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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect. [Date of source: 1997. Description is in English. February 18, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::01015::Berkeley and Noland Families Papers)//EN" "ViU01015.sgm" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). February 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Berkeley and Noland Families Papers A Collection in the Special Collections Department 38-113

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library 2018 Special Collections Staff Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Berkeley Family Papers 1536-present 38-113 circa 20,000 items English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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 Preferred Citation

Berkeley Family Papers, 1653-1930, Accession #38-113, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

 Acquisition Information

The collection was placed on deposit by various members of the Berkeley family between 1933 and 1999. The papers were made a gift to the Library by Edmund Berkeley, Jr. and Edmund Berkeley, III on November 20, 2018.

 Scope and Content

This collection primarily includes personal correspondence and legal and business papers of the Berkeley Family . Interfiled with these papers are extensive papers of the closely-related Noland family . The joined collection comprises about 20,000 items (ca. 85 Hollinger documents boxes on about 38 feet of shelving) dating between 1653 and 1930, with the heaviest concentration in the nineteenth century.

The Berkeleys were in Virginia very early, and settled first in Gloucester County. The family was in Middlesex County by the first decade of the eighteenth century where they built " Barn Elms" on the Piankatank River (on the north bank from present Berkeley Island). About 1820 they left Middlesex for " Aldie, " Loudoun County where they remained until 1882 when they moved to Red Hill, Albemarle County. The name "Edmund" appears in every generation.

The bulk of the Berkeley Papers concern business matters, especially farming operations on lands in Gloucester, Middlesex,King William, Prince William, Hanover, Lancaster, Loudoun, Albemarle, Clarke, and other counties.

Because of the close ties between the Berkeley and Noland families there are many common correspondents and much complementary material in the various groups of Noland and Berkeley families papers received by the Library from a number of donors over almost fifty years. Accordingly, the groups of Noland family papers have been interfiled into the Berkeley Papers. Separate folders have been used, and the accession numbers assigned to each group as it was received by the Library appear on the folders.

Much of the Noland material concerns "Airwell," Hanover County, and William Noland, Carter B. Berkeley, and Nelson Berkeley. Other items and topics of interest in the combined collections include: letters from Berkeley family members attending the University of Virginia; letters written by during the Civil War, especially by the Berkeleys serving in the Eighth Virginia Infantry Regiment. Letters written by Edmund Berkeley (1824-1915) relate many anecdotes about prominent persons such as the Marquis de Lafayette, James Monroe, Catesby ap Roger Jones, Andrew Jackson, Abel Parker Upshur, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Charles Dickens, Sam Houston, and Theodore Roosevelt. He also describes events such as the explosion of the cannon named the "Peacemaker" on board the U.S.S. Princeton in 1844. Edmund served as Lieutenant Colonel of the Eighth Virginia, and his letters and those of his brother Norborne Berkeley (1828-), colonel of the Regiment, describe the many actions in which the regiment was involved such as Bull Run, Seven Pines, and Gettyburg, as well as life in Union prison camps, especially Johnson's Island, after their capture at Gettyburg following Pickett's charge.

The portion of the collection accessioned as #8221 includes personal correspondence of Landon C. Berkeley, Anne Poe Harrison (Landon's wife), Cynthia Berkeley, Edmonia Berkeley, and Francis Lewis Berkeley (1859-1942). Topics mentioned in these letters include: the election of 1856; horse racing; speeches by Dwight Lyman Moody ; Wellesley College; the Miller School of Albemarle, Albemarle County, Virginia; Oregon in the 1880's; While Sulphur Springs, Virginia; slave hiring; Mary Custis Lee, [Chiswell Dabney] "Chilly" Langhorne; and William Mahone. Correspondents in this section include John Thompson Brown, John Warwick Daniel, Andrew Jackson Montague, John Barbee Minor, Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas Walter Harrison, and Micajah Woods.

There are bound volumes in #8221 that include class notebooks used by Francis Lewis Berkeley at the University of Virginia, 1896-1899, while taking courses in geology and agricultural chemistry, and his diary for 1906-1910 (Boxes 78-80). Other bound volumes include: a school notebook kept by Cynthia Berkeley in 1887 (Box 78); a mill ledger kept by William Noland at Aldie, Loudoun County; accounts, 1854-1885, kept by William Noland Berkeley ; a common stock register, 1915-1930, of G.E. Smith with E.L. Rothschild Co.; and a trigonometry notebook, 1912.

Financial and legal papers in #8221 consist of deeds, receipts cancelled checks, and similar material. There is a large body of financial and legal papers of John Crissey of New York, an in-law of the Berkeleys.

