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Business Papers; III. Legal Papers; IV.\n Miscellaneous; V. Bound Volumes; and, VI. Oversize.","This collection of papers, 1650-1898, consists of ca. 710\n items pertaining to the \n Latane family of \n Essex County, Virginia . Included are\n correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military\n and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of\n graduation from schools at the \n University of Virginia .","Although little seems to be known or published about the\n Latane family, valuable information may be found in \n Parson Latane 1672-1732 by Lucy Temple Latane (Mss CS71.L347 1936); \n Essex County, Virginia: Its Historic Homes,\n Landmarks and Traditions edited by Essex County Woman's Club (F232.E7E7 1940);\n and, \n Settlers, Southerners, Americans: The History of\n Essex County, Virginia 1608-1984 by James B. Slaughter (F232.E7S5 1985).","The early eighteenth century correspondence contains many\n letters from \n Henry Latane and his wife, \n Anne Latane , London, England, to his\n brother, \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732) and his third\n wife, \n Mary (Deane) Latane (1685-1765), South\n Farnham Parish, Essex County. Some of the letters are written\n in French but the majority of them are in English. During the\n 1720s, Henry frequently advised Lewis to grow another crop\n besides tobacco, saying that Europe could not consume all that\n comes from America. In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.","After her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n the help of her cousin, \n William Beverley (1698-1756). There are\n several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n tobacco.","Letters of interest include correspondence of \n Spencer Roane (1762-1822), King and Queen\n County, and \n William Latane (1750-1811), Essex County,\n July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n 13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n James Montague , \n Harden County, Kentucky , to friends in\n Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n Henry W. L. Temple , Wayland, to \n James Allen Latane , University of\n Virginia, discussing Bishop \n William Meade 's visit; and, several\n letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, chiefly to \n Julia A. Holladay , \n Botetourt County, Virginia , mentioning\n news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.","Letters pertaining to black history include one of December\n 10, 1772, from \n Samuel Peachey, Jr. , \n Occoquan Furnace , to William Latane,\n Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n November 10, 1788, from \n Bartlett Williams , New Kent, to \n William Latane , Essex County, complaining\n about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n correspondence between \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860), Essex\n County, and his brother-in-law, \n John Temple ( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n of June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, to \n Julia A. Holladay , Botetourt County,\n mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n woman.","The business papers are comprised of accounts and\n administrative and estate papers as well as general\n correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n extent, for members of the \n Allen family and \n Temple family . The administrative and\n estate papers concern the estates of \n William Peachey ( -1700), \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732), \n Robert Payne Waring (-1799?), \n William Latane (1750-1811), \n John Temple ( -1812), \n Lewis Dix ( -1815?), \n James Allen ( -1820?), \n Ann Latane ( -1820?), and \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860). Also,\n there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n separate itemized listing has been compiled.","The legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n plats/surveys for lands in \n Essex County , \n King and Queen County , and \n Rappahannock County . These papers are\n helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n Family, \n Roane Family , \n Allen Family , and \n Dix Family . In addition, there are copies\n of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n families. 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L. Temple\u003c/persname\u003e, Wayland, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Allen Latane\u003c/persname\u003e, University of\n Virginia, discussing Bishop \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Meade\u003c/persname\u003e's visit; and, several\n letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas S. Watson\u003c/persname\u003e, Bracketts, chiefly to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJulia A. Holladay\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning\n news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters pertaining to black history include one of December\n 10, 1772, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Peachey, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eOccoquan Furnace\u003c/geogname\u003e, to William Latane,\n Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n November 10, 1788, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eBartlett Williams\u003c/persname\u003e, New Kent, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e, Essex County, complaining\n about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n correspondence between \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Waring Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1782-1860), Essex\n County, and his brother-in-law, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Temple\u003c/persname\u003e( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n of June 13, 1885, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas S. Watson\u003c/persname\u003e, Bracketts, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJulia A. Holladay\u003c/persname\u003e, Botetourt County,\n mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n woman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe business papers are comprised of accounts and\n administrative and estate papers as well as general\n correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n extent, for members of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eAllen family\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003eTemple family\u003c/famname\u003e. The administrative and\n estate papers concern the estates of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Peachey\u003c/persname\u003e( -1700), \n \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1672-1732), \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Payne Waring\u003c/persname\u003e(-1799?), \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1750-1811), \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Temple\u003c/persname\u003e( -1812), \n \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Dix\u003c/persname\u003e( -1815?), \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Allen\u003c/persname\u003e( -1820?), \n \u003cpersname\u003eAnn Latane\u003c/persname\u003e( -1820?), and \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Waring Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1782-1860). Also,\n there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n separate itemized listing has been compiled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n plats/surveys for lands in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEssex County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKing and Queen County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRappahannock County\u003c/geogname\u003e. These papers are\n helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n Family, \n \u003cfamname\u003eRoane Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eAllen Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n \u003cfamname\u003eDix Family\u003c/famname\u003e. In addition, there are copies\n of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n blacks among the families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also genealogical, military, and religious\n material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n officers and other personnel. Among the miscellaneous papers\n is a small group of material concerning religious matters,\n particularly having to do with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSouth Farnham Parish\u003c/corpname\u003ein Essex County.\n Included are a letter, December 17, 1716, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Spotswood\u003c/persname\u003eto the vestry of the\n parish re their decision to suspend \n \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Latane\u003c/persname\u003efrom his ministerial office;\n a hymn book belonging to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Latane\u003c/persname\u003e; and, two letters about the\n weakening of the Church in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection of papers, 1650-1898, consists of ca. 710\n items pertaining to the \n Latane family of \n Essex County, Virginia . Included are\n correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military\n and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of\n graduation from schools at the \n University of Virginia .","Although little seems to be known or published about the\n Latane family, valuable information may be found in \n Parson Latane 1672-1732 by Lucy Temple Latane (Mss CS71.L347 1936); \n Essex County, Virginia: Its Historic Homes,\n Landmarks and Traditions edited by Essex County Woman's Club (F232.E7E7 1940);\n and, \n Settlers, Southerners, Americans: The History of\n Essex County, Virginia 1608-1984 by James B. Slaughter (F232.E7S5 1985).","The early eighteenth century correspondence contains many\n letters from \n Henry Latane and his wife, \n Anne Latane , London, England, to his\n brother, \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732) and his third\n wife, \n Mary (Deane) Latane (1685-1765), South\n Farnham Parish, Essex County. Some of the letters are written\n in French but the majority of them are in English. During the\n 1720s, Henry frequently advised Lewis to grow another crop\n besides tobacco, saying that Europe could not consume all that\n comes from America. In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.","After her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n the help of her cousin, \n William Beverley (1698-1756). There are\n several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n tobacco.","Letters of interest include correspondence of \n Spencer Roane (1762-1822), King and Queen\n County, and \n William Latane (1750-1811), Essex County,\n July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n 13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n James Montague , \n Harden County, Kentucky , to friends in\n Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n Henry W. L. Temple , Wayland, to \n James Allen Latane , University of\n Virginia, discussing Bishop \n William Meade 's visit; and, several\n letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, chiefly to \n Julia A. Holladay , \n Botetourt County, Virginia , mentioning\n news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.","Letters pertaining to black history include one of December\n 10, 1772, from \n Samuel Peachey, Jr. , \n Occoquan Furnace , to William Latane,\n Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n November 10, 1788, from \n Bartlett Williams , New Kent, to \n William Latane , Essex County, complaining\n about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n correspondence between \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860), Essex\n County, and his brother-in-law, \n John Temple ( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n of June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, to \n Julia A. Holladay , Botetourt County,\n mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n woman.","The business papers are comprised of accounts and\n administrative and estate papers as well as general\n correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n extent, for members of the \n Allen family and \n Temple family . The administrative and\n estate papers concern the estates of \n William Peachey ( -1700), \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732), \n Robert Payne Waring (-1799?), \n William Latane (1750-1811), \n John Temple ( -1812), \n Lewis Dix ( -1815?), \n James Allen ( -1820?), \n Ann Latane ( -1820?), and \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860). Also,\n there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n separate itemized listing has been compiled.","The legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n plats/surveys for lands in \n Essex County , \n King and Queen County , and \n Rappahannock County . These papers are\n helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n Family, \n Roane Family , \n Allen Family , and \n Dix Family . In addition, there are copies\n of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n blacks among the families.","There are also genealogical, military, and religious\n material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n officers and other personnel. Among the miscellaneous papers\n is a small group of material concerning religious matters,\n particularly having to do with \n South Farnham Parish in Essex County.\n Included are a letter, December 17, 1716, from \n Alexander Spotswood to the vestry of the\n parish re their decision to suspend \n Lewis Latane from his ministerial office;\n a hymn book belonging to \n John Latane ; and, two letters about the\n weakening of the Church in Virginia."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders , but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts , documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Watts pertaining to \n Virginia counties including \n Amelia County , \n Amherst County , \n Buckingham County , \n Campbell County , \n Cumberland County , \n Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County , which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David (probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Green attended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saunders from \n M. Natalie Manson , at \n Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italy for the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donato and \n Brunelleschi and the \n Medici Chapel , and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak . \" \n Fleming Saunders III at \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saunders and \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond , \n Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England , mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne ; and to visiting \n Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrich asks \n Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunders writes from \n Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrich writes from \n Emanuel Rectory , \n Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saunders from \n Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders] , \n Bleak Hill , writes \n Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates . \n William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders] at \n Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesar and that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assembly in \n Williamsburg . \n Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanford mentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roach informs Watts that while \n Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Graham of \n Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rose writes from \n Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n doing business in \n Great Britain and is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n France and \n Britain at this time: \n George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n France into British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Watts with \n John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories . John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia , lists \n John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts , on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith . The account of \n Thomas East with \n Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Davis with \n Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Davis which contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamson with entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tucker and \n Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph . There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams . There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirkland which includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonald with \n William Watts , there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin , beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Fleming and include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martin and Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davis from \n J. Wright for \n Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County , \n Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia County and \n Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County , \n Amelia , \n Cumberland County , and \n Prince Edward County as well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County , \n Cumberland County , and \n Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambro and \n Ayres Hodnett of \n Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham West and \n John Blankenship of \n Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallen of \n Amelia County and \n James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wright of \n Botetourt and \n Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke River and \n Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Patterson of \n Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland County be known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottom of \n Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubank mentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob , £200 for a man named \n Joe , £10 for a woman named \n Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frank and \n Phoebe --to son-in-law \n John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell County papers, Justice \n Adam Clement says that \n Charles Gilbert of \n Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack --property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward , \n Edward Watts sold to \n William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n True , \n James , \n Winnie , \n Peter , \n Sarah , \n Betty , \n Rachel , and \n Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John King with the sheriff of \n Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield . There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic, a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederate enlisted men in \n Virginia , each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders , assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tucker of \n Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School , a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College ) for \n Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins College for \n Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's School of \n Catonsville, Maryland . Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts ; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saunders to \n Mary Gwathmey on July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr , a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming --and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders . The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney .","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders family and undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Mills dating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond , July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association . Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeley of \n Yellow Branch, Virginia . There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n England who reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders , includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River Township Record Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony , overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saunders is mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n Collections Dept.","Kingdom of God","Pleasant Milkhill","Bethel","Bleak Hills","Trinity and Ivy Chapel","The Grove","Wintore","Medici Chapel","\"Brothers of Pity\"","Randolph-Macon Academy","Bleak Hill","Hudson Lodge","Jubilee Singers","Parliament","Virgina Midland [Rail] Road","Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company","Emanuel Rectory","Grange","Democratic Party","Virginia House of Delegates","General Assembly","Blanford","Buchanan's Hartie and Company","Norfolk, Virginia","Northwest Territories","George Kippen \u0026 Co.","James and Robert Donalds and Company","\"Locust Thicket.\"","Omaha, Nebraska Lottery","Cox and Sons Church Furniture","George Munro, Publishers","Virginia Polytechnic Institute","Confederate","13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers","Edgeworth School","Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College","Hollins College","St. Timothy's School","Maple Creek Mills","Lee Monumental Association","Otter River Township","Internal Revenue\n Service","New York Public\n Library","University of Virginia\n Volunteers","Davis Family","Saunders Family","Watts Family","Saunders","Saunders family","William H. Irvine","William Watts","Fleming Saunders","Frank Prufer","James Rayland","David","John Randolph","Sam Tyree","[Sam L. Preston?]","\"Carter\" [Saunders?]","Sam K. Jenny","William Green","Eva (Smith) Saunders","Fleming Saunders III","Eva Saunders","M. Natalie Manson","Donato","Brunelleschi","May Begg","Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders","Peter Saunders, Jr.","Jeanie Edmond","W. A. Alrich","C[harles] Dabney","Peter Saunders","Ellen Boulder","Mary Saunders","[Peter Saunders]","James F. Plummer","Edward Watts Saunders","William W. Old","E. W. Saunders","Alice [Saunders]","Virgil","Caesar","D. Saunders","Samuel Dilworth","Thomas Baldwin, Jr.","William Roach","Peter Kern","Arthur Campbell","Edward Graham","Horace","Cicero","Duncan Rose","George Hancock","[James] Madison","Creed Taylor","William Vannerson","Edward Randolph","Thomas F. Scott","John Watts","John Gilliam","A. Watts","Mary Petillo","William Skipwith","Thomas East","Archelaus Austin","Edward Watts","Nathaniel Davis","Jacob","James Davis","Daniel Warwick","Elizabeth Davis","Rowland P. Banks","Thomas Pleasants","Williams Watts","Charles Williamson","Betty Tucker","Betty Kirkland","Joseph Tucker","John Brittan","Miller Woodson","Patrick Henry","William Randolph","Charles Williams","William Kirkland","Frederick Nance","Robert Wilson","Edward McDonald","Charles Smith","George Martin","Graham","George Quille","W. Walter Spence","John Fleming","J. Wright","Lavinia Wright","Charles Davis","Agge","Thomas Taylor","Benjamin Tambro","Ayres Hodnett","John Tambro","William Ford","Abraham West","John Blankenship","John Lewallen","David Wright","Alexander Paine","Thomas Patterson","Margery Hinshaw","Samuel Hinshaw","[Cedw] Gibson","Elizabeth Hinshaw","Thomas Bottom","John Eubank","Joe","Hannah","Lolly","Caroline","Sarah Tinker","John Tucker","Ned","Sarah Tucker","George Vaughn","Frank","Phoebe","John Norris","Adam Clement","Charles Gilbert","Jack","True","James","Winnie","Peter","Sarah","Betty","Rachel","Doc","M. John King","[John] Epps","James Garfield","Christ","John Randolph Tucker","Fleming Saunders, III","Elsie Saunders","Carter Temple Saunders","Mary Gwathmey","Fleming Saunders, Sr","Alice Fleming","John Blair Dabney","Alex Berkeley","B. H. Anthony","Cary H. Gwathmey","Eva (Smith)\n Saunders.","Mary (Gwathmey)\n Saunders.","John Tabb","Fleming Saunders, Sr.","Alice W. Saunders","William Cowper","Eugene M. Cox","John B. 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Irvine of \n Evington, Virginia on September 15,\n 1938."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2100 items"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n \u003cfamname\u003eWatts Family\u003c/famname\u003e. Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Prufer\u003c/persname\u003e. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003epertaining to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003ecounties including \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisa County\u003c/geogname\u003e, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eKingdom of God\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Rayland\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c/geogname\u003e, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n \u003ccorpname\u003ePleasant Milkhill\u003c/corpname\u003eneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid\u003c/persname\u003e(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBethel\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hills\u003c/corpname\u003emakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e's estate \"Roanoke\"?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam Tyree\u003c/persname\u003e, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Sam L. Preston?]\u003c/persname\u003ecomplaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eTrinity and Ivy Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBoonsboro, Bedford County\u003c/geogname\u003eto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \u003cpersname\u003e\"Carter\" [Saunders?]\u003c/persname\u003e, by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam K. Jenny\u003c/persname\u003e, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Green\u003c/persname\u003eattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva (Smith) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eThe Grove\u003c/corpname\u003ewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003edid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. Natalie Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWintore\u003c/corpname\u003e, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorence, Italy\u003c/geogname\u003eto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003efor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n \u003cpersname\u003eDonato\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBrunelleschi\u003c/persname\u003eand the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMedici Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Brothers of Pity\"\u003c/corpname\u003ewho wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMay Begg\u003c/persname\u003e, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePike's Peak\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003ewrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary (Gwathmey) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJeanie Edmond\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHudson Lodge\u003c/corpname\u003e, makes a reference to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJubilee Singers\u003c/corpname\u003etraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eParliament\u003c/corpname\u003e, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMelbourne\u003c/geogname\u003e; and to visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003easks \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eC[harles] Dabney\u003c/persname\u003ehas a fine little\n daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003eon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirgina Midland [Rail] Road\u003c/corpname\u003e, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFranklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEmanuel Rectory\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChatham, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003e' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEllen Boulder\u003c/persname\u003e, a school teacher, writes\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cgeogname\u003eDrake's Branch\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Peter Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, writes \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGrange\u003c/corpname\u003e?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his parents\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Plummer\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic Party\u003c/corpname\u003e, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, while serving in\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia House of Delegates\u003c/corpname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam W. Old\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n \u003cpersname\u003eE. W. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice [Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHollins, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n \u003cpersname\u003eCaesar\u003c/persname\u003eand that he had been in the second\n book of \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n \u003cpersname\u003eD. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his mother from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003eon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeneral Assembly\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Dilworth\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBlanford\u003c/corpname\u003ementioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Baldwin, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Roach\u003c/persname\u003einforms Watts that while \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Kern\u003c/persname\u003eis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Campbell\u003c/persname\u003e, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Graham\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003e, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n \u003cpersname\u003eHorace\u003c/persname\u003eand sending the boy a copy of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCicero\u003c/persname\u003ewhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n \u003cpersname\u003eDuncan Rose\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n \u003ccorpname\u003eBuchanan's Hartie and Company\u003c/corpname\u003ehas been\n doing business in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/geogname\u003eand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBritain\u003c/geogname\u003eat this time: \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Hancock\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[James] Madison\u003c/persname\u003e's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n \u003cpersname\u003eCreed Taylor\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Vannerson\u003c/persname\u003ewrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning a British war sloop\n in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorfolk, Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003einto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Watts' correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas F. Scott\u003c/persname\u003e, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLincoln County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(now \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorthwest Territories\u003c/corpname\u003e. John says that\n while the lands in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003eare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Kippen \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/corpname\u003eat their store in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, lists \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gilliam\u003c/persname\u003eas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eA. Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Petillo\u003c/persname\u003e, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Skipwith\u003c/persname\u003e. The account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas East\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eArchelaus Austin\u003c/persname\u003efrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003elists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel Davis\u003c/persname\u003e, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Warwick\u003c/persname\u003e, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003e' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eRowland P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003elists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Pleasants\u003c/persname\u003e, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLynchburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliams Watts\u003c/persname\u003espan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williamson\u003c/persname\u003ewith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003e, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brittan\u003c/persname\u003efor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eMiller Woodson\u003c/persname\u003ewith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n \u003cpersname\u003ePatrick Henry\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williams\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003ewhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick Nance\u003c/persname\u003ementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward McDonald\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Smith\u003c/persname\u003e, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n \u003cpersname\u003eGraham\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Quille\u003c/persname\u003efor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. Walter Spence\u003c/persname\u003ewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Fleming\u003c/persname\u003eand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003eand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Wright\u003c/persname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eLavinia Wright\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a 1840 note from\n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Davis\u003c/persname\u003eto the Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ein his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003ecourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eAgge\u003c/persname\u003e. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Taylor\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, which includes a record of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003eas well as for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Tambro\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAyres Hodnett\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham\u003c/geogname\u003ein regard to the former's son, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tambro\u003c/persname\u003e, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Ford\u003c/persname\u003e. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham West\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blankenship\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Lewallen\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJames and Robert Donalds and Company\u003c/corpname\u003e,\n Merchants of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGlasgow\u003c/geogname\u003e. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Wright\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Paine\u003c/persname\u003eof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRoanoke River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eTinker Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe will, December 25, 1745, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Patterson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland County\u003c/geogname\u003ebe known as \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Locust Thicket.\"\u003c/corpname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMargery Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003econtested the will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003edated March 1758 with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Cedw] Gibson\u003c/persname\u003eon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Bottom\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003edated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Eubank\u003c/persname\u003ementions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, £200 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoe\u003c/persname\u003e, £10 for a woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eHannah\u003c/persname\u003e, £20 for a girl named \n \u003cpersname\u003eLolly\u003c/persname\u003e, and £0 for a girl named\n \u003cpersname\u003eCaroline\u003c/persname\u003e. