Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts

1 item, January 9-September 13, 1804
Kept in Mecklenburg County by Alexander while he served as the administrator of the estate of John Goode. Included are comments on slaves and slavery.
(Mss5:1AL275:1)

665. ALLEN FAMILY PAPERS

106 items, 1850-1910
Consists mainly of business and legal papers of Robert Henderson Allen, commissioner of accounts and justice of the peace from Oral Oaks, Lunenburg County. Included is material on his work as an agent for the Freedmen's Bureau.
(MsslAL546a)

666. ALLMAND FAMILY PAPERS

573 items,1796- 1891
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of John Driver Allmand and family of Baltimore, New York City, and Norfolk. Included is an 1825 deed of manumission.
(MsslAL566a)

667. SAMUEL ALLYNE DOCUMENT

1 item, February 13, 1745/46
A receipt to Thomas March in Boston, Massachusetts, for the sale of a slave.
(Mss2AL59Sa)

668. AMBLER FAMILY PAPERS

159 items, 1772-1852
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of John Ambler of Richmond. The personal correspondence has frequent references to individual slaves and the subject of slavery, such as a December 19, 1808, letter from Samuel Coleman to John Ambler asking him to muster militia into service to prevent the assembly of slaves in Richmond.
(MsslAm 167c)

669. AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, VIRGINIA BRANCH, DOCUMENT

1 item, November 22, 1831
List of slaves removed from Thomas Pretlow of Southampton County and shipped to Liberia.
(Mss4AM353al)

670. AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, VIRGINIA BRANCH RECORDS

2 vols., 1823-59
A minute book and account book of this society devoted to the freeing and emigration of American slaves to Liberia.
(Mss3AM351a)

671. CHARLES WESLEY ANDREWS PAPERS

9 items, 1847-55
Published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 59 (1957): 72-78. Included are letters written by freedmen in Liberia.
(Mss2AN263b)

672. ARCHER FAMILY PAPERS

265 items, 1771-1918
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Amelia County. Included is a list of slaves belonging to Jane Segar Archer.
(MsslAR247a)

673. ROBERT AUGUSTUS ARMISTEAD PAPERS

151 items, 1848-88
Personal, legal, and religious correspondence and documents of this Methodist Episcopal minister. An 1852-61 execution book of the justice of the peace of Elizabeth City County concerns, in part (2 of 16 cases), the trial of slaves for criminal offenses.
(MsslAR552a)

674. JOHN ARNOLD PAPERS

4 items, 1812-31
Legal documents of this King George County resident which include deeds for slaves.
(Mss2AR646b)

675. AYLETT FAMILY PAPERS

3,949 items, 1776-1945
Personal, business, and legal correspondence, speeches, and accounts of this family of Montville, King William County. Among the documents pertaining to slavery are materials on an 1857 lawsuit, Commonwealth v. Martha (slave), and 1859 bonds concerning the hiring of slaves.
(MsslAY445a-b, Mss2AY44b)

676. BAILEY FAMILY PAPERS

608 items, 1802-1980
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this Halifax County family. Included is a list of slaves belonging to William Bailey.
(MsslB1565a-b)

677. BARBOUR FAMILY PAPERS

1,353 items, 1741-1876
Mainly legal and business papers of Philip Pendleton Barbour, a lawyer from Frascati in Orange County. Included are 1806-18 deeds for slave sales of Thomas Barbour to James and Philip Barbour.
(MsstB2346a-b)

678. CLAIBORNE BARKSDALE DOCUMENT

1 item, [1826?]
Bond to pay Mrs. Paulina Legrand for the hire of a slave.
(Mss2B2472)

679. BASKERVILL FAMILY PAPERS

3,408 items, 1747-1928
Business, legal, and medical correspondence and accounts of this family of Waverley, Mecklenburg County. Included are 1830-52 slave lists and an 1863 diary which contains a list of slaves.
(MsslB2924a-d)

680. BASSETT FAMILY PAPERS

2,271 items, 1728-1923
Business and personal papers of the Bassett family of Eltham, New Kent County, and of the Lewis family of Hanover County. An 1841- 42 plantation account book includes an 1835 list of slaves.
(MsslB2944a)

681. WEALTHY BAYLEY DOCUMENT

1 item, September 22, 1791
A deposition taken in Accomack County concerning a slave, Southy, who was the property of Levin Joynes.
(Mss2B3433)

682. BAYLOR FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 3,000 items, 1662-1962
Business and personal papers and plantation accounts of Robert Payne Waring of Edenatta, Essex County, and Richard Baylor of Sandy Point, Charles City County. Scattered throughout are records on plantation management.
(MsslB3445eFA2)

