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Armistead-Cocke Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 Ar6
Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1756-1764, of Maria Carter Armistead (including letters written by Mrs. Thomas Feilde); business papers, 1782-1828, of William Cocke of "Bremo," Henrico County, Virginia and of "Oakland," Cumberland County, Virginia; and letters, 1861-1863, of William Fauntleroy Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston Cocke and Edmund Randolph Cocke concerning their service in the Confederate States Army (including the Battle of First Bull Run).Also included are five volumes of farm and...
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Baird Family Papers

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Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 B16
Scope and Contents Collection includes papers, 1656-1848, concerning Essex County, Va. including land records and wills, many of which relate to the Rowzee family. Many of the records date from the seventeenth century. The collection also includes correspondence, 1830-1920, of members of the Baird family including letters, 1859-1911, of Edward R. Baird while attending the University of Virginia, serving in Pickett's Division and as superintendent of schools in Essex County. There are...
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Baytop-Fitzhugh Papers

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Identifier: MS 00111
Scope and Contents The inventory includes letters, 1851-1861, and accounts, 1840-1866, of Rufus King Fitzhugh and his wife Henrietta Ellen (Baytop) Fitzhugh of Stanardsville, Greene County, Virginia. Most letters to Henrietta are from her mother Lucy Taliaferro (Catlett) Baytop, and her sisters Rowena, Lucy Ann, and Eugenia, all of Springfield, Gloucester County, Virginia. The collection also includes letters from her sister-in-law Mary F. Fitzhugh of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The letters relate...
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Booth-Cooke Family Papers

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Identifier: SC 00474
Scope and Contents

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.

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Burwell-Catlett Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 69 B95
Scope and Contents Correspondence, 1794-1887, of the Burwell family of Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Includes letters of Mary Cole Turnbull Burwell and her children including Armistead Burwell, Benjamin Powell Burwell, Frances King Burwell Catlett, Robert Burwell, William T. Burwell (at the United States Military Academy), Charles Blair Burwell, and concerning these children and her other children Elizabeth Margaret Burwell Putnam and Anne Burwell Garland.Subjects include...
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Civil War Collection

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Identifier: Mss. 39.1 C76
Scope and Contents The Civil War Collection is an artificial collection of material, chiefly 1861-1865, pertaining to the American Civil War including items from both Union and Confederate forces. The collection includes official correspondence, general and special orders, descriptions of campaigns and battles, articles concerning the war, and artifacts. There are pardons, poems, songs, autographs, maps, muster rolls, pen and ink sketches of camp life, engineers' drawings, and a memorandum of signals used by...
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Curtis, Jones & Co. Journal

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Identifier: Mss. MsV Ame19 Oversize
Scope and Contents

Journal, 1837-1844, of Curtis, Jones & Co., merchants, Gloucester Court House, Va.

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Charles H. Dimmock Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 65 D59
Scope and Contents Papers, 1826-1872, of Charles Dimmock and Charles Henry Dimmock. Includes sketch of the life of Charles H. Dimmock; a manuscript volume containing a journal of a voyage from Norfolk to Madeira and farm journal of "Shabby Hall," Gloucester County, Va.; travel diary, 1826, of Charles Dimmock concerning travels in Venice and Germany; and papers concerning the service of Charles Henry Dimmock in the engineer's corps in the Confederate Army, some of which include work at Yorktown, Va. and having...
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John Dixon Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.1 D6
Scope and Contents The John Dixon Papers include letters, legal papers, farm and personal accounts, 1760-1829 of John Dixon, Jr. (1777-1830) of "Airville" Gloucester County, Virginia. Letters include those from Charles H. Braxton of "Oak Spring," Burwell Bassett of Williamsburg, Richard Jones, John Nicholson, John Peyton, and James and Samuel Stubbs of Gloucester County. The collection also includes a letter, 22 October 1827, of Burwell Bassett and a letter, 1826, of John Mercer Patton (1796-1858)....
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Freeport, Virginia, Civil War Letters

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Identifier: SC 00350
Scope and Contents

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.