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tinker\u003c/persname\u003eon December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker\u003c/persname\u003ean ailing Negro named \n \u003cpersname\u003eNed\u003c/persname\u003euntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e. In an undated document, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Vaughn\u003c/persname\u003eyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhoebe\u003c/persname\u003e--to son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003e--formerly given to grandson \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003eby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003epapers, Justice \n \u003cpersname\u003eAdam Clement\u003c/persname\u003esays that \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Gilbert\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell\u003c/geogname\u003eon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n \u003cpersname\u003eJack\u003c/persname\u003e--property of Watts of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003esold to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eeight Negro slaves: \n \u003cpersname\u003eTrue\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWinnie\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRachel\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eDoc\u003c/persname\u003eon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. John King\u003c/persname\u003ewith the sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg\u003c/geogname\u003ewhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Epps\u003c/persname\u003efor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOmaha, Nebraska Lottery\u003c/corpname\u003efor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eCox and Sons Church Furniture\u003c/corpname\u003eshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Garfield\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003easking for a subscription\n to the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraphic,\u003c/title\u003ea ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Munro, Publishers\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eChrist\u003c/persname\u003e's birth dating from the medieval\n period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003eto the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003easking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate\u003c/corpname\u003eenlisted men in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers\u003c/corpname\u003e.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\"\u003c/title\u003e,\n September 6, 1877, by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEdgeworth School\u003c/corpname\u003e, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e(formerly \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College\u003c/corpname\u003e) for \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, III\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHollins College\u003c/corpname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eElsie Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n \u003cpersname\u003eCarter Temple Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a report\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Timothy's School\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCatonsville, Maryland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Gwathmey\u003c/persname\u003eon July 30.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, Sr\u003c/persname\u003e, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice Fleming\u003c/persname\u003e--and the 1904 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blair Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders family\u003c/famname\u003eand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound Volumes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Day Books include a day book from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMaple Creek Mills\u003c/corpname\u003edating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eLee Monumental Association\u003c/corpname\u003e. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlex Berkeley\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eYellow Branch, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003ewho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOtter River Township\u003c/corpname\u003eRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n \u003cpersname\u003eB. H. Anthony\u003c/persname\u003e, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and \n Watts Family . Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders , but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts , documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Watts pertaining to \n Virginia counties including \n Amelia County , \n Amherst County , \n Buckingham County , \n Campbell County , \n Cumberland County , \n Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County , which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David (probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Green attended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saunders from \n M. Natalie Manson , at \n Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italy for the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donato and \n Brunelleschi and the \n Medici Chapel , and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak . \" \n Fleming Saunders III at \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saunders and \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond , \n Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England , mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne ; and to visiting \n Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrich asks \n Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunders writes from \n Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrich writes from \n Emanuel Rectory , \n Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saunders from \n Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders] , \n Bleak Hill , writes \n Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates . \n William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders] at \n Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesar and that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assembly in \n Williamsburg . \n Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanford mentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roach informs Watts that while \n Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Graham of \n Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rose writes from \n Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n doing business in \n Great Britain and is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n France and \n Britain at this time: \n George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n France into British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Watts with \n John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories . John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia , lists \n John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts , on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith . The account of \n Thomas East with \n Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Davis with \n Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Davis which contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamson with entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tucker and \n Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph . There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams . There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirkland which includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonald with \n William Watts , there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin , beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Fleming and include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martin and Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davis from \n J. Wright for \n Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County , \n Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia County and \n Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County , \n Amelia , \n Cumberland County , and \n Prince Edward County as well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County , \n Cumberland County , and \n Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambro and \n Ayres Hodnett of \n Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham West and \n John Blankenship of \n Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallen of \n Amelia County and \n James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wright of \n Botetourt and \n Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke River and \n Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Patterson of \n Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland County be known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottom of \n Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubank mentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob , £200 for a man named \n Joe , £10 for a woman named \n Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frank and \n Phoebe --to son-in-law \n John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell County papers, Justice \n Adam Clement says that \n Charles Gilbert of \n Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack --property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward , \n Edward Watts sold to \n William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n True , \n James , \n Winnie , \n Peter , \n Sarah , \n Betty , \n Rachel , and \n Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John King with the sheriff of \n Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield . There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic, a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederate enlisted men in \n Virginia , each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders , assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tucker of \n Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School , a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College ) for \n Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins College for \n Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's School of \n Catonsville, Maryland . Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts ; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saunders to \n Mary Gwathmey on July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr , a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming --and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders . The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney .","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders family and undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Mills dating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond , July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association . Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeley of \n Yellow Branch, Virginia . There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n England who reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders , includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River Township Record Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony , overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saunders is mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts."],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders , but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts , documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Watts pertaining to \n Virginia counties including \n Amelia County , \n Amherst County , \n Buckingham County , \n Campbell County , \n Cumberland County , \n Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County , which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David (probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Green attended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saunders from \n M. Natalie Manson , at \n Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italy for the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donato and \n Brunelleschi and the \n Medici Chapel , and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak . \" \n Fleming Saunders III at \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saunders and \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond , \n Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England , mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne ; and to visiting \n Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrich asks \n Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunders writes from \n Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrich writes from \n Emanuel Rectory , \n Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saunders from \n Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders] , \n Bleak Hill , writes \n Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates . \n William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders] at \n Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesar and that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assembly in \n Williamsburg . \n Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanford mentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roach informs Watts that while \n Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Graham of \n Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rose writes from \n Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n doing business in \n Great Britain and is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n France and \n Britain at this time: \n George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n France into British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Watts with \n John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories . John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia , lists \n John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts , on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith . The account of \n Thomas East with \n Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Davis with \n Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Davis which contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamson with entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tucker and \n Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph . There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams . There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirkland which includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonald with \n William Watts , there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin , beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Fleming and include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martin and Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davis from \n J. Wright for \n Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County , \n Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia County and \n Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County , \n Amelia , \n Cumberland County , and \n Prince Edward County as well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County , \n Cumberland County , and \n Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambro and \n Ayres Hodnett of \n Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham West and \n John Blankenship of \n Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallen of \n Amelia County and \n James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wright of \n Botetourt and \n Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke River and \n Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Patterson of \n Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland County be known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottom of \n Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubank mentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob , £200 for a man named \n Joe , £10 for a woman named \n Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frank and \n Phoebe --to son-in-law \n John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell County papers, Justice \n Adam Clement says that \n Charles Gilbert of \n Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack --property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward , \n Edward Watts sold to \n William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n True , \n James , \n Winnie , \n Peter , \n Sarah , \n Betty , \n Rachel , and \n Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John King with the sheriff of \n Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield . There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic, a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederate enlisted men in \n Virginia , each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders , assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tucker of \n Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School , a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College ) for \n Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins College for \n Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's School of \n Catonsville, Maryland . Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts ; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saunders to \n Mary Gwathmey on July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr , a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming --and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders . The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney .","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders family and undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Mills dating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond , July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association . Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeley of \n Yellow Branch, Virginia . There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n England who reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders , includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River Township Record Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony , overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saunders is mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n Collections Dept.","Kingdom of God","Pleasant Milkhill","Bethel","Bleak Hills","Trinity and Ivy Chapel","The Grove","Wintore","Medici Chapel","\"Brothers of Pity\"","Randolph-Macon Academy","Bleak Hill","Hudson Lodge","Jubilee Singers","Parliament","Virgina Midland [Rail] Road","Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company","Emanuel Rectory","Grange","Democratic Party","Virginia House of Delegates","General Assembly","Blanford","Buchanan's Hartie and Company","Norfolk, Virginia","Northwest Territories","George Kippen \u0026 Co.","James and Robert Donalds and Company","\"Locust Thicket.\"","Omaha, Nebraska Lottery","Cox and Sons Church Furniture","George Munro, Publishers","Virginia Polytechnic Institute","Confederate","13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers","Edgeworth School","Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College","Hollins College","St. Timothy's School","Maple Creek Mills","Lee Monumental Association","Otter River Township","Internal Revenue\n Service","New York Public\n Library","University of Virginia\n Volunteers","Davis Family","Saunders Family","Watts Family","Saunders","Saunders family","William H. Irvine","William Watts","Fleming Saunders","Frank Prufer","James Rayland","David","John Randolph","Sam Tyree","[Sam L. Preston?]","\"Carter\" [Saunders?]","Sam K. Jenny","William Green","Eva (Smith) Saunders","Fleming Saunders III","Eva Saunders","M. Natalie Manson","Donato","Brunelleschi","May Begg","Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders","Peter Saunders, Jr.","Jeanie Edmond","W. A. Alrich","C[harles] Dabney","Peter Saunders","Ellen Boulder","Mary Saunders","[Peter Saunders]","James F. Plummer","Edward Watts Saunders","William W. Old","E. W. Saunders","Alice [Saunders]","Virgil","Caesar","D. Saunders","Samuel Dilworth","Thomas Baldwin, Jr.","William Roach","Peter Kern","Arthur Campbell","Edward Graham","Horace","Cicero","Duncan Rose","George Hancock","[James] Madison","Creed Taylor","William Vannerson","Edward Randolph","Thomas F. Scott","John Watts","John Gilliam","A. Watts","Mary Petillo","William Skipwith","Thomas East","Archelaus Austin","Edward Watts","Nathaniel Davis","Jacob","James Davis","Daniel Warwick","Elizabeth Davis","Rowland P. Banks","Thomas Pleasants","Williams Watts","Charles Williamson","Betty Tucker","Betty Kirkland","Joseph Tucker","John Brittan","Miller Woodson","Patrick Henry","William Randolph","Charles Williams","William Kirkland","Frederick Nance","Robert Wilson","Edward McDonald","Charles Smith","George Martin","Graham","George Quille","W. Walter Spence","John Fleming","J. Wright","Lavinia Wright","Charles Davis","Agge","Thomas Taylor","Benjamin Tambro","Ayres Hodnett","John Tambro","William Ford","Abraham West","John Blankenship","John Lewallen","David Wright","Alexander Paine","Thomas Patterson","Margery Hinshaw","Samuel Hinshaw","[Cedw] Gibson","Elizabeth Hinshaw","Thomas Bottom","John Eubank","Joe","Hannah","Lolly","Caroline","Sarah Tinker","John Tucker","Ned","Sarah Tucker","George Vaughn","Frank","Phoebe","John Norris","Adam Clement","Charles Gilbert","Jack","True","James","Winnie","Peter","Sarah","Betty","Rachel","Doc","M. John King","[John] Epps","James Garfield","Christ","John Randolph Tucker","Fleming Saunders, III","Elsie Saunders","Carter Temple Saunders","Mary Gwathmey","Fleming Saunders, Sr","Alice Fleming","John Blair Dabney","Alex Berkeley","B. H. Anthony","Cary H. Gwathmey","Eva (Smith)\n Saunders.","Mary (Gwathmey)\n Saunders.","John Tabb","Fleming Saunders, Sr.","Alice W. Saunders","William Cowper","Eugene M. Cox","John B. Webb","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Collection number 116"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"collection_title_tesim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"collection_ssim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Collector: \n William H. Irvine"],"creator_ssim":["Collector: \n William H. Irvine"],"creator_persname_ssim":["William H. Irvine"],"creators_ssim":["William H. Irvine"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection (# \n 116 ) was loaned to the Library\n by \n William H. Irvine of \n Evington, Virginia on September 15,\n 1938."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2100 items"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n \u003cfamname\u003eWatts Family\u003c/famname\u003e. Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Prufer\u003c/persname\u003e. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003epertaining to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003ecounties including \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisa County\u003c/geogname\u003e, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eKingdom of God\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Rayland\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c/geogname\u003e, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n \u003ccorpname\u003ePleasant Milkhill\u003c/corpname\u003eneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid\u003c/persname\u003e(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBethel\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hills\u003c/corpname\u003emakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e's estate \"Roanoke\"?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam Tyree\u003c/persname\u003e, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Sam L. Preston?]\u003c/persname\u003ecomplaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eTrinity and Ivy Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBoonsboro, Bedford County\u003c/geogname\u003eto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \u003cpersname\u003e\"Carter\" [Saunders?]\u003c/persname\u003e, by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam K. Jenny\u003c/persname\u003e, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Green\u003c/persname\u003eattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva (Smith) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eThe Grove\u003c/corpname\u003ewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003edid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. Natalie Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWintore\u003c/corpname\u003e, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorence, Italy\u003c/geogname\u003eto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003efor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n \u003cpersname\u003eDonato\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBrunelleschi\u003c/persname\u003eand the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMedici Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Brothers of Pity\"\u003c/corpname\u003ewho wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMay Begg\u003c/persname\u003e, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePike's Peak\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003ewrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary (Gwathmey) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJeanie Edmond\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHudson Lodge\u003c/corpname\u003e, makes a reference to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJubilee Singers\u003c/corpname\u003etraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eParliament\u003c/corpname\u003e, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMelbourne\u003c/geogname\u003e; and to visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003easks \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eC[harles] Dabney\u003c/persname\u003ehas a fine little\n daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003eon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirgina Midland [Rail] Road\u003c/corpname\u003e, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFranklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEmanuel Rectory\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChatham, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003e' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEllen Boulder\u003c/persname\u003e, a school teacher, writes\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cgeogname\u003eDrake's Branch\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Peter Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, writes \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGrange\u003c/corpname\u003e?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his parents\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Plummer\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic Party\u003c/corpname\u003e, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, while serving in\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia House of Delegates\u003c/corpname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam W. Old\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n \u003cpersname\u003eE. W. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice [Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHollins, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n \u003cpersname\u003eCaesar\u003c/persname\u003eand that he had been in the second\n book of \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n \u003cpersname\u003eD. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his mother from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003eon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeneral Assembly\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Dilworth\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBlanford\u003c/corpname\u003ementioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Baldwin, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Roach\u003c/persname\u003einforms Watts that while \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Kern\u003c/persname\u003eis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Campbell\u003c/persname\u003e, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Graham\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003e, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n \u003cpersname\u003eHorace\u003c/persname\u003eand sending the boy a copy of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCicero\u003c/persname\u003ewhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n \u003cpersname\u003eDuncan Rose\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n \u003ccorpname\u003eBuchanan's Hartie and Company\u003c/corpname\u003ehas been\n doing business in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/geogname\u003eand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBritain\u003c/geogname\u003eat this time: \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Hancock\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[James] Madison\u003c/persname\u003e's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n \u003cpersname\u003eCreed Taylor\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Vannerson\u003c/persname\u003ewrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning a British war sloop\n in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorfolk, Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003einto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Watts' correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas F. Scott\u003c/persname\u003e, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLincoln County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(now \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorthwest Territories\u003c/corpname\u003e. John says that\n while the lands in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003eare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Kippen \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/corpname\u003eat their store in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, lists \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gilliam\u003c/persname\u003eas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eA. Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Petillo\u003c/persname\u003e, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Skipwith\u003c/persname\u003e. The account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas East\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eArchelaus Austin\u003c/persname\u003efrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003elists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel Davis\u003c/persname\u003e, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Warwick\u003c/persname\u003e, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003e' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eRowland P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003elists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Pleasants\u003c/persname\u003e, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLynchburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliams Watts\u003c/persname\u003espan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williamson\u003c/persname\u003ewith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003e, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brittan\u003c/persname\u003efor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eMiller Woodson\u003c/persname\u003ewith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n \u003cpersname\u003ePatrick Henry\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williams\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003ewhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick Nance\u003c/persname\u003ementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward McDonald\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Smith\u003c/persname\u003e, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n \u003cpersname\u003eGraham\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Quille\u003c/persname\u003efor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. Walter Spence\u003c/persname\u003ewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Fleming\u003c/persname\u003eand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003eand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Wright\u003c/persname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eLavinia Wright\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a 1840 note from\n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Davis\u003c/persname\u003eto the Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ein his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003ecourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eAgge\u003c/persname\u003e. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Taylor\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, which includes a record of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003eas well as for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Tambro\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAyres Hodnett\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham\u003c/geogname\u003ein regard to the former's son, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tambro\u003c/persname\u003e, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Ford\u003c/persname\u003e. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham West\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blankenship\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Lewallen\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJames and Robert Donalds and Company\u003c/corpname\u003e,\n Merchants of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGlasgow\u003c/geogname\u003e. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Wright\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Paine\u003c/persname\u003eof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRoanoke River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eTinker Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe will, December 25, 1745, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Patterson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland County\u003c/geogname\u003ebe known as \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Locust Thicket.\"\u003c/corpname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMargery Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003econtested the will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003edated March 1758 with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Cedw] Gibson\u003c/persname\u003eon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Bottom\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003edated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Eubank\u003c/persname\u003ementions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, £200 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoe\u003c/persname\u003e, £10 for a woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eHannah\u003c/persname\u003e, £20 for a girl named \n \u003cpersname\u003eLolly\u003c/persname\u003e, and £0 for a girl named\n \u003cpersname\u003eCaroline\u003c/persname\u003e. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tinker\u003c/persname\u003eon December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker\u003c/persname\u003ean ailing Negro named \n \u003cpersname\u003eNed\u003c/persname\u003euntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e. In an undated document, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Vaughn\u003c/persname\u003eyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhoebe\u003c/persname\u003e--to son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003e--formerly given to grandson \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003eby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003epapers, Justice \n \u003cpersname\u003eAdam Clement\u003c/persname\u003esays that \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Gilbert\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell\u003c/geogname\u003eon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n \u003cpersname\u003eJack\u003c/persname\u003e--property of Watts of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003esold to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eeight Negro slaves: \n \u003cpersname\u003eTrue\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWinnie\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRachel\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eDoc\u003c/persname\u003eon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. John King\u003c/persname\u003ewith the sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg\u003c/geogname\u003ewhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Epps\u003c/persname\u003efor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOmaha, Nebraska Lottery\u003c/corpname\u003efor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eCox and Sons Church Furniture\u003c/corpname\u003eshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Garfield\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003easking for a subscription\n to the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraphic,\u003c/title\u003ea ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Munro, Publishers\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eChrist\u003c/persname\u003e's birth dating from the medieval\n period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003eto the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003easking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate\u003c/corpname\u003eenlisted men in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers\u003c/corpname\u003e.