TABLE OF CONTENTS


Descriptive Summary

Biographical/Historical Information

Scope and Content Information

Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Index

Components List

Letters, 1765-1939.

James River and Kanawha Company Papers, 1847-1879.

Accounts and Legal Papers, 1765-1919, n.d.

Genealogical Material, n.d.

Manuscript Volumes, 1799-1896, n.d.

Inventory of the Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765-1939

Austin-Twyman, Papers, 1765-1939 Mss. 69 Au7



Descriptive Summary

Repository: Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary
Creators Austin family,Twyman family,Horsley family,Spiller family,Peter Francisco,Archibald Austin.
Title Austin-Twyman Papers,
Date 1765-1939.
Extent 10,706 items.
Abstract Papers of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham Counties, Virginia.
Collection number Mss. 69 Au7
Language English

Biographical/Historical Information

Archibald Austin (1772-1837) was born in Buckingham County, Virginia. He practiced law in Buckingham County until being elected as a member of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837. He served as a Democrat to the fifteeth Congress, 1817-1819 and also as a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1832 and 1836. He and his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin had several children including the following: James M. Austin, John Austin, Bernard Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.

Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. Their children were Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921); John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County; Samuel Rogers Twyman; Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman. James Madison Spiller was the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr.

Additional biographical and genealogical information is interspersed throughout this collection.

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Scope and Content Information

Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Va. The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright. Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard. Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.

Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.

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Arrangement

OrganizationThis collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1 contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and Series 5 contains manuscript volumes.ArrangementThis collection is arranged into series and then subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names, then by individual name and finally by date.

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Restrictions

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

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Index Terms

Family Names:

Austin family.
Horsley family.
Spiller family.
Twyman family.

Persons:

Austin, Archibald, 1772- 1837.
Francisco, Peter, d. 1831.

Subjects:

Medicine--Study and teaching.
Slavery--Virginia--19th century.
United States-- History-- Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States--History--War of 1812.
Virginia. General Assembly.

Geographical Names:

Amherst County (Va.)--History.
Buckingham County (Va.)--History.
James River and Kanawha Canal.

Occupations:

Medicine--Practice- -Virginia.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Austin-Twyman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

Purchased: 10,706 items, 1969.

