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(a tobacco manufacturing and shipping firm). Correspondence in part concerns the tobacco trade and hiring out slaves to Richmond tobacco factories; fugitive slaves and free blacks; and the education of children. Also includes letters, 1833-1874, accounts, banking records, and other business records of William Gray \u0026amp; Co., in part concerning tobacco agents primarily in London, Eng., and New York City, the financial Panic of 1837, the murder of Gray's partner, Joseph H. Harris, by a slave in New Providence, Tenn. 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(Manchester, Va.)","4,000 (ca.) items","Collection open to all researchers.","Arranged in three series. The personal correspondence in\n         Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The\n         business correspondence in Series 2 and Series 3 is arranged\n         alphabetically within year. Other materials grouped by\n         material type (i.e., accounts, legal documents) and arranged\n         chronologically.","Arranged alphabetically.","Alphabetical by year","Chronological.","Chronological.","William Gray was a prominent tobacco shipper and\n         manufacturer associated with several firms in Manchester, Va.\n         Born in Prince Edward County, Gray moved to Manchester (part\n         of Chesterfield County incorporated into the city of Richmond\n         in 1910), around 1810. In 1821, Gray became a partner in Gray\n         \u0026 Pankey and, twelve years later, established his own\n         firm, Willima Gray \u0026 Co. He directed the company's\n         operations until his death in 1863.","Letters received by William Gray \u0026 Co. are typical of\n         those written by factors; they acknowledge the receipt of\n         tobacco shipments and of drafts on account and give the\n         general market conditions as well as the status of the\n         manufacturer's brands. Many 1837 letters, especially those of\n         Cornelius DuBois \u0026 Co., describe the financial panic of\n         that year. A letter from D. W. Kennedy of the Northern Bank of\n         Tennessee on 2 February 1858 describes the murder of Gray's\n         partner, Joseph H. Harris, and subsequent lynching of the\n         accused slave. An 1859 letter from the New York firm of\n         Sawyer, Wallace \u0026 Co. discusses northern reaction to the\n         capture and execution of John Brown.","Through the Gilliat houses of London and Liverpool, Gray's\n         tobacco reached markets in continental Europe and Africa.\n         Because of this, Gilliat's letters often discuss the\n         international climate and its effect on the tobacco market.\n         These letters are especially noteworthy during the 1861-1863\n         period, when they give a good assessment of English merchant\n         opinion and reaction to secession, Lincoln's call for troops,\n         the blockade, and the Trent Affair. Occasionally, personal\n         letters appear among this correspondence; in 1858, for\n         example, Algernon Gilliat toured the United States and wrote\n         Gray concerning his observations and reactions.","A 1 Jan. 1868 letter from Methodist minister James A.\n         Riddick concerns Reconstruction and the Underwood convention.\n         Another from Methodist minister, William B. Rowzie, describes\n         conditions in Danville in the final days of the Civil War.","In 1821, William Gray entered into partnership with his\n         brother, James Gray, and Loring Young Pankey, in operating a\n         tobacco shipping and manufacturing firm under the name Gray\n         \u0026 Pankey. The company's papers, filed in box 7, include\n         letters, accounts, and miscellany. Several accounts pertain to\n         the purchase of cotton. Miscellany includes shipping\n         agreements and a power of attorney.","The papers of William Gray \u0026 Co., which constitute the\n         bulk of this collection, consist of letters, accounts, checks,\n         tobacco circulars, prices-current and cash and tobacco receipt\n         books. Letters, which are arranged alphabetically by year, are\n         primarily from northern and European tobacco agents (or\n         \"factors\"). Major factors include: William H. Gilliat and its\n         successor John K. Gilliat \u0026 Co. (London and Liverpool),\n         Cornelius DuBois \u0026 Co. (New York), and John Wilson \u0026\n         Co. (New York). A more extensive, although by no means\n         complete, index of Gray's correspondents appears below.\n         Although primarily a shipper of tobacco, Gray was involved at\n         various times in its manufacture, and there are some letters\n         addressed to Samuel Hardgrove \u0026 Co., a manufacturing firm,\n         during the 1837-1844 period. In 1856, Gray went into\n         partnership with Joseph H. Harris to establish a tobacco\n         stemmery in New Providence, Tennessee. Although Harris was\n         killed two years later, Gray retained his ties to New\n         Providence. There are letters addressed to Joseph H. Harris\n         for the years 1856 to 1858.","Financial records (boxes 14-18) include both accounts\n         receivable from tobacco purchasers and accounts payable for\n         tobacco and factory expenses. These are arranged\n         chronologically. Cash books list deposits and withdrawals from\n         the Bank of Virginia, 1845-1853, and the National Exchange\n         Bank, 1865-1868. The tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris\n         \u0026 Co. contain only several entries and are undated,\n         although they would be from the 1856-1858 period. Listings of\n         prices-current, mostly from Liverpool, Mobile and New Orleans,\n         contain market information on tobacco and other commodities,\n         particularly cotton. Circulars are mostly from Liverpool and\n         New York and pertain primarily to tobacco and cotton.","The folder of miscellany (box 21) contains several items of\n         note. These include: an 1825 petition to establish a boarding\n         house in Manchester, an 1834 order to Richmond's City\n         Sergeant, a bill of complaint for Howard \u0026 Lawrence v.\n         Winchester's executors, an insurance policy and financial\n         statements of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, report\n         cards for two of Gray's children from Randolph-Macon College\n         (1859- 1861 and 1870-1871), and an order to E. H. Ripley from\n         Richmond Provost Marshal Frederick L. Manning (USA) on April\n         3, 1865.","Letters, 1833-1873.","Letters, 1819-1827; accounts, 1819-1832; agreements\n               and powers of attorney, 1819-1827.","Cash book, 1845-1853; cash book, 1856-1868;\n                  tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris and Co. 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(who was\n         subsequently lynched), and European reaction to secession and\n         the American Civil War.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873"],"collection_ssim":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 G7952 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 G7952 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Robert B. 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He directed the company's\n         operations until his death in 1863."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilliam Gray Papers, 1819-1874 (Mss1 G7952 a FA2),\n            Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["William Gray Papers, 1819-1874 (Mss1 G7952 a FA2),\n            Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLetters received by William Gray \u0026amp; Co. are typical of\n         those written by factors; they acknowledge the receipt of\n         tobacco shipments and of drafts on account and give the\n         general market conditions as well as the status of the\n         manufacturer's brands. Many 1837 letters, especially those of\n         Cornelius DuBois \u0026amp; Co., describe the financial panic of\n         that year. A letter from D. W. Kennedy of the Northern Bank of\n         Tennessee on 2 February 1858 describes the murder of Gray's\n         partner, Joseph H. 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A more extensive, although by no means\n         complete, index of Gray's correspondents appears below.\n         Although primarily a shipper of tobacco, Gray was involved at\n         various times in its manufacture, and there are some letters\n         addressed to Samuel Hardgrove \u0026amp; Co., a manufacturing firm,\n         during the 1837-1844 period. In 1856, Gray went into\n         partnership with Joseph H. Harris to establish a tobacco\n         stemmery in New Providence, Tennessee. Although Harris was\n         killed two years later, Gray retained his ties to New\n         Providence. There are letters addressed to Joseph H. Harris\n         for the years 1856 to 1858.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 14-18) include both accounts\n         receivable from tobacco purchasers and accounts payable for\n         tobacco and factory expenses. These are arranged\n         chronologically. 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These include: an 1825 petition to establish a boarding\n         house in Manchester, an 1834 order to Richmond's City\n         Sergeant, a bill of complaint for Howard \u0026amp; Lawrence v.\n         Winchester's executors, an insurance policy and financial\n         statements of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, report\n         cards for two of Gray's children from Randolph-Macon College\n         (1859- 1861 and 1870-1871), and an order to E. H. Ripley from\n         Richmond Provost Marshal Frederick L. Manning (USA) on April\n         3, 1865.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1833-1873.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1819-1827; accounts, 1819-1832; agreements\n               and powers of attorney, 1819-1827.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCash book, 1845-1853; cash book, 1856-1868;\n                  tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris and Co. 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An 1859 letter from the New York firm of\n         Sawyer, Wallace \u0026 Co. discusses northern reaction to the\n         capture and execution of John Brown.","Through the Gilliat houses of London and Liverpool, Gray's\n         tobacco reached markets in continental Europe and Africa.\n         Because of this, Gilliat's letters often discuss the\n         international climate and its effect on the tobacco market.\n         These letters are especially noteworthy during the 1861-1863\n         period, when they give a good assessment of English merchant\n         opinion and reaction to secession, Lincoln's call for troops,\n         the blockade, and the Trent Affair. Occasionally, personal\n         letters appear among this correspondence; in 1858, for\n         example, Algernon Gilliat toured the United States and wrote\n         Gray concerning his observations and reactions.","A 1 Jan. 1868 letter from Methodist minister James A.\n         Riddick concerns Reconstruction and the Underwood convention.\n         Another from Methodist minister, William B. Rowzie, describes\n         conditions in Danville in the final days of the Civil War.","In 1821, William Gray entered into partnership with his\n         brother, James Gray, and Loring Young Pankey, in operating a\n         tobacco shipping and manufacturing firm under the name Gray\n         \u0026 Pankey. The company's papers, filed in box 7, include\n         letters, accounts, and miscellany. Several accounts pertain to\n         the purchase of cotton. Miscellany includes shipping\n         agreements and a power of attorney.","The papers of William Gray \u0026 Co., which constitute the\n         bulk of this collection, consist of letters, accounts, checks,\n         tobacco circulars, prices-current and cash and tobacco receipt\n         books. Letters, which are arranged alphabetically by year, are\n         primarily from northern and European tobacco agents (or\n         \"factors\"). Major factors include: William H. Gilliat and its\n         successor John K. Gilliat \u0026 Co. (London and Liverpool),\n         Cornelius DuBois \u0026 Co. (New York), and John Wilson \u0026\n         Co. (New York). A more extensive, although by no means\n         complete, index of Gray's correspondents appears below.\n         Although primarily a shipper of tobacco, Gray was involved at\n         various times in its manufacture, and there are some letters\n         addressed to Samuel Hardgrove \u0026 Co., a manufacturing firm,\n         during the 1837-1844 period. In 1856, Gray went into\n         partnership with Joseph H. Harris to establish a tobacco\n         stemmery in New Providence, Tennessee. Although Harris was\n         killed two years later, Gray retained his ties to New\n         Providence. There are letters addressed to Joseph H. Harris\n         for the years 1856 to 1858.","Financial records (boxes 14-18) include both accounts\n         receivable from tobacco purchasers and accounts payable for\n         tobacco and factory expenses. These are arranged\n         chronologically. Cash books list deposits and withdrawals from\n         the Bank of Virginia, 1845-1853, and the National Exchange\n         Bank, 1865-1868. The tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris\n         \u0026 Co. contain only several entries and are undated,\n         although they would be from the 1856-1858 period. Listings of\n         prices-current, mostly from Liverpool, Mobile and New Orleans,\n         contain market information on tobacco and other commodities,\n         particularly cotton. Circulars are mostly from Liverpool and\n         New York and pertain primarily to tobacco and cotton.","The folder of miscellany (box 21) contains several items of\n         note. These include: an 1825 petition to establish a boarding\n         house in Manchester, an 1834 order to Richmond's City\n         Sergeant, a bill of complaint for Howard \u0026 Lawrence v.\n         Winchester's executors, an insurance policy and financial\n         statements of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, report\n         cards for two of Gray's children from Randolph-Macon College\n         (1859- 1861 and 1870-1871), and an order to E. H. Ripley from\n         Richmond Provost Marshal Frederick L. Manning (USA) on April\n         3, 1865.","Letters, 1833-1873.","Letters, 1819-1827; accounts, 1819-1832; agreements\n               and powers of attorney, 1819-1827.","Cash book, 1845-1853; cash book, 1856-1868;\n                  tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris and Co. (2\n                  v.)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNone\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["None"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eCollection contains letters,\n         1833-1873, written to William Gray as a director of the Bank\n         of Virginia, officer of the Manchester Methodist Episcopal\n         Church, trustee of the town of Manchester, Va., justice of the\n         peace for Chesterfield County, Va., and owner of William Gray\n         \u0026amp; Co. (a tobacco manufacturing and shipping firm).\n         Correspondence in part concerns the tobacco trade and hiring\n         out slaves to Richmond tobacco factories; fugitive slaves and\n         free blacks; and the education of children. Also includes\n         letters, 1833-1874, accounts, banking records, and other\n         business records of William Gray \u0026amp; Co., in part concerning\n         tobacco agents primarily in London, Eng., and New York City,\n         the financial Panic of 1837, the murder of Gray's partner,\n         Joseph H. Harris, by a slave in New Providence, Tenn. (who was\n         subsequently lynched), and European reaction to secession and\n         the American Civil War.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Collection contains letters,\n         1833-1873, written to William Gray as a director of the Bank\n         of Virginia, officer of the Manchester Methodist Episcopal\n         Church, trustee of the town of Manchester, Va., justice of the\n         peace for Chesterfield County, Va., and owner of William Gray\n         \u0026 Co. (a tobacco manufacturing and shipping firm).\n         Correspondence in part concerns the tobacco trade and hiring\n         out slaves to Richmond tobacco factories; fugitive slaves and\n         free blacks; and the education of children. Also includes\n         letters, 1833-1874, accounts, banking records, and other\n         business records of William Gray \u0026 Co., in part concerning\n         tobacco agents primarily in London, Eng., and New York City,\n         the financial Panic of 1837, the murder of Gray's partner,\n         Joseph H. Harris, by a slave in New Providence, Tenn. (who was\n         subsequently lynched), and European reaction to secession and\n         the American Civil War."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":17,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T06:58:25.153Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00003","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00003","_root_":"vihi_vih00003","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00003","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00003.xml","title_ssm":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873"],"title_tesim":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873"],"normalized_title_ssm":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873"],"text":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873","Mss1 G7952 a FA2","African Americans -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Bank of Virginia.","Banks and banking -- Virginia -- Richmond --\n         History -- 19th century.","England -- Commerce -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Fugitive slaves -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Gray, William, 1793-1873.","Harris, Joseph H., d. 1858.","Lynching -- Tennessee -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Manchester (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church\n         (Va.)","New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Panic (Finance) -- Virginia -- 1837.","Richmond (Va.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th\n         century.","Secession.","Slaves -- Employment.","Tobacco industry -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Tobacco workers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865\n         -- Foreign public opinion.","Virginia -- Commerce -- History -- 19th\n         century.","William Gray and Co. (Manchester, Va.)","4,000 (ca.) items","Collection open to all researchers.","Arranged in three series. The personal correspondence in\n         Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by correspondent. The\n         business correspondence in Series 2 and Series 3 is arranged\n         alphabetically within year. Other materials grouped by\n         material type (i.e., accounts, legal documents) and arranged\n         chronologically.","Arranged alphabetically.","Alphabetical by year","Chronological.","Chronological.","William Gray was a prominent tobacco shipper and\n         manufacturer associated with several firms in Manchester, Va.