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A Guide to the Maury Family Papers, 1786-1995 Maury Family, Papers, 1786-1995 51892

A Guide to the Maury Family Papers, 1786-1995

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Accession Number 51892


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Repository
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Accession Number
51892
Title
Maury Family Papers, 1786-1995
Physical Description
6 cubic feet (14 boxes).
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Maury Family Papers, 1786-1995. Accession 51892. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of William Maury Jones and Anne White Jones, Portland, Oregon.

Biographical Information

Charles Broadnax Maury was born on 29 November 1822. He was the son of William Grymes Maury and Anne Hoomes Woolfolk. He married Sallie Fontaine Maury (1825-1915) in Washington, DC on 19 November 1850. She was the daughter Richard Brooke Maury and Lucy P. Hunton. Following the death of her father, Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) was appointed as guardian to her and her brother John Minor Maury (1826-1868). Charles Broadnax Maury served as treasurer of the Fire Insurance Company in Washington, DC. He died on 10 February 1906. He and his wife are buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, DC.

Their son, William Lewis Maury, was born on 30 November 1851. He married Cora Wells Sears (1860-1917) in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was employed as an auditor for a railroad company. They later moved to Palestine, Texas where he worked for the International and Great Northern Railway Company. William Lewis Maury died on 15 December 1927. He and his wife are buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. They had five children, including Isabel Lee Maury, who married Dr. Thomas Wistar White.

Elizabeth Tunstall White was the sister of Dr. Thomas Wistar White. She was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia on 21 June 1884. She graduated from Randolph-Macon College (A.B., 1907) and Washington University in St. Louis (A.M., 1916). She was a high school teacher. Elizabeth Tunstall White died in March 1973 and is buried in Green Hill Cemetery in Danville, Virginia.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1786-1995, of the Maury family of Caroline County and Fredericksburg, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Missouri, and Texas. The collection includes correspondence and subject files of Charles Broadnax Maury (1822-1906) and his wife Sallie Fontaine (Maury) Maury (1825-1915), and their son William Lewis Maury (1851-1927) and his wife Cora Wells (Sears) Maury (1860-1917). There are also genealogical research files and subject files of Elizabeth Tunstall White (1884-1973).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series I. Maury Family Papers. Series II. Elizabeth Tunstall White Papers.

Contents List

Series I. Maury Family Papers .
Boxes 1-5, 11-12, 14
Extent: 8 boxes.

The correspondence begins in the mid-1820's and includes letters from Lucy P. (Hunton) Maury (1787-1828) in Fredericksburg to her husband Richard Brooke Maury (1794-1840) while he was working in Washington, DC. There is also a group of letters from Richard Brooke Maury to John de Bree (1798-1869) in Norfolk discussing business and naval matters, as well as news of their friend Daniel McCarty Fitzhugh Thornton (1800-1865). Correspondence in the 1840's includes letters from John Minor Maury (1826-1868) to his sister Sallie Fontaine Maury (1825-1915) while he was serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the "Constitution" commanded by John "Mad Jack" Percival (1779-1862). There are also numerous letters from Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) beginning in 1847 written mainly to Sallie Fontaine Maury and discussing family and personal news. Letters from 1850 to 1870 are mostly between Charles Broadnax Maury and his wife Sallie Fontaine Maury. Correspondence in the 1880's includes a group of letters by Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900) while he was serving as minister to Colombia, and there are a large number of letters written by William Lewis Maury in Palestine, Texas to his wife Cora Sears Maury while the she was visiting friends and family in Florida, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Of note are letters relating to the deaths of Matthew Fontaine Maury and Dabney Herndon Maury. The post-1900 correspondence includes letters written by the three sons of William Lewis Maury while they were serving in France during World War I, as well as letters pertaining to his genealogical research, including correspondence with Mary Maury Werth (1844-1928), the daughter of Matthew Fontaine Maury, and Nannie Rose Maury Pollard (1853-1943), the daughter of Dabney Herndon Maury.

The subject files include appointments and commissions, Bible records, books on the Maury family, Civil War oath, parole, and pardon of John Minor Maury, deeds of the Sears family of St. Louis, diaries, genealogical notes compiled by William Lewis Maury, invitations, photographs, scrapbook, sermons, and sketches, memorials, and biographical materials on Matthew Fontaine Maury.

