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The Dromgoole family resided in Brunswick County, Virginia. Edward Dromgoole was a follower of John Wesley and a minister for sixty years, dying in 1835 at the age of 84. His son George C. Dromgoole served in the Virginia House of Delegates and State Senate. He also served in U.S. House of Representatives 1835-1841 and 1843-1847. A family member named Edward Dromgoole was a merchant and lawyer in Brunswick County and a person by that name served in the Virginia General Assembly, 1855-1858.
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Dromgoole Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Arrangement: This collection has been arranged according to the series stated in the organization and then into chronological order by date.
Organization: This collection has been organized into 9 series: 1. Correspondence, 2. Accounts, bills, and receipts of Edward Dromgoole, merchant, 3. Accounts, bills, and receipts of Edward Dromgoole, attorney, 4. Accounts, bills, and receipts of W.E. Dromgoole, farmer, 5. Miscellaneous laborers' accounts, 6. Miscellaneous accounts, 7. Legal Papers, 8. Speeches, 9. Manuscript volumes.
Correspondence, accounts,(including accounts, 1875-1895, of laborers ?) and manuscript volumes, primarily 1850-1890, of members of the Dromgoole family of Brunswick County, Virginia. The majority of the papers seemingly were created by Edward Dromgoole, fl. 1838-1897, a merchant and lawyer in Brunswick Co. There are also some items relating to George Coke Dromgoole (1797-1847), a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, as well as items concerning other people who are only identified as E., Edward, or George C. Dromgoole.
Scope and Contents Edward Dromgoole was a merchant of Brunswick County, Va. Includes the following: 1872 notice of blank income tax for 1871 enclosure; 1873 announcement from Wm. Brinckherhoff & County, New York, New York of new fall stock of hats, caps, furs, and straw goods; notices from Registrar E. Dromgoole that he will register qualified voters at Dromgoole's Store on May 11, 1880; and "Field notes of tract of land," undated.
Drumgoole was an attorney of Brunswick County, Virginia and South Gaston, [North Carolina?], including an account, 1871-1872, showing payment to Virginia Military Institute, of J. W. Harrison, an orphan of N. M. Harrison, of whom E. Dromgoole was guardian, and accounts in his capacity as executor of the estate of Issac F. Harris, Sr.; also blank promissory notes, 184(7), for accounts involved with the estate of George C. Dromgoole, Edward Dromgoole, Administrator.
Plantations in [North Carolina?], including those for a saw mill; also cotton accounts.
Includes share listings written on the back of "E. Dromgoole, Attorney at Law" letterhead, 189_.
Includes a Brunswick County, Virginia tax receipt of Lucretia Atkins, 1821, listing 148 acres land, 4 slaves over the age of 16 years, and a two wheeled riding carriage, and signed by Edward Dromgoole; and a Brunsiwkc County, Virginia tax receipt, 1845, of Joseph Cain, signed by George C. Dromgoole.
Includes the following: will of J.W. Palmer, Northhampton County, North Carolina, November 26, 1858; letter to E. Dromgoole, Esq., 1872, concerning the rights of a widow; notice, 1878, of an auction of [L.J. Pearman's ?], deceased, perishable estate; letter, 1896, giving information regarding deeds for lands in Amelia and Jeffress, and the Mountain Hall tract; and blank printed form for the "Sale of Real Estate in Brunswick County, Virginia."
Eulogy for the death of a fellow attorney from Brunswick County, Virginia, John E. Shell. Manuscript.
Also states that Ulysses S. Grant does not fill the measure and standard of what an American President ought to be in the public eye at home and abroad. Manuscript.
Drafts of speeches on the topic of agriculture and its various aspects. Manuscript.
Includes accounts connected with the estate settlements of George C. Dromgoole, 1847-1853; Edward Dromgoole, Jr., 1848-1856; and Sarah C. Dromgoole, 1848-1849, with Edward Dromgoole, executor or administrator for all cases. 381 pp. Manuscript Volume.
244 pp. Manuscript Volume.
Drumgoole was a merchant of Brunswick County, Virginia. Includes farm accounts with "Westward" and "Lizzard Creek" plantations (in North Carolina?), records of ginning and baling cotton, 1866-1870; a diagram of an orchard containing apple, peach, and pear trees; and a schedule of gold prices in Confederate money, 1861-1865. 387 pp. Manuscript Volume.
Includes accounts of the orphans of N.M. Harrison at "Lizzard Creek" and "Westward" plantations [North Carolina?]. 308 pp. Manuscript Volume. Including index.
Includes lists of judgements docketed in Brunswick Circuit, undated; Halifax Circuit Court, 1867; Greensville County, Petersburg Circuit Court, 1866. 92 pp. Includes index.
Includes a list of books in the store, April 3, 1867. 473 pp. Manuscript Volume. See Oversize Manuscript Volumes File.
Includes a recipe for hair oil. 405 pp. Manuscript Volume.
Includes accounts of the "orphans of N.M. Harrison". 261 pp. Manuscript Volume. Also including index.
Contains cotton accounts, including records of cotton baled, ginned, and prepared. 183 pp. Manuscript Volume. Also including accounts, 1895-1896, of the estate of E. Dromgoole, Edward Dromgoole and George C. Dromgoole, administrators.
312 pp. Manuscript Volume. Including index.
203 pp. Manuscript Volume.
219 pp. Manuscript Volume. Including index.
Contains saw mill, cotton, and farm accounts. 232 pp. Manuscript Volume. Including index.
Including index.
260 pp. Manuscript Volume.