\n         Born in Prince Edward County, Gray moved to Manchester (part\n         of Chesterfield County incorporated into the city of Richmond\n         in 1910), around 1810. In 1821, Gray became a partner in Gray\n         \u0026 Pankey and, twelve years later, established his own\n         firm, Willima Gray \u0026 Co. He directed the company's\n         operations until his death in 1863.","Letters received by William Gray \u0026 Co. are typical of\n         those written by factors; they acknowledge the receipt of\n         tobacco shipments and of drafts on account and give the\n         general market conditions as well as the status of the\n         manufacturer's brands. Many 1837 letters, especially those of\n         Cornelius DuBois \u0026 Co., describe the financial panic of\n         that year. A letter from D. W. Kennedy of the Northern Bank of\n         Tennessee on 2 February 1858 describes the murder of Gray's\n         partner, Joseph H. Harris, and subsequent lynching of the\n         accused slave. An 1859 letter from the New York firm of\n         Sawyer, Wallace \u0026 Co. discusses northern reaction to the\n         capture and execution of John Brown.","Through the Gilliat houses of London and Liverpool, Gray's\n         tobacco reached markets in continental Europe and Africa.\n         Because of this, Gilliat's letters often discuss the\n         international climate and its effect on the tobacco market.\n         These letters are especially noteworthy during the 1861-1863\n         period, when they give a good assessment of English merchant\n         opinion and reaction to secession, Lincoln's call for troops,\n         the blockade, and the Trent Affair. Occasionally, personal\n         letters appear among this correspondence; in 1858, for\n         example, Algernon Gilliat toured the United States and wrote\n         Gray concerning his observations and reactions.","A 1 Jan. 1868 letter from Methodist minister James A.\n         Riddick concerns Reconstruction and the Underwood convention.\n         Another from Methodist minister, William B. Rowzie, describes\n         conditions in Danville in the final days of the Civil War.","In 1821, William Gray entered into partnership with his\n         brother, James Gray, and Loring Young Pankey, in operating a\n         tobacco shipping and manufacturing firm under the name Gray\n         \u0026 Pankey. The company's papers, filed in box 7, include\n         letters, accounts, and miscellany. Several accounts pertain to\n         the purchase of cotton. Miscellany includes shipping\n         agreements and a power of attorney.","The papers of William Gray \u0026 Co., which constitute the\n         bulk of this collection, consist of letters, accounts, checks,\n         tobacco circulars, prices-current and cash and tobacco receipt\n         books. Letters, which are arranged alphabetically by year, are\n         primarily from northern and European tobacco agents (or\n         \"factors\"). Major factors include: William H. Gilliat and its\n         successor John K. Gilliat \u0026 Co. (London and Liverpool),\n         Cornelius DuBois \u0026 Co. (New York), and John Wilson \u0026\n         Co. (New York). A more extensive, although by no means\n         complete, index of Gray's correspondents appears below.\n         Although primarily a shipper of tobacco, Gray was involved at\n         various times in its manufacture, and there are some letters\n         addressed to Samuel Hardgrove \u0026 Co., a manufacturing firm,\n         during the 1837-1844 period. In 1856, Gray went into\n         partnership with Joseph H. Harris to establish a tobacco\n         stemmery in New Providence, Tennessee. Although Harris was\n         killed two years later, Gray retained his ties to New\n         Providence. There are letters addressed to Joseph H. Harris\n         for the years 1856 to 1858.","Financial records (boxes 14-18) include both accounts\n         receivable from tobacco purchasers and accounts payable for\n         tobacco and factory expenses. These are arranged\n         chronologically. Cash books list deposits and withdrawals from\n         the Bank of Virginia, 1845-1853, and the National Exchange\n         Bank, 1865-1868. The tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris\n         \u0026 Co. contain only several entries and are undated,\n         although they would be from the 1856-1858 period. Listings of\n         prices-current, mostly from Liverpool, Mobile and New Orleans,\n         contain market information on tobacco and other commodities,\n         particularly cotton. Circulars are mostly from Liverpool and\n         New York and pertain primarily to tobacco and cotton.","The folder of miscellany (box 21) contains several items of\n         note. These include: an 1825 petition to establish a boarding\n         house in Manchester, an 1834 order to Richmond's City\n         Sergeant, a bill of complaint for Howard \u0026 Lawrence v.\n         Winchester's executors, an insurance policy and financial\n         statements of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, report\n         cards for two of Gray's children from Randolph-Macon College\n         (1859- 1861 and 1870-1871), and an order to E. H. Ripley from\n         Richmond Provost Marshal Frederick L. Manning (USA) on April\n         3, 1865.","Letters, 1833-1873.","Letters, 1819-1827; accounts, 1819-1832; agreements\n               and powers of attorney, 1819-1827.","Cash book, 1845-1853; cash book, 1856-1868;\n                  tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris and Co. 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(who was\n         subsequently lynched), and European reaction to secession and\n         the American Civil War.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873"],"collection_ssim":["William Gray Papers, \n         \n         1793-1873"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 G7952 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 G7952 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift of Robert B. 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Harris, and subsequent lynching of the\n         accused slave. An 1859 letter from the New York firm of\n         Sawyer, Wallace \u0026amp; Co. discusses northern reaction to the\n         capture and execution of John Brown.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThrough the Gilliat houses of London and Liverpool, Gray's\n         tobacco reached markets in continental Europe and Africa.\n         Because of this, Gilliat's letters often discuss the\n         international climate and its effect on the tobacco market.\n         These letters are especially noteworthy during the 1861-1863\n         period, when they give a good assessment of English merchant\n         opinion and reaction to secession, Lincoln's call for troops,\n         the blockade, and the Trent Affair. Occasionally, personal\n         letters appear among this correspondence; in 1858, for\n         example, Algernon Gilliat toured the United States and wrote\n         Gray concerning his observations and reactions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eA 1 Jan. 1868 letter from Methodist minister James A.\n         Riddick concerns Reconstruction and the Underwood convention.\n         Another from Methodist minister, William B. Rowzie, describes\n         conditions in Danville in the final days of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eIn 1821, William Gray entered into partnership with his\n         brother, James Gray, and Loring Young Pankey, in operating a\n         tobacco shipping and manufacturing firm under the name Gray\n         \u0026amp; Pankey. The company's papers, filed in box 7, include\n         letters, accounts, and miscellany. Several accounts pertain to\n         the purchase of cotton. 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A more extensive, although by no means\n         complete, index of Gray's correspondents appears below.\n         Although primarily a shipper of tobacco, Gray was involved at\n         various times in its manufacture, and there are some letters\n         addressed to Samuel Hardgrove \u0026amp; Co., a manufacturing firm,\n         during the 1837-1844 period. In 1856, Gray went into\n         partnership with Joseph H. Harris to establish a tobacco\n         stemmery in New Providence, Tennessee. Although Harris was\n         killed two years later, Gray retained his ties to New\n         Providence. There are letters addressed to Joseph H. Harris\n         for the years 1856 to 1858.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eFinancial records (boxes 14-18) include both accounts\n         receivable from tobacco purchasers and accounts payable for\n         tobacco and factory expenses. These are arranged\n         chronologically. 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An 1859 letter from the New York firm of\n         Sawyer, Wallace \u0026 Co. discusses northern reaction to the\n         capture and execution of John Brown.","Through the Gilliat houses of London and Liverpool, Gray's\n         tobacco reached markets in continental Europe and Africa.\n         Because of this, Gilliat's letters often discuss the\n         international climate and its effect on the tobacco market.\n         These letters are especially noteworthy during the 1861-1863\n         period, when they give a good assessment of English merchant\n         opinion and reaction to secession, Lincoln's call for troops,\n         the blockade, and the Trent Affair. Occasionally, personal\n         letters appear among this correspondence; in 1858, for\n         example, Algernon Gilliat toured the United States and wrote\n         Gray concerning his observations and reactions.","A 1 Jan. 1868 letter from Methodist minister James A.\n         Riddick concerns Reconstruction and the Underwood convention.\n         Another from Methodist minister, William B. Rowzie, describes\n         conditions in Danville in the final days of the Civil War.","In 1821, William Gray entered into partnership with his\n         brother, James Gray, and Loring Young Pankey, in operating a\n         tobacco shipping and manufacturing firm under the name Gray\n         \u0026 Pankey. The company's papers, filed in box 7, include\n         letters, accounts, and miscellany. Several accounts pertain to\n         the purchase of cotton. Miscellany includes shipping\n         agreements and a power of attorney.","The papers of William Gray \u0026 Co., which constitute the\n         bulk of this collection, consist of letters, accounts, checks,\n         tobacco circulars, prices-current and cash and tobacco receipt\n         books. Letters, which are arranged alphabetically by year, are\n         primarily from northern and European tobacco agents (or\n         \"factors\"). Major factors include: William H. Gilliat and its\n         successor John K. Gilliat \u0026 Co. (London and Liverpool),\n         Cornelius DuBois \u0026 Co. (New York), and John Wilson \u0026\n         Co. (New York). A more extensive, although by no means\n         complete, index of Gray's correspondents appears below.\n         Although primarily a shipper of tobacco, Gray was involved at\n         various times in its manufacture, and there are some letters\n         addressed to Samuel Hardgrove \u0026 Co., a manufacturing firm,\n         during the 1837-1844 period. In 1856, Gray went into\n         partnership with Joseph H. Harris to establish a tobacco\n         stemmery in New Providence, Tennessee. Although Harris was\n         killed two years later, Gray retained his ties to New\n         Providence. There are letters addressed to Joseph H. Harris\n         for the years 1856 to 1858.","Financial records (boxes 14-18) include both accounts\n         receivable from tobacco purchasers and accounts payable for\n         tobacco and factory expenses. These are arranged\n         chronologically. Cash books list deposits and withdrawals from\n         the Bank of Virginia, 1845-1853, and the National Exchange\n         Bank, 1865-1868. The tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris\n         \u0026 Co. contain only several entries and are undated,\n         although they would be from the 1856-1858 period. Listings of\n         prices-current, mostly from Liverpool, Mobile and New Orleans,\n         contain market information on tobacco and other commodities,\n         particularly cotton. Circulars are mostly from Liverpool and\n         New York and pertain primarily to tobacco and cotton.","The folder of miscellany (box 21) contains several items of\n         note. These include: an 1825 petition to establish a boarding\n         house in Manchester, an 1834 order to Richmond's City\n         Sergeant, a bill of complaint for Howard \u0026 Lawrence v.\n         Winchester's executors, an insurance policy and financial\n         statements of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia, report\n         cards for two of Gray's children from Randolph-Macon College\n         (1859- 1861 and 1870-1871), and an order to E. H. Ripley from\n         Richmond Provost Marshal Frederick L. Manning (USA) on April\n         3, 1865.","Letters, 1833-1873.","Letters, 1819-1827; accounts, 1819-1832; agreements\n               and powers of attorney, 1819-1827.","Cash book, 1845-1853; cash book, 1856-1868;\n                  tobacco receipt books of Joseph H. Harris and Co. (2\n                  v.)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNone\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["None"],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eCollection contains letters,\n         1833-1873, written to William Gray as a director of the Bank\n         of Virginia, officer of the Manchester Methodist Episcopal\n         Church, trustee of the town of Manchester, Va., justice of the\n         peace for Chesterfield County, Va., and owner of William Gray\n         \u0026amp; Co. (a tobacco manufacturing and shipping firm).\n         Correspondence in part concerns the tobacco trade and hiring\n         out slaves to Richmond tobacco factories; fugitive slaves and\n         free blacks; and the education of children. Also includes\n         letters, 1833-1874, accounts, banking records, and other\n         business records of William Gray \u0026amp; Co., in part concerning\n         tobacco agents primarily in London, Eng., and New York City,\n         the financial Panic of 1837, the murder of Gray's partner,\n         Joseph H. Harris, by a slave in New Providence, Tenn. (who was\n         subsequently lynched), and European reaction to secession and\n         the American Civil War.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Collection contains letters,\n         1833-1873, written to William Gray as a director of the Bank\n         of Virginia, officer of the Manchester Methodist Episcopal\n         Church, trustee of the town of Manchester, Va., justice of the\n         peace for Chesterfield County, Va., and owner of William Gray\n         \u0026 Co. (a tobacco manufacturing and shipping firm).\n         Correspondence in part concerns the tobacco trade and hiring\n         out slaves to Richmond tobacco factories; fugitive slaves and\n         free blacks; and the education of children. Also includes\n         letters, 1833-1874, accounts, banking records, and other\n         business records of William Gray \u0026 Co., in part concerning\n         tobacco agents primarily in London, Eng., and New York City,\n         the financial Panic of 1837, the murder of Gray's partner,\n         Joseph H. Harris, by a slave in New Providence, Tenn. (who was\n         subsequently lynched), and European reaction to secession and\n         the American Civil War."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":17,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T06:58:25.153Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00003"}},{"id":"vihi_vih00014","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00014#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Chiefly papers of Rev. Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson of Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1831-1873, loose accounts, 1833-1872, Presbyterian church materials for Berkeley County and for Shenandoah County, Va., and post office records, 1836-1845, for Woodstock, Va. Also present are the papers of Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson of Gerrardstown and of Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. Va., and Baltimore, Md., including many letters from family members in the North and Midwest giving a Union perspective on the Civil War.","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/vihi_vih00014#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"vihi_vih00014","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00014","_root_":"vihi_vih00014","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00014","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00014.xml","title_ssm":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"title_tesim":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"text":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944","Mss1 W6997 a FA2","California -- Description and travel --\n         1869-1950.","Chamberlin family.","Gerrardstown (W. Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Hedgesville (W. Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Kabletown (W. Va.) -- History.","McPherson family.","McPherson, Jane, d. 1877.","McPherson, William, 1748?-1831.","Oregon -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Presbyterian Church -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Presbyterian Church -- West Virginia -- History --\n         19th century.","Shenandoah County (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865\n         -- Public opinion.","Washington (State) -- Description and travel --\n         19th century.","Wilson, Charles Lee, 1856-1889.","Wilson family.","Wilson, Hall, 1847-1916.","Wilson, Lewis Feuilleteau, 1804-1873.","Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Chamberlin,\n         1815-1895.","3,050\n         items.","Collection is open for research.","The collection is arranged in sixteen series by individual\n         and further subdivided by document type or subject where\n         necessary.","Wilson and related McPherson and Chamberlin families of\n         Jefferson and Berkeley counties, W. Va. The McPhersons and\n         Chamberlins were prominent in the Quaker community.