Papers, 1772-1940.

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Papers, 1772-1940.

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Family, professional, institutional, legal, and historical records and papers assembled by Steadman, focusing generally on the subjects of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; families of Northern Va.; and the history of several Va. counties. Includes correspondence, photos, receipts, legal papers, ordination papers, and a scrapbook. Genealogical materials cover the following families: Ruff, Petty, Heaton, West. Other groups of papers are from the Pollock-Gilmour family of Fauquier County; the Deming family from Rappahannock Co. and Washington, D.C.; and the Galloway family (1904-1916). Methodist Church materials include items related to Dr. John S. Martin of Baltimore, Md. and Winchester, Va.; and on several Virginia Conference meetings in N.C. and Va.; at one of these the members condemmed slavery (1816). Includes the estate settlement papers of Col. Minor Winn, great-grandfather of "Stonewall" Jackson, and a small scrapbook of poems, writings, and clippings of the Janney family, Quakers from Loudon Co., Va. Also includes important biographical research on Confederate veterans of Loudon Co., including those of 8th Va. Regt., compiled circa 1905; and exhaustive inventories of Prince William Co. historic sites, compiled by Susan K. Morton of Haymarket, Va. around 1940.

ca. 250 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7346460

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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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...

Martin, John Smellie

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Itinerant Methodist minister in northern Virginia, the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, present-day West Virginia, and Baltimore, Md. From the description of John S. Martin papers, 1840-1864 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25327589 Soldier in the 18th Alabama Infantry, CSA. From the description of Letter, 1862 Nov. 29 : holograph, to wife Sarah Jane. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 29041131 Epithet: poet and author British Library Archiv...

Deming family.

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Janney family.

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Galloway family.

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Pollock-Gilmour family.

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Winn, Minor

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Steadman, Melvin Lee.

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Methodist minister; antiquarian; resident of northern Va. From the description of Papers, 1772-1940. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32936442 ...

Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 8th

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Petty family.

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West family.

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Heaton family.

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Ruff family.

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