Boyd family papers, 1847-1973 [manuscript].

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Boyd family papers, 1847-1973 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25453338

Correspondence, financial and legal materials, genealogical materials, pictures, and other papers of the Boyd and related families. The earliest letters are to and from Burwell family members, relating especially to the academic career of William Henry Burwell at the University of North Carolina, where he earned an A.B. degree in 1856. Burwell materials continue through the 1860s, when they are gradually supplanted by items relating to the Boyd family. Letters from Henry Armistead Boyd, then a student at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., begin in 1875; they chiefly relate to affairs of the heart, with Henry first wooing a woman named Ada, and then switching to Bettie (Elizabeth Massenburg) Norwood, whom he married in 1881. Most letters after 1881 deal with family matters and Henry's law practice. The few letters dated after 1906 deal chiefly with genealogy. Financial and legal materials relate chiefly to Boyd and Norwood family members, and include indentures, bills and receipts, and insurance policies. There are also some estate papers and several items relating to John Early Boyd's 1868 bankruptcy, but there is little relating to plantation or farm matters. Also included are a few items relating to Robert E. Lee, including a lock of his hair and a description of how it was obtained.

370 items (2.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Massenburg family.

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Davis family.

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Burwell, William Henry, 1835-1917.

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Norwood family.

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Boyd, John Early, 1812-1883.

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Boyd, Ann Bignall Jones, 1816-1882.

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Burwell family.

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Boyd family.

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Boyd family of Warrenton, N.C., and the related Burwell, Massenburg, Norwood, Davis, and other families. Family members include William Henry Burwell (d. 1917); planter John Early Boyd (1812-1883) and his wife, Ann Bignall Jones Boyd (1816-1882); and their son, lawyer Henry Armistead Boyd (1855-1929) and his wife, Elizabeth Massenburg Norwood Boyd (1863-1944). From the description of Boyd family papers, 1847-1973 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25453338 ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Randolph-Macon College

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Boyd, Elizabeth Massenburg Norwood, 1863-1944.

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Boyd, Henry Armistead, 1855-1929.

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