\n         Individuals represented in the collection include Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), Presbyterian minister of\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County; Wilson's third\n         wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (1815-1895) of\n         Gerrardstown; and Hall Wilson (1847-1916) of Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown, Jefferson County, farmer and active member of the\n         Democratic Party.","This collection opens with a few items each of several\n         early members of two prominent Quaker families in what is now\n         Jefferson County, W. Va. William McPherson (1748?-1831) kept a\n         diary, 1827-1828, which contains cryptic notes on weather and\n         family members. An 1825 letter from his son Jonas (b. 1773)\n         discusses the latter's mercantile activities in Baltimore, Md.\n         The papers of McPherson's contemporary, Jonas Chamberlain (d.\n         1794), include accounts, a list of land warrants, and estate\n         materials, all primarily from the 1790s. Also included are\n         accounts of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin.","Chamberlin's son Elijah (d. 1818) married his first cousin\n         Mary McPherson (1780?-1860), daughter of William McPherson and\n         Jane Chamberlin. Elijah Chamberlin lived in Charles Town,\n         Jefferson County. Among letters written to him, 1798-1817, is\n         one interesting missive from William Cranch and William\n         Thornton concerning sheep breeding. His financial records\n         include accounts with Ferdinando Fairfax (1797, 1809).\n         Chamberlin and John McPherson served as administrators of the\n         estate of James Proctor (d. 1806) of Muse's Mill in Jefferson\n         County. Their materials, 1804-1811, concerning the estate\n         include letters to Proctor, loose accounts, (including\n         accounts with Dr. John Dalrymple Orr and William Byrd Page)\n         and receipts for wheat.","Elijah Chamberlin's papers likewise include receipts from\n         Alexandria merchants for the sale of flour, a commonplace\n         book, 1790-1792, including accounts, and an order for lumber\n         on the account of Ferdinando Fairfax, 1817. Daniel McPherson\n         (b. 1775) served as his cousin's administrator. Estate\n         materials include items concerning the guardianship of\n         Chamberlin's children by his widow and litigation in courts in\n         Jefferson and Loudoun counties.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), founder of this\n         particular Wilson line in West Virginia, attended Princeton\n         Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister\n         in 1832. He was accepted into the Winchester Presbytery in\n         that year and served as pastor at Woodstock and Strasburg\n         churches in Shenandoah County until 1835. The latter year he\n         moved to Berkeley County, where he remained the rest of his\n         life as pastor of Presbyterian congregations at Falling\n         Waters, Gerrardstown and Tuscarora.","Wilson maintained correspondence, 1831-1873 (Box 3),\n         primarily with fellow ministers in the Winchester Presbytery\n         and as chairman of the Presbytery's Committee on Education,\n         and with ministerial students at Jefferson College,\n         Cannonsburg, Pa. (now Washington \u0026 Jefferson College,\n         Washington, Pa.) and at Union Theological Seminary in\n         Virginia. Among the more frequent or prominent of these\n         correspondents are ministers John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson,\n         William Henry Foote (including minutes of the Presbytery\n         concerning Wilson), James Robert Graham (of Winchester), John\n         Lodor (of Montvue Collegiate Institute, Frederick County, Va.)\n         and Samuel B. Wilson (of Fredericksburg, Va. ). Ministerial\n         students include Jacob Doll, Stewart Robinson and William W.\n         Stickley. There are also a number of letters from sisters of\n         Wilson's first wife, Emeline (Forman) Wilson (1811-1837) of\n         Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's financial records, 1833-1872, include loose\n         accounts of his second wife, Harriet Ann (Tabb) Wilson\n         (1838-1839). Presbyterian Church materials concern Wilson's\n         pastorates in Shenandoah and Berkeley counties (Box 5), as\n         well as his work in the Winchester Presbytery. The Berkeley\n         county materials consist of resolutions and reports; accounts;\n         certificates of church membership; lists of subscribers to\n         church buildings and a fund to defend \"Old School\"\n         Presbyterians in a lawsuit in 1837; records, 1869-1871, of the\n         education of Charles Scott Lingamfelter as a Presbyterian\n         minister; and sermons preached by Wilson and William Thomas\n         Leavell in Charles Town, 1858-1860. Wilson also retained\n         marriage licences, 1833-1853, issued by court clerks in\n         Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan and Shenandoah counties,\n         certificates issued for Negro slave marriages, and reports of\n         marriages performed, 1847-1859.","The records of Wilson's work on the Education Committee of\n         the Winchester Presbytery are comprised of letters written to\n         William Caldwell Matthews as chairman, 1834-1835 (including\n         letters of Layton Y. Atkins [an elder in Fredericksburg],\n         Jacob Doll, John Lodor and Stewart Robinson); accounts,\n         1832-1860, mostly for educational expenses of ministerial\n         students Jacob Doll, James J. Gardner, William C. Sheetz and\n         Frederick Nicholas Whaley (including receipts from educators\n         John Lodor and Samuel M. Whann); committee reports; and\n         letters, 1833-1834, of John Lodor and Stewart Robinson to\n         James Moore Brown of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. (now W.\n         Va.).","Miscellaneous Presbytery materials include an affidavit and\n         deed of William Henry Foote; official communications,\n         1838-1869 (including a Charles Town broadside); letters,\n         1832-1852; records of Wilson as moderator of the stated\n         meeting in Front Royal, Va., in 1858; lists of pastors; and\n         general miscellany.","Box 6 contains records, 1836-1845, of the U.S. Post Office\n         at Woodstock in Shenandoah County, kept by the postmaster,\n         James Allen, a member of Wilson's congregation. The records\n         consist of correspondence (including letters signed by Amos\n         Kendall); quarterly accounts with the Post Office Department;\n         receipts of payments to contractors; dead letter accounts;\n         inventories of property and letters; and miscellany. Wilson's\n         personal miscellany consists of bonds, materials concerning\n         the guardianship of two of his sons, and receipts for wheat\n         issued by millers at Spring Mills and Tuscarora Mills in\n         Berkeley County. Lastly, there are some letters addressed to\n         Emeline (Forman) Wilson, 1834-1836, primarily from family\n         members in Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's third wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson\n         (1815-1895), lived in Kabletown, Jefferson County,\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va. Her\n         correspondence, 1844-1894 (Boxes 7-12), is largely\n         family-oriented, consisting of many letters from her children\n         and stepchildren, as well as members of the Chamberlin family.\n         Among the correspondents are William M. Chamberlin, James\n         Robert Graham, John Henry Miller (a Lynchburg native who\n         became a prominent attorney in San Francisco, Calif.) and\n         Edwin Lindsley Wilson.","Mrs. Wilson's youngest son, Charles Lee Wilson, attended\n         Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1871-1874), taught school\n         in Jefferson County, and then left for California in 1876. He\n         wrote a letter home to his mother nearly every week for the\n         next thirteen years. During that time his lengthy and\n         interesting letters describe his activities as a clerk,\n         stockbroker and customs officer in San Francisco (1876-1878,\n         1881- 1884; including references to the Vigilance Committee in\n         July 1877); a miner in Darwin, Calif. (1877-1878); a real\n         estate broker in Oakland, Calif. (1878); a teacher at St.\n         Matthers Hall, a military school in San Mateo, Calif.\n         (1878-1881); a manager for the Alaska Commercial Co. on\n         Ounalaska Island, Alaska Territory (1882); and a bookkeeper\n         for salmon canneries in Astoria, Oregon, and Tacoma,\n         Washington Territory (1885- 1888).","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and\n         recipes, and general miscellany complete the papers of Mary\n         Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (Box 12). The following box\n         contains records of the Wilsons' eldest son, teacher Valerius\n         Winchester Wilson (1839-1902), of Guinea Station and Woodford,\n         1909; accounts, 1854-1887; and a lease, 1873, to a house in\n         Kabletown, W. Va.","Edwin Lindsley Wilson (1845-1915) was a Presbyterian\n         minister in Gerrardstown, W. Va., and later in Waterford,\n         Loudoun County, Va. His correspondence, 1866-1908, is\n         primarily with brothers Hall Wilson and Charles Lee Wilson,\n         while his accounts, 1865-1886, include records of his\n         education at Winchester Classical School and Hampden-Sydney\n         College (both 1866). There are also materials concerning his\n         pastorate at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1874-1880. The\n         correspondence, 1874-1909, of his wife, Nannie Elizabeth\n         (Dupuy) Wilson (1849-1925), primarily concerns her husband and\n         Charles Lee Wilson.","Born Ashmun Hall Wilson (1847-1916), this Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown farmer soon dropped his first name. Hall Wilson was\n         active in Democratic party politics in Berkeley County and was\n         also a master of Mill Creek Grange. His correspondence,\n         1867-1910 (Boxes 14-18), includes a large number of letters\n         from Dr. Coketon, Durbin and Thomas, W. Va.) and Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson Edwin Graham Wilson and Frances Keightley\n         (Timerlake) Wilson (concerning Edwin Lindsley Wilson); and his\n         farm manager in Jefferson County, Benjamin F. Yates.","Hall Wilson's loose accounts cover the period 1859-1915.\n         Agricultural materials consist of agreements, notices,\n         government reports and bulletins, tickets to local fairs, and\n         miscellany. Democratic party materials, 1891-1908, include\n         notices of meetings, campaign materials and broadsides, and a\n         certificate as commissioner of elections in Berkeley County,\n         1900. Records, 1873-1884, concerning Wilson as public school\n         trustee in Jefferson County and materials, 1893-1899,\n         regarding Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church also appear in the\n         collection. A few items of miscellany (Box 20) conclude Hall\n         Wilson's papers.","Mary Emma (Seibert) Wilson (b. 1850), Hall Wilson's wife,\n         maintained correspondence, 1864-1909, with many members of her\n         family including brothers Fredericks N. Seibert (of\n         Hedgesville, concerning local births, marriages and deaths)\n         and Luther F. Seibert. Charles Scott Lingamfelter wrote a\n         number of letters to her while a student at Hampden-Sydney\n         College, as did her sister-in-law Ophelia Forman (Wilson)\n         Harper. Emma Wilson's student essays and exercises, 1867-1869,\n         have been preserved, along with a few items of miscellany (Box\n         20).","The youngest Wilson son, Charles Lee Wilson (1856-1889),\n         has been mentioned above. Additional records of his in Box 21\n         consist of correspondence, 1870-1889, while in Kabletown, W.\n         Va., San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Oregon. Among the\n         correspondents are John Henry miller and G. Edgar Walraven\n         (while a student at Bethel Academy in Fauquier County, Va.).\n         Accounts cover the period 1875-1889; Hampden-Sydney College\n         records, 1871-1874, include reports, certificates and\n         accounts. Letters of recommendation and introduction,\n         1876-1888, have been preserved, as have a catalog, prospectus\n         and history of St. Matthews Hall, San Mateo, Calif. News\n         clippings, 1884, concern the history of vigilantes in San\n         Francisco, Calif. Notes and an essay prepared by Wilson cover\n         his trip from Martinsburg, W. Va., to Astoria, Oregon, in\n         1887.","The collection closes (Box 22) with a few items of\n         correspondence of Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (b. 1873), a fruit\n         grower in Gerrardstown, W. Va., followed by miscellany of a\n         number of other family members who also appear elsewhere in\n         the collection, particularly within the correspondence of\n         major figures discussed above. These family members include\n         George E. Chamberlin, John Chamberlin, Jonas Chamberlin\n         (1805?-1855), William M. Chamberlin, Jane M. (Chamberlin)\n         Hamill, Charles Edwin Harper, Ophelia Forman (Wilson) Harper,\n         Catherine Virginia (Hedges) Seibert, James Hall Wilson, and\n         other members of the Chamberlin, Seibert, and Wilson\n         families.","Diary, 1827-1828; letter, 1826.","Accounts, 1790-1796; list of land warrants; estate\n               materials, 1795-1801; Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin's\n               accounts, 1802-1817","Letters, 1798-1817; accounts, 1795-1817; wheat and\n               flour milling (James Proctor estate, receipts);\n               commonplace book, 1790-1792; miscellany; estate\n               materials, 1826-1858","Accounts, 1819-1867; miscellany; estate materials,\n               1849-1869","Correspondence, 1820-1868; accounts, 1828-1838;\n               miscellany, 1821-1828","Correspondence, 1836-1875; accounts, 1833-1836,\n               1858-1867; miscellany.","Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.) and Shenandoah\n                  County, Va., churches, marriage licences, Winchester\n                  Presbytery.","Woodstock, Va., Post Office records, 1836-1845;\n                  personal miscellany; Emeline (Forman) Wilson\n                  letters.","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks (second volume\n                  filed oversize after this box); miscellany.","Correspondence, 1871-1896; accounts, 1854-1887;\n               lease, 1873","Correspondence, 1866-1908; accounts, 1865-1886;\n               Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church.","Correspondence, 1874-1909","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.","Loose accounts, 1859-1915; agricultural materials,\n                  1868-1908; Democratic party activities; 1891-1908;\n                  Jefferson County school trustee, 1873-1884;\n                  Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1893-1899; personal\n                  miscellany.","Correspondence, 1864-1909; student essays and\n               exercises, 1867-1869; miscellany","Correspondence, 1870-1889; accounts, 1875-1889;\n               Hampden-Sydney College, 1871-1874; letters of\n               recommendation, 1876-1888; St. Matthews Hall; newspaper\n               clippings; notes and essay, 1887; general\n               miscellany.","Correspondence, 1883-1908","Chamberlin, Seibert and Wilson family members,\n               1796-1944.","There are no restrictions.","Chiefly papers of Rev. Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson of Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley\n         County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1831-1873, loose\n         accounts, 1833-1872, Presbyterian church materials for\n         Berkeley County and for Shenandoah County, Va., and post\n         office records, 1836-1845, for Woodstock, Va. Also present are\n         the papers of Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson of\n         Gerrardstown and of Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va.,\n         including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of\n         Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including\n         correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and\n         other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of\n         Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including\n         correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in\n         California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington\n         Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney\n         College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also\n         present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William\n         McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane\n         MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. Va., and Baltimore,\n         Md., including many letters from family members in the North\n         and Midwest giving a Union perspective on the Civil\n         War.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"collection_ssim":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6997 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6997 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift/purchase of Dr. Thornton Tayloe Perry, Washington,\n            D.C., and Mrs. Barclay K. Read, McLean, Va., in 1984.\n            Formerly a part of the collections of Thornton Tayloe Perry\n            II of Charles Town, W. Va."],"access_subjects_ssim":["California -- Description and travel --\n         1869-1950.","Chamberlin family.","Gerrardstown (W. 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Va. The McPhersons and\n         Chamberlins were prominent in the Quaker community.\n         Individuals represented in the collection include Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), Presbyterian minister of\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County; Wilson's third\n         wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (1815-1895) of\n         Gerrardstown; and Hall Wilson (1847-1916) of Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown, Jefferson County, farmer and active member of the\n         Democratic Party.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Wilson and related McPherson and Chamberlin families of\n         Jefferson and Berkeley counties, W. Va. The McPhersons and\n         Chamberlins were prominent in the Quaker community.