683. BERRYMAN FAMILY PAPERS

15 items, 1664-1815
Legal and business documents of this family of Stafford County. Included is a 1722 deed for slaves in Stafford County.
(Mss2B4598c)

684. BEVERLEY FAMILY PAPERS

26,825 items, 1654-1929
Business, personal, and legal correspondence of the various members of this family of Blandfield, Essex County. An 1852 agreement of William Bradshaw Beverly and John Nelson concerns slaves in Marengo County, Alabama.
(Mss5:lB4677:1)

685. BIBLE RECORDS

Some of the collected Bible records contain records of family slaves. These are listed in the card catalog under "Bible Records," with subentries of the slave owners' surnames.

686. BLAND FAMILY PAPERS

236 items, 1713-1825
Personal, legal, and military correspondence and accounts of this family of Cawsons and Farmingdell, Prince George County. Included are 1780-1825 letters from and to two slaves, Tom Baker and Charles.
(MsslB6108a)

687. BOATWRIGHT FAMILY PAPERS

448 items, 1815-1953
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Cumberland County. Among the documents are deeds concerning the purchase of slaves and 1861-62 bonds for the hire of slaves.
(MsslB6304a)

688. BOLLING FAMILY PAPERS

663 items, 1749-1956
Personal and business papers of this planter family of Centre Hill, Powhatan County, and Richmond. Included are lists of slaves.
(MsslB6386a)

689. WILLIAM BOLLING REGISTER

1 item, 1752-1890
Slave register of this planter from Bolling Hall, Goochland County.
(Mss5:5B6387: 1)

690. BOULDIN FAMILY PAPERS

3,757 items, 1737-1960
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of Thomas Tyler Bouldin of Golden Hills, Charlotte County, and Lynchburg. Included is a March 22, 1850, list of slaves.
(MsslB6638a)

691. BOWLES FAMILY PAPERS

45 items, 1817-74
Personal and business correspondence and accounts, primarily of Benjamin Bowles of Fluvanna County. Included is a photocopy of an undated letter from a slave or former slave named Gallant.
(Mss2B6818b)

692. BENJAMIN BRAND PAPERS

417 items, 1790-1838
Personal and business papers of this Richmond merchant who was an official of the American Colonization Society and the Virginia Colonization Society.
(MsslB7332a)

693. BRECKINRIDGE FAMILY PAPERS

331 items, 1740-1902
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Grove Hill, Botetourt County. Included are 1834-38 slave appraisals and 1834-42 mortgages for slaves in Jefferson County, Florida.
(MsslB7427a)

694. BROWN FAMILY PAPERS

335 items, 1801-89
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Benvenue and Sunnyside, Nelson County. Included are deeds of sale for slaves.
(MsslB8305a)

695. BRUCE FAMILY PAPERS

1,464 items, 1665-1906
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of various members of the Bruce family of Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, King William County, Richmond County, and King George County. Included are an estate inventory of Charles Bruce of Orange County, an 1835 list of slaves in Charlotte County, and an 1850-57 list of slaves.
(MsslB8306a-b)

696. BUFORD FAMILY PAPERS

34 items, 1816-44
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Lunenburg County. Included are an 1836 deed of John H. Craddock to John Buford for slaves and an 1816 list of slaves.
(Mss2B8648b)

697. ANN BURWELL DOCUMENT

1 item, 1746-1834
A commonplace book kept by this woman which includes a list of slaves owned by Armistead Burwell.
(Mss5:5B9585: 1)

698. BURWELL FAMILY PAPERS

2,141 items, 1770-1965
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Frederick (later Clarke) County. Scattered references to slavery include an 1821 deed for a slave and an 1862 list of George Burwell's slaves.
(MsslB9585a)

699. WILLIAM BYRD LETTERBOOKS

3 items, 1728-41
Correspondence of William Byrd Il, published in The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover Virginia. 1684-1776, ed. Marion Tinling, 2 vols. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977). There is frequent mention of slavery and blacks. For example, the July 12, 1736, letter of William Byrd II to the earl of Egmont comments about his fear that the continued importation of African slaves would eventually lead to a rebellion.
(Mss1B9968b-c)

700. WILLIAM CABELL DOCUMENTS

9 items, 1769-95
Commonplace books of this surveyor and politician from Amherst County. They include a number of references to slavery and individual slaves, such as a list of slaves and discussion of slavery at Union Hill, Nelson County.
(Mss5:5C1117: 1-9)

701. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL LETTER

1 item, May 12, 1763
Addressed to Henry Tucker of Philadelphia. Campbell discussed the conviction and death sentence of a slave in Norfolk.
(Mss2C1522al)

