University of Virginia Library

218. BRAXTON FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 60,000 items, 1785-1911
Primarily the papers of Allen Caperton Braxton, a Staunton attorney, with a very small group of papers of the Braxton family from Chericoke, King William County. Of particular importance are the notes and correspondence of Allen Caperton Braxton when he was a member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901-2 that disfranchised the black voter.
(Acc. 3329, -a)