Components List
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Series 1: Letters
Letters,
1765-1939. Folder:
1-159
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.
- Subseries 1: Letters to, from, or
about the Austin Family,
1800-1888,
n.d. Folder:
1-21
- Archibald Austin,
1808-1837. Folder:
1-2
22 items.
- Letters by Archibald Austin,
1812-1820. Folder:
1
5 items.
Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John
Austin (concerning a survey of James
Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and
Robert Garland.
- Letters by family to Archibald
Austin,
1808-1837. Folder:
2
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).
- The Archibald Austins,
1800-1853,
n.d. Folder:
3-8
72 items.
- Letters by family to the Archibald
Austins,
1840-1853,
n.d. Folder:
3
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.
- Letters by others to the Archibald
Austins,
1800-1815. Folder:
4
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).
- Letters by others to the Archibald
Austins,
1820-1829. Folder:
5
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.
- Letters by others to the Archibald
Austins,
1830-1834. Folder:
6
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.
- Letters by others to the Archibald
Austins,
1835. Folder:
7
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.
- Letters by others to the Archibald
Austins,
1836-1850,
n.d. Folder:
8
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.
- Archibald Austin, Jr.,
1843-1862. Folder:
9
7 items.
Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.
- Bernard Gaines Austin,
1840-1856. Folder:
10
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.
- Fances (Austin) Wright,
1847-1881,
n.d. Folder:
11-13
111 items.
- Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright,
1849-1881. Folder:
11
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.
- Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright,
n.d. Folder:
12
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.
- Letters by others to Frances
(Austin) Wright,
1847-1871,
n.d. Folder:
13
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.
- George B. Austin,
1848-1888,
n.d. Folder:
14
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.
- Grace Austin,
1864-1865,
n.d. Folder:
15
6 items.
Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in
February 1865; and religion.
- John Austin,
1845-1850,
n.d. Folder:
17-18
26 items.
- Letters by John Austin,
1850-1851. Folder:
17
12 items.
Studying medicine at the University of
Virginia and at Philadelphia College of
Medicine. Hiring out of slaves.
- Letters by others to John Austin,
1845-1851,
n.d. Folder:
18
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.
- Martha Austin,
1840-1848,
n.d. Folder:
19
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.
- Thomas Austin,
1838-1875,
n.d. Folder:
20-21
29 items.
- Letters by Thomas Austin,
1853-1875. Folder:
20
11 items.
Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September
1861, written by Austin while serving in
[Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry
Regiment.]
- Letters to Thomas Austin,
1838-1870,
n.d. Folder:
21
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.
- Subseries 2: Letters to, from, or
about the Twyman Family,
1811-1937,
n.d. Folder:
22-125
- Iverson L. Twyman,
1829-1864. Folder:
22-50
513 items.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864) of Amherst and Buckingham Co.,
Virginia,
1838-1839. Folder:
22
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).
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1840-1848. Folder:
23
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."
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1849. Folder:
24
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).
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1850. Folder:
25
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1851. Folder:
26
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1852-1853. Folder:
27
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1854-1855. Folder:
28
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.)
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1856-1860. Folder:
29
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1861-1864. Folder:
30
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
n.d. Folder:
31
8 items.
Includes note concerning trying to make
slaves look better before they are sold.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1829-1839. Folder:
32
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1840-1842. Folder:
33
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1843-1844. Folder:
34
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1845. Folder:
35
5 items.
Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F.
T. Stribling (superintendent of Western
Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B.
M. DeWitt.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1846. Folder:
36
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1847. Folder:
37
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1848. Folder:
38
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1849. Folder:
39
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1850. Folder:
40
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).
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1851. Folder:
41
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1852. Folder:
42
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1853. Folder:
43
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).
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1854. Folder:
44
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).
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1855. Folder:
45
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1856-1858. Folder:
46
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.)
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1859-1860. Folder:
47
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1861-1864. Folder:
48
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1863-1864. Folder:
49
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).
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
n.d. Folder:
50
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.
