Papers, 1654-1929.

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Papers, 1654-1929.

Include Robert Beverley's business and social correspondence, mercantile and educational accounts (including a significant amount from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), notes concerning various agricultural societies, bonds, a commonplace book, insurance policies, and bills of lading; some records of the Upper Rappahannock Telephone and Telegraph Company in Caret, Va., of which he was president; accounts (including construction records) of several Protestant Episcopal churches in St. Anne's Parish, Essex County, Va.; papers of his wife Richardetta Earle (Carter) Beverley, especially accounts for musical instruments and sheet music; and correspondence and legal papers of William Bradshaw Beverley, especially concerning Blandfield plantation in Essex County, Va.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7281474

Virginia Historical Society Library

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Virginia Tech

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Virginia Tech (VT), formally Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute and 250 acres of nearby Solitude Farm. The commonwealth incorporated a new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named ...

Upper Rappahannock Telephone and Telegraph Company (Caret, Va.)

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Beverley, William Bradshaw, 1891-1866.

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St. Anne's Parish (Essex County, Va.)

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Beverley, Robert, 1858-1928.

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Beverley family.

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Represented are Robert Beverley (1858-1928), farmer, businessman and civic leader of Essex and Fauquier counties, Va.; also his wife Richardetta Earle (Carter) Beverley (1856-1945); his parents Robert Beverley (1822-1901), an active member of state agricultural societies, and Jane Eliza (Carter) Beverley (1821-1915); and John Hill Carter Beverley (1853-1934); William Beverley (1852-1937); Robert Bland Beverley (1882- 1957); and William Bradshaw Beverley (1791-1866), owner of an Essex County plan...

Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Beverley, Richardetta Earle Carter, 1856-1945.

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