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Contains 2 Results:

Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County,Virginia, 1852 December 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Object: 7
Scope and Contents The letter from Lucy Ann Baytop,Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia to Hetty Fitzhugh, Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia, discusses how the pressures of work and business have kept her from writing; reports marriages of "Cousin Tom Field and his bride Miss Davis"; Mr. Shackelfor and Miss Hester Rowe; "Sister" has had another baby boy, as did Aunt Fanny, Martha Waller, and Clara ?; Clara has a "riseing breast," and "the horses could not go out of a walk for fear of the jar to her...
Dates: 1852 December 10

James W. Shields, Christiansburg, Virginia to Scott [?], 1859 April 15

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Object: 7
Scope and Contents

James notes that the letter has caused "no little trouble"; Grayson Estate sale pending; Crocket Farms may be sold and is an "active farm in perfect order in every respect"; description of land. Includes typescript.

Dates: 1859 April 15