- Martha E. (Austin) Twyman,
1848-1891,
n.d. Folder:
51-64
218 items.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1848. Folder:
51
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).
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1849-1850. Folder:
52
7 items.
Includes letters to sister Grace Austin,
Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin,
Iverson L. Twyman.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1851-1869. Folder:
53
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.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1870-1871. Folder:
54
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.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1872. Folder:
55
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.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1873. Folder:
56
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.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1874. Folder:
57
16 items.
Concerns the family's poverty and money owed
to West & Agee which may force the sale of
her land.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1875-1877. Folder:
58
17 items.
Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and
her concern over her son's safety.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1878-1879. Folder:
59
10 items.
Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and
her concern for her son.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1880-1890. Folder:
60
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.
- Letters by Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
n.d. Folder:
61
6 items.
Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864).
Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John
Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace
Austin.
- Letters to Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1849-1869. Folder:
62
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.
- Letters to Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
1870-1891. Folder:
63
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).
- Letters to Martha E. (Austin)
Twyman,
n.d. Folder:
64
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.
- Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921),
1861-1921. Folder:
65-85
390 items.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1861-1871. Folder:
65
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1872. Folder:
66
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1873. Folder:
67
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1874. Folder:
68
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1875. Folder:
69
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1876. Folder:
70
28 items.
Includes letters written to mother Martha E.
(Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A.
Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1877. Folder:
71
30 items.
Includes letters written from Texas to
Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E.
(Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright),
Mabel Booker Twyman.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1878. Folder:
72
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).
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1879. Folder:
73
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1880. Folder:
74
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.
- Letters by Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1881. Folder:
75
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.
- Letters to or about Iverson L.
Twyman (1849-1921),
1882-1887. Folder:
76
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.
- Letters to or about Iverson L.
Twyman (1849-1921),
1867-1871. Folder:
77
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.
- Letters to or about Iverson L.
Twyman (1849-1921),
1872. Folder:
78
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1872-1874 and
n.d. Folder:
79
25 items.
Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See
also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's
letters).
- Letters to or about Iverson L.
Twyman (1849-1921),
1873. Folder:
80
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.
- Letters to or about Iverson L.
Twyman (1849-1921),
1874. Folder:
81
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.
- Letters to or about Iverson L.
Twyman (1849-1921),
1876-1877. Folder:
82
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.
- Letters to or about Iverson L.
Twyman (1849-1921),
1878. Folder:
83
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1879. Folder:
84
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.
- Letters to Iverson L. Twyman
(1849-1921),
1880,
n.d. Folder:
85
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.
- John A. Twyman,
1871-1937,
n.d. Folder:
86-105
383 items.
- Letters by John A. Twyman,
1871-1906. Folder:
86
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.
- Letters by John A. Twyman,
1907-1930,
n.d. Folder:
87
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.
- Letters to and about John A. Twyman,
1875-1880. Folder:
88
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.
- Letters to and about John A. Twyman,
1881. Folder:
89
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1882-1899. Folder:
90
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1900-1905. Folder:
91
6 items.
Includes four letters from Miss Sally M.
Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters
to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1906. Folder:
92
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).
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
January - February
1907. Folder:
93
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).
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
March - December
1907. Folder:
94
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).
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1908. Folder:
95
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.
- Letters to and about John A. Twyman,
1909. Folder:
96
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1910-1912. Folder:
97
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.)
- Letters about John A. Twyman,
1913. Folder:
98
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1914. Folder:
99
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1915. Folder:
100
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1916-1926. Folder:
101
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.
- Letters to and about John A. Twyman,
1927. Folder:
102
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1928-1929. Folder:
103
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.
- Letters to John A. Twyman,
1930-1936. Folder:
104
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."
- Letters to John A. Twyman (in Miami,
Florida),
1937,
n.d. Folder:
105
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.
- Samuel Rodgers Twyman,
1871-1930,
n.d. Folder:
106-118
229 items.
- Letters by Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1871-1877. Folder:
106
10 items.
To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A.
Twyman. Concern family's poverty.
