Papers of the Irvine, Saunders, Davis, and Watts families [manuscript], 1745-1914.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers of the Irvine, Saunders, Davis, and Watts families [manuscript], 1745-1914.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647837199

The collection contains correspondence, legal and business papers, bound volumes, and miscellaneous material revealing much about economic and social conditions in Southside Virginia. Major topics include agriculture, education of children and the Episcopal Church. There is also material of note re the Civil War and slavery. Business papers contain accounts, notes and receipts for estate settlements, stores, lodging, education, slave hirings, physicians, and taxes; a blacksmith's journal and a day book for the Maple Creek [saw] Mill. Legal papers include memoranda and daybooks of lawyer William Watts, 1768-1786; court dockets, 1771-1782, for Amelia and Lunenburg Counties; indentures; wills, 1745 and 1760, from Albemarle and Amelia Counties, both mentioning slaves; estate appraisals; and miscellaneous pieces from Amelia and Campbell Counties. Civil War documents include furloughs; vouchers; muster rolls and payrolls of the 42nd Virginia Regiment, and a provision return from the 13th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. There are also payrolls, 1778-1779, of the 1st Regiment of Light Dragoons. Educational papers include grade reports from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Hollins College and St. Timothy's, Catonsville, Md., a brochure from the Edgeworth School, Baltimore, Md., a form letter concerning an Episcopal rectory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and a printed address, 1877, by John Randolph Tucker "The relations of the United Sates to each other, as modified by the war and the constitutional amendments." There are also essays; lectures; poems; obituaries; a subscription book for the Lee Monumental Association; farm journals; an 1846 card game "The game of Kings [of England] made easy; and the Otter River Township, Campbell County, Va. record books, 1870-1874, with entries for roads and poor house expenses.

3000 items.

University of Virginia. Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7922188

University of Virginia. Library

Related Entities

There are 30 Entities related to this resource.

Virginia Tech

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69990zp (corporateBody)

Virginia Tech (VT), formally Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute and 250 acres of nearby Solitude Farm. The commonwealth incorporated a new institution on the site, a state-supported land-grant military institute named ...

Bland, Theodorick, 1741-1790

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp6ztv (person)

Theodorick Bland (March 21, 1741 – June 1, 1790), also known as Theodorick Bland, Jr., was an American slave owner, planter, physician, soldier, and politician from Prince George County, Virginia. He became a major figure in the formation of the new United States government, representing Virginia in both the Continental Congress and the United States House of Representatives (until his death in office), as well as serving multiple terms in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Prince Geor...

Lunenburg County (Va.). Court.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vx6bqq (corporateBody)

Lawson, Robert, d.1805,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv73pq (person)

Otter River Township (Campbell County, Va.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pw2fhv (corporateBody)

Irwin family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n87gt (family)

Saunders, Fleming, 1778-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m644vv (person)

Saunders family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w652323c (family)

Preston, Thomas L. (Thomas Lewis), 1812-1903

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc1rsx (person)

Edgeworth School for Young Ladies (Baltimore, Md.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6034mrp (corporateBody)

Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w651492v (person)

St. George Tucker (1752-1827), was born in Bermuda and emigrated to Williamsburg, Virginia where he attended the College of William and Mary. He served in the Revolutionary War, as a judge of the General Court of Virginia, and as professor of law at the College of William and Mary. He was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. Tucker was appointed to the federal district court for Virginia. He married, firstly, Frances Bland Randolph who was the mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. ...

National Grange

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f2kfg (corporateBody)

Davis family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68m6d16 (family)

Letcher, John, 1813-1884

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zw1pdh (person)

Governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, Va., to President Buchanan, 1860 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591184 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lexington, Va., to Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, 1813-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590807 Native of Virginia; graduate of Washington College; lawyer, newspaper editor, presidential elector in 1848, and member of Virginia's constitutional c...

Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 42nd

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ng9090 (corporateBody)

Saunders, Fleming, 1829-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v724r8 (person)

Tucker, John Randolph, 1823-1897

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd7c9z (person)

J.R. Tucker (1823-1897) was a lawyer, teacher, Attorney-General and Congressman, spending most of his life in Winchester and Lexington, Virginia. M.R.H. Garnett (1821-1864) was a lawyer and politician serving in the state and national legislatures, and the Confederate Congress. From the description of Letters: to Muscoe R.H. Garnett, 1842 October 30-1853 January 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122555400 ...

Randolph-Macon Academy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf5cgc (corporateBody)

Episcopal Church

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dg0f6f (corporateBody)

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 ...

Hollins College

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68m12z8 (corporateBody)

Hollins College, a women's liberal arts college, was founded as the coeducational Valley Union Seminary in Roanoke, North Carolina in 1842. In 1854, it became Virginia's first women's college changing its name to Hollins Institute three years later. It was renamed Hollins College in 1911 and Hollins University in 1998. Hollins University has offered graduate programs since 1958. All undergraduates are female while graduate programs accept males. Euzelian Society began in...

St. Timothy's School (Catonsville, Md.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g21w57 (corporateBody)

Watt family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61d10q2 (family)

Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, 1781-1849

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qn6j4k (person)

Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1781-1849), a native of Chesterfield County, Virginia, was educated at William and Mary College, and practiced law in Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia. He was a member of the House of Delegates, supervised the revision of the Virginia Code in 1819, was a member of the 1829-30, Constitutional convention, and U.S. Senator. From 1829-1841 Leigh served as the reporter of the Supreme Court of Appeals. From the description of Letter : Washington D.C., to Thomas R. ...

Virginia. County Court (Amelia County)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj4gwr (corporateBody)

Saunders, Mary Gwathmey, fl. 1858-1910,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63f78gg (person)

Meade, William, 1789-1862

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dj5j11 (person)

Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. From the description of William Meade papers, 1811-1867. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 660160649 Born 11 November 1789, the son of Richard Kidder Meade and Mary Fitzhugh (Grymes) Meade, William Meade graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1808. He married Mary Nelson (d. 1817) and Thomasia Nelson. He was elected Bishop of the Protestant Church in Virginia and Presiding Bishop of the 1861 Convention...

Saunders, Eva Smith, fl. 1868-1894,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tt7b44 (person)

Watts, William, fl. 1765-1786,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6df9b7q (person)

Virginia. Cavalry. Light Dragoon Regiment, 1st.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nw5db1 (corporateBody)

United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 13th.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6160cb7 (corporateBody)