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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 7
Farms--Virginia--Gloucester County 6
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 6
Diaries 5
Gloucester County (Va.)--History--20th century 5
Mathews County (Va.)--History--19th century 5
Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century 5
Photographs 5
Receipts (financial records) 5
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 4
Genealogy 4
Journals (accounts) 4
Manuscripts (document genre) 4
Agriculture--Virginia--History--19th century 3
Indentures 3
King and Queen County (Va.)--History--19th century 3
Minutes 3
Slavery--Southern States--History 3
Women--Virginia--Social life and customs 3
Agendas (administrative records) 2
Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century 2
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 26th 2
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Education--Virginia--History--19th century 2
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Gloucester County (Va.)--Genealogy. 2
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Gloucester County (Va.)--Social life and customs 2
Judges--Virginia 2
Maps 2
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans 2
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United States--Slavery 2
Virginia--Genealogy 2
Virginia--Maps 2
Virginia--Religious history 2
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Accounts 1
African Americans--Medical care--Virginia 1
Agriculture--Southern States--History--19th century 1
Agriculture--Virginia--19th century 1
Agriculture--Virginia--History 1
Albemarle County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
American diaries--Women authors 1
Anti-slavery movements 1
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Astronomy--Study and teaching 1
Authors, American--20th century 1
Authors, American--Women 1
Barbour County (W. Va.)--History, Military--19th century. 1
Blacksmithing--United States 1
Blackwater, Battle of, 1863 1
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 1
Business records 1
Camp Allen (Jamestown Island, Va.) 1
Cigars--History 1
Clergy 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Cocke family 1
College of William and Mary--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Colonial period, ca. 1609-1774 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Engineer's Corps 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Pickett's Division 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 14th 1
Cookery--Southern States 1
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County clerks--Virginia--Gloucester County 1
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Culpeper County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
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Cumberland County (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Deeds 1
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Education--Alabama 1
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Education--Virginia--History 1
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Episcopal Church--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Essex County (Va.)--History--17th century 1
Essex County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Essex County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Farm management 1
Farm management--Southern States--History--19th century 1
Fredericksburg (Va.), Battle of, 1862 1
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Germany--Description and travel--19th century 1
Gloucester County (Va.)--History--Pictorial works. 1
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Taliaferro family 4
Taliaferro family. 3
Booth family 2
Jones, Warner Throckmorton 2
Perrin family 2
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Taliaferro, John P., 1828-1869 2
Armistead Family 1
Baird family 1
Barron family 1
Bassett, Burwell, 1764-1841 1
Baytop family 1
Baytop, Lucy Taliaferro Catlett 1
Billups, Richard 1
Burwell family 1
Burwell, Charles Blair 1
Burwell, John, d. 1887 1
Catlett family 1
Cocke Family 1
Cocke, Edmund Randolph, 1841-1922 1
Cocke, Thomas Lewis Preston, 1838-1895 1
Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1826-1863 1
Cocke, William Fauntleroy, 1836-1863 1
Cocke, William, 1798-1855 1
Cocke, William, fl. 1798-1855 1
Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington, 1832-1908 1
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 1
Cooke family 1
Cringan family 1
Curtis family 1
Dimmock, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1831-1873 1
Dimmock, Charles Henry, 1831-1873 1
Dimmock, Charles, d. 1863 1
Dixon family 1
Dixon, Elizabeth Peyton 1
Dixon, John 1
Dixon, John, d. 1788 1
Dixon, William M 1
Education--North Carolina 1
Edwards, Maria Seawell, b. 1815? 1
Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert 1
Fauntleroy family 1
Fauntleroy, William Lawson 1
Fitzhugh family 1
Fitzhugh, Henrietta Ellen Baytop 1
Fitzhugh, Mary F. 1
Fitzhugh, Rufus King 1
Foster, Adam 1
Garland, Anne (Burwell) 1
Glass family 1
Gordon, Elizabeth Gordon Biddle 1
Harrison family 1
Hicks family 1
Hunter family 1
Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro), 1809-1887 1
Jones family 1
Jones, Mary Fauntleroy 1
Jones, Mary Throckmorton 1
Jones, Richard P. 1
Kemp, Wyndham 1
Langborn, William 1
Longwood University 1
Mackenzie family 1
Methodist Church. Virginia Conference. Richmond District. Gloucester Circuit. 1
Nicolson, James Monroe 1
Nicolson, Robert W. 1
Page family 1
Patton, John Mercer, 1796-1858 1
Perrin, John Taloe 1
Perrin, William K. 1
Preston family 1
Putnam, Elizabeth Margaret Burwell, b. 1823 1
Roane family 1
Rotary Club 1
Rowzee family 1
Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916 1
Sheldon family 1
Sinclair family 1
Taliaferro, George 1
Taliaferro, Sally Lyon 1
Taliaferro, William Booth 1
Tidewater Fox Hunters Association 1
Todd family 1
Tucker, John Randolph, 1823-1897 1
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827 1
United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 10th 1
United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 1st 1
United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
United States. Army. Massachusetts Mounted Rifles, 1st 1
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 70th 1
United States. Army. Ohio Volunteers 1
United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 101st 1
United States. Army. Rhode Island Volunteers, 2nd 1
United States. Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 2nd 1
Virginia House of Delegates 1
Washington family 1
Washington, Lawrence, 1791-1875 1
White family 1
Whiting family 1
Whittle (Bishop) 1
Yates, Robert 1
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