Knox Family

Containers:
Box 9, Folder 13
Scope and content:

Original documents of the Knox Family of Scotland which include rents, land transactions and other legal documents. Some examples are "schedule of charge;" 1800 document in Rough haugh Hill dividing the estate of James Hart by his son Adam Hart; suits from the Bank of Scotland; suit involving Peter Smith and other heirs of deceased Andrew Smith; copy of a rental contract between Tuck of the Farm for Stirches and John Chisholm Esq of Stirches and James Bunyan and John Arges 1832; case of the British Linen Company against Walter Knox, Farmer of Stirches Mains in 1841; legal document with names of Walter Knox, Farmer Whitlaw and John Ludhopoe in 1841; and more. Place names include Silverbuthall, Hawick and Roxburghshire. 20 documents. 1880 letter from James Knox of Fredericksburg, Virginia to Thomas Knox Esq of Hawick about the genealogy of the Knox Family.

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Parent restrictions:
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Parent terms of access:
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.