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\"\u003c/title\u003e,\n September 6, 1877, by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEdgeworth School\u003c/corpname\u003e, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e(formerly \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College\u003c/corpname\u003e) for \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, III\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHollins College\u003c/corpname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eElsie Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n \u003cpersname\u003eCarter Temple Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a report\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Timothy's School\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCatonsville, Maryland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Gwathmey\u003c/persname\u003eon July 30.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, Sr\u003c/persname\u003e, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice Fleming\u003c/persname\u003e--and the 1904 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blair Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders family\u003c/famname\u003eand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound Volumes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Day Books include a day book from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMaple Creek Mills\u003c/corpname\u003edating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eLee Monumental Association\u003c/corpname\u003e. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlex Berkeley\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eYellow Branch, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003ewho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOtter River Township\u003c/corpname\u003eRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n \u003cpersname\u003eB. H. Anthony\u003c/persname\u003e, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and \n Watts Family . Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders , but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts , documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Watts pertaining to \n Virginia counties including \n Amelia County , \n Amherst County , \n Buckingham County , \n Campbell County , \n Cumberland County , \n Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County , which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David (probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Green attended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saunders from \n M. Natalie Manson , at \n Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italy for the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donato and \n Brunelleschi and the \n Medici Chapel , and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak . \" \n Fleming Saunders III at \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saunders and \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond , \n Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England , mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne ; and to visiting \n Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrich asks \n Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunders writes from \n Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrich writes from \n Emanuel Rectory , \n Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saunders from \n Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders] , \n Bleak Hill , writes \n Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates . \n William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders] at \n Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesar and that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assembly in \n Williamsburg . \n Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanford mentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roach informs Watts that while \n Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Graham of \n Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rose writes from \n Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n doing business in \n Great Britain and is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n France and \n Britain at this time: \n George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n France into British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Watts with \n John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories . John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia , lists \n John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts , on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith . The account of \n Thomas East with \n Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Davis with \n Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Davis which contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamson with entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tucker and \n Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph . There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams . There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirkland which includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonald with \n William Watts , there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin , beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Fleming and include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martin and Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davis from \n J. Wright for \n Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County , \n Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia County and \n Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County , \n Amelia , \n Cumberland County , and \n Prince Edward County as well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County , \n Cumberland County , and \n Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambro and \n Ayres Hodnett of \n Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham West and \n John Blankenship of \n Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallen of \n Amelia County and \n James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wright of \n Botetourt and \n Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke River and \n Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Patterson of \n Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland County be known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottom of \n Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubank mentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob , £200 for a man named \n Joe , £10 for a woman named \n Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frank and \n Phoebe --to son-in-law \n John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell County papers, Justice \n Adam Clement says that \n Charles Gilbert of \n Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack --property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward , \n Edward Watts sold to \n William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n True , \n James , \n Winnie , \n Peter , \n Sarah , \n Betty , \n Rachel , and \n Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John King with the sheriff of \n Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield . There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic, a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederate enlisted men in \n Virginia , each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders , assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tucker of \n Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School , a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College ) for \n Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins College for \n Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's School of \n Catonsville, Maryland . Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts ; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saunders to \n Mary Gwathmey on July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr , a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming --and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders . The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney .","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders family and undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Mills dating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond , July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association . Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeley of \n Yellow Branch, Virginia . There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n England who reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders , includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River Township Record Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony , overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saunders is mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts."],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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Business Papers; III. Legal Papers; IV.\n Miscellaneous; V. Bound Volumes; and, VI. Oversize.","This collection of papers, 1650-1898, consists of ca. 710\n items pertaining to the \n Latane family of \n Essex County, Virginia . Included are\n correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military\n and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of\n graduation from schools at the \n University of Virginia .","Although little seems to be known or published about the\n Latane family, valuable information may be found in \n Parson Latane 1672-1732 by Lucy Temple Latane (Mss CS71.L347 1936); \n Essex County, Virginia: Its Historic Homes,\n Landmarks and Traditions edited by Essex County Woman's Club (F232.E7E7 1940);\n and, \n Settlers, Southerners, Americans: The History of\n Essex County, Virginia 1608-1984 by James B. Slaughter (F232.E7S5 1985).","The early eighteenth century correspondence contains many\n letters from \n Henry Latane and his wife, \n Anne Latane , London, England, to his\n brother, \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732) and his third\n wife, \n Mary (Deane) Latane (1685-1765), South\n Farnham Parish, Essex County. Some of the letters are written\n in French but the majority of them are in English. During the\n 1720s, Henry frequently advised Lewis to grow another crop\n besides tobacco, saying that Europe could not consume all that\n comes from America. In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.","After her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n the help of her cousin, \n William Beverley (1698-1756). There are\n several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n tobacco.","Letters of interest include correspondence of \n Spencer Roane (1762-1822), King and Queen\n County, and \n William Latane (1750-1811), Essex County,\n July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n 13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n James Montague , \n Harden County, Kentucky , to friends in\n Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n Henry W. L. Temple , Wayland, to \n James Allen Latane , University of\n Virginia, discussing Bishop \n William Meade 's visit; and, several\n letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, chiefly to \n Julia A. Holladay , \n Botetourt County, Virginia , mentioning\n news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.","Letters pertaining to black history include one of December\n 10, 1772, from \n Samuel Peachey, Jr. , \n Occoquan Furnace , to William Latane,\n Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n November 10, 1788, from \n Bartlett Williams , New Kent, to \n William Latane , Essex County, complaining\n about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n correspondence between \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860), Essex\n County, and his brother-in-law, \n John Temple ( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n of June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, to \n Julia A. Holladay , Botetourt County,\n mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n woman.","The business papers are comprised of accounts and\n administrative and estate papers as well as general\n correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n extent, for members of the \n Allen family and \n Temple family . The administrative and\n estate papers concern the estates of \n William Peachey ( -1700), \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732), \n Robert Payne Waring (-1799?), \n William Latane (1750-1811), \n John Temple ( -1812), \n Lewis Dix ( -1815?), \n James Allen ( -1820?), \n Ann Latane ( -1820?), and \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860). Also,\n there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n separate itemized listing has been compiled.","The legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n plats/surveys for lands in \n Essex County , \n King and Queen County , and \n Rappahannock County . These papers are\n helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n Family, \n Roane Family , \n Allen Family , and \n Dix Family . In addition, there are copies\n of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n blacks among the families.","There are also genealogical, military, and religious\n material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n officers and other personnel. Among the miscellaneous papers\n is a small group of material concerning religious matters,\n particularly having to do with \n South Farnham Parish in Essex County.\n Included are a letter, December 17, 1716, from \n Alexander Spotswood to the vestry of the\n parish re their decision to suspend \n Lewis Latane from his ministerial office;\n a hymn book belonging to \n John Latane ; and, two letters about the\n weakening of the Church in Virginia.","","University of Virginia. Library. 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In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n the help of her cousin, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Beverley\u003c/persname\u003e(1698-1756). There are\n several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of interest include correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eSpencer Roane\u003c/persname\u003e(1762-1822), King and Queen\n County, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1750-1811), Essex County,\n July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n 13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Montague\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHarden County, Kentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e, to friends in\n Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry W. L. Temple\u003c/persname\u003e, Wayland, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Allen Latane\u003c/persname\u003e, University of\n Virginia, discussing Bishop \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Meade\u003c/persname\u003e's visit; and, several\n letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas S. Watson\u003c/persname\u003e, Bracketts, chiefly to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJulia A. Holladay\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning\n news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters pertaining to black history include one of December\n 10, 1772, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Peachey, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eOccoquan Furnace\u003c/geogname\u003e, to William Latane,\n Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n November 10, 1788, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eBartlett Williams\u003c/persname\u003e, New Kent, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e, Essex County, complaining\n about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n correspondence between \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Waring Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1782-1860), Essex\n County, and his brother-in-law, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Temple\u003c/persname\u003e( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n of June 13, 1885, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas S. Watson\u003c/persname\u003e, Bracketts, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJulia A. Holladay\u003c/persname\u003e, Botetourt County,\n mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n woman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe business papers are comprised of accounts and\n administrative and estate papers as well as general\n correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n extent, for members of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eAllen family\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003eTemple family\u003c/famname\u003e. The administrative and\n estate papers concern the estates of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Peachey\u003c/persname\u003e( -1700), \n \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1672-1732), \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Payne Waring\u003c/persname\u003e(-1799?), \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1750-1811), \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Temple\u003c/persname\u003e( -1812), \n \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Dix\u003c/persname\u003e( -1815?), \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Allen\u003c/persname\u003e( -1820?), \n \u003cpersname\u003eAnn Latane\u003c/persname\u003e( -1820?), and \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Waring Latane\u003c/persname\u003e(1782-1860). Also,\n there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n separate itemized listing has been compiled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n plats/surveys for lands in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEssex County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKing and Queen County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRappahannock County\u003c/geogname\u003e. These papers are\n helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n Family, \n \u003cfamname\u003eRoane Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eAllen Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n \u003cfamname\u003eDix Family\u003c/famname\u003e. In addition, there are copies\n of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n blacks among the families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also genealogical, military, and religious\n material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n officers and other personnel. Among the miscellaneous papers\n is a small group of material concerning religious matters,\n particularly having to do with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSouth Farnham Parish\u003c/corpname\u003ein Essex County.\n Included are a letter, December 17, 1716, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Spotswood\u003c/persname\u003eto the vestry of the\n parish re their decision to suspend \n \u003cpersname\u003eLewis Latane\u003c/persname\u003efrom his ministerial office;\n a hymn book belonging to \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Latane\u003c/persname\u003e; and, two letters about the\n weakening of the Church in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection of papers, 1650-1898, consists of ca. 710\n items pertaining to the \n Latane family of \n Essex County, Virginia . Included are\n correspondence, business and legal papers, papers re military\n and religious matters, school notebooks, and certificates of\n graduation from schools at the \n University of Virginia .","Although little seems to be known or published about the\n Latane family, valuable information may be found in \n Parson Latane 1672-1732 by Lucy Temple Latane (Mss CS71.L347 1936); \n Essex County, Virginia: Its Historic Homes,\n Landmarks and Traditions edited by Essex County Woman's Club (F232.E7E7 1940);\n and, \n Settlers, Southerners, Americans: The History of\n Essex County, Virginia 1608-1984 by James B. Slaughter (F232.E7S5 1985).","The early eighteenth century correspondence contains many\n letters from \n Henry Latane and his wife, \n Anne Latane , London, England, to his\n brother, \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732) and his third\n wife, \n Mary (Deane) Latane (1685-1765), South\n Farnham Parish, Essex County. Some of the letters are written\n in French but the majority of them are in English. During the\n 1720s, Henry frequently advised Lewis to grow another crop\n besides tobacco, saying that Europe could not consume all that\n comes from America. In a letter of January 13, 1730, Henry is\n \"impatient to know what the fate of Europe whether warr or\n Peace everything seems to tend to a Crisis ...,\" possibly\n referring to the trade conflict between England and Spain.","After her husband's death in 1732, Mary (Deane) Latane\n managed the property that came to her and her children, with\n the help of her cousin, \n William Beverley (1698-1756). There are\n several letters, 1733-1750, from Beverley discussing the\n settlement of her husband's estate and the sale of her\n tobacco. In addition, there are business correspondence, bills\n of lading, invoices, and other papers concerning the sale of\n tobacco.","Letters of interest include correspondence of \n Spencer Roane (1762-1822), King and Queen\n County, and \n William Latane (1750-1811), Essex County,\n July 1791-August 1792, concerning the deed and survey for the\n \"Mount Clement Trail of Land,\" and another on July 25, 1804 re\n the suit of Braxton vs Roane; letters on April 19, 1825, June\n 13, 1826, and November 18, 1826, from \n James Montague , \n Harden County, Kentucky , to friends in\n Essex County, concerning various aspects of life in Kentucky\n such as the conflict between anti-relief and relief parties,\n tobacco sales, and prices of corn, flour, cotton, whiskey, et\n al.; one on June 9, 1854, from Rev. \n Henry W. L. Temple , Wayland, to \n James Allen Latane , University of\n Virginia, discussing Bishop \n William Meade 's visit; and, several\n letters, October 25, 1864, December 4, 1871, February 2 and\n June 15, 1883, and June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, chiefly to \n Julia A. Holladay , \n Botetourt County, Virginia , mentioning\n news of family and friends, new dwellings built on Ionia, and\n his being disqualified as a member of the legislature.","Letters pertaining to black history include one of December\n 10, 1772, from \n Samuel Peachey, Jr. , \n Occoquan Furnace , to William Latane,\n Essex County, asking him to send a young black at Christmas\n because the latter wants to learn the blacksmith trade; one of\n November 10, 1788, from \n Bartlett Williams , New Kent, to \n William Latane , Essex County, complaining\n about Latane's man Ephraim corrupting his blacks, and\n requesting that he not be permitted to visit his plantation; a\n circular, February 27, 1794, referring to the transportation\n of slaves from Africa to the West-India islands; one of\n February 28, 1809, from S. Chenault, Nelson County, Kentucky,\n re the \"elopement\" of Franklin and his recovery by a Captain\n Lafon who kept him in his possession for awhile;\n correspondence between \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860), Essex\n County, and his brother-in-law, \n John Temple ( -1812), Parkersburg, re the\n death of Temple's father and the division of his slaves at\n \"Goldberry,\" December 10, 1811 and January 8, 1812; and, one\n of June 13, 1885, from \n Thomas S. Watson , Bracketts, to \n Julia A. Holladay , Botetourt County,\n mentioning the poisoning of some children by a black\n woman.","The business papers are comprised of accounts and\n administrative and estate papers as well as general\n correspondence and papers. The accounts are chiefly for\n members of the Latane and Waring families, and, to a lesser\n extent, for members of the \n Allen family and \n Temple family . The administrative and\n estate papers concern the estates of \n William Peachey ( -1700), \n Lewis Latane (1672-1732), \n Robert Payne Waring (-1799?), \n William Latane (1750-1811), \n John Temple ( -1812), \n Lewis Dix ( -1815?), \n James Allen ( -1820?), \n Ann Latane ( -1820?), and \n Henry Waring Latane (1782-1860). Also,\n there are business papers pertaining to black history; and, a\n separate itemized listing has been compiled.","The legal papers contain many indentures, land grants and\n plats/surveys for lands in \n Essex County , \n King and Queen County , and \n Rappahannock County . These papers are\n helpful in determining ownership of lands held by the Latane\n Family, \n Roane Family , \n Allen Family , and \n Dix Family . In addition, there are copies\n of wills for members of the Latane, Roane, Allen, and Dix\n families. The wills also contain references to the division of\n blacks among the families.","There are also genealogical, military, and religious\n material. The military papers, 1814-1828, pertain chiefly to\n James Allen's career as captain in the Virginia militia and\n include abstracts of forage, regimental orders, receipt for\n arms, detailed returns of arms accoutrements, and rosters of\n officers and other personnel. Among the miscellaneous papers\n is a small group of material concerning religious matters,\n particularly having to do with \n South Farnham Parish in Essex County.\n Included are a letter, December 17, 1716, from \n Alexander Spotswood to the vestry of the\n parish re their decision to suspend \n Lewis Latane from his ministerial office;\n a hymn book belonging to \n John Latane ; and, two letters about the\n weakening of the Church in Virginia."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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He resigned in 1849 to resume his law\n practice, and in 1852 moved to Maryland where he practiced law\n chiefly before the Supreme Court of the United States. In\n 1855, President Pierce made him the first solicitor in the\n court of claims in the U. S. but President Buchanan dismissed\n him in 1858 because of his pronounced views on slavery. He\n gained prestige among anti- slavery people when he acted as\n counsel for the plaintiff in the celebrated Dred Scott case;\n he helped secure a defense attorney for John Brown after the\n Harper's Ferry incident. He was appointed postmaster general\n in 1861 by President Lincoln, and while in office, organized\n the postal system for the army, introduced compulsory payment\n of postage and free delivery in cities, improved the registry\n system, established the railway post office, organized the\n postal draft plan, stopped the franking privileges of\n postmasters, and was instrumental in bringing about the Postal\n Union Convention at Paris in 1863. After resigning from\n Lincoln's cabinet, he continued to loyally work for Lincoln.\n He believed in Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, and decried\n the disenfranchisement of the Southern whites and\n enfranchisement of the negroes. During the late 1860s he\n returned to the Democratic party.","Woodbury Blair, the son of Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth\n (Woodbury) Blair, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on\n September 1, 1852, and died on October 14, 1933. He graduated\n Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, 1874, and its\n law school, 1876. He practiced law in his father's office in\n Washington, D.C.; was counsel for Citizens' National Bank of\n Washington; trust officer and vice-president of National\n Savings and Trust Company; director in Columbia Title\n Insurance Company, Washington Railway and Electric Company,\n Potomac Electric Company, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat\n Company; and, president of the Metropolitan Club. He was also\n president of the Central dispensary and emergency hospital of\n Washington, which he developed from a small building to an\n institution of nearly a block, with 280 beds, 300 employees,\n modern nurses' home, new interns' home, x-ray laboratory, and\n out-patient and emergency departments. He was married to the\n former Emily N. Wallach.","Francis Preston Blair, lawyer and army officer, was born in\n Lexington, Kentucky, on February 10, 1821, and died in St.\n Louis, Missouri, in July 1875. After graduating from Princeton\n University in 1842, he studied law in Washington, was admitted\n to the Kentucky bar in 1843, and began to practice in St.\n Louis. When the Mexican War began he enlisted in the army as a\n private; following the war he returned to his practice in St.\n Louis. He was elected to congress, and in 1857, spoke in favor\n of colonizing the negroes of the United States in Central\n America. Following the South Carolina secession convention, he\n stressed the importance in preventing the seizure by state\n authorities of the St. Louis arsenal, and became the head of\n the military organization then formed, which occasionally\n guarded the arsenal. As brigadier-general in the army, he\n commanded a division in the Vicksburg campaign, led his troops\n in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and\n was at the head of the 17th corps during Sherman's campaigns\n in 1864-1865. After the war he served in state and government\n positions.","Charles Levi Woodbury, lawyer, was born in Portsmouth, New\n Hampshire, on May 22, 1820; and, died in 1898. He was a member\n of the Suffolk, Massachusetts bar and U. S. district attorney\n for that state 1858-1861. He edited with George Minot the\n three-volume \n Reports of Cases argued and determined in the\n Circuit Court of the United States for the First\n Circuit (Boston 1847-1852), containing the decisions of Judge\n Levi Woodbury.","Scope and Content This collection of Virginiana and Americana, 1669\n (1830-1965) 1993, consisting of ca. 200 items, was acquired\n by \n Robert S. Pace . There are\n correspondence, papers, newspaper clippings and other\n printed, 1861-1980, pertaining to the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families as well as various\n pamphlets, 1910-1917, collected by \n Woodbury Blair . The next series\n includes Virginiana and Americana in the form of\n autographs, correspondence and papers, and printed. In\n addition to autographs of prominent persons, there are\n correspondence, 1946- 1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling with prominent\n people; correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of \n Washington, D.C. ; and, correspondence\n and papers of \n Robert S. Pace , chiefly concerning\n Americana and restoration. Other material consists of World\n War II Japanese propaganda.","Blair and Woodbury Families The miscellaneous papers of the \n Blair family include: copy of a letter,\n January 31, 1861, from \n Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) to \n Gustavus V. Fox , Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, concerning the attempt to send supplies and\n relief to \n Fort Sumter ; an autograph poem, June\n 5, 1866, by \n Oliver Wendell Holmes , given to Fox to\n take to \n Russia ; a copy of a letter, September\n 10, 1915, from \n Woodbury Blair (1852-1933), Reed\n Cottage, Newport, Rhode Island, to Admiral \n F[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick (1844-1919),\n Newport, Rhode Island, concerning the relationship between\n England and the United States, with a transcript of\n Chadwick's letter of September 1, 1915, on the \"causes of\n the war\" in great detail; and, newspaper clippings about\n the \n Blair House in \n Washington, D.C. Biographical and historical information on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include pamphlets on\n the loss of \n Charles Levi Woodbury 's rare\n collection of books during the great fire in \n Boston , and on the Blairs of Virginia\n and Kentucky; and, a book entitled \n Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A Camera\n Impression by \n Samuel Chamberlain that shows the \n Governor Levi Woodbury House . Newspaper clippings on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include the last\n sermon, January 1861, of Rev. Woodbury, obituaries of \n Francis Preston Blair (1821-1875),\n Blair's involvement in the \n John C. Fremont controversy, and other\n Civil War occurrences. There are also pamphlets, 1910-1917,\n on various subjects, collected by \n Woodbury Blair .","Americana and Virginiana There are autographs, 1669, 1789-1888, of prominent\n Americans and other persons. These previously framed items\n include: 1) ALS, May 9, 1789, \n George Washington (1732-1799) to\n Governor \n [John] Hancock (1736-1793); 2) ANS, May\n 9, 1863, \n Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) with\n etching published by J. O. Wright \u0026 Co., New York, New\n York; and, 3) AMsS, March 29, 1877, last testament of \n Louis Pasteur (1822-1895); and, also \n Woodbury family items consisting of an 4)\n ALS, September 20, 1845, \n James Knox Polk (1795-1849) to \n Levi Woodbury (1789-1851); and, an 5)\n ALS, June 14, 1888, \n Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) to \"Dear\n Miss Woodbury.\" There is also 6) a royal indenture, August\n 27, 1669, between Sir \n Henry and Dame\n Agatha Chicheley and \n John Jeffries , releasing Chicheley\n land in \n Virginia to Jeffries and \n Thomas Colclough . Other items include\n 7) a land grant, November 21, 1816, signed by President \n James Madison , to \n Beverly Stubblefield , in pursuance of\n an Act of Congress, August 10, 1790, entitled \"An Act to\n enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on\n Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain\n lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little\n Miami and Sciota,\" and autographs of 8) \n Henry William DeSaussure (1763-1839),\n jurist and chancellor of South Carolina and 9) \n David Paul Brown (1795-1872), leading\n lawyer of Philadelphia and attorney for Aaron Burr. There are autographs, 1909-1965, of prominent Americans:\n Ted W. Brown , Ohio Secretary of State;\n George P. Comer , U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n William Van Zandt Cox (1852-1923),\n treasurer of the Wilson and Marshall Inaugural Committee; \n James Forrestal (1892-1949), Secretary\n of the Navy; \n Ernest J. Fuller , Navy Department; \n C. R. Heflin , Farm Loan Board; \n Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey , U. S.\n Senator and Vice-President; \n John L. McMillan , U. S.\n Representative; \n Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), forester; \n James McPherson Proctor (1882-1953),\n assistant U. S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; and, \n Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), President\n of the United States, in a letter to \n Robert S. Pace concerning the latter's\n support of \"the past national administration's work.\" Among the items in the miscellaneous correspondence are:\n autographs of \n Joseph H[arley?] Bradley (1844-?) and\n Blair Lee (1857-1944), lawyer and senator in Maryland; and,\n transcripts of an indenture, August 27, 1669, between Sir\n Henry and Dame Agatha Chicheley and John Jefferies, and a\n letter, May 23, 1857, from Lord Macauley, London, to \n Henry Stephens Randall (1811-1876),\n author of \n The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858), concerning Jefferson policy. Correspondence, 1946-1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling , chiefly concerns\n their book \n Chinese Art and related subjects. There are letters from \n Louis Bromfield ( -1956); \n Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973); \n William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); \n William J[oseph] Donovan (1883-1959); \n Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965); \n Walter H[enry] Judd (1898-); \n Estes Kefauver (1903-1963); \n Edward Martin (1879-1967); \n James A[lbert] Michener (1907-); \n Walter S. Robertson ; and, [Anna] \n Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962). There is\n a newspaper article about the Burlings and their love of\n Chinese art as well as the book jacket for their book. Correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of Washington,\n D.C., concerns its business transactions with various\n individuals as well as institutions including \n Columbia Institution for the Deaf and\n Dumb ( \n Gallaudet College ), \n Georgetown University , \n Washington Home for Foundlings , \n Commissariat of the Holyland , and the \n War Department . Correspondents\n include: \n Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1917),\n President of Gallaudet College; \n Joseph Himmel (1855-), president of\n Georgetown University; \n John R[oll] McLean (1848-1916),\n journalist; \n John B[ell] Larner (1858-1931),\n attorney; \n Robert E[dgar] Mattingly (1868-),\n attorney; \n F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons (1864-1931), attorney and judge; \n John M[oulder] Wilson (1837-1919),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Army; \n W[alter Keyser] Bachrach (1888-1963),\n Bachrach Studios; \n Howard Sutherland (1865-), U. S.\n Senator; \n W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries (1865-1937), canon and chancellor,\n Washington Cathedral; \n G[ardiner] Howland Shaw (1893-1965),\n Counselor for the Department of State; \n Frank B[rett] Noyes (1863-1948),\n president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company; \n Ringgold Hart (1886-1965), attorney; \n John Hays Hammond (1855-1936), chairman\n of the U. S. Coal Commission; \n S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach (1869-), Brigadier General, U. S.\n Army; \n John M[arshall] Robsion (1878-1949), U.\n S. Representative; \n L[ouise]\n E. (Mrs. William Cabell) Bruce; \n Frank Clark (1860-), U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n David D[ixon] Porter (1878-1944),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps; \n William T[heodore] Schulte (1890-), U.\n S. Representative; \n David Foote Sellers (1874-1949), Rear\n Admiral, U. S. Navy; \n Paul F. Douglass , president of\n American University; and, \n Thomas Francis Bayard (1868-1942), U.