Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the family papers of members of the Grigsby and Galt Families. Mary Blair Grigsby married William W. Galt in 1881.  The collection contains papers of various members of the Grigsby family, particulary Hugh Blair Grigsby who was a historian and Chancellor of The College of William and Mary and his son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby who lived his entire life at the family farm, Edgehill, in Charlotte County, Virginia. The collection also contains the personal...

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These papers mainly deal with Hugh Blair Grigsby's business and family in Charlotte County, Virginia. Includes some early family papers, deeds and correspondence. The papers were accessioned as a group of loose papers and a group of file folders in a wooden box. In organizing these papers, this original grouping has been kept. The loose papers are arranged alphabetically by subject, then the papers in the wooden box are also arranged alphabetically by subject. There is an overlap.

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1809 property tax bill, and 1808 letter from Lewis Stuart of Greenbrier.

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15 business or calling cards with Hugh Blair Grigsby's signature.

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Letter from Annie Christian to Mrs. Anne Fleming about Indian attacks and related troubles, plus her desire to be in Botetourt County, dated 1780 April 1. Hugh Blair Grigsby collected her letters. Most of the letters are housed in the Hugh Blair Grigsby Papers at the Virginia Historical Society.

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1842 letter has a note "The only piece of the handwriting of my mother that I possess." 1840 letter deals with results of the presidential election, 1841 letter to his wife about his visit to Norfolk, Virginia; undated response to a complaint by Joseph Caldwell; 1855 letter regarding his purchase of "Pocohantas"; undated letter from Mary Blair Grigsby Galt to her Mother; undated letter to Mrs. Grigsby at Edgehill from "Cousin P. E. R."

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1881 receipt from John E. Holt. Agreement of Partition between H. Carrington Grigsby and William Wilson Galt and Mary Blair his wife, dated January 24, 1882. February 8, 1882 agreement between Mrs. M. V. Grigsby, administratrix of the estate of Hugh Blair Grigsby from Thomas Word.

Scope and Contents Receipts, invoices, accounts and business correspondence relating to items purchased for home, business and farm.  Includes an 1828-1831 account sheet for money received and money expended, requests for loans from neighbors, bond material, and a small book, "Account of John E. Holt" from 1869-1879.  Two accounts were grouped separately when accessioned and have been grouped separately in the back of this folder:  Accounts with W. H. Smith from 1875-1882 and Accounts with John E. Holt and J....

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Account book for family and farm expenses and payments from 1887-1896. Does not include an index, but names of people and merchants are noted on each page. One small "daily" notebook with financial information, undated. Bank book from "Exchange National Bank in Norfolk" with entries from 1871-1880.

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Notes on the early history of Virginia and a tribute written "to the memory of my father the Rev. Benjamin Porter Grigsby" by Hugh Blair Grigsby.

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Small group of papers belonging to Mary Venable Grigsby, the wife of Hugh Blair Grigsby. Circa 1829 letter from a friend in Richmond, Virginia; a calling card; an 1882 application for life insurance; two undated letters from her son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby (one while at Hampden-Sydney College); undated letter from her sister.

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Plats, deeds and related material for land in Charlotte County. Includes a 1736 survey by William Westbrook with notes on "Booker Survey"; 1793 survey for Thomas Read; Edward Fitzgerald deed to Hugh B. Grigsby; 1870 survey of the "Low Grounds of Edgehill" by Thomas F. Petters, correspondence on land bought from the Cardwell Family (1870's and 80's) and more.

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1839 deed from George Garraway to Edward Fitzgerald for land on East Street; 1855 deed from Rosina Karcher to Simon S. Stubbs for property on Main Street; 1858 deed from Hugh B. Grigsby to Charles B. Duffield for property on East Street.

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List of items taxed for 1879 and Grigsby's copy of the letter sent when paying bill.

Scope and Contents Handwritten copy of an indenture, 1859 April 2, in the "City of Williamsburg between Hugh Blair Grigsby...in his own behalf and in behalf of his infant son, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, of his infant nephews, Hugh Grigsby Whitehead, Henry Colgate Whitehead, John Boswell Whitehead, Jr., Holbrook Whitehead and Park Lewis Poindexter, and of his nieces Cornelia Grigsby, Irwin, Jr, Billie Poindexter and Mary Irwin...and the President and Masters or professors of William & Mary in Virginia...a...

Scope and Contents Handwritten poems, a hymn, a shopping list, published tributes to Hugh Blair Grigsby at his death, printed sheets of the hymn written by Hugh B. Grigsby in 1877, and two copies of pamphlet Lines, to my Daughter on her Fourteenth Birthday, privately printed in Norfolk. 1881 May 20 Richmond Dispatch clipping with a poem, "Lines: Suggested by the Death of Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, April 28, 1881," "Hymn written on the morning of the 22d of November 1877, when I entered my seventy-second year" by...

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Deeds, surveys and plats of land in Charlotte County. Names on documents include Joel Watkins, Brooks Becker, Thomas H. Spencer and William L. Morton.

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Nine 1861 confederate certificates at 8 per cent and four 1864 confederate bonds at 4 per cent.

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Handwritten  letter written by Hugh Blair Grigsby to Mr. Grinnan of Orange County, Virginia about the Porter Family genealogy and Grigsby Family genealogy.  Stamped envelope included.

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Receipts, accounts, agreements, invoices, and correspondence for bank business, personal loans, bonds, and purchases.

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Receipts for purchase and sale of slaves by the Whitehead and Grigsby families in Charlotte County and Norfolk, Virginia.  Slave names included:  Louisa, Richard, Emanual, Elexena and her three children Jenny, Fanny and "blank", Virginia and Richard and Rachal and child Diana.

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1856 document electing Hugh Blair Grigsby as a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and an 1861 letter inviting him to a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Agreement on rental or use of farm property.

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Handwritten and printed poetry. One poem, "Life's Latest Pleasures" was written when Grigsby was 85 years old. Includes 1867 poem, "Lines to Hugh Blair Grigsby, L.L.D, President of the Virginia Historical Society" by Emma Early.

Scope and Contents Includes 1779 January 14 plat and description of land which was part of the estate of Thomas Watkins and part of the tract of land owned by Beverly Randolph in Charlotte County, 1805 deed from Joel Watkins to Clement Carrington, 1862 letter from John McPhail sending "old deeds pertaining to the Edgehill Estate," 1878 survey for "T. N. Jones and Catlet" to sell the lands of W. Cardwell in Charlotte County, 1879 deed where Robert Catlet sells the Cardwell land to Hugh Blair Grigsby, 1887 deed...