Papers of the Brockenbrough, Lamb and related Fauntleroy and Smith families [manuscript], 1835-1945.

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Papers of the Brockenbrough, Lamb and related Fauntleroy and Smith families [manuscript], 1835-1945.

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The papers contain correspondence; financial papers, ledgers and receipts; legal papers; photographs; scrapbooks and miscellany. Letters to Eliza Bland Lamb from relatives and beaux, 1908-1941, predominate in the correspondence. Of interest are letters from U.S. soldiers in France in World War I, and from Tayloe Murphy when a student at William and Mary. There are also letters to her aunts Alice and Agnes Brockenbrough, her mother Saide Brockenbrough Lamb, her grandmother Eliza Bland Smith Brockenbrough, her brother James Christian Lamb and her grandfather James Christian Lamb, chiefly from family and friends. Many of the letters to her father were written on his retirement as circuit court judge in Richmond. Also of interest is a letter describing travel to Egypt and the Middle East in 1873. Financial and legal papers largely concern the management of family farm property from the 1840s through the 1920s. Of interest are papers regarding the sale of Bay Quarter, a part of Belle Ville, 1897-1899; papers concerning a ferry at Tappahannock, 1899-1907; and papers re the settlement of the estates of Austin Brockenbrough and Lucy Y. Gray both of which contain slave records. Other slave records are found in a Negro and farm ledger, 1842-1860, from James Muse Smith's farms at [Bay and Middle Quarter?] and an account book, 1863-1881, that includes lists of slaves inherited by Willoughby N. Smith from James M. Smith. Also of interest are Robert E. Lee's General Order 26, April 3, 1864, concerning civilian property damage signed by Walter H. Taylor and sent to S.V. Southall; James C. Lamb's "Overruled Cases," 1889; a receipt book, 1817, of Richmond County sheriff Vincent Shackleford; accounts, 1854-1862, for a school run by Lucy Y. Gray; blueprints, 1929, for a school alteration in Warsaw, Va.; a medical ledger of Austin Brockenbrough, 1856-1859; and a mercantile journal and ledger, 1843-1858, from Tappahannock, Va. Also Brockenbrough Bible records; school notebooks and a scrapbook of Eliza Bland Lamb; family photograph albums containing pictures of family, friends and servants, and scenes of the University of Virginia, Belle Ville, the Rappahannock River, the Tappahannock Ferry and the launching of the U.S.S. Pennsylvania; a composite photo of Kappa Alpha at the University of Virginia; postcards from France; and assorted clippings and souvenirs.

1500(ca.) items.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lamb, James Christian, 1854-1903.

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Lamb family.

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Lamb, James Christian, 1891-1943.

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Lamb, Eliza Bland, 1898-

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Brockenbrough, Alice Waller, 1870-1955.

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Pennsylvania (Battleship)

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The third Pennsylvania (BB-38) was laid down 27 October 1913 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; launched 16 March 1915; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Kolb; and commissioned 12 June 1916, Capt. H. B. Wilson in command. Pennsylvania was attached to the Atlantic Fleet. On 12 October 1916 she became flagship of Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, when Admiral Henry T. Mayo shifted his flag from Wyoming to Pennsylvania. In January 1917, Pennsylv ania steamed f...

Richmond County (Va.) Sheriff.

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Bay Quarter (Va. : Estate)

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Brockenbrough family.

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Belle Ville (Va. : Estate)

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Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Smith family.

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Southall, Stephen Valentine, 1830-

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Brockenbrough, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1890.

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Brockenbrough, Eliza Bland, 1877-1917.

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Taylor, Walter Herron, 1838-1916

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Confederate army officer and banker of Norfolk, Va. From the description of Walter Herron Taylor correspondence, 1864 June 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980575 Col. Walter Heron Taylor (1838-1916) from Norfolk, Virginia, wrote several books about Robert E. Lee (1807-1870). From the description of Col. Walter H. Taylor papers, 1810-1916 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539267 ...

Murphy, Tayloe.

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Gray, Lucy Yates Brockenbrough, d. 1860

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Brockenbrough, Agnes Atkinson B., 1876-1967.

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Fauntleroy family.

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Brockenbrough, Austin, 1782-1858

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Physician of Tappahannock, Va. From the description of Medical accounts and notebook [manuscript], 1780-1820 ca. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647862364 ...

University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

College of William and Mary.

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Kappa Alpha. Virginia Lambda (University of Virginia)

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Brockenbrough, Eliza Bland Smith.

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Shackleford, Vincent, fl. 1817.

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