\n         Individuals represented in the collection include Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), Presbyterian minister of\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County; Wilson's third\n         wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (1815-1895) of\n         Gerrardstown; and Hall Wilson (1847-1916) of Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown, Jefferson County, farmer and active member of the\n         Democratic Party."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilson Family Papers, 1790-1944 (Mss1 W6997 a FA2),\n            Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Wilson Family Papers, 1790-1944 (Mss1 W6997 a FA2),\n            Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection opens with a few items each of several\n         early members of two prominent Quaker families in what is now\n         Jefferson County, W. Va. William McPherson (1748?-1831) kept a\n         diary, 1827-1828, which contains cryptic notes on weather and\n         family members. An 1825 letter from his son Jonas (b. 1773)\n         discusses the latter's mercantile activities in Baltimore, Md.\n         The papers of McPherson's contemporary, Jonas Chamberlain (d.\n         1794), include accounts, a list of land warrants, and estate\n         materials, all primarily from the 1790s. Also included are\n         accounts of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eChamberlin's son Elijah (d. 1818) married his first cousin\n         Mary McPherson (1780?-1860), daughter of William McPherson and\n         Jane Chamberlin. Elijah Chamberlin lived in Charles Town,\n         Jefferson County. Among letters written to him, 1798-1817, is\n         one interesting missive from William Cranch and William\n         Thornton concerning sheep breeding. His financial records\n         include accounts with Ferdinando Fairfax (1797, 1809).\n         Chamberlin and John McPherson served as administrators of the\n         estate of James Proctor (d. 1806) of Muse's Mill in Jefferson\n         County. Their materials, 1804-1811, concerning the estate\n         include letters to Proctor, loose accounts, (including\n         accounts with Dr. John Dalrymple Orr and William Byrd Page)\n         and receipts for wheat.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eElijah Chamberlin's papers likewise include receipts from\n         Alexandria merchants for the sale of flour, a commonplace\n         book, 1790-1792, including accounts, and an order for lumber\n         on the account of Ferdinando Fairfax, 1817. Daniel McPherson\n         (b. 1775) served as his cousin's administrator. Estate\n         materials include items concerning the guardianship of\n         Chamberlin's children by his widow and litigation in courts in\n         Jefferson and Loudoun counties.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLewis Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), founder of this\n         particular Wilson line in West Virginia, attended Princeton\n         Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister\n         in 1832. He was accepted into the Winchester Presbytery in\n         that year and served as pastor at Woodstock and Strasburg\n         churches in Shenandoah County until 1835. The latter year he\n         moved to Berkeley County, where he remained the rest of his\n         life as pastor of Presbyterian congregations at Falling\n         Waters, Gerrardstown and Tuscarora.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWilson maintained correspondence, 1831-1873 (Box 3),\n         primarily with fellow ministers in the Winchester Presbytery\n         and as chairman of the Presbytery's Committee on Education,\n         and with ministerial students at Jefferson College,\n         Cannonsburg, Pa. (now Washington \u0026amp; Jefferson College,\n         Washington, Pa.) and at Union Theological Seminary in\n         Virginia. Among the more frequent or prominent of these\n         correspondents are ministers John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson,\n         William Henry Foote (including minutes of the Presbytery\n         concerning Wilson), James Robert Graham (of Winchester), John\n         Lodor (of Montvue Collegiate Institute, Frederick County, Va.)\n         and Samuel B. Wilson (of Fredericksburg, Va. ). Ministerial\n         students include Jacob Doll, Stewart Robinson and William W.\n         Stickley. There are also a number of letters from sisters of\n         Wilson's first wife, Emeline (Forman) Wilson (1811-1837) of\n         Freehold, N.J.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWilson's financial records, 1833-1872, include loose\n         accounts of his second wife, Harriet Ann (Tabb) Wilson\n         (1838-1839). Presbyterian Church materials concern Wilson's\n         pastorates in Shenandoah and Berkeley counties (Box 5), as\n         well as his work in the Winchester Presbytery. The Berkeley\n         county materials consist of resolutions and reports; accounts;\n         certificates of church membership; lists of subscribers to\n         church buildings and a fund to defend \"Old School\"\n         Presbyterians in a lawsuit in 1837; records, 1869-1871, of the\n         education of Charles Scott Lingamfelter as a Presbyterian\n         minister; and sermons preached by Wilson and William Thomas\n         Leavell in Charles Town, 1858-1860. Wilson also retained\n         marriage licences, 1833-1853, issued by court clerks in\n         Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan and Shenandoah counties,\n         certificates issued for Negro slave marriages, and reports of\n         marriages performed, 1847-1859.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe records of Wilson's work on the Education Committee of\n         the Winchester Presbytery are comprised of letters written to\n         William Caldwell Matthews as chairman, 1834-1835 (including\n         letters of Layton Y. Atkins [an elder in Fredericksburg],\n         Jacob Doll, John Lodor and Stewart Robinson); accounts,\n         1832-1860, mostly for educational expenses of ministerial\n         students Jacob Doll, James J. Gardner, William C. Sheetz and\n         Frederick Nicholas Whaley (including receipts from educators\n         John Lodor and Samuel M. Whann); committee reports; and\n         letters, 1833-1834, of John Lodor and Stewart Robinson to\n         James Moore Brown of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. (now W.\n         Va.).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous Presbytery materials include an affidavit and\n         deed of William Henry Foote; official communications,\n         1838-1869 (including a Charles Town broadside); letters,\n         1832-1852; records of Wilson as moderator of the stated\n         meeting in Front Royal, Va., in 1858; lists of pastors; and\n         general miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBox 6 contains records, 1836-1845, of the U.S. Post Office\n         at Woodstock in Shenandoah County, kept by the postmaster,\n         James Allen, a member of Wilson's congregation. The records\n         consist of correspondence (including letters signed by Amos\n         Kendall); quarterly accounts with the Post Office Department;\n         receipts of payments to contractors; dead letter accounts;\n         inventories of property and letters; and miscellany. Wilson's\n         personal miscellany consists of bonds, materials concerning\n         the guardianship of two of his sons, and receipts for wheat\n         issued by millers at Spring Mills and Tuscarora Mills in\n         Berkeley County. Lastly, there are some letters addressed to\n         Emeline (Forman) Wilson, 1834-1836, primarily from family\n         members in Freehold, N.J.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWilson's third wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson\n         (1815-1895), lived in Kabletown, Jefferson County,\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va. Her\n         correspondence, 1844-1894 (Boxes 7-12), is largely\n         family-oriented, consisting of many letters from her children\n         and stepchildren, as well as members of the Chamberlin family.\n         Among the correspondents are William M. Chamberlin, James\n         Robert Graham, John Henry Miller (a Lynchburg native who\n         became a prominent attorney in San Francisco, Calif.) and\n         Edwin Lindsley Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wilson's youngest son, Charles Lee Wilson, attended\n         Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1871-1874), taught school\n         in Jefferson County, and then left for California in 1876. He\n         wrote a letter home to his mother nearly every week for the\n         next thirteen years. During that time his lengthy and\n         interesting letters describe his activities as a clerk,\n         stockbroker and customs officer in San Francisco (1876-1878,\n         1881- 1884; including references to the Vigilance Committee in\n         July 1877); a miner in Darwin, Calif. (1877-1878); a real\n         estate broker in Oakland, Calif. (1878); a teacher at St.\n         Matthers Hall, a military school in San Mateo, Calif.\n         (1878-1881); a manager for the Alaska Commercial Co. on\n         Ounalaska Island, Alaska Territory (1882); and a bookkeeper\n         for salmon canneries in Astoria, Oregon, and Tacoma,\n         Washington Territory (1885- 1888).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and\n         recipes, and general miscellany complete the papers of Mary\n         Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (Box 12). The following box\n         contains records of the Wilsons' eldest son, teacher Valerius\n         Winchester Wilson (1839-1902), of Guinea Station and Woodford,\n         1909; accounts, 1854-1887; and a lease, 1873, to a house in\n         Kabletown, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Lindsley Wilson (1845-1915) was a Presbyterian\n         minister in Gerrardstown, W. Va., and later in Waterford,\n         Loudoun County, Va. His correspondence, 1866-1908, is\n         primarily with brothers Hall Wilson and Charles Lee Wilson,\n         while his accounts, 1865-1886, include records of his\n         education at Winchester Classical School and Hampden-Sydney\n         College (both 1866). There are also materials concerning his\n         pastorate at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1874-1880. The\n         correspondence, 1874-1909, of his wife, Nannie Elizabeth\n         (Dupuy) Wilson (1849-1925), primarily concerns her husband and\n         Charles Lee Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBorn Ashmun Hall Wilson (1847-1916), this Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown farmer soon dropped his first name. Hall Wilson was\n         active in Democratic party politics in Berkeley County and was\n         also a master of Mill Creek Grange. His correspondence,\n         1867-1910 (Boxes 14-18), includes a large number of letters\n         from Dr. Coketon, Durbin and Thomas, W. Va.) and Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson Edwin Graham Wilson and Frances Keightley\n         (Timerlake) Wilson (concerning Edwin Lindsley Wilson); and his\n         farm manager in Jefferson County, Benjamin F. Yates.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHall Wilson's loose accounts cover the period 1859-1915.\n         Agricultural materials consist of agreements, notices,\n         government reports and bulletins, tickets to local fairs, and\n         miscellany. Democratic party materials, 1891-1908, include\n         notices of meetings, campaign materials and broadsides, and a\n         certificate as commissioner of elections in Berkeley County,\n         1900. Records, 1873-1884, concerning Wilson as public school\n         trustee in Jefferson County and materials, 1893-1899,\n         regarding Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church also appear in the\n         collection. A few items of miscellany (Box 20) conclude Hall\n         Wilson's papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMary Emma (Seibert) Wilson (b. 1850), Hall Wilson's wife,\n         maintained correspondence, 1864-1909, with many members of her\n         family including brothers Fredericks N. Seibert (of\n         Hedgesville, concerning local births, marriages and deaths)\n         and Luther F. Seibert. Charles Scott Lingamfelter wrote a\n         number of letters to her while a student at Hampden-Sydney\n         College, as did her sister-in-law Ophelia Forman (Wilson)\n         Harper. Emma Wilson's student essays and exercises, 1867-1869,\n         have been preserved, along with a few items of miscellany (Box\n         20).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe youngest Wilson son, Charles Lee Wilson (1856-1889),\n         has been mentioned above. Additional records of his in Box 21\n         consist of correspondence, 1870-1889, while in Kabletown, W.\n         Va., San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Oregon. Among the\n         correspondents are John Henry miller and G. Edgar Walraven\n         (while a student at Bethel Academy in Fauquier County, Va.).\n         Accounts cover the period 1875-1889; Hampden-Sydney College\n         records, 1871-1874, include reports, certificates and\n         accounts. Letters of recommendation and introduction,\n         1876-1888, have been preserved, as have a catalog, prospectus\n         and history of St. Matthews Hall, San Mateo, Calif. News\n         clippings, 1884, concern the history of vigilantes in San\n         Francisco, Calif. Notes and an essay prepared by Wilson cover\n         his trip from Martinsburg, W. Va., to Astoria, Oregon, in\n         1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes (Box 22) with a few items of\n         correspondence of Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (b. 1873), a fruit\n         grower in Gerrardstown, W. Va., followed by miscellany of a\n         number of other family members who also appear elsewhere in\n         the collection, particularly within the correspondence of\n         major figures discussed above. These family members include\n         George E. Chamberlin, John Chamberlin, Jonas Chamberlin\n         (1805?-1855), William M. Chamberlin, Jane M. (Chamberlin)\n         Hamill, Charles Edwin Harper, Ophelia Forman (Wilson) Harper,\n         Catherine Virginia (Hedges) Seibert, James Hall Wilson, and\n         other members of the Chamberlin, Seibert, and Wilson\n         families.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eDiary, 1827-1828; letter, 1826.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1790-1796; list of land warrants; estate\n               materials, 1795-1801; Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin's\n               accounts, 1802-1817\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1798-1817; accounts, 1795-1817; wheat and\n               flour milling (James Proctor estate, receipts);\n               commonplace book, 1790-1792; miscellany; estate\n               materials, 1826-1858\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1819-1867; miscellany; estate materials,\n               1849-1869\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1820-1868; accounts, 1828-1838;\n               miscellany, 1821-1828\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1836-1875; accounts, 1833-1836,\n               1858-1867; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eBerkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.) and Shenandoah\n                  County, Va., churches, marriage licences, Winchester\n                  Presbytery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWoodstock, Va., Post Office records, 1836-1845;\n                  personal miscellany; Emeline (Forman) Wilson\n                  letters.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArranged alphabetically by correspondent\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks (second volume\n                  filed oversize after this box); miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1871-1896; accounts, 1854-1887;\n               lease, 1873\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1866-1908; accounts, 1865-1886;\n               Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1874-1909\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eArranged alphabetically by correspondent.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLoose accounts, 1859-1915; agricultural materials,\n                  1868-1908; Democratic party activities; 1891-1908;\n                  Jefferson County school trustee, 1873-1884;\n                  Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1893-1899; personal\n                  miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1864-1909; student essays and\n               exercises, 1867-1869; miscellany\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1870-1889; accounts, 1875-1889;\n               Hampden-Sydney College, 1871-1874; letters of\n               recommendation, 1876-1888; St. Matthews Hall; newspaper\n               clippings; notes and essay, 1887; general\n               miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1883-1908\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eChamberlin, Seibert and Wilson family members,\n               1796-1944.\u003c/p\u003e\n        "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection opens with a few items each of several\n         early members of two prominent Quaker families in what is now\n         Jefferson County, W. Va. William McPherson (1748?-1831) kept a\n         diary, 1827-1828, which contains cryptic notes on weather and\n         family members. An 1825 letter from his son Jonas (b. 1773)\n         discusses the latter's mercantile activities in Baltimore, Md.\n         The papers of McPherson's contemporary, Jonas Chamberlain (d.\n         1794), include accounts, a list of land warrants, and estate\n         materials, all primarily from the 1790s. Also included are\n         accounts of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin.","Chamberlin's son Elijah (d. 1818) married his first cousin\n         Mary McPherson (1780?-1860), daughter of William McPherson and\n         Jane Chamberlin. Elijah Chamberlin lived in Charles Town,\n         Jefferson County. Among letters written to him, 1798-1817, is\n         one interesting missive from William Cranch and William\n         Thornton concerning sheep breeding. His financial records\n         include accounts with Ferdinando Fairfax (1797, 1809).