- Letters by and about Samuel Rogers
Twyman,
1881-1930. Folder:
107
17 items.
Includes letters to John A. Twyman,
1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and
Twyman genealogy.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1879-1906. Folder:
108
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1907-1909. Folder:
109
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1910. Folder:
110
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1911. Folder:
111
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1912. Folder:
112
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1913-1914. Folder:
113
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1915-1916. Folder:
114
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1917-1919. Folder:
115
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1920-1923. Folder:
116
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.
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
1924-1925. Folder:
117
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.)
- Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman,
n.d. Folder:
118
8 items.
Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon,
Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog
postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware,
Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.
- Augusta G. Twyman,
1863-1920,
n.d. Folder:
119-121
84 items.
- Letters by Augusta G. Twyman,
1871-1879. Folder:
119
23 items.
Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman
(concerning teaching and the family's poverty),
Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour
W.] Holman.
- Letters by Augusta G. Twyman,
1880-1885. Folder:
120
31 items.
Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel
B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.
- Letters to Augusta G. Twyman,
1863-1920,
n.d. Folder:
121
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.
- Mabel B. Twyman,
1872-1895 Folder:
123-124
46 items.
- Letters by Mabel B. Twyman,
1872-1895. Folder:
123
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.
- Letters to Mabel B. Twyman,
1886-1895. Folder:
124
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.
- Subseries 3: Letters to, from, or
about the Horsley Family,
1834-1859. Folder:
126-130
- Various Horsley Letters,
1840-1849,
n.d. Folder:
126
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.
- Mary Lavinia Horsley,
1837-1838,
n.d. Folder:
127
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.
- Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin,
1853,
n.d. Folder:
128
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.
- Various Horsely Lettters,
1834-1853. Folder:
129
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.
- Doctor William A. Horsley,
1838-1859 Folder:
130
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).
- Subseries 4: Letters to, from, or
about the Spiller Family,
1837-1889. Folder:
131-149
- Various Spiller Letters,
1851-1883,
n.d. Folder:
131
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.
- Various Spiller Letters,
1849-1855,
n.d. Folder:
132
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.
- J. M. Spiller,
1837-1889. Folder:
133-148
219 items.
- Letters by J.M. Spiller,
1847-1849. Folder:
133
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.
- Letters by J.M. Spiller,
1850-1853. Folder:
134
13 items.
Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson
L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning
slaves (buying and selling) and farm
management.
- Letters by J.M. Spiller,
1854-1855. Folder:
135
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.
- Letters by J.M. Spiller,
1856-1864,
n.d. Folder:
136
16 items.
Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L.
Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell,
William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil
War.
- Letters by J.M. Spiller,
1865-1880. Folder:
137
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.
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1837-1858. Folder:
138
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.
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1859-1861. Folder:
139
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.
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1862-1869. Folder:
140
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.
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1870-1872. Folder:
141
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).
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1873-1876. Folder:
142
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.)
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1877. Folder:
143
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.]
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1878-1879. Folder:
144
10 items.
Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T.
Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone
(calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie
Hamilton.
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1880-1881. Folder:
145
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.
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1882-1883. Folder:
146
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.
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1884-1887. Folder:
147
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).
- Letters to J.M. Spiller,
1888-1889,
n.d. Folder:
148
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).
- Various Spiller Letters,
1850-1882. Folder:
149
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.
- Subseries 5: Miscellaneous Letters,
1769-1930,
n.d. Folder:
150-159
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1796-1809. Folder:
150
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1810-1819. Folder:
151
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1820-1829. Folder:
152
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1830-1839. Folder:
153
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).
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1840-1849. Folder:
154
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1850-1859. Folder:
155
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1860-1869. Folder:
156
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1870-1879. Folder:
157
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
1880-1930. Folder:
158
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.
- Miscellaneous Letters,
n.d. Folder:
159
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.
- Minutes of a meeting of citizens of
Buckingham County,
November
1827. Folder: 160
Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham
County, "friendly to the Election of General Andrew
Jackson as...[the] next President."