  • Correspondence
    • Box 1 Folder 1
      1806.
    • Box 1 Folder 2
      1822.
    • Box 1 Folder 3-6
      1824-1827.
    • Box 1 Folder 7
      1844.
    • Box 1 Folder 8-12
      1846-1850.
    • Box 1 Folder 13-17
      1852-1856.
    • Box 1 Folder 18
      1858.
    • Box 1 Folder 19-22
      1860-1863.
    • Box 1 Folder 23-31
      1865-1873.
    • Box 1 Folder 32
      1875.
    • Box 1 Folder 33
      1878.
    • Box 1 Folder 34-42
      1880-1888.
    • Box 1 Folder 43-45
      1890-1892.
    • Box 1 Folder 46
      1894.
    • Box 1 Folder 47-50
      1900-1903.
    • Box 1 Folder 51-58
      1906-1913.
    • Box 2 Folder 1-13
      1915-1927.
    • Box 2 Folder 14
      1943.
    • Box 2 Folder 15
      Richard Brooke Maury to John de Bree, 1830-1836 .
    • Box 2 Folder 16
      Dabney Herndon Maury to Sallie Fontaine Maury, 1887-1889 .
    • Box 2 Folder 17-19
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears, 1886 (June-July, September-November) .
    • Box 2 Folder 17-19
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears Maury, 1888 .
    • Box 3 Folder 1
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears Maury, 1889 (August-September) .
    • Box 3 Folder 2
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears Maury, 1892 .
    • Box 3 Folder 3
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears Maury, 1895 (April) .
    • Box 3 Folder 4
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears Maury, 1897 (July-September) .
    • Box 3 Folder 5
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears Maury, 1905 (August) .
    • Box 3 Folder 6
      William L. Maury to Cora Sears Maury, 1906 .
    • Box 3 Folder 7
      no date/year.
    • Box 3 Folder 8
      no date/year (Cora Sears Maury).
    • Box 3 Folder 9
      no date/year (Lucy P. Maury).
    • Box 3 Folder 10
      no date/year (Matthew Fontaine Maury).
    • Box 3 Folder 11-12
      no date/year (Sallie Fontaine Maury).
    • Box 3 Folder 13
      no date/year (William L. Maury).
    • Box 3 Folder 14
      no date/year (Thomas Nelson Page).
    • Box 3 Folder 15
      no date/year (Rose Maury Pollard).
  • Subject Files
    • Box 3 Folder 16
      Accounts and Receipts.
    • Box 3 Folder 17
      Address Before Literary Societies of UVA by Matthew Fontaine Maury, 28 June 1855 .
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      The Albemarle of Other Days by Mary Rawlings.
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      The Amazing Story of the Maurys in America by Sharon Taylor.
    • Box 3 Folder 18
      Annual Report - Matthew Fontaine Maury Association, 1920 .
    • Box 3 Folder 19
      Appointment - John Minor Maury, 20 June 1853 .
    • Box 3 Folder 20
      Appointment - John Minor Maury, 16 August 1862 .
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Bellefontaine Cemetery (St. Louis) Map, 1916 .
    • Box 3 Folder 21
      Bible Records.
    • Box 3 Folder 22
      Bible Verses/Religious Writings.
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church (Two Editions).
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      The Book of Common Prayer of the Reformed Episcopal Church , 1883 .
    • Box 3 Folder 23
      Certificates.
    • Box 3 Folder 24
      Christ Church Cemetery (St. Louis) Lot Deed, 1853 .
    • Box 3 Folder 25
      Commission - Sunderland Gregory Sears, 22 September 1862 .
    • Box 3 Folder 26
      The Confederate Diary of Betty Herndon Maury (copy).
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      Corks and Curls , 1907 .
    • Box 3 Folder 27
      The Days of the Upright: A History of the Huguenots by O.I.A. Roche (portion).
    • Box 3 Folder 28
      Deeds (Sears Family - St. Louis), 1841-1886 .
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      Diary - John Minor Maury.
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      Diaries - William L. Maury.
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      Diddie, Dumps, and Tot or Plantation Child-Life by Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle.
