The collection is open for research use.
Accession 2017-0082, Purchased 19 December 2016.
The collection has been arranged into four series: Series 1. Correspondence, Series 2.Financial and Legal papers, Series 3. Letters and documents about enslaved people, 4. Miscellaneous
MSS 16277, Laine family papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections, University of Virginia.
The Laine family papers (1772-1961; 0.8 cubic feet) contains letters and documents about hiring enslaved people, other family correspondence, and financial and legal papers related to the Laine (sometimes Lane) family in Sussex County, Virginia. There is also a letter and information about the War of 1812. Also of interest is the correspondence and church programs for Amos Lloyd Laine who was a minister in Wakefield, Virginia.
Based on family names and relationships in the letters the Lane/Laine family of Sussex County, Virginia seems to date back to Thomas Lane of Jamestown, who came from England in 1634 and more recently pertaining to this collection, from his descendants Joseph Lane (1721-1775) and his wife Lucy Pride Lane (1720-1792?). They had nine children: Jesse Lane (1741-1803), Leticia Lane Hargrave (1748-1781),Drury Lane (1745-1816), Thomas Lane, Joseph Lane (1750-1810) and Selah Lane Phillips. Peter Lane and Jerry (Jeremiah?) Lane descended from Drury Lane in Sussex County, Virginia. Sources: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lane-8795 http://home.windstream.net/ehallman/lane0001.htm http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bowers/lane/thomasl.htm
Other papers in the collection relate to Mrs. Ella Jane Laine(1873-?) who was married to Christopher Columbus Laine and their children, Amos Lloyd Laine 1906-2004,Eugene Roy Laine, 1908-?), Elva Louise Laine Magee 1909-2012, Josie L. Wiedman, Alvin Woodrow Laine 1913-2007, and Milton Columbus Laine 1898-1944 who was married to Alma Lorraine Morris 1901-1987.
Consists of mostly Jeremiah Laine correspondence with his wife, Polley Laine. Of note is a letter from Jeremiah Laine to his family about the war of 1812 and also two militia fines. Other correspondence includes medical instructions from Dr. Benjamin Hancock; letters between Peter Laine and his wife Jane; letters from Jeremiah and Polley Laine's children, Charles and Mary Scammel, Nancy Atkinson, and Nancy Morriss. Also included is a letter from William Laine recommending his son Gilbert, for employment; and a letter from Rob Nicholson to Jane Laine.
Letters with family and boyfriends.
Letters from Christopher C. Laine, Thomas Laine, and E. J. Morris about family and work. (Southhampton Airfield).
Mostly letters from her children, Amos Laine, Eugene Laine, Milton Laine, and Alvin Woodrow Laine. Charles S. Kitchen writes about plans for the launching of the new iron ship at the Navy yard.
Mostly letters from his girlfriend, Margaret (Maggie).
Mostly letters from his girlfriend, Margaret (Maggie). One letter is from 1926 because it came inside of another letter from 1925. Also includes letters from "Evelyn" and graduation cards.
Mostly letters from "Daniel" to Alva Laine.
Mostly letters from "Alma" to Milton Laine and one letter from Milton to his brother Eugene Laine.
Receipts for goods, such as, potatoes, whiskey, nails, coffee, flour, sugar, spices, oysters, tobacco plants; work; medical prescriptions; making of shoes; and purchase of land.
Receipts for bond due, and goods such as fish, shoes, cotton, sewing materials, coffee, potatoes, flour, sugar, meat, and brandy.
Legal notes and questions,judgements, land assesments, and taxes related to Laine family and others. There are indentures between Ephraim Bryant and Charles Bryant, Peter Laine and John and Drewry Lane, John Lane and William Wren, and John Laine and Robert Ellis for the secret of making whiskey. Also included is a marriage license for Eliza Brittle.
Request to purchase or hire "Jenny" who he claims is 50 years old or older and "cannot be worth much" by the next year; a legal document to hire "Anthony" for the sum of eight pounds and clothe him; and tax receipts for enslaved persons.
Miscellaneous verses; programs from various churches including one promoting Reverend Amos Lloyd Laine; and militia fines from 1797 for Jeremiah Laine, and a letter from Jeremiah Laine to his family about the War of 1812.