 Container List Correspondence and Business Papers 1536 January -1717 December Box 1 1718 January -1757 October Box 2 1757 November -1768 February Box 3 1768 March -1775 July Box 4 1775 August -1785 March Box 5 1785 April -1787 December Box 6 1788 January -1791 December Box 7 1792 January -1794 December Box 8 1795 January -1797 May Box 9 1797 June -1799 May Box 10 1799 June -1801 May Box 11 1801 June -1802 March Box 12 1802 April -1803 November Box 13 1803 December -1805 January Box 14 1805 February -1807 January Box 15 1807 February -1810 August Box 16 1810 September -1811 December Box 17 1812 January -1813 October Box 18 1813 November -1815 October Box 19 1815 November -1816 July Box 20 1816 August -1817 November Box 21 1817 December -1818 November Box 22 1818 December -1820 April Box 23 1820 May -1821 November Box 24 1821 December -1823 January Box 25 1823 February -1824 February Box 26 1824 March -1825 April Box 27 1825 May -1826 December Box 28 1827 January -1828 March Box 29 1828 April -1829 December Box 30 1830 January -1831 March Box 31 1831 April -1833 April Box 32 1833 May -1835 August Box 33 1835 September -1837 June Box 34 1837 July -1839 August Box 35 1839 September -1841 January Box 36 1841 February -1842 October Box 37 1842 November -1843 December Box 38 1844 January -1845 December Box 39 1846 January -1847 October Box 40 1847 November -1848 December Box 41 1849 January -1850 March Box 42 1850 April -1851 February Box 43 1851 March -1842 December Box 44 1853 January -1854 February Box 45 1854 March -1855 January Box 46 1855 February -1856 August Box 47 1856 September -1857 December Box 48 1858 January -1860 November Box 49 1860 December -1861 December Box 50 1862 January -1863 September Box 51 1863 October -1865 September Box 52 1865 October -1868 July Box 53 1868 August -1873 March Box 54 1873 April -1877 May Box 55 1877 June -1878 December Box 56 1879 January -1880 January Box 57 1880 February -1881 July Box 58 1881 August -1883 May Box 59 1883 June -1886 January Box 60 1886 February -1888 March Box 61 1888 April -1889 November Box 62 1889 December -1890 December Box 63 1891 January -1897 December Box 64 1898 January -1903 February Box 65 1903 March -1907 April Box 66 1907 May -1912 November Box 67 1912 December -1919 February Box 68 1919 March -1932 May Box 69 1932 June -1943 April Box 70 1943 May -1947 April Box 71 1947 May -1983 Box 72 Undated and Miscellaneous Papers Undated and Miscellaneous Papers Boxes 73-77 Bound Volumes "Smith's Lives of the Berkeley's" 1803 Box 78 Ledger of William Noland, (#8221, Vol. 1) 1817 -1818 Box 78 Memoranda Book, (#8221, Vol. 2) 1838 -1850 Box 78 Ledger of William N. Berkeley, (#8221, Vol. 3) 1854 -1885 Box 78 Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley, (#8221, Vol. 6) ca. 1880 Box 78 School Notebook of Cynthia Berkeley (#8221, V. 7) ca. 1887 Box 78 Geology Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley (#8221, V. 8) 1896 Box 78 Geology Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley (#8221, V. 9) 1896 Box 79 Geology Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley (#8221, V.10) 1896 Box 79 Geology Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley (#8221, V.11) 1896 Box 79 Geology Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley (#8221, V.12) 1896 Box 79 Mineralogy Notebook of F. L. Berkeley, (#8221, V. 13) 1896 Box 79 Geology Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley (#8221, V.14) 1896 Box 79 Geology Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley (#8221, V.15) 1897 Box 80 Diary of Francis L. Berkeley, (#8221, Vol. 16) 1905 -1910 Box 80 Account Book of Mrs. G.D. Smith in Account with E.L. Rothschild & Co., Stockbrokers, (#8221, V. 17) 1915 -1930 Box 80 Trigonometry Notebook of M. Sutherland (#8221, V. 18) 1932 Box 80 General Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley ca. 1896 Box 80 English Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley ca. 1896 Box 80 U.S. History Notebook ca. 1934 Box 80 Autograph Book of Francis L. Berkeley, (Spine is labeled:"Mathematics U.S. Naval Academy") ca. 1897 Box 80 Chemistry Notebook of J.T.D. Bell 1892 Box 80 Chemistry Notebook of William N. Berkeley No date Box 81 U.S. History Notebook of Francis L. Berkeley 1877 Box 81 UVa Class Notes of Francis L. Berkeley, Jr. ca. 1930 Box 81 Papers Left by Charles W. Coleman, concerning the families of Smith, Tucker, White, etc. 1927 Box 81 Scrap Book #2 1926 -1951 Box 82 Autobiography of Major General Randolph Carter Berkeley, USMC, (#8221, Vol. 19) 1959 Box 82 The commissioning of United States Ship "Berkeley" (DDG-15), [photo album] 1962 Box 82 Yearbook of Field Artillery Replacement Center, 4th Training Regiment, Fort Bragg 1941 Box 82 Britain's Homage to 28,000 American Dead 1952 Box 82 UVa Dedication of War Memorial Plaques 1960 June 11 Box 82 "An Occasional Bulletin," The Virginia Historical Society 1962, April Box 82 "The Iron Worker" 1957, Spring Box 82 Ephemera [match case and dress shirt studs] No date Box 82 Confederate envelopes ca. 1861 -1865 Box 82 19th Century postage stamps Box 82 two leather wallets No date Box 82 Berkeley Family Bible Box 83 "Early Covers" No date Box 83 Oversize Items Family Bible (Lacks covers and end pages) OS Box 1 Printed Book, The History of England, Vol. XVI OS Box 2 Printed Book, The History of England, (title excised) OS Box 3 Ledger / Account Book ca. 1801-1818 OS Box 4 Ledger / Account Book ca. 1729-1760 OS Box 4 Business Ledger ca. 1801-1802 OS Box 5 Business Ledger, William N. Berkeley (#8221) ca. 1857-1868 OS Box 5 Diplomas and Certificates (rolled) OS Box 5 Genealogical Charts (rolled) OS Box 5 Genealogical Charts OS Box 6 Certificates OS Box 6 Engraving, "Berkeley Castle" (photostat) OS Box 6