A Guide to the Henkel Family Papers
A Collection in the
Special Collections Department
Accession number 8653-j
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
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Preferred Citation
Henkel Family Papers, Accession 8653-j, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
These items were purchased by the Library on July 19, 1991
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Scope and Content
This addition to the papers of the Henkel family of New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia , contains fourteen items, 1810-1868, including correspondence, receipts and promissory notes, and an untitled incomplete manuscript in German. Four of the five letters are addressed to Ambrose Henkel .
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Ambrose Henkel
- George Schmucker
- Jacob Lintz
- M. Helmuth
- P.H.A. Weberfeldt
- Paul Henkel
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia
- Virginia
Container List
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[A letter of introduction ?] for Andreas to the Rev. M. Helmuth of Philadelphia1810
(German)
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Paul Henkel to Ambrose Henkel1812 Dec 12
(German)
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Jacob Lintz to Ambrose Henkel1824 May 15
Lintz, a clockmaker, asks Ambrose to help him locate several articles needed in his business and a book entitled The Valuable Secret (English)
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P.H.A. Weberfeldt to Ambrose Henkel1824 Aug 11
(German)
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George Schmucker to Ambrose Henkel1828 Jun 22
tells Ambrose about the need for another Lutheran Synod in the Virginia area; he and his father had withdrawn from the Virginia Synod two years previously due to the conduct of some of its principal members, and asks for a ministerial license from the Tennessee Synod (English)