A Guide to the George Brown Goode Papers, 1776-1903
A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 24813
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Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
George Brown Goode. Papers, 1776-1903. Accession 24813, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Kenneth Mackerness Goode and Philip Burwell Goode, through the National Academy of Science, 16 March 1945.
Biographical/Historical Information
George Browne Goode, naturalist, author, and administrator, was born in New Albany, Indiana on 13 February 1851. In 1857, he and his parents moved to Dutchess County, New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1870, and also attended Harvard. He married Sarah Lamson Ford Judd on 29 November 1877. He was employed at Wesleyan and the National Museum, and later at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as United States Fish Commissioner. He died on 6 September 1896.
Scope and Content Information
Includes correspondence of George Brown Goode concerning research and publication of his book VIRGINIA COUSINS in 1887, and its planned revision. The revision was never published due to his death in 1895, but an annotated manuscript of it is contained in this collection. Also included are genealogical notes and correspondence of Francis N. Watkins (1813-1885) relating to research, publication, and revision of his pamphlet A CATALOGUE OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS WATKINS OF CHICKAHOMONY, VA., first published in 1852.
The GENEALOGICAL NOTES series contains family data, genealogical charts, registers, and transcriptions of Bible records of families mainly related to various lines of the Watkins family of Charlotte, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Goochland, Henrico, Powhatan, and Prince Edward Counties, and Arkansas, Georgia and Missouri. Some of this information is recorded on private circulars which Watkins mailed out in September, 1859 for a more comprehensive second edition to his CATALOGUE OF THE DESCENDANTS OF THOMAS WATKINS. There are also some folders containing information relating to the Goode family. An oversize folder of genealogical charts is filed in Personal Papers Oversize.
The WATKINS FAMILY CORRESPONDENCE covers the years 1776 to 1861, but the majority is after 1850. The correspondence is from various family members concerning Watkins' research. There is also a considerable amount of family data contained in the correspondence, such as transcriptions of family Bible records.
The GEORGE BROWN GOODE CORRESPONDENCE covers the years 1868 to 1903 and concerns the research for his book VIRGINIA COUSINS published in 1887, as well as a planned revision. There is also a large amount of genealogical data contained in the letters.
The MANUSCRIPT REVISON OF VIRGINIA COUSINS is an annotated copy, preserved in four volumes, of Goode's work published in 1887. He died in 1895, before a revised edition could be published. The manuscript copy contained in this collection contains a vast amount of rewritten, updated, and additional information on the descendants of John Goode (ca. 1625-1709) of Whitby, Henrico County, Virginia.
Organization
Organized into the following four series: I. Genealogical Notes. II. Watkins Family Correspondence. III. George Brown Goode Correspondence. IV. Manuscript Revision of VIRGINIA COUSINS.
Contents List
- Box 1 Folder 1
Barksdale
- Box 1 Folder 2
Bartlett
- Box 1 Folder 3
Beckwith
- Box 1 Folder 4
Bland
- Box 1 Folder 5
Bouldin
- Box 1 Folder 6
Brooke
- Box 1 Folder 7
Carrington
- Box 1 Folder 8
Cary
- Box 1 Folder 9
Clarke
- Box 1 Folder
10-11
Collier
- Box 1 Folder
12
Cooper/Crane
- Box 1 Folder
13
Cowles
- Box 1 Folder
14
Crane
- Box 1 Folder
15
Cross
- Box 1 Folder
16
Curd
- Box 1 Folder
17
Dabney
- Box 1 Folder
18
Daniel
- Box 1 Folder
19
Douglass
- Box 1 Folder
20
Drane
- Box 1 Folder
21
Dupuy
- Box 1 Folder
22
Edmunds
- Box 1 Folder
23
Franklin
- Box 1 Folder
24
Gaines
- Box 1 Folder
25
Gee
- Box 1 Folder
26
Gillett
- Box 1 Folder
27
Goode
- Box 1 Folder
28
Hamilton
- Box 1 Folder
29
Hardaway
- Box 1 Folder
30
Harris
- Box 1 Folder
31
Hayes
- Box 1 Folder
32
Helm
- Box 1 Folder
33
Hicks
- Box 1 Folder
34
Holt
- Box 1 Folder
35
Iles
- Box 1 Folder
36
Ingles
- Box 1 Folder
37
Izard
- Box 1 Folder
38
Judd
- Box 1 Folder
39
Lamar
- Box 1 Folder
40
Lamson
- Box 1 Folder
41
Latimer
- Box 1 Folder
42
Lockett
- Box 1 Folder
43
Massie
- Box 1 Folder
44
McClane
- Box 1 Folder
45
McCoy
- Box 1 Folder
46
Meredith
- Box 1 Folder
47
Michie
- Box 1 Folder
48
Miller
- Box 1 Folder
49
Morton
- Box 1 Folder
50
Mosby
- Box 1 Folder
51
Moseley
- Box 1 Folder
52
Moss
- Box 1 Folder
53
Overbay
- Box 1 Folder
54
Peacock
- Box 1 Folder
55
Price
- Box 1 Folder
56
Randolph
- Box 1 Folder
57
Rice
- Box 1 Folder
58
Smith
- Box 2 Folder 1
Tait
- Box 2 Folder 2
Throckmorton
- Box 2 Folder 3
Vaughan
- Box 2 Folder 4
Venable
- Box 2 Folder 5
Vimont
- Box 2 Folder 6
Ward
- Box 2 Folder 7
Watkins
- Box 2 Folder 8
Weare
- Box 2 Folder 9
Wright
- Box 2 Folder
10
1770-1849
- Box 2 Folder
11
1850-1852
- Box 2 Folder
12
1853-1854
- Box 2 Folder
13
1855-1858
- Box 2 Folder
14
1859
- Box 2 Folder
15
1860-1861
- Box 2 Folder
16
Undated
- Box 2 Folder
17
1868-1869
- Box 2 Folder
18
1870-1879
- Box 2 Folder
19
1880-1881
- Box 2 Folder
20
1882-1884
- Box 2 Folder
21-23
1885
- Box 3 Folder
1-3
1886
- Box 3 Folder
4-5
1887
- Box 3 Folder 6
1888
- Box 3 Folder 7
1889
- Box 3 Folder 8
1890
- Box 3 Folder 9
1891
- Box 3 Folder
10
1892-1894
- Box 3 Folder
11
1895
- Box 4 Folder
1-3
1896
- Box 4 Folder 4
1898-1903
- Box 4 Folder
5-7
Undated
- Box 4 Folder 8
Miscellaneous
- Box 4 Folder 9
Unidentified