Papers of Samuel Pannill Wilson, 1847-1938 (bulk 1860-1899).

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Papers of Samuel Pannill Wilson, 1847-1938 (bulk 1860-1899).

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Letters, indentures, accounts, receipts, promissory notes, tax receipts. Financial and legal papers of Wilson detail transactions in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., and neighboring counties in Virginia and North Carolina as well as Martinsville and Richmond. Many concern tobacco, grist mill accounts, railroad shipments, and the hiring of laborers. Of interest are accounts, 1858 and 1862, for medical treatment of slaves, receipts for slaves impressed to work on Confederate fortifications, a list of wages paid to sharecroppers, 1867, and a Freedman's Bureau apprenticeship indenture. Also of interest are receipts for Confederate taxes, accounts and receipts for the building of a home, 1860-62; an 1880 right of way agreement for the North Carolina Broad Gage Railroad; an account, 1880, of damages from the construction of the Danville and New River Railroad; a bank agreement not to execute a judgement against Wilson, 1878; expenses for Ruth Wilson at Roanoke Female College, a survey of a house tract; and a receipt, n.d., for the barter of corn for a suit of clothes.

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Thomasville Female College.

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Wilson, Samuel Pannill

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Pittsylvania County, Va., plantation owner. From the description of Papers of Samuel Pannill Wilson, 1847-1938 (bulk 1860-1899). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959594 Patrick County, Va., slaveholder. From the description of Papers of Samuel Pannill Wilson, 1851, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793499 ...

North Carolina Broad Gage Railroad Company.

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Roanoke Female College.

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Wilson, Ruth M. (Ruth Marian), 1910-

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Danville and New River Railroad Company

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Incorporated in Virginia in 1873 to construct a narrow gauge railroad from Danville, Va., to connect with Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad near Christiansburg, Va.; line built from Danville to Stuart, Va.; reorganized as Danville and Western Railway Company in 1891. From the description of Records, 1875-1886. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28413533 ...