-
Series 2: James River and Kanawha Company
Papers
James River and Kanawha Company Papers,
1847-1879. Folder:
161-164
- James River and Kanawha Canal Papers,
1847-1857. Folder:
161
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.
- James River and Kanawha Company,
1858-1859. Folder:
162
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.
- James River and Kanawha Company,
1860-1879. Folder:
163
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.
- James River and Kanawha Company.
1855-1856,
n.d. Folder:
164
2 items.
Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn
Dam & Lock. Drawing - section of finder. Gwynn
Dam, n.d.
- Slavery items,
n.d. Folder: 165
2 items.
Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of
sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated
papers).
- Peter Francisco.
1802-1829,
n.d. Folder: 166
24 items.
Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by
Francisco.
-
Series 3: Accounts and Legal Papers
Accounts and Legal Papers,
1765-1919,
n.d. Folder:
167-404
This series is divided into subseries by family
name.
- Subseries 1: Austin Family,
1796-1872,
n.d. Folder:
167-231
- Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1796-1872,
n.d. Folder:
167-221
- Accounts, legal papers and
correspondence, Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1796-1779. Folder:
167
17 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1800. Folder:
168
24 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1801. Folder:
169
41 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1802. Folder:
170
50 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1803. Folder:
171
63 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1804. Folder:
172
41 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1805. Folder:
173
55 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1806. Folder:
174-175
82 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1807. Folder:
176-177
88 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1808. Folder:
178-179
65 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1809. Folder:
180-181
53 items.
Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph
agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April
1809.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1810. Folder:
182-183
73 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1811. Folder:
184-186
84 items.
Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas
Jefferson, Jr.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1812. Folder:
187
44 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1813. Folder:
188-189
57 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1814. Folder:
190-191
50 items.
Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund
Henry.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1815. Folder:
192-193
54 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1816. Folder:
194-195
60 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1817. Folder:
196
29 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1818. Folder:
197
24 items.
Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a
legal matter.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1819. Folder:
198
34 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1820. Folder:
199-200
43 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1821. Folder:
201
40 items.
Includes copy of legal paper involving
Edmund Henry.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1822. Folder:
202
49 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1823. Folder:
203
45 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1824. Folder:
204
31 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1825. Folder:
205
32 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1826. Folder:
206
33 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1827. Folder:
207
35 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1828. Folder:
208
41 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1829. Folder:
209
23 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1830. Folder:
210
26 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1831. Folder:
211
31 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1832. Folder:
212
31 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1833. Folder:
213
27 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1834. Folder:
214
27 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1835. Folder:
215
20 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1836. Folder:
216
20 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1837-1839. Folder:
217
15 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1840-1842. Folder:
218
21 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1843-1849. Folder:
219
38 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
1850-1872. Folder:
220
26 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Archibald Austin (1772-1837),
n.d. Folder:
221
74 items.
- Archibald Austin (1815-1886),
1841-1857. Folder:
222
12 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- B. Austin and Bernard Austin,
1810-1858. Folder:
223
13 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Frances Austin,
1848-1863. Folder:
224
47 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- George B. Austin,
1842-1855. Folder:
225
108 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Grace R. and Grace B. Austin,
1842-1871. Folder:
226
91 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- James Austin,
1811-1862. Folder:
227
12 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- John Austin,
1801-1857. Folder:
228
101 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than
one person by this name.
- Martha Austin
1839-1840. Folder:
229
2 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E.
Twyman.
- Thomas Austin,
1806-1869. Folder:
230
126 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than
one person by this name.
- Unidentified Austins or more than one
name per paper,
1804-1869,
n.d. Folder:
231
44 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Subseries 2: Twyman Family,
1820-1939,
n.d. Folder:
232-274
- Leverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1820-1839. Folder:
232-233
84 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson
L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1820-1829. Folder:
232
13 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson
L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1830-1839. Folder:
233
71 items.
- Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864),
1840-1869. Folder:
234-257
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1840-1841. Folder:
234
40 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1842-1843. Folder:
235
66 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1844. Folder:
236
38 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1845-1846. Folder:
237
62 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1847. Folder:
238
49 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1848. Folder:
239
73 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1849. Folder:
240
65 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1850. Folder:
241
38 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1851 Folder:
242
40 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1852. Folder:
243
64 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1853. Folder:
244
57 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1854. Folder:
245
73 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1855. Folder:
246
94 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1856. Folder:
247
117 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1857. Folder:
248
69 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1858. Folder:
249
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.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1859. Folder:
250
78 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1860. Folder:
251
93 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1861. Folder:
252
84 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1862. Folder:
253
89 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1863. Folder:
254
51 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1864. Folder:
255
37 items.
Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro
slave to work on fortifications.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1865. Folder:
256
20 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and
Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864),
1866-1867. Folder:
257
36 items.
- Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman
(1810-1864) Estate,
1868-1910,
n.d. Folder:
258-262
302 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha
E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
Estate,
1868-1869. Folder:
258
48 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha
E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
Estate,
1870-1871. Folder:
259
73 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha
E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
Estate,
1872-1879. Folder:
260
35 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha
E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
Estate,
1880-1910. Folder:
261
20 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha
E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
Estate,
n.d. Folder:
262
86 items.
- Iverson L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921),
1870-1910. Folder:
263-264
55 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson
L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921),
1870-1879. Folder:
263
38 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson
L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921),
1880-1910. Folder:
264
17 items.
- Augusta Twyman, Fanny Twyman, George
Twyman, James Twyman, Jean Twyman,
1733-1939. Folder:
265
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.
- John A. Twyman,
1870-1939,
n.d. Folder:
266-272
223 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of John A.
Twyman,
1870-1879. Folder:
266
14 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of John A.
Twyman,
1880-1889. Folder:
267
33 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of John A.
Twyman,
1890-1899. Folder:
268
24 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of John A.
Twyman,
1900-1909. Folder:
269
49 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of John A.
Twyman,
1910-1919. Folder:
270
11 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of John A.
Twyman,
1920-1929. Folder:
271
75 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of John A.
Twyman,
1930-1939,
n.d. Folder:
272
17 items.
- Samuel R. Twyman,
1880-1925. Folder:
273
44 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Various Twymans: Absalom Twyman, Dr.
John L. Twyman, Dr. Lewis J. Twyman,
1849-1852. Folder:
264
4 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Subseries 3: Accounts and Legal
Papers with two or more last names,
1830-1909,
n.d. Folder:
275-283
- Twyman - Austin,
1830-1879. Folder:
275
112 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving
both names.
- Twyman - Horsley,
1843-1859,
n.d. Folder:
276-282
250 items.
Papers involving both names.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman
- Horsley,
1834-1842. Folder:
276
30 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman
- Horsley,
1843. Folder:
277
55 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman
- Horsley,
1844-1845. Folder:
278
51 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman
- Horsley,
1846-1847. Folder:
279
21 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman
- Horsley,
1848-1849. Folder:
280
27 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman
- Horsley,
1850-1851. Folder:
281
42 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman
- Horsley,
1852-1859,
n.d. Folder:
282
24 items.
- Twyman - Spiller,
1847-1909,
n.d. Folder:
283
56 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving
both names.
- Subseries 4: Horsley Family,
1809-1850,
n.d. Folder:
284-288
- John Horsley, Robert Horsley,
1809-1829. Folder:
284
31 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Robert Horsley,
1830-1839. Folder:
285
142 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Robert, William, Ann and Rebecca
Horsley,
1840-1849. Folder:
286
117 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Robert Horsley, Wm. Horsley,
n.d. Folder:
287
24 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Horsley and other families,
1811-1850. Folder:
288
7 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin,
1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers
involving both names.