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Index

Blacks: Folder 96 - Jeanes Fund for black teachers
Children: Folder 23 - Care of a slave's child while she is in the fieldFolder 28 - Sale of a slave child,
Civil War Service: Folder 53 - Tredegar and Confederate States Government hiring of slavesFolder 255 - Receipt, 1864, for slave to work on fortifications, Folder 62 - Confederate States Army hire, Folder 156 - Ben working on Richmond defenses (1864), Folder 156 - Names of those 18-53 years old (1864),
Free Blacks: Folder 138 - Settling blacks in Ohio
Freedmen: Folder 54 - Sharecropping with freed blacksFolder 63 - Sue Asa Washington (former slave ?) letter, Folder 68 - Texas and blacks, Folder 75 - Buckingham "Re-adjusters all over the county voted for [Shed Dungee, a black candidate] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life." lists others who voted for Dungee, Folder 83 - Lynching in Texas (1878),
Health: Folder 39 - GonorrheaFolder 44 - Illness, Folder 45 - Illness, Folder 47 - Health, Folder 62 - Chloride of lime to prevent fever,
Hiring: Folder 11 - Payment for hire of slave Beverley while he was in woodsFolder 12 - Hiring and selling of slaves, Folder 17 - Hiring out of slaves, Folder 18, Folder 21 - Hiring slaves to work on railroad, Folder 24 - Taking slave trader to get price to know whether to hire a slave, Folder 26, Folder 27, Folder 36 - (1846), Folder 40 - (1850), Folder 41 - (1851), Folder 43 - (1853), Folder 44 - (1854) To work on railroad, Folder 45 - (1855) To lay railroad track, Folder 46 - (1856-1858), Folder 47 - (1859-1860), Folder 48 - (1861-1862), Folder 49 - (1863-1864), Folder 50 - (n.d.), Folder 155,
Ideology: Folder 126 - Qualms of someone concerning slavery
Lynching: Folder 83
Marriage: Folder 13 - Letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Eldridge stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husbandFolder 40 - Letter, 1850, of W. C. Jordan granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves, Folder 53 - Letter, 13 September 1853, of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman concerning slave leaving to visit his wife, Folder 64 - Slave marriage,
Occupations: Folder 12 - Slaves weaving cloth and making shoesFolder 44- 45, 47-49 - Working on railroad (Virginia and Tennessee), Folder 45, 47 - Working on James River and Kanawha Canal, Folder 49 - Tredegar, Folder 46 - Slave nurse, Folder 53, 62, 156, 255 - Civil War Service, Folder 133 - "I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook.",
Profitability: See also entries under hiring and sale.Folder 13 - "If we lose when we own the Negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when Negroes are hired/sale of 43 slaves in 12 years, Folder 14 - Prices in Richmond (1854), Folder 23 - Loss of slave mourned as a loss of property and loss as family member, Folder 24 - Taking slave trader to get value to know whether to sell or hire, Folder 32 - Buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south,
Recalcitrance: Folder 51 - Alleged malingering and burglarizing female slaveFolder 62 - Verbal abuse by slave,
Religion: Folder 152-153 - Permissions to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church
Resistance: Folder 40 - Poisoning
Runaways: Folder 11 - Payment for hire of slave Beverley while he was in woodsFolder 21 - Runaway slave, Folder 45 - Runaway of hired slave from James River and Kanawha Canal, Folder 46 - Sale of runaway slave, runaway hired slave,
Sale: Folder 11 - Possible sale of slaves to pay off debtFolder 12 - Hiring and selling of slaves, Folder 14 - Sale of slaves in Richmond, price of slaves in Richmond (1854), Folder 23 - Hiding forthcoming sale, "[?] will tell the Negroes and set them to crying and howling, Folder 24 - Taking slave to trader to get value to know whether to sell or hire him, Folder 25 - Selling of slaves, Folder 28 - Sale of slave child and selling, Folder 31 - Improving appearance before sale, Folder 32 - Buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south, Folder 38 - Evaluating slaves, Folder 39 - Slave trader, Samuel Rees, Folder 42 - Asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others, Folder 44 - Evaluation, Folder 45 - Value, Folder 46 - Sale of runaway slave, Folder 49 - Price, Folder 50 - Value, Folder 51 - Fixing clothes to sell a slave in, fixing up slaves (improving appearance) to sell and selling slaves, Folder 53 - Dressing up slaves to sell them, Folder 134 - Buying and selling, Folder 138 - Disposition of slaves, Folder 155 - Selling of slave girls, Folder 165 - Form of bill of sale of slave, Folder 249 - Account of sale (1858) of Negro man, Folder 339 - Slave estate of a Benjamin Harrison,
Slave - Beverley: Folder 11 - Payment for hire of slave Beverley while he was in the woodsFolder 12, Folder 13 - Letter Lucy Patterson to Beverley, Folder 24 - Hire of slave Beverly and taking him to trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out, Folder 49 - Runaway hired hand Beverley and service of slaves at Tredegar and Confederate States Government, Folder 53 - Slave Beverley with army during Gettysburg campaign,
Slave Letters: Folder 3 - Susan AustinFolder 13 - Mary to Mother, Folder 13 - Lucy Patterson to Beverley, Folder 16 - London, Folder 47 - Absalom, Folder 50 - Cambridge Austin, Folder 155 - Anita Blew, Folder 156 - Ben, Folder 63 - Sue Asa Washington (former slave?),
Slaves - Status: Folder 23 - Loss of slave mourned as loss of property and as loss of member of familyFolder 42 - Asking someone to be protector and advisor to a slave,
Slavetraders: Folder 38, 42,155 - Seth WoodruffFolder 39 - Samuel Rees, Folder 44 - R. H. Dickinson & Bro., Folder 45 - Dickinson, Hill & Co., Folder 49 - Hill, Dickinson & Co., Folder 45 - Pulliam & Davis, Folder 249 - Pulliam (D. M.) & Co.,
Teachers: Folder 96 - Jeanes Fund for black teachers
Treatment and Punishment: Folder 43 - Punishment of slaveFolder 46 - Hire of slave and his treatment, Folder 51 - Sewing slave clothing, Folder 165 - Draft of note concerning whipping of slav,

