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Oscar Shewmake Autograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00572
Scope and Contents

Autographs of Virginians including Robert Andrews, Mann Page, Johnny Watts, John Carter, and Benjamin Powell. Several signatures are receipts for the purchase of slaves.

Dates: 1766-1813

Southampton County, Va. Letters and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00099
Scope and Contents Contains letters, bills, receipts, business accounts, and miscellaneous personal writings of the Laine and Travis families of Southampton County, Va. The bulk of the collection concerns the business and general financial affairs of the Laine family, particularly Jeremy and Miles Laine. It also contains several short personal writings of the Travis family, who were the final owners of Nat Turner prior to his rebellion. This includes the names and birthdays of many members of the family...
Dates: 1798- 1897

William Booth Taliaferro Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T15
Scope and Contents Papers, 1811-1954, of William Booth Taliaferro and his family of Gloucester County, Va. Taliaferro's papers consist of diaries, letterbook (while at Harpers Ferry), correspondence, speeches, memoirs and accounts. The collection also includes papers of his wife, Sally Nivison Lyons Taliaferro (including diaries), his ancestors, siblings and descendants, as well as photographs, genealogical notes and artifacts of the Taliaferro family.There are papers of other people who are not...
Dates: 1811-1954

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

Virginia probate inventories of enslaved people

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00634
Scope and Contents

This collection contains nine Virginia probate inventories listing the assets of several estates, including enslaved men and women. Each inventory lists the names of enslaved persons, their gender, and an approximate age range, usually "between 12 and 50 years of age." One of the inventories lists property owned by a woman.

Dates: 1815 April 1

Nathaniel V. Watkins Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 W32 and 2008.306
Scope and Contents Letters, chiefly 1862-1865, written by Nathaniel Venable Watkins to his wife Nancy Daniel Watkins. During the Civil War, Watkins served with Co. H, 4th Virginia Heavy Artillery, which became part of the 34th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Watkins appeared to have saw little combat, spending much of his time in defensive positions guarding artillery batteries. His unit was stationed at Gloucester Point (during the Peninsular Campaign), near Richmond (Chaffin's Bluff) and near Petersburg. His...
Dates: 1846-1889; Majority of material found in 1862-1865

William Massie papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 39.1 M39
Scope and Contents

The William Massie papers includes letters and accounts belonging to William Massie, a farmer, miller and plantation owner. Massie lived in Pharsalia and Tye River Mills, Nelson County, Virginia. Letters include correspondence between Nathaniel Francis Cabell and Chiswell Dabney. Letters discuss life in Nelson County, agriculture, slavery, milling, and other subjects.

Dates: 1810-1870

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Financial records 25
Correspondence 24
Receipts (financial records) 16
Legal documents 14
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 10
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Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century 9
Slavery--Virginia--18th century 8
Account books 6
Diaries 6
Women--Virginia--Social life and customs 6
Gloucester County (Va.)--History--19th century 5
United States--Slavery 5
Invoices 4
Plantations 4
Slavery--Southern States--History 4
Agriculture--Virginia--19th century 3
Genealogy 3
Plantation life 3
Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 3
United States--History--Mexican War, 1845-1848 3
United States--History--War of 1812 3
United States--Politics and Government 3
United States--Religious History--Christianity 3
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Washington County (Va.)--History--19th century 3
Agriculture--Southern States--History--19th century 2
Anti-slavery movements 2
College of William and Mary--History--18th century 2
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 2
Education--Virginia--History--19th century 2
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--19th century 2
Embargo, 1807-1809 2
Farm management--Virginia--History--19th century 2
Indians of North America--Virginia 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century 2
Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century 2
Minutes 2
Photographs 2
Plantation life--Virginia 2
Presidents--United States--Election--1848 2
Reports 2
Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century 2
Spotsylvania County (Va.)--History--19th century 2
Tobacco--Virginia--History--19th century 2
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 2
Virginia--Genealogy 2
Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 2
Virginia--Politics and Government 2
Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century 2
Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century 2
Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century 2
Wythe County (Va.)--History--19th century 2
Agendas (administrative records) 1
Agriculture 1
Agriculture--United States--History--19th century 1
Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
American Temperance Union 1
American poetry--19th century 1
Architecture, Domestic--Virginia 1
Augusta County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Autographs 1
Awards and scholarships 1
Banks and banking--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Barbour County (W. Va.)--History, Military--19th century. 1
Bars (Drinking establishments)--Virginia 1
Bedford County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Blacksmithing--Virginia 1
Botetourt County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Broadsides 1
Buildings and Grounds--Fires--1859 1
Canals--Southern States 1
Charter Day 1
Chatterton (King George County, Va.) 1
Cherokee Indians 1
Church of England--Virginia--History 1
College of William and Mary--History--17th century 1
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 1
Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774 1
Compromise of 1850 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Cavalry Regiment, 3rd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 26th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 34th 1
Course work 1
Creek Indians 1
Deeds 1
Dismal Swamp Canal 1
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--18th century 1
Education--Virginia--Williamsburg--20th century 1
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Social conditions 1
Essex County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Evergreen (Tenn.)--History--19th century 1
Exercise books 1
Farm management 1
Farms--Virginia--Nottoway County 1
Fauquier County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Free Blacks 1
Fugitive slaves--Virginia 1
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Language
Latin 1
 
