George Coke Dromgoole papers, 1767-1974.

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George Coke Dromgoole papers, 1767-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19536469

Papers of G.C. Dromgoole, son Edward Dromgoole, and other members of the Dromgoole family, including the papers of Richard B. Robinson, George's nephew by marriage. George's papers concern family, business, and political matters and include a large number of letters dealing with plantation work and the management of slaves; items on the Democratic Party before the Civil War; and letters from Edward when he was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Richard B. Robinson's papers include correspondence, business papers, and a daybook. Edward Dromgooles papers deal largely with legal and business matters and contain plantation records, accounts of cotton sales, and letters from tenants after the Civil War, and from a student at the Virginia Military Institute in the 1870s. The collection also includes Brunswick County, Va., legal records, including justice of the peace, county, and Circuit Court minutes, orders, summonses, warrants, and depositions. There are volumes, including daybooks, plantation books, an account book for the estate of Thomas Dromgoole, and a description of Edward Dromgoole's home and family genealogy.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6965502

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Robinson, Richard B.

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Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Virginia Military Institute

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Dromgoole, Edward, d. 1895.

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Dromgole, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1826

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Robinson family.

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Dromgoole, George Coke, 1797-1847

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The Dromgoole family resided in Brunswick County, Va. Edward Dromgoole was a follower of John Wesley and a minister for sixty years, dying in 1835 at the age of 84. His son George C. Dromgoole served in the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate. He also served in U.S. House of Representatives 1835-1841 and 1843-1847. A family member named Edward Dromgoole was a merchant and lawyer in Brunswick County and a person by that name served in the Virginia General Assembly, 1855-1858. ...