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The John Newton Bell papers includes personal and professional correspondence from relatives, business associates and religious figures throughout Virginia and the greater Appalachia. Letters document subject areas including the Civil War, the hospitalization of women in mental health facilities, agricultural issues, and religious matters related to the Presbyterian Church.

Scope and Contents Consists of 9 volumes of Sunday School Superintendent's Condensed Record books from Campbell Memorial Presbyterian Church in Weems, Lancaster Co., Virginia. The volumes contain handwritten lists of class attendees and minutes from each meeting, as well as names of teachers and other church members. The following information was provided by the seller: "Some names mentioned include: Owen, Ball, Norris, Packett, Hutchings, Meekins, Bittner, Winstead and Thomas." For...

Scope and Contents Papers, 1900-1946, of Joseph Allan Christian, a Presbyterian clergyman and his wife Evelyn Smith Christian who served pastorates in Virginia, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Includes correspondence, student notebooks of Christian while a student at Hampden-Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary (Richmond), memorabilia collected by Christian while doing YMCA work in France in World War I, sermons and prayers, papers relating to his work on the National War Labor Board for Baton Rouge, La.,...

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A 290 page account book from the women of the Mizpah Presbyterian Church in Richmond, VA. Contains entries for the "Leadership Training School for Colored."

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Records of the Williamsburg Area Historical Society and six monographs on Williamsburg, Virginia related topics.