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E.B. Chaney Letter to his Brother
Collection
Identifier: SC 00220
Scope and Contents
Letter from E.B. Chaney to his brother about his home and selling of tobacco. Location unknown. February 18,1867.
Dates:
1867 February 18
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Diary (Bowens Corners, New York)
Collection
Identifier: SC 00774
Scope and Contents
Diary, 1893, of an unknown member of the Kellogg family of Bowens Corners, New York. Includes details of their family, their tobacco farm, farming in general, visitors that they entertained, trips that they took, and other matters of daily life.
Dates:
1893
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Grigsby-Galt Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.308
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1736-1982; Majority of material found in 1840-1930
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
David Johnson Note to Captain Mayo Carrington
Collection
Identifier: SC 00249
Scope and Contents
Note from David Johnson to Capt. Mayo Carrington suggesting that Carrington give him a check since he is going to Richmond. The reverse has notations on wheat and tobacco with names of people and money amounts. February 27, 1861.
Dates:
1861 February 27
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
John P. Mason Diary
Collection
Identifier: SC 00860
Scope and Contents
The following information was provided by the seller and has not been verified: "1913 diary of a man by the name of John P. Mason who was a tobacco farmer from Warehouse Point Connecticut. The diary full of handwritten entries for every day of the year but many of those are about his farming and rather simple entries. He also mentions several names; Joe Kellogg, Kulle, Kinbusch, Thompson, Georgia Parker, Huntley, J. R. Montgomery, Carter, Brainerd, Trombley and...
Dates:
1913
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Yeaman and Walker Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.542
Scope and Contents
The Yeaman and Walker Family Collection consists mainly of correspondence and financial records of the Yeaman and Walker families, mostly relating to tobacco farming in Virginia between 1840 and 1910. The predominant locations are Pittsylvania County, Botetourt County, Charlotte County, Lynchburg, and Danville. Letters demonstrate economic stress after the Civil War, particularly as it relates to crop and livestock prices. Other topics discussed include sickness and deaths of children and...
Dates:
1836-1937; Majority of material found in 1850-1910
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center