\n S. Senator. Oversize items include: Two land grants, April 13, 1787,\n to \n William Croghan for tracts of land \"in\n the District set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the\n Virginia State line\" by virtue of a \"Land Office Military\n Warrant,\" signed by Governor \n Edmund [Jennings] Randolph (1753-1813);\n and, a copy of the \n Columbian Register , New-Haven, July 6, 1813, published by Joseph\n Barber. An unpublished bound volume, 1992, entitled \n Life and Works of Arthur Fickenscher American\n Composer (1871-1954), written by William W. Jones in\n collaboration with Robert S. Pace, is also present. The\n work contains a chronology of Fickenscher's life, writings\n on his career and music, a reminiscence of him at the \n Univesity of Virginia , and a catalogue\n of his compositions.","","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n Collections Dept.","Marlow Coal Company","Blair House","Governor Levi Woodbury House","Columbia Institution for the Deaf and\n Dumb","Gallaudet College","Georgetown University","Washington Home for Foundlings","Commissariat of the Holyland","War Department","Univesity of Virginia","Blair","Woodbury","Blair family","Woodbury family","Robert S. Pace","Woodbury Blair","Judith","Arthur Hart Burling","Montgomery Blair","Gustavus V. Fox","Oliver Wendell Holmes","F[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick","Charles Levi Woodbury","Samuel Chamberlain","Francis Preston Blair","John C. Fremont","George Washington","[John] Hancock","Abraham Lincoln","Louis Pasteur","James Knox Polk","Levi Woodbury","Jefferson Davis","Henry","Agatha Chicheley","John Jeffries","Thomas Colclough","James Madison","Beverly Stubblefield","Henry William DeSaussure","David Paul Brown","Ted W. Brown","George P. Comer","William Van Zandt Cox","James Forrestal","Ernest J. Fuller","C. R. Heflin","Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey","John L. McMillan","Gifford Pinchot","James McPherson Proctor","Harry S. Truman","Joseph H[arley?] Bradley","Henry Stephens Randall","Louis Bromfield","Pearl S. Buck","William Christian Bullitt","William J[oseph] Donovan","Joseph Clark Grew","Walter H[enry] Judd","Estes Kefauver","Edward Martin","James A[lbert] Michener","Walter S. Robertson","Eleanor Roosevelt","Edward Miner Gallaudet","Joseph Himmel","John R[oll] McLean","John B[ell] Larner","Robert E[dgar] Mattingly","F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons","John M[oulder] Wilson","W[alter Keyser] Bachrach","Howard Sutherland","W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries","G[ardiner] Howland Shaw","Frank B[rett] Noyes","Ringgold Hart","John Hays Hammond","S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach","John M[arshall] Robsion","L[ouise]\n E.","Frank Clark","David D[ixon] Porter","William T[heodore] Schulte","David Foote Sellers","Paul F. 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He was appointed to West\n Point in 1831 by President Jackson; after his graduation in\n 1835 he received a lieutenancy in the army in time to serve in\n the Seminole War. The following year he resigned his\n commission in order to study law at Transylvania University.\n He settled in St. Louis, Missouri in 1837 and began practicing\n law; he was appointed U. S. district attorney for Missouri but\n removed for political reasons by President Tyler. He served as\n mayor of St. Louis, 1842-1843, and as judge of the court of\n common pleas, 1845-1849. He resigned in 1849 to resume his law\n practice, and in 1852 moved to Maryland where he practiced law\n chiefly before the Supreme Court of the United States. In\n 1855, President Pierce made him the first solicitor in the\n court of claims in the U. S. but President Buchanan dismissed\n him in 1858 because of his pronounced views on slavery. He\n gained prestige among anti- slavery people when he acted as\n counsel for the plaintiff in the celebrated Dred Scott case;\n he helped secure a defense attorney for John Brown after the\n Harper's Ferry incident. He was appointed postmaster general\n in 1861 by President Lincoln, and while in office, organized\n the postal system for the army, introduced compulsory payment\n of postage and free delivery in cities, improved the registry\n system, established the railway post office, organized the\n postal draft plan, stopped the franking privileges of\n postmasters, and was instrumental in bringing about the Postal\n Union Convention at Paris in 1863. After resigning from\n Lincoln's cabinet, he continued to loyally work for Lincoln.\n He believed in Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, and decried\n the disenfranchisement of the Southern whites and\n enfranchisement of the negroes. During the late 1860s he\n returned to the Democratic party.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbury Blair, the son of Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth\n (Woodbury) Blair, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on\n September 1, 1852, and died on October 14, 1933. He graduated\n Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, 1874, and its\n law school, 1876. He practiced law in his father's office in\n Washington, D.C.; was counsel for Citizens' National Bank of\n Washington; trust officer and vice-president of National\n Savings and Trust Company; director in Columbia Title\n Insurance Company, Washington Railway and Electric Company,\n Potomac Electric Company, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat\n Company; and, president of the Metropolitan Club. He was also\n president of the Central dispensary and emergency hospital of\n Washington, which he developed from a small building to an\n institution of nearly a block, with 280 beds, 300 employees,\n modern nurses' home, new interns' home, x-ray laboratory, and\n out-patient and emergency departments. He was married to the\n former Emily N. Wallach.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Preston Blair, lawyer and army officer, was born in\n Lexington, Kentucky, on February 10, 1821, and died in St.\n Louis, Missouri, in July 1875. After graduating from Princeton\n University in 1842, he studied law in Washington, was admitted\n to the Kentucky bar in 1843, and began to practice in St.\n Louis. When the Mexican War began he enlisted in the army as a\n private; following the war he returned to his practice in St.\n Louis. He was elected to congress, and in 1857, spoke in favor\n of colonizing the negroes of the United States in Central\n America. Following the South Carolina secession convention, he\n stressed the importance in preventing the seizure by state\n authorities of the St. Louis arsenal, and became the head of\n the military organization then formed, which occasionally\n guarded the arsenal. As brigadier-general in the army, he\n commanded a division in the Vicksburg campaign, led his troops\n in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and\n was at the head of the 17th corps during Sherman's campaigns\n in 1864-1865. After the war he served in state and government\n positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Levi Woodbury, lawyer, was born in Portsmouth, New\n Hampshire, on May 22, 1820; and, died in 1898. He was a member\n of the Suffolk, Massachusetts bar and U. S. district attorney\n for that state 1858-1861. He edited with George Minot the\n three-volume \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eReports of Cases argued and determined in the\n Circuit Court of the United States for the First\n Circuit\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(Boston 1847-1852), containing the decisions of Judge\n Levi Woodbury.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Blair and Woodbury Families--Biographical\n Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Montgomery Blair, lawyer and statesman, was born in\n Franklin County, Kentucky on May 10, 1813 and died in Silver\n Spring, Maryland, on July 27, 1883. He was appointed to West\n Point in 1831 by President Jackson; after his graduation in\n 1835 he received a lieutenancy in the army in time to serve in\n the Seminole War. The following year he resigned his\n commission in order to study law at Transylvania University.\n He settled in St. Louis, Missouri in 1837 and began practicing\n law; he was appointed U. S. district attorney for Missouri but\n removed for political reasons by President Tyler. He served as\n mayor of St. Louis, 1842-1843, and as judge of the court of\n common pleas, 1845-1849. He resigned in 1849 to resume his law\n practice, and in 1852 moved to Maryland where he practiced law\n chiefly before the Supreme Court of the United States. In\n 1855, President Pierce made him the first solicitor in the\n court of claims in the U. S. but President Buchanan dismissed\n him in 1858 because of his pronounced views on slavery. He\n gained prestige among anti- slavery people when he acted as\n counsel for the plaintiff in the celebrated Dred Scott case;\n he helped secure a defense attorney for John Brown after the\n Harper's Ferry incident. He was appointed postmaster general\n in 1861 by President Lincoln, and while in office, organized\n the postal system for the army, introduced compulsory payment\n of postage and free delivery in cities, improved the registry\n system, established the railway post office, organized the\n postal draft plan, stopped the franking privileges of\n postmasters, and was instrumental in bringing about the Postal\n Union Convention at Paris in 1863. After resigning from\n Lincoln's cabinet, he continued to loyally work for Lincoln.\n He believed in Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, and decried\n the disenfranchisement of the Southern whites and\n enfranchisement of the negroes. During the late 1860s he\n returned to the Democratic party.","Woodbury Blair, the son of Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth\n (Woodbury) Blair, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on\n September 1, 1852, and died on October 14, 1933. He graduated\n Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, 1874, and its\n law school, 1876. He practiced law in his father's office in\n Washington, D.C.; was counsel for Citizens' National Bank of\n Washington; trust officer and vice-president of National\n Savings and Trust Company; director in Columbia Title\n Insurance Company, Washington Railway and Electric Company,\n Potomac Electric Company, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat\n Company; and, president of the Metropolitan Club. He was also\n president of the Central dispensary and emergency hospital of\n Washington, which he developed from a small building to an\n institution of nearly a block, with 280 beds, 300 employees,\n modern nurses' home, new interns' home, x-ray laboratory, and\n out-patient and emergency departments. He was married to the\n former Emily N. Wallach.","Francis Preston Blair, lawyer and army officer, was born in\n Lexington, Kentucky, on February 10, 1821, and died in St.\n Louis, Missouri, in July 1875. After graduating from Princeton\n University in 1842, he studied law in Washington, was admitted\n to the Kentucky bar in 1843, and began to practice in St.\n Louis. When the Mexican War began he enlisted in the army as a\n private; following the war he returned to his practice in St.\n Louis. He was elected to congress, and in 1857, spoke in favor\n of colonizing the negroes of the United States in Central\n America. Following the South Carolina secession convention, he\n stressed the importance in preventing the seizure by state\n authorities of the St. Louis arsenal, and became the head of\n the military organization then formed, which occasionally\n guarded the arsenal. As brigadier-general in the army, he\n commanded a division in the Vicksburg campaign, led his troops\n in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and\n was at the head of the 17th corps during Sherman's campaigns\n in 1864-1865. After the war he served in state and government\n positions.","Charles Levi Woodbury, lawyer, was born in Portsmouth, New\n Hampshire, on May 22, 1820; and, died in 1898. He was a member\n of the Suffolk, Massachusetts bar and U. S. district attorney\n for that state 1858-1861. He edited with George Minot the\n three-volume \n Reports of Cases argued and determined in the\n Circuit Court of the United States for the First\n Circuit (Boston 1847-1852), containing the decisions of Judge\n Levi Woodbury."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Scope and Content This collection of Virginiana and Americana, 1669\n (1830-1965) 1993, consisting of ca. 200 items, was acquired\n by \n Robert S. Pace . There are\n correspondence, papers, newspaper clippings and other\n printed, 1861-1980, pertaining to the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families as well as various\n pamphlets, 1910-1917, collected by \n Woodbury Blair . The next series\n includes Virginiana and Americana in the form of\n autographs, correspondence and papers, and printed. In\n addition to autographs of prominent persons, there are\n correspondence, 1946- 1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling with prominent\n people; correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of \n Washington, D.C. ; and, correspondence\n and papers of \n Robert S. Pace , chiefly concerning\n Americana and restoration. Other material consists of World\n War II Japanese propaganda.","Blair and Woodbury Families The miscellaneous papers of the \n Blair family include: copy of a letter,\n January 31, 1861, from \n Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) to \n Gustavus V. Fox , Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, concerning the attempt to send supplies and\n relief to \n Fort Sumter ; an autograph poem, June\n 5, 1866, by \n Oliver Wendell Holmes , given to Fox to\n take to \n Russia ; a copy of a letter, September\n 10, 1915, from \n Woodbury Blair (1852-1933), Reed\n Cottage, Newport, Rhode Island, to Admiral \n F[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick (1844-1919),\n Newport, Rhode Island, concerning the relationship between\n England and the United States, with a transcript of\n Chadwick's letter of September 1, 1915, on the \"causes of\n the war\" in great detail; and, newspaper clippings about\n the \n Blair House in \n Washington, D.C. Biographical and historical information on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include pamphlets on\n the loss of \n Charles Levi Woodbury 's rare\n collection of books during the great fire in \n Boston , and on the Blairs of Virginia\n and Kentucky; and, a book entitled \n Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A Camera\n Impression by \n Samuel Chamberlain that shows the \n Governor Levi Woodbury House . Newspaper clippings on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include the last\n sermon, January 1861, of Rev. Woodbury, obituaries of \n Francis Preston Blair (1821-1875),\n Blair's involvement in the \n John C. Fremont controversy, and other\n Civil War occurrences. There are also pamphlets, 1910-1917,\n on various subjects, collected by \n Woodbury Blair .","Americana and Virginiana There are autographs, 1669, 1789-1888, of prominent\n Americans and other persons. These previously framed items\n include: 1) ALS, May 9, 1789, \n George Washington (1732-1799) to\n Governor \n [John] Hancock (1736-1793); 2) ANS, May\n 9, 1863, \n Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) with\n etching published by J. O. Wright \u0026 Co., New York, New\n York; and, 3) AMsS, March 29, 1877, last testament of \n Louis Pasteur (1822-1895); and, also \n Woodbury family items consisting of an 4)\n ALS, September 20, 1845, \n James Knox Polk (1795-1849) to \n Levi Woodbury (1789-1851); and, an 5)\n ALS, June 14, 1888, \n Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) to \"Dear\n Miss Woodbury.\" There is also 6) a royal indenture, August\n 27, 1669, between Sir \n Henry and Dame\n Agatha Chicheley and \n John Jeffries , releasing Chicheley\n land in \n Virginia to Jeffries and \n Thomas Colclough . Other items include\n 7) a land grant, November 21, 1816, signed by President \n James Madison , to \n Beverly Stubblefield , in pursuance of\n an Act of Congress, August 10, 1790, entitled \"An Act to\n enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on\n Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain\n lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little\n Miami and Sciota,\" and autographs of 8) \n Henry William DeSaussure (1763-1839),\n jurist and chancellor of South Carolina and 9) \n David Paul Brown (1795-1872), leading\n lawyer of Philadelphia and attorney for Aaron Burr. There are autographs, 1909-1965, of prominent Americans:\n Ted W. Brown , Ohio Secretary of State;\n George P. Comer , U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n William Van Zandt Cox (1852-1923),\n treasurer of the Wilson and Marshall Inaugural Committee; \n James Forrestal (1892-1949), Secretary\n of the Navy; \n Ernest J. Fuller , Navy Department; \n C. R. Heflin , Farm Loan Board; \n Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey , U. S.\n Senator and Vice-President; \n John L. McMillan , U. S.\n Representative; \n Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), forester; \n James McPherson Proctor (1882-1953),\n assistant U. S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; and, \n Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), President\n of the United States, in a letter to \n Robert S. Pace concerning the latter's\n support of \"the past national administration's work.\" Among the items in the miscellaneous correspondence are:\n autographs of \n Joseph H[arley?] Bradley (1844-?) and\n Blair Lee (1857-1944), lawyer and senator in Maryland; and,\n transcripts of an indenture, August 27, 1669, between Sir\n Henry and Dame Agatha Chicheley and John Jefferies, and a\n letter, May 23, 1857, from Lord Macauley, London, to \n Henry Stephens Randall (1811-1876),\n author of \n The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858), concerning Jefferson policy. Correspondence, 1946-1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling , chiefly concerns\n their book \n Chinese Art and related subjects. There are letters from \n Louis Bromfield ( -1956); \n Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973); \n William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); \n William J[oseph] Donovan (1883-1959); \n Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965); \n Walter H[enry] Judd (1898-); \n Estes Kefauver (1903-1963); \n Edward Martin (1879-1967); \n James A[lbert] Michener (1907-); \n Walter S. Robertson ; and, [Anna] \n Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962). There is\n a newspaper article about the Burlings and their love of\n Chinese art as well as the book jacket for their book. Correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of Washington,\n D.C., concerns its business transactions with various\n individuals as well as institutions including \n Columbia Institution for the Deaf and\n Dumb ( \n Gallaudet College ), \n Georgetown University , \n Washington Home for Foundlings , \n Commissariat of the Holyland , and the \n War Department . Correspondents\n include: \n Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1917),\n President of Gallaudet College; \n Joseph Himmel (1855-), president of\n Georgetown University; \n John R[oll] McLean (1848-1916),\n journalist; \n John B[ell] Larner (1858-1931),\n attorney; \n Robert E[dgar] Mattingly (1868-),\n attorney; \n F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons (1864-1931), attorney and judge; \n John M[oulder] Wilson (1837-1919),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Army; \n W[alter Keyser] Bachrach (1888-1963),\n Bachrach Studios; \n Howard Sutherland (1865-), U. S.\n Senator; \n W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries (1865-1937), canon and chancellor,\n Washington Cathedral; \n G[ardiner] Howland Shaw (1893-1965),\n Counselor for the Department of State; \n Frank B[rett] Noyes (1863-1948),\n president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company; \n Ringgold Hart (1886-1965), attorney; \n John Hays Hammond (1855-1936), chairman\n of the U. S. Coal Commission; \n S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach (1869-), Brigadier General, U. S.\n Army; \n John M[arshall] Robsion (1878-1949), U.\n S. Representative; \n L[ouise]\n E. (Mrs. William Cabell) Bruce; \n Frank Clark (1860-), U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n David D[ixon] Porter (1878-1944),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps; \n William T[heodore] Schulte (1890-), U.\n S. Representative; \n David Foote Sellers (1874-1949), Rear\n Admiral, U. S. Navy; \n Paul F. Douglass , president of\n American University; and, \n Thomas Francis Bayard (1868-1942), U.\n S. Senator. Oversize items include: Two land grants, April 13, 1787,\n to \n William Croghan for tracts of land \"in\n the District set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the\n Virginia State line\" by virtue of a \"Land Office Military\n Warrant,\" signed by Governor \n Edmund [Jennings] Randolph (1753-1813);\n and, a copy of the \n Columbian Register , New-Haven, July 6, 1813, published by Joseph\n Barber. An unpublished bound volume, 1992, entitled \n Life and Works of Arthur Fickenscher American\n Composer (1871-1954), written by William W. Jones in\n collaboration with Robert S. Pace, is also present. The\n work contains a chronology of Fickenscher's life, writings\n on his career and music, a reminiscence of him at the \n Univesity of Virginia , and a catalogue\n of his compositions."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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In\n addition to autographs of prominent persons, there are\n correspondence, 1946- 1961, of \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Judith Burling\"\u003eJudith\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Hart Burling\u003c/persname\u003ewith prominent\n people; correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMarlow Coal Company\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e; and, correspondence\n and papers of \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert S. Pace\u003c/persname\u003e, chiefly concerning\n Americana and restoration. Other material consists of World\n War II Japanese propaganda.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eBlair and Woodbury Families\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous papers of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlair family\u003c/famname\u003einclude: copy of a letter,\n January 31, 1861, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eMontgomery Blair\u003c/persname\u003e(1813-1883) to \n \u003cpersname\u003eGustavus V. Fox\u003c/persname\u003e, Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, concerning the attempt to send supplies and\n relief to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Sumter\u003c/geogname\u003e; an autograph poem, June\n 5, 1866, by \n \u003cpersname\u003eOliver Wendell Holmes\u003c/persname\u003e, given to Fox to\n take to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRussia\u003c/geogname\u003e; a copy of a letter, September\n 10, 1915, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWoodbury Blair\u003c/persname\u003e(1852-1933), Reed\n Cottage, Newport, Rhode Island, to Admiral \n \u003cpersname\u003eF[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick\u003c/persname\u003e(1844-1919),\n Newport, Rhode Island, concerning the relationship between\n England and the United States, with a transcript of\n Chadwick's letter of September 1, 1915, on the \"causes of\n the war\" in great detail; and, newspaper clippings about\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBlair House\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBiographical and historical information on the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlair\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003eWoodbury\u003c/famname\u003efamilies include pamphlets on\n the loss of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Levi Woodbury\u003c/persname\u003e's rare\n collection of books during the great fire in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBoston\u003c/geogname\u003e, and on the Blairs of Virginia\n and Kentucky; and, a book entitled \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePortsmouth, New Hampshire: A Camera\n Impression\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Chamberlain\u003c/persname\u003ethat shows the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGovernor Levi Woodbury House\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings on the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlair\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003eWoodbury\u003c/famname\u003efamilies include the last\n sermon, January 1861, of Rev. Woodbury, obituaries of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrancis Preston Blair\u003c/persname\u003e(1821-1875),\n Blair's involvement in the \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn C. Fremont\u003c/persname\u003econtroversy, and other\n Civil War occurrences. There are also pamphlets, 1910-1917,\n on various subjects, collected by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWoodbury Blair\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eAmericana and Virginiana\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThere are autographs, 1669, 1789-1888, of prominent\n Americans and other persons. These previously framed items\n include: 1) ALS, May 9, 1789, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e(1732-1799) to\n Governor \n \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Hancock\u003c/persname\u003e(1736-1793); 2) ANS, May\n 9, 1863, \n \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e(1809-1865) with\n etching published by J. O. Wright \u0026amp; Co., New York, New\n York; and, 3) AMsS, March 29, 1877, last testament of \n \u003cpersname\u003eLouis Pasteur\u003c/persname\u003e(1822-1895); and, also \n \u003cfamname\u003eWoodbury family\u003c/famname\u003eitems consisting of an 4)\n ALS, September 20, 1845, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Knox Polk\u003c/persname\u003e(1795-1849) to \n \u003cpersname\u003eLevi Woodbury\u003c/persname\u003e(1789-1851); and, an 5)\n ALS, June 14, 1888, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJefferson Davis\u003c/persname\u003e(1808-1889) to \"Dear\n Miss Woodbury.\" There is also 6) a royal indenture, August\n 27, 1669, between Sir \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Henry Chicheley\"\u003eHenry\u003c/persname\u003eand Dame\n \u003cpersname\u003eAgatha Chicheley\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Jeffries\u003c/persname\u003e, releasing Chicheley\n land in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003eto Jeffries and \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Colclough\u003c/persname\u003e. Other items include\n 7) a land grant, November 21, 1816, signed by President \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Madison\u003c/persname\u003e, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBeverly Stubblefield\u003c/persname\u003e, in pursuance of\n an Act of Congress, August 10, 1790, entitled \"An Act to\n enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on\n Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain\n lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little\n Miami and Sciota,\" and autographs of 8) \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry William DeSaussure\u003c/persname\u003e(1763-1839),\n jurist and chancellor of South Carolina and 9) \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Paul Brown\u003c/persname\u003e(1795-1872), leading\n lawyer of Philadelphia and attorney for Aaron Burr.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThere are autographs, 1909-1965, of prominent Americans:\n \u003cpersname\u003eTed W. Brown\u003c/persname\u003e, Ohio Secretary of State;\n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge P. Comer\u003c/persname\u003e, U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Van Zandt Cox\u003c/persname\u003e(1852-1923),\n treasurer of the Wilson and Marshall Inaugural Committee; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Forrestal\u003c/persname\u003e(1892-1949), Secretary\n of the Navy; \n \u003cpersname\u003eErnest J. Fuller\u003c/persname\u003e, Navy Department; \n \u003cpersname\u003eC. R. Heflin\u003c/persname\u003e, Farm Loan Board; \n \u003cpersname\u003eHubert H[oratio] Humphrey\u003c/persname\u003e, U. S.\n Senator and Vice-President; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn L. McMillan\u003c/persname\u003e, U. S.\n Representative; \n \u003cpersname\u003eGifford Pinchot\u003c/persname\u003e(1865-1946), forester; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames McPherson Proctor\u003c/persname\u003e(1882-1953),\n assistant U. S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; and, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry S. Truman\u003c/persname\u003e(1884-1972), President\n of the United States, in a letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert S. Pace\u003c/persname\u003econcerning the latter's\n support of \"the past national administration's work.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAmong the items in the miscellaneous correspondence are:\n autographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph H[arley?] Bradley\u003c/persname\u003e(1844-?) and\n Blair Lee (1857-1944), lawyer and senator in Maryland; and,\n transcripts of an indenture, August 27, 1669, between Sir\n Henry and Dame Agatha Chicheley and John Jefferies, and a\n letter, May 23, 1857, from Lord Macauley, London, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Stephens Randall\u003c/persname\u003e(1811-1876),\n author of \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life of Thomas Jefferson\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(1858), concerning Jefferson policy.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1946-1961, of \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Judith Burling\"\u003eJudith\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Hart Burling\u003c/persname\u003e, chiefly concerns\n their book \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eChinese Art\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand related subjects. There are letters from \n \u003cpersname\u003eLouis Bromfield\u003c/persname\u003e( -1956); \n \u003cpersname\u003ePearl S. Buck\u003c/persname\u003e(1892-1973); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Christian Bullitt\u003c/persname\u003e(1891-1967); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam J[oseph] Donovan\u003c/persname\u003e(1883-1959); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Clark Grew\u003c/persname\u003e(1880-1965); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWalter H[enry] Judd\u003c/persname\u003e(1898-); \n \u003cpersname\u003eEstes Kefauver\u003c/persname\u003e(1903-1963); \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Martin\u003c/persname\u003e(1879-1967); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames A[lbert] Michener\u003c/persname\u003e(1907-); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWalter S. Robertson\u003c/persname\u003e; and, [Anna] \n \u003cpersname\u003eEleanor Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e(1884-1962). There is\n a newspaper article about the Burlings and their love of\n Chinese art as well as the book jacket for their book.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1908-1944, of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMarlow Coal Company\u003c/corpname\u003eof Washington,\n D.C., concerns its business transactions with various\n individuals as well as institutions including \n \u003ccorpname\u003eColumbia Institution for the Deaf and\n Dumb\u003c/corpname\u003e( \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGallaudet College\u003c/corpname\u003e), \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorgetown University\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWashington Home for Foundlings\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eCommissariat of the Holyland\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWar Department\u003c/corpname\u003e. Correspondents\n include: \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Miner Gallaudet\u003c/persname\u003e(1837-1917),\n President of Gallaudet College; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Himmel\u003c/persname\u003e(1855-), president of\n Georgetown University; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn R[oll] McLean\u003c/persname\u003e(1848-1916),\n journalist; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn B[ell] Larner\u003c/persname\u003e(1858-1931),\n attorney; \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert E[dgar] Mattingly\u003c/persname\u003e(1868-),\n attorney; \n \u003cpersname\u003eF[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons\u003c/persname\u003e(1864-1931), attorney and judge; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn M[oulder] Wilson\u003c/persname\u003e(1837-1919),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Army; \n \u003cpersname\u003eW[alter Keyser] Bachrach\u003c/persname\u003e(1888-1963),\n Bachrach Studios; \n \u003cpersname\u003eHoward Sutherland\u003c/persname\u003e(1865-), U. S.\n Senator; \n \u003cpersname\u003eW[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries\u003c/persname\u003e(1865-1937), canon and chancellor,\n Washington Cathedral; \n \u003cpersname\u003eG[ardiner] Howland Shaw\u003c/persname\u003e(1893-1965),\n Counselor for the Department of State; \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank B[rett] Noyes\u003c/persname\u003e(1863-1948),\n president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company; \n \u003cpersname\u003eRinggold Hart\u003c/persname\u003e(1886-1965), attorney; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Hays Hammond\u003c/persname\u003e(1855-1936), chairman\n of the U. S. Coal Commission; \n \u003cpersname\u003eS[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach\u003c/persname\u003e(1869-), Brigadier General, U. S.\n Army; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn M[arshall] Robsion\u003c/persname\u003e(1878-1949), U.\n S. Representative; \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Lousie E. Bruce\"\u003eL[ouise]\n E.\u003c/persname\u003e(Mrs. William Cabell) Bruce; \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Clark\u003c/persname\u003e(1860-), U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid D[ixon] Porter\u003c/persname\u003e(1878-1944),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam T[heodore] Schulte\u003c/persname\u003e(1890-), U.\n S. Representative; \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Foote Sellers\u003c/persname\u003e(1874-1949), Rear\n Admiral, U. S. Navy; \n \u003cpersname\u003ePaul F. Douglass\u003c/persname\u003e, president of\n American University; and, \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Francis Bayard\u003c/persname\u003e(1868-1942), U.\n S. Senator.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOversize items include: Two land grants, April 13, 1787,\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Croghan\u003c/persname\u003efor tracts of land \"in\n the District set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the\n Virginia State line\" by virtue of a \"Land Office Military\n Warrant,\" signed by Governor \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund [Jennings] Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e(1753-1813);\n and, a copy of the \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eColumbian Register\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, New-Haven, July 6, 1813, published by Joseph\n Barber.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAn unpublished bound volume, 1992, entitled \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eLife and Works of Arthur Fickenscher American\n Composer\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(1871-1954), written by William W. Jones in\n collaboration with Robert S. Pace, is also present. 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He resigned in 1849 to resume his law\n practice, and in 1852 moved to Maryland where he practiced law\n chiefly before the Supreme Court of the United States. In\n 1855, President Pierce made him the first solicitor in the\n court of claims in the U. S. but President Buchanan dismissed\n him in 1858 because of his pronounced views on slavery. He\n gained prestige among anti- slavery people when he acted as\n counsel for the plaintiff in the celebrated Dred Scott case;\n he helped secure a defense attorney for John Brown after the\n Harper's Ferry incident. He was appointed postmaster general\n in 1861 by President Lincoln, and while in office, organized\n the postal system for the army, introduced compulsory payment\n of postage and free delivery in cities, improved the registry\n system, established the railway post office, organized the\n postal draft plan, stopped the franking privileges of\n postmasters, and was instrumental in bringing about the Postal\n Union Convention at Paris in 1863. After resigning from\n Lincoln's cabinet, he continued to loyally work for Lincoln.