Perry, Elizabeth. Papers of the McCue, Martin, and Perry families [manuscript] ca. 1800-1930.
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Papers of the McCue, Martin, and Perry families [manuscript] ca. 1800-1930.
There is a partial chronological listing in the control folder, and an incompleted slip list. McCue family papers include a sermon book, 1800-10, of John McCue; correspondence of John Howard McCue and his wife S.C.E. McCue regarding efforts to release their son John Willis McCue from prison-- for a killing while with Mosby's rangers-- the defense of young McCue by Milton Whitney, 1865 May 12 [16 l. transcript (typewritten)] Correspondents includes John Minor Botts, John Daniel Imboden, James Lawson Kemper, Alexander Rives, William Cabell Rives, and Henry Alexander Wise. Papers of William T. McCue include business and political correspondence, and materials pertaining to the Va. Democratic Party, 1890-1910. Correspondents include: William Jennings Bryan, John Warwick Daniel, James Taylor Ellyson, Henry Delaware Flood, Andrew Jackson Montague, Claude Augustus Swanson, and Henry St. George Tucker. Martin family papers are personal letters within the family, 1854-87; correspondents including: J. Thomas R. Martin, confederate soldier, his parents John S. Martin and Susan P. Martin, and sister Harriet R. Martin Perry, also Beall Martin who writes of Europe in 1919. Perry family papers include letters, 1850-70 of Rev. William Perry of Maryland to his wife Harriet R. Martin Perry, and a diary, 1868-69. Correspondence between Mrs. Perry, her husband and children: Susan Perry, Russell Perry, William Willie Perry and John Martin Perry who describes life at U.Va. in 1887. The collection contains a few, infrequent references to slaves including a letter, 1856 December 29, from Lexington mentioning "excitement about some fears lest there should be a Negro riot"; and a letter from a Confederate soldeir, 1864 July 17, requesting his uncle to trade him a slave for a good horse. Also, albums, account books, receipts, bills, wills and deeds belonging to all three families. Marriage licenses, 1805-09 [6 items]--Literary digest liberty map of the Western front ... of the great World War, 1918 [Cloth. with index].
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