Washington family papers, 1854/1889

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:

The 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:

Washington Family papers, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.3 Linear Feet Three legal-size folders
Creator:
Washington, Lawrence, 1791-1875, Washington, Robert James, 1841-1910, and Coleman, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington (1832-1908)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Washington Family papers, Special Collections Research Center, William and Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Contains letters, receipts, legal papers and other materials, 1854-1889, related to the Lawrence Washington family of "Oak Grove," Westmoreland County, Virginia. Includes letters written to Lawrence Washington and to his son Robert James Washington. Includes a letter, 1868, from Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman concerning land in Minnesota which belonged to her first husband, Henry Augustine Washington.

Letters to Lawrence Washington regarding a subscription to the National Intelligencer, wheat and corn prices in Alexandria and the health of Henry Augustine Washington. Includes letter dated 1868, from Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman concerning her first husband's (Henry Augustine Washington) estate and land in Minnesota.

Letters included in file concern finances and farming. One letter outlines payment for guano (a fertilizer made from bat excrement often imported from Peru). This shipment had proved worthless. Includes letters from Hastings, Minnesota, concerning land owned by Henry Augustine Washington.

Empty envelopes addressed to Lawrence Washington, Mrs. Mary D. Washington and Robert James Washington.

Biographical / historical:

Lawrence Washington (1791-1875) was a farmer at "Oak Grove," Westmoreland County, Virginia. He and his wife Sarah Tayloe Washington were the parents of eleven children including Henry Augustine Washington who was a professor at the College of Willian & Mary.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged into three folders: letters to Lawrence Washington, letters to Robert James Washington, and empty envelopes. The letters within the folders are in chronological order.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard