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Library of Virginia 2002 Trenton Hizer Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary Library of Virginia R.J. Reid Papers, 1777-1870 22032 Personal papers collection, Acc. 22032 173 leaves English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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R.J. Reid. Papers, 1777-1870. Accession 22032, Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

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Lent for copying by R.J. Reid, April 1942.

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Papers, 1777-1870, of R. J. Reid of Durham, North Carolina, consisting of materials from the following: Bedford, Campbell, Cumberland, Franklin, Goochland, Halifax, Mecklenberg, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, and Prince Edward Counties, Virginia, and the city of Danville, Virginia. The papers consist of: accounts, bank records, Confederate post office records, contracts, correspondence, court records, epitaphs, eulogies, licenses, military records, militia commissions, oaths of allegiance, pardons, promissory notes, receipts, reports, and stock certificates. Of particular interest are: militia commissions signed by Governor James McDowell (1795-1851), a pardon granted by President Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), several receipts for supplies for the Confederate army, and letters from various companies in Richmond, Virginia, listing the price of slaves in 1860.