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Diplomas - Cora Hunton Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 1
      Family Record - Fontaine/Maury/Brooke/Taliaferro/Hunton.
    • Box 4 Folder 2
      Family Record - Charles Broadnax Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 3
      Family Record - Dabney Herndon Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 4
      Family Record - James Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 5
      Family Record - Rev. Matthew Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 6
      Family Record - Richard Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 7
      Family Record - Sunderland Gregory Sears.
    • Box 4 Folder 8
      Family Record - Woolfolk/Broadnax.
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Family Register of William G. Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 9
      Greeting Cards.
    • Box 4 Folder 10
      Hair.
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      Holy Bible (Three Editions).
    • Box 4 Folder 11
      Huguenots.
    • Box 4 Folder 12
      In Memoriam: Matthew Fontaine Maury , 1873 .
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      Intimate Virginiana: A Century of Maury Travels by Land and Sea edited by Anne Fontaine Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 13
      Invitations.
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      John Walker Maury: His Lineage and Life by William A. Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 14
      License to Carry Firearms, 1865 .
    • Box 4 Folder 15
      Matthew Fontaine Maury - Sketches, Memorials, etc.
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      The Maury Family Tree by Sue C. West.
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      Memoirs of a Huguenot Family by Rev. James Fontaine.
    • Box 4 Folder 16
      Miscellaneous.
    • Box 4 Folder 17
      "A Narrative of My Life For My Family" by Francis T. Brooke, 1849 .
    • Box 4 Folder 18
      Oath - John Minor Maury, 28 October 1865 .
    • Box 4 Folder 19
      Obituaries.
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Ordination Certificate of Rev. Matthew Maury (copy), 24 August 1769 .
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Parallel Genealogies of George Washington, Robert E. Lee, and William Grymes Maury by William L. Maury.
    • Box 4 Folder 23-25
      Pardon - John Minor Maury, 27 October 1865 (copy).
    • Box 4 Folder 20
      Parole - John Minor Maury, 24 July 1865 .
    • Box 4 Folder 21
      Pew Deed, St. Paul's Church (Norfolk, VA), 28 March 1830 .
    • Box 4 Folder 22
      Photographic Portraits of Men of Eminence , 1864 .
    • Box 4 Folder 23-25
      Photographs.
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Photographs (Oversized).
    • Box 5 Folder 1
      Physical Survey of Virginia: Preliminary Report by M.F. Maury, 1869 .
    • Box 12 Folder n/a
      Pocket Dictionary of the English Language , 1872 .
    • Box 5 Folder 2
      Program - 300th Anniversary of Virginians Sailing From England to Virginia, 19 December 1906 .
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      Recollections of a Virginian by General Dabney H. Maury (2 copies).
    • Box 5 Folder n/a
      Scrapbook.
    • Box 5 Folder 3-4
      Sermons.
    • Box 5 Folder 5
      Some Prominent Virginia Families - Corrections.
    • Box 5 Folder 6
      Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society. Paul Carrington Chapter No. 5.
    • Box 5 Folder 7
      Suit Papers.
    • Box 11 Folder n/a
      A Tale of the Huguenots or Memoirs of a French Refugee Family, Translated and Compiled from the Original Manuscripts of James Fontaine by One of His Descendants .
    • Box 5 Folder 8
      Title Abstracts.
    • Box 5 Folder 9
      The University Monthly: A Journal of School and Home Education , April 1872 .
    • Box 5 Folder 10
      Wedding Announcements and Invitations.
    • Box 5 Folder 11
      Maury Family genealogical chart.
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Series II. Elizabeth Tunstall White Papers .
Boxes 6-10, 13-14
Extent: 7 boxes.

