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Ann Smith Academy Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0058

Scope and Contents

Includes 2 bound volumes of minutes of the meetings of its Board of Trustees (1807-1910), yearly reports of the various principals, miscellaneous correspondence, business papers, bills and receipts.

Dates: Inclusive 1807-1910

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Scope and Contents This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...

Dates: 1744 - 1929

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Dunlap Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0245

Scope and Contents Papers contain information about Dunlap's family members, especially Madison Dunlap (1808-1883) of Kerr's Creek and his son, John Matthew Dunlap, a member of the Washington and Lee Class of 1857 who was killed at at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The collection includes compositions that John Matthew Dunlap wrote for Professor J. J. White in 1856-1857, transcripts of letters he wrote while serving in the Confederate Army, and letters concerning his death. The collection also includes the...

Dates: Inclusive 1830-1878

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Franklin Society Archives

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0103

Scope and Contents

Includes membership records, officers' reports, business papers, subscription library records, minutes of the Society's meetings and debates. Includes receipts and letters expressing pleasure at being honored by the society. Receipt dated December 2, 1841 from Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson while he was a Virginia constable, which was later given to the Franklin Society.

Dates: 1801 - 1891

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Glasgow Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0057

Scope and Contents This collection contains items of the Glasgow family of Virginia, including correspondence and business papers of William Anderson Glasgow (1825-1910), of Fincastle, and his son, Francis Thomas Glasgow (1854-1927), both lawyers; and of Francis T. Glasgow (1829-1916), brother of William A. and his uncle, Joseph Reid Anderson (1813-1892), both of Richmond; legal briefs, contingent claims contracts, and vouchers, 1880-1885, of the firm of Glasgow and Glasgow, Fincastle, Va.; legal papers,...

Dates: Inclusive 1858-1926

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

H. L. Wilson Company records

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0134

Scope and Contents

This collection conisists of account books, invoices, and receipts from the H. L. Wilson Company.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1840 - 1868

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

John Lewis Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0196

Scope and Contents This collection includes general tax and purchase receipts, IOU's, and letters. The receipts date from 1860-1879 and the letters from 1861-1863 when Lewis served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Included among the letters are those to and from his father and his wife, Cary Lewis. Written on the back of one of John Lewis' letters is another letter from Eli Lewis to his wife, Elizabeth. Also includes two letters from William Neay (surgeon) to Lewis' wife and mother...

Dates: Inclusive 1847-1879

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Joseph McClung Receipt of Sale

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0598

Scope and Contents

This receipt of sale for two slaves owned by Joseph McClung, one named Annie and the other named Bob, is dated November 30, 1802.

Dates: 1802-11-30

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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