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Baer Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155
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

E. Steadman Financial Records

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0226
Scope and Contents

This collection of correspondence relating to business also includes business receipts. Specific places mentioned in the correspondence include Saltville, Virginia and Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1865
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Edmondson Family Papers

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0251
Scope and Contents

This collection contains letters and receipts of Colonel James Kerr Edmondson, a Lexington, Virginia lawyer, judge and mayor, and of his wife, Emily Jane Taylor Edmondson. Also included are Edmondson's letters to his wife during the Civil War, while he was an officer in the Stonewall Brigade. Their are some items from their relations, the Monroes and Penicks of Lexington.

Dates: Inclusive 1861-1904
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

John White Brockenbrough Papers

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Identifier: WLU-Coll-0478
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two of John Brockenbrough's personal correspondences, a letter of resignation from Washington and Lee University, and a bank receipt from the Bank of Lexington. One of the personal correspondences contains information about military movements in Virginia during the American Civil War.

Dates: Inclusive 1863-1874; Majority of material found within Bulk 1863-1874
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Jonathan Brooks papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0008
Scope and Contents This collection includes 9 letters dated from 1839, 1845-1863 from correspondents such as A. C. Finley and Ebenezer Dickey Junkin to Jonathan Brooks of Brownsburg, Va., as well as bills and receipts. The subjects of the letters include news from Finley of Clarksville, Va. regarding finances and business, agriculture, and family news. In his 1845 letter to Brooks, Finley references a Jewish business but does not specifically name the company or individual(s). In his 1847 letter, Finley...
Dates: 1839-1872
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Mary Trimble Legal Document

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0469
Scope and Contents

This legal document details the repayment of Trimble's debt to Trace Decker of Rockbridge County. Trimble did not write the document herself but instead signed the document with a mark.

Dates: 1709-04-24
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

McCown Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0181
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of business papers of the family including sale lists, indentures, land surveys, deeds, wills, promissory notes, and numerous receipts. It also includes 71 photographs from the collection of Samuel W. McCown, Jr. (WLU 1919).

Also incuded is a verse in remembrance of visit to Black Wall Cave, January 30, 1914, by H. M. Vest, which makes reference to several Rockbridge County, Virginia boys.

Dates: Inclusive 1811-1917
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0215
Scope and Contents

This collection contains miscellaneous papers from Rockbridge County, Virginia: receipt of payment to Mr. John T. Figgatt from the Sheriff of Rockbridge Co.; payment receipt dated January 15, 1851; letter dated Nov. 18, 1883; dental bill; list entitled 'Rules of this school'; and 2 small notebooks.

Dates: Inclusive 1856-1890
Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

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Brooks, Jonathan 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Stonewall Brigade 1
Decker family 1
Decker, Trace 1
Dunlap Family 1
Dunlap, John M., Jr 1
Dunlap, John Matthew 1
Dunlap, Madison 1
Edmondson, Emily Jane Taylor 1
Edmondson, James K., Colonel 1
Figgatt, John T. 1
Finley, A. C. 1
Glasgow and Glasgow. Fincastle, Va. 1
Glasgow family 1
Glasgow, Francis T. 1
Glasgow, Francis Thomas 1
Glasgow, William Anderson 1
Goodman, Ethelyn B. 1
Green Forest (Buena Vista, Va.) 1
Hall, Lorenza 1
Hall, Willie 1
Hart, Harvey 1
Hite family 1
Junkin, Ebenezer Dickey 1
Lackey, Harry 1
Lackey, Issac 1
McCown family 1
McCown, Samuel W., Jr. 1
Monroe Family 1
Muterspaw, Amos 1
Penick Family 1
Steadman, E. 1
Tredegar Iron Works (Richmond, Va) 1
Trimble, Mary 1
Vest, H. M. 1
Vest, Herbert 1
Virginia. Militia 1
Washington College (Lexington, Va.) 1
Washington and Lee University 1
White, James J. (James Jones) 1
Wilhelm, Herb 1
Wilson, Alex 1
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