This series consists of genealogical research files compiled by Elizabeth Tunstall White (1884-1973) on the allied families of Allen, Anderson, Anthony, Bagley, Irvine, Lewis, Pugh, Rives, Savage, Townes, Tunstall, and White and others. There are abtracts and transcriptions of deeds and other land records, marriage records, military records, parish and church registers, published sources, tax records, tombstone inscriptions, wills and estate administration records, as well as correspondence with numerous descendants, especially Claudia Kelsall Townes (1861-1940), family charts, and genealogies compiled by others. In addition, there are subject files which include books, clippings, Colonial Dames application papers, genealogical charts, miscellaneous research notes, photographs, and poetry.

  • Genealogical Research Files
    • Box 6 Folder 1
      Adcock.
    • Box 6 Folder 2-3
      Allen-Anderson.
    • Box 6 Folder 4
      Anthony.
    • Box 6 Folder 5
      Austin.
    • Box 6 Folder 6
      Austin-Richardson.
    • Box 6 Folder 7
      Bagley.
    • Box 6 Folder 8
      Ball.
    • Box 6 Folder 9
      Banks.
    • Box 6 Folder 10
      Barker.
    • Box 6 Folder 11
      Barksdale.
    • Box 6 Folder 12
      Booker.
    • Box 6 Folder 13
      Boyd.
    • Box 6 Folder 14
      Calmes.
    • Box 6 Folder 15
      Childers.
    • Box 6 Folder 16
      Crawford.
    • Box 6 Folder 17
      DeGraffenreid.
    • Box 6 Folder 18
      Duncombe.
    • Box 6 Folder 19
      Dunnavant.
    • Box 6 Folder 20
      Dymoke.
    • Box 6 Folder 21
      Holcombe.
    • Box 6 Folder 22
      Hopkins.
    • Box 6 Folder 23
      Hudson.
    • Box 6 Folder 24-28
      Irvine.
    • Box 7 Folder 1
      Lawson.
    • Box 7 Folder 2-4
      Lewis.
    • Box 7 Folder 5
      Ligon.
    • Box 7 Folder 6
      Lockett.
    • Box 7 Folder 7
      Maclin.
    • Box 7 Folder 8
      Man.
    • Box 7 Folder 9
      Martin.
    • Box 7 Folder 10
      Meriwether.
    • Box 7 Folder 11
      Poindexter.
    • Box 7 Folder 12
      Pride.
    • Box 7 Folder 13
      Pugh.
    • Box 7 Folder 14
      Ragland.
    • Box 7 Folder 15
      Reade.
    • Box 7 Folder 16
      Remy.
    • Box 7 Folder 17
      Rives.
    • Box 7 Folder 18
      Robins.
    • Box 7 Folder 19-21
      Savage.
    • Box 7 Folder 22
      Sears.
    • Box 7 Folder 23
      Spragins.
    • Box 7 Folder 24
      Staples.
    • Box 8 Folder 1-2
      Townes.
    • Box 8 Folder 3
      Townes - Bible Records.
    • Box 8 Folder 4
      Townes - Census.
    • Box 8 Folder 5
      Townes - Coat of Arms.
    • Box 8 Folder 6
      Townes - Land Records.
    • Box 8 Folder 7
      Townes - Marriage Records.
    • Box 8 Folder 8
      Townes - Military Records.
    • Box 8 Folder 9
      Townes - Miscellaneous.
    • Box 8 Folder 10
      Townes - Obituaries.
    • Box 8 Folder 11
      Townes - Order Books.
    • Box 8 Folder 12
      Townes - Tax Records.
    • Box 8 Folder 13
      Townes - Wills and Estate Administration Records.
    • Box 8 Folder 14-15
      Tunstall.
    • Box 8 Folder 16
      Tyng.
    • Box 8 Folder 17
      Walker.
    • Box 8 Folder 18
      Warner.
    • Box 8 Folder 19
      Warner-Lewis.
    • Box 8 Folder 20
      Welch.
    • Box 8 Folder 21-24
      White.
    • Box 9 Folder 1-5
      White.
    • Box 9 Folder 6
      Whitlow-Whitten.
    • Box 9 Folder 7
      Woodson.
    • Box 9 Folder 8
      Woolfolk.
  • Subject Files
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Bedford County VA County Court Abstracts.
    • Box 9 Folder 9-10
      Clippings.
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Colonial Dames Application.
    • Box 9 Folder 11
      Colonial Dames Application Proofs and Affidavit.
    • Box 9 Folder 12
      Correspondence.
    • Box 13 Folder n/a
      De Namin' ob de Twins and Other Sketches From the Cotton Land by Mary Fairfax Childs.
    • Box 9 Folder 13
      "Design and Construction of the Jamestown Ships" by Robert G.C. Fee.
    • Box 9 Folder 14
      Eastern Shore Lines.
    • Box 9 Folder 15
      Expenses in England.
    • Box 13 Folder n/a
      The First Tunstalls in Virginia and Some of Their Descendants by Whit Morris.
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Genealogical Charts.
    • Box 9 Folder 16
      Hanover County.
    • Box 9 Folder 17
      Henrico County.
    • Box 9 Folder 18
      "The Historic Tea Party of Edenton, October 25th, 1774" by Richard Dillard, MD.
    • Box 13 Folder n/a
      The Hymnal as Authorized by Approved for Use by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America .
    • Box 9 Folder 19
      Indians.
    • Box 9 Folder 20
      Labels for Family Pictures Framed by Isabel Maury White, 1952 .
    • Box 9 Folder 21
      Lawn and Garden Book (Ortho).
    • Box 9 Folder 22
      Letter of Credit, 1927 .
    • Box 13 Folder n/a
      The Letters of Junius (Vol. II) .
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Lewis, Robert (Framed Photograph).
    • Box 14 Folder n/a
      Magna Carta and Translation.
    • Box 9 Folder 23
      Mayflower Line of Descent.
    • Box 9 Folder 24
      Miscellaneous Research Notes.
    • Box 9 Folder 25
      "A Missouri Interlude" by Anne Rives White.
    • Box 9 Folder 26
      A Page From the Past: Pittsylvania Court House One Century Ago - 1846 by Maud Carter Clement.
    • Box 9 Folder 27
      Parish Records in Virginia.
    • Box 9 Folder 28
      Photographs.
    • Box 10 Folder 1-2
      Photographs.
    • Box 10 Folder 3
      Poetry/Verses.
    • Box 13 Folder n/a
      Reliques of the Rives (Ryves) by James Rives Childs.
    • Box 10 Folder 4
      Rison, Mrs. Whitmell Pugh.
    • Box 10 Folder 5
      Social Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Philip Alexander Bruce - Abtracts.
    • Box 13 Folder n/a
      "Tearin' Through the Wilderness": Missouri Pioneer Episodes 1822-1885 and Genealogy of the Watkins Family of Virginia and Missouri by Marie Oliver Watkins and Helen (Hamacher) Watkins.
    • Box 10 Folder 6-7
      Townes, Claudia Kelsall.
    • Box 10 Folder 8
      Virginia State Highway Map, July 1937 .
    • Box 10 Folder 9
      Welsh Genealogical Terms.
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