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Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Land Grants, 1749/1985

14 folders in RHS-Coll-0067 Files

This collection includes copies and originals of 18th and 19th century land grants for acreage in Rockbridge County, Augusta County, Bath County, and other areas in southwestern Virginia. Three folders relate to the Borden land grant, which established Rockbridge County. There is a fragment of an undated, handwritten copy of the Borden land grant. Other folders related to the Borden grant include historical analysis and recounting of the development of the grant by E.P. Tompkins. Some land grants pre-date the Borden grant. Folders with the parenthetical note of "Copy" only include photocopies of the original land grants. The Trimble land grants can be found in oversized drawer 33.

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Borden RHS Collections #0060 - #0076, Folder 5

This file consists of a typescript manuscript of the Borden Grant article by E.P. Tompkins. Also includes a photo of an annotated map of the Borden Land grant. Also includes a list of settlers who recieved the first Borden deeds between 1741 and 1743.

Land Grants, 1749/1985 14 folders in RHS-Coll-0067 Files

This collection includes copies and originals of 18th and 19th century land grants for acreage in Rockbridge County, Augusta County, Bath County, and other areas in southwestern Virginia. Three folders relate to the Borden land grant, which established Rockbridge County. There is a fragment of an undated, handwritten copy of the Borden land grant. Other folders related to the Borden grant include historical analysis and recounting of the development of the grant by E.P. Tompkins. Some land grants pre-date the Borden grant. Folders with the parenthetical note of "Copy" only include photocopies of the original land grants. The Trimble land grants can be found in oversized drawer 33.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Rockbridge Historical Society files on Houses, 1800/1995

1 Linear Feet Two boxes each measuring 7inches.

This collection consists of essays, reports, financial documentation, and other historic records documenting the presence, arcitecture, development, or evolution of local houses in and around Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia.

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Campbell House, 1994 2 Item Box 1, Folder 25

This file consists of two copies of terms of agreement and contract for repair on the Campbell house located at 101 E. Washington Street, as well as a letter from Allie Waddell Hedges to the Rockbridge Historical Society concerning the same house.

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Rockbridge Historical Society files on Houses, 1800/1995 1 Linear Feet Two boxes each measuring 7inches.

This collection consists of essays, reports, financial documentation, and other historic records documenting the presence, arcitecture, development, or evolution of local houses in and around Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Rockbridge Historical Society Biographical Collection

12 Box

This collection contains biographical and historical information on various people and places.

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E-I Box 5, Folder 82-117

George William Effinger, Charles M. Figgat, Richard Fletcher, Augusta B. Fothergill, William Frazier, Jacob Fuller, Francis pendleton Gaines, James E. A. Gibbs, Gilbert McClung Gillespie, Gilmer Family, Ellen Glasgow, Nancy Gravatt, Michael Harmon, Robert Goodloe Harper, Haynes family, David Hays, John Hays, Hays family, Maude Henderson, Hickory Hill, Finley Willson Houston, K. H. Houston, Samuel Houston, Samuel Houston Jr., Rev. Samuel Houston, Thomas D. Houston, Houston Family, James Lewis Howe, Charles Hughes, margaret Jones Hull, Milton Wylie Humphreys, Richard C. Irby, and George Irwin.

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection, 1609/2016

12 Linear Feet
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Genealogy Box 13, Box 13-15, Folder 4

Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Rockbridge Historical Society files on genealogy, 1700/1960

9 Box

This collection contains biographical and genealogical information on various people, primarily from in and around Rockbridge County.

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H-K Box 5, Folder 1-15

This box contains folders on the Hickman family, the Hileman family, the Houston family, the Hunter family, the Jackson family, the Jordan family, the Keffer family, the Kerr family, the Kessler family, the Kinnear family, the Kirkham family, the Kirkpatrick family, and the Krebs family.

Houston Family Box 5, Folder 4

This folder contains a student notebook containing the history of the Houston family written by H.I. Houston as well as a carte de visite photograph of the Houston family coat of arms taken by Adam Plecker, a regional traveling photographer.

