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William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library
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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.
Administrative Information
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Conditions Governing Access:
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Preferred Citation:
Riddle Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Purchase
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1812-1915, of the Riddle family of Chambersburg, Pa., Baltimore, Md., and Charlestown, W. Va. Chiefly the correspondence and accounts of Horace R. Riddle, banker of Baltimore, Md. and Charles Town, W. Va. who was the agent for the receiver of the Bank of the Valley in Virginia. Collection also includes a farm account book, 1812-1832, of James Riddle of Chambersburg; and plans and specifications for re-modeling a house in Charles Town.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Architecture, Domestic--West Virginia
- Bank of the Valley in Virginia
- Banks and banking--Virginia
- Charles Town (W.Va.)--History--19th century
- Correspondence
- Financial records
- Legal documents
- Receipts (financial records)
- Riddle family
General
Other Information:
A PDF document of this inventory is available online.
Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/65_R43_Riddle.pdf
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Charles Town (W.Va.)--History--19th century
Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 id127911
Box 1
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127912
1844-1849
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127913
Thurlow Weed, Albany, New York to P. S. Shelton, Boston, Massachusetts1844 November 17
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127914
Thurlow Weed, Albany, New York to Riddle1848 May 6
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127915
A. Stuart Riddle to R. R. Schneck1848 July 28
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127916
J. Draper, New York to John M. Clayton, Secretary of State1849 October 26Scope and Contents
Regarding affairs in Cuba.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127917
William H. Seward to William B. Preston, Secretary of the Navy1849 November 24Scope and Contents
Letter of introduction for H. R. Riddle.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127913
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id127918
Correspondence1860-1862Scope and Contents
Five letters written in 1861 to H. R. Riddle commenting on political turmoil and one, 1862, concerning a brother of the writer captured by the Confederates.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id127919
Correspondence1867-1879 and undatedScope and Contents
Chiefly letters to and from H. R. Riddle concerning financial matters.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id127920
H. R. Riddle. Letterpress book1865-1872
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id127921
H. R. Riddle. Letterpress book1876-1884
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id127922
H. R. Riddle. Letterpress book1884-1886
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id127920
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id127912
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 id127924
Box 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id127925
Minutes of first meeting of Board of Managers1903 December 14
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id127926
Minutes of second and third meetings of the Board1904
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id127927
Minutes of Meetings and other papers1905
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id127928
Minutes of meetings and papers on proposed buildings1906
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id127929
Undated material - clippings, notes, and proposed agreements
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id127928
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id127925
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 id127931
Box 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id127932
Letters, statements, etc.1868 February - May
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id127933
Letters, statements, etc.1868 June
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id127934
Letters, statements, etc.1868 July - December
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id127935
Letters, statements, etc.1869-1870
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id127936
Undated material
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id127934
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id127932
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 id129159
Box 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id129160
Papers1894-1903
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id129160
H. R. Riddle was one of the seventeen heirs.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 id127938
Box 2
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id127940
Papers, including one letter by James Buchanan, March 29, 18651864-1867
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13 id127941
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1868-1869Scope and Contents
Among the correspondents is the Huntington and Broad Top Railroad.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14 id127942
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1870Scope and Contents
Correspondents include S. L. Russell, W. H. Travers, W. T. Webb, D. J. Morrell, and Johnston Bros. & Co.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15 id127943
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1871-1879Scope and Contents
Correspondents include J. A. Horton, James Patton, and Joshua Douglas.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16 id127944
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1880-1883Scope and Contents
Correspondents include S. L. Russell & H. E. Johnston.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17 id127945
Letters to H. R. Riddle1884 JanuaryScope and Contents
Correspondents include H. E. Johnston, Russelll & Longnecker, and J. J. Barndollar.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id127946
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1884 February - DecemberScope and Contents
Correspondents include H. E. Johnston, Cambria Iron Company, and Russell & Longnecker.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id127948
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1886-1888Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Chevington and Bunn Coal Company, and Joshua Douglas.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id127940
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 id127949
