Campbell Family Papers

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
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.

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.

Preferred citation:

Campbell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
4.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Campbell family, Campbell, Susan, Mrs., Campbell, William, 1755-1823, Coleman, Emma Cornelia Parran, Coleman, Reuben Lindsay, Graves family, Hill, A. P. (A. Powell), Letcher, John, 1813-1884, Magurk, M. E., and Parran, William S., d. 1862
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Campbell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Papers of four generations of the Campbell family of Orange Co., Va. including correspondence of William Campbell (1755-1823). His papers pertain to Revolutionary pensions, bounty land claims, the War of 1812, his superintendency of the Virginia State Penitentary, and his estate and includes a diary of a trip to Kentucky in 1798. There are also papers (correspondence and accounts) of his wife, Mrs. Susan Campbell and their children. The collection includes papers of the Graves family and correspondence, medical accounts, military orders and reports of Dr. William S. Parran who served in the 13th Virginia Regiment of Confederate States Army at the battles of Bull Run, Cedar Mountain and who was killed at Antietam. Correspondents of Parran include A. P. Hill and John Letcher and there is one letter, 1861, concerning Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

The collection includes letters and accounts, 1890-1905, of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Emma Cornelia (Parran) Coleman, a 1904 letter of M. E. Magurk, first superintendent of hospitals in the Canal Zone describing local conditions and 1813-1815 accounts with Valentine Johnson and Farmer's Bank of Virginia with William Campbell.

4 pieces.

Copy. Incomplete.

Damaged.

Incomplete

Incomplete draft.

Postmarked Dunkirk, Virginia

Incomplete draft

The letter is addressed to Rome, Smith County, Roundlick Post Office, Tennessee, or Mumfordsville, Hart County, Tennessee.

Damaged.

9 pieces.

3 pieces.

68 pieces.

16 pieces, also see folder 6.

12 pieces, One paper is written on the back of a letter from Bowe, at Richmond, to Col. William Campbell, Orange County.

2 pieces.

1 piece.

2 pieces. Also includes an undated portion of the application for the pension.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

Deed assigning to his wife, Jane Tunstall and to John Bell, William Campbell, and Charles B. Hunton, trustees, five slaves, and a debt due from Daniel Gray, to be laid out in Kentucky land. Also includes a bond give by Jane Tunstall and other to John Bell, William Campbell, and Charles B. Hunton to protect them against possible claims against them as trustees.

Extract of a deed to a tract of land in Orange County, Virginia. 1 piece.

1 piece.

Contains a diary of a trip to Kentucky and other memoranda.

St. Memin engraving, probably a portrait of Col. William Campbell

Obituary of Col. William Campbell for publication in the Charlottesville Gazette and thoughts by one of his children upon his death.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

Monthly recruiting returns and pay roll of various companies in the U.S. Army made by Major William Campbell and fellow officers. 5 pieces.

An unsigned agreement between the heirs of Col. William Campbell and J.S. Barbour, attorney, for the recovery of certain Revolutionary land claims, appears on this sheet.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

The form for an affidavit to identify the handwriting of William Campbell appears on the same sheet.

Also includes a copy of letter, Susan Campbell, at Barboursville, Orange County, Virginia, to James E. Heath, Commissioner of Revenue.

Damaged.

Copy.

Copy.

Damaged copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copies of two slightly different drafts.

18 pieces.

1 piece.

4 pieces,

A pass for a slave appears of the same sheet.

An account appears on the same sheet.

Also includes a damaged letter, 1840 October 10.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Damaged.

Copy.

Copy. A receipt for money paid Mrs. Campbell by J. D. Davidson appears on the same sheet.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

Copy.

An invoice appears on the same sheet.

Copy.

Postmarked Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Accounts and Deed

192 pieces.

Frances T. Barbour, executrix of Philip P. Barbour, Richard H. Field and wife, and John J. Ambler and wife, to Susan Campbell. Deed for 250 arces of land in Orange County. 1 piece.

Postscript by William Campbell, Jr.

Postscript by William R. Robinson

Postmarked Clarkston, King and Queen County, Virginia

Postmarked Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia

A notice of a note due appears on the same sheet.

Copy.

Damaged.

Letter dated 1867 August 13, 1867 August 28, 1868 July 30, 1868 August 7, and 1868 September 12.

3 pieces.

8 pieces.

2 pieces.

1 piece.

3 pieces.

21 pieces.

1 piece.

1 piece.

10 pieces.

2 pieces.

82 pieces.

26 pieces.

