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Grigsby-Galt Papers

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Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2009.308 and 2011.269
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...
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Hall Family Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 90 H14
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of the Hall and Moore families of New York, Richmond, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. Includes wills, estate papers, legal and financial transactions, 1810-1915, of Jacob Hall, Sarah Hall and Cunningham Hall; and Bishop Richard Channing Moore, Virginia Moore, Harriet Glenworth Moore, Margaretta Moore and Louise Moore. Contains correspondence, 1854-1876, between Zebulon S. Farland and Ellen Douglas Gordon Farland; letters, 1906-1928, to Margaret (Farland)...
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Hart Papers I and II

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Identifier: Mss. 39.1 H29
Scope and Contents Papers, 1847-1934, including correspondence, essays, articles, and poems by John Hart, a Richmond book seller and poems, short stories, and a novel by his wife, Katherine M. Hart. The papers of John Hart include letters concerning the sale of books and two letters by James Branch Cabell. The collection includes diplomas and certificates awarded by the University of Virginia to his [father ?] John Hart of Louisa County, Va. The Hart Papers (II) series contains 200...
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Lawrence I'Anson Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 85 Ia6
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 1938-1983, of Lawrence I'Anson, lawyer and justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Includes correspondence, invitations, programs, speeches, judicial opinions, certificates, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photographs and scrapbooks.

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John Garland Pollard Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 70 P76
Scope and Contents Letters, clippings, manuscript volumes, business papers, pamphlets, genealogical material, family papers, reports, memos, campaign literature, photographs of John G. Pollard (1871-1937), lawyer, educator, statesman, humanitarian, and governor of Virginia, 1930-1934. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K. E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J. A. C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge,...
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Preston Family Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.1 P91
Scope and Contents This inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following: Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee...
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Rev. John J. Spooner Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.2 Sp6
Scope and Contents

Papers, 1757-1792, of the Rev. John Jones Spooner including his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and his installation as minister to Martins Brandon Parish, Prince George County, Va. Also Includes certificate of ordination, 1792, signed by Bishop James Madison.

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Virginia Counties Collection

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Identifier: Mss. 39.4 V82co
Scope and Contents

Artificial collection of papers relating to various counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Includes current West Virginia Counties of Berkeley, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Nicholas and Pendleton because the material was generated when these counties were part of Virginia.

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Certificates 7
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Legal documents 4
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Buckingham County (Va.)--History 2
Cabinet photographs 2
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College of William and Mary--History--18th century 2
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 2
College of William and Mary--History--20th century 2
Episcopal Church--Virginia--History 2
Genealogy 2
Lawyers--Virginia--History 2
Letters (correspondence) 2
Manuscripts (document genre) 2
Marriage certificates 2
Minutes 2
Petitions 2
Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century 2
United States--History--War of 1812 2
Virginia--Governors 2
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 2
Virginia--Militia 2
Virginia--Religious history 2
Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century 2
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--20th century 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Accomack County (Va.)--History 1
Account books 1
Accounts 1
Advertising cards 1
African Americans--Virginia--Photographs 1
Agriculture--Virginia--History 1
Albemarle County (Va.)--History 1
Amelia County (Va.)--History 1
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1
Amherst County (Va.)--History 1
Anti-slavery movements 1
Architecture, Domestic--Virginia 1
Augusta County (Va.)--History 1
Baptists--Virginia--History 1
Bedford County (Va.)--History 1
Berkeley County (W.Va.)--History 1
Bible records 1
Booklets 1
Booksellers and bookselling--Virginia 1
Botetourt County (Va.)--History 1
Broadsides 1
Brunswick County (Va.)--History 1
Campbell County (Va.)--History 1
Caroline County (Va.)--History 1
Carriage and wagon making 1
Catalogs 1
Charles City County (Va.)--History 1
Charlotte County (Va.)--History 1
Charlotte County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Cherokee Indians 1
Chesterfield County (Va.)--History 1
Church records and registers--Virginia 1
Circulars (fliers) 1
Clarke County (Va.)--History 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Criss Cross House (New Kent County, Va.) 1
Culpeper County (Va.)--History 1
Cumberland County (Va.)--History 1
Daybooks 1
Deeds 1
Deeds--Virginia 1
Dinwiddie County (Va.)--History 1
Dueling--Virginia 1
Dunmore County (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Education, Higher--Virginia--History 1
Education--Virginia--History 1
Elizabeth City County (Va.)--History 1
Episcopal Church--Clergy 1
Episcopal Church--Virginia--Clergy--19th century 1
Episcopal Church--Virginia--Clergy--20th century 1
Episcopal Church--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Fairfax County (Va.)--History 1
Farms--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Fauquier County (Va.)--History 1
Fayette County (W. Va.)--History 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Fluvanna County (Va.)--History 1
Franklin County (Va.)--History 1
Frederick County (Va.)--History 1
Freedmen--Virginia--History 1
Fundraising campaigns 1
Genealogical tables 1
General stores--Virginia 1
Gloucester County (Va.)--History 1
Goochland County (Va.)--History 1
Grain--Milling--Virginia 1
Greenbrier County (Va.)--History 1
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College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 3
Anderson Gallery 1
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) 1
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958 1
Carrington family 1
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College of William and Mary. 1
Colonial National Historical Park (Va.) 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Eastern Publishing Co 1
Galt family 1
Galt, William Richard, 1818-1892 1
Garland family 1
Grigsby family 1
Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 1806-1881 1
Hall, Channing Moore, III 1
Hall, J. Lesslie (John Lesslie), 1856- 1
Hall, John Lesslie, Jr., 1891-1978 1
Hart, John, 1860-1937 1
Hart, Katherine McCowan, 1863-1948 1
Lee Gallery 1
Madison, James, 1749-1812 1
Marshall-Wythe School of Law 1
Phi Beta Kappa. Virginia Alpha (College of William and Mary) 1
Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937 1
Preston Family 1
Preston family 1
Preston, Francis 1
Preston, Francis, 1765-1836 1
Preston, John, 1764-1827 1
Preston, William 1
Preston, William, ca. 1729-1783 1
United States. Board of Veterans Appeals 1
United States. Federal Trade Commission 1
United States. Navy. Office of the Paymaster 1
Virginia. General Court 1
Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals 1
Women's College of Richmond 1
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