702. CARRINGTON FAMILY PAPERS

527 items, 1761-1954
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Ingleside, Charlotte County, and Richmond. Included are a January 12, 1839, deed for slaves, an 1862-82 account book of Henry Carrington containing lists of slaves, an account book of Paul Carrington with lists of slaves, and an 1865 agreement of Clement Carrington with Aaron Read concerning the hiring of free blacks.
(MsslC2358c,e,g)

703. CARRINGTON FAMILY PAPERS

5,151 items, 1744-1940
Personal, business, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Edgehill and Mulberry Hill, Charlotte County. Included is a December 7, 1847, list of slaves at Mulberry Hill.
(Mss1C2358d)

704. CARTER FAMILY PAPERS

2,556 items, 1651-1861
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman, Lancaster County. Included are letterbooks which are indexed and contain much information on slaves.
(MsslC2468a)

705. CHARLOTTE COUNTY RECORDS

1,026 items, 1763-1896
Accounts, correspondence, order books, fee books, and other court records. Included are lists of free blacks.
(Mss3C3815a-b)

706. CHIMBORAZO SCHOOL DOCUMENT

1 item, October 8, 1868-June 25, 1869
This register of this Richmond school contains entries on the attendance of Afro-American students.
(Mss4C442al)

707. CLAIBORNE FAMILY PAPERS

1,060 items, 1803-1954
Business, personal, legal, and genealogical correspondence and accounts of this Richmond family. Included are notes about the division of slaves and material concerning the imprisonment of John Brown at Harpers Ferry.
(MsslC5217a)

708. CLARKE FAMILY PAPERS

761 items, 1815-1938
Personal and business correspondence, primarily of John Clarke of Keswick, Powhatan County. There is correspondence with Frederick Clarke concerning slaves.
(MsslC5587a)

709. COCKE FAMILY PAPERS

1,840 items, 1770-1860
Personal and plantation papers, primarily of Stephen Cocke of Woodlawn, Amelia County. Included are lists of slaves.
(Mss1C6458b)

710. COCKE FAMILY PAPERS

2,950 items, 1794-1980
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of these families of New Kent and Cumberland counties and Richmond. An 1834-36 cookbook of Mary Banister records the births of slaves.
(Mss1C6458dFA2)

711. PHILIP ST. GEORGE COCKE PAPERS

6 items, 1854-71
Plantation records kept by Samuel P. Collier, John W. Talbot, and, George W. Taylor, managers of Cocke's plantations in Powhatan County, Belldale and Bellmead. Included are materials on slaves.
(Mss1C6458c)

712. COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS DOCUMENT

1 item, 1731-43
An account book kept by this colonial officer in the Upper James River District. Included in it is a listing of captains, ships, fees, and cargoes of, in part, slaves.
(Mss4V819a5)

713. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA DOCUMENT

1 item, February 16, 1865
A pass issued to a slave, Bob, to visit King and Queen County.
(Mss4C7609al)

714. HOLMES CONRAD PAPERS

800 items, 1794-1959
Personal, military, and genealogical correspondence and accounts of this Winchester lawyer and Confederate soldier. In the correspondence are agreements made by David Holmes Conrad concerning a slave and discussion of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry.
(MsslC7637a-b)

715. ROBERT YOUNG CONRAD PAPERS

156 items, 1850-1944
Personal and legal correspondence and documents of this Winchester lawyer. A brief, undated document concerns the murder trial of a slave, George.
(MsslC7638a)

716. COONS FAMILY PAPERS

1,208 items, 1828-1982
Business, personal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of North Cliff, Culpeper County. Scattered references to slavery include an 1862 bond for the hire of a slave.
(MsslC7835a)

717. RICHARD CORBIN PAPERS

13 items, 1767-97
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this resident of Laneville, King and Queen County. Included are 1778 lists of slaves at Moss Neck, Caroline County, and Richland, King and Queen County.
(Mss2C8114b)

718. CORR FAMILY PAPERS

145 items, 1688-1975
Business and legal documents of the Corr and related families of King and Queen County. Included is an 1838 deed for slaves from Anthony Shackelford to Thomas Corr.
(MsslC8177a)

719. A. M. CREW DOCUMENT

1 item, 1822-61
List of births of slaves. Most of the slaves were interred in Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond.
(Mss2C8676a 1)

720. JOHN CROPPER PAPERS

396 items, 1779-1820
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this resident of Bowman's Folly, Accomack County. In the personal correspondence are scattered letters with references to individual slaves.
(MsslC8835a)

