A Guide to the Dr. Francis Smith Nash Papers, 1849-1968
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 28467
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Dr. Francis Smith Nash Papers, 1849-1968. Accession 28467, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Gift of B. I. Johns, 1200 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria, Virginia 22302, 1 April 1974.
Biographical/Historical Information
Francis Smith Nash was born on 23 November 1854 near Cartersville, Cumberland County, Virginia, to John White and Lydia Maria (Smith) Nash. He received his undergraduate degree from Hampden-Sydney in 1875 and his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1877. On 22 December 1877, he was commissioned an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy. He married Caroline Louise Ryan, the daughter of William King and Martha Aurelia (Blockwell) Ryan of Charleston, South Carolina, on 15 February 1887. The marriage produced one child, Caroline Ryan Nash, born 17 January 1888.
Scope and Content Information
Papers, 1849-1968 (bulk 1882-1922), including abstracts, correspondence, deeds, family histories, lists of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 soldiers, marriage bonds, newspaper articles and clippings, notes, publications, and primarily relating to the genealogical study of the Nash and related families. Families represented include: Astor, Bedford, Bransford, Clarke, Cocke, Cowles, Crump, Harris, Hatcher, Hawes, James, Legrand, Poore, Read, Sampson, Smith, White, and Woodson.
Also includes articles, naval orders, and writings relating to Dr. Francis Smith Nash's naval career.
Arrangement
Organized into the following series: I. Genealogical Correspondence, 1882-1968; II. Genealogical Notes; III. Personal; IV. Publications; V. Documents.
Contents List
- Box 1 Folder 1
1882, 1883, 1887
- Box 1 Folder 2
Mar., July - Aug. 1888
- Box 1 Folder 3
Sept. 1888
- Box 1 Folder 4
Oct. - Nov. 1888
- Box 1 Folder 5
1-14 Dec. 1888
- Box 1 Folder 6
16-31 Dec. 1888
- Box 1 Folder 7
Jan. 1889
- Box 1 Folder 8
Feb. 1889
- Box 1 Folder 9
Mar. 1889
- Box 1 Folder
10
1-3 Apr. 1889
- Box 1 Folder
11
5-30 Apr. 1889
- Box 1 Folder
12
May 1889
- Box 1 Folder
13
June - Sept. 1889
- Box 1 Folder
14
Oct. 1889
- Box 1 Folder
15
Nov. - Dec. 1889
- Box 1 Folder
16
Mar. - May 1890
- Box 1 Folder
17
June - Nov. 1890
- Box 1 Folder
18
1891-1893
- Box 1 Folder
19
1894-1897
- Box 1 Folder
20
1905-1912
- Box 1 Folder
21
1914
- Box 1 Folder
22
1916-1920
- Box 1 Folder
23
1 May 1968 (Notes from "The Reads and their Relatives" by Alice Read Rouse)
- Box 2 Folder 1
Genealogical Reply Cards
- Box 2 Folder 2
Postal Receipts
- Box 2 Folder 3
"Forms for Nash's Lineage" (sent and returned to Dr. F. S. Nash, ca. 1888-1889)
- Oversize Box 8
Ancestral tablets
- Box 2 Folder 4
Cowles Family
- Box 2 Folder 5
Hatcher-Clarke-Woodson Families
- Box 2 Folder 6
Frederick Hatcher (Will, Cumberland County Revolutionary Committee)
- Box 2 Folder 7
Nash Legrand (Bulletin of Hampden-Sidney College, Aug. 1922 , p. 21)
- Box 2 Folder 8
Major Benjamin H. Nash (1835-1895)
- Box 2 Folder 9
Judge John White Nash (1792 or 1794-1859) and Family
- Box 2 Folder
10
Dr. John White Nash, Jr. (1826-1899)
- Box 2 Folder
11
John White Nash, III (1857-1880)
- Box 2 Folder
12
Nash Family of Prince Edward County
- Box 2 Folder
13
Nash Coat of Arms and Explanation from Burke's "General Armory"
- Box 2 Folder
14
Nash Family of Buckingham County, Va., Marion County, Ky., and Dallas County, Tex., 1772-1888
- Box 2 Folder
15
Sampson Family, Harris Family, Cocke Family
- Box 2 Folder
16
"Smith and Hawes Family Register from 1650 to 1888 " (compiled in 1888 )
- Box 2 Folder
17
Smith Family of "Montrose"; James Family; Bedford Family; Poore Family; Smith Family - Appendix I
- Box 2 Folder
18
"John Smith of Milford, New Haven Colony, 1840 . . . " by Robert Atwater Smith (reprinted from N. England Historical and Genealogical Register for July 1891 )
- Box 2 Folder
19
White Family
- Box 2 Folder
20
Notes (I)
- Box 2 Folder
21
Notes (II)
- Box 3 Folder 1
Notes (III)
- Box 3 Folder 2
Notes (IV)
- Box 3 Folder 3
Notes (V)
- Box 3 Folder 4
