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Peckatone papers, 1713-1809.

Title: Peckatone papers, 1713-1809.

Collection includes scattered legal, financial and personal papers of members of the Corbin, Lee, and Turberville families who inhabited Peckatone plantation in Westmoreland County, Va. It illuminates the history of Virginia's trans-Atlantic tobacco trade, plantation management, and family relationships. Papers of Hannah (Lee) Corbin (1728- 1782); her romantic partner, Dr. Richard Lingan Hall (d. 1774); and Hannah's son-in-law, George Turberville, figure most prominently.

ArchivalResource: 79 items.

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Ethel Armes Collection of Lee Family Papers, 1671-1936

Title: Ethel Armes Collection of Lee Family Papers 1671-1936

Correspondence, architectural plans, genealogical papers, maps, legal papers, clippings, and other material assembled by Armes in preparing her book, (1936). Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees

ArchivalResource: 500 items; 3 containers; 1.2 linear feet

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Ethel Armes Collection of Lee Family Papers, 1671-1936

Title: Ethel Armes Collection of Lee Family Papers 1671-1936

Correspondence, architectural plans, genealogical papers, maps, legal papers, clippings, and other material assembled by Armes in preparing her book, (1936). Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees

ArchivalResource: 500 items; 3 containers; 1.2 linear feet

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Lee, Cazenove G. (Cazenove Gardner), 1882-1954,. Commercial and legal documents and letters, 1672-1841.

Title: Commercial and legal documents and letters, 1672-1841.

Consists of letters and other documents that refer to commercial, mercantile, and legal problems between 1672 and 1841. The deeds and surveys are for land in Westmoreland and Northumberland Counties, Va. Included is a relinquishment of dower rights by Martha Combs. Accounts received by Dr. Richard S. Hall feature a bill from a silversmith/locksmith and purchases of household items from local merchants. The Lee family documents include orders, accounts, and letters from the 18th and 19th centuries. Of particular note are a search warrant for stolen goods and letters regarding the sale of slaves. Other items make references to activities associated with tobacco farming. Documents relating to the Turberville family are most extensive. Letters and requests for payments addressed to George Turberville reveal something about his business activities and family life. Such activities as borrowing a slave, hiring an overseer, and selling fruit seeds are noted. Legal documents associated with Martha Turberville pertain to the settlement of her father's estate, including an injunction. A letter to her in which the writer asks to borrow a slave to white wash is also featured. Documents associated with Gawin C. Turberville deal with land, an overseers contract, and a claim to the estate of George Lee Waugh that describes inheritance laws in Virginia after the American Revolution. Papers letters and other items sent to Hannah Corbin primarily refer to Gawin Corbin's estate. Turberville and Corbin family documents suggest that there was a dispute over the distribution of Gawin's estate, which he left to his wife and daughter upon his death in 1760. Accounts regarding tobacco levies are also featured. Finally, the series contains prescriptions and medical advice from George Steptoe, dated 1781. Steptoe was the physician for the Turberville family.

ArchivalResource: 82 items.

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Peckatone papers, 1758-1898 (bulk 1760-1834).

Title: Peckatone papers, 1758-1898 (bulk 1760-1834).

Papers of members of the Corbin, Turberville, Taliaferro, and Brown families who successively owned Peckatone plantation, Westmoreland county, Va. The collection reflects the history of colonial Virginia's trans-Atlantic tobacco economy, the management of family property and family relationships, and slavery and plantation life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Correspondence, 1764-1782, and accounts, 1760-1774, of Gawin Corbin's widow, Hannah (Lee) Corbin (1728-1782), concern her slaves and her participation in the tobacco economy. Correspondence, 1761-1774, and accounts, 1769-1774, of her lover, Richard Lingan Hall (d. 1774), pertain to the tobacco trade and his medical practice. Correspondence, 1774-1784, and accounts, 1764-1793, of Hannah's son-in-law, George Turberville (1742- 1793), concern plantation agriculture and disputes about family property. Accounts, 1786-1812, of his son, Gawin Corbin Turberville (d. 1814), include lists of slaves. Correspondence, 1829-1834, of George Frederick Brown (1810-1869) illuminates his service as U.S. consular agent in Algiers.

ArchivalResource: 1,177 items.

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Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867,. Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Title: Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Correspondence, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Letterbooks, 1769-1771, 1775-1776, & 1793-1795, of William Lee, a partner in deBendt & Sayre, London, comprise the bulk of the collection. Letters to business associates primarily discuss the tobacco trade. Letters to his brothers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee contain frequent political commentary on events in England & the colonies, and mention most of the prominent revolutionary Virginia leaders as well as their Parliamentary supporters. In addition to the letterbooks there are genealogies, deeds, indentures, wills, and other legal documents, correspondence of family members including many of Robert Edward Lee and other Civil War leaders. Correspondents include John Albion Andrew, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, John James Beckley, Francis Preston Blair, Braxton Bragg, John Cabell Breckenridge, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Nathaniel Burwell, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, William Daniel Cabell, Landon Carter, Robert Wormeley Carter, Salmon Portland Chase, Samuel Cooper, Hannah Lee Corbin, Richard Corbin, Henry Knox Craig, Jefferson Davis, Jubal Anderson Early, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Fairfax, George Gibson, Josiah Gorgas, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Nathanael Greene, Henry Heth, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Otis Howard, Benjamin Huger, William Irvine, Thomas S. Thomas Sidney Jesup, Andrew Johnson, Edward Johnson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Sidney Lanier, Arthur Lee, Charles Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Thomas Lee, John Letcher, Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, William Mahone, George Brinton McClellan, Lafayette McLaws, George Mason, George Gordon Meade, Robert Carter Nicholas, Edward Follansbee Noyes, George Edward Pickett, Franklin Pierce, Alfred Pleasonton, Roger Atkinson Pryor, George Wythe Randolph, John Cook Rives, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Comte de Rochambeau, Winfield Scott, Philip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Shippen, Edmund Kirby Smith, William Smith, James Ewell Brown Stuart, Andrew Talcott, Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Augustus Toombs, Jonathan Trumbull, David Emanuel Twiggs, Zebulon Baird Vance, George Washington, John Wentworth, John Henry Winder, Henry Alexander Wise, John Ellis Wool, and Marcus Joseph Wright.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972016 View