\n He believed in Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, and decried\n the disenfranchisement of the Southern whites and\n enfranchisement of the negroes. During the late 1860s he\n returned to the Democratic party.","Woodbury Blair, the son of Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth\n (Woodbury) Blair, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on\n September 1, 1852, and died on October 14, 1933. He graduated\n Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, 1874, and its\n law school, 1876. He practiced law in his father's office in\n Washington, D.C.; was counsel for Citizens' National Bank of\n Washington; trust officer and vice-president of National\n Savings and Trust Company; director in Columbia Title\n Insurance Company, Washington Railway and Electric Company,\n Potomac Electric Company, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat\n Company; and, president of the Metropolitan Club. He was also\n president of the Central dispensary and emergency hospital of\n Washington, which he developed from a small building to an\n institution of nearly a block, with 280 beds, 300 employees,\n modern nurses' home, new interns' home, x-ray laboratory, and\n out-patient and emergency departments. He was married to the\n former Emily N. Wallach.","Francis Preston Blair, lawyer and army officer, was born in\n Lexington, Kentucky, on February 10, 1821, and died in St.\n Louis, Missouri, in July 1875. After graduating from Princeton\n University in 1842, he studied law in Washington, was admitted\n to the Kentucky bar in 1843, and began to practice in St.\n Louis. When the Mexican War began he enlisted in the army as a\n private; following the war he returned to his practice in St.\n Louis. He was elected to congress, and in 1857, spoke in favor\n of colonizing the negroes of the United States in Central\n America. Following the South Carolina secession convention, he\n stressed the importance in preventing the seizure by state\n authorities of the St. Louis arsenal, and became the head of\n the military organization then formed, which occasionally\n guarded the arsenal. As brigadier-general in the army, he\n commanded a division in the Vicksburg campaign, led his troops\n in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and\n was at the head of the 17th corps during Sherman's campaigns\n in 1864-1865. After the war he served in state and government\n positions.","Charles Levi Woodbury, lawyer, was born in Portsmouth, New\n Hampshire, on May 22, 1820; and, died in 1898. He was a member\n of the Suffolk, Massachusetts bar and U. S. district attorney\n for that state 1858-1861. He edited with George Minot the\n three-volume \n Reports of Cases argued and determined in the\n Circuit Court of the United States for the First\n Circuit (Boston 1847-1852), containing the decisions of Judge\n Levi Woodbury.","Scope and Content This collection of Virginiana and Americana, 1669\n (1830-1965) 1993, consisting of ca. 200 items, was acquired\n by \n Robert S. Pace . There are\n correspondence, papers, newspaper clippings and other\n printed, 1861-1980, pertaining to the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families as well as various\n pamphlets, 1910-1917, collected by \n Woodbury Blair . The next series\n includes Virginiana and Americana in the form of\n autographs, correspondence and papers, and printed. In\n addition to autographs of prominent persons, there are\n correspondence, 1946- 1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling with prominent\n people; correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of \n Washington, D.C. ; and, correspondence\n and papers of \n Robert S. Pace , chiefly concerning\n Americana and restoration. Other material consists of World\n War II Japanese propaganda.","Blair and Woodbury Families The miscellaneous papers of the \n Blair family include: copy of a letter,\n January 31, 1861, from \n Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) to \n Gustavus V. Fox , Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, concerning the attempt to send supplies and\n relief to \n Fort Sumter ; an autograph poem, June\n 5, 1866, by \n Oliver Wendell Holmes , given to Fox to\n take to \n Russia ; a copy of a letter, September\n 10, 1915, from \n Woodbury Blair (1852-1933), Reed\n Cottage, Newport, Rhode Island, to Admiral \n F[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick (1844-1919),\n Newport, Rhode Island, concerning the relationship between\n England and the United States, with a transcript of\n Chadwick's letter of September 1, 1915, on the \"causes of\n the war\" in great detail; and, newspaper clippings about\n the \n Blair House in \n Washington, D.C. Biographical and historical information on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include pamphlets on\n the loss of \n Charles Levi Woodbury 's rare\n collection of books during the great fire in \n Boston , and on the Blairs of Virginia\n and Kentucky; and, a book entitled \n Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A Camera\n Impression by \n Samuel Chamberlain that shows the \n Governor Levi Woodbury House . Newspaper clippings on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include the last\n sermon, January 1861, of Rev. Woodbury, obituaries of \n Francis Preston Blair (1821-1875),\n Blair's involvement in the \n John C. Fremont controversy, and other\n Civil War occurrences. There are also pamphlets, 1910-1917,\n on various subjects, collected by \n Woodbury Blair .","Americana and Virginiana There are autographs, 1669, 1789-1888, of prominent\n Americans and other persons. These previously framed items\n include: 1) ALS, May 9, 1789, \n George Washington (1732-1799) to\n Governor \n [John] Hancock (1736-1793); 2) ANS, May\n 9, 1863, \n Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) with\n etching published by J. O. Wright \u0026 Co., New York, New\n York; and, 3) AMsS, March 29, 1877, last testament of \n Louis Pasteur (1822-1895); and, also \n Woodbury family items consisting of an 4)\n ALS, September 20, 1845, \n James Knox Polk (1795-1849) to \n Levi Woodbury (1789-1851); and, an 5)\n ALS, June 14, 1888, \n Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) to \"Dear\n Miss Woodbury.\" There is also 6) a royal indenture, August\n 27, 1669, between Sir \n Henry and Dame\n Agatha Chicheley and \n John Jeffries , releasing Chicheley\n land in \n Virginia to Jeffries and \n Thomas Colclough . Other items include\n 7) a land grant, November 21, 1816, signed by President \n James Madison , to \n Beverly Stubblefield , in pursuance of\n an Act of Congress, August 10, 1790, entitled \"An Act to\n enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on\n Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain\n lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little\n Miami and Sciota,\" and autographs of 8) \n Henry William DeSaussure (1763-1839),\n jurist and chancellor of South Carolina and 9) \n David Paul Brown (1795-1872), leading\n lawyer of Philadelphia and attorney for Aaron Burr. There are autographs, 1909-1965, of prominent Americans:\n Ted W. Brown , Ohio Secretary of State;\n George P. Comer , U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n William Van Zandt Cox (1852-1923),\n treasurer of the Wilson and Marshall Inaugural Committee; \n James Forrestal (1892-1949), Secretary\n of the Navy; \n Ernest J. Fuller , Navy Department; \n C. R. Heflin , Farm Loan Board; \n Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey , U. S.\n Senator and Vice-President; \n John L. McMillan , U. S.\n Representative; \n Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), forester; \n James McPherson Proctor (1882-1953),\n assistant U. S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; and, \n Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), President\n of the United States, in a letter to \n Robert S. Pace concerning the latter's\n support of \"the past national administration's work.\" Among the items in the miscellaneous correspondence are:\n autographs of \n Joseph H[arley?] Bradley (1844-?) and\n Blair Lee (1857-1944), lawyer and senator in Maryland; and,\n transcripts of an indenture, August 27, 1669, between Sir\n Henry and Dame Agatha Chicheley and John Jefferies, and a\n letter, May 23, 1857, from Lord Macauley, London, to \n Henry Stephens Randall (1811-1876),\n author of \n The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858), concerning Jefferson policy. Correspondence, 1946-1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling , chiefly concerns\n their book \n Chinese Art and related subjects. There are letters from \n Louis Bromfield ( -1956); \n Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973); \n William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); \n William J[oseph] Donovan (1883-1959); \n Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965); \n Walter H[enry] Judd (1898-); \n Estes Kefauver (1903-1963); \n Edward Martin (1879-1967); \n James A[lbert] Michener (1907-); \n Walter S. Robertson ; and, [Anna] \n Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962). There is\n a newspaper article about the Burlings and their love of\n Chinese art as well as the book jacket for their book. Correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of Washington,\n D.C., concerns its business transactions with various\n individuals as well as institutions including \n Columbia Institution for the Deaf and\n Dumb ( \n Gallaudet College ), \n Georgetown University , \n Washington Home for Foundlings , \n Commissariat of the Holyland , and the \n War Department . Correspondents\n include: \n Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1917),\n President of Gallaudet College; \n Joseph Himmel (1855-), president of\n Georgetown University; \n John R[oll] McLean (1848-1916),\n journalist; \n John B[ell] Larner (1858-1931),\n attorney; \n Robert E[dgar] Mattingly (1868-),\n attorney; \n F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons (1864-1931), attorney and judge; \n John M[oulder] Wilson (1837-1919),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Army; \n W[alter Keyser] Bachrach (1888-1963),\n Bachrach Studios; \n Howard Sutherland (1865-), U. S.\n Senator; \n W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries (1865-1937), canon and chancellor,\n Washington Cathedral; \n G[ardiner] Howland Shaw (1893-1965),\n Counselor for the Department of State; \n Frank B[rett] Noyes (1863-1948),\n president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company; \n Ringgold Hart (1886-1965), attorney; \n John Hays Hammond (1855-1936), chairman\n of the U. S. Coal Commission; \n S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach (1869-), Brigadier General, U. S.\n Army; \n John M[arshall] Robsion (1878-1949), U.\n S. Representative; \n L[ouise]\n E. (Mrs. William Cabell) Bruce; \n Frank Clark (1860-), U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n David D[ixon] Porter (1878-1944),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps; \n William T[heodore] Schulte (1890-), U.\n S. Representative; \n David Foote Sellers (1874-1949), Rear\n Admiral, U. S. Navy; \n Paul F. Douglass , president of\n American University; and, \n Thomas Francis Bayard (1868-1942), U.\n S. Senator. Oversize items include: Two land grants, April 13, 1787,\n to \n William Croghan for tracts of land \"in\n the District set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the\n Virginia State line\" by virtue of a \"Land Office Military\n Warrant,\" signed by Governor \n Edmund [Jennings] Randolph (1753-1813);\n and, a copy of the \n Columbian Register , New-Haven, July 6, 1813, published by Joseph\n Barber. An unpublished bound volume, 1992, entitled \n Life and Works of Arthur Fickenscher American\n Composer (1871-1954), written by William W. Jones in\n collaboration with Robert S. Pace, is also present. The\n work contains a chronology of Fickenscher's life, writings\n on his career and music, a reminiscence of him at the \n Univesity of Virginia , and a catalogue\n of his compositions.","","University of Virginia. Library. 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Heflin","Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey","John L. McMillan","Gifford Pinchot","James McPherson Proctor","Harry S. Truman","Joseph H[arley?] Bradley","Henry Stephens Randall","Louis Bromfield","Pearl S. Buck","William Christian Bullitt","William J[oseph] Donovan","Joseph Clark Grew","Walter H[enry] Judd","Estes Kefauver","Edward Martin","James A[lbert] Michener","Walter S. Robertson","Eleanor Roosevelt","Edward Miner Gallaudet","Joseph Himmel","John R[oll] McLean","John B[ell] Larner","Robert E[dgar] Mattingly","F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons","John M[oulder] Wilson","W[alter Keyser] Bachrach","Howard Sutherland","W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries","G[ardiner] Howland Shaw","Frank B[rett] Noyes","Ringgold Hart","John Hays Hammond","S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach","John M[arshall] Robsion","L[ouise]\n E.","Frank Clark","David D[ixon] Porter","William T[heodore] Schulte","David Foote Sellers","Paul F. 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He was appointed to West\n Point in 1831 by President Jackson; after his graduation in\n 1835 he received a lieutenancy in the army in time to serve in\n the Seminole War. The following year he resigned his\n commission in order to study law at Transylvania University.\n He settled in St. Louis, Missouri in 1837 and began practicing\n law; he was appointed U. S. district attorney for Missouri but\n removed for political reasons by President Tyler. He served as\n mayor of St. Louis, 1842-1843, and as judge of the court of\n common pleas, 1845-1849. He resigned in 1849 to resume his law\n practice, and in 1852 moved to Maryland where he practiced law\n chiefly before the Supreme Court of the United States. In\n 1855, President Pierce made him the first solicitor in the\n court of claims in the U. S. but President Buchanan dismissed\n him in 1858 because of his pronounced views on slavery. He\n gained prestige among anti- slavery people when he acted as\n counsel for the plaintiff in the celebrated Dred Scott case;\n he helped secure a defense attorney for John Brown after the\n Harper's Ferry incident. He was appointed postmaster general\n in 1861 by President Lincoln, and while in office, organized\n the postal system for the army, introduced compulsory payment\n of postage and free delivery in cities, improved the registry\n system, established the railway post office, organized the\n postal draft plan, stopped the franking privileges of\n postmasters, and was instrumental in bringing about the Postal\n Union Convention at Paris in 1863. After resigning from\n Lincoln's cabinet, he continued to loyally work for Lincoln.\n He believed in Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, and decried\n the disenfranchisement of the Southern whites and\n enfranchisement of the negroes. During the late 1860s he\n returned to the Democratic party.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoodbury Blair, the son of Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth\n (Woodbury) Blair, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on\n September 1, 1852, and died on October 14, 1933. He graduated\n Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, 1874, and its\n law school, 1876. He practiced law in his father's office in\n Washington, D.C.; was counsel for Citizens' National Bank of\n Washington; trust officer and vice-president of National\n Savings and Trust Company; director in Columbia Title\n Insurance Company, Washington Railway and Electric Company,\n Potomac Electric Company, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat\n Company; and, president of the Metropolitan Club. He was also\n president of the Central dispensary and emergency hospital of\n Washington, which he developed from a small building to an\n institution of nearly a block, with 280 beds, 300 employees,\n modern nurses' home, new interns' home, x-ray laboratory, and\n out-patient and emergency departments. He was married to the\n former Emily N. Wallach.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrancis Preston Blair, lawyer and army officer, was born in\n Lexington, Kentucky, on February 10, 1821, and died in St.\n Louis, Missouri, in July 1875. After graduating from Princeton\n University in 1842, he studied law in Washington, was admitted\n to the Kentucky bar in 1843, and began to practice in St.\n Louis. When the Mexican War began he enlisted in the army as a\n private; following the war he returned to his practice in St.\n Louis. He was elected to congress, and in 1857, spoke in favor\n of colonizing the negroes of the United States in Central\n America. Following the South Carolina secession convention, he\n stressed the importance in preventing the seizure by state\n authorities of the St. Louis arsenal, and became the head of\n the military organization then formed, which occasionally\n guarded the arsenal. As brigadier-general in the army, he\n commanded a division in the Vicksburg campaign, led his troops\n in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and\n was at the head of the 17th corps during Sherman's campaigns\n in 1864-1865. After the war he served in state and government\n positions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles Levi Woodbury, lawyer, was born in Portsmouth, New\n Hampshire, on May 22, 1820; and, died in 1898. He was a member\n of the Suffolk, Massachusetts bar and U. S. district attorney\n for that state 1858-1861. He edited with George Minot the\n three-volume \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eReports of Cases argued and determined in the\n Circuit Court of the United States for the First\n Circuit\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(Boston 1847-1852), containing the decisions of Judge\n Levi Woodbury.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Blair and Woodbury Families--Biographical\n Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Montgomery Blair, lawyer and statesman, was born in\n Franklin County, Kentucky on May 10, 1813 and died in Silver\n Spring, Maryland, on July 27, 1883. He was appointed to West\n Point in 1831 by President Jackson; after his graduation in\n 1835 he received a lieutenancy in the army in time to serve in\n the Seminole War. The following year he resigned his\n commission in order to study law at Transylvania University.\n He settled in St. Louis, Missouri in 1837 and began practicing\n law; he was appointed U. S. district attorney for Missouri but\n removed for political reasons by President Tyler. He served as\n mayor of St. Louis, 1842-1843, and as judge of the court of\n common pleas, 1845-1849. He resigned in 1849 to resume his law\n practice, and in 1852 moved to Maryland where he practiced law\n chiefly before the Supreme Court of the United States. In\n 1855, President Pierce made him the first solicitor in the\n court of claims in the U. S. but President Buchanan dismissed\n him in 1858 because of his pronounced views on slavery. He\n gained prestige among anti- slavery people when he acted as\n counsel for the plaintiff in the celebrated Dred Scott case;\n he helped secure a defense attorney for John Brown after the\n Harper's Ferry incident. He was appointed postmaster general\n in 1861 by President Lincoln, and while in office, organized\n the postal system for the army, introduced compulsory payment\n of postage and free delivery in cities, improved the registry\n system, established the railway post office, organized the\n postal draft plan, stopped the franking privileges of\n postmasters, and was instrumental in bringing about the Postal\n Union Convention at Paris in 1863. After resigning from\n Lincoln's cabinet, he continued to loyally work for Lincoln.\n He believed in Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, and decried\n the disenfranchisement of the Southern whites and\n enfranchisement of the negroes. During the late 1860s he\n returned to the Democratic party.","Woodbury Blair, the son of Montgomery and Mary Elizabeth\n (Woodbury) Blair, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on\n September 1, 1852, and died on October 14, 1933. He graduated\n Phillips Exeter Academy, and Harvard University, 1874, and its\n law school, 1876. He practiced law in his father's office in\n Washington, D.C.; was counsel for Citizens' National Bank of\n Washington; trust officer and vice-president of National\n Savings and Trust Company; director in Columbia Title\n Insurance Company, Washington Railway and Electric Company,\n Potomac Electric Company, and Norfolk and Washington Steamboat\n Company; and, president of the Metropolitan Club. He was also\n president of the Central dispensary and emergency hospital of\n Washington, which he developed from a small building to an\n institution of nearly a block, with 280 beds, 300 employees,\n modern nurses' home, new interns' home, x-ray laboratory, and\n out-patient and emergency departments. He was married to the\n former Emily N. Wallach.","Francis Preston Blair, lawyer and army officer, was born in\n Lexington, Kentucky, on February 10, 1821, and died in St.\n Louis, Missouri, in July 1875. After graduating from Princeton\n University in 1842, he studied law in Washington, was admitted\n to the Kentucky bar in 1843, and began to practice in St.\n Louis. When the Mexican War began he enlisted in the army as a\n private; following the war he returned to his practice in St.\n Louis. He was elected to congress, and in 1857, spoke in favor\n of colonizing the negroes of the United States in Central\n America. Following the South Carolina secession convention, he\n stressed the importance in preventing the seizure by state\n authorities of the St. Louis arsenal, and became the head of\n the military organization then formed, which occasionally\n guarded the arsenal. As brigadier-general in the army, he\n commanded a division in the Vicksburg campaign, led his troops\n in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and\n was at the head of the 17th corps during Sherman's campaigns\n in 1864-1865. After the war he served in state and government\n positions.","Charles Levi Woodbury, lawyer, was born in Portsmouth, New\n Hampshire, on May 22, 1820; and, died in 1898. He was a member\n of the Suffolk, Massachusetts bar and U. S. district attorney\n for that state 1858-1861. He edited with George Minot the\n three-volume \n Reports of Cases argued and determined in the\n Circuit Court of the United States for the First\n Circuit (Boston 1847-1852), containing the decisions of Judge\n Levi Woodbury."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Scope and Content This collection of Virginiana and Americana, 1669\n (1830-1965) 1993, consisting of ca. 200 items, was acquired\n by \n Robert S. Pace . There are\n correspondence, papers, newspaper clippings and other\n printed, 1861-1980, pertaining to the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families as well as various\n pamphlets, 1910-1917, collected by \n Woodbury Blair . The next series\n includes Virginiana and Americana in the form of\n autographs, correspondence and papers, and printed. In\n addition to autographs of prominent persons, there are\n correspondence, 1946- 1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling with prominent\n people; correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of \n Washington, D.C. ; and, correspondence\n and papers of \n Robert S. Pace , chiefly concerning\n Americana and restoration. Other material consists of World\n War II Japanese propaganda.","Blair and Woodbury Families The miscellaneous papers of the \n Blair family include: copy of a letter,\n January 31, 1861, from \n Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) to \n Gustavus V. Fox , Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, concerning the attempt to send supplies and\n relief to \n Fort Sumter ; an autograph poem, June\n 5, 1866, by \n Oliver Wendell Holmes , given to Fox to\n take to \n Russia ; a copy of a letter, September\n 10, 1915, from \n Woodbury Blair (1852-1933), Reed\n Cottage, Newport, Rhode Island, to Admiral \n F[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick (1844-1919),\n Newport, Rhode Island, concerning the relationship between\n England and the United States, with a transcript of\n Chadwick's letter of September 1, 1915, on the \"causes of\n the war\" in great detail; and, newspaper clippings about\n the \n Blair House in \n Washington, D.C. Biographical and historical information on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include pamphlets on\n the loss of \n Charles Levi Woodbury 's rare\n collection of books during the great fire in \n Boston , and on the Blairs of Virginia\n and Kentucky; and, a book entitled \n Portsmouth, New Hampshire: A Camera\n Impression by \n Samuel Chamberlain that shows the \n Governor Levi Woodbury House . Newspaper clippings on the \n Blair and \n Woodbury families include the last\n sermon, January 1861, of Rev. Woodbury, obituaries of \n Francis Preston Blair (1821-1875),\n Blair's involvement in the \n John C. Fremont controversy, and other\n Civil War occurrences. There are also pamphlets, 1910-1917,\n on various subjects, collected by \n Woodbury Blair .","Americana and Virginiana There are autographs, 1669, 1789-1888, of prominent\n Americans and other persons. These previously framed items\n include: 1) ALS, May 9, 1789, \n George Washington (1732-1799) to\n Governor \n [John] Hancock (1736-1793); 2) ANS, May\n 9, 1863, \n Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) with\n etching published by J. O. Wright \u0026 Co., New York, New\n York; and, 3) AMsS, March 29, 1877, last testament of \n Louis Pasteur (1822-1895); and, also \n Woodbury family items consisting of an 4)\n ALS, September 20, 1845, \n James Knox Polk (1795-1849) to \n Levi Woodbury (1789-1851); and, an 5)\n ALS, June 14, 1888, \n Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) to \"Dear\n Miss Woodbury.\" There is also 6) a royal indenture, August\n 27, 1669, between Sir \n Henry and Dame\n Agatha Chicheley and \n John Jeffries , releasing Chicheley\n land in \n Virginia to Jeffries and \n Thomas Colclough . Other items include\n 7) a land grant, November 21, 1816, signed by President \n James Madison , to \n Beverly Stubblefield , in pursuance of\n an Act of Congress, August 10, 1790, entitled \"An Act to\n enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on\n Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain\n lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little\n Miami and Sciota,\" and autographs of 8) \n Henry William DeSaussure (1763-1839),\n jurist and chancellor of South Carolina and 9) \n David Paul Brown (1795-1872), leading\n lawyer of Philadelphia and attorney for Aaron Burr. There are autographs, 1909-1965, of prominent Americans:\n Ted W. Brown , Ohio Secretary of State;\n George P. Comer , U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n William Van Zandt Cox (1852-1923),\n treasurer of the Wilson and Marshall Inaugural Committee; \n James Forrestal (1892-1949), Secretary\n of the Navy; \n Ernest J. Fuller , Navy Department; \n C. R. Heflin , Farm Loan Board; \n Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey , U. S.\n Senator and Vice-President; \n John L. McMillan , U. S.\n Representative; \n Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), forester; \n James McPherson Proctor (1882-1953),\n assistant U. S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; and, \n Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), President\n of the United States, in a letter to \n Robert S. Pace concerning the latter's\n support of \"the past national administration's work.\" Among the items in the miscellaneous correspondence are:\n autographs of \n Joseph H[arley?] Bradley (1844-?) and\n Blair Lee (1857-1944), lawyer and senator in Maryland; and,\n transcripts of an indenture, August 27, 1669, between Sir\n Henry and Dame Agatha Chicheley and John Jefferies, and a\n letter, May 23, 1857, from Lord Macauley, London, to \n Henry Stephens Randall (1811-1876),\n author of \n The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1858), concerning Jefferson policy. Correspondence, 1946-1961, of \n Judith and \n Arthur Hart Burling , chiefly concerns\n their book \n Chinese Art and related subjects. There are letters from \n Louis Bromfield ( -1956); \n Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973); \n William Christian Bullitt (1891-1967); \n William J[oseph] Donovan (1883-1959); \n Joseph Clark Grew (1880-1965); \n Walter H[enry] Judd (1898-); \n Estes Kefauver (1903-1963); \n Edward Martin (1879-1967); \n James A[lbert] Michener (1907-); \n Walter S. Robertson ; and, [Anna] \n Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962). There is\n a newspaper article about the Burlings and their love of\n Chinese art as well as the book jacket for their book. Correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n Marlow Coal Company of Washington,\n D.C., concerns its business transactions with various\n individuals as well as institutions including \n Columbia Institution for the Deaf and\n Dumb ( \n Gallaudet College ), \n Georgetown University , \n Washington Home for Foundlings , \n Commissariat of the Holyland , and the \n War Department . Correspondents\n include: \n Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1917),\n President of Gallaudet College; \n Joseph Himmel (1855-), president of\n Georgetown University; \n John R[oll] McLean (1848-1916),\n journalist; \n John B[ell] Larner (1858-1931),\n attorney; \n Robert E[dgar] Mattingly (1868-),\n attorney; \n F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons (1864-1931), attorney and judge; \n John M[oulder] Wilson (1837-1919),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Army; \n W[alter Keyser] Bachrach (1888-1963),\n Bachrach Studios; \n Howard Sutherland (1865-), U. S.\n Senator; \n W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries (1865-1937), canon and chancellor,\n Washington Cathedral; \n G[ardiner] Howland Shaw (1893-1965),\n Counselor for the Department of State; \n Frank B[rett] Noyes (1863-1948),\n president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company; \n Ringgold Hart (1886-1965), attorney; \n John Hays Hammond (1855-1936), chairman\n of the U. S. Coal Commission; \n S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach (1869-), Brigadier General, U. S.\n Army; \n John M[arshall] Robsion (1878-1949), U.\n S. Representative; \n L[ouise]\n E. (Mrs. William Cabell) Bruce; \n Frank Clark (1860-), U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n David D[ixon] Porter (1878-1944),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps; \n William T[heodore] Schulte (1890-), U.\n S. Representative; \n David Foote Sellers (1874-1949), Rear\n Admiral, U. S. Navy; \n Paul F. Douglass , president of\n American University; and, \n Thomas Francis Bayard (1868-1942), U.\n S. Senator. Oversize items include: Two land grants, April 13, 1787,\n to \n William Croghan for tracts of land \"in\n the District set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the\n Virginia State line\" by virtue of a \"Land Office Military\n Warrant,\" signed by Governor \n Edmund [Jennings] Randolph (1753-1813);\n and, a copy of the \n Columbian Register , New-Haven, July 6, 1813, published by Joseph\n Barber. An unpublished bound volume, 1992, entitled \n Life and Works of Arthur Fickenscher American\n Composer (1871-1954), written by William W. Jones in\n collaboration with Robert S. Pace, is also present. The\n work contains a chronology of Fickenscher's life, writings\n on his career and music, a reminiscence of him at the \n Univesity of Virginia , and a catalogue\n of his compositions."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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Heflin","Hubert H[oratio] Humphrey","John L. McMillan","Gifford Pinchot","James McPherson Proctor","Harry S. Truman","Joseph H[arley?] Bradley","Henry Stephens Randall","Louis Bromfield","Pearl S. Buck","William Christian Bullitt","William J[oseph] Donovan","Joseph Clark Grew","Walter H[enry] Judd","Estes Kefauver","Edward Martin","James A[lbert] Michener","Walter S. Robertson","Eleanor Roosevelt","Edward Miner Gallaudet","Joseph Himmel","John R[oll] McLean","John B[ell] Larner","Robert E[dgar] Mattingly","F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons","John M[oulder] Wilson","W[alter Keyser] Bachrach","Howard Sutherland","W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries","G[ardiner] Howland Shaw","Frank B[rett] Noyes","Ringgold Hart","John Hays Hammond","S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach","John M[arshall] Robsion","L[ouise]\n E.","Frank Clark","David D[ixon] Porter","William T[heodore] Schulte","David Foote Sellers","Paul F. Douglass","Thomas Francis Bayard","William Croghan","Edmund [Jennings] Randolph"],"corpname_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. Special\n Collections Dept.","Marlow Coal Company","Blair House","Governor Levi Woodbury House","Columbia Institution for the Deaf and\n Dumb","Gallaudet College","Georgetown University","Washington Home for Foundlings","Commissariat of the Holyland","War Department","Univesity of Virginia"],"famname_ssim":["Blair","Woodbury","Blair family","Woodbury family"],"persname_ssim":["Robert S. Pace","Woodbury Blair","Judith","Arthur Hart Burling","Montgomery Blair","Gustavus V. Fox","Oliver Wendell Holmes","F[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick","Charles Levi Woodbury","Samuel Chamberlain","Francis Preston Blair","John C. 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Robertson","Eleanor Roosevelt","Edward Miner Gallaudet","Joseph Himmel","John R[oll] McLean","John B[ell] Larner","Robert E[dgar] Mattingly","F[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons","John M[oulder] Wilson","W[alter Keyser] Bachrach","Howard Sutherland","W[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries","G[ardiner] Howland Shaw","Frank B[rett] Noyes","Ringgold Hart","John Hays Hammond","S[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach","John M[arshall] Robsion","L[ouise]\n E.","Frank Clark","David D[ixon] Porter","William T[heodore] Schulte","David Foote Sellers","Paul F. 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In\n addition to autographs of prominent persons, there are\n correspondence, 1946- 1961, of \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Judith Burling\"\u003eJudith\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Hart Burling\u003c/persname\u003ewith prominent\n people; correspondence, 1908-1944, of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMarlow Coal Company\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e; and, correspondence\n and papers of \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert S. Pace\u003c/persname\u003e, chiefly concerning\n Americana and restoration. Other material consists of World\n War II Japanese propaganda.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eBlair and Woodbury Families\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe miscellaneous papers of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlair family\u003c/famname\u003einclude: copy of a letter,\n January 31, 1861, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eMontgomery Blair\u003c/persname\u003e(1813-1883) to \n \u003cpersname\u003eGustavus V. Fox\u003c/persname\u003e, Assistant Secretary\n of the Navy, concerning the attempt to send supplies and\n relief to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFort Sumter\u003c/geogname\u003e; an autograph poem, June\n 5, 1866, by \n \u003cpersname\u003eOliver Wendell Holmes\u003c/persname\u003e, given to Fox to\n take to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRussia\u003c/geogname\u003e; a copy of a letter, September\n 10, 1915, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWoodbury Blair\u003c/persname\u003e(1852-1933), Reed\n Cottage, Newport, Rhode Island, to Admiral \n \u003cpersname\u003eF[rench] E[nsor] Chadwick\u003c/persname\u003e(1844-1919),\n Newport, Rhode Island, concerning the relationship between\n England and the United States, with a transcript of\n Chadwick's letter of September 1, 1915, on the \"causes of\n the war\" in great detail; and, newspaper clippings about\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBlair House\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWashington, D.C.\u003c/geogname\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eBiographical and historical information on the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlair\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003eWoodbury\u003c/famname\u003efamilies include pamphlets on\n the loss of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Levi Woodbury\u003c/persname\u003e's rare\n collection of books during the great fire in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBoston\u003c/geogname\u003e, and on the Blairs of Virginia\n and Kentucky; and, a book entitled \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003ePortsmouth, New Hampshire: A Camera\n Impression\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eby \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Chamberlain\u003c/persname\u003ethat shows the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGovernor Levi Woodbury House\u003c/corpname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings on the \n \u003cfamname\u003eBlair\u003c/famname\u003eand \n \u003cfamname\u003eWoodbury\u003c/famname\u003efamilies include the last\n sermon, January 1861, of Rev. Woodbury, obituaries of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrancis Preston Blair\u003c/persname\u003e(1821-1875),\n Blair's involvement in the \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn C. Fremont\u003c/persname\u003econtroversy, and other\n Civil War occurrences. There are also pamphlets, 1910-1917,\n on various subjects, collected by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWoodbury Blair\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/scopecontent\u003e","\u003cscopecontent\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eAmericana and Virginiana\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThere are autographs, 1669, 1789-1888, of prominent\n Americans and other persons. These previously framed items\n include: 1) ALS, May 9, 1789, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c/persname\u003e(1732-1799) to\n Governor \n \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Hancock\u003c/persname\u003e(1736-1793); 2) ANS, May\n 9, 1863, \n \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham Lincoln\u003c/persname\u003e(1809-1865) with\n etching published by J. O. Wright \u0026amp; Co., New York, New\n York; and, 3) AMsS, March 29, 1877, last testament of \n \u003cpersname\u003eLouis Pasteur\u003c/persname\u003e(1822-1895); and, also \n \u003cfamname\u003eWoodbury family\u003c/famname\u003eitems consisting of an 4)\n ALS, September 20, 1845, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Knox Polk\u003c/persname\u003e(1795-1849) to \n \u003cpersname\u003eLevi Woodbury\u003c/persname\u003e(1789-1851); and, an 5)\n ALS, June 14, 1888, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJefferson Davis\u003c/persname\u003e(1808-1889) to \"Dear\n Miss Woodbury.