- Subseries 5: Spiller Family,
1807-1909,
n.d. Folder:
289-325
- George Spiller, James M. Spiller,
1807-1835. Folder:
289-292
195 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of George
Spiller, James M. Spiller,
1807-1830. Folder:
289
55 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of George
Spiller, James M. Spiller,
1831-1832. Folder:
290
22 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of George
Spiller, James M. Spiller,
1833. Folder:
291
58 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of George
Spiller, James M. Spiller,
1834-1835. Folder:
292
60 items.
- James M. Spiller,
1836-1839. Folder:
293
64 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- George A. Spiller, Sara Ann Spiller and
James M. Spiller,
1840-1849. Folder:
294
58 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- James M. Spiller, Preston F. Spiller
and others,
1850-1851. Folder:
295
19 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- James M. and other Spillers,
1852-1909,
n.d. Folder:
296-325
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1852. Folder:
296
22 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1853. Folder:
297
49 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1854. Folder:
298
44 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1855. Folder:
299
59 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1856. Folder:
300
118 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1857. Folder:
301
87 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1858. Folder:
302
70 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1859. Folder:
303
70 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1860. Folder:
304
99 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1861. Folder:
305
103 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1862. Folder:
306
40 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1863. Folder:
307
29 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1863-1866. Folder:
308
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."
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1867-1868. Folder:
309
195 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1869. Folder:
310
106 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1870. Folder:
311
81 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1871. Folder:
312
161 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1872. Folder:
313
164 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1873. Folder:
314
103 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1874. Folder:
315
28 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1875. Folder:
316
26 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1876. Folder:
317
30 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1877. Folder:
318
46 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1878. Folder:
319
32 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1879. Folder:
320
16 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1880-1882. Folder:
321
35 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1883-1885. Folder:
322
57 items.
Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883
finally settled in 1887.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1886-1889. Folder:
323
63 items.
Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M.
Spiller.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
1890-1909. Folder:
324
73 items.
The majority of the material concerns Miss
Mary Spiller.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of James
M. and other Spillers,
n.d. Folder:
325
41 items.
- Subseries 6: Miscellaneous Accounts
and Legal Papers,
1774-1928,
n.d. Folder:
326-371
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1774-1799. Folder:
326
65 items.
Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed
by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1800. Folder:
327
40 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1801. Folder:
328
27 items.
Includes papers on the estate of William
Adams.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1802. Folder:
329
20 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1803. Folder:
330
30 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1804. Folder:
331
32 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1805. Folder:
332
33 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1806. Folder:
333
32 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1807. Folder:
334
33 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1808. Folder:
335
49 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1809. Folder:
336
25 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1810. Folder:
337
45 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1811. Folder:
338
44 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1812. Folder:
339
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.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1813. Folder:
340
93 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1814. Folder:
341
14 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1815. Folder:
342
28 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1816. Folder:
343
17 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1817. Folder:
344
21 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1818. Folder:
345
15 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1819. Folder:
346
19 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1820. Folder:
347
21 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1821. Folder:
348
16 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1822. Folder:
349
33 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1823. Folder:
350
40 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1824. Folder:
351
24 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1825. Folder:
352
17 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1826. Folder:
353
12 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1827. Folder:
354
11 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1828-1829. Folder:
355
11 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1830-1832. Folder:
356
32 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1833-1835. Folder:
357
30 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1836-1839. Folder:
358
30 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1840-1843. Folder:
359
42 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1844-1846. Folder:
360
99 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1847-1849. Folder:
361
52 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1850-1855. Folder:
362
57 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1856-1859. Folder:
363
23 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1860-1862. Folder:
364
22 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1863-1869. Folder:
365
27 items.
Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May
29, 1865 concerning "harsh or cruel treatment" of
employees.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1870-1889. Folder:
366
38 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
1890-1928. Folder:
367
23 items.
- Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal
Papers,
n.d. Folder:
368-371.
217 items.
- Subseries 7: County Accounts and
Legal Papers,
1765-1919. Folder:
372-403
- Buckingham County Records,
1800-1919,
n.d. Folder:
372-398
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1765-1799. Folder:
372
16 items.
Includes land grant of 1789 signed by
Governor Beverly Randolph.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1800-1801. Folder:
373
21 items.
