers of James Peter Williams [manuscript], 1854-1889.

Include personal and business correspondence, 1854-1889, work reports, water contracts and water rent accounts, minutes of the board of directors, bills, receipts, accounts, freight notices and rates, insurance policies, ledgers, and letterbooks relating to general business, building of canal trade, James River and Kanawha Canal Company, competition with railroads, and family affairs. Also include papers of Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railroad and the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad. Correspondents include Charles S. Carrington, John W. Johnston, Edward Dillon, Thomas Ellett, William P. Munford, Henry Chester Parsons, and members of the Williams family. Also include correspondence, 1861-1865, of James Peter Williams with members of the Williams family concerning artillery and fortifications near Yorktown, Va., the burning of Hampton, Va. (1861), John Bankhead Magruder, winter quarters, war news, the Battle of Seven Pines, generals Jackson, Lee, Meade, Grant, and Bragg, the Shenandoah Valley Campaign (1862), tearing up roads and railroad tracks, the battles of Fredericksburg, Va. (1862) and Chancellorsville, and deaths of relatives. Topics also include the Richmond Howitzers, the Gettysburg Campaign and battle, the Battle of Second Winchester (1863), clothing, a mess cook recalled by his owner, the Mine Run campaign, picket duty, speculation on troop movements, the Seige of Petersburg, and family affairs.

ArchivalResource: 700 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647849670 View

Brooks, Edward, fl. 1808,. Papers : of the Cabell family, 1808-1889.

Title: Papers : of the Cabell family, 1808-1889.

The grant, from Virginia Governor William H. Cabell to Edward Brooks, is for 14 acres in Essex County, Virginia. The resolutions, 1835-1836, are of the Board of Directors of the James River and Kanawha Canal Company concerning the duties of the president of the company. The catalog, 1875-1889, is of thelibrary of Nathaniel Francis Cabell.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31253971 View

Lynchburg Transportation Museum Papers, 1890-1983, 1960-1969.

Title: Lynchburg Transportation Museum Papers, 1890-1983, 1960-1969.

Newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, and postcards about the canal packetboat "John Marshall" and a steam locomotive featured in a Transportation Museum in Riverside Park, Lynchburg, Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; 4 binders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30001087 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Transfer of stock books for James River and Kanawha Company, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1825-1865.

Title: Transfer of stock books for James River and Kanawha Company, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1825-1865.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Internal Improvement Fund: Canals. These records contain transfer of stocks from April 1, 1825-January 13, 1841; May 23, 1860-March 31, 1865, principally from the Bank of Virginia to Baring Brothers and Company of London.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427865511 View

James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.). Announcement of appointment of commissioners, [1832].

Title: Announcement of appointment of commissioners, [1832].

"The President & Directors of the James River Company have appointed the following named gentlemen commissioners to receive subscriptions to the stock of the James River & Kanawha Company in the County of Harrison ..."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52779256 View

Breckinridge family. Papers, 1740-1902.

Title: Papers, 1740-1902.

Includes correspondence and accounts, 1788-1832, concerning James Madison and commerce with France and Great Britain, steamboats, Farmers Bank of Virginia, James River and Kanawha Canal, an earthquake, 1812, and theatre fire, 1811, in Richmond, Va., the Virginia State Penitentiary, Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia, Botetourt Springs and Grove Hill plantation in Botetourt County, Va.; slave lists, land records and legal notes concerning an estate in Jefferson County, Fla.; and genealogical notes concerning the Breckinridge, Cary and Selden families.

ArchivalResource: 331 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30383508 View

Jordan, William H. Sales contract for canal boat Louisa, 1874.

Title: Sales contract for canal boat Louisa, 1874.

Contract to sell the Louisa to William Peters; terms of contract specify that Peters is to carry products and supplies for an unnamed furnance; the boat was to run between Buena Vista and Lexington, Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30089819 View

Scott, Mattie, b. c.1879. Scott family papers, c.1850-1930s, 1930s.

Title: Scott family papers, c.1850-1930s, 1930s.

Mostly handwritten genealogical notes and correspondence related to genealogical research; also, some original documents relating to the Scott family of Lynchburg, Virginia, such as Charles Scott's agreement to build a dam near Lynchburg for the James River and Kanawha Canal, deeds, an invitation to a ball held at Pace's Warehouse in Lynchburg, and a photo (c.1895?) showing structures along Blackwater Creek, including a dam, the 6th Street covered bridge, and what is probably Langhorne's mill; and other items.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30050274 View