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Components List

Letters, 1765-1939.
Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen.
This series is divided into subseries by family name.
Letters to, from, or about the Austin Family, 1800-1888, n.d.
Folder
1-2 Archibald Austin, 1808-1837. 22 items.
Folder
1 Letters by Archibald Austin, 1812-1820. 5 items.
Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.
Folder
2 Letters by family to Archibald Austin, 1808-1837. 17 items.
Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).
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3-8 The Archibald Austins, 1800-1853, n.d. 72 items.
Folder
3 Letters by family to the Archibald Austins, 1840-1853, n.d. 11 items.
Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (slave), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.
Folder
4 Letters by others to the Archibald Austins, 1800-1815. 8 items.
Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).
Folder
5 Letters by others to the Archibald Austins, 1820-1829. 19 items.
Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.
Folder
6 Letters by others to the Archibald Austins, 1830-1834. 12 items.
Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.
Folder
7 Letters by others to the Archibald Austins, 1835. 11 items.
Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.
Folder
8 Letters by others to the Archibald Austins, 1836-1850, n.d. 11 items.
Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.
Folder
9 Archibald Austin, Jr., 1843-1862. 7 items.
Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.
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10 Bernard Gaines Austin, 1840-1856. 17 items.
Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.
Folder
11-13 Fances (Austin) Wright, 1847-1881, n.d. 111 items.
Folder
11 Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright, 1849-1881. 29 items.
Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.
Folder
12 Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright, n.d. 64 items.
Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.
Folder
13 Letters by others to Frances (Austin) Wright, 1847-1871, n.d. 18 items.
Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired."] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.
Folder
14 George B. Austin, 1848-1888, n.d. 14 items.
Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.
Folder
15 Grace Austin, 1864-1865, n.d. 6 items.
Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.
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17-18 John Austin, 1845-1850, n.d. 26 items.
Folder
17 Letters by John Austin, 1850-1851. 12 items.
Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.
Folder
18 Letters by others to John Austin, 1845-1851, n.d. 14 items.
Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of slaves.
Folder
19 Martha Austin, 1840-1848, n.d. 5 items.
Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.
Folder
20-21 Thomas Austin, 1838-1875, n.d. 29 items.
Folder
20 Letters by Thomas Austin, 1853-1875. 11 items.
Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]
Folder
21 Letters to Thomas Austin, 1838-1870, n.d. 18 items.
Includes letter about civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.
Letters to, from, or about the Twyman Family, 1811-1937, n.d.
Folder
22-50 Iverson L. Twyman, 1829-1864. 513 items.
Folder
22 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) of Amherst and Buckingham Co., Virginia, 1838-1839. 6 items.
Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).
Folder
23 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1840-1848. 16 items.
Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave " [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling."
Folder
24 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1849. 11 items.
Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).
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25 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1850. 5 items.
Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass & Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.
Folder
26 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1851. 19 items.
Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.
Folder
27 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1852-1853. 12 items.
Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.
Folder
28 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1854-1855. 15 items.
Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)
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29 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1856-1860. 15 items.
Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.
Folder
30 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1861-1864. 17 items.
Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.
Folder
31 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), n.d. 8 items.
Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.
Folder
32 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1829-1839. 14 items.
Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.
Folder
33 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1840-1842. 10 items.
Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.
Folder
34 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1843-1844. 12 items.
Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.
Folder
35 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1845. 5 items.
Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.
Folder
36 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1846. 17 items.
Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick & Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.
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37 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1847. 14 items.
Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.
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38 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1848. 18 items.
Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.
Folder
39 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1849. 18 items.
Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.
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40 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1850. 16 items.
Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).
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41 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1851. 10 items.
Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie & Dunnavant, R. Strabler & Co.
Folder
42 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1852. 13 items.
Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock & Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.
Folder
43 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1853. 15 items.
Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).
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44 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1854. 15 items.
Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson & Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad).
Folder
45 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1855. 30 items.
Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill & Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam & Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.
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46 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1856-1858. 34 items.
Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro & Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam & Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)
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47 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1859-1860. 35 items.
Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston & Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.
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48 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1861-1864. 42 items.
Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle & Co. (hiring slaves), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of slaves), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe & Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots ([Buckingham] F[emale] C[ollegiate] Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert [Keats ?], L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring slaves), Elsom Bro. & Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring slaves), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.
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49 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1863-1864. 35 items.
Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); "A Methodist" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock & Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary [Annis?] DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler & Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Va.), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson & Co., Richmond, Va. (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson & Co. [Tredegar]), Brown & Deane, Richmond, Va. (scarcity of schoolbooks) E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).
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50 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), n.d. 36 items.
Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.
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51-64 Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1848-1891, n.d. 218 items.
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51 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1848. 7 items.
Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).
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52 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1849-1850. 7 items.
Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.
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53 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1851-1869. 16 items.
Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.
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54 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1870-1871. 25 items.
Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.
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55 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1872. 27 items.
Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.
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56 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1873. 16 items.
Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.
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57 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1874. 16 items.
Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West & Agee which may force the sale of her land.
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58 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1875-1877. 17 items.
Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.
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59 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1878-1879. 10 items.
Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.
