Saunders family. Papers, 1798-1903.
Title:
Papers, 1798-1903.
The collection includes personal, business, and political correspondence, 1804-1857, of Fleming Saunders (1778-1858), attorney and circuit court judge of "Flat Creek," Campbell County, Va., along with personal accounts and miscellany; and family correspondence, 1841-1867, of his wife, Alice (Watts) Saunders (1797?-1867). Also, includes correspondence, 1826-1868, of John Blair Dabney (1795-1868), Episcopal clergyman of "Vaucluse," Campbell County, Va., sermons, 1862-1867, and miscellany; and correspondence, 1832-1883, of his wife, Elizabeth Lewis (Towles) Dabney (1801-1883), including many letters written by family members who were teachers. Also, includes correspondence, 1840-1902, of Peter Saunders (1823-1904) of "Bleak Hill," Franklin County, Va., while a student at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., and as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates; accounts; legislative records (in part, concerning the election of judges and state officials); and records as a justice of the peace for Franklin County; and family correspondence, 1846-1903, of his wife, Elizabeth Lewis (Dabney) Saunders (1830-1904). Also, includes scattered correspondence of Maria Louisa (Dabney) Carrington of "Ingleside," Charlotte County, and while teaching school in Richmond, Va.; of Chiswell Dabney (1844-1923) as a student at New London Academy in Bedford County, Va., and as an aide to General Jeb Stuart of the Confederate States Cavalry; and of Fleming Saunders (1829- 1902), while serving in the 42nd Virginia Infantry Regiment of the Confederate States Army; and miscellaneous papers of other members of the Carrington, Dabney and Saunders families.
ArchivalResource:
3,571 items.
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