3 pieces.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

Suit in Orange County. 1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

Letter is dated, 1830 April 21, 1831 June 8, 1831 December 5, 1832 April 30, 1832 November 22, and 1833 February 16.

Damaged.

Also dated 1845 August 23.

Incomplete copy.

Also dated 1865 Februart 16 and 1865 February 27.

3 letters.

General accounts of Charles T. Graves, 440 pieces.

Book containing accounts and farm memoranda of Charles T. Graves. Size 16 x 6 1/2 inches.

Tax bills and accounts of Charles T. Graves with the Confederate Government. 41 pieces.

Deed to a tract of land in Orange County. 1 piece. Copy.

1 piece. Incomplete.

1 piece.

Unsigned petition to the justices of Orange County concerning the extension of a road through the farm of Charles T. Graves. 1 piece.

1 piece.

Advertisement of the sale of the Spring Forest farm in Orange County, belonging to James W. Graves. Prosepctive purchasers are referred to Charles T. Graves. 1 piece.

Deed to a tract of land in Orange County. 1 piece.

18 pieces.

1 piece.

3 pieces.

83 pieces.

7 pieces.

6 pieces.

155 pieces.

Includes wills of William Crittenden, John Crittenden, and John Baylor. 32 pieces.

4 pieces.

73 pieces.

4 pieces.

5 pieces.

34 pieces.

5 pieces.

13 pieces.

7 pieces.

1 piece.

1 piece.

12 pieces.

1 piece.

1 piece.

13 pieces.

1 piece.

17 pieces.

postmarked Fairfax Station

4 letters dated 16 Sept 1861, 28 Sept 1861, 6 Oct 1861, 14 Oct 1861

incomplete

2 letters on same sheet

incomplete

This letter is written on the back of a printed list of articles remaining in the Quartermaster's Storehouse, at Manassas, 1862 January 10.

Includes a note to his daughter, Emma.

Enclosed is a letter, Joseph W. C. Graves to James M. Scott at Milford, undated.

See also an undated letter from Lawrence Washington.

2 incomplete letters.

Incomplete.

2 incomplete letters.

Incomplete.

9 pieces.

10 pieces.

53 pieces.

4 pieces.

6 pieces.

21 pieces

3 pieces.

2 copies.

10 pieces.

Also includes certificates of qualification of A. T. Ehart as 1st lieutenant and Joseph T. Mood as 3rd lieutenant. 2 pieces.

20 pieces.

1 piece.

Deed covering two tracts of land in Orange County. 1 piece.

3 pieces.

10 envelopes.

Miss Magurk was the first superintendent of hospitals in the Canal Zone when the Americans were preparing to begin work on the canal, and her letter describes local conditions.

Carbon copy.

This letter describes conditions after the great earthquake.

Contains the Notes Payable Account.

One unsigned check and two blank checks of R. L. Coleman. 3 pieces.

160 pieces.

19 pieces.

4 pieces.

Papers Relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, know as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean's Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba Manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia.

Papers relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, known as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia.

Papers relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, known as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia.

Papers relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, known as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia.

Papers relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, known as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia. This item, 1 piece.

Papers relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, known as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia.

Papers relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, known as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia.

Papers relating to the descent of title to a tract of land in Prince Georges County, Maryland, known as Oxon Hill, Oxon Hill Manor, Bean Bargain, Pleasant Hills, Barnaba manor, or Talbott's Lot, including the Ferry and Ferry House in the District of Columbia.

Includes a lease granted by R.L. Coleman and wife to John McComb. 18 pieces.

1 piece.

2 pieces.

2 sheets.

6 pieces.

Postmarked Franklin, Tennessee

28 pieces.

33 pieces.

Damaged.

Incomplete. 1 piece.

Incomplete. 1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

Also includes a deed given by William Pulliam and wife to John Pierce covering the same property on 1754 September 30.

On back of a printed circular letter issued by Rowland.

1 piece.

1 piece.

1 piece.

8 pieces.

1 piece.

2 pieces.

1 piece.

3 pieces.

1 piece.

A company organized for the Development of the Oxon Hill estate in Prince George's County, Maryland, opposite Alexandria, Virginia. 1 piece.

4 pieces.

4 pieces.

2 pieces.

9 pieces.

28 pieces.

Biographical / historical:

Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Acquisition information:
Gift of 1,732 items from Miss Catherine Scott in 1930; and purchase of 13 items on 12/29/1952.
Physical description:
1745 items.