\n         Chamberlin and John McPherson served as administrators of the\n         estate of James Proctor (d. 1806) of Muse's Mill in Jefferson\n         County. Their materials, 1804-1811, concerning the estate\n         include letters to Proctor, loose accounts, (including\n         accounts with Dr. John Dalrymple Orr and William Byrd Page)\n         and receipts for wheat.","Elijah Chamberlin's papers likewise include receipts from\n         Alexandria merchants for the sale of flour, a commonplace\n         book, 1790-1792, including accounts, and an order for lumber\n         on the account of Ferdinando Fairfax, 1817. Daniel McPherson\n         (b. 1775) served as his cousin's administrator. Estate\n         materials include items concerning the guardianship of\n         Chamberlin's children by his widow and litigation in courts in\n         Jefferson and Loudoun counties.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), founder of this\n         particular Wilson line in West Virginia, attended Princeton\n         Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister\n         in 1832. He was accepted into the Winchester Presbytery in\n         that year and served as pastor at Woodstock and Strasburg\n         churches in Shenandoah County until 1835. The latter year he\n         moved to Berkeley County, where he remained the rest of his\n         life as pastor of Presbyterian congregations at Falling\n         Waters, Gerrardstown and Tuscarora.","Wilson maintained correspondence, 1831-1873 (Box 3),\n         primarily with fellow ministers in the Winchester Presbytery\n         and as chairman of the Presbytery's Committee on Education,\n         and with ministerial students at Jefferson College,\n         Cannonsburg, Pa. (now Washington \u0026 Jefferson College,\n         Washington, Pa.) and at Union Theological Seminary in\n         Virginia. Among the more frequent or prominent of these\n         correspondents are ministers John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson,\n         William Henry Foote (including minutes of the Presbytery\n         concerning Wilson), James Robert Graham (of Winchester), John\n         Lodor (of Montvue Collegiate Institute, Frederick County, Va.)\n         and Samuel B. Wilson (of Fredericksburg, Va. ). Ministerial\n         students include Jacob Doll, Stewart Robinson and William W.\n         Stickley. There are also a number of letters from sisters of\n         Wilson's first wife, Emeline (Forman) Wilson (1811-1837) of\n         Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's financial records, 1833-1872, include loose\n         accounts of his second wife, Harriet Ann (Tabb) Wilson\n         (1838-1839). Presbyterian Church materials concern Wilson's\n         pastorates in Shenandoah and Berkeley counties (Box 5), as\n         well as his work in the Winchester Presbytery. The Berkeley\n         county materials consist of resolutions and reports; accounts;\n         certificates of church membership; lists of subscribers to\n         church buildings and a fund to defend \"Old School\"\n         Presbyterians in a lawsuit in 1837; records, 1869-1871, of the\n         education of Charles Scott Lingamfelter as a Presbyterian\n         minister; and sermons preached by Wilson and William Thomas\n         Leavell in Charles Town, 1858-1860. Wilson also retained\n         marriage licences, 1833-1853, issued by court clerks in\n         Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan and Shenandoah counties,\n         certificates issued for Negro slave marriages, and reports of\n         marriages performed, 1847-1859.","The records of Wilson's work on the Education Committee of\n         the Winchester Presbytery are comprised of letters written to\n         William Caldwell Matthews as chairman, 1834-1835 (including\n         letters of Layton Y. Atkins [an elder in Fredericksburg],\n         Jacob Doll, John Lodor and Stewart Robinson); accounts,\n         1832-1860, mostly for educational expenses of ministerial\n         students Jacob Doll, James J. Gardner, William C. Sheetz and\n         Frederick Nicholas Whaley (including receipts from educators\n         John Lodor and Samuel M. Whann); committee reports; and\n         letters, 1833-1834, of John Lodor and Stewart Robinson to\n         James Moore Brown of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. (now W.\n         Va.).","Miscellaneous Presbytery materials include an affidavit and\n         deed of William Henry Foote; official communications,\n         1838-1869 (including a Charles Town broadside); letters,\n         1832-1852; records of Wilson as moderator of the stated\n         meeting in Front Royal, Va., in 1858; lists of pastors; and\n         general miscellany.","Box 6 contains records, 1836-1845, of the U.S. Post Office\n         at Woodstock in Shenandoah County, kept by the postmaster,\n         James Allen, a member of Wilson's congregation. The records\n         consist of correspondence (including letters signed by Amos\n         Kendall); quarterly accounts with the Post Office Department;\n         receipts of payments to contractors; dead letter accounts;\n         inventories of property and letters; and miscellany. Wilson's\n         personal miscellany consists of bonds, materials concerning\n         the guardianship of two of his sons, and receipts for wheat\n         issued by millers at Spring Mills and Tuscarora Mills in\n         Berkeley County. Lastly, there are some letters addressed to\n         Emeline (Forman) Wilson, 1834-1836, primarily from family\n         members in Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's third wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson\n         (1815-1895), lived in Kabletown, Jefferson County,\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va. Her\n         correspondence, 1844-1894 (Boxes 7-12), is largely\n         family-oriented, consisting of many letters from her children\n         and stepchildren, as well as members of the Chamberlin family.\n         Among the correspondents are William M. Chamberlin, James\n         Robert Graham, John Henry Miller (a Lynchburg native who\n         became a prominent attorney in San Francisco, Calif.) and\n         Edwin Lindsley Wilson.","Mrs. Wilson's youngest son, Charles Lee Wilson, attended\n         Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1871-1874), taught school\n         in Jefferson County, and then left for California in 1876. He\n         wrote a letter home to his mother nearly every week for the\n         next thirteen years. During that time his lengthy and\n         interesting letters describe his activities as a clerk,\n         stockbroker and customs officer in San Francisco (1876-1878,\n         1881- 1884; including references to the Vigilance Committee in\n         July 1877); a miner in Darwin, Calif. (1877-1878); a real\n         estate broker in Oakland, Calif. (1878); a teacher at St.\n         Matthers Hall, a military school in San Mateo, Calif.\n         (1878-1881); a manager for the Alaska Commercial Co. on\n         Ounalaska Island, Alaska Territory (1882); and a bookkeeper\n         for salmon canneries in Astoria, Oregon, and Tacoma,\n         Washington Territory (1885- 1888).","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and\n         recipes, and general miscellany complete the papers of Mary\n         Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (Box 12). The following box\n         contains records of the Wilsons' eldest son, teacher Valerius\n         Winchester Wilson (1839-1902), of Guinea Station and Woodford,\n         1909; accounts, 1854-1887; and a lease, 1873, to a house in\n         Kabletown, W. Va.","Edwin Lindsley Wilson (1845-1915) was a Presbyterian\n         minister in Gerrardstown, W. Va., and later in Waterford,\n         Loudoun County, Va. His correspondence, 1866-1908, is\n         primarily with brothers Hall Wilson and Charles Lee Wilson,\n         while his accounts, 1865-1886, include records of his\n         education at Winchester Classical School and Hampden-Sydney\n         College (both 1866). There are also materials concerning his\n         pastorate at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1874-1880. The\n         correspondence, 1874-1909, of his wife, Nannie Elizabeth\n         (Dupuy) Wilson (1849-1925), primarily concerns her husband and\n         Charles Lee Wilson.","Born Ashmun Hall Wilson (1847-1916), this Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown farmer soon dropped his first name. Hall Wilson was\n         active in Democratic party politics in Berkeley County and was\n         also a master of Mill Creek Grange. His correspondence,\n         1867-1910 (Boxes 14-18), includes a large number of letters\n         from Dr. Coketon, Durbin and Thomas, W. Va.) and Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson Edwin Graham Wilson and Frances Keightley\n         (Timerlake) Wilson (concerning Edwin Lindsley Wilson); and his\n         farm manager in Jefferson County, Benjamin F. Yates.","Hall Wilson's loose accounts cover the period 1859-1915.\n         Agricultural materials consist of agreements, notices,\n         government reports and bulletins, tickets to local fairs, and\n         miscellany. Democratic party materials, 1891-1908, include\n         notices of meetings, campaign materials and broadsides, and a\n         certificate as commissioner of elections in Berkeley County,\n         1900. Records, 1873-1884, concerning Wilson as public school\n         trustee in Jefferson County and materials, 1893-1899,\n         regarding Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church also appear in the\n         collection. A few items of miscellany (Box 20) conclude Hall\n         Wilson's papers.","Mary Emma (Seibert) Wilson (b. 1850), Hall Wilson's wife,\n         maintained correspondence, 1864-1909, with many members of her\n         family including brothers Fredericks N. Seibert (of\n         Hedgesville, concerning local births, marriages and deaths)\n         and Luther F. Seibert. Charles Scott Lingamfelter wrote a\n         number of letters to her while a student at Hampden-Sydney\n         College, as did her sister-in-law Ophelia Forman (Wilson)\n         Harper. Emma Wilson's student essays and exercises, 1867-1869,\n         have been preserved, along with a few items of miscellany (Box\n         20).","The youngest Wilson son, Charles Lee Wilson (1856-1889),\n         has been mentioned above. Additional records of his in Box 21\n         consist of correspondence, 1870-1889, while in Kabletown, W.\n         Va., San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Oregon. Among the\n         correspondents are John Henry miller and G. Edgar Walraven\n         (while a student at Bethel Academy in Fauquier County, Va.).\n         Accounts cover the period 1875-1889; Hampden-Sydney College\n         records, 1871-1874, include reports, certificates and\n         accounts. Letters of recommendation and introduction,\n         1876-1888, have been preserved, as have a catalog, prospectus\n         and history of St. Matthews Hall, San Mateo, Calif. News\n         clippings, 1884, concern the history of vigilantes in San\n         Francisco, Calif. Notes and an essay prepared by Wilson cover\n         his trip from Martinsburg, W. Va., to Astoria, Oregon, in\n         1887.","The collection closes (Box 22) with a few items of\n         correspondence of Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (b. 1873), a fruit\n         grower in Gerrardstown, W. Va., followed by miscellany of a\n         number of other family members who also appear elsewhere in\n         the collection, particularly within the correspondence of\n         major figures discussed above. These family members include\n         George E. Chamberlin, John Chamberlin, Jonas Chamberlin\n         (1805?-1855), William M. Chamberlin, Jane M. (Chamberlin)\n         Hamill, Charles Edwin Harper, Ophelia Forman (Wilson) Harper,\n         Catherine Virginia (Hedges) Seibert, James Hall Wilson, and\n         other members of the Chamberlin, Seibert, and Wilson\n         families.","Diary, 1827-1828; letter, 1826.","Accounts, 1790-1796; list of land warrants; estate\n               materials, 1795-1801; Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin's\n               accounts, 1802-1817","Letters, 1798-1817; accounts, 1795-1817; wheat and\n               flour milling (James Proctor estate, receipts);\n               commonplace book, 1790-1792; miscellany; estate\n               materials, 1826-1858","Accounts, 1819-1867; miscellany; estate materials,\n               1849-1869","Correspondence, 1820-1868; accounts, 1828-1838;\n               miscellany, 1821-1828","Correspondence, 1836-1875; accounts, 1833-1836,\n               1858-1867; miscellany.","Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.) and Shenandoah\n                  County, Va., churches, marriage licences, Winchester\n                  Presbytery.","Woodstock, Va., Post Office records, 1836-1845;\n                  personal miscellany; Emeline (Forman) Wilson\n                  letters.","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks (second volume\n                  filed oversize after this box); miscellany.","Correspondence, 1871-1896; accounts, 1854-1887;\n               lease, 1873","Correspondence, 1866-1908; accounts, 1865-1886;\n               Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church.","Correspondence, 1874-1909","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.","Loose accounts, 1859-1915; agricultural materials,\n                  1868-1908; Democratic party activities; 1891-1908;\n                  Jefferson County school trustee, 1873-1884;\n                  Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1893-1899; personal\n                  miscellany.","Correspondence, 1864-1909; student essays and\n               exercises, 1867-1869; miscellany","Correspondence, 1870-1889; accounts, 1875-1889;\n               Hampden-Sydney College, 1871-1874; letters of\n               recommendation, 1876-1888; St. Matthews Hall; newspaper\n               clippings; notes and essay, 1887; general\n               miscellany.","Correspondence, 1883-1908","Chamberlin, Seibert and Wilson family members,\n               1796-1944."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eChiefly papers of Rev. Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson of Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley\n         County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1831-1873, loose\n         accounts, 1833-1872, Presbyterian church materials for\n         Berkeley County and for Shenandoah County, Va., and post\n         office records, 1836-1845, for Woodstock, Va. Also present are\n         the papers of Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson of\n         Gerrardstown and of Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va.,\n         including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of\n         Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including\n         correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and\n         other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of\n         Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including\n         correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in\n         California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington\n         Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney\n         College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also\n         present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William\n         McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane\n         MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. Va., and Baltimore,\n         Md., including many letters from family members in the North\n         and Midwest giving a Union perspective on the Civil\n         War.\u003c/abstract\u003e\n    "],"abstract_tesim":["Chiefly papers of Rev. Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson of Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley\n         County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1831-1873, loose\n         accounts, 1833-1872, Presbyterian church materials for\n         Berkeley County and for Shenandoah County, Va., and post\n         office records, 1836-1845, for Woodstock, Va. Also present are\n         the papers of Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson of\n         Gerrardstown and of Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va.,\n         including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of\n         Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including\n         correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and\n         other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of\n         Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including\n         correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in\n         California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington\n         Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney\n         College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also\n         present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William\n         McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane\n         MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. Va., and Baltimore,\n         Md., including many letters from family members in the North\n         and Midwest giving a Union perspective on the Civil\n         War."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":24,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T06:58:25.153Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vihi_vih00014","ead_ssi":"vihi_vih00014","_root_":"vihi_vih00014","_nest_parent_":"vihi_vih00014","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/vhs/vih00014.xml","title_ssm":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"title_tesim":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"text":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944","Mss1 W6997 a FA2","California -- Description and travel --\n         1869-1950.","Chamberlin family.","Gerrardstown (W. Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Hedgesville (W. Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Kabletown (W. Va.) -- History.","McPherson family.","McPherson, Jane, d. 1877.","McPherson, William, 1748?-1831.","Oregon -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Presbyterian Church -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Presbyterian Church -- West Virginia -- History --\n         19th century.","Shenandoah County (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865\n         -- Public opinion.","Washington (State) -- Description and travel --\n         19th century.","Wilson, Charles Lee, 1856-1889.","Wilson family.","Wilson, Hall, 1847-1916.","Wilson, Lewis Feuilleteau, 1804-1873.","Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Chamberlin,\n         1815-1895.","3,050\n         items.","Collection is open for research.","The collection is arranged in sixteen series by individual\n         and further subdivided by document type or subject where\n         necessary.","Wilson and related McPherson and Chamberlin families of\n         Jefferson and Berkeley counties, W. Va. The McPhersons and\n         Chamberlins were prominent in the Quaker community.