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James Armstrong Letter to John Crowninshield

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00966
Scope and Contents

Letter, February 26, 1937, of James Armstrong to John Crowninshield written from Norfolk, Virginia. The letter mentions a ship, Macedonean, and the Navy Yard. It also refers to U.S. President Andrew Jackson's term in office imminent end and that Martin Van Buren enters office under auspicious circumstances.

Dates: 1837 February 26

Barraud Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 B26
Scope and Contents Correspondence and other papers, mostly 1810-1860, of the Barraud family of Norfolk, Virginia. Correspondence of Dr. Philip Barraud (1758-1830), his wife, Ann Blaws (Hansford) Barraud (1760-1836), and their children, included Daniel Cary Barraud (1790-1867), Otway Byrd Barraud (b. 1801), and Leliana (Barraud) Baker (b. 1805). A number of the letters, as well as some poems, are from St. George Tucker (1752-1827), a close friend of Barraud's when he lived in Williamsburg,...
Dates: 1799-1904; Majority of material found in 1810-1860

Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01284
Scope and Contents

Collection of legal papers chiefly of Wythe and Warwick counties, Virginia. Includes papers of George Blow, Jr.; letters, 1842-1853, concerning the legal practice of Peter F. Schlecker; resolutions, 1860 July 28, passed by the Board of Trade of Norfolk, Virginia; and deed, 1831, to land in Wythe County, Virginia from Joseph F. White to Elisha D. Payne. Some legal documents concern grain mills.

Dates: 1825-1896

Gideon Christian Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 00150
Scope and Contents Papers, 1838-1882, of Gideon Christian, physician, of Norfolk, Va. The collection includes letters, accounts, lotteries, prescriptions, and forms for excusing draftees into the Confederate Army on medical grounds. A 1993 addendum to this collection (Mss. Acc. 1993.63) consists of two medical essays and one College of William and Mary student notebook belonging to Dr. Gideon Christian.  The student notebook begins October 15th 1840. Medical essays include notes made while...
Dates: 1838-1882

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

Minnie A. Hill Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 00932
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of letters from supervisors or sponsors to Minnie A. Hill, a northern female teacher, who was in Norfolk and then Petersburg, Virginia teaching at freedmen’s schools in the late 1860s.

Dates: 1865-1869

Myers-Burrage-Graham Papers (I) Group A

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 98 M99 Group A
Scope and Contents

Group A;  Papers of Moses Myers, and his sons Samuel Myers (1790-1829) lawyer in Norfolk and Pensacola, Fla. and John Myers (1787-1830) merchant of Norfolk. Includes papers of Barton Myers (1853-1927), mayor of Norfolk, Va. and his family.

Dates: 1776-1925

Myers Papers (II)

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 98 M99 Myers II
Scope and Contents Papers of Moses Myers, and his sons Samuel Myers (1790-1829) lawyer in Norfolk, Pensacola, Fla., John Myers (1787-1830) merchant of Norfolk and Myer Myers of Norfolk, Va. and daughter Adeline Myers. Also includes letters of Caroline Marx Barton to Julia Grammer Barton Myers, and of L. H. Wirt to Judith Marx. Includes letters of Joseph Marx Myers. There are letters of the Marx and Gratz families as well as correspondence with Jewish merchants in Richmond, New York, Montreal, St. Thomas,...
Dates: circa 1783-1900

Peebles-Watson-Arrington Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 98 P34
Scope and Contents

Papers and photographs, 1871-1913, bulk 1873-1904, of the Peebles, Watson and Arrington families of Norfolk and Petersburg, Va. Includes letters, primarily from Joseph Littleton Peebles to Kate S. Watson during their courtship and marriage. Also includes genealogical notes. The Peebles farm is a part of the Petersburg National Battlefield Park.

Dates: 1871-1913

Tazewell Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 92 T19
Scope and Contents Papers; 1838-1979. Business records and letters of the Tazewell family of Norfolk, VA, chiefly of Gov. Littleton Waller Tazewell, John Nivison Tazewell, Sally A. Tazewell, Ella Wickham Tazewell and Louisa Nivison Tazewell. Includes are account balances, property inventory lists, stock and bond certificate lists, tax collection receipts, payment receipts and personal correspondence concerning a book about Littleton Waller Tazewell. Also includes are a newspaper article, 1978, about the...
Dates: 1838-1978; Majority of material found in 1860-1870

Conway Whittle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 76 W61
Scope and Contents Papers of Conway Whittle II of Norfolk, Va. and of his two sisters, Mary Eliza Whittle Neale and Frances Munford Whittle Lewis. There are items concerning the earlier generation of the family, represented by Conway Whittle I and his brother Fortescue Whittle, Norfolk merchants. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of social history and naval history (including personal and official correspondence of William Lewis [1781-1815] and several letters of his...
Dates: 1773-1911; Majority of material found in 1801-1867

Whittle-Greene Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 W61
Scope and Contents

Papers of Cloe Tyler Whittle Greene. Mostly diaries, 1855-1924, before and after her marriage to John Newport Greene. Also includes printed cards, photographs, verse, newspapers, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and prints of colonial and Civil War figures. Topics covered by the diaries include secession, Civil War, Reconstruction, travel, life in Norfolk, Virginia and marriage.