Names
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 3
Braxton family 2
Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family 2
Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894 2
Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1883-1942 2
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Coalter family 2
Coalter, John, 1769-1838 2
Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792 2
Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809-1839 2
Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington, 1832-1908 2
Harrison family 2
Taliaferro family 2
Taliaferro family. 2
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827 2
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 2
Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896 2
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935 2
University of Virginia 2
Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855 1
Ballantine, Elisha (Rev.) 1
Ballentine family 1
Baytop family 1
Baytop, Lucy Taliaferro Catlett 1
Booth family 1
Booton, Lucy Mary Modesitt 1
Boyd family 1
Braxton, Carter, 1787-1855 1
Brown family 1
Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, b. 1805 1
Bryan, John Randolph, 1806-1887 1
Cabaniss, Mat 1
Carter, Robert ("King"), 1663-1732 1
Cloyd family 1
Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin, d. 1859 1
Cocke, John Hartwell 1
Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866 1
College of William and Mary 1
Coulter family 1
Cringan family 1
Curtis family 1
Daniel family 1
Daniel, James B. 1
Ellis, Pearl Tyler, 1860-1947 1
Fauntleroy family 1
Fitzgerald, John 1
Fitzhugh family 1
Fitzhugh, Henrietta Ellen Baytop 1
Fitzhugh, Mary F. 1
Fitzhugh, Rufus King 1
Foster, Adam 1
Hicks family 1
Hoge, Moses Drury, 1818-1899 1
Howerton family 1
Howerton, W. M 1
Hughes family 1
Hughes, J. J. 1
James River & Kanawha Company 1
James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.) 1
Jones family 1
Jones, Mary Fauntleroy 1
Jones, Mary Throckmorton 1
Jones, Richard P. 1
Jones, Warner Throckmorton 1
Kemp, Wyndham 1
Laine Family 1
Langborn, William 1
Lewis, Dangerfield 1
Lewis, George 1
Lewis, George, d. 1821 1
Lomax, John A 1
Lomax, John A. 1
Lomax, John Tayloe, 1781-1862 1
Longwood University 1
Mackenzie family 1
Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871 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
Mongle family 1
Mongle, James. 1
Mongle, Samuel A. 1
Mongle, Sarah Annis Hughes. 1
Morton family 1
Munford, William, 1775-1825 1
Nicolson, James Monroe 1
Nicolson, Robert W. 1
Page family 1
Pendleton, William Nelson, 1809-1883 1
Perrin family 1
Perrin, William K. 1
Pleasants, John Hampden, 1797-1846 1
Poindexter, Jane 1
Quarles family 1
Quarles, Patsy 1
Randolph, John, 1773-1833 1
Randolph, Judith Randolph, fl. 1792-1813 1
Read family 1
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