Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1727-1918, chiefly 1781-1875, of members of the related Overton, Ragland, Claybrooke and Hart families of Louisa County, Va. and Haywood Co., Tenn. The early papers are primarily legal documents, accounts and account books of John Ragland and Samuel Ragland and correspondence of the children of Samuel Ragland. After 1797, the collection concerns the legal and business papers of Samuel Overton, Thomas Overton, Waller Overton and Sally Overton Claybrooke. After 1810, the collection...

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MIscellaneous receipts and business correspondence on rye.  4 items.

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Tyre Yanley to Samuel Ragland -- Bill of Sale for 3 Negroes.

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Record of court action of James Overton, James Bullock, and John Lewis, executors of John Waller against Zachy Merriweather and Nicholas Lewis. Court finds for the plaintiff.

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Bond of John White and William Smith.

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Will of Frances Smith of Hanover County, VA.

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Miscellaneous: receipts, accounts dealing with attorney fees and bail, pipe tobacco, land, nails, iron, wine, sugar, rum, linen, lace, thread, cotton, leather, scythe stones, buttons, shoes, bedboard. 9 items.

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Surveyors Report by William Pettit.

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William Terrel, Wilks County, Georgia to Samuel Ragland, Louisa County, Virginia. Sorry Samuel Ragland has not gotten his tobacco.

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Division of the estate of John Zachary Lewis.

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Surveyors Report by John Hogan.

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Miscellaneous: receipts for tobacco, hogshead, land, publication in Virginia. Gazette, Negro, shoes, poll tax. 12 items.

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Will of James Overton.

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Miscellaneous: bonds, receipts, bill of sale, accounts dealing with land, slaves horses, brandy, tobacco, last will and testament of John Barnley. 11 items.

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Will of Samuel Ragland.

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John White to Samuel Ragland. Will visit soon; will pick up leather and shoes; dog has killed his pigs.

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John Bickle to Samuel Ragland. Will make over his Kentucky lands to Samuel Ragland.

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Miscellaneous:  receipts, accounts dealing with slaves, horses, cattle, court costs, attorneys, etc., flax wheel, dishware, cookware, table chairs, schooling, tobacco, shoes for Negroes and men, land.  22 items.

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A list of bonds, notes and accounts due Doctor Andrew Todd.

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Scope and Contents James Robards, Goochland County, to Samuel Raglin (Ragland), Louisa, Virginia. Cannot pay S.R. any money.

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Scope and Contents William Bowe, Hanover, to Samuel Ragland, Louisa, Virginia. Asks Samuel Ragland to pay his grandmother's account.

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Scope and Contents Joel Terrell, to Samuel Ragland, Louisa County, Virginia. Are all well; could not get a power of attorney; Indians have been "troublesome."

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Samuel Jones, Richmond, to Samuel Ragland, Louisa, Elk Creek. Apprenticeship. will expire soon -- asks for help in acquiring tools.

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Miscellaneous: receipts, accounts dealing with land, power of attorney costs, shoes, shoe thread, slavery, tobacco crop, horse, bacon. 22 items.

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Case of Coleman v. Turner. Attachment of estate of Benjamin Turner.