Virginia miscellaneous papers, 1748 (ca.)-1942.

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Virginia miscellaneous papers, 1748 (ca.)-1942.

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Miscellaneous papers for various Virginia counties, including Amherst, Bath, Botetourt, Charles City, Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, Middlesex, Page, Pittsylvania, Rappahannock, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Spotsylvania, and Warren, and the cities of Alexandria, Hampton, Petersburg, Richmond, and Roanoke. Materials include correspondence, financial papers (accounts, account books, and tax receipts), legal documents (land grants, deeds, and indentures, including several signed by Thomas, Lord Fairfax), scrapbooks and commonplace books. Of particular interest are the letter book, 1816-1817, of Adams, Herbert & Co., Alexandria, Va., wholesale merchants; commonplace book, 1852-1856, of a student attending the Alexandria Boarding School, Alexandria, Va.; scrapbooks from Clarke County; memorandum book containing quarterly court records, 1786, for Frederick, Berkeley, and Shenandoah counties, kept by William Allason of Fauquier County; steward's book, 1850- 1859, of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Brucetown, Frederick County; school papers, 1913-1914, of a female student attending Hampton Institute; a novel of frontier life in Rockbridge County, by Joseph McNaughton Waterman; a scrapbook, 1890s, containing articles on feminists and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; and a graduation album, 1860, from Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.

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Hampton University (Va.)

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Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virgina, also know as the Normal School, chartered in 1870. From the description of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 639344721 The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was chartered in 1870 in Hampton, Virginia. From the guide to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book ...

Waterman, Joseph McNaughton.

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Alexandria Boarding School (Alexandria, Va.)

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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In 1845, as a result of the North-South tensions, the Methodist Episcopal Church conferences in the Southern states withdrew to form the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1874 at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South held in Louisville, Kentucky, a Board of Commissioners was appointed to meet with a similar board from the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). The Board was empowered to begin talks the MEC board that would resolve differences between the two denomination...

Perry, Thornton Tayloe, 1892-1981,

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Native of Charles Town, W. Va., auto dealer, postmaster, veteran of both World Wars, and collector of manuscripts and rare books dealing with western Virginia and West Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1852-1980 (bulk 1940-1975). (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 30658879 ...

Franklin and Marshall College

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Adams, Herbert & Co. (Alexandria, Va.)

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Allason, William

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Merchant. From the description of William Allason papers, 1758-1793. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449269 ...

Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1692-1782

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This land grant was issued in 1741 by Thomas, 6th Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, to Richard Brown (d. 1745), descendent of Quaker minister William Brown. The grant was one of five that Richard Brown had received in Virginia's Northern Neck; at the time of his death, he owned a total of 2,774 acres in Loudoun County. Furthermore, his extensive plantation included a house, malthouse, mill, millhouse, saw, sawmill, brewhouse, outhouses of all sorts, and sundry accessories. The 634-acre tract of la...