Includes "A list of Magistrates as also
those named in different Commissions of the
Peace for Buckingham County" for 1777-1800.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1802. Folder:
374
24 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1803. Folder:
375
8 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1804. Folder:
376
16 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1805. Folder:
377
18 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
January-February
1806. Folder:
378
14 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
March-April
1806. Folder:
379
21 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
May-June
1806. Folder:
380
46 items.
Includes judgment involving Randolph
Jefferson and John Jefferson.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
July-August
1806. Folder:
381
33 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
September-October
1806. Folder:
382
7 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
November-December
1806. Folder:
383
27 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1807. Folder:
384
35 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1808. Folder:
385
23 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1809. Folder:
386
29 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1810. Folder:
387
35 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1811-1812. Folder:
388
28 items.
Includes "A list of a Company of Light
Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of)
Buckingham Militia," 19 April 1812.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1813-1814. Folder:
389
18 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1815-1819. Folder:
390
18 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1820-1824. Folder:
391
33 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1825-1829. Folder:
392
23 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1830-1839. Folder:
393
14 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1840-1849. Folder:
394-395
173 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1850-1869. Folder:
396
16 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
1870-1919. Folder:
397
6 items.
- Accounts and Legal Papers of
Buckingham County Records,
n.d. Folder:
398
23 items.
- Albermale and Amherst County Records,
1789-1861. Folder:
399
77 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Appomattox County Records, Botetourt
County Records. Campbell County Records,
1804-1874. Folder:
400
16 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Cumberland County Records,
1774-1848. Folder:
401
29 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Goochland County Records, King and
Queen County Records, Nelson County Records,
1774-1855. Folder:
402
21 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Powhatan County Records, Prince Edward
County Records,
1800-1810. Folder:
403
20 items.
Accounts and Legal Papers.
- Accounts and Legal Papers - Scraps,
n.d. Folder:
404
57 items.
- Poetry and religion manuscripts,
n.d. Folder: 405
37 items.
- Recipes and formulae manuscripts,
n.d. Folder: 406
27 items.
- Memoranda manuscripts.
n.d. Folder: 407
201 items.Entire box.
- Photographs,
n.d. Folder: 408
7 items.Photographs.
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Series 4: Genealogical Material
Genealogical Material,
n.d. Folder:
409-422.
This series is divided into subseries by family
name.
- Austin Family,
n.d. Folder:
409
5 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Booker Family,
n.d. Folder:
410
7 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Byrd Family,
n.d. Folder:
411
1 item.
Genealogical Materials.
- Clark Family,
n.d. Folder:
412
2 items.
Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and
Twyman.
- Gainer Family,
n.d. Folder:
413
15 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Lewis Family,
n.d. Folder:
414
34 items.
Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.
- Montague Family,
n.d. Folder:
415
2 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Rogers Family,
n.d. Folder:
416
16 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Spiller Family,
n.d. Folder:
416A
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. Folder:
417-420
135 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Walker Family,
n.d. Folder:
421
5 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Miscellaneous Names - Greenwood, Gwathmey,
etc.,
n.d. Folder:
422
10 items.
Genealogical Materials.
- Miscellaneous printed matter,
n.d. Folder:
423
116 items.Entire box.
Genealogical Materials.
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Series 5: Manuscript Volumes
Manuscript Volumes,
1799-1896,
n.d. Volume: MsV.
1-53
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. Volume: MsV.
1
Account book of William Adams and his estate.
- Austin Family,
1804-1848,
n.d. Volume: MsV.
2-5
- Accounts of Archibald Austin
(1772-1847),
1804-1832. Volume: MsV.
2
- Attorney fee book of Archibald Austin
(1772-1837),
1807-1835. Volume: MsV.
3
- Accounts of Archibald (1772-1837),
1824-1848. Volume: MsV.
4
Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court
records, 1847-1848.
- Twyman and Austin notebook of
miscellany,
n.d. Volume: MsV.
5
- Twyman Family,
1832-1879. Volume: MsV.