\n         Individuals represented in the collection include Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), Presbyterian minister of\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County; Wilson's third\n         wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (1815-1895) of\n         Gerrardstown; and Hall Wilson (1847-1916) of Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown, Jefferson County, farmer and active member of the\n         Democratic Party.","This collection opens with a few items each of several\n         early members of two prominent Quaker families in what is now\n         Jefferson County, W. Va. William McPherson (1748?-1831) kept a\n         diary, 1827-1828, which contains cryptic notes on weather and\n         family members. An 1825 letter from his son Jonas (b. 1773)\n         discusses the latter's mercantile activities in Baltimore, Md.\n         The papers of McPherson's contemporary, Jonas Chamberlain (d.\n         1794), include accounts, a list of land warrants, and estate\n         materials, all primarily from the 1790s. Also included are\n         accounts of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin.","Chamberlin's son Elijah (d. 1818) married his first cousin\n         Mary McPherson (1780?-1860), daughter of William McPherson and\n         Jane Chamberlin. Elijah Chamberlin lived in Charles Town,\n         Jefferson County. Among letters written to him, 1798-1817, is\n         one interesting missive from William Cranch and William\n         Thornton concerning sheep breeding. His financial records\n         include accounts with Ferdinando Fairfax (1797, 1809).\n         Chamberlin and John McPherson served as administrators of the\n         estate of James Proctor (d. 1806) of Muse's Mill in Jefferson\n         County. Their materials, 1804-1811, concerning the estate\n         include letters to Proctor, loose accounts, (including\n         accounts with Dr. John Dalrymple Orr and William Byrd Page)\n         and receipts for wheat.","Elijah Chamberlin's papers likewise include receipts from\n         Alexandria merchants for the sale of flour, a commonplace\n         book, 1790-1792, including accounts, and an order for lumber\n         on the account of Ferdinando Fairfax, 1817. Daniel McPherson\n         (b. 1775) served as his cousin's administrator. Estate\n         materials include items concerning the guardianship of\n         Chamberlin's children by his widow and litigation in courts in\n         Jefferson and Loudoun counties.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), founder of this\n         particular Wilson line in West Virginia, attended Princeton\n         Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister\n         in 1832. He was accepted into the Winchester Presbytery in\n         that year and served as pastor at Woodstock and Strasburg\n         churches in Shenandoah County until 1835. The latter year he\n         moved to Berkeley County, where he remained the rest of his\n         life as pastor of Presbyterian congregations at Falling\n         Waters, Gerrardstown and Tuscarora.","Wilson maintained correspondence, 1831-1873 (Box 3),\n         primarily with fellow ministers in the Winchester Presbytery\n         and as chairman of the Presbytery's Committee on Education,\n         and with ministerial students at Jefferson College,\n         Cannonsburg, Pa. (now Washington \u0026 Jefferson College,\n         Washington, Pa.) and at Union Theological Seminary in\n         Virginia. Among the more frequent or prominent of these\n         correspondents are ministers John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson,\n         William Henry Foote (including minutes of the Presbytery\n         concerning Wilson), James Robert Graham (of Winchester), John\n         Lodor (of Montvue Collegiate Institute, Frederick County, Va.)\n         and Samuel B. Wilson (of Fredericksburg, Va. ). Ministerial\n         students include Jacob Doll, Stewart Robinson and William W.\n         Stickley. There are also a number of letters from sisters of\n         Wilson's first wife, Emeline (Forman) Wilson (1811-1837) of\n         Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's financial records, 1833-1872, include loose\n         accounts of his second wife, Harriet Ann (Tabb) Wilson\n         (1838-1839). Presbyterian Church materials concern Wilson's\n         pastorates in Shenandoah and Berkeley counties (Box 5), as\n         well as his work in the Winchester Presbytery. The Berkeley\n         county materials consist of resolutions and reports; accounts;\n         certificates of church membership; lists of subscribers to\n         church buildings and a fund to defend \"Old School\"\n         Presbyterians in a lawsuit in 1837; records, 1869-1871, of the\n         education of Charles Scott Lingamfelter as a Presbyterian\n         minister; and sermons preached by Wilson and William Thomas\n         Leavell in Charles Town, 1858-1860. Wilson also retained\n         marriage licences, 1833-1853, issued by court clerks in\n         Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan and Shenandoah counties,\n         certificates issued for Negro slave marriages, and reports of\n         marriages performed, 1847-1859.","The records of Wilson's work on the Education Committee of\n         the Winchester Presbytery are comprised of letters written to\n         William Caldwell Matthews as chairman, 1834-1835 (including\n         letters of Layton Y. Atkins [an elder in Fredericksburg],\n         Jacob Doll, John Lodor and Stewart Robinson); accounts,\n         1832-1860, mostly for educational expenses of ministerial\n         students Jacob Doll, James J. Gardner, William C. Sheetz and\n         Frederick Nicholas Whaley (including receipts from educators\n         John Lodor and Samuel M. Whann); committee reports; and\n         letters, 1833-1834, of John Lodor and Stewart Robinson to\n         James Moore Brown of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. (now W.\n         Va.).","Miscellaneous Presbytery materials include an affidavit and\n         deed of William Henry Foote; official communications,\n         1838-1869 (including a Charles Town broadside); letters,\n         1832-1852; records of Wilson as moderator of the stated\n         meeting in Front Royal, Va., in 1858; lists of pastors; and\n         general miscellany.","Box 6 contains records, 1836-1845, of the U.S. Post Office\n         at Woodstock in Shenandoah County, kept by the postmaster,\n         James Allen, a member of Wilson's congregation. The records\n         consist of correspondence (including letters signed by Amos\n         Kendall); quarterly accounts with the Post Office Department;\n         receipts of payments to contractors; dead letter accounts;\n         inventories of property and letters; and miscellany. Wilson's\n         personal miscellany consists of bonds, materials concerning\n         the guardianship of two of his sons, and receipts for wheat\n         issued by millers at Spring Mills and Tuscarora Mills in\n         Berkeley County. Lastly, there are some letters addressed to\n         Emeline (Forman) Wilson, 1834-1836, primarily from family\n         members in Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's third wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson\n         (1815-1895), lived in Kabletown, Jefferson County,\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va. Her\n         correspondence, 1844-1894 (Boxes 7-12), is largely\n         family-oriented, consisting of many letters from her children\n         and stepchildren, as well as members of the Chamberlin family.\n         Among the correspondents are William M. Chamberlin, James\n         Robert Graham, John Henry Miller (a Lynchburg native who\n         became a prominent attorney in San Francisco, Calif.) and\n         Edwin Lindsley Wilson.","Mrs. Wilson's youngest son, Charles Lee Wilson, attended\n         Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1871-1874), taught school\n         in Jefferson County, and then left for California in 1876. He\n         wrote a letter home to his mother nearly every week for the\n         next thirteen years. During that time his lengthy and\n         interesting letters describe his activities as a clerk,\n         stockbroker and customs officer in San Francisco (1876-1878,\n         1881- 1884; including references to the Vigilance Committee in\n         July 1877); a miner in Darwin, Calif. (1877-1878); a real\n         estate broker in Oakland, Calif. (1878); a teacher at St.\n         Matthers Hall, a military school in San Mateo, Calif.\n         (1878-1881); a manager for the Alaska Commercial Co. on\n         Ounalaska Island, Alaska Territory (1882); and a bookkeeper\n         for salmon canneries in Astoria, Oregon, and Tacoma,\n         Washington Territory (1885- 1888).","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and\n         recipes, and general miscellany complete the papers of Mary\n         Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (Box 12). The following box\n         contains records of the Wilsons' eldest son, teacher Valerius\n         Winchester Wilson (1839-1902), of Guinea Station and Woodford,\n         1909; accounts, 1854-1887; and a lease, 1873, to a house in\n         Kabletown, W. Va.","Edwin Lindsley Wilson (1845-1915) was a Presbyterian\n         minister in Gerrardstown, W. Va., and later in Waterford,\n         Loudoun County, Va. His correspondence, 1866-1908, is\n         primarily with brothers Hall Wilson and Charles Lee Wilson,\n         while his accounts, 1865-1886, include records of his\n         education at Winchester Classical School and Hampden-Sydney\n         College (both 1866). There are also materials concerning his\n         pastorate at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1874-1880. The\n         correspondence, 1874-1909, of his wife, Nannie Elizabeth\n         (Dupuy) Wilson (1849-1925), primarily concerns her husband and\n         Charles Lee Wilson.","Born Ashmun Hall Wilson (1847-1916), this Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown farmer soon dropped his first name. Hall Wilson was\n         active in Democratic party politics in Berkeley County and was\n         also a master of Mill Creek Grange. His correspondence,\n         1867-1910 (Boxes 14-18), includes a large number of letters\n         from Dr. Coketon, Durbin and Thomas, W. Va.) and Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson Edwin Graham Wilson and Frances Keightley\n         (Timerlake) Wilson (concerning Edwin Lindsley Wilson); and his\n         farm manager in Jefferson County, Benjamin F. Yates.","Hall Wilson's loose accounts cover the period 1859-1915.\n         Agricultural materials consist of agreements, notices,\n         government reports and bulletins, tickets to local fairs, and\n         miscellany. Democratic party materials, 1891-1908, include\n         notices of meetings, campaign materials and broadsides, and a\n         certificate as commissioner of elections in Berkeley County,\n         1900. Records, 1873-1884, concerning Wilson as public school\n         trustee in Jefferson County and materials, 1893-1899,\n         regarding Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church also appear in the\n         collection. A few items of miscellany (Box 20) conclude Hall\n         Wilson's papers.","Mary Emma (Seibert) Wilson (b. 1850), Hall Wilson's wife,\n         maintained correspondence, 1864-1909, with many members of her\n         family including brothers Fredericks N. Seibert (of\n         Hedgesville, concerning local births, marriages and deaths)\n         and Luther F. Seibert. Charles Scott Lingamfelter wrote a\n         number of letters to her while a student at Hampden-Sydney\n         College, as did her sister-in-law Ophelia Forman (Wilson)\n         Harper. Emma Wilson's student essays and exercises, 1867-1869,\n         have been preserved, along with a few items of miscellany (Box\n         20).","The youngest Wilson son, Charles Lee Wilson (1856-1889),\n         has been mentioned above. Additional records of his in Box 21\n         consist of correspondence, 1870-1889, while in Kabletown, W.\n         Va., San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Oregon. Among the\n         correspondents are John Henry miller and G. Edgar Walraven\n         (while a student at Bethel Academy in Fauquier County, Va.).\n         Accounts cover the period 1875-1889; Hampden-Sydney College\n         records, 1871-1874, include reports, certificates and\n         accounts. Letters of recommendation and introduction,\n         1876-1888, have been preserved, as have a catalog, prospectus\n         and history of St. Matthews Hall, San Mateo, Calif. News\n         clippings, 1884, concern the history of vigilantes in San\n         Francisco, Calif. Notes and an essay prepared by Wilson cover\n         his trip from Martinsburg, W. Va., to Astoria, Oregon, in\n         1887.","The collection closes (Box 22) with a few items of\n         correspondence of Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (b. 1873), a fruit\n         grower in Gerrardstown, W. Va., followed by miscellany of a\n         number of other family members who also appear elsewhere in\n         the collection, particularly within the correspondence of\n         major figures discussed above. These family members include\n         George E. Chamberlin, John Chamberlin, Jonas Chamberlin\n         (1805?-1855), William M. Chamberlin, Jane M. (Chamberlin)\n         Hamill, Charles Edwin Harper, Ophelia Forman (Wilson) Harper,\n         Catherine Virginia (Hedges) Seibert, James Hall Wilson, and\n         other members of the Chamberlin, Seibert, and Wilson\n         families.","Diary, 1827-1828; letter, 1826.","Accounts, 1790-1796; list of land warrants; estate\n               materials, 1795-1801; Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin's\n               accounts, 1802-1817","Letters, 1798-1817; accounts, 1795-1817; wheat and\n               flour milling (James Proctor estate, receipts);\n               commonplace book, 1790-1792; miscellany; estate\n               materials, 1826-1858","Accounts, 1819-1867; miscellany; estate materials,\n               1849-1869","Correspondence, 1820-1868; accounts, 1828-1838;\n               miscellany, 1821-1828","Correspondence, 1836-1875; accounts, 1833-1836,\n               1858-1867; miscellany.","Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.) and Shenandoah\n                  County, Va., churches, marriage licences, Winchester\n                  Presbytery.","Woodstock, Va., Post Office records, 1836-1845;\n                  personal miscellany; Emeline (Forman) Wilson\n                  letters.","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks (second volume\n                  filed oversize after this box); miscellany.","Correspondence, 1871-1896; accounts, 1854-1887;\n               lease, 1873","Correspondence, 1866-1908; accounts, 1865-1886;\n               Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church.","Correspondence, 1874-1909","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.","Loose accounts, 1859-1915; agricultural materials,\n                  1868-1908; Democratic party activities; 1891-1908;\n                  Jefferson County school trustee, 1873-1884;\n                  Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1893-1899; personal\n                  miscellany.","Correspondence, 1864-1909; student essays and\n               exercises, 1867-1869; miscellany","Correspondence, 1870-1889; accounts, 1875-1889;\n               Hampden-Sydney College, 1871-1874; letters of\n               recommendation, 1876-1888; St. Matthews Hall; newspaper\n               clippings; notes and essay, 1887; general\n               miscellany.","Correspondence, 1883-1908","Chamberlin, Seibert and Wilson family members,\n               1796-1944.","There are no restrictions.","Chiefly papers of Rev. Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson of Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley\n         County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1831-1873, loose\n         accounts, 1833-1872, Presbyterian church materials for\n         Berkeley County and for Shenandoah County, Va., and post\n         office records, 1836-1845, for Woodstock, Va. Also present are\n         the papers of Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson of\n         Gerrardstown and of Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va.,\n         including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of\n         Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including\n         correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and\n         other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of\n         Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including\n         correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in\n         California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington\n         Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney\n         College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also\n         present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William\n         McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane\n         MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. Va., and Baltimore,\n         Md., including many letters from family members in the North\n         and Midwest giving a Union perspective on the Civil\n         War.","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"collection_ssim":["Wilson Family Papers, \n         \n         1790-1944"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss1 W6997 a FA2"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss1 W6997 a FA2"],"repository_ssm":["Virginia Historical Society"],"repository_ssim":["Virginia Historical Society"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift/purchase of Dr. Thornton Tayloe Perry, Washington,\n            D.C., and Mrs. Barclay K. Read, McLean, Va., in 1984.\n            Formerly a part of the collections of Thornton Tayloe Perry\n            II of Charles Town, W. Va."],"access_subjects_ssim":["California -- Description and travel --\n         1869-1950.","Chamberlin family.","Gerrardstown (W. 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Va.) -- History.","McPherson family.","McPherson, Jane, d. 1877.","McPherson, William, 1748?