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Duke family law firm papers 108.5 Linear Feet 232 boxes

Duke, Richard Thomas Walker (R. T. W.), 1822-1898

The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes's family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files had remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Perkins & Perkins Law Firm Records 18.5 Cubic Feet 36 legal document boxes, 12 ledgers and one small oversize folder (14" x 18')

Perkins, George, 1847-1918

The records chiefly contain legal correspondence, financial and legal documents and bound folio volumes from the law firm of Perkins and Perkins, consisting of George Perkins and his son, W. Allan Perkins, 1903-1916.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Thomas D. Ranson record book 1 items

Ranson, Thomas D., 1843-1918

This book of Thomas D. Ranson (Law 1868), a Staunton, VA, attorney, contains a name index in the front; numbered pages are headed by client name; dates are given in the left margin and action or activity described to the right of them. Entries cease after page 189.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Watts family papers-addition 9 Cubic Feet 12 legal size document boxes, 1 half-size legal document box, 2 cubics of bibles, and 2 oversize boxes .107 Gigabytes 0.25 Cubic Feet

The Watts family papers of Roanoke County, Virginia at "Oaklands" in Flat Creek, Campbell County) consist of correspondence and documents related to the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the United States Civil War, war with Osceola and Seminole tribes in Florida, Virginia politics, economic and social history (including enslavement),land ownership, farming, court cases and debt from 1786 to 1950 in southwest Virginia. The Watts are related to many other Virginia families including James and Dolley Madison. This collection represents a great view into historical and social events of the eighteenth and nineteenth century in Virginia.

  1. University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

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