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Tyler Family

 Family

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Tyler Family Papers, Group A

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T97 Group A
Scope and Contents Papers, 1716-1944, of the John Tyler family of "Sherwood Forest," Charles City County, Va. The collection contains correspondence, 1818-1862, of John Tyler concerning politics, War of 1812 claims, presidential election of 1840, land purchases in western Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois, "Sherwood Forest," business matters and his family. Some of the children of John Tyler and his first wife, Letitia Christian Tyler, are represented in the collection: Robert Tyler (and wife,...
Dates: 1716-1946
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group A - H, Additions

 Collection — Box 1: Series id68297
Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 T97 Additions
Scope and Contents

Additions to the Tyler Family Papers that are not shelved with Mss. 65 T97 Tyler Family Papers, Groups A-H are included on the pdf inventories.

Please see the record for 65 T97 Tyler Family Papers.

Many of these additions can logically be incorporated into the Groups A-H, and possibly will be in the future.

Dates: 1821-1976
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group B

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T97 Group B
Scope and Contents Papers, 1868-1951, of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, his wives Anne Baker Tucker Tyler and Sue Ruffin Tyler and his descendants. Includes personal correspondence and correspondence relating to American Historical Association, Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Colonial Williamsburg, Cooperative Education Commission of Virginia, Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, Jamestown Exposition, New York Southern Society, Sons of the Revolution, Virginia Board of Education, Virginia...
Dates: 1868-1951
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group C

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T97 Group C
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and accounts of "Tyler's Quarterly", edited by Lyon G. Tyler and Sue Ruffin Tyler.

Dates: 1919-1951
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group D

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T97 Group D
Scope and Contents Papers, 1939-1951, of Sue Ruffin Tyler concerning a projected work, The Women of Virginia. Includes biographical sketches of women, correspondence with women who had sent sketches and were subscribers, and correspondence of Robert Hendrix who collected money from the subscribers but was unable to publish the book. Sue Ruffin Tyler contracted to write the historical material for a book on women in Virginia, to have been entitled The Women of Virginia. Living...
Dates: 1939-1951
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group E

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 T97 Group E
Scope and Contents

Chiefly writings, ca. 1880-1935, of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, historian. Most concern Virginia history in the colonial period, or defend his father, John Tyler, or defend the southern point of view in the Civil War. Includes an unpublished history of the Virginia Line in the American Revolution. Also includes writings, 1921-1951, of his second wife, Sue Ruffin Tyler, and of other authors.

Dates: 1880-1951; Majority of material found in 1880-1935
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group F

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T97 Group F
Scope and Contents

Collection consists of letters, historical sketches, wills, genealogical charts and coats of arms of Virginia families. The majority of these papers are genealogical inquiries made to Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Very few of Tyler's responses are included but the inquiries contain information.

One reel of microfilm for the Register Index for Abingdon Parish, Gloucester Co.,1671-1761, is available in the Swem Library Microforms Collection.

Dates: 1880-1935
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group G

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T97 Group G
Scope and Contents Papers, 1645-1917, of the Gardiner family, the Gilmer family, the family of St. George Tucker (1828-1863) and miscellaneous other people unrelated to the Tylers, Tuckers, Gilmers, or Gardiners. Boxes I-III contain papers (many are typescript copies) of the Gardiner family of New York. Include letters of Juliana McLachlan Gardiner, her sons David Lyon Gardiner, Alexander Gardiner and daughter Margaret Gardiner Beeckman. Boxes IV-V contain papers, 1814-1842, of the...
Dates: 1645-1917
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Tyler Family Papers, Group H

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 T97 Group H
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1750-1935, which are miscellaneous manuscripts with Tyler family connections. Include a scrapbook which includes correspondence of John Tyler, Thomas Walker Gilmer and St. George Tucker mostly with nineteenth- century Virginia politicians. Papers also include printed material, photographs of people and buildings and miscellaneous notes perhaps collected by Lyon G. Tyler and Sue Ruffin Tyler.

Dates: 1750-1935
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

John Tyler, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 78 T97
Scope and Contents Series 1: Group A, Acc. 78 T97 and 1992.63:  Papers, 1856-1895, of John Tyler, Jr., post Civil War Republican Party activist. Subjects covered by the collection include alcoholism, Republican Party politics, Presidential elections, political patronage, Reconstruction, Methodist Episcopal Church, Florida, Braxton Bragg, and the Fenian Brotherhood. Prominent correspondents include Charles Francis Adams, Chester Alan Arthur, Pierre G. T. Beauregard, James Gillespie Blaine, James Buchanan,...
Dates: 1800-1928
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Additional filters:

Subject
Manuscripts (document genre) 5
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 4
Account books 3
United States--Politics and Government 3
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 3
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Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 3
Diaries 2
Financial records 2
Legal documents 2
Patronage, Political--United States--History 2
Photographs 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Scrapbooks 2
Sherwood Forest (Virginia : Estate) 2
Speeches 2
United States--Presidents 2
Virginia--History 2
Accomack County (Va.)--History 1
Alcoholism--United States--19th century 1
American periodicals--Virginia--History 1
Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.)--History. 1
Design drawings 1
Dueling 1
Eastern State Hospital (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Editorials 1
Education--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Elections--United States--History 1
Fenians 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Invitations 1
Jamestown Exposition (1907) 1
Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Newspapers 1
Notebooks 1
Pamphlets 1
Plantation life--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Presidents' spouses--United States 1
Presidents--United States--Election 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Slavery--Virginia--19th century 1
Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846 1
Typescripts 1
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
United States--History--War of 1812 1
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861 1
Universities and Colleges--Virginia--Faculty 1
Virginia--Genealogy 1
Virginia--History--19th century 1
Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century 1
Women--History--Virginia 1
Women--Virginia--Social life and customs 1
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781--Centennial celebrations, etc 1
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