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60 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1880-1890. 13 items.
Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.
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61 Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, n.d. 6 items.
Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.
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62 Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1849-1869. 25 items.
Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.
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63 Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, 1870-1891. 10 items.
Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).
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64 Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, n.d. 23 items.
Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.
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65-85 Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1861-1921. 390 items.
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65 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1861-1871. 26 items.
Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.
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66 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1872. 21 items.
Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.
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67 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1873. 19 items.
Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.
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68 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1874. 14 items.
Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and blacks.
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69 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1875. 8 items.
Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.
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70 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1876. 28 items.
Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.
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71 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1877. 30 items.
Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.
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72 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1878. 30 items.
Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).
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73 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1879. 15 items.
Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.
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74 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1880. 6 items.
From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition "Management of Common Schools" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.
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75 Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1881. 28 items.
Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. "The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life." Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.
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76 Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1882-1887. 16 items.
Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.
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77 Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1867-1871. 5 items.
Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.
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78 Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1872. 14 items.
Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.
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79 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1872-1874 and n.d. 25 items.
Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).
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80 Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1873. 30 items.
Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.
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81 Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1874. 15 items.
Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.
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82 Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1876-1877. 20 items.
Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.
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83 Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1878. 24 items.
Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.
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84 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1879. 12 items.
Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.
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85 Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), 1880, n.d. 4 items.
W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.
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86-105 John A. Twyman, 1871-1937, n.d. 383 items.
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86 Letters by John A. Twyman, 1871-1906. 10 items.
Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.
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87 Letters by John A. Twyman, 1907-1930, n.d. 21 items.
Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to ""Miss Smith"" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.
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88 Letters to and about John A. Twyman, 1875-1880. 10 items.
Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.
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89 Letters to and about John A. Twyman, 1881. 17 items.
Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.
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90 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1882-1899. 7 items.
Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.
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91 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1900-1905. 6 items.
Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].
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92 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1906. 17 items.
Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).
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93 Letters to John A. Twyman, January - February 1907. 34 items.
Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).
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94 Letters to John A. Twyman, March - December 1907. 32 items.
Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).
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95 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1908. 26 items.
Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.
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96 Letters to and about John A. Twyman, 1909. 23 items.
Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.
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97 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1910-1912. 8 items.
Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)
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98 Letters about John A. Twyman, 1913. 50 items.
Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.
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99 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1914. 22 items.
Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.
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100 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1915. 19 items.
Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.
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101 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1916-1926. 22 items.
Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler & Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.
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102 Letters to and about John A. Twyman, 1927. 12 items.
Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.
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103 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1928-1929. 16 items.
Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.
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104 Letters to John A. Twyman, 1930-1936. 10 items.
Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled "Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County."
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105 Letters to John A. Twyman (in Miami, Florida), 1937, n.d. 21 items.
Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.
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106-118 Samuel Rodgers Twyman, 1871-1930, n.d. 229 items.
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106 Letters by Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1871-1877. 10 items.
To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.
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107 Letters by and about Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1881-1930. 17 items.
Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.
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108 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1879-1906. 18 items.
Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.
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109 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1907-1909. 32 items.
Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.
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110 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1910. 22 items.
Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book & Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.
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111 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1911. 26 items.
Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book & Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.
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112 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1912. 16 items.
Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.
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113 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1913-1914. 10 items.
Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.
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114 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1915-1916. 14 items.
Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.
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115 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1917-1919. 17 items.
Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.
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116 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1920-1923. 22 items.
Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.
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117 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, 1924-1925. 17 items.
Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)
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118 Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman, n.d. 8 items.
Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.
