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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

Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 St9
Scope and Contents Collection includes a lot of genealogical notes and copies of wills compiled by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs but also report cards, class notes, and letters of different Stubbs family members. An oration delivered by Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, Sr. before the Phoenix Literary Society is also included as well as his application for the professorship at William & Mary. There are letters written William Carter Stubbs while a student at William & Mary,letters of John Catlett Stubbs while...
Dates: 1789-1933

Earl Gregg Swem Genealogy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 82 Swem4, 2000.049
Scope and Contents

Papers collected by Earl Gregg Swem concerning the genealogies of his family and the family of his wife Lilia Hansbrough Swem. Families on which there is data include Swem (Swaim), Luce, Gregg, Wright, Farish and Smith. Includes written histories, documents, genealogical charts, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Addition 2000.49 is described on PDF inventory.

Dates: 1719-1982

William Booth Taliaferro Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 T15
Scope and Contents Papers, 1811-1954, of William Booth Taliaferro and his family of Gloucester County, Va. Taliaferro's papers consist of diaries, letterbook (while at Harpers Ferry), correspondence, speeches, memoirs and accounts. The collection also includes papers of his wife, Sally Nivison Lyons Taliaferro (including diaries), his ancestors, siblings and descendants, as well as photographs, genealogical notes and artifacts of the Taliaferro family.There are papers of other people who are not...
Dates: 1811-1954

Wissler-Mayer Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2010.223
Scope and Contents

Papers, circa 1830s-1950s, of the Wissler, Mayer, and Erb families of Grottoes and Columbia Furnace, Virginia, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Included are photographs, an autograph album, a manuscript cookbook, receipts, two ledgers, a Bible and hymn book, a Wissler family record for the descendants of William Franklin Wissler and Elizabeth Mayer (m. 1890), and correspondence.

For a more detailed description see finding aid link below.

Dates: 1835-1952

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College of William and Mary--History--19th century 3
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Gloucester County (Va.)--History 2
Legal documents 2
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Agendas (administrative records) 1
Autograph albums 1
Barbour County (W. Va.)--History, Military--19th century. 1
Bible records 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Carte de visite photographs 1
Certificates 1
Charlotte County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Cookbooks 1
Diaries 1
Farms--Virginia--History--19th century 1
Genealogical tables 1
Gloucester County (Va.)--Genealogy. 1
Gloucester County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Gloucester County (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Greeting cards 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)--History--John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
Indians of North America 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 (document genre) 1
Manuscripts for publication 1
Maps 1
Marriage certificates 1
Norfolk (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Notebooks 1
Pennsylvania--Genealogy 1
Pennsylvania--Lancaster County--History 1
Poems 1
Postcards 1
Programs 1
Recipes 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
Report cards 1
Reports 1
Rockingham County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Rockingham County (Va.)--History--20th century 1
Scrapbooks 1
Shenandoah County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Slavery--Virginia--19th century 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 1
Speeches 1
Stock certificates 1
Technical reports 1
Tobacco farmers--Virginia 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps 1
United States--History--Mexican War, 1845-1848 1
United States--Politics and Government 1
United States--Slavery 1
United States. Navy 1
United States. Navy--History--19th century 1
United States. Navy--History--20th century 1
Virginia Military Institute--History--19th century 1
Virginia--History--19th century 1
Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
Virginia--Maps 1
Virginia--Politics and Government 1
Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century 1
Visiting cards 1
Women--Virginia--Social life and customs 1
Yellow fever--Virginia--Norfolk 1
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German 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
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College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae 2
Booth family 1
Carrington family 1
College of William and Mary. Phoenix Literary Society 1
Eastern Publishing Co 1