Papers, 1862-1873.

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Papers, 1862-1873.

Correspondence of members of the Archer and Goodwin families of Virginia. Represented are Frances (Williamson) Archer ([1796-1878] of Richmond, Va.), her daughter, Mary Frances (Archer) Goodwin ([b. 1817] of Wytheville, Va.), Mary's husband, the Rev. Frederick Deane Goodwin ([1804- 1881] Protestant Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland), and Mary and Frederick's daughter, Mary Baldwin (Goodwin) Lacy (b. 1844). Topics include news of family and friends in Richmond and Wytheville, Va.; Civil War actions in and around Wytheville, including the burning of the town in 1863; and the high church/low church controversy within the Episcopal Church during the 1870s.

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Virginia Historical Society Library

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Goodwin, Frederick Deane, 1804-1881.

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Teacher and Episcopal minister of Amherst and Nelson counties, Va. From the description of Papers, 1824-1868. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 30383568 ...

Goodwin family.

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Goodwin, Mary Frances Archer, b. 1817.

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Lacy, Mary Baldwin Goodwin, b. 1844.

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Archer family.

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Archer, Frances Williamson, 1796-1878.

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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 ...