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119-121 Augusta G. Twyman, 1863-1920, n.d. 84 items.
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119 Letters by Augusta G. Twyman, 1871-1879. 23 items.
Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.
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120 Letters by Augusta G. Twyman, 1880-1885. 31 items.
Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.
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121 Letters to Augusta G. Twyman, 1863-1920, n.d. 30 items.
Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).
Julia Twyman, 1914-1920. 17 items.
Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.
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123-124 Mabel B. Twyman, 1872-1895 46 items.
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123 Letters by Mabel B. Twyman, 1872-1895. 29 items.
Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.
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124 Letters to Mabel B. Twyman, 1886-1895.
Letters written from Nellie [?].
Miscellaneous Twyman material, 1811-1937, n.d. 15 items.
Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in "Merchant of Venice"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.
Letters to, from, or about the Horsley Family, 1834-1859.
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126 Various Horsley Letters, 1840-1849, n.d. 5 items.
Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, n.d., of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : "The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag & bobtail because ragtag & bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.
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127 Mary Lavinia Horsley, 1837-1838, n.d. 5 items.
Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.
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128 Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, 1853, n.d. 6 items.
Letters, 1853 and n.d. by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.
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129 Various Horsely Lettters, 1834-1853. 7 items.
Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.
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130 Doctor William A. Horsley, 1838-1859 7 items.
Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).
Letters to, from, or about the Spiller Family, 1837-1889.
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131 Various Spiller Letters, 1851-1883, n.d. 15 items.
2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, n.d., by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 & n.d., of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.
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132 Various Spiller Letters, 1849-1855, n.d. 36 items.
Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.
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133-148 J. M. Spiller, 1837-1889. 219 items.
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133 Letters by J.M. Spiller, 1847-1849. 9 items.
Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River & Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery ["I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.
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134 Letters by J.M. Spiller, 1850-1853. 13 items.
Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.
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135 Letters by J.M. Spiller, 1854-1855. 15 items.
Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.
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136 Letters by J.M. Spiller, 1856-1864, n.d. 16 items.
Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.
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137 Letters by J.M. Spiller, 1865-1880. 11 items.
Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.
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138 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1837-1858. 18 items.
Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling blacks in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.
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139 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1859-1861. 24 items.
Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.
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140 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1862-1869. 21 items.
Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones & Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston & Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.
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141 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1870-1872. 15 items.
Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).
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142 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1873-1876. 11 items.
Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)
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143 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1877. 23 items.
Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow & Johnson, [n. p.]
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144 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1878-1879. 10 items.
Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.
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145 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1880-1881. 11 items.
Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.
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146 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1882-1883. 16 items.
Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.
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147 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1884-1887. 15 items.
Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).
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148 Letters to J.M. Spiller, 1888-1889, n.d. 15 items.
Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).
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149 Various Spiller Letters, 1850-1882. 8 items.
Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.
Miscellaneous Letters, 1769-1930, n.d.
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150 Miscellaneous Letters, 1796-1809. 16 items.
Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill & Rea.
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151 Miscellaneous Letters, 1810-1819. 20 items.
Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott & Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.
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152 Miscellaneous Letters, 1820-1829. 22 items.
Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.
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153 Miscellaneous Letters, 1830-1839. 13 items.
Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).
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154 Miscellaneous Letters, 1840-1849. 13 items.
Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown & Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.
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155 Miscellaneous Letters, 1850-1859. 31 items.
Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) & McCorkle, Simpson & Jones.
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156 Miscellaneous Letters, 1860-1869. 28 items.
Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter & Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary & Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.
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157 Miscellaneous Letters, 1870-1879. 22 items.
Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter & Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.
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158 Miscellaneous Letters, 1880-1930. 16 items.
Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.
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159 Miscellaneous Letters, n.d.
Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of "The Willows"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.
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160 Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, November 1827.
Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, "friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President."
James River and Kanawha Company Papers, 1847-1879.
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161 James River and Kanawha Canal Papers, 1847-1857. 12 items.
Includes letters written by Flippen & Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman.
See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.
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162 James River and Kanawha Company, 1858-1859. 15 items.
Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.
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163 James River and Kanawha Company, 1860-1879. 25 items.
Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.
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164 James River and Kanawha Company. 1855-1856, n.d. 2 items.
Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam & Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn Dam, n.d.
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165 Slavery items, n.d. 2 items.
Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).
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166 Peter Francisco. 1802-1829, n.d. 24 items.
Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.
Accounts and Legal Papers, 1765-1919, n.d.
This series is divided into subseries by family name.
Austin Family, 1796-1872, n.d.
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167-221 Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1796-1872, n.d.
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167 Accounts, legal papers and correspondence, Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1796-1779. 17 items.
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168 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1800. 24 items.
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169 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1801. 41 items.
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170 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1802. 50 items.
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171 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1803. 63 items.
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172 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1804. 41 items.
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173 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1805. 55 items.
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174-175 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1806. 82 items.
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176-177 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1807. 88 items.
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178-179 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1808. 65 items.
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180-181 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1809. 53 items.
Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.