6-18
- Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1832-1837. Volume: MsV.
6
- Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1840-1843. Volume: MsV.
7
- Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1844. Volume: MsV.
8
Includes James River and Kanawha Canal
accounts.
- Accounts Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1845. Volume: MsV.
9
Includes James River and Kanawha Canal
accounts.
- Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1846. Volume: MsV.
10
- Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1847. Volume: MsV.
11
- Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1848. Volume: MsV.
12
- Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1849-1864. Volume: MsV.
13
Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes,
1860-1864.
- Dr. Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman farm and
household accounts,
1853-1867. Volume: MsV.
14
- Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1854-1856. Volume: MsV.
15
Including farm notes and notes of calls on
patients.
- Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman,
1856-1863. Volume: MsV.
16
- Notes of calls by Dr. and Mrs. Iverson
L. Twyman,
January - March
1860. Volume: MsV.
17
- School notes of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L.
Twyman, Jr.,
1877-1879. Volume: MsV.
18
- Spiller Family,
1829-1892. Volume: MsV.
19-47
- Account book of J. M. Spiller,
1829-1838. Volume: MsV.
19
Includes farm notes in back, 1840.
- Ledger of J. M. Spiller,
1829-1847. Volume: MsV.
20
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller ?,
1850-1868. Volume: MsV.
21
Including the estate of George Spiller.
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller, Mayo's
Island,
1836-1838. Volume: MsV.
22
Includes time charts for worker in the James
River and Kanawha Canal.
- Ledger of J. M. Spiller and Thomas A.
Mera,
1837-1839. Volume: MsV.
23
- Ledger and Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1839-1892. Volume: MsV.
24
Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other
accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp.
80-81, 292-294.
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1846-1865. Volume: MsV.
25
Including time sheets of work on locks, James
River and Kanawha Canal.
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1850-1851. Volume: MsV.
26
Includes work on the James River and Kanawha
Canal.
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1851-1867. Volume: MsV.
27
- Cash book of J. M. Spiller,
1852-1853. Volume: MsV.
28
Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.
- Account book of J. M. Spiller,
1852-1865. Volume: MsV.
29
- Cash book of J. M. Spiller,
1854-June
1855 Volume: MsV.
30
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1854-1869. Volume: MsV.
31
- Cash book of J. M. Spiller ?,
1855-1856?. Volume: MsV.
32
- Cash book of J. M. Spiller,
1856. Volume: MsV.
33
- Cash book of J. M. Spiller,
1856-1863. Volume: MsV.
34
- Cash book of J. M. Spiller,
1857-1858. Volume: MsV.
35
- Account book of J. M. Spiller,
1862-1867. Volume: MsV.
36
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1867-1873. Volume: MsV.
37
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller, Castle
Mills,
1867-1878. Volume: MsV.
38
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1869-1873. Volume: MsV.
39
- Religious notes and clippings of Emma
C. Spiller,
1875-1894. Volume: MsV.
40
- Flour grinding accounts of J. M.
Spiller, Castle Mills,
1871-1875. Volume: MsV.
41
- Account book of J. M. Spiller, Castle
Mills,
1875-1879. Volume: MsV.
42
- Ledger of J. M. Spiller,
1876-1882. Volume: MsV.
43
- Account book of J. M. Spiller, Castle
Mills,
1880-1886. Volume: MsV.
44
- Farm notes of J. M. Spiller ?,
1881. Volume: MsV.
45
- Ledger of J. M. Spiller,
1882-1888. Volume: MsV.
46
- Accounts of J. M. Spiller,
1882. Volume: MsV.
47
- Buckingham Court House decisions involving
debts,
1845-1847. Volume: MsV.
48
- Unidentified accounts,
1850. Volume: MsV.
49
- Unidentified accounts and school
attendance records,
1860. Volume: MsV.
50
- Unidentified, including travel notes and
total abstinence pledge,
1844. Volume: MsV.
51
- Unidentified, including farm account,
1892-1896. Volume: MsV.
52
- Index to Account Book,
n.d. Volume: MsV.
53