-1831.","Oregon -- Description and travel -- 19th\n         century.","Presbyterian Church -- Virginia -- History -- 19th\n         century.","Presbyterian Church -- West Virginia -- History --\n         19th century.","Shenandoah County (Va.) -- History -- 19th\n         century.","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865\n         -- Public opinion.","Washington (State) -- Description and travel --\n         19th century.","Wilson, Charles Lee, 1856-1889.","Wilson family.","Wilson, Hall, 1847-1916.","Wilson, Lewis Feuilleteau, 1804-1873.","Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Chamberlin,\n         1815-1895."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3,050\n         items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open for research.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open for research."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is arranged in sixteen series by individual\n         and further subdivided by document type or subject where\n         necessary.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged in sixteen series by individual\n         and further subdivided by document type or subject where\n         necessary."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilson and related McPherson and Chamberlin families of\n         Jefferson and Berkeley counties, W. Va. The McPhersons and\n         Chamberlins were prominent in the Quaker community.\n         Individuals represented in the collection include Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), Presbyterian minister of\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County; Wilson's third\n         wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (1815-1895) of\n         Gerrardstown; and Hall Wilson (1847-1916) of Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown, Jefferson County, farmer and active member of the\n         Democratic Party.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Wilson and related McPherson and Chamberlin families of\n         Jefferson and Berkeley counties, W. Va. The McPhersons and\n         Chamberlins were prominent in the Quaker community.\n         Individuals represented in the collection include Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), Presbyterian minister of\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County; Wilson's third\n         wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (1815-1895) of\n         Gerrardstown; and Hall Wilson (1847-1916) of Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown, Jefferson County, farmer and active member of the\n         Democratic Party."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eWilson Family Papers, 1790-1944 (Mss1 W6997 a FA2),\n            Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"prefercite_tesim":["Wilson Family Papers, 1790-1944 (Mss1 W6997 a FA2),\n            Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection opens with a few items each of several\n         early members of two prominent Quaker families in what is now\n         Jefferson County, W. Va. William McPherson (1748?-1831) kept a\n         diary, 1827-1828, which contains cryptic notes on weather and\n         family members. An 1825 letter from his son Jonas (b. 1773)\n         discusses the latter's mercantile activities in Baltimore, Md.\n         The papers of McPherson's contemporary, Jonas Chamberlain (d.\n         1794), include accounts, a list of land warrants, and estate\n         materials, all primarily from the 1790s. Also included are\n         accounts of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eChamberlin's son Elijah (d. 1818) married his first cousin\n         Mary McPherson (1780?-1860), daughter of William McPherson and\n         Jane Chamberlin. Elijah Chamberlin lived in Charles Town,\n         Jefferson County. Among letters written to him, 1798-1817, is\n         one interesting missive from William Cranch and William\n         Thornton concerning sheep breeding. His financial records\n         include accounts with Ferdinando Fairfax (1797, 1809).\n         Chamberlin and John McPherson served as administrators of the\n         estate of James Proctor (d. 1806) of Muse's Mill in Jefferson\n         County. Their materials, 1804-1811, concerning the estate\n         include letters to Proctor, loose accounts, (including\n         accounts with Dr. John Dalrymple Orr and William Byrd Page)\n         and receipts for wheat.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eElijah Chamberlin's papers likewise include receipts from\n         Alexandria merchants for the sale of flour, a commonplace\n         book, 1790-1792, including accounts, and an order for lumber\n         on the account of Ferdinando Fairfax, 1817. Daniel McPherson\n         (b. 1775) served as his cousin's administrator. Estate\n         materials include items concerning the guardianship of\n         Chamberlin's children by his widow and litigation in courts in\n         Jefferson and Loudoun counties.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLewis Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), founder of this\n         particular Wilson line in West Virginia, attended Princeton\n         Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister\n         in 1832. He was accepted into the Winchester Presbytery in\n         that year and served as pastor at Woodstock and Strasburg\n         churches in Shenandoah County until 1835. The latter year he\n         moved to Berkeley County, where he remained the rest of his\n         life as pastor of Presbyterian congregations at Falling\n         Waters, Gerrardstown and Tuscarora.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWilson maintained correspondence, 1831-1873 (Box 3),\n         primarily with fellow ministers in the Winchester Presbytery\n         and as chairman of the Presbytery's Committee on Education,\n         and with ministerial students at Jefferson College,\n         Cannonsburg, Pa. (now Washington \u0026amp; Jefferson College,\n         Washington, Pa.) and at Union Theological Seminary in\n         Virginia. Among the more frequent or prominent of these\n         correspondents are ministers John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson,\n         William Henry Foote (including minutes of the Presbytery\n         concerning Wilson), James Robert Graham (of Winchester), John\n         Lodor (of Montvue Collegiate Institute, Frederick County, Va.)\n         and Samuel B. Wilson (of Fredericksburg, Va. ). Ministerial\n         students include Jacob Doll, Stewart Robinson and William W.\n         Stickley. There are also a number of letters from sisters of\n         Wilson's first wife, Emeline (Forman) Wilson (1811-1837) of\n         Freehold, N.J.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWilson's financial records, 1833-1872, include loose\n         accounts of his second wife, Harriet Ann (Tabb) Wilson\n         (1838-1839). Presbyterian Church materials concern Wilson's\n         pastorates in Shenandoah and Berkeley counties (Box 5), as\n         well as his work in the Winchester Presbytery. The Berkeley\n         county materials consist of resolutions and reports; accounts;\n         certificates of church membership; lists of subscribers to\n         church buildings and a fund to defend \"Old School\"\n         Presbyterians in a lawsuit in 1837; records, 1869-1871, of the\n         education of Charles Scott Lingamfelter as a Presbyterian\n         minister; and sermons preached by Wilson and William Thomas\n         Leavell in Charles Town, 1858-1860. Wilson also retained\n         marriage licences, 1833-1853, issued by court clerks in\n         Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan and Shenandoah counties,\n         certificates issued for Negro slave marriages, and reports of\n         marriages performed, 1847-1859.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe records of Wilson's work on the Education Committee of\n         the Winchester Presbytery are comprised of letters written to\n         William Caldwell Matthews as chairman, 1834-1835 (including\n         letters of Layton Y. Atkins [an elder in Fredericksburg],\n         Jacob Doll, John Lodor and Stewart Robinson); accounts,\n         1832-1860, mostly for educational expenses of ministerial\n         students Jacob Doll, James J. Gardner, William C. Sheetz and\n         Frederick Nicholas Whaley (including receipts from educators\n         John Lodor and Samuel M. Whann); committee reports; and\n         letters, 1833-1834, of John Lodor and Stewart Robinson to\n         James Moore Brown of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. (now W.\n         Va.).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous Presbytery materials include an affidavit and\n         deed of William Henry Foote; official communications,\n         1838-1869 (including a Charles Town broadside); letters,\n         1832-1852; records of Wilson as moderator of the stated\n         meeting in Front Royal, Va., in 1858; lists of pastors; and\n         general miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBox 6 contains records, 1836-1845, of the U.S. Post Office\n         at Woodstock in Shenandoah County, kept by the postmaster,\n         James Allen, a member of Wilson's congregation. The records\n         consist of correspondence (including letters signed by Amos\n         Kendall); quarterly accounts with the Post Office Department;\n         receipts of payments to contractors; dead letter accounts;\n         inventories of property and letters; and miscellany. Wilson's\n         personal miscellany consists of bonds, materials concerning\n         the guardianship of two of his sons, and receipts for wheat\n         issued by millers at Spring Mills and Tuscarora Mills in\n         Berkeley County. Lastly, there are some letters addressed to\n         Emeline (Forman) Wilson, 1834-1836, primarily from family\n         members in Freehold, N.J.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eWilson's third wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson\n         (1815-1895), lived in Kabletown, Jefferson County,\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va. Her\n         correspondence, 1844-1894 (Boxes 7-12), is largely\n         family-oriented, consisting of many letters from her children\n         and stepchildren, as well as members of the Chamberlin family.\n         Among the correspondents are William M. Chamberlin, James\n         Robert Graham, John Henry Miller (a Lynchburg native who\n         became a prominent attorney in San Francisco, Calif.) and\n         Edwin Lindsley Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Wilson's youngest son, Charles Lee Wilson, attended\n         Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1871-1874), taught school\n         in Jefferson County, and then left for California in 1876. He\n         wrote a letter home to his mother nearly every week for the\n         next thirteen years. During that time his lengthy and\n         interesting letters describe his activities as a clerk,\n         stockbroker and customs officer in San Francisco (1876-1878,\n         1881- 1884; including references to the Vigilance Committee in\n         July 1877); a miner in Darwin, Calif. (1877-1878); a real\n         estate broker in Oakland, Calif. (1878); a teacher at St.\n         Matthers Hall, a military school in San Mateo, Calif.\n         (1878-1881); a manager for the Alaska Commercial Co. on\n         Ounalaska Island, Alaska Territory (1882); and a bookkeeper\n         for salmon canneries in Astoria, Oregon, and Tacoma,\n         Washington Territory (1885- 1888).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and\n         recipes, and general miscellany complete the papers of Mary\n         Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (Box 12). The following box\n         contains records of the Wilsons' eldest son, teacher Valerius\n         Winchester Wilson (1839-1902), of Guinea Station and Woodford,\n         1909; accounts, 1854-1887; and a lease, 1873, to a house in\n         Kabletown, W. Va.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Lindsley Wilson (1845-1915) was a Presbyterian\n         minister in Gerrardstown, W. Va., and later in Waterford,\n         Loudoun County, Va. His correspondence, 1866-1908, is\n         primarily with brothers Hall Wilson and Charles Lee Wilson,\n         while his accounts, 1865-1886, include records of his\n         education at Winchester Classical School and Hampden-Sydney\n         College (both 1866). There are also materials concerning his\n         pastorate at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1874-1880. The\n         correspondence, 1874-1909, of his wife, Nannie Elizabeth\n         (Dupuy) Wilson (1849-1925), primarily concerns her husband and\n         Charles Lee Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eBorn Ashmun Hall Wilson (1847-1916), this Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown farmer soon dropped his first name. Hall Wilson was\n         active in Democratic party politics in Berkeley County and was\n         also a master of Mill Creek Grange. His correspondence,\n         1867-1910 (Boxes 14-18), includes a large number of letters\n         from Dr. Coketon, Durbin and Thomas, W. Va.) and Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson Edwin Graham Wilson and Frances Keightley\n         (Timerlake) Wilson (concerning Edwin Lindsley Wilson); and his\n         farm manager in Jefferson County, Benjamin F. Yates.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eHall Wilson's loose accounts cover the period 1859-1915.\n         Agricultural materials consist of agreements, notices,\n         government reports and bulletins, tickets to local fairs, and\n         miscellany. Democratic party materials, 1891-1908, include\n         notices of meetings, campaign materials and broadsides, and a\n         certificate as commissioner of elections in Berkeley County,\n         1900. Records, 1873-1884, concerning Wilson as public school\n         trustee in Jefferson County and materials, 1893-1899,\n         regarding Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church also appear in the\n         collection. A few items of miscellany (Box 20) conclude Hall\n         Wilson's papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eMary Emma (Seibert) Wilson (b. 1850), Hall Wilson's wife,\n         maintained correspondence, 1864-1909, with many members of her\n         family including brothers Fredericks N. Seibert (of\n         Hedgesville, concerning local births, marriages and deaths)\n         and Luther F. Seibert. Charles Scott Lingamfelter wrote a\n         number of letters to her while a student at Hampden-Sydney\n         College, as did her sister-in-law Ophelia Forman (Wilson)\n         Harper. Emma Wilson's student essays and exercises, 1867-1869,\n         have been preserved, along with a few items of miscellany (Box\n         20).\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe youngest Wilson son, Charles Lee Wilson (1856-1889),\n         has been mentioned above. Additional records of his in Box 21\n         consist of correspondence, 1870-1889, while in Kabletown, W.\n         Va., San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Oregon. Among the\n         correspondents are John Henry miller and G. Edgar Walraven\n         (while a student at Bethel Academy in Fauquier County, Va.).\n         Accounts cover the period 1875-1889; Hampden-Sydney College\n         records, 1871-1874, include reports, certificates and\n         accounts. Letters of recommendation and introduction,\n         1876-1888, have been preserved, as have a catalog, prospectus\n         and history of St. Matthews Hall, San Mateo, Calif. News\n         clippings, 1884, concern the history of vigilantes in San\n         Francisco, Calif. Notes and an essay prepared by Wilson cover\n         his trip from Martinsburg, W. Va., to Astoria, Oregon, in\n         1887.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eThe collection closes (Box 22) with a few items of\n         correspondence of Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (b. 1873), a fruit\n         grower in Gerrardstown, W. Va., followed by miscellany of a\n         number of other family members who also appear elsewhere in\n         the collection, particularly within the correspondence of\n         major figures discussed above. These family members include\n         George E. Chamberlin, John Chamberlin, Jonas Chamberlin\n         (1805?-1855), William M. Chamberlin, Jane M. (Chamberlin)\n         Hamill, Charles Edwin Harper, Ophelia Forman (Wilson) Harper,\n         Catherine Virginia (Hedges) Seibert, James Hall Wilson, and\n         other members of the Chamberlin, Seibert, and Wilson\n         families.\u003c/p\u003e\n    ","\u003cp\u003eDiary, 1827-1828; letter, 1826.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1790-1796; list of land warrants; estate\n               materials, 1795-1801; Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin's\n               accounts, 1802-1817\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eLetters, 1798-1817; accounts, 1795-1817; wheat and\n               flour milling (James Proctor estate, receipts);\n               commonplace book, 1790-1792; miscellany; estate\n               materials, 1826-1858\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1819-1867; miscellany; estate materials,\n               1849-1869\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1820-1868; accounts, 1828-1838;\n               miscellany, 1821-1828\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1836-1875; accounts, 1833-1836,\n               1858-1867; miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eBerkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.) and Shenandoah\n                  County, Va., churches, marriage licences, Winchester\n                  Presbytery.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eWoodstock, Va., Post Office records, 1836-1845;\n                  personal miscellany; Emeline (Forman) Wilson\n                  letters.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eArranged alphabetically by correspondent\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks (second volume\n                  filed oversize after this box); miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1871-1896; accounts, 1854-1887;\n               lease, 1873\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1866-1908; accounts, 1865-1886;\n               Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1874-1909\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eArranged alphabetically by correspondent.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eLoose accounts, 1859-1915; agricultural materials,\n                  1868-1908; Democratic party activities; 1891-1908;\n                  Jefferson County school trustee, 1873-1884;\n                  Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1893-1899; personal\n                  miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n          ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1864-1909; student essays and\n               exercises, 1867-1869; miscellany\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1870-1889; accounts, 1875-1889;\n               Hampden-Sydney College, 1871-1874; letters of\n               recommendation, 1876-1888; St. Matthews Hall; newspaper\n               clippings; notes and essay, 1887; general\n               miscellany.