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Armistead-Cocke Papers
Baird Family Papers
Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers
Booth-Cooke Family Papers
Papers, 1858-1864, of the Booth family and Cooke family. Includes letters from Elizabeth Gardner Booth, one to her mother, Eliza Booth, and one to her brother, Andrew Booth. Also includes genealogical material on the Booth and Cooke families of Gloucester County, Va.
Botetourt Lodge No. 7 (Gloucester County, Va.) records
Botetourt Lodge No. 7 (Gloucester County, Va.) records contains materieals related to the Botetourt Lodge No. 7. Gloucester County Courthouse in Virginia. The collection includes minute and secretary books from the lodge dating from 1857-1891.
Burwell-Catlett Papers
Civil War Collection
Curtis, Jones & Co. Journal
Journal, 1837-1844, of Curtis, Jones & Co., merchants, Gloucester Court House, Va.
Charles H. Dimmock Papers
John Dixon Papers
Dutton and Gayle Store (Gloucester County, Va.) Ledger
Ledger kept by the Dutton and Gayle Store in the area of Ware Neck in Gloucester County, Virginia. Items sold by the store include coffee, canned meat and groceries as well as tobacco and clothing. Accounts were kept of the price of goods as well as payments by patrons and recorded in the front half of the ledger.
Duval Collection
Freeport, Virginia, Civil War Letters
This collection consists of three letters written at Freeport, Virginia by a woman, "Mother", to Sue and Jimmy, and to an unidentified recipient. The content concerns the home front in Gloucester County, Virginia during the Civil War. Baltimore is mentioned.
Glass Family Papers
Papers, 1858-1884, of the Glass family of Gloucester County, Va. Includes letters, 1873, to Capt. Andrew Glass.
Gloucester Circuit of the Methodist Church Records
Gloucester County, Va. Farmer's Diary
Diary, 1880-1882, of an unidentified farmer in Gloucester County, Va. It includes weather data and writings concerning religion.
Gloucester County, Va. School Ledger
Ledger, 1819-1849, of the school commissioners of Gloucester County, Va. and minutes of meetings, 1818-1829.
Gloucester County, Virginia Ledger
Ledger of an unidentified lawyer in or near Gloucester County, Virginia. Most names are residents of Gloucester County and Mathews County, Virginia but also residents from the surrounding area, including Williamsburg, Virginia .
Gloucester Court House (Va.) Store Ledger
Ledger kept by the Gloucester Court House Store which detailed purchases and payments by various residents of the area. Items purchased range from food items such as butter, flour, molasses, salt, and sugar to household items such as cloth, hardware, and candles. The shop also sold tobacco and various types of alcohol including rum, brandy, and whiskey.
Gloucester Point Civil War map
1862 Civil War map of Gloucester Point, Virginia signed by William H. Powers and Henry Andrew Black.
Gloucester, Virginia, Newspapers Privately Printed by Douglas P. Smith
Original newspapers privately printed in Gloucester, Virginia by Douglas P. Smith on a child’s Swiftset printing press. Most are one page. Issue sizes vary from 3.5 x 5.5 to 7 x 7.5.
Also included are personal papers of Douglas P. Smith and two June 1945 editions of a newsletter, "The Gloucester Pointer.”
R. P. Gray and Brother General Store (Gloucester County, Va.) Account Ledger
Account and ledger kept by R.P. Gray and Borther General Store located in the Sign Pine area of Gloucester County, Virginia. Accounts recorded include various residents of the area as well as other businesses such as the local church and the Signpine and Petsworth schools. The last half of the ledger also includes a complete inventory of supplies at the store. The page ranges for this inventory can be found from page 221-249 of the ledger.
Sarah Hall Letter to Harriet Elvira Jones
Letter from Sarah Hall, Oak Plane [Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia] to Harriet Elvira Jones, Union Mills, Fluvanna, Virginia about her trip to Gloucester County, Virginia to live with her new husband and about setting up housekeeping. October 24, 1849.
Henderson Family Photographs
Hibble and Stubbs Account Books
Journal, 1854-1856, and daybook, 1856-1857, of Hibble and Stubbs, merchants, at Cappahosic, Gloucester County, Va.