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A Guide to the Garrett Family Papers, 1832-ca. 1925 Garrett Family, Papers, 1822-ca. 1925 MS 45.1

A Guide to the Garrett Family Papers, 1832-ca. 1925

A Collection in
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number MS 45.1


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Repository
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Manuscript number
MS 45.1
Title
Garrett Family Papers, 1822-ca. 1925.
Extent
42 items.
Creator
Garrett family.
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access

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Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Librarian/ Associate Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the holder of the copyright, if not the Rockefeller Library at Colonial Williamsburg.

Preferred Citation

Garrett Family Papers, Manuscript MS 45.1, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Alternative Form

Also available on microfilm M-1555.

Biographical/Historical Information

Prominent family of Williamsburg, Va.

Scope and Content Information

Includes letters; an account of Levin Y. Winder and his guardian; copies of various Williamsburg Hustings Court records; "A Memory of Williamsburg"; an inventory of household furnishings; deeds and bonds; genealogical information; and photographs of Rear Adm. Cary T. Grayson, and of an unidentified young woman.

Arrangement

Chronologically arranged.

Index Terms

    Family Names:

  • Garrett family.

    • Persons:

  • Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938.
  • Winder, Levin Y.

    • Geographical Names:

  • Virginia-- Genealogy.

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Virginia-- Genealogy.
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Contents List

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Indenture between Robert Anderson, Thomas Sands and Richard Garrett and John K. Wright, Feb 1822.

Concerns the sale of Queen's Creek property to Wright.

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List, ca. 1825.

E[d]w[ar]d Winder purchases at "Vendue." List of items and prices paid including kitchen furniture, bedsheets, knives, and forks.

Folder 1
Levin Y. Winder in ac[coun]t with R. R. Garrett, 6 March 1832-14 July 1837.
Bond. Robert B. Moreland and John C. Moreland to Mary M. Garrett, 1 January 1841.
Folder 1

Concerns the hiring of a slave.

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Copy of Husting Court records, 13 November 1841.

Abner Hockaday vs. William Alvis, and Abner Hockaday vs. Samuel and William Allen.

Folder 1
Sallie Dix to Dr. Robert Garrett, 24 March 1854.

A letter from students of the Williamsburg Female Academy on the death of Annie C. Garrett (Robert's daughter). Includes list of resolutions and a badge of mourning.

Folder 1
Invitation to the "final celebration" of the Phoenix and Philomathean Societies of the College of William and Mary, 3 July 1877.
Folder 1
Will of Mary Winder Garrett, 27 December 1877.
Folder 1
Will of Mary Winder Garrett, 17 September 1891.
Granville Goodloe, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, to Susan Comfort Garrett, Williamsburg, 2 February 1895.
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Re: family history.

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Mary W. Garrett, Williamsburg, [to her brother], 7 March 1895.

Re: family history. On back of letter is a brief biography of Benjamin F. Garrett (1820-1877).

Folder 1
Pamphlet: "The Winders of Laston" by F. A. Winder, 1896.

Re: 17th/18th-century English ancestors.

Folder 1
L.J. Waters, at Beechwood, [to a friend], 27 November 1897.

Re: Winder portraits and Washington, D.C. art galleries.

Folder 1
Will of Mary Winder Garrett, 23 March 1899.
Folder 1
Susan C. Garrett, Idaho, to Lottie Garrett, 9-10 June 1901.
Includes envelope.
Folder 1
Bill from City Livery Sale and Feed Stable to Anna Galt, 1 June 1904.

Re: the hire of a horse and buggy driver to Jamestown.

Folder 1
Sue G. Nelson, Idaho, to Mary W. Garrett, 12 December 1904.

Re: family history of Peyton Randolph Nelson.

Folder 1
Test paper of J. T. Nolen, 11 March 1905.

Re: building a phonograph and how sound travels.

Folder 2
The Women's Club, Richmond Va., to the Misses Garrett, 29 May 1907.
Includes envelope.

Invitation to tea.

Folder 2
Mary W. Garrett, Williamsburg, to Granville Goodloe, 24 February 1910.

Re: family history.

Folder 2
Address of Robert Southall Bright before the Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence...delivered at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 4 July 1910.
Folder 2
Will of Mary W. Garrett, 7 March 1911.
Folder 2
Susan G. Nelson to [?], post 1915.

Letter mentions President Woodrow Wilson's visit to Williamsburg and how Lottie and Mary were invited to the White House. Also family information.

Folder 2
L. V. Garrett, Newport News, Va., to Mary W. Garrett, "Tazewell Hall," Williamsburg, 19 June 1922.
Includes envelope.

Enclosed is a transcript of an obituary of Richard Roper Garrett who died January 14, 1855.

Folder 2
Postcard- E[mma] G[arrett] B[oyd], Atlanta, to Mary Winder Garrett, Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg, 21 July 1925.
Folder 2
Emma Garrett Boyd to Miss [Mary?], 24 November 1925.

Re: family history.

Folder 2
Christmas card- Susie and William Maddox to Lottie and Mary Garrett, 1928.
Folder 2
E. Sclater Montague, Hampton, Va., to Mrs. Peyton Nelson ("Aunt Sue"), Williamsburg, 9 April 1930.

Re: family matters.

Folder 3
Letter to Charlotte C. Garrett, n.d.
Folder 3
Garrett family genealogical information, n.d.
Folder 3
"Garrett Family of York County and Williamsburg, Va.," n.d.

Family history of Dr. Robert Major Garrett (1808-1885).

Folder 3
"A Memory of Williamsburg,"

Written by one of Robert M. Garrett's children.

Folder 3
Christmas card of Cary and Gertrude Grayson, n.d.
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Handy and Winder family genealogical information,
Folder 3
Household inventory, n.d.

Inventory of household items, ca. 20th-century. Perhaps from either Archibald Blair house, Tazewell Hall, or Coke-Garrett house.

Folder 3
Nelson family genealogical information, n.d.
Folder 3
Randolph family genealogical information, n.d.
Folder 3
Alice Colden Smith to Lottie Garrett, n.d.
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Photograph, n.d.

Photograph of two unidentified women. Taken by Homeier and Clark, Richmond, Va.

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Photograph, n.d.

Photograph of a woman.

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Photograph,

Photograph of Rear Admiral Cary T. Graysonan. Taken by Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.