\" There is also 6) a royal indenture, August\n 27, 1669, between Sir \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Henry Chicheley\"\u003eHenry\u003c/persname\u003eand Dame\n \u003cpersname\u003eAgatha Chicheley\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Jeffries\u003c/persname\u003e, releasing Chicheley\n land in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003eto Jeffries and \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Colclough\u003c/persname\u003e. Other items include\n 7) a land grant, November 21, 1816, signed by President \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Madison\u003c/persname\u003e, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eBeverly Stubblefield\u003c/persname\u003e, in pursuance of\n an Act of Congress, August 10, 1790, entitled \"An Act to\n enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on\n Continental Establishment, to obtain Titles to certain\n lands lying northwest of the river Ohio, between the Little\n Miami and Sciota,\" and autographs of 8) \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry William DeSaussure\u003c/persname\u003e(1763-1839),\n jurist and chancellor of South Carolina and 9) \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Paul Brown\u003c/persname\u003e(1795-1872), leading\n lawyer of Philadelphia and attorney for Aaron Burr.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThere are autographs, 1909-1965, of prominent Americans:\n \u003cpersname\u003eTed W. Brown\u003c/persname\u003e, Ohio Secretary of State;\n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge P. Comer\u003c/persname\u003e, U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Van Zandt Cox\u003c/persname\u003e(1852-1923),\n treasurer of the Wilson and Marshall Inaugural Committee; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Forrestal\u003c/persname\u003e(1892-1949), Secretary\n of the Navy; \n \u003cpersname\u003eErnest J. Fuller\u003c/persname\u003e, Navy Department; \n \u003cpersname\u003eC. R. Heflin\u003c/persname\u003e, Farm Loan Board; \n \u003cpersname\u003eHubert H[oratio] Humphrey\u003c/persname\u003e, U. S.\n Senator and Vice-President; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn L. McMillan\u003c/persname\u003e, U. S.\n Representative; \n \u003cpersname\u003eGifford Pinchot\u003c/persname\u003e(1865-1946), forester; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames McPherson Proctor\u003c/persname\u003e(1882-1953),\n assistant U. S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; and, \n \u003cpersname\u003eHarry S. Truman\u003c/persname\u003e(1884-1972), President\n of the United States, in a letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert S. Pace\u003c/persname\u003econcerning the latter's\n support of \"the past national administration's work.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAmong the items in the miscellaneous correspondence are:\n autographs of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph H[arley?] Bradley\u003c/persname\u003e(1844-?) and\n Blair Lee (1857-1944), lawyer and senator in Maryland; and,\n transcripts of an indenture, August 27, 1669, between Sir\n Henry and Dame Agatha Chicheley and John Jefferies, and a\n letter, May 23, 1857, from Lord Macauley, London, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eHenry Stephens Randall\u003c/persname\u003e(1811-1876),\n author of \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Life of Thomas Jefferson\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(1858), concerning Jefferson policy.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1946-1961, of \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Judith Burling\"\u003eJudith\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Hart Burling\u003c/persname\u003e, chiefly concerns\n their book \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eChinese Art\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003eand related subjects. There are letters from \n \u003cpersname\u003eLouis Bromfield\u003c/persname\u003e( -1956); \n \u003cpersname\u003ePearl S. Buck\u003c/persname\u003e(1892-1973); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Christian Bullitt\u003c/persname\u003e(1891-1967); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam J[oseph] Donovan\u003c/persname\u003e(1883-1959); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Clark Grew\u003c/persname\u003e(1880-1965); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWalter H[enry] Judd\u003c/persname\u003e(1898-); \n \u003cpersname\u003eEstes Kefauver\u003c/persname\u003e(1903-1963); \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Martin\u003c/persname\u003e(1879-1967); \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames A[lbert] Michener\u003c/persname\u003e(1907-); \n \u003cpersname\u003eWalter S. Robertson\u003c/persname\u003e; and, [Anna] \n \u003cpersname\u003eEleanor Roosevelt\u003c/persname\u003e(1884-1962). 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Correspondents\n include: \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Miner Gallaudet\u003c/persname\u003e(1837-1917),\n President of Gallaudet College; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Himmel\u003c/persname\u003e(1855-), president of\n Georgetown University; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn R[oll] McLean\u003c/persname\u003e(1848-1916),\n journalist; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn B[ell] Larner\u003c/persname\u003e(1858-1931),\n attorney; \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert E[dgar] Mattingly\u003c/persname\u003e(1868-),\n attorney; \n \u003cpersname\u003eF[rederick] L[incoln]\n Siddons\u003c/persname\u003e(1864-1931), attorney and judge; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn M[oulder] Wilson\u003c/persname\u003e(1837-1919),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Army; \n \u003cpersname\u003eW[alter Keyser] Bachrach\u003c/persname\u003e(1888-1963),\n Bachrach Studios; \n \u003cpersname\u003eHoward Sutherland\u003c/persname\u003e(1865-), U. S.\n Senator; \n \u003cpersname\u003eW[illiam] L[evering]\n DeVries\u003c/persname\u003e(1865-1937), canon and chancellor,\n Washington Cathedral; \n \u003cpersname\u003eG[ardiner] Howland Shaw\u003c/persname\u003e(1893-1965),\n Counselor for the Department of State; \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank B[rett] Noyes\u003c/persname\u003e(1863-1948),\n president of the Evening Star Newspaper Company; \n \u003cpersname\u003eRinggold Hart\u003c/persname\u003e(1886-1965), attorney; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Hays Hammond\u003c/persname\u003e(1855-1936), chairman\n of the U. S. Coal Commission; \n \u003cpersname\u003eS[amuel] D[ickerson]\n Rockenbach\u003c/persname\u003e(1869-), Brigadier General, U. S.\n Army; \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn M[arshall] Robsion\u003c/persname\u003e(1878-1949), U.\n S. Representative; \n \u003cpersname normal=\"Lousie E. Bruce\"\u003eL[ouise]\n E.\u003c/persname\u003e(Mrs. William Cabell) Bruce; \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Clark\u003c/persname\u003e(1860-), U. S. Tariff\n Commission; \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid D[ixon] Porter\u003c/persname\u003e(1878-1944),\n Brigadier General, U. S. Marine Corps; \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam T[heodore] Schulte\u003c/persname\u003e(1890-), U.\n S. Representative; \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Foote Sellers\u003c/persname\u003e(1874-1949), Rear\n Admiral, U. S. Navy; \n \u003cpersname\u003ePaul F. Douglass\u003c/persname\u003e, president of\n American University; and, \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Francis Bayard\u003c/persname\u003e(1868-1942), U.\n S. Senator.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eOversize items include: Two land grants, April 13, 1787,\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Croghan\u003c/persname\u003efor tracts of land \"in\n the District set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the\n Virginia State line\" by virtue of a \"Land Office Military\n Warrant,\" signed by Governor \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdmund [Jennings] Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e(1753-1813);\n and, a copy of the \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eColumbian Register\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e, New-Haven, July 6, 1813, published by Joseph\n Barber.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eAn unpublished bound volume, 1992, entitled \n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eLife and Works of Arthur Fickenscher American\n Composer\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/bibref\u003e(1871-1954), written by William W. Jones in\n collaboration with Robert S. Pace, is also present. 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Jett Lauck papers","Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969","World War, 1939-1945","New Deal, 1933-1939","Depressions - 1929","United Mine Workers of America","Labor unions","American Association for Economic Freedom","Anthracite coal--Pennsylvania","Railroads -- History","Railroads","Electric railroads","World War, 1914-1918","Economics","Work diaries used to keep a record of Lauck's activities on behalf of a number of organizations, arranged by date in Boxes 216-219. Due to their fragile condition, access to the original diaries is restricted. Researchers should use the diaries on microfilm M-1239-1241.","There are fifteen series in this collection. The two largest series are the Cases and Topical series. The majority of series have at least two subseries. Lauck had created two earlier indexes to his files and they were used to shape the current re-organization of the collection, particularly concerning the case files. Some of the decisions concerning arrangement were made due to the difficulties of completing the processing of the W. Jett Lauck papers during the Pandemic of 2020-2021. ","An Outline of the Arrangement is as follows: Series 1) Correspondence (Boxes 1-16); Series 2) American Association for Economic Freedom (Boxes 17-37 and Card files boxes 1-12); Series 3) National War Labor Board (Boxes 38-56); Series 4) Congress of Industrial Organizations (Boxes 57-67); Series 5) Commission on Industrial Relations (Boxes 68-72); Series 6) Articles, Memoranda, and Speeches by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 73-91) with Subseries A) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for use by himself (Boxes 73-91), Subseries B) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for other people to use (Boxes 82-88), and Subseries C) Banking Monograph by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 89-91); Series 7) Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Commission (Boxes 92-103); Series 8) Cases (Boxes 104-204) with Subseries A) Railroad (Boxes 104-146), Subseries B) General (Boxes 147-169), and Subseries C) Coal (Boxes 170-204); Series 9) Arbitrations (Boxes 205-211); Series 10) Dockets and Other Records of Work by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 212-219); Series 11) Personal, Financial and Miscellany Papers (Boxes 220-233) with Subseries A) Financial Correspondence and Files (Boxes 220-225), Subseries B) Bureau of Applied Economics (Boxes 225-226), Subseries C) College Notes and School Papers (Boxes 227-230), and Subseries D) Notes, Notebooks, Photographs, Post cards and Miscellany (Boxes 230-233); Series 12) The National Recovery Act and National Recovery Administration (Boxes 234-241) with Subseries A) General Files (Boxes 234-238) and Subseries B) National Recovery Administration Codes (Boxes 238-241); Series 13) Oversize Scrapbook Volumes of Newspaper Clippings and News clippings Files with Subseries A) Scrapbooks (Boxes 242-252) and Subseries B) News clipping Files (Boxes 253-257); Series 14) Topical Files with Subseries A) Coal (Boxes 258-270), Subseries B) Railroad (Boxes 271-287), and Subseries C) General A-Z (Boxes 288-389); and Series 15) Printed Material and Works by Others (Boxes 389-399) with Subseries A) Printed Material (Boxes 389-396) and Subseries B) Works by Others (Boxes 397-399).","William Jett Lauck, an American economist and statistician, whose work expertise and experience was both broad and varied, was born on August 2, 1879, in Keyser, West Virginia, to William Blackford Lauck, a railway official, and Emma Eltinge (Spengler) Lauck. He attended Keyser High School and Washington and Lee University (Bachelor of Arts, 1903), becoming a Fellow in the department of political economy at the University of Chicago, 1903-1906. Lauck was an associate professor of economics and political science at Washington and Lee University, 1905-1908, until he entered government service in 1908. That same year, he was married to Eleanor Moore Dunlap of Lexington, Virginia, and they had three children, William Jett Lauck, Jr., Eleanor Moore Lauck and Peter Blackford Lauck. Lauck belonged to the Cosmos and Chevy Chase clubs and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma, and Theta Nu Epsilon.","Lauck joining the United States Immigration Commission in 1908-1909, where he designed a survey of immigration for the Commission. Lauck was the chief examiner for the Tariff Board, 1910-1911. The U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations hired Lauck in 1913-1915 as a managerial expert and consulting statistician to design their investigation into industrial problems in the United States. He was an economic advisor on the Canadian Commission on Economic Development, 1916. Lauck joined the U.S. National War Labor Board in 1918 as Secretary. ","Lauck also took part in the national movement for banking reform and the establishment of the Federal Reserve banking system1911-1912. As an expert on railway economics, he represented the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers in their demands for wage increases during a series of arbitrations from 1912-1919, the Western freight weight case, 1915, and also represented the railroad unions in several high-profile national railroad arbitrations in the early twenties. Lauck functioned as the economic advisor for presidential candidate James B. Cox in 1920 and 1924. In 1926, Lauck devised a settlement to end the Passaic New Jersey textile strike. ","During a large part of his career, W. Jett Lauck acted as an economic advisor to John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, the Committee on Industrial Organization, the United Automobile Workers and other union organizations, in arbitrations and cases, 1919-1939. He was an investigator for the U.S. Coal Commission, 1923 and economist for the Grain Marketing Company, Chicago, 1924-1925. Lauck assisted on the legislative drafting committee for the National Recovery Act in 1933 and as an expert advisor to the Senate Finance Committee on the revision of the National Recovery Act in 1935. He was also a member of various special boards, and a labor advisor to the Coal Section of the National Recovery Act, 1933-1935. He was also often a government expert witness, as seen in his work for the House of Representatives Special Committee on Government Competition with Private Business, 1933. Lauck served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry Coal Commission, 1937. ","Lauck was Vice President of the organization American Association for Economic Freedom. He was also an author or co-author of many books and other publications, including \"The Causes of the Panic of 1893\" (1905); \"The Immigration Problem\" with Johann Wolfgang Jenks (1911); \"Conditions of Labor in American Industries\" with Edgar Sydenstricker (1917); \"The Industrial Code\" with C.S. Watts (1923); Political and Industrial Democracy, 1776-1926\" (1926); and \"The New Industrial Revolution and Wages\" (1929) and Editor of \"British War Experience Series.\"","\"W. Jett Lauck: Biography of a Reformer\" by Carmen Brissette Grayson is a 1975 University of Virginia dissertation that covers the early part of Lauck's career up until the Depression.","Manuscript student assistants who worked on the W. Jett Lauck papers for at least one semester include Jacob M. Baker, Shannon Lee, Jacob T. Shaw, and Emily Shipman.","Only two copies of identical duplicates having no annotations were kept. Duplicates were compared and only two were kept of each unique document or publication. News clippings were only copied if used by Lauck in a case or arbitration, contained an article or other work by him, or information pertaining to his work and career. Others were sorted and arranged by topcs that he had written on the clipping; those with no obvious relevance were discarded. Ledgers and scrapbooks were rehoused in acid free cubic boxes or phase boxes created by the Preservation staff.","Originally the papers were organized with the help of a University of Virginia history seminar sometime between their transfer to Special Collections from the Law Library and 1973, producing a large paper finding aid consisting of the list of the file folder headings. Folders were replaced near the end of the 1990's but some folder headings were lost or corrupted. In 2018, the papers were re-organized into series based on several early indexes created by the office of W. Jett Lauck. Folder headings were corrected based on the indexes, the original paper finding aid, and Lauck's notations on the tops of his documents. Headings were altered on the folders when possible to match the finding aid but only some of the folders were replaced due to constraints of time and money.","Physical processing work was complicated by constant student assistant turn-over and the interruption of the Pandemic of 2020-2021, which prevented onsite work for almost six months and allowed only several onsite short stints per week the rest of the time. The finding aid is as accurate as these conditions have permitted but there may well be inconsistencies. If such errors are discovered, we welcome researcher input.","The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from its formative World War I years until 1949. They begin with his association with the progressive labor codes of the Taft-Walsh Labor Relations Commission and continue with the Railway Labor Act of 1926; the fight to gain recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining \"through representatives of their own choosing\" under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933; the incorporation of its principles in the National Labor Relations Act; and further activity in defense of this act.","Other manuscripts deal with studies of government competition with private business, the American Association for Economic Freedom, the New York Power Authority; branch, chain, and group banking, drafts of speeches, and work diary accounts of activities and meetings with prominent congressional and labor leaders on labor problems and legislation.","The largest portions of the W. Jett Lauck papers deal with cases and arbitrations, chiefly railroad and coal related, his work on various boards and commission and topical files.","His correspondence with individuals heading organizations interested in labor and industrial relations was wide-spread, just as it was with political figures, educators, and labor leaders.\n Among the public figures with whom he corresponded are Bernard Baruch, Homer S. Cummings, Clarence A. Dystra, John T. Flynn, Guy M. Gillette, Leon Henderson, Herbert Hoover, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, William S. Knudsen, Robert M. Fa Follette, Jr., Franklin K. Lane, John L. Lewis, H.C. Lodge, Jr., William G. McAdoo, James M. Mead, Francis P. Miller, Henry Morgenthau, Karl E. Mundt, Donald Nelson, Judge Ferdinand Pecora, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, James H. Price, Franklin D. Roosevelt, E.R. Stettinius, Jr., Robert F. Wagner, David I. Walsh, Burton K. Wheeler, and Woodrow Wilson.\nThe educators include Hardy Dillard, Edward C. Elliot, Frank Graham, J.W. Jenks, Richard R. Mead, Lewis Tyree, Harry F. Ward, H.B. Wells, and Ray Lyman Wilbur; and the labor leaders Jacob Baker, Solomon Barkin, Van A. Bittner, Sophia Carey, David Dubinsky, P.T. Fagan, John P. Frey, William Green, Sydney Hillman, Earl E. Houck, Thomas Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, and A.O. Wharton.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","Lauck, W. 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Jett Lauck papers was given to University of Virginia Law Library by Charles Chase, Washington, D.C. in April 1954 and then transferred from the Law Library to the University of Virginia Special Collections Library on March 23, 1973 and October 7, 1974. The second accession (formerly MSS 4742-a) was given to the Special Collections Library on October 31, 1979, by Charles Chase, with Peter B. Lauck and Eleanor M. Lauck, Annapolis, Maryland, as the donors of record. The last accession (formerly MSS 4742-b)was given to the Libary on 2012 by Peter B. Lauck and Eleanor M. 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Jett Lauck papers during the Pandemic of 2020-2021. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAn Outline of the Arrangement is as follows: Series 1) Correspondence (Boxes 1-16); Series 2) American Association for Economic Freedom (Boxes 17-37 and Card files boxes 1-12); Series 3) National War Labor Board (Boxes 38-56); Series 4) Congress of Industrial Organizations (Boxes 57-67); Series 5) Commission on Industrial Relations (Boxes 68-72); Series 6) Articles, Memoranda, and Speeches by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 73-91) with Subseries A) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for use by himself (Boxes 73-91), Subseries B) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for other people to use (Boxes 82-88), and Subseries C) Banking Monograph by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 89-91); Series 7) Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Commission (Boxes 92-103); Series 8) Cases (Boxes 104-204) with Subseries A) Railroad (Boxes 104-146), Subseries B) General (Boxes 147-169), and Subseries C) Coal (Boxes 170-204); Series 9) Arbitrations (Boxes 205-211); Series 10) Dockets and Other Records of Work by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 212-219); Series 11) Personal, Financial and Miscellany Papers (Boxes 220-233) with Subseries A) Financial Correspondence and Files (Boxes 220-225), Subseries B) Bureau of Applied Economics (Boxes 225-226), Subseries C) College Notes and School Papers (Boxes 227-230), and Subseries D) Notes, Notebooks, Photographs, Post cards and Miscellany (Boxes 230-233); Series 12) The National Recovery Act and National Recovery Administration (Boxes 234-241) with Subseries A) General Files (Boxes 234-238) and Subseries B) National Recovery Administration Codes (Boxes 238-241); Series 13) Oversize Scrapbook Volumes of Newspaper Clippings and News clippings Files with Subseries A) Scrapbooks (Boxes 242-252) and Subseries B) News clipping Files (Boxes 253-257); Series 14) Topical Files with Subseries A) Coal (Boxes 258-270), Subseries B) Railroad (Boxes 271-287), and Subseries C) General A-Z (Boxes 288-389); and Series 15) Printed Material and Works by Others (Boxes 389-399) with Subseries A) Printed Material (Boxes 389-396) and Subseries B) Works by Others (Boxes 397-399).\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["There are fifteen series in this collection. The two largest series are the Cases and Topical series. The majority of series have at least two subseries. Lauck had created two earlier indexes to his files and they were used to shape the current re-organization of the collection, particularly concerning the case files. Some of the decisions concerning arrangement were made due to the difficulties of completing the processing of the W. Jett Lauck papers during the Pandemic of 2020-2021. ","An Outline of the Arrangement is as follows: Series 1) Correspondence (Boxes 1-16); Series 2) American Association for Economic Freedom (Boxes 17-37 and Card files boxes 1-12); Series 3) National War Labor Board (Boxes 38-56); Series 4) Congress of Industrial Organizations (Boxes 57-67); Series 5) Commission on Industrial Relations (Boxes 68-72); Series 6) Articles, Memoranda, and Speeches by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 73-91) with Subseries A) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for use by himself (Boxes 73-91), Subseries B) Work created by W. Jett Lauck for other people to use (Boxes 82-88), and Subseries C) Banking Monograph by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 89-91); Series 7) Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Commission (Boxes 92-103); Series 8) Cases (Boxes 104-204) with Subseries A) Railroad (Boxes 104-146), Subseries B) General (Boxes 147-169), and Subseries C) Coal (Boxes 170-204); Series 9) Arbitrations (Boxes 205-211); Series 10) Dockets and Other Records of Work by W. Jett Lauck (Boxes 212-219); Series 11) Personal, Financial and Miscellany Papers (Boxes 220-233) with Subseries A) Financial Correspondence and Files (Boxes 220-225), Subseries B) Bureau of Applied Economics (Boxes 225-226), Subseries C) College Notes and School Papers (Boxes 227-230), and Subseries D) Notes, Notebooks, Photographs, Post cards and Miscellany (Boxes 230-233); Series 12) The National Recovery Act and National Recovery Administration (Boxes 234-241) with Subseries A) General Files (Boxes 234-238) and Subseries B) National Recovery Administration Codes (Boxes 238-241); Series 13) Oversize Scrapbook Volumes of Newspaper Clippings and News clippings Files with Subseries A) Scrapbooks (Boxes 242-252) and Subseries B) News clipping Files (Boxes 253-257); Series 14) Topical Files with Subseries A) Coal (Boxes 258-270), Subseries B) Railroad (Boxes 271-287), and Subseries C) General A-Z (Boxes 288-389); and Series 15) Printed Material and Works by Others (Boxes 389-399) with Subseries A) Printed Material (Boxes 389-396) and Subseries B) Works by Others (Boxes 397-399)."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam Jett Lauck, an American economist and statistician, whose work expertise and experience was both broad and varied, was born on August 2, 1879, in Keyser, West Virginia, to William Blackford Lauck, a railway official, and Emma Eltinge (Spengler) Lauck. He attended Keyser High School and Washington and Lee University (Bachelor of Arts, 1903), becoming a Fellow in the department of political economy at the University of Chicago, 1903-1906. Lauck was an associate professor of economics and political science at Washington and Lee University, 1905-1908, until he entered government service in 1908. That same year, he was married to Eleanor Moore Dunlap of Lexington, Virginia, and they had three children, William Jett Lauck, Jr., Eleanor Moore Lauck and Peter Blackford Lauck. Lauck belonged to the Cosmos and Chevy Chase clubs and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma, and Theta Nu Epsilon.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLauck joining the United States Immigration Commission in 1908-1909, where he designed a survey of immigration for the Commission. Lauck was the chief examiner for the Tariff Board, 1910-1911. The U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations hired Lauck in 1913-1915 as a managerial expert and consulting statistician to design their investigation into industrial problems in the United States. He was an economic advisor on the Canadian Commission on Economic Development, 1916. Lauck joined the U.S. National War Labor Board in 1918 as Secretary. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLauck also took part in the national movement for banking reform and the establishment of the Federal Reserve banking system1911-1912. As an expert on railway economics, he represented the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers in their demands for wage increases during a series of arbitrations from 1912-1919, the Western freight weight case, 1915, and also represented the railroad unions in several high-profile national railroad arbitrations in the early twenties. Lauck functioned as the economic advisor for presidential candidate James B. Cox in 1920 and 1924. 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He was also often a government expert witness, as seen in his work for the House of Representatives Special Committee on Government Competition with Private Business, 1933. Lauck served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry Coal Commission, 1937. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLauck was Vice President of the organization American Association for Economic Freedom. He was also an author or co-author of many books and other publications, including \"The Causes of the Panic of 1893\" (1905); \"The Immigration Problem\" with Johann Wolfgang Jenks (1911); \"Conditions of Labor in American Industries\" with Edgar Sydenstricker (1917); \"The Industrial Code\" with C.S. Watts (1923); Political and Industrial Democracy, 1776-1926\" (1926); and \"The New Industrial Revolution and Wages\" (1929) and Editor of \"British War Experience Series.\"\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\"W. Jett Lauck: Biography of a Reformer\" by Carmen Brissette Grayson is a 1975 University of Virginia dissertation that covers the early part of Lauck's career up until the Depression.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["William Jett Lauck, an American economist and statistician, whose work expertise and experience was both broad and varied, was born on August 2, 1879, in Keyser, West Virginia, to William Blackford Lauck, a railway official, and Emma Eltinge (Spengler) Lauck. He attended Keyser High School and Washington and Lee University (Bachelor of Arts, 1903), becoming a Fellow in the department of political economy at the University of Chicago, 1903-1906. Lauck was an associate professor of economics and political science at Washington and Lee University, 1905-1908, until he entered government service in 1908. That same year, he was married to Eleanor Moore Dunlap of Lexington, Virginia, and they had three children, William Jett Lauck, Jr., Eleanor Moore Lauck and Peter Blackford Lauck. Lauck belonged to the Cosmos and Chevy Chase clubs and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma, and Theta Nu Epsilon.","Lauck joining the United States Immigration Commission in 1908-1909, where he designed a survey of immigration for the Commission. Lauck was the chief examiner for the Tariff Board, 1910-1911. The U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations hired Lauck in 1913-1915 as a managerial expert and consulting statistician to design their investigation into industrial problems in the United States. He was an economic advisor on the Canadian Commission on Economic Development, 1916. Lauck joined the U.S. National War Labor Board in 1918 as Secretary. ","Lauck also took part in the national movement for banking reform and the establishment of the Federal Reserve banking system1911-1912. As an expert on railway economics, he represented the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers in their demands for wage increases during a series of arbitrations from 1912-1919, the Western freight weight case, 1915, and also represented the railroad unions in several high-profile national railroad arbitrations in the early twenties. Lauck functioned as the economic advisor for presidential candidate James B. Cox in 1920 and 1924. In 1926, Lauck devised a settlement to end the Passaic New Jersey textile strike. ","During a large part of his career, W. Jett Lauck acted as an economic advisor to John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, the Committee on Industrial Organization, the United Automobile Workers and other union organizations, in arbitrations and cases, 1919-1939. He was an investigator for the U.S. Coal Commission, 1923 and economist for the Grain Marketing Company, Chicago, 1924-1925. Lauck assisted on the legislative drafting committee for the National Recovery Act in 1933 and as an expert advisor to the Senate Finance Committee on the revision of the National Recovery Act in 1935. He was also a member of various special boards, and a labor advisor to the Coal Section of the National Recovery Act, 1933-1935. He was also often a government expert witness, as seen in his work for the House of Representatives Special Committee on Government Competition with Private Business, 1933. Lauck served as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Anthracite Industry Coal Commission, 1937. ","Lauck was Vice President of the organization American Association for Economic Freedom. He was also an author or co-author of many books and other publications, including \"The Causes of the Panic of 1893\" (1905); \"The Immigration Problem\" with Johann Wolfgang Jenks (1911); \"Conditions of Labor in American Industries\" with Edgar Sydenstricker (1917); \"The Industrial Code\" with C.S. Watts (1923); Political and Industrial Democracy, 1776-1926\" (1926); and \"The New Industrial Revolution and Wages\" (1929) and Editor of \"British War Experience Series.\"","\"W. Jett Lauck: Biography of a Reformer\" by Carmen Brissette Grayson is a 1975 University of Virginia dissertation that covers the early part of Lauck's career up until the Depression."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManuscript student assistants who worked on the W. Jett Lauck papers for at least one semester include Jacob M. Baker, Shannon Lee, Jacob T. Shaw, and Emily Shipman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOnly two copies of identical duplicates having no annotations were kept. Duplicates were compared and only two were kept of each unique document or publication. News clippings were only copied if used by Lauck in a case or arbitration, contained an article or other work by him, or information pertaining to his work and career. Others were sorted and arranged by topcs that he had written on the clipping; those with no obvious relevance were discarded. Ledgers and scrapbooks were rehoused in acid free cubic boxes or phase boxes created by the Preservation staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginally the papers were organized with the help of a University of Virginia history seminar sometime between their transfer to Special Collections from the Law Library and 1973, producing a large paper finding aid consisting of the list of the file folder headings. Folders were replaced near the end of the 1990's but some folder headings were lost or corrupted. In 2018, the papers were re-organized into series based on several early indexes created by the office of W. Jett Lauck. Folder headings were corrected based on the indexes, the original paper finding aid, and Lauck's notations on the tops of his documents. Headings were altered on the folders when possible to match the finding aid but only some of the folders were replaced due to constraints of time and money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical processing work was complicated by constant student assistant turn-over and the interruption of the Pandemic of 2020-2021, which prevented onsite work for almost six months and allowed only several onsite short stints per week the rest of the time. The finding aid is as accurate as these conditions have permitted but there may well be inconsistencies. If such errors are discovered, we welcome researcher input.\u003c/p\u003e"],"processinfo_heading_ssm":["Processing Information"],"processinfo_tesim":["Manuscript student assistants who worked on the W. Jett Lauck papers for at least one semester include Jacob M. Baker, Shannon Lee, Jacob T. Shaw, and Emily Shipman.","Only two copies of identical duplicates having no annotations were kept. Duplicates were compared and only two were kept of each unique document or publication. News clippings were only copied if used by Lauck in a case or arbitration, contained an article or other work by him, or information pertaining to his work and career. Others were sorted and arranged by topcs that he had written on the clipping; those with no obvious relevance were discarded. Ledgers and scrapbooks were rehoused in acid free cubic boxes or phase boxes created by the Preservation staff.","Originally the papers were organized with the help of a University of Virginia history seminar sometime between their transfer to Special Collections from the Law Library and 1973, producing a large paper finding aid consisting of the list of the file folder headings. Folders were replaced near the end of the 1990's but some folder headings were lost or corrupted. In 2018, the papers were re-organized into series based on several early indexes created by the office of W. Jett Lauck. Folder headings were corrected based on the indexes, the original paper finding aid, and Lauck's notations on the tops of his documents. Headings were altered on the folders when possible to match the finding aid but only some of the folders were replaced due to constraints of time and money.","Physical processing work was complicated by constant student assistant turn-over and the interruption of the Pandemic of 2020-2021, which prevented onsite work for almost six months and allowed only several onsite short stints per week the rest of the time. The finding aid is as accurate as these conditions have permitted but there may well be inconsistencies. If such errors are discovered, we welcome researcher input."