Richard J. Reid papers [manuscript] 1770-1910.

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Richard J. Reid papers [manuscript] 1770-1910.

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Correspondence, accounts, receipts, ledgers, other business records, family records, legal papers, a weather calendar (1860-63), and other papers and records of various persons, firms, and institutions of Southside Virginia, particularly of Pittsylvania, Franklin, and Halifax counties, concerning hotels, land, railroads, schools, churches including the trial of Deacon John Dowdy for immorality, slavery, tobacco, politics, the Civil War including action at Staunton River Bridge, miscellaneous letters, an 1861 map of the Charleston, S. C. harbor, an undated map of the proposed map of the Saltville & Lebanon Railroad, and other aspects of economic and social life. Includes records (2 v., 1790-1832) of the County Line Baptist Church in Pittsylvania County; letters and circulars (1790-1830) of the Pittsylvania County Clerk; Confederate post office accounts in Halifax County; records of the Barksdale (1780-1860), Holland (1830-80), Hubbard (1813-80), Martin, Overstreet (1783-1843), Spraggin (1810-50), and Watlington (1812-1814) families. Also correspondence, business records, and other papers of James W. Bouldin, Preston Bowker (1819-55), J.H. Carrington (1854-55), Henry Eaton Coleman, Dabney Cosby (1830-50), John W. Daniel, Joseph Dickinson & Pleasant (1817-60), Easley and Hurt, W.O.J. Finney (1850-90), John W. Guerrant (1845-60), Levi and William Harris (1830-70), Benjamin Harrison, Peter D. Holland, Frederick W.M. Holliday, John Hook (1774-1810), H.H. Hurt, Richard Jones, Fitzugh Lee, Robert E. Lee (copies re the battle of Staunton River Bridge), Thomas Staples Martin (routine patronage), W.P. Maxey, John Peter Mettauer, James Mitchell, R.H. Moody, Beverley B. Munford, D.C. Ragsdale & Co. and Ragsdale, Carrington & Co. (1770-1858), Richard Randolph, G.S.S. Reid, E. W. Saunders, Langhorne Scruggs (1840-1900), Ann D. Thompson, George Tucker, William Tunstall (1780-1850), George H. West & Co., West and Hurt, and James M. Whittle (1835-80).

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Hurt, Hugh H., fl. 1877,

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Jones, Richard H.

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Plantation owner, teacher, and local official, of Campbell and Pittsyvania counties, Va. From the description of Papers, 1797-1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19933067 Longtime resident of Eastover in lower Richland County, S.C.; Jones was a resident of Columbia, S.C., when he wrote this essay in 1979; it is unclear which Columbia resident wrote this item: Richard Jones (1899-1985) or Richard Jones (1923-2001). From the description of Kingvill...

Reid, G. S. S.

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Hubbard family.

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Tucker, George, 1775-1861

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U.S. Congressman, U. Va. professor, author. From the description of Letters of George Tucker [manuscript] 1836, 1837. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647934732 ...

Holliday, Fred. W. M. (Frederick William Mackey), 1828-1899

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Lawyer, and governor of Virginia, from Winchester (Frederick Co.), Va. From the description of Papers, 1846-1899 ; (bulk 1862-1895). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270659 ...

Whittle, James M., fl. 1835-1880.

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West and Hurt.

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Virginia. Militia. 69th Regiment.

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Bouldin, James Wood, 1792-1854

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Holland, Peter, 1951-

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Coleman, Henry Eaton, fl. 1864,

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Mettauer, John Peter, 1787-1875

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American surgeon, b. Prince Edward Co., Va. From the description of John Peter Mettauer letter [manuscript] 1851 September 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647943033 ...

Saunders, Edward W. (Edward Watts), 1860-1921

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Rocky Mount, Va. politician, and judge of the 4th Circuit Court. From the description of Papers of Edward W. Saunders [manuscript] 1873-1921. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647946465 ...

Virginia. Militia. 84th Regiment.

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D. C. Ragsdale & Co.

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Confederate States of America. Post-Office Dept.

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Scruggs, Langhorne, fl. 1840-1900.

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Reid, Richard J.

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Finney, William A. J., fl. 1849-1889.

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Virginia. Militia. 101st Regiment.

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Martin family.

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Maxey, W. P.

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County Line Baptist Church (Pittsylvania County, Va.)

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West & Company.

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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In 1845, as a result of the North-South tensions, the Methodist Episcopal Church conferences in the Southern states withdrew to form the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1874 at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South held in Louisville, Kentucky, a Board of Commissioners was appointed to meet with a similar board from the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). The Board was empowered to begin talks the MEC board that would resolve differences between the two denomination...

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Ragsdale, Carrington & Company.

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Carrington, J.H., fl. 1854-1855.

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Barksdale family.

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Munford, Beverley B. (Beverley Bland), 1856-1910

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Harrison, Benjamin, 1808-1887

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Spragins family.

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Levi and William Harris.

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Thompson, Ann (Ann D.), fl. 1846-1852.

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Saltville and Lebanon Rail Road (Proposed)

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Guerrant, John w., fl. 1847-1871.

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W. T. (William Tunstall), fl. 1780-1850.

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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 ...

Holland family.

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Watlington family.

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Cosby, Dabney, fl. 1830-1850.

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Dowdy, John W., fl. 1854

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Randolph, Richard R.

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George H. West & Company.

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Moody, R. H.

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Hook, John, fl. 1774-1810.

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Overstreet family.

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Bowker, Preston, fl. 1819-1855.

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Mitchell, James, 1940-

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