Papers of the Gilliam family, 1802-1932.

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Gilliam family. Papers of the Gilliam family, 1802-1932.

Papers of the Gilliam family, 1802-1932.

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Includes legal and financial papers, 1802-1932, of the Gilliam family, including a deed, 1802, for 174 acres in Surry County, Va., records, 1817-1827, of the estate of William Gilliam, and miscellaneous accounts, receipts, bills, promissory notes, and rental agreements. Also include officer's commissions, 1842-1851, of John W. Gilliam for the Virginia Militia; slave records, 1828-1861, including accounts and correspondence regarding slave hires and purchasing; and political correspondence, 1873-1899, of Samuel Yates Gilliam, regarding Virginia, especially Dinwiddie County, politics, the Republican Party, the Readjuster Party, and the African-American vote in the South. Also include correspondence, 1844-1926, of the Gilliam and Boisseau families, regarding family, legal, and financial matters, courtship, the tobacco market, Virginia social life and customs, Virginia politics, slave hiring, Civil War news, Reconstruction, race relations in the United States after the Civil war, and the Gilliam family estate, Burnt Quarter. Correspondents include Samuel Yates Gilliam, John W. Gilliam and his son, John W. Gilliam, Mary E.C. Gilliam, Joseph P. Gilliam, and Rosa Boisseau.

1500 (ca.) items.

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