A Collection in the
Manuscripts and Rare Books Department
Collection Number Mss. 39.2 B44
Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and
Mary
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Collection number
Mss. 39.2 B44
Title
Berkeley Family Papers,
1828-1865.
Extent
25 items.
Creator
Berkeley family.
Language
English
Abstract
Family correspondence of the Rev.
Parke Farley Berkeley, an Episcopal minister, his sister, Ann
Butler (Berkeley) Berkeley, and his wife Mary Eppes (Thweatt)
Berkeley; and of Mary B. Thweatt.
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Preferred Citation
Berkeley Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books
Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Family correspondence of the Rev. Parke Farley Berkeley, an
Episcopal minister, his sister, Ann Butler (Berkeley)
Berkeley, and his wife Mary Eppes (Thweatt) Berkeley; and of
Mary B. Thweatt. Includes letters from Lewis Minor at Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio.
Letter, 18 February 1835, details a stagecoach ride;
letter, 21 December 1844, discusses agricultural meetings and
the division and sale of slaves to settle an estate; and
letter, 30 August 1862, written by Charles Middleton,
describes and justifies his failed suicide attempt.
Lewis W. Minor, at Gambier, [Ohio], to Parke
Farley Berkeley, at Mont Pelier Post Office, Hanover
County, Virginia,
August 9th, 1828.
[Lewis W. Minor] to his cousin, Ann [ ? ],
August 15th, 1828.
On same sheet as Lewis W. Minor to Parke
Farley Berkeley, August 9th, 1828.
L[ewis] W. Minor, at
K[enyon] C[ollege] ,
Gambier, [Ohio], to Parke Farley Berkeley, at Edgewood,
near Mt. Pelier, Hanover County, Virginia,
January 13, 1829.
Ann B. Berkeley, at Edgewood, [Hanover
County, Virginia], to Parke Farley Berkeley, at the
Theological Seminary, near Alexandria, D.C.,
January 25th, 1831.
Also includes typed transcript.
Lucy Calthorpe Smith to [Parke Farley
Berkeley].
On same sheet as Ann B. Berkeley to Parke
Farley Berkeley, January 25th, 1831. Also includes typed
transcript.
Ellen [ ? ] to her cousin, Miss [ ? ]
Thweatt, at Mantua, [Chesterfield County, Virginia],
[1831?]
[ ? ] , at Solitude, to her cousin, Mary E.
Thweatt, at Colesville Post Office, Chesterfield county,
Virginia,
September 25, 1833.
Postmarked Memphis, Tennessee.
Maria [ ? ], at Fox Harbour, to [Mary E.]
Thweatt, at Colesville Post Office, Chesterfield
[County],
September 26, 1833.
E[ ? ] A[ ? ], at Vaucluse, to Mary E.
Thweatt, at Mantua, Chesterfield [County, Virginia],
December 16th, 1833.
E[ ? ] A[ ? ] to Mary E. Thweatt, at
Colesville Post Office, Chesterfield County, Virginia,
March 3d, 1834.
L. Thweatt, at Eppington, to Rev.
Park[e] F. Berkeley, at the
Theological Siminary [Seminary], near Alexandria, D.C.,
March 8, 1834.
[ ? ], to Winchester, to Rev. P. Farley
Berkeley, at the Theological Seminary, near Alexandria,
D.C.,
March 10, 1834.
Maria [ ? ], at Sugar Tree Grove, to her
cousin, [Mary E.] Thweatt, at Colesville Post Office,
Chesterfield [County], Virginia,
February 18th, 1835.
Letter details a stagecoach ride. Postmarked
Nashville, Tennessee.
M. W. Spooner, at Baltimore, to Mary E.
Thweatt, at Coles Ville Post Office, Chesterfield
County, Virginia,
September 4, 1835.
Mat [ ? ] , at Mill Brook, to her sister,
Mary E. Thweatt, at Wilkinsonville Post Office,
Chesterfield County, Virginia,
September 1836.
Carter Berkeley, at Edgewood, [Hanover
County], to Rev. P. Farley Berkeley, at Wilkinsonville,
Chesterfield County, Virginia,
25th September 1837.
Carter Berkeley, at Edgewood, [Hanover
County], to Rev. P. Farley Berkeley, at Wilkinsonville,
Chesterfield County, Virginia,
22d March 1838.
F. N.
B[erkeley] to Mary
[Berkeley].
On same sheet as Carter Berkeley to P. Farley
Berkeley, 22d March 1838.
Thomas Nelson, at Oakland, [Hanover County],
to Rev. Parke Farley Berkeley, at Wilkinsonville Post
Office, Chesterfield County, Virginia,
Also includes typed transcript.
Postmarked Taylorsville.
Mary [Thweatt], at Mantua, [Chesterfield
County], to Rev. P. F. Berkeley, at Alexandria, D.C.,
May 20th, 1841.
L. H. Minor, at Edgewood, to Rev. P. Farley
Berkeley, at Wilkinsonville, Chesterfield [County],
March 27, 1843.
Robert C. Berkeley, at Broomfield, Hanover
[County], to Rev. Parke F. Berkeley, at Amelia Court
House,
21st December 1844.
Mutilated.
Letter discusses agricultural meetings and the
division and sale of slaves to settle an estate.
C. F. M[ ? ], at White Sulphur Springs,
[Greenbrier County], to her brother, Rev. Parke F.
Berkeley, at Mantua, Chesterfield County, Virginia,
July 25, 1858.
Charles Middleton, at Wintapoke [Winterpock]
Post Office, Chesterfield County, Virginia, to Rev. P.
F. Berkeley, at Winterham Post Office, Amelia County,
Virginia,
30th August 1862.
Letter describes and justifies Charles Middleton's
failed suicide attempt.
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