721. RICHARD EGGLESTON CUNNINGHAM PAPERS

194 items, 1790-1978
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of Cunningham and other residents of Richmond and central Virginia. An estate document of Edward Cunningham concerns the division of slaves.
(MsslC9175a)

722. HENRY CURTIS PAPERS

340 items, 1774-1865
Personal, business, plantation, medical, and legal correspondence and accounts of this physician and resident of Puccoan, Hanover County, Richmond, and Piedmont, Albemarle County. There are scattered references to slaves.
(MsslC9434a & Mss2C9435b)

723. CUSTIS FAMILY PAPERS

909 items, 1683-1858
Business, personal, plantation, and legal correspondence and accounts of John Custis (1678-1749) of Williamsburg and York County. Included are slave lists of 1710, 1750, and undated and a 1764 warrant for the arrest of a runaway slave.
(MsslC9698a)

724. CHARLES DABNEY COMMONPLACE BOOK

1 item, 1811-1825 photocopy
Document that concerns plantation economy in Hanover County and contains lists of slaves.
(MssS:SD1124:1)

725. DABNEY FAMILY PAPERS

4,012 items, 1742-1928
Business and personal correspondence and accounts mainly of Charles William Dabney of Aldingham, Hanover County. Included are materials on the operation of the plantation, such as 1833 and 1855 deeds of slaves and an 1867 agreement with John Tyler, a freedman, for the hire of another freedman as a servant.
(Mss1D1124b)

726. DANIEL WEBSTER DAVIS PAPERS

52 items, 1900-1959
Literary and personal papers of this Afro-American author and educator from Richmond.
(MsslD2915a)

727. JOHN DAWSON LETTERS

3 items, 1788-94
Letters from Richmond. Among the concerns mentioned is the sale of slaves in Augusta County.
(Mss2D3253b)

728. JAMES LEWIS DOHERTY PAPERS

155 items, 1969-72
Personal correspondence of this Richmond author while he was serving as chairman of the West End Concerned Parents and Friends, an organization concerned about the desegregation of Richmond schools.
(MsslD6805a)

729. DUPUY FAMILY PAPERS

1,059 items, 1781-1896
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Falkland, Prince Edward County. An 1810-65 commonplace book contains birth and death records of slaves. Also included are lists of slaves.
(MsslD9295a,c)

730. EARLY FAMILY PAPERS

676 items, 1764-1956
Personal correspondence of this Lynchburg family. The papers of Samuel Henry Early include an 1860 account with D. P. & G. A. Diuguid of Lynchburg for a coffin and the burial of slaves.
(Mss1EA765b)

731. EDMUNDS FAMILY PAPERS

99 items, 1826-1950
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this Charlotte County family. Slave records are included in an account book.
(MsslED596a)

732. EDMUNDSON FAMILY PAPERS

1,402 items, 1781-1949
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Fotheringay, Montgomery County. Included are 1813-39 bills of sale for slaves.
(MsslED598a)

733. EGGLESTON FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 37,000 items, 1788-1975
Personal and business correspondence of this family of Prince Edward County. Included is a list of slaves of Thomas Walton.
(Mss1EG396b)

734. EPPES FAMILY PAPERS

1,067 items, 1722-1953
Business, personal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Appomattox Manor, Hopewell. Included are an 1851-68 account book which contains lists of slaves; an 1821 will of Patty Cocke, a slave; and a letter concerning the escape of slaves.
(MsslEP734a-d)

735. JAMES H. EVANS COLLECTION

6 items, 1856-65
Correspondence of this Farmville native. An 1865 petition from Evans to the Confederate States Department of Engineers seeks pay for a conscripted slave who died while working on fortifications around Richmond.
(Mss2EV156b)

736. FAUQUIER COUNTY REGISTER OF FREE BLACKS

1 item, 1817-65
Bound volume that lists names, ages, heights, complexions, and cirCumstance of freedom of free blacks.
(Mss4F2742a2)

737. FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH

1 item, 1841-57, photocopy
Incomplete minute book of this black church of Richmond.
(Mss5:8BX6440F5915: 1)

738. JOHN FITZGERALD PAPERS

303 items, 1827-96
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this Blackstone merchant. Included are 1859-65 lists of slaves of John Fitzgerald.
(MsslF5764a-b)

739. JOHN E. FLETCHER PAPERS

630 items, 1857-1952
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this Greene County lumberman. A number of documents concern the hire of slaves.
(MsslF6353a-f)

740. REBECCA FOESEE DOCUMENT

1 item, 1818-52
List of births of slaves, location not identified.
(Mss2F6862al)

741. FONTAINE FAMILY PAPERS

929 items, 1760-1892
Legal, business, and personal correspondence and accounts