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Thomas family. Papers of the Thomas and Hurt families, 1813-1886.

Title: Papers of the Thomas and Hurt families, 1813-1886.

The collection consists chiefly of the business papers of Benjamin Hurt, Thomas Hurt, James Thomas and Ira Lomax Thomas. Almost all concern the sale of tobacco in Richmond.

ArchivalResource: 600 (ca.) items.

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James Thomas papers, Bulk, 1852-1861, 1850-1879

Title: James Thomas papers, Bulk, 1852-1861 1850-1879

This collection contains business and personal correspondence, orders, price bulletins, and other papers, relating to the tobacco business of James Thomas, the tobacco industry in general, and the economic life of Virginia (1850s). Includes information on Thomas' assistance to the Virginia Baptist Seminary (now the University of Richmond). Correspondents and persons mentioned include J. L. M. Curry, George Frederick Holmes, and Basil Manly.

ArchivalResource: 12.0 Linear feet; 23 boxes (14,008 items)

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Beale family. Beale and Davis family papers, 1836-1920, 1933.

Title: Beale and Davis family papers, 1836-1920, 1933.

Correspondence, diaries, and other family and business papers of the Davises and their children, with scattered business items for other relatives. The letters document home and religious life; Methodist church affairs on several North Carolina and Virginia circuits; college life at Randolph-Macon College, the University of Virginia, Wesleyan Female College, and Petersburg Female College from the late 1840s through the 1850s; a rumored slave insurrection in Murfreesboro, N.C., 1856-1857; secession politics in North Carolina and Virginia; Civil War preparations and camp life, especially with the Potomac Rifles and the Topographical Engineers; teaching in the postwar period in private schools and at the University of Virginia and Virginia A & M College (now Virginia Polytechnic Institute) in Blacksburg; and farming in Westmoreland County, Va. The diaries (53 v.) provide extensive information on the daily family and religious life of Joseph and Anne Davis, 1838-1883, and the farming, social, religious, financial, school, and family affairs of their children, 1856-1860 and 1881-1920. Diaries appear for Joseph and Anne Davis; Robert Beale Davis, John W.C. Davis, and Martha ("Nannie") Davis Beale. Locations documented in the collection include Murfreesboro, N.C., and Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Lynchburg, Boydton, Charlottesville, and Hague, Va. Scattered business items include letters, 1855-1860, from tobacco factors to James Thomas, Jr., relationship unknown, of Richmond, Va., and to John and William Murphy, cousins of Anne Davis, of Westmoreland County.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1090 items (4.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25327572 View