Dates: 1855-1995, undated

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Correspondence 11
Legal documents 4
Photographs 4
Account books 2
College of William and Mary--History--19th century 2
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Merchants--Virginia--Norfolk 2
Norfolk (Va.)--History--20th century 2
Petersburg (Va.)--History--19th century 2
Receipts (financial records) 2
Speeches 2
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 2
United States--History--War of 1812 2
United States--Jewish History 2
United States. Navy 2
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century 2
African Americans--Education--Virginia 1
African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century 1
American diaries--Women authors 1
Buffalo (N.Y.) 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Carte de visite photographs 1
Certificates 1
Charlotte County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc 1
Episcopal Church--Missions--Japan 1
Farms--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Florida--History--19th century 1
Genealogical tables 1
Genealogy 1
Grain--Milling 1
Greeting cards 1
History of the College 1
Indians of North America 1
Invitations 1
Jamestown Exposition (1907) 1
Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) 1
Japan--Description and travel 1
Ledgers (Accounting) 1
Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898 1
Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898--Pictorial works 1
Manuscripts for publication 1
Marriage certificates 1
Marriage--Virginia 1
Medical practice--Virginia--History 1
Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions 1
Medicine--Practice--Virginia 1
Medicine--United States--History--18th century 1
Medicine--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Merchants--Virginia--Portsmouth 1
Music--18th century 1
Music--Virginia--Williamsburg. 1
New Kent County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
New York (N.Y.) 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History, Naval. 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--18th century 1
Notebooks 1
Nova Scotia--History 1
Pensacola (Fla.)--History 1
Photocopies 1
Poems 1
Portsmouth (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Postcards 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Report cards 1
Reports 1
Resolutions (administrative records) 1
Shipyards--United States 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Stock certificates 1
Tobacco farmers--Virginia 1
United States--History--Mexican War, 1845-1848 1
United States--Politics and Government 1
United States--Revolutionary War--1775-1783 1
United States. Navy--History--19th century 1
United States. Navy--History--20th century 1
United States. Navy--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 1
Virginia--Genealogy 1
Virginia--Governors 1
Virginia--History--19th century 1
Virginia--Militia 1
Virginia--Social life and customs--20th century 1
Visiting cards 1
Warwick County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Women--Education--Virginia 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
Wythe County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
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Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
Myers, Barton, 1853-1927 2
Myers, Moses, 1752-1835 2
Barraud Family 1
Barraud family 1
Barraud, Ann Blaws Hansford, 1760-1836 1
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Barraud, Ann Blaws, 1760-1836 1
Barraud, Daniel Cary, 1790-1867 1
Barraud, John Taylor, 1826-1860 1
Barraud, Otway Byrd, b. 1801 1
Barraud, Philip, 1758-1830 1
Carrington family 1
Chatfield-Taylor, Wayne, Mrs. 1
College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 1
Conway Whittle 1
Crowninshield, John 1
Darling, James S. 1
Dismal Swamp Canal Company 1
Eastern Publishing Co 1
Galt family 1
Galt, William Richard, 1818-1892 1
Garland family 1
Greene family 1
Greene, Cloe Tyler Whittle, 1843-1925 1
Greene, John Newport, 1842-1902 1
Grigsby family 1
Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 1806-1881 1
Infant Sanitarium (Virginia Beach, Virginia) 1
Ingersoll, Charles Jared, 1782-1862 1
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 1
Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816 1
Lewis, Frances Munford Whittle, d. 1870 1
Madison, Dolley P., 1768-1849 1
Madison, James, Jr., 1751-1836 1
Mercer, Margaret, 1791-1846 1
Monroe, James, 1758-1831 1
Myers family 1
Myers, Kate Baldwin 1
Myers, R. Baldwin, 1883- 1
Neale, Mary Eliza Whittle, d. 1861 1
Peebles-Watson-Arrington Families 1
Preble, Edward, 1761-1807 1
Randolph, John, 1773-1833 1
Tazewell family 1
Tazewell, Ella Wickham, 1826-1888 1
Tazewell, John Nivison, b. 1807 1
Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860 1
Tazewell, Louisa Nivison, b. 1804 1
Tazewell, Sally A., 1826-1888 1
Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827 1
Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896 1
United States. Navy. Office of the Paymaster 1
Virginia House of Delegates 1
Virginia State Senate 1
Whittle family 1
Whittle, Conway, 1800-1881 1
Whittle, Fortescue, 1776-1858 1
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