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Carter Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 C24
Scope and Contents The collection includes: correspondence and land records of Robert "King" Carter; correspondence and land records of his sons Robert Carter (1704-1731) and Landon Carter (1710-1778); correspondence, accounts, land records and the appointment to the Virginia Council of Robert Carter (1728-1804), son of Robert Carter (1704-1731); correspondence, diaries, land records and accounts of Robert Wormeley Carter (1734-1804), son of Landon Carter of Sabine Hall; and correspondence and land records and...
Dates: 1667-1862; Majority of material found in 1792-1861
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Chappelear Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 C38
Scope and Contents Collection, 1876-1959, of Benjamin Curtis Chappelear including manuscript and printed maps of Fauquier, Loudoun, Clarke, and Warren Counties, Virginia; Virginia state maps; United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey Maps of areas in Virginia and West Virginia; notes concerning land records and manuscript volumes which include account books collected by Chappelear of blacksmiths, farmers, postmasters, students, tanners, and operators of general stores. The collection also...
Dates: 1788-1959
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

Cook-Luttrell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 C77
Scope and Contents Correspondence, business, tax and legal records, primarily 1848-1890, of various members of the Cook and Luttrell Families of Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties, Virginia. The Cook family correspondence is concentrated between 1855 and 1858 and discusses the migration of several members of the family to western Virginia and Missouri, courtship and marriage, farming, and detailed accounts of family visits. The Luttrell correspondence, 1874-1890, contains letters to Mollie Luttrell...
Dates: 1848-1890
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

George Washington Parke Custis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 C96
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1832-1856, of George Washington Parke Custis of "Arlington." The collection is mostly letters written to Francis Nelson, his farm manager at "White House," New Kent County, Virginia concerning growing and marketing crops, agricultural improvements, the effect of the proposed Richmond and York River Railroad on the plantation, and Robert E. Lee. There are a few additional letters to Nelson from merchants and railroad officials, and photostats of 2 additional Custis letters.

Dates: 1832-1856
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

McGavock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.1 M17
Scope and Contents Papers (including correspondence, legal documents, and accounts) of James McGavock (1728-1812), his son James McGavock (1764-1838) and his grandsons James McGavock (1804-1839) and Stephen McGavock (1807-1880). Many of the papers concern lead mines at Fort Chiswell, Va, slavery, agriculture, aspects of the Revolutionary War, and other.  Included are a list of parish levies before 1776; receipts for supplies issued at Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Va. and at Fort Patrick Henry, Tenn. for an...
Dates: 1760-1888
Found in: Special Collections Research Center

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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
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Agricultural implements 1
Agriculture--United States--History--19th century 1
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Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.) 1
Augusta County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Bedford County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Blacksmithing 1
Blacksmithing--Virginia 1
Botetourt County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Cherokee Indians 1
Chicago (Ill.)--History--19th century 1
Clarke County (Va.)--Maps 1
Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774 1
Courtship--Virginia 1
Culpeper County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Daybooks 1
Design drawings 1
Diaries 1
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Fauquier County (Va.)--History 1
Fauquier County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
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Rappahannock County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
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Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 1
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Tanning--History--19th century 1
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Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century 1
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Washington County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
West Virginia--Maps 1
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Boyd family 1
Bywaters family 1
Carter, Robert ("King"), 1663-1732 1
Cloyd family 1
Cook family 1
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Custis, George Washington Parke 1
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 1
Luttrell family 1
McGavock family 1
McGavock, James, 1728-1812 1
McGavock, James, 1764-1838 1
McGavock, James, 1804-1839 1
McGavock, John Williamson, b. 1843 1
McGavock, Stephen, 1807-1880 1
Nelson, Francis 1
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
University of Virginia 1
Washington, George, 1732-1799 1
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