\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, 1883-1908\u003c/p\u003e\n        ","\u003cp\u003eChamberlin, Seibert and Wilson family members,\n               1796-1944.\u003c/p\u003e\n        "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection opens with a few items each of several\n         early members of two prominent Quaker families in what is now\n         Jefferson County, W. Va. William McPherson (1748?-1831) kept a\n         diary, 1827-1828, which contains cryptic notes on weather and\n         family members. An 1825 letter from his son Jonas (b. 1773)\n         discusses the latter's mercantile activities in Baltimore, Md.\n         The papers of McPherson's contemporary, Jonas Chamberlain (d.\n         1794), include accounts, a list of land warrants, and estate\n         materials, all primarily from the 1790s. Also included are\n         accounts of his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin.","Chamberlin's son Elijah (d. 1818) married his first cousin\n         Mary McPherson (1780?-1860), daughter of William McPherson and\n         Jane Chamberlin. Elijah Chamberlin lived in Charles Town,\n         Jefferson County. Among letters written to him, 1798-1817, is\n         one interesting missive from William Cranch and William\n         Thornton concerning sheep breeding. His financial records\n         include accounts with Ferdinando Fairfax (1797, 1809).\n         Chamberlin and John McPherson served as administrators of the\n         estate of James Proctor (d. 1806) of Muse's Mill in Jefferson\n         County. Their materials, 1804-1811, concerning the estate\n         include letters to Proctor, loose accounts, (including\n         accounts with Dr. John Dalrymple Orr and William Byrd Page)\n         and receipts for wheat.","Elijah Chamberlin's papers likewise include receipts from\n         Alexandria merchants for the sale of flour, a commonplace\n         book, 1790-1792, including accounts, and an order for lumber\n         on the account of Ferdinando Fairfax, 1817. Daniel McPherson\n         (b. 1775) served as his cousin's administrator. Estate\n         materials include items concerning the guardianship of\n         Chamberlin's children by his widow and litigation in courts in\n         Jefferson and Loudoun counties.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Mary (McPherson) Chamberlin's records consist of accounts,\n         1819-1867 (especially receipts for tax payments in Jefferson\n         County and Winchester, Va.), bonds, 1833-1837, and miscellany.\n         Her estate materials include wills, 1849-1859, written in\n         Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.), a note of lawyer John\n         Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe, receipts and an obituary\n         notice.","Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (1804-1873), founder of this\n         particular Wilson line in West Virginia, attended Princeton\n         Theological Seminary and was ordained a Presbyterian minister\n         in 1832. He was accepted into the Winchester Presbytery in\n         that year and served as pastor at Woodstock and Strasburg\n         churches in Shenandoah County until 1835. The latter year he\n         moved to Berkeley County, where he remained the rest of his\n         life as pastor of Presbyterian congregations at Falling\n         Waters, Gerrardstown and Tuscarora.","Wilson maintained correspondence, 1831-1873 (Box 3),\n         primarily with fellow ministers in the Winchester Presbytery\n         and as chairman of the Presbytery's Committee on Education,\n         and with ministerial students at Jefferson College,\n         Cannonsburg, Pa. (now Washington \u0026 Jefferson College,\n         Washington, Pa.) and at Union Theological Seminary in\n         Virginia. Among the more frequent or prominent of these\n         correspondents are ministers John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson,\n         William Henry Foote (including minutes of the Presbytery\n         concerning Wilson), James Robert Graham (of Winchester), John\n         Lodor (of Montvue Collegiate Institute, Frederick County, Va.)\n         and Samuel B. Wilson (of Fredericksburg, Va. ). Ministerial\n         students include Jacob Doll, Stewart Robinson and William W.\n         Stickley. There are also a number of letters from sisters of\n         Wilson's first wife, Emeline (Forman) Wilson (1811-1837) of\n         Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's financial records, 1833-1872, include loose\n         accounts of his second wife, Harriet Ann (Tabb) Wilson\n         (1838-1839). Presbyterian Church materials concern Wilson's\n         pastorates in Shenandoah and Berkeley counties (Box 5), as\n         well as his work in the Winchester Presbytery. The Berkeley\n         county materials consist of resolutions and reports; accounts;\n         certificates of church membership; lists of subscribers to\n         church buildings and a fund to defend \"Old School\"\n         Presbyterians in a lawsuit in 1837; records, 1869-1871, of the\n         education of Charles Scott Lingamfelter as a Presbyterian\n         minister; and sermons preached by Wilson and William Thomas\n         Leavell in Charles Town, 1858-1860. Wilson also retained\n         marriage licences, 1833-1853, issued by court clerks in\n         Berkeley, Jefferson, Morgan and Shenandoah counties,\n         certificates issued for Negro slave marriages, and reports of\n         marriages performed, 1847-1859.","The records of Wilson's work on the Education Committee of\n         the Winchester Presbytery are comprised of letters written to\n         William Caldwell Matthews as chairman, 1834-1835 (including\n         letters of Layton Y. Atkins [an elder in Fredericksburg],\n         Jacob Doll, John Lodor and Stewart Robinson); accounts,\n         1832-1860, mostly for educational expenses of ministerial\n         students Jacob Doll, James J. Gardner, William C. Sheetz and\n         Frederick Nicholas Whaley (including receipts from educators\n         John Lodor and Samuel M. Whann); committee reports; and\n         letters, 1833-1834, of John Lodor and Stewart Robinson to\n         James Moore Brown of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. (now W.\n         Va.).","Miscellaneous Presbytery materials include an affidavit and\n         deed of William Henry Foote; official communications,\n         1838-1869 (including a Charles Town broadside); letters,\n         1832-1852; records of Wilson as moderator of the stated\n         meeting in Front Royal, Va., in 1858; lists of pastors; and\n         general miscellany.","Box 6 contains records, 1836-1845, of the U.S. Post Office\n         at Woodstock in Shenandoah County, kept by the postmaster,\n         James Allen, a member of Wilson's congregation. The records\n         consist of correspondence (including letters signed by Amos\n         Kendall); quarterly accounts with the Post Office Department;\n         receipts of payments to contractors; dead letter accounts;\n         inventories of property and letters; and miscellany. Wilson's\n         personal miscellany consists of bonds, materials concerning\n         the guardianship of two of his sons, and receipts for wheat\n         issued by millers at Spring Mills and Tuscarora Mills in\n         Berkeley County. Lastly, there are some letters addressed to\n         Emeline (Forman) Wilson, 1834-1836, primarily from family\n         members in Freehold, N.J.","Wilson's third wife, Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson\n         (1815-1895), lived in Kabletown, Jefferson County,\n         Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va. Her\n         correspondence, 1844-1894 (Boxes 7-12), is largely\n         family-oriented, consisting of many letters from her children\n         and stepchildren, as well as members of the Chamberlin family.\n         Among the correspondents are William M. Chamberlin, James\n         Robert Graham, John Henry Miller (a Lynchburg native who\n         became a prominent attorney in San Francisco, Calif.) and\n         Edwin Lindsley Wilson.","Mrs. Wilson's youngest son, Charles Lee Wilson, attended\n         Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia (1871-1874), taught school\n         in Jefferson County, and then left for California in 1876. He\n         wrote a letter home to his mother nearly every week for the\n         next thirteen years. During that time his lengthy and\n         interesting letters describe his activities as a clerk,\n         stockbroker and customs officer in San Francisco (1876-1878,\n         1881- 1884; including references to the Vigilance Committee in\n         July 1877); a miner in Darwin, Calif. (1877-1878); a real\n         estate broker in Oakland, Calif. (1878); a teacher at St.\n         Matthers Hall, a military school in San Mateo, Calif.\n         (1878-1881); a manager for the Alaska Commercial Co. on\n         Ounalaska Island, Alaska Territory (1882); and a bookkeeper\n         for salmon canneries in Astoria, Oregon, and Tacoma,\n         Washington Territory (1885- 1888).","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and\n         recipes, and general miscellany complete the papers of Mary\n         Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson (Box 12). The following box\n         contains records of the Wilsons' eldest son, teacher Valerius\n         Winchester Wilson (1839-1902), of Guinea Station and Woodford,\n         1909; accounts, 1854-1887; and a lease, 1873, to a house in\n         Kabletown, W. Va.","Edwin Lindsley Wilson (1845-1915) was a Presbyterian\n         minister in Gerrardstown, W. Va., and later in Waterford,\n         Loudoun County, Va. His correspondence, 1866-1908, is\n         primarily with brothers Hall Wilson and Charles Lee Wilson,\n         while his accounts, 1865-1886, include records of his\n         education at Winchester Classical School and Hampden-Sydney\n         College (both 1866). There are also materials concerning his\n         pastorate at Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1874-1880. The\n         correspondence, 1874-1909, of his wife, Nannie Elizabeth\n         (Dupuy) Wilson (1849-1925), primarily concerns her husband and\n         Charles Lee Wilson.","Born Ashmun Hall Wilson (1847-1916), this Gerrardstown and\n         Kabletown farmer soon dropped his first name. Hall Wilson was\n         active in Democratic party politics in Berkeley County and was\n         also a master of Mill Creek Grange. His correspondence,\n         1867-1910 (Boxes 14-18), includes a large number of letters\n         from Dr. Coketon, Durbin and Thomas, W. Va.) and Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson Edwin Graham Wilson and Frances Keightley\n         (Timerlake) Wilson (concerning Edwin Lindsley Wilson); and his\n         farm manager in Jefferson County, Benjamin F. Yates.","Hall Wilson's loose accounts cover the period 1859-1915.\n         Agricultural materials consist of agreements, notices,\n         government reports and bulletins, tickets to local fairs, and\n         miscellany. Democratic party materials, 1891-1908, include\n         notices of meetings, campaign materials and broadsides, and a\n         certificate as commissioner of elections in Berkeley County,\n         1900. Records, 1873-1884, concerning Wilson as public school\n         trustee in Jefferson County and materials, 1893-1899,\n         regarding Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church also appear in the\n         collection. A few items of miscellany (Box 20) conclude Hall\n         Wilson's papers.","Mary Emma (Seibert) Wilson (b. 1850), Hall Wilson's wife,\n         maintained correspondence, 1864-1909, with many members of her\n         family including brothers Fredericks N. Seibert (of\n         Hedgesville, concerning local births, marriages and deaths)\n         and Luther F. Seibert. Charles Scott Lingamfelter wrote a\n         number of letters to her while a student at Hampden-Sydney\n         College, as did her sister-in-law Ophelia Forman (Wilson)\n         Harper. Emma Wilson's student essays and exercises, 1867-1869,\n         have been preserved, along with a few items of miscellany (Box\n         20).","The youngest Wilson son, Charles Lee Wilson (1856-1889),\n         has been mentioned above. Additional records of his in Box 21\n         consist of correspondence, 1870-1889, while in Kabletown, W.\n         Va., San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Oregon. Among the\n         correspondents are John Henry miller and G. Edgar Walraven\n         (while a student at Bethel Academy in Fauquier County, Va.).\n         Accounts cover the period 1875-1889; Hampden-Sydney College\n         records, 1871-1874, include reports, certificates and\n         accounts. Letters of recommendation and introduction,\n         1876-1888, have been preserved, as have a catalog, prospectus\n         and history of St. Matthews Hall, San Mateo, Calif. News\n         clippings, 1884, concern the history of vigilantes in San\n         Francisco, Calif. Notes and an essay prepared by Wilson cover\n         his trip from Martinsburg, W. Va., to Astoria, Oregon, in\n         1887.","The collection closes (Box 22) with a few items of\n         correspondence of Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson (b. 1873), a fruit\n         grower in Gerrardstown, W. Va., followed by miscellany of a\n         number of other family members who also appear elsewhere in\n         the collection, particularly within the correspondence of\n         major figures discussed above. These family members include\n         George E. Chamberlin, John Chamberlin, Jonas Chamberlin\n         (1805?-1855), William M. Chamberlin, Jane M. (Chamberlin)\n         Hamill, Charles Edwin Harper, Ophelia Forman (Wilson) Harper,\n         Catherine Virginia (Hedges) Seibert, James Hall Wilson, and\n         other members of the Chamberlin, Seibert, and Wilson\n         families.","Diary, 1827-1828; letter, 1826.","Accounts, 1790-1796; list of land warrants; estate\n               materials, 1795-1801; Mrs. Elizabeth Chamberlin's\n               accounts, 1802-1817","Letters, 1798-1817; accounts, 1795-1817; wheat and\n               flour milling (James Proctor estate, receipts);\n               commonplace book, 1790-1792; miscellany; estate\n               materials, 1826-1858","Accounts, 1819-1867; miscellany; estate materials,\n               1849-1869","Correspondence, 1820-1868; accounts, 1828-1838;\n               miscellany, 1821-1828","Correspondence, 1836-1875; accounts, 1833-1836,\n               1858-1867; miscellany.","Berkeley County, Va. (now W. Va.) and Shenandoah\n                  County, Va., churches, marriage licences, Winchester\n                  Presbytery.","Woodstock, Va., Post Office records, 1836-1845;\n                  personal miscellany; Emeline (Forman) Wilson\n                  letters.","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent","Accounts, 1837-1891; scrapbooks (second volume\n                  filed oversize after this box); miscellany.","Correspondence, 1871-1896; accounts, 1854-1887;\n               lease, 1873","Correspondence, 1866-1908; accounts, 1865-1886;\n               Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church.","Correspondence, 1874-1909","Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.","Loose accounts, 1859-1915; agricultural materials,\n                  1868-1908; Democratic party activities; 1891-1908;\n                  Jefferson County school trustee, 1873-1884;\n                  Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church, 1893-1899; personal\n                  miscellany.","Correspondence, 1864-1909; student essays and\n               exercises, 1867-1869; miscellany","Correspondence, 1870-1889; accounts, 1875-1889;\n               Hampden-Sydney College, 1871-1874; letters of\n               recommendation, 1876-1888; St. Matthews Hall; newspaper\n               clippings; notes and essay, 1887; general\n               miscellany.","Correspondence, 1883-1908","Chamberlin, Seibert and Wilson family members,\n               1796-1944."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e\n      "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003eChiefly papers of Rev. Lewis\n         Feuilleteau Wilson of Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley\n         County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1831-1873, loose\n         accounts, 1833-1872, Presbyterian church materials for\n         Berkeley County and for Shenandoah County, Va., and post\n         office records, 1836-1845, for Woodstock, Va. Also present are\n         the papers of Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson of\n         Gerrardstown and of Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va.,\n         including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of\n         Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including\n         correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and\n         other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of\n         Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including\n         correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in\n         California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington\n         Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney\n         College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also\n         present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William\n         McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane\n         MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. 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Va.,\n         including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of\n         Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including\n         correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and\n         other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of\n         Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including\n         correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in\n         California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington\n         Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney\n         College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also\n         present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William\n         McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane\n         MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. 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