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182-183 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1810. 73 items.
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184-186 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1811. 84 items.
Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.
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187 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1812. 44 items.
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188-189 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1813. 57 items.
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190-191 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1814. 50 items.
Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.
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192-193 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1815. 54 items.
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194-195 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1816. 60 items.
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196 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1817. 29 items.
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197 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1818. 24 items.
Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.
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198 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1819. 34 items.
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199-200 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1820. 43 items.
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201 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1821. 40 items.
Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.
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202 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1822. 49 items.
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203 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1823. 45 items.
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204 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1824. 31 items.
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205 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1825. 32 items.
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206 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1826. 33 items.
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207 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1827. 35 items.
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208 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1828. 41 items.
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209 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1829. 23 items.
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210 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1830. 26 items.
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211 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1831. 31 items.
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212 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1832. 31 items.
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213 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1833. 27 items.
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214 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1834. 27 items.
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215 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1835. 20 items.
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216 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1836. 20 items.
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217 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1837-1839. 15 items.
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218 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1840-1842. 21 items.
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219 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1843-1849. 38 items.
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220 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1850-1872. 26 items.
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221 Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), n.d. 74 items.
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222 Archibald Austin (1815-1886), 1841-1857. 12 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
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223 B. Austin and Bernard Austin, 1810-1858. 13 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
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224 Frances Austin, 1848-1863. 47 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
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225 George B. Austin, 1842-1855. 108 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
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226 Grace R. and Grace B. Austin, 1842-1871. 91 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
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227 James Austin, 1811-1862. 12 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
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228 John Austin, 1801-1857. 101 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.
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229 Martha Austin 1839-1840. 2 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.
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230 Thomas Austin, 1806-1869. 126 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.
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231 Unidentified Austins or more than one name per paper, 1804-1869, n.d. 44 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Twyman Family, 1820-1939, n.d.
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232-233 Leverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1820-1839. 84 items.
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232 Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1820-1829. 13 items.
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233 Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1830-1839. 71 items.
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234-257 Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1840-1869.
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234 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1840-1841. 40 items.
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235 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1842-1843. 66 items.
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236 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1844. 38 items.
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237 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1845-1846. 62 items.
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238 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1847. 49 items.
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239 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1848. 73 items.
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240 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1849. 65 items.
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241 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1850. 38 items.
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242 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1851 40 items.
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243 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1852. 64 items.
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244 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1853. 57 items.
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245 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1854. 73 items.
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246 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1855. 94 items.
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247 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1856. 117 items.
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248 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1857. 69 items.
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249 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1858. 97 items.
Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam & Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.
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250 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1859. 78 items.
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251 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1860. 93 items.
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252 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1861. 84 items.
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253 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1862. 89 items.
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254 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1863. 51 items.
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255 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1864. 37 items.
Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.
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256 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1865. 20 items.
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257 Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), 1866-1867. 36 items.
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258-262 Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate, 1868-1910, n.d. 302 items.
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258 Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate, 1868-1869. 48 items.
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259 Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate, 1870-1871. 73 items.
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260 Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate, 1872-1879. 35 items.
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261 Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate, 1880-1910. 20 items.
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262 Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate, n.d. 86 items.
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263-264 Iverson L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921), 1870-1910. 55 items.
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263 Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921), 1870-1879. 38 items.
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264 Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921), 1880-1910. 17 items.
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265 Augusta Twyman, Fanny Twyman, George Twyman, James Twyman, Jean Twyman, 1733-1939. 17 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.
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266-272 John A. Twyman, 1870-1939, n.d. 223 items.
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266 Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman, 1870-1879. 14 items.
Folder
267 Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman, 1880-1889. 33 items.
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268 Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman, 1890-1899. 24 items.
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269 Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman, 1900-1909. 49 items.
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270 Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman, 1910-1919. 11 items.
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271 Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman, 1920-1929. 75 items.
Folder
272 Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman, 1930-1939, n.d. 17 items.
Folder
273 Samuel R. Twyman, 1880-1925. 44 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
264 Various Twymans: Absalom Twyman, Dr. John L. Twyman, Dr. Lewis J. Twyman, 1849-1852. 4 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Accounts and Legal Papers with two or more last names, 1830-1909, n.d.
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275 Twyman - Austin, 1830-1879. 112 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.
Folder
276-282 Twyman - Horsley, 1843-1859, n.d. 250 items.
Papers involving both names.
Folder
276 Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley, 1834-1842. 30 items.
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277 Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley, 1843. 55 items.
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278 Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley, 1844-1845. 51 items.
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279 Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley, 1846-1847. 21 items.
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280 Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley, 1848-1849. 27 items.
Folder
281 Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley, 1850-1851. 42 items.
Folder
282 Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley, 1852-1859, n.d. 24 items.
Folder
283 Twyman - Spiller, 1847-1909, n.d. 56 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.
Horsley Family, 1809-1850, n.d.
Folder
284 John Horsley, Robert Horsley, 1809-1829. 31 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
285 Robert Horsley, 1830-1839. 142 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
286 Robert, William, Ann and Rebecca Horsley, 1840-1849. 117 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
287 Robert Horsley, Wm. Horsley, n.d. 24 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
288 Horsley and other families, 1811-1850. 7 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.
Spiller Family, 1807-1909, n.d.
Folder
289-292 George Spiller, James M. Spiller, 1807-1835. 195 items.
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289 Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller, 1807-1830. 55 items.
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290 Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller, 1831-1832. 22 items.
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291 Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller, 1833. 58 items.
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292 Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller, 1834-1835. 60 items.
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293 James M. Spiller, 1836-1839. 64 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
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294 George A. Spiller, Sara Ann Spiller and James M. Spiller, 1840-1849. 58 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
295 James M. Spiller, Preston F. Spiller and others, 1850-1851. 19 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
296-325 James M. and other Spillers, 1852-1909, n.d.
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296 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1852. 22 items.
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297 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1853. 49 items.
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298 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1854. 44 items.
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299 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1855. 59 items.
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300 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1856. 118 items.
Folder
301 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1857. 87 items.
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302 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1858. 70 items.
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303 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1859. 70 items.
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304 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1860. 99 items.
Folder
305 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1861. 103 items.
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306 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1862. 40 items.
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307 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1863. 29 items.
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308 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1863-1866. 21 items.
Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for "taking part in the late rebellion."
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309 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1867-1868. 195 items.
Folder
310 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1869. 106 items.
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311 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1870. 81 items.
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312 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1871. 161 items.
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313 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1872. 164 items.
Folder
314 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1873. 103 items.
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315 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1874. 28 items.
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316 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1875. 26 items.
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317 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1876. 30 items.
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318 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1877. 46 items.
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319 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1878. 32 items.
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320 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1879. 16 items.
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321 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1880-1882. 35 items.
Folder
322 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1883-1885. 57 items.
Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.
Folder
323 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1886-1889. 63 items.
Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.
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324 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, 1890-1909. 73 items.
The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.
Folder
325 Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers, n.d. 41 items.
Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1774-1928, n.d.
Folder
326 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1774-1799. 65 items.
Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.
Folder
327 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1800. 40 items.
Folder
328 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1801. 27 items.
Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.
Folder
329 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1802. 20 items.
Folder
330 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1803. 30 items.
Folder
331 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1804. 32 items.
Folder
332 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1805. 33 items.
Folder
333 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1806. 32 items.
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334 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1807. 33 items.
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335 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1808. 49 items.
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336 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1809. 25 items.
Folder
337 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1810. 45 items.
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338 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1811. 44 items.
Folder
339 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1812. 34 items.
Includes document dated "Cold Comfort 5 February 1812" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.
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340 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1813. 93 items.
Folder
341 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1814. 14 items.
Folder
342 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1815. 28 items.
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343 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1816. 17 items.
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344 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1817. 21 items.
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345 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1818. 15 items.
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346 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1819. 19 items.
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347 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1820. 21 items.
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348 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1821. 16 items.
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349 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1822. 33 items.
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350 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1823. 40 items.
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351 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1824. 24 items.
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352 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1825. 17 items.
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353 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1826. 12 items.
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354 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1827. 11 items.
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355 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1828-1829. 11 items.
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356 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1830-1832. 32 items.
Folder
357 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1833-1835. 30 items.
Folder
358 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1836-1839. 30 items.
Folder
359 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1840-1843. 42 items.
Folder
360 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1844-1846. 99 items.
Folder
361 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1847-1849. 52 items.
