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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.
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
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 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.”
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.
Hughes, Stubbs & Co. Account Books
Journals, 1844-1847, and day book, 1846-1847, of Hughes, Stubbs & Co., merchants, at Stubbs, Gloucester County, Va.
Thomas Jefferson Hughes Facsimiles
Facsimiles were likely made in 1965. Photocopies of letters, 1835-1845, to Dr. Thomas Jefferson Hughes of Gloucester County, Va. and Connorsville, Ind. chiefly from his brother Skaife W. Hughes, Jasper C. Hughes, and H. Yates Hughes, all from Gloucester County, Va. Includes photocopies of two essays by Mrs. Sarah Hughes, "What Qualities Should Be Cultivated by the Teacher" and "Forest Trees."
James Lewis Notebook
Notes, circa 1779-1844, of James Lewis [Gloucester County, Virginiaa. ?] concerning farming and math (using farming examples). The book contains some dated entries ranging from about 1779 to 1847 and includes loose newspaper clippings.
Janney Family Papers
Catesby Jones Account Book
Ledger, 1767-1845, of Catesby Jones, of "Marlfield," Gloucester County, Va. Includes information on Robert Yates, a student at the College of William and Mary in 1827.