Papers of the Hill family, 1820-1904.

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Papers of the Hill family, 1820-1904.

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Include business, legal, and personal papers, 1820-1866, of Edward Hill regarding the Civil War impressment of a slave, his marriage proposal to Elizabeth T. Govan, and business matters; diaries, 1861-1866, with entries regarding his vegetable and grain crops, livestock, weather, slaves, rural social life, and Civil War news. Also include letters, 1860-1866, from Eloise C. Conner, Haywood County, Tenn., to Edward Hill, King William County, Va., regarding slave illness, her trip to Tennessee from Virginia, the financial climate before, during and after the Civil War, her invalid daughter, and her management of the farm and raising of her family during her widowhood, and love poem, 1819, by Edward Hill. Other correspondents include James Govan and his daughter, Elizabeth T. Govan Hill. Also include letters, 1826-1848, from Elizabeth T. Govan Hill, regarding family matters, Roy Harper, and an incident of spousal abuse; genealogy, of the Garlick and Hill families; list, ca. 1904, of births, deaths, and marriages in the Hill family; "Hill Family and Homes," n.d., by C.H. Ryland; and a note, 1864, certifying William H. Wright's medical incapacity for military service, signed by Robert G. Hill. Also include letters, 1845-1886, of John T. Jones, regarding family matters, his recommendation of a relation to a position of head nurse at the Miller School, and a letter, 1865, to John Staige Davis, regarding books on human and veterinary medicine borrowed from the University of Virginia Library; and miscellaneous letters, recipes, poems, notes, and newspaper clippings. Also include letters, 1865-1868, of Andrew S. Whitelocke and R.B. Whitelocke, regarding family matters, race relations, temperance, farming, and elementary school teaching and a photograph, n.d., of an unidentified woman.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Miller School (Albemarle County, Va.)

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Harper, Roy

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Govan, James L.

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Whitelocke, R. B.

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Hill, Elizabeth T. Govan.

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Gerlach family.

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Hill, Edward Carmichael, 1837-1904.

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Jones, John Moses, 1822-1903

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Conner, Eloise C.

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Hill, Edward, 1800-1870.

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Davis, John Staige, 1824-1885

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University of Virginia professor. Professor of Anatomy, University of Virginia. From the description of Papers and anatomy notes of John Staige Davis [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647881305 ...

Hill family.

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Family of King William and King and Queen counties, Va. From the description of Papers of the Hill family, 1820-1904. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32671935 ...

Whitelocke, Andrew S.

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Wright, William Henry, 1856-1945

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