Box 3
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id127950
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1889Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Chevington and Bunn Coal Company.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 id127952
Letters, chiefly to H. R. Riddle1890-1900Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Chevington and Bunn Coal Company.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id127950
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 id129053
Box 3
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 id127963
Box 3
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id127965
Legal Papers
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129055
Appointment of H. R. Riddle commissioner to examine auctioneers in New York, etc.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129056
Bills of sale, chattels, William H. Travers to Rebecca Hunter1860-1861
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129057
Deed, W. H. Travers to Rebecca Hunter1861
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129058
Judgment of damages involving Riddles1885
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129059
Document involving $3,000 bequest to Kate W. Riddle1904
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129060
Advertisement from newspaper of property to be sold for taxesn.d.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129061
Written statement of questions in dispute involving Wards, Riddles, and Traversn.d.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id129055
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 4 id127965
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 id129047
Box 3
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 id129048
List of expenses, inventories, etc. involving H. R. Riddle, Wm. H. Travers, etc.1854-1859
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 6 id129049
Receipts, statements, etc. of Travers and Riddle1860-1869
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 7 id129050
Volume of memos, accounts, addresses1876-1877
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 8 id129051
Papers re. insolvency of H. R. Riddle1885
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 9 id129052
Accounts1890-1899Scope and Contents
Includes 1893 diary; account book, 1894-1899; and H. R. Riddle tax receipts, 1895-1898.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 10 id129062
Papers in the handling of the estate of Rebecca Hunter by H. R. Riddle, administrator1895
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 id129063
Receipted bill to the Riddles, Charles Town, West Virginia1900-1901
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id129064
Receipted bill to the Riddles, Charles Town, West Virginia1902
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 5 id129048
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 id129065
Box 4
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id129066
Receipted bills, expense memos of the Riddles, Charles Town, West Virginia1903
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 id129067
Receipted bills, expense memos of the Riddles, Charles Town, West Virginia1904
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3 id129068
Receipted bills of the Riddles, Charles Town, West Virginia1905
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4 id129069
Receipted bills of the Riddles1906
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5 id129070
Riddle tax receipts1899-1906
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6 id129071
Riddle receipts and expense memosn.d.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 7 id129072
Account book1902-1904Scope and Contents
Unidentified.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 8 Mixed Materials Folder: 8 id129073
Farm account book of James Riddle, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania1812-1832Scope and Contents
Indexed. 178 pp.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id129066
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 id129074
Box 5
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1 id129075
Volume of accounts, commercial travels, business addresses of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore1872-1876
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2 id129076
Journal of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore, Maryland1853-1862
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 id129077
Ledger of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore, Maryland1850-1854
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 4 id129078
Cash book of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore, Maryland1850-1856
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 5 id129079
Cash book of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore, Maryland1856-1862
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 6 id129080
Cash book of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore, Maryland1864-1865
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1 id129075
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 id129081
Box 6
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1 id129082
Journal of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore1893-1903
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2 id129083
Journal and day book of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore1850-1899
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3 id129084
Ledger of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore1864-1869
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4 id129085
Cash book of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore1885-1897
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5 id129086
Cash book of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore1865-1869
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6 id129087
Volume of shipping accounts from West Indies, undated, and copies of and extracts from letters re. shipments by A. R. Riddle1845-1846
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7 id129088
Cash accounts of H. R. Riddle, Baltimore, Maryland1849-1851
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8 id129089
Financial diary of expenses and receipts of H. R. Riddle1864
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9 id129090
Account notes and address book of H. R. Riddle1875-1876
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10 id129091
Farm planting notes and expenses of H. R. Riddle1842-1846
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11 id129092
Cash book of H. R. Riddle1842-1846
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12 id129093
Farm planting notes and expenses of H. R. Riddle1863
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1 id129082