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West Virginia and Regional History Center

Houston Family Genealogy

0.02 Linear Feet 0.25 in. (1 folder)
The Houston History, a genealogy of the Robert R. Houstoun or Houston family as compiled by Carrie B. Hackney of Morgantown, West Virginia. History traces the lineage of this Scottish family beginning with the first generation in America in the seventeenth century and ending in the early twentieth century. Contains brief biographical about some family members and lists birth and death dates, marriages, and children.
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Houston Family Genealogy 0.02 Linear Feet 0.25 in. (1 folder)

Hackney, Carrie B., Compiler
The Houston History, a genealogy of the Robert R. Houstoun or Houston family as compiled by Carrie B. Hackney of Morgantown, West Virginia. History traces the lineage of this Scottish family beginning with the first generation in America in the seventeenth century and ending in the early twentieth century. Contains brief biographical about some family members and lists birth and death dates, marriages, and children.
Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library

Houston Family Photograph Album, 1865/1875

1 Volumes

A carte de visite album belonging to the Houston family of Lexington, Virginia. It contains images of Judge Thomas Dix Houston, the Ervine, White, Wilson, Leach, Weir, Buchanan, Shumate, Culton, and Bear families of Rockbridge and Augusta Counties in Virginia. It also contains an image of Virginia Military Institute professor James Woods Massie. There are photographs by Lexington and Shenandoah Valley photographers Michael Miley, Adam H. Plecker, Hugh Morrison, and Benjamin Clinedinst, and George Teaford and Worthen of Winchester, Va. The album includes hand written geneaological notes about the Houston family.

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Houston Family Photograph Album, 1865/1875 1 Volumes

A carte de visite album belonging to the Houston family of Lexington, Virginia. It contains images of Judge Thomas Dix Houston, the Ervine, White, Wilson, Leach, Weir, Buchanan, Shumate, Culton, and Bear families of Rockbridge and Augusta Counties in Virginia. It also contains an image of Virginia Military Institute professor James Woods Massie. There are photographs by Lexington and Shenandoah Valley photographers Michael Miley, Adam H. Plecker, Hugh Morrison, and Benjamin Clinedinst, and George Teaford and Worthen of Winchester, Va. The album includes hand written geneaological notes about the Houston family.

West Virginia and Regional History Center

James R. Moreland Papers, 1904/1940

3.3 Linear Feet Summary: 3 ft. 4 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each)
Papers, photos, pamphlets and postcards of a prominent Morgantown attorney, financier and businessman, James Rogers Moreland. Included are drafts of books and articles by James R. Moreland about local and family history, in particular "Early Iron Industry in Cheat Mountains" and "My Father Another Country Lawyer." There are family histories and records about the Finnicum, Hawthorne, Huston, Lewis, Lyle, Moreland and Rogers families. There are also many items of World War I that especially pertain to Morgantown. Included among these is information about the Morgantown Militia Reserve and the Military Training Camps Association. Among other papers collected by Moreland are the records and a history of the Bank of Monongahela Valley, the papers of the Mercersburg Academy, the Rotary, Sons of the Revolution, and the WVU Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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James R. Moreland Papers, 1904/1940 3.3 Linear Feet Summary: 3 ft. 4 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each)

Moreland, James R., 1879-1955
Papers, photos, pamphlets and postcards of a prominent Morgantown attorney, financier and businessman, James Rogers Moreland. Included are drafts of books and articles by James R. Moreland about local and family history, in particular "Early Iron Industry in Cheat Mountains" and "My Father Another Country Lawyer." There are family histories and records about the Finnicum, Hawthorne, Huston, Lewis, Lyle, Moreland and Rogers families. There are also many items of World War I that especially pertain to Morgantown. Included among these is information about the Morgantown Militia Reserve and the Military Training Camps Association. Among other papers collected by Moreland are the records and a history of the Bank of Monongahela Valley, the papers of the Mercersburg Academy, the Rotary, Sons of the Revolution, and the WVU Kappa Alpha fraternity.
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

Withrow Family Papers 1870-1925

This collection of Withrow Familypapers contains ca. 1000 items (2 Hollinger boxes; .5 linear feet), 1870-1925, and n.d., chiefly the letters to William Withrow, Jr.(1809-1894) and his wife, Mary Anne Jones Withrow(1809-1887) of Waynesboro, Virginiafrom their children, relatives, and acquaintainces.

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Withrow Family Papers 1870-1925

Nettie M. Caldwell

This collection of Withrow Familypapers contains ca. 1000 items (2 Hollinger boxes; .5 linear feet), 1870-1925, and n.d., chiefly the letters to William Withrow, Jr.(1809-1894) and his wife, Mary Anne Jones Withrow(1809-1887) of Waynesboro, Virginiafrom their children, relatives, and acquaintainces.

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