Source Notes: Hening, William and Mary Quarterly, etc. (3 envelopes)
- Box 3 Folder 5
Photographs - Joseph Nash and family of Colorado; Thomas Cowles; C. W. Bradford
- Box 3 Folder 6
Naval Orders and Related Correspondence, 21 May 1888 - 14 Feb. 1917
- Box 3 Folder 7
Marriage Announcement - Dr. Francis Smith Nash and Caroline Louise Ryan
- Box 3 Folder 8
Application Forms - Patriotic Societies
- Box 3 Folder 9
The Hampden-Sidney Magazine, Dec. 1894 (Alumni notes re. Frank Smith Nash, p. 107)
- Box 3 Folder
10
The Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia, July 1894 (reference to F. S. Nash, p. 31)
- Box 3 Folder
11
Chi Phi Chakett, Feb. 1895 (article re. Dr. Francis Smith Nash, p. 108-111)
- Box 3 Folder
12
The Military Surgeon, Dec. 1910 (photograph of F. S. Nash, p. 690-691)
- Box 3 Folder
13
The Military Surgeon, "Some Elementrary Suggestions Regarding Plans for Our Large Naval Hospitals," Feb. 1911
- Box 3 Folder
14
"Reminiscences--Medical and Hygienic--of the Arctic" (reprinted from Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly, Aug. 13, 1897 )
- Box 3 Folder
15
Ancestral Leaflets and Genealogical and Historical Book Catalogs and Notices, ca. 1889
- Box 3 Folder
16
American Ancestry, Vol. III, 1888 ; Virginia Historical Society and Southern Historical Society Notices
- Box 3 Folder
17
The Baptist Review (Goldsboro, NC.), 1 Dec. 1888 (Vol. III, No. 23)
- Box 3 Folder
18
Colorado Index (Colorado Springs, Co.), 18 May 1889 (Vol. XV, No. XXXV)
- Box 3 Folder
19
The Critic, n.d. (columns of family histories)
- Box 3 Folder
20
The Critic, n.d. ("Genealogical Letters")
- Box 4 Folder 1
The Critic, n.d. ("The Land Patents")
- Box 4 Folder 2
The Critic, n.d. ("The Early Virginia Stage")
- Box 4 Folder 3
The Critic, n.d. ("English Pedigrees of Virginia Families, Notes, and Queries")
- Box 4 Folder 4
Farmville Journal, 1889-1890 (Genealogical and Historical Articles)
- Box 4 Folder 5
Richmond Enquirer, "The Lee Monument Ball," 16 Aug. 1877
- Box 4 Folder 6
"The Nash Family in Virginia" by John M. Woodson, (1970)
- Box 4 Folder 7
John Franklin Rixey: Memorial Addresses in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1907 and in the Senate of the United States, March 2, 1907
- Box 4 Folder 8
United States Naval Medical Bulletin, Oct. 1907
- Box 4 Folder 9
Newspaper clippings (miscellaneous articles on the Nash and Mills Families, death notice of Rev. B. Smith)
- Box 4 Folder 5
Newspaper clippings (steamship and general advertisements and notices, ca. 1889 )
- Box 4 Folder
11
A Statement of Half Pay Claimed by Officers of the Virginia Line During the Revolutionary War (Doc. No. 17)
- Box 4 Folder
12
A List of Officers of the Army and Navy Who Have Received Land from Virginia for Revolutionary Service (Doc. No. 30, No. 1)
- Box 4 Folder
13
A List of Officers and Soldiers of the Illinois Regiment (Doc. No. 32, No. 4)
- Box 4 Folder
14
A List of Armand's Corps from Virginia Entitles to Land (Doc. No. 34, No. 6)
- Box 4 Folder
15
Extracts from the Muster and Pay Rolls of the Virginia Militia of 1812
- Box 4 Folder
16
Abstracts of Patents and Land Grants, 1607-1858
- Box 4 Folder
16
Deed of Allen Taylor, 7 Oct. 1820, Botetourt County (transcript)
- Box 4 Folder
18
Marriage Bonds of: John Nash Read and Elizabeth Julia Spencer, John Cameron and Ann Owen Nash, and Robert Nash and Sabrey Redey; Indenture of Clement Nash, 1727-1805
- Box 4 Folder
19
Wills of: Amy Nash, probated 14 Mar. 1710 ; William Nash, probated 4 Feb. 1718 ; John Nash, probated 12 Mar. 1870 ; Abstracts of Nash Family Deeds
- Box 4 Folder
20
Wills of the Nash Family, 1686-1796 (includes 9 wills)
- Box 4 Folder
21
Will of Thomas Cowles, probated 9 Mar. 1853 (transcript copy)
- Box 4 Folder
22
Wills, Marriage Bonds, Administrators Bonds of the Nash Family, 1747-1793 (transcript copies) - Wills of John E. Nash, Elizabeth Nash, and Jeremiah Nash; Marriage Bonds of Nathaniel Nash and Darkes Fryer, William Nash and Elizabeth Spilman, John Nash and Molly Reynolds; Granting administration of Robert Nash's will to Richard Arrowsmith
- Box 4 Folder
23
Abstracts from York County Court Minutes, 1718-1725
- Oversize Box 102
Map of Virginia and West Virginia, 1887