Frank G. Ruffin papers, 1802-1909 [manuscript].

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Frank G. Ruffin papers, 1802-1909 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24864396

Chiefly postwar business papers of Francis ("Frank") Gildart Ruffin, but there are also scattered antebellum and Civil War items for Ruffin and the antebellum legal, financial, and personal papers of Ruffin's relatives, Albert and Eliza (Roane) Ruffin, and Spencer Roane. These include papers relating to Albert Ruffin's law practice, to Albert and Eliza's plantation and family affairs, and to Spencer Roane's purchases of land. Correspondence includes both personal and business letters. Antebellum financial and legalitems consist of deeds, bonds, receipts, court petitions, warrants, pleas, court dockets, plantation accounts, and slave bills of sale. Postwar business papers include correspondence, accounts, reports, legal documents, maps, clippings, and other items pertaining to the Office of the 2nd Auditor of Virginia, the Sinking Fund, the Miller Manual Labor School, and F. G. Ruffin's writings. Miscellaneous items include advertising circulars, broadsides, and an undated travel diary kept by F. G. Ruffin in England. Of particular interest are papers relating to land claims, estate law, and financial arrangements in the frontier territories of Mississippi and Alabama; plantation finances; antebellum and postbellum Virginia politics; and economic development and race relations in the Reconstruction era. Considerable information appears on the deepening of the James River.

2,900 items (5.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7138577

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Ruffin family.

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Roane, Spencer, 1762-1822

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Virginia lawyer, legislator and Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals; co-founder of the Richmond Enquirer. From the description of Letter James Madison [manuscript], 1801October 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647988940 Spencer Roane (1762-1822) was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1782, became a judge in 1789, and was elected to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in 1794 where he served for twenty-seven years. From the description of Commissi...

Miller Manual Labor School (Albemarle County, Va.)

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Ruffin, Albert G., b. 1829.

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Sinking Fund Commission of Virginia.

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Ruffin, Eliza Roane, fl. 1825-1837.

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Ruffin, Frank G.

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Francis ("Frank") Gildart Ruffin (1816-1892), was a planter of Chesterfield County, Va., Confederate colonel, 2nd auditor of Virginia, editor, and political writer. Ruffin served as chairman of the Virginia Sinking Fund Commission, secretary of the Miller Manual Labor School, and editor of the Richmond (Va.) "Dispatch." Other prominent family members represented in the collection include Ruffin's uncle, Albert G. Ruffin (d. 1829), lawyer in Mississippi and Alabama and planter in Hanover County, ...