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362 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1850-1855. 57 items.
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363 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1856-1859. 23 items.
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364 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1860-1862. 22 items.
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365 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1863-1869. 27 items.
Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning "harsh or cruel treatment" of employees.
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366 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1870-1889. 38 items.
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367 Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, 1890-1928. 23 items.
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368-371. Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers, n.d. 217 items.
County Accounts and Legal Papers, 1765-1919.
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372-398 Buckingham County Records, 1800-1919, n.d.
Folder
372 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1765-1799. 16 items.
Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.
Folder
373 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1800-1801. 21 items.
Includes "A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County" for 1777-1800.
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374 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1802. 24 items.
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375 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1803. 8 items.
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376 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1804. 16 items.
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377 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1805. 18 items.
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378 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, January-February 1806. 14 items.
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379 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, March-April 1806. 21 items.
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380 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, May-June 1806. 46 items.
Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.
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381 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, July-August 1806. 33 items.
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382 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, September-October 1806. 7 items.
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383 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, November-December 1806. 27 items.
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384 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1807. 35 items.
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385 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1808. 23 items.
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386 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1809. 29 items.
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387 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1810. 35 items.
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388 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1811-1812. 28 items.
Includes "A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia," 19 April 1812.
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389 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1813-1814. 18 items.
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390 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1815-1819. 18 items.
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391 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1820-1824. 33 items.
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392 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1825-1829. 23 items.
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393 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1830-1839. 14 items.
Folder
394-395 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1840-1849. 173 items.
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396 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1850-1869. 16 items.
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397 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, 1870-1919. 6 items.
Folder
398 Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records, n.d. 23 items.
Folder
399 Albermale and Amherst County Records, 1789-1861. 77 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
400 Appomattox County Records, Botetourt County Records. Campbell County Records, 1804-1874. 16 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
401 Cumberland County Records, 1774-1848. 29 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
402 Goochland County Records, King and Queen County Records, Nelson County Records, 1774-1855. 21 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
403 Powhatan County Records, Prince Edward County Records, 1800-1810. 20 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
Folder
404 Accounts and Legal Papers - Scraps, n.d. 57 items.
Folder
405 Poetry and religion manuscripts, n.d. 37 items.
Folder
406 Recipes and formulae manuscripts, n.d. 27 items.
Folder
407 Memoranda manuscripts. n.d. 201 items.Entire box.
Folder
408 Photographs, n.d. 7 items.Photographs.
Genealogical Material, n.d.
This series is divided into subseries by family name.
Austin Family, n.d. 5 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Booker Family, n.d. 7 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Byrd Family, n.d. 1 item.
Genealogical Materials.
Clark Family, n.d. 2 items.
Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.
Gainer Family, n.d. 15 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Lewis Family, n.d. 34 items.
Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.
Montague Family, n.d. 2 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Rogers Family, n.d. 16 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Spiller Family, n.d. 1 item.
Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.
Twyman Family, n.d. 135 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Walker Family, n.d. 5 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Miscellaneous Names - Greenwood, Gwathmey, etc., n.d. 10 items.
Genealogical Materials.
Miscellaneous printed matter, n.d. 116 items.Entire box.
Genealogical Materials.
Manuscript Volumes, 1799-1896, n.d.
This series is divided into subseries by family name first and all other items not associated with a particular name are located at the end of the series.
Adams Family, 1799-1801.
Account book of William Adams and his estate.
Austin Family, 1804-1848, n.d.
Volume
MsV. 2 Accounts of Archibald Austin (1772-1847), 1804-1832.
Volume
MsV. 3 Attorney fee book of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), 1807-1835.
Volume
MsV. 4 Accounts of Archibald (1772-1837), 1824-1848.
Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.
Volume
MsV. 5 Twyman and Austin notebook of miscellany, n.d.
Twyman Family, 1832-1879.
Volume
MsV. 6 Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1832-1837.
Volume
MsV. 7 Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1840-1843.
Volume
MsV. 8 Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1844.
Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.
Volume
MsV. 9 Accounts Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1845.
Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.
Volume
MsV. 10 Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1846.
Volume
MsV. 11 Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1847.
Volume
MsV. 12 Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1848.
Volume
MsV. 13 Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1849-1864.
Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.
Volume
MsV. 14 Dr. Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman farm and household accounts, 1853-1867.
Volume
MsV. 15 Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1854-1856.
Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.
Volume
MsV. 16 Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, 1856-1863.
Volume
MsV. 17 Notes of calls by Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, January - March 1860.
Volume
MsV. 18 School notes of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, Jr., 1877-1879.
Spiller Family, 1829-1892.
Volume
MsV. 19 Account book of J. M. Spiller, 1829-1838.
Includes farm notes in back, 1840.
Volume
MsV. 20 Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1829-1847.
Volume
MsV. 21 Accounts of J. M. Spiller ?, 1850-1868.
Including the estate of George Spiller.
Volume
MsV. 22 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, Mayo's Island, 1836-1838.
Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.
Volume
MsV. 23 Ledger of J. M. Spiller and Thomas A. Mera, 1837-1839.
Volume
MsV. 24 Ledger and Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1892.
Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.
Volume
MsV. 25 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1846-1865.
Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.
Volume
MsV. 26 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1850-1851.
Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.
Volume
MsV. 27 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1851-1867.
Volume
MsV. 28 Cash book of J. M. Spiller, 1852-1853.
Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.
Volume
MsV. 29 Account book of J. M. Spiller, 1852-1865.
Volume
MsV. 30 Cash book of J. M. Spiller, 1854-June 1855
Volume
MsV. 31 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1854-1869.
Volume
MsV. 32 Cash book of J. M. Spiller ?, 1855-1856?.
Volume
MsV. 33 Cash book of J. M. Spiller, 1856.
Volume
MsV. 34 Cash book of J. M. Spiller, 1856-1863.
Volume
MsV. 35 Cash book of J. M. Spiller, 1857-1858.
Volume
MsV. 36 Account book of J. M. Spiller, 1862-1867.
Volume
MsV. 37 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1867-1873.
Volume
MsV. 38 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills, 1867-1878.
Volume
MsV. 39 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1869-1873.
Volume
MsV. 40 Religious notes and clippings of Emma C. Spiller, 1875-1894.
Volume
MsV. 41 Flour grinding accounts of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills, 1871-1875.
Volume
MsV. 42 Account book of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills, 1875-1879.
Volume
MsV. 43 Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1876-1882.
Volume
MsV. 44 Account book of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills, 1880-1886.
Volume
MsV. 45 Farm notes of J. M. Spiller ?, 1881.
Volume
MsV. 46 Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1882-1888.
Volume
MsV. 47 Accounts of J. M. Spiller, 1882.
Buckingham Court House decisions involving debts, 1845-1847.
Unidentified accounts, 1850.
Unidentified accounts and school attendance records, 1860.
Unidentified, including travel notes and total abstinence pledge, 1844.
Unidentified, including farm account, 1892-1896.
Index to Account Book, n.d.