Papers of the Booker, Dabney, and Perkins families of Buckingham Co. and Albemarle Co., Va. [manuscript] 1813-1930.

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Papers of the Booker, Dabney, and Perkins families of Buckingham Co. and Albemarle Co., Va. [manuscript] 1813-1930.

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The collection contains a daybook of Booker's general store, Buckingham County, Va., 1872-1874; an article by J.D. Eggleston "Booker of Virginia," 1934; family correspondence, 1813-1892; a wedding announcement; clippings including obituaries and an article on Thomas Staples Martin, 1893-1936. Mildred Perkins is a fequent recipient of the family correspondence. The collection also contains miscellaneous financial and legal documents including an 1852 account in Nacogdoches, Texas; a broadside advertising a Grand Military Ball, Capt Carondolet, Manasses, 1862 February 25; a clipping containing a copy of a letter from Jefferson to Madison, 1822 September 5. The collection also contains letters and bills of Charles Cocke to Benjamin M. Perkins, written from New Orleans and Natchez, 1836-1837, mostly concerning transactions in Yazoo River Lands; a genealogies of Benjamin Mosby and the Booker family; George Wythe Randolph is a correspondent.

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Perkins, Mildred,

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Chalmers, James, 1829-1861

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Cocke, Charles, fl. 1836-1837,

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