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from its formative World War I years until 1949. They begin with his association with the progressive labor codes of the Taft-Walsh Labor Relations Commission and continue with the Railway Labor Act of 1926; the fight to gain recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining \"through representatives of their own choosing\" under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933; the incorporation of its principles in the National Labor Relations Act; and further activity in defense of this act.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther manuscripts deal with studies of government competition with private business, the American Association for Economic Freedom, the New York Power Authority; branch, chain, and group banking, drafts of speeches, and work diary accounts of activities and meetings with prominent congressional and labor leaders on labor problems and legislation.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe largest portions of the W. Jett Lauck papers deal with cases and arbitrations, chiefly railroad and coal related, his work on various boards and commission and topical files.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHis correspondence with individuals heading organizations interested in labor and industrial relations was wide-spread, just as it was with political figures, educators, and labor leaders.\n Among the public figures with whom he corresponded are Bernard Baruch, Homer S. Cummings, Clarence A. Dystra, John T. Flynn, Guy M. Gillette, Leon Henderson, Herbert Hoover, Hugh S. Johnson, Jesse Jones, William S. Knudsen, Robert M. Fa Follette, Jr., Franklin K. Lane, John L. Lewis, H.C. Lodge, Jr., William G. McAdoo, James M. Mead, Francis P. Miller, Henry Morgenthau, Karl E. Mundt, Donald Nelson, Judge Ferdinand Pecora, Frances Perkins, Gifford Pinchot, James H. Price, Franklin D. Roosevelt, E.R. Stettinius, Jr., Robert F. Wagner, David I. Walsh, Burton K. Wheeler, and Woodrow Wilson.\nThe educators include Hardy Dillard, Edward C. Elliot, Frank Graham, J.W. Jenks, Richard R. Mead, Lewis Tyree, Harry F. Ward, H.B. Wells, and Ray Lyman Wilbur; and the labor leaders Jacob Baker, Solomon Barkin, Van A. Bittner, Sophia Carey, David Dubinsky, P.T. Fagan, John P. Frey, William Green, Sydney Hillman, Earl E. Houck, Thomas Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, and A.O. Wharton.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The W. Jett Lauck collection consists of his professional, business and personal papers as an economist, statistician and government consultant on immigration, banking, railroads, coal, and unemployment problems as well as other facets of labor in the United States. Included are correspondence, scrapbooks of news clippings reflecting his activities, labor reports and studies, drafts of congressional bills, legal briefs, and other material concerning labor problems in the United States from its formative World War I years until 1949. They begin with his association with the progressive labor codes of the Taft-Walsh Labor Relations Commission and continue with the Railway Labor Act of 1926; the fight to gain recognition of labor's right to collective bargaining \"through representatives of their own choosing\" under the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933; the incorporation of its principles in the National Labor Relations Act; and further activity in defense of this act.","Other manuscripts deal with studies of government competition with private business, the American Association for Economic Freedom, the New York Power Authority; branch, chain, and group banking, drafts of speeches, and work diary accounts of activities and meetings with prominent congressional and labor leaders on labor problems and legislation.","The largest portions of the W. 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Kissam's wife was Catherine Rutgers, whose family owned a large amount of land in New York, and his brother Daniel was a judge in the Court of Common Pleas in Jamaica, New York. For a time, Benjamin was primarily responsible for the support of his younger brother Sammy, perhaps the Samuel Kissam who became a doctor and friend of Jay. Benjamin Kissam died in 1782.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Benjamin Kissam (1728 – 1782) was a prominent lawyer in New York City who trained prospective lawyers in his office on Golden Hill. From 1764 until 1768, one of his clerks was John Jay, who grew to admire and love his mentor. Kissam's wife was Catherine Rutgers, whose family owned a large amount of land in New York, and his brother Daniel was a judge in the Court of Common Pleas in Jamaica, New York. For a time, Benjamin was primarily responsible for the support of his younger brother Sammy, perhaps the Samuel Kissam who became a doctor and friend of Jay. Benjamin Kissam died in 1782."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThese manuscript volumes reveal a great deal about Benjamin Kissam's practice, and provide a window on the legal world in New York City on the eve of the American Revolution. The ledger was kept from 1755 to 1776, and contains accounts of clients, both individual and corporate, relatives, servants, and other lawyers. Although there is no mention of John Jay, this ledger was in use during the period of Jay's clerkship with Kissam. His clients ranged across the social spectrum, and he sometimes noted their places of residence or occupations. Since he kept thorough and detailed records for these accounts, the great number of blanks on the credit side suggests that many of them were never settled. Occasionally, he noted that he would never be paid for a certain account. In transactions involving family members and employees, he kept careful records of money spent or advanced and funds repaid.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder the name of James Duane, another prominent lawyer and later federal judge, Kissam wrote: \"N.B. Mr. Duane Composes Judgments for me and lets me take the fees to my own Use, and I the same to him, therefore the articles charged on the other side for Judgmts. composed by me are not to be charged to him.\" (p. 51).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eKissam represented the proprietors of the Kayoderosseras, a huge area of land formerly inhabited by the Mohawk. The Native Americans felt they had been treated unfairly when the land patent was granted to a number of colonists in the early eighteenth century. Kissam's ledger lists the services he performed for the proprietors in reaching a new settlement with the Mohawk in 1768.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe \"Supream Court Register\" contains information on the cases Kissam had before that court from 1768 to 1775 (the ledger indicates that he kept other registers for other jurisdictions during this period.). At the beginning of the entry for each case, he lists the names of the plaintiff and defendant, usually the name of the other attorney, and the means by which he got involved in the case. He then describes the actions taken in the case, and the dates as well as his costs and fees. If the case concerned a debt, he noted when and how it was repaid. Occasionally, he had the client sign a statement in the register saying that he would pay Kissam, or that he or she had received from Kissam the money recovered from the case.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlmost all of the cases in the register are civil, and debt is by far the most common type. There are also assumpsit cases, one involving a marriage promise; ejectment for lands in Cortlandt Manor and Oysterbay, as well as Westchester, Albany, Orange, Dutchess, Queens and Ulster Counties; trover and conversion; trespass; assault and battery; and slander.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFor the few criminal cases, the entries are not too detailed. In 1772, Kissam represented first a man, and later a woman, who were accused by the Crown of receiving stolen goods. The man was convicted, but the woman was released because the attorney general could produce no witnesses.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to providing details about Kissam's practice in the appeals court over this seven year period, the register provides the names of 22 other lawyers practicing there. These include James Duane, who is frequently named, and John Jay, a practicing attorney, who is named about a half dozen times. Kissam's notes about how he came to be involved in each case reveal his standing in the professional and social community. Some of his clients were from the wealthiest and most influential New York families, such as DeLancey, DePeyster, Livingston, Van Cortlandt, and Van Rensselaer. Captain Isaac Sears, whose name appears a number of times, was a ship owner and, like many of Kissam's clients and colleagues, a leader in the revolutionary cause.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAlthough it has been reported by Jay's biographers that Kissam was a loyalist, his political views are not evident in these volumes - even as the war was beginning. It is clear that he was well respected by many leaders of the revolution, such as Jay, Duane, and Sears, as well as Peter, Philip, and Robert Livingston, Abraham Ten Broeck and the Rutgers family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHistorical records of the practice of colonial lawyers are extremely rare, and so for that reason alone the Kissam ledger and register are valuable. These manuscripts are all the more important, however, because of Kissam's association with John Jay and other leaders in the revolutionary era, and because his clientele represented a wide range of colonial New Yorkers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["These manuscript volumes reveal a great deal about Benjamin Kissam's practice, and provide a window on the legal world in New York City on the eve of the American Revolution. The ledger was kept from 1755 to 1776, and contains accounts of clients, both individual and corporate, relatives, servants, and other lawyers. Although there is no mention of John Jay, this ledger was in use during the period of Jay's clerkship with Kissam. His clients ranged across the social spectrum, and he sometimes noted their places of residence or occupations. Since he kept thorough and detailed records for these accounts, the great number of blanks on the credit side suggests that many of them were never settled. Occasionally, he noted that he would never be paid for a certain account. In transactions involving family members and employees, he kept careful records of money spent or advanced and funds repaid.","Under the name of James Duane, another prominent lawyer and later federal judge, Kissam wrote: \"N.B. Mr. Duane Composes Judgments for me and lets me take the fees to my own Use, and I the same to him, therefore the articles charged on the other side for Judgmts. composed by me are not to be charged to him.\" (p. 51).","Kissam represented the proprietors of the Kayoderosseras, a huge area of land formerly inhabited by the Mohawk. The Native Americans felt they had been treated unfairly when the land patent was granted to a number of colonists in the early eighteenth century. Kissam's ledger lists the services he performed for the proprietors in reaching a new settlement with the Mohawk in 1768.","The \"Supream Court Register\" contains information on the cases Kissam had before that court from 1768 to 1775 (the ledger indicates that he kept other registers for other jurisdictions during this period.). At the beginning of the entry for each case, he lists the names of the plaintiff and defendant, usually the name of the other attorney, and the means by which he got involved in the case. He then describes the actions taken in the case, and the dates as well as his costs and fees. If the case concerned a debt, he noted when and how it was repaid. Occasionally, he had the client sign a statement in the register saying that he would pay Kissam, or that he or she had received from Kissam the money recovered from the case.","Almost all of the cases in the register are civil, and debt is by far the most common type. There are also assumpsit cases, one involving a marriage promise; ejectment for lands in Cortlandt Manor and Oysterbay, as well as Westchester, Albany, Orange, Dutchess, Queens and Ulster Counties; trover and conversion; trespass; assault and battery; and slander.","For the few criminal cases, the entries are not too detailed. In 1772, Kissam represented first a man, and later a woman, who were accused by the Crown of receiving stolen goods. The man was convicted, but the woman was released because the attorney general could produce no witnesses.","In addition to providing details about Kissam's practice in the appeals court over this seven year period, the register provides the names of 22 other lawyers practicing there. These include James Duane, who is frequently named, and John Jay, a practicing attorney, who is named about a half dozen times. Kissam's notes about how he came to be involved in each case reveal his standing in the professional and social community. Some of his clients were from the wealthiest and most influential New York families, such as DeLancey, DePeyster, Livingston, Van Cortlandt, and Van Rensselaer. Captain Isaac Sears, whose name appears a number of times, was a ship owner and, like many of Kissam's clients and colleagues, a leader in the revolutionary cause.","Although it has been reported by Jay's biographers that Kissam was a loyalist, his political views are not evident in these volumes - even as the war was beginning. It is clear that he was well respected by many leaders of the revolution, such as Jay, Duane, and Sears, as well as Peter, Philip, and Robert Livingston, Abraham Ten Broeck and the Rutgers family.","Historical records of the practice of colonial lawyers are extremely rare, and so for that reason alone the Kissam ledger and register are valuable. These manuscripts are all the more important, however, because of Kissam's association with John Jay and other leaders in the revolutionary era, and because his clientele represented a wide range of colonial New Yorkers."],"names_ssim":["Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections","Kissam, Benjamin, 1728-1782","Duane, James, 1733-1797","Jay, John, 1745-1829 ","Sears, Isaac, 1730-1786"],"corpname_ssim":["Arthur J. 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Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders , but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts , documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Watts pertaining to \n Virginia counties including \n Amelia County , \n Amherst County , \n Buckingham County , \n Campbell County , \n Cumberland County , \n Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County , which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David (probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Green attended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saunders from \n M. Natalie Manson , at \n Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italy for the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donato and \n Brunelleschi and the \n Medici Chapel , and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak . \" \n Fleming Saunders III at \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saunders and \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond , \n Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England , mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne ; and to visiting \n Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrich asks \n Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunders writes from \n Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrich writes from \n Emanuel Rectory , \n Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saunders from \n Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders] , \n Bleak Hill , writes \n Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates . \n William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders] at \n Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesar and that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assembly in \n Williamsburg . \n Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanford mentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roach informs Watts that while \n Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Graham of \n Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rose writes from \n Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n doing business in \n Great Britain and is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n France and \n Britain at this time: \n George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n France into British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Watts with \n John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories . John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia , lists \n John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts , on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith . The account of \n Thomas East with \n Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Davis with \n Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Davis which contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamson with entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tucker and \n Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph . There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams . There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirkland which includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonald with \n William Watts , there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin , beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Fleming and include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martin and Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davis from \n J. Wright for \n Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County , \n Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia County and \n Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County , \n Amelia , \n Cumberland County , and \n Prince Edward County as well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County , \n Cumberland County , and \n Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambro and \n Ayres Hodnett of \n Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham West and \n John Blankenship of \n Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallen of \n Amelia County and \n James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wright of \n Botetourt and \n Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke River and \n Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Patterson of \n Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland County be known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottom of \n Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubank mentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob , £200 for a man named \n Joe , £10 for a woman named \n Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frank and \n Phoebe --to son-in-law \n John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell County papers, Justice \n Adam Clement says that \n Charles Gilbert of \n Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack --property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward , \n Edward Watts sold to \n William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n True , \n James , \n Winnie , \n Peter , \n Sarah , \n Betty , \n Rachel , and \n Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John King with the sheriff of \n Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield . There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic, a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederate enlisted men in \n Virginia , each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders , assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tucker of \n Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School , a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College ) for \n Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins College for \n Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's School of \n Catonsville, Maryland . Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts ; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saunders to \n Mary Gwathmey on July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr , a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming --and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders . The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney .","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders family and undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Mills dating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond , July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association . Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeley of \n Yellow Branch, Virginia . There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n England who reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders , includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River Township Record Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony , overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saunders is mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.","University of Virginia. Library. Special\n Collections Dept.","Kingdom of God","Pleasant Milkhill","Bethel","Bleak Hills","Trinity and Ivy Chapel","The Grove","Wintore","Medici Chapel","\"Brothers of Pity\"","Randolph-Macon Academy","Bleak Hill","Hudson Lodge","Jubilee Singers","Parliament","Virgina Midland [Rail] Road","Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company","Emanuel Rectory","Grange","Democratic Party","Virginia House of Delegates","General Assembly","Blanford","Buchanan's Hartie and Company","Norfolk, Virginia","Northwest Territories","George Kippen \u0026 Co.","James and Robert Donalds and Company","\"Locust Thicket.\"","Omaha, Nebraska Lottery","Cox and Sons Church Furniture","George Munro, Publishers","Virginia Polytechnic Institute","Confederate","13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers","Edgeworth School","Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College","Hollins College","St. Timothy's School","Maple Creek Mills","Lee Monumental Association","Otter River Township","Internal Revenue\n Service","New York Public\n Library","University of Virginia\n Volunteers","Davis Family","Saunders Family","Watts Family","Saunders","Saunders family","William H. Irvine","William Watts","Fleming Saunders","Frank Prufer","James Rayland","David","John Randolph","Sam Tyree","[Sam L. Preston?]","\"Carter\" [Saunders?]","Sam K. Jenny","William Green","Eva (Smith) Saunders","Fleming Saunders III","Eva Saunders","M. Natalie Manson","Donato","Brunelleschi","May Begg","Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders","Peter Saunders, Jr.","Jeanie Edmond","W. A. Alrich","C[harles] Dabney","Peter Saunders","Ellen Boulder","Mary Saunders","[Peter Saunders]","James F. Plummer","Edward Watts Saunders","William W. Old","E. W. Saunders","Alice [Saunders]","Virgil","Caesar","D. Saunders","Samuel Dilworth","Thomas Baldwin, Jr.","William Roach","Peter Kern","Arthur Campbell","Edward Graham","Horace","Cicero","Duncan Rose","George Hancock","[James] Madison","Creed Taylor","William Vannerson","Edward Randolph","Thomas F. Scott","John Watts","John Gilliam","A. Watts","Mary Petillo","William Skipwith","Thomas East","Archelaus Austin","Edward Watts","Nathaniel Davis","Jacob","James Davis","Daniel Warwick","Elizabeth Davis","Rowland P. Banks","Thomas Pleasants","Williams Watts","Charles Williamson","Betty Tucker","Betty Kirkland","Joseph Tucker","John Brittan","Miller Woodson","Patrick Henry","William Randolph","Charles Williams","William Kirkland","Frederick Nance","Robert Wilson","Edward McDonald","Charles Smith","George Martin","Graham","George Quille","W. Walter Spence","John Fleming","J. Wright","Lavinia Wright","Charles Davis","Agge","Thomas Taylor","Benjamin Tambro","Ayres Hodnett","John Tambro","William Ford","Abraham West","John Blankenship","John Lewallen","David Wright","Alexander Paine","Thomas Patterson","Margery Hinshaw","Samuel Hinshaw","[Cedw] Gibson","Elizabeth Hinshaw","Thomas Bottom","John Eubank","Joe","Hannah","Lolly","Caroline","Sarah Tinker","John Tucker","Ned","Sarah Tucker","George Vaughn","Frank","Phoebe","John Norris","Adam Clement","Charles Gilbert","Jack","True","James","Winnie","Peter","Sarah","Betty","Rachel","Doc","M. John King","[John] Epps","James Garfield","Christ","John Randolph Tucker","Fleming Saunders, III","Elsie Saunders","Carter Temple Saunders","Mary Gwathmey","Fleming Saunders, Sr","Alice Fleming","John Blair Dabney","Alex Berkeley","B. H. Anthony","Cary H. Gwathmey","Eva (Smith)\n Saunders.","Mary (Gwathmey)\n Saunders.","John Tabb","Fleming Saunders, Sr.","Alice W. Saunders","William Cowper","Eugene M. Cox","John B. Webb","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Collection number 116"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"collection_title_tesim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"collection_ssim":["Irvine-Saunders Family Papers \n 1745-1910 Inclusive"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":["Collector: \n William H. Irvine"],"creator_ssim":["Collector: \n William H. Irvine"],"creator_persname_ssim":["William H. Irvine"],"creators_ssim":["William H. Irvine"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection (# \n 116 ) was loaned to the Library\n by \n William H. Irvine of \n Evington, Virginia on September 15,\n 1938."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["2100 items"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and \n \u003cfamname\u003eWatts Family\u003c/famname\u003e. Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank Prufer\u003c/persname\u003e. The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003epertaining to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003ecounties including \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e. The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eDavis Family\u003c/famname\u003e, \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders Family\u003c/famname\u003e, and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLouisa County\u003c/geogname\u003e, which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eKingdom of God\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Rayland\u003c/persname\u003eto his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMount Pleasant\u003c/geogname\u003e, indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n \u003ccorpname\u003ePleasant Milkhill\u003c/corpname\u003eneeds brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid\u003c/persname\u003e(probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBethel\u003c/corpname\u003e. A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hills\u003c/corpname\u003emakes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e's estate \"Roanoke\"?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam Tyree\u003c/persname\u003e, Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Sam L. Preston?]\u003c/persname\u003ecomplaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eTrinity and Ivy Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBoonsboro, Bedford County\u003c/geogname\u003eto a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \u003cpersname\u003e\"Carter\" [Saunders?]\u003c/persname\u003e, by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n \u003cpersname\u003eSam K. Jenny\u003c/persname\u003e, probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Green\u003c/persname\u003eattended a man named\n Barnhart to \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eso Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva (Smith) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eThe Grove\u003c/corpname\u003ewhich mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003edid not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. Natalie Manson\u003c/persname\u003e, at \n \u003ccorpname\u003eWintore\u003c/corpname\u003e, speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFlorence, Italy\u003c/geogname\u003eto Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eItaly\u003c/geogname\u003efor the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n \u003cpersname\u003eDonato\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBrunelleschi\u003c/persname\u003eand the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMedici Chapel\u003c/corpname\u003e, and the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Brothers of Pity\"\u003c/corpname\u003ewho wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMay Begg\u003c/persname\u003e, \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePike's Peak\u003c/geogname\u003e. \" \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003ewrites to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the \n \u003cpersname\u003eEva Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eundated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary (Gwathmey) Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eJeanie Edmond\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHudson Lodge\u003c/corpname\u003e, makes a reference to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJubilee Singers\u003c/corpname\u003etraveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003e, mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eParliament\u003c/corpname\u003e, and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eMelbourne\u003c/geogname\u003e; and to visiting \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAustralia\u003c/geogname\u003e. In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003easks \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eC[harles] Dabney\u003c/persname\u003ehas a fine little\n daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003eon January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirgina Midland [Rail] Road\u003c/corpname\u003e, and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eFranklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company\u003c/corpname\u003e, and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n \u003cpersname\u003eW. A. Alrich\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEmanuel Rectory\u003c/corpname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eChatham, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003e' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEllen Boulder\u003c/persname\u003e, a school teacher, writes\n to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Saunders\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cgeogname\u003eDrake's Branch\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Peter Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, writes \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGrange\u003c/corpname\u003e?].\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders III\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his parents\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003eon March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames F. Plummer\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBleak Hill\u003c/corpname\u003e, on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eDemocratic Party\u003c/corpname\u003e, and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, while serving in\n the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia House of Delegates\u003c/corpname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam W. Old\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n \u003cpersname\u003eE. W. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice [Saunders]\u003c/persname\u003eat \n \u003cgeogname\u003eHollins, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e. She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n \u003cpersname\u003eCaesar\u003c/persname\u003eand that he had been in the second\n book of \n \u003cpersname\u003eVirgil\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n \u003cpersname\u003eD. Saunders\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to his mother from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eRandolph-Macon Academy\u003c/corpname\u003eon February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeneral Assembly\u003c/corpname\u003ein \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg\u003c/geogname\u003e. \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Dilworth\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on June 2, 1783\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eBlanford\u003c/corpname\u003ementioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Baldwin, Jr.\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Roach\u003c/persname\u003einforms Watts that while \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Kern\u003c/persname\u003eis employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n \u003cpersname\u003eArthur Campbell\u003c/persname\u003e, a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Graham\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBedford\u003c/geogname\u003e, writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n \u003cpersname\u003eHorace\u003c/persname\u003eand sending the boy a copy of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCicero\u003c/persname\u003ewhich would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n \u003cpersname\u003eDuncan Rose\u003c/persname\u003ewrites from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003e, on July 8, 1794, stating that\n \u003ccorpname\u003eBuchanan's Hartie and Company\u003c/corpname\u003ehas been\n doing business in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGreat Britain\u003c/geogname\u003eand is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBritain\u003c/geogname\u003eat this time: \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Hancock\u003c/persname\u003ewrites to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003e[James] Madison\u003c/persname\u003e's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n \u003cpersname\u003eCreed Taylor\u003c/persname\u003ewrites on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Vannerson\u003c/persname\u003ewrites, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePetersburg\u003c/geogname\u003ementioning a British war sloop\n in \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorfolk, Virginia\u003c/corpname\u003eand the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eFrance\u003c/geogname\u003einto British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn Watts' correspondence with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e, 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003eon February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas F. Scott\u003c/persname\u003e, 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLincoln County, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e(now \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003e), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eNorthwest Territories\u003c/corpname\u003e. John says that\n while the lands in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eKentucky\u003c/geogname\u003eare good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Kippen \u0026amp; Co.\u003c/corpname\u003eat their store in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, lists \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Gilliam\u003c/persname\u003eas having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eA. Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Petillo\u003c/persname\u003e, the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Skipwith\u003c/persname\u003e. The account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas East\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eArchelaus Austin\u003c/persname\u003efrom November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003elists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eNathaniel Davis\u003c/persname\u003e, including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eDaniel Warwick\u003c/persname\u003e, dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003e' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eRowland P. Banks\u003c/persname\u003elists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Pleasants\u003c/persname\u003e, has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLynchburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ewhich contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliams Watts\u003c/persname\u003espan 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williamson\u003c/persname\u003ewith entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003e, both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoseph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e, 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Brittan\u003c/persname\u003efor a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eMiller Woodson\u003c/persname\u003ewith an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n \u003cpersname\u003ePatrick Henry\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Randolph\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Williams\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Kirkland\u003c/persname\u003ewhich includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrederick Nance\u003c/persname\u003ementions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n \u003cpersname\u003eRobert Wilson\u003c/persname\u003eordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward McDonald\u003c/persname\u003ewith \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Smith\u003c/persname\u003e, there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n \u003cpersname\u003eGraham\u003c/persname\u003e, beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Quille\u003c/persname\u003efor the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n \u003cpersname\u003eW. Walter Spence\u003c/persname\u003ewith Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePromissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Fleming\u003c/persname\u003eand include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Martin\u003c/persname\u003eand Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst County\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Davis\u003c/persname\u003ehas a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Davis\u003c/persname\u003efrom \n \u003cpersname\u003eJ. Wright\u003c/persname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eLavinia Wright\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a 1840 note from\n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Davis\u003c/persname\u003eto the Sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmherst\u003c/geogname\u003efor tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegal Papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003ein his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003ecourt, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eAgge\u003c/persname\u003e. From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Taylor\u003c/persname\u003eand his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg County\u003c/geogname\u003efrom 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, which includes a record of \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003eas well as for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eWilliamsburg, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCumberland County\u003c/geogname\u003e, and \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham County\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eBenjamin Tambro\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAyres Hodnett\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBuckingham\u003c/geogname\u003ein regard to the former's son, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tambro\u003c/persname\u003e, to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Ford\u003c/persname\u003e. From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eAbraham West\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blankenship\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e. On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Lewallen\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003ccorpname\u003eJames and Robert Donalds and Company\u003c/corpname\u003e,\n Merchants of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGlasgow\u003c/geogname\u003e. On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n \u003cpersname\u003eDavid Wright\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eBotetourt\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlexander Paine\u003c/persname\u003eof the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRoanoke River\u003c/geogname\u003eand \n \u003cgeogname\u003eTinker Creek\u003c/geogname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe will, December 25, 1745, of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Patterson\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAlbemarle County\u003c/geogname\u003e, names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eGoochland County\u003c/geogname\u003ebe known as \n \u003ccorpname\u003e\"Locust Thicket.\"\u003c/corpname\u003e\u003cpersname\u003eMargery Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003econtested the will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eSamuel Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003edated March 1758 with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[Cedw] Gibson\u003c/persname\u003eon July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n \u003cpersname\u003eElizabeth Hinshaw\u003c/persname\u003e, and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n \u003cpersname\u003eThomas Bottom\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia\u003c/geogname\u003edated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Eubank\u003c/persname\u003ementions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJacob\u003c/persname\u003e, £200 for a man named \n \u003cpersname\u003eJoe\u003c/persname\u003e, £10 for a woman named \n \u003cpersname\u003eHannah\u003c/persname\u003e, £20 for a girl named \n \u003cpersname\u003eLolly\u003c/persname\u003e, and £0 for a girl named\n \u003cpersname\u003eCaroline\u003c/persname\u003e. There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003e, attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eAmelia County\u003c/geogname\u003e, 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tinker\u003c/persname\u003eon December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Tucker\u003c/persname\u003ean ailing Negro named \n \u003cpersname\u003eNed\u003c/persname\u003euntil the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah Tucker\u003c/persname\u003e. In an undated document, \n \u003cpersname\u003eGeorge Vaughn\u003c/persname\u003eyields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n \u003cpersname\u003eFrank\u003c/persname\u003eand \n \u003cpersname\u003ePhoebe\u003c/persname\u003e--to son-in-law \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003e--formerly given to grandson \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Norris\u003c/persname\u003eby a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell County\u003c/geogname\u003epapers, Justice \n \u003cpersname\u003eAdam Clement\u003c/persname\u003esays that \n \u003cpersname\u003eCharles Gilbert\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCampbell\u003c/geogname\u003eon April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n \u003cpersname\u003eJack\u003c/persname\u003e--property of Watts of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward County\u003c/geogname\u003e--ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n \u003cgeogname\u003ePrince Edward\u003c/geogname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003esold to \n \u003cpersname\u003eWilliam Watts\u003c/persname\u003eeight Negro slaves: \n \u003cpersname\u003eTrue\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eWinnie\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eSarah\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eBetty\u003c/persname\u003e, \n \u003cpersname\u003eRachel\u003c/persname\u003e, and \n \u003cpersname\u003eDoc\u003c/persname\u003eon January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n \u003cpersname\u003eM. John King\u003c/persname\u003ewith the sheriff of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eLunenburg\u003c/geogname\u003ewhich has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n \u003cpersname\u003e[John] Epps\u003c/persname\u003efor four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmong the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOmaha, Nebraska Lottery\u003c/corpname\u003efor the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eCox and Sons Church Furniture\u003c/corpname\u003eshows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n \u003cpersname\u003eJames Garfield\u003c/persname\u003e. There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003easking for a subscription\n to the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eGraphic,\u003c/title\u003ea ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eGeorge Munro, Publishers\u003c/corpname\u003e. There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n \u003cpersname\u003eChrist\u003c/persname\u003e's birth dating from the medieval\n period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003eto the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders\u003c/famname\u003easking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCivil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n \u003ccorpname\u003eConfederate\u003c/corpname\u003eenlisted men in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e, each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n \u003ccorpname\u003e13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers\u003c/corpname\u003e.\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\"\u003c/title\u003e,\n September 6, 1877, by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eVirginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eEdgeworth School\u003c/corpname\u003e, a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Polytechnic Institute\u003c/corpname\u003e(formerly \n \u003ccorpname\u003eVirginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College\u003c/corpname\u003e) for \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, III\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eHollins College\u003c/corpname\u003efor \n \u003cpersname\u003eElsie Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n \u003cpersname\u003eCarter Temple Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. There is a report\n from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eSt. Timothy's School\u003c/corpname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eCatonsville, Maryland\u003c/geogname\u003e. Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n \u003cpersname\u003eEdward Watts\u003c/persname\u003e; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eto \n \u003cpersname\u003eMary Gwathmey\u003c/persname\u003eon July 30.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders, Sr\u003c/persname\u003e, a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlice Fleming\u003c/persname\u003e--and the 1904 obituary of \n \u003cpersname\u003ePeter Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e. The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n \u003cpersname\u003eJohn Blair Dabney\u003c/persname\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n \u003cfamname\u003eSaunders family\u003c/famname\u003eand undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound Volumes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Day Books include a day book from \n \u003ccorpname\u003eMaple Creek Mills\u003c/corpname\u003edating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n \u003cgeogname\u003eRichmond\u003c/geogname\u003e, July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n \u003ccorpname\u003eLee Monumental Association\u003c/corpname\u003e. Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n \u003cpersname\u003eAlex Berkeley\u003c/persname\u003eof \n \u003cgeogname\u003eYellow Branch, Virginia\u003c/geogname\u003e. There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n \u003cgeogname\u003eEngland\u003c/geogname\u003ewho reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003e, includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n \u003ccorpname\u003eOtter River Township\u003c/corpname\u003eRecord Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n \u003cpersname\u003eB. H. Anthony\u003c/persname\u003e, overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n \u003cpersname\u003eFleming Saunders\u003c/persname\u003eis mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection, 1745-1910, n.d., of ca. 2100 items,\n consists of correspondence, business and legal papers,\n miscellaneous, and bound volumes, pertaining to the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and \n Watts Family . Large portions of the\n correspondence belong to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders . Included with the\n correspondence is a letterbook, 1873-1880, of \n Frank Prufer . The business papers include\n accounts, bonds, correspondence, and notes and receipts,\n chiefly pertaining to \n William Watts and \n Fleming Saunders , but also various\n members of these families. The legal papers include court\n dockets and memoranda of \n William Watts , documents, and wills.\n There are various legal papers of \n William Watts pertaining to \n Virginia counties including \n Amelia County , \n Amherst County , \n Buckingham County , \n Campbell County , \n Cumberland County , \n Prince Edward County . The miscellaneous\n material includes advertisements, educational papers,\n photographs, printed, religious papers, and fragments. The\n bound volumes include day books, a blacksmith book, a farm\n journal, memorandum books, and a township record. Folders are\n arranged alphabetically within each series, with material\n inside arranged chronologically.","Correspondence","From the correspondence of the \n Davis Family , \n Saunders Family , and related families,\n 1800-1856, there is a letter addressed to \"Sully,\" December\n 30, 1800, from \n Louisa County , which advises the\n recipient, who had asked for religious instruction, to seek\n the \n Kingdom of God . A letter dated April 2,\n 1812 from \n James Rayland to his sister mentions that\n his cousin is strapped for cash, and asks if the recipient can\n help him. A rather unusual letter, dating July 24, 1836, from \n Mount Pleasant , indicates that \"Mary\n thinks a little Brandy would be of service to her,\" and\n requests that some be sent to her. A letter written to Captain\n Davis on January 9, 1844, mentions that \n Pleasant Milkhill needs brandy, and asks\n that it be sent with \n David (probably a slave) for there is none\n at \n Bethel . A letter dating November 6, 1856\n at \n Bleak Hills makes a reference to \"Roanoke\"\n [Roanoke County, or \n John Randolph 's estate \"Roanoke\"?].","From their correspondence dating 1862-1904, there is a\n letter to \n Sam Tyree , Esq, July 17, 1870 from [his]\n student: \n [Sam L. Preston?] complaining that he can\n not attend sunday school because of prostration. There is also\n a letter dated April 8, 1901 from \n Trinity and Ivy Chapel in \n Boonsboro, Bedford County to a Mr.\n Randolph inviting him to preach there every other Sunday.\n There is also an undated fragment referring to a comet the\n size of a full moon and a meteor shower which \"will be a sight\n to see.\"","Among the families' undated correspondence, is a letter\n dated November 17 to \n \"Carter\" [Saunders?] , by a female who\n mentions [her] children's Latin lessons. There is another\n letter to a Miss Kerr which mentions a recipe for Tongue a la\n Mode. There is also a letter, dated October 23, [1805?], from\n a \n Sam K. Jenny , probably a doctor of\n medicine, which mentions that \n William Green attended a man named\n Barnhart to \n Bedford so Jenny could prescribe to his\n case and that he \"forbad the case of ardent spirits.\"","From the correspondence of \n Eva (Smith) Saunders , dated 1868-1894,\n there is a letter, February 24, 1889, from \n The Grove which mentions that while Eva\n passed her exams--her brother \n Fleming Saunders III did not. A letter,\n August 2, 1892, to \n Eva Saunders from \n M. Natalie Manson , at \n Wintore , speaks of school and Latin.\n There is an interesting letter, December 10, 1893, from \n Florence, Italy to Eva, mentioning that\n there is no silver in \n Italy for the English and French are\n buying it up, that \"Coppers are such a bother, and so heavy to\n carry,\" seeing the works of \n Donato and \n Brunelleschi and the \n Medici Chapel , and the \n \"Brothers of Pity\" who wear black robes\n and carry a corpse which \"made my blood turn cold.\" There is a\n letter, January 13, 1894, to Eva, which mentions sending a\n book to \n May Begg , \"a literary courtship under the\n auspices of \n Pike's Peak . \" \n Fleming Saunders III at \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford writes to Eva on May 15, 1894,\n saying he tried to get a tennis tournament for field day, and\n congratulates Eva on her chicken raising and hopes his are\n doing better.","Among the \n Eva Saunders undated correspondence, there\n is a fragment which notes that Miss Begg sent to its writer a\n little book called \"The greatest thing in the World.\" A letter\n dated November 26 to Eva contains drawings of women's blouses\n and concerns her ordered blouses.","From the correspondence of \n Fleming Saunders and \n Mary (Gwathmey) Saunders , 1858-1879, a\n letter dated September 5, 1871, from \n Peter Saunders, Jr. , \n Bleak Hill , says that his tobacco crop\n has suffered. Another letter, April 17, 1874, from \n Jeanie Edmond , \n Hudson Lodge , makes a reference to the \n Jubilee Singers traveling to raise money\n for a \"slave college somewhere in the Northern States\"; to\n acquaintances visiting \n England , mentioning a \"public worship\n bill\" in \n Parliament , and one acquaintance having\n an appointment with the Bishop of \n Melbourne ; and to visiting \n Australia . In a postcard dated August 21,\n 1879, \n W. A. Alrich asks \n Fleming Saunders ' opinion as to the next\n \"services\" in \"regular course,\" and saying that it best not to\n alter rotation as \"last service was omitted.\" He also mentions\n that Mrs. \n C[harles] Dabney has a fine little\n daughter.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1880-1892,\n there is a letter dated March 3, 1880 from M. Caden to\n Saunders stating that he can not board a minister, but will\n give the same salary as before. \n Peter Saunders writes from \n Bleak Hill on January 19, 1881 saying that\n he has no specific desire to be a director on the \n Virgina Midland [Rail] Road , and does not\n think he could get the appointment anyway; he is still a\n director on the \n Franklin and Pittsylvania Railroad\n Company , and fears a possible conflict of interest.\n W. A. Alrich writes from \n Emanuel Rectory , \n Chatham, Virginia , on February 16, 1882,\n saying he is glad that the \n Saunders ' keep up the old St. Valentine's\n Day tradition, by sending so practical a token of affection. \n Ellen Boulder , a school teacher, writes\n to \n Mary Saunders from \n Drake's Branch on March 18, 1889,\n mentioning a five month school term ending on March 1st and a\n June 23 to July 23 summer session. \n [Peter Saunders] , \n Bleak Hill , writes \n Fleming Saunders , on October 26, 1891\n mentioning Republican elements in the \"alliance\" [farmers'\n alliance such as the \n Grange ?].","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1893-1900,\n Fleming Saunders III writes to his parents\n from \n Randolph-Macon Academy in \n Bedford on March 14, 1893, saying that he\n is in the Baptist Church in the morning and the Methodist in\n the afternoon, and tells of boys who spend more time with the\n girls than studying. \n James F. Plummer writes to Captain\n Saunders on March 29, 1893, [from a theological seminary?],\n saying that exams are beginning, and implying that knowledge\n of Hebrew and Apologetics will be next among those things\n tested. \n Peter Saunders writes to Fleming from \n Bleak Hill , on March 30, 1894, mentioning\n the Bland Bill and the fear that its veto would cause discord\n in the \n Democratic Party , and discussing briefly\n possible effects on the present financial situation.","In the Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, 1901-1910,\n there is a letter, July 19, 1901, from \n Edward Watts Saunders , while serving in\n the \n Virginia House of Delegates . \n William W. Old writes to Fleming on\n February 2, 1903 about a land sale and his agreement to sell\n the land as a whole parcel to two black men, and suggesting a\n method of finalizing the transaction. \n E. W. Saunders writes to Fleming on\n January 21, 1904 mentioning an inquiry about his land near\n \"Vic. Muse.\" A letter, [March 1904], from \n Alice [Saunders] at \n Hollins, Virginia , to her aunt Saunders\n refers to the Roman poet \n Virgil . She writes to her mother on March\n 12, 1904 mentioning that John [ ] had failed in \n Caesar and that he had been in the second\n book of \n Virgil .","In the undated Fleming and Mary Saunders correspondence, \n D. Saunders writes to his mother from \n Randolph-Macon Academy on February 10,\n saying that he is learning German and is plagued by poor\n spelling, and that the boys dance every night and were\n previously boxing.","In the correspondence of \n William Watts , 1754-1784, there is a\n letter dated June 27, 1771 which summons Watts to the \n General Assembly in \n Williamsburg . \n Samuel Dilworth writes on June 2, 1783\n from \n Blanford mentioning the problem of\n collecting debts owed to the British. \n Thomas Baldwin, Jr. writes on December 22,\n 1784 concerning the purchase of \"the Negro Fellow\" for\n $18.","In the Watts correspondence, 1785-1789, a letter, December\n 16, 1785, from \n William Roach informs Watts that while \n Peter Kern is employing Watts in a matter\n between Kern and Roach, Watts is to plead for Roach in all\n matters, suggesting a conflict of interest. \n Arthur Campbell , a candidate for the\n senate from the Western Distict, writes, on March 24, 1788,\n asking for Watts' support. \n Edward Graham of \n Bedford , writes on December 20, 1792,\n mentioning that he saw the Watts' son reading \n Horace and sending the boy a copy of \n Cicero which would supply \"the means of\n raising him as high in eminence as you could reasonably wish,\"\n and adding that the boy will need to learn Greek as he will\n soon be studying science.","In the Watts correspondence, 1793-1794, \n Duncan Rose writes from \n Petersburg , on July 8, 1794, stating that\n Buchanan's Hartie and Company has been\n doing business in \n Great Britain and is waiting for a\n successor to Hartie to be appointed before certain books could\n be examined by Rose. Another letter pertains to relations with\n France and \n Britain at this time: \n George Hancock writes to Watts in 1794\n mentioning the rearing of a navy \"to repel the insult to our\n ploy,\" referring to commerce restriction [on American goods]\n by a nation which does not have a commerce treaty with the\n U.S., and referring to Mr. \n [James] Madison 's arguments whereas he\n conducted himself in a manner worthy of himself. \n Creed Taylor writes on May 11, 1795,\n concerning some bonds. \n William Vannerson writes, on October 30,\n 1795, from \n Petersburg mentioning a British war sloop\n in \n Norfolk, Virginia and the order for\n carrying American bottoms bound for \n France into British ports with invoice\n being revoked, revealing that some say that this retaliation\n has been brought about by Americans invoicing their flour at\n $27 per barrel.","In Watts' correspondence with \n Edward Randolph , 1796-1797, Randolph\n writes from \n Richmond on February 21 and March 13, 1796\n on the subject of British creditors. In Watts' correspondence\n with \n Thomas F. Scott , 1792-1798, Scott writes\n on January 4, 1796 and December 18, 1798 on the subject of\n British debts. In the correspondence of \n William Watts with \n John Watts , 1784-1800, John writes to\n William in April 1784 from \n Lincoln County, Virginia (now \n Kentucky ), concerning apprehension about\n a possible Indian war in the \n Northwest Territories . John says that\n while the lands in \n Kentucky are good, the inconveniences are\n many, and that the doomsayers will probably prevent the\n surveying of lands on the northwest side of the Ohio.","Business Papers","There are general accounts, 1751-1899, n.d. An account,\n beginning November 16, 1762, with \n George Kippen \u0026 Co. at their store in \n Goochland, Virginia , lists \n John Gilliam as having ordered a dozen\n flints, 3/4 yard of bearskin, and a dozen pipes. There is a\n list, April 20, 1763, pertaining to the estate of \n A. Watts , on which is listed a\n £0.2.0 debt to \n Mary Petillo , the only woman on the list,\n and a £2.4.9 debt to Sir \n William Skipwith . The account of \n Thomas East with \n Archelaus Austin from November 15, 1771,\n consists of beer, wine, grog, and a gallon of corn, with one\n entry \"to saging one night\" perhaps pertaining to the making\n of moonshine. An account, beginning January 20, 1775, of N[ ]\n Vaughn with \n Edward Watts lists various quantities of\n rum, molasses, and sugar. There are several accounts,\n 1779-1794, of the estate of \n Nathaniel Davis , including an entry for\n 1784 for three yards of woollen for a Negro jacket, and May 9,\n 1784 for half of hire of \n Jacob . There is a section, \"Accts\n Overlooked,\" from 1784, which refers to tobacco being a share\n and half share for \n Jacob , and another for dinner at the\n courthouse when on business. There is an account of \n James Davis with \n Daniel Warwick , dating 1799-1803, with\n references to a variety of items including coffee, sewing\n materials, dinner ware, alcohol, and accessories. Mrs. \n Elizabeth Davis ' account beginning May\n 31, 1807, has an entries for coffee, condiments, and sewing\n material. An account, March 26, 1810, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Rowland P. Banks lists \"163 days tuition\n at $8 p. ann. $5 cts 1 1/2.\" The account, beginning August 14,\n 1826, of Capt. \n James Davis with \n Thomas Pleasants , has lists orders for\n cheese, mackerel, cotton, and whiskey. On October 31, 1832,\n Judge Saunders, of \n Lynchburg, Virginia , orders castor oil,\n ointment, and a syringe. Accounts which mention tea are rare\n but there is an undated fragment of Mr. \n James Davis which contains an entry for\n imperial tea. There is an undated \"memorandum of brandy\" taken\n from Mrs. Eubank.","The accounts of \n Williams Watts span 1752-1797. There is\n also a hotel account with \n Charles Williamson with entries dating\n 1763, 1773, and 1774. There are accounts for the boarding,\n clothing, and feeding of Negro boys with Mrs. \n Betty Tucker and \n Betty Kirkland , both beginning September\n 10, 1767, and Capt. \n Joseph Tucker , 1767-1769. Watts has\n accounts, 1768, with \n John Brittan for a waistcoat, shoes,\n stockings, and a hat. There is a 1769 account for various\n building supplies. Watts also has an account, beginning April\n 20, 1771, with \n Miller Woodson with an entry of May 16,\n 1772 listing a \n Patrick Henry . There is a document which\n contains information on the estate of \n William Randolph . There is another\n lodging account, July 26, 1773 through December 3, 1776, of\n Watts with \n Charles Williams . There is an account\n beginning March 9, 1778, with \n William Kirkland which includes listings\n for tuition and educational books. A January 10, 1780 account\n with \n Frederick Nance mentions a violin and a\n set of strings. There is an account, beginning December 21,\n 1787, with \n Robert Wilson ordering Hyson Tea, coffee,\n and a bottle of snuff. From a 1791 account of \n Edward McDonald with \n William Watts , there is the note of the\n hire of a Negro. From a 1792 account of \n Charles Smith , there is a note for the\n finding of a Negro woman and for the inspecting of tobacco.\n There are two medical bills, one with \n George Martin , beginning January 14,\n 1794, and one with Doctor \n Graham , beginning November 3, 1795. In\n October 1797, Watts had an account with \n George Quille for the hire of a Negro.\n There is an undated account of \n W. Walter Spence with Watts for the hire\n of a Negro for eight months.","Promissory notes and receipts range from 1754-1905, n.d.\n There are several items concerned with the estate of \n John Fleming and include an entry for\n February 1764 for a Negro bought for $10. Between \n George Martin and Watts there is an\n agreement, October 3, 1794, mentioning the purchase of red\n wheat and the hire of a Negro woman. \n James Davis has a note dated 1803 with the\n Sheriff of \n Amherst County for tax on four Negroes,\n four horses, and five tithes. \n Elizabeth Davis has a note dated 1816 for\n tax on three Negroes and one horse. There is a note from\n December 6, 1827 pertaining to a $5 bond for the hire of a\n Negro man by \n James Davis from \n J. Wright for \n Lavinia Wright . There is a 1840 note from\n Charles Davis to the Sheriff of \n Amherst for tax on six Negroes and six\n horses.","Legal Papers","There are a number of court memoranda, 1768-1786, n.d.,\n kept by \n William Watts in his capacity as a lawyer.\n In a November 10, 1771 memo for the \n Buckingham County court, there is an entry\n for detinue for Negro woman named \n Agge . From the memo for the April 1772\n court at \n Lunenburg County , \n Thomas Taylor and his wife have a suit\n against a Hurt for a Negro in \n Amelia . There is also a list of debts\n owed to Watts for the year 1794. Dating 1771 through 1782,\n there are court dockets from \n Amelia County and \n Lunenburg County from 1771-1782. A number\n of the entries have Watts as the litigant. There is a 1773 day\n book with the signatures of William and \n Edward Watts , which includes a record of \n William Watts ' court expenses. There are\n also legal day books, 1772-1773, of Watts, with entries for \n Buckingham County , \n Amelia , \n Cumberland County , and \n Prince Edward County as well as for \n Williamsburg, Virginia . There is another\n 1773 memorandum book of Watts with entries for \n Amelia County , \n Cumberland County , and \n Buckingham County .","The indentures date 1749-1788, n.d. From January 1, 1763,\n there is an agreement between \n Benjamin Tambro and \n Ayres Hodnett of \n Buckingham in regard to the former's son, \n John Tambro , to be apprentice to the\n latter for seven years. From March 28, 1774, there is an\n indenture between Watts and \n William Ford . From September 17, 1768,\n there is an agreement between \n Abraham West and \n John Blankenship of \n Prince Edward . On November 17, 1772,\n there is an agreement between \n John Lewallen of \n Amelia County and \n James and Robert Donalds and Company ,\n Merchants of \n Glasgow . On September 15, 1778, there is\n an agreement between \n David Wright of \n Botetourt and \n Alexander Paine of the same concerning a\n land dispute in the area where the \n Roanoke River and \n Tinker Creek .","The will, December 25, 1745, of \n Thomas Patterson of \n Albemarle County , names his slaves and\n divides them among his children and wife, and requests that\n his land in \n Goochland County be known as \n \"Locust Thicket.\" Margery Hinshaw contested the will of \n Samuel Hinshaw dated March 1758 with \n [Cedw] Gibson on July 10, 1765. Hinshaw\n had divided his slaves between his still living wife, his\n daughter \n Elizabeth Hinshaw , and the latter's\n children. This situation involved a slave of Elizabeth. The\n will of \n Thomas Bottom of \n Amelia dated May 10, 1760 divides his\n slaves which are named between his three daughters.","A folder of general legal papers date 1765-1903, n.d. The\n inventory and appraisal, 1826, of the estate of \n John Eubank mentions prices for his\n Negroes: £300 for a man named \n Jacob , £200 for a man named \n Joe , £10 for a woman named \n Hannah , £20 for a girl named \n Lolly , and £0 for a girl named\n Caroline . There is also a list of tickets\n of ommission paid by \n William Watts , attorney. Among the legal\n papers of \n Amelia County , 1768 through 1789\n including undated material, a document dated May 15, 1783\n states that \n Sarah Tinker on December 6, 1781 gave her\n son-in-law \n John Tucker an ailing Negro named \n Ned until the latter gets well whereas he\n will be returned to \n Sarah Tucker . In an undated document, \n George Vaughn yields up title/right of two\n Negroes--named \n Frank and \n Phoebe --to son-in-law \n John Norris --formerly given to grandson \n John Norris by a deed dated October 2,\n 1796: \"said slaves will forever defend me from my heirs.\" The\n son-in-law Norris will pay Vaughn or wife £10\n annually for preformance of the aforesaid act. Among the \n Campbell County papers, Justice \n Adam Clement says that \n Charles Gilbert of \n Campbell on April 29, 1787 makes oath that\n Negro slave \n Jack --property of Watts of \n Prince Edward County --ran away and was\n found 50 miles thence. Among the legal papers of \n Prince Edward , \n Edward Watts sold to \n William Watts eight Negro slaves: \n True , \n James , \n Winnie , \n Peter , \n Sarah , \n Betty , \n Rachel , and \n Doc on January 14, 1787. There is also a\n account of Dr. \n M. John King with the sheriff of \n Lunenburg which has an entry dating 1769:\n the former is in account with \n [John] Epps for four lbs. of tobacco at\n £0.5.1.","Miscellaneous","Among the Advertisements there is an advertisement dated\n September 20, 1871 from the \n Omaha, Nebraska Lottery for the building\n of a public library in the city. A broadside from \n Cox and Sons Church Furniture shows a\n garish stained-glass window commemorating the late President \n James Garfield . There is an undated\n letter to Mrs. \n Fleming Saunders asking for a subscription\n to the \n Graphic, a ladies society\n magazine. There is an undated list of books from \n George Munro, Publishers . There is also a\n broadside for \"The World's Christmas Hymn\"--an analogy of\n English poetry pertaining to \n Christ 's birth dating from the medieval\n period.","The church related papers include a letter, March 21, 1904,\n from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute to the \n Saunders asking for aid for the building of\n an Episcopal parsonage at the university. The letter\n enunciates a fear of the danger of Episcopal boys being weaned\n from their faith by the compulsory attendance at the services\n of other sects due to the absence of a Episcopal parsonage.\n There is also an Episcopal \"Church Kalendar,\" 1882-1883,\n listing holy days with information on the faith, church\n service, and background of the Anglican/Episcopalian\n faith.","Civil War papers range from 1861 to 1864. During 1862-1864,\n there are a number of furloughs issued to \n Confederate enlisted men in \n Virginia , each with a physical\n description of the bearer, and addressed \"to all whom it may\n concern.\" On August 10, 1862, there is a provision return for\n a company of the \n 13th Regiment of Pennsylvania volunteers .\n There are also a number of CSA \"special requisitions\", chiefly\n ordering clothing, shoes, and blankets, most signed by Captain\n Fleming Saunders , assistant\n quartermaster, of Company K, Virginia Regiment.","The educational papers range from 1848-1903, n.d. There is\n a page from a 1848 French edition of the fables of La Fontaine\n from the \"Academie de Norfolk.\" There is an \n \"Educational Treatise on the Constitution\" ,\n September 6, 1877, by \n John Randolph Tucker of \n Virginia . There is a 1892-1893 brochure\n for the \n Edgeworth School , a church-related\n boarding and day school for females. There is the fall term\n 1895 grade report from \n Virginia Polytechnic Institute (formerly \n Virginia Agriculture and Mechanical\n College ) for \n Fleming Saunders, III . There is a fall\n term 1902 grade report from \n Hollins College for \n Elsie Saunders . There is another VPI\n grade report, from February 1903, for \n Carter Temple Saunders . There is a report\n from \n St. Timothy's School of \n Catonsville, Maryland . Another undated\n piece is a \"rules for spelling\" sheet from a grammar book.\n There are also undated fragments of Latin, French, and\n algebra.","There are lectures, essays, and poems, 1794, 1818, 1843,\n and n.d., including a scrap of a lecture dated September 6,\n 1794 from \n Edward Watts ; another lecture on motive\n dated September 16, 1794; and, a series of oral essays from\n 1843.","Miscellaneous material, 1887-1892, includes a note of the\n marriage of Capt. \n Fleming Saunders to \n Mary Gwathmey on July 30.","The obituaries include a reprint of the 1858 obituary of \n Fleming Saunders, Sr , a reprint of the\n 1867 obituary of Fleming, Sr.'s wife-- \n Alice Fleming --and the 1904 obituary of \n Peter Saunders . The obituaries of\n Fleming, Sr. and Alice are panegyrics. The first two were\n transcribed by \n John Blair Dabney .","The photographs include an unidentified photograph of a\n young member of the \n Saunders family and undated photo cards of\n liturgical furniture.","Bound Volumes","The Day Books include a day book from \n Maple Creek Mills dating from 1842. There\n is a 1867 day book with one page filled, made of a cut\n agricultural crop ledger. There is also in the book a pasted\n in notice from the Adjuctant Inspector's Office in \n Richmond , July 29, 1863. Dating January\n 18, 1872 is a subscription book for the \n Lee Monumental Association . Also present\n is a $1 donation from \n Alex Berkeley of \n Yellow Branch, Virginia . There are also\n farm journals dating 1855 through 1860.","A card game, 1846, called \"The Game of Kings made Easy\"\n which is based on the kings of \n England who reigned down to its date, is\n also present. The card for Henry V is missing. Many of the\n cards contain information of the kings of an antiquarian\n nature.","The Memorandum books, 1873-1874 and 1881-1894, owned by \n Fleming Saunders , includes employees,\n supplies, and construction information in the first volume.\n The latter has a note at its end which mentions survey\n data.","The \n Otter River Township Record Book dates\n from 1870-1874. There are references to road building. An\n entry for June 16, 1871 notes the ordering of \"tickets\" for\n road tax and township levy. Also included are lists of\n expenses for board members with lists of expenses for\n materials bought. One entry notes that \n B. H. Anthony , overseer of the poor,\n sends three paupers--one white woman and two black woman--to\n the poor house. Expenses for the poor house are noted. At 1874\n and 1875 meetings, \n Fleming Saunders is mentioned as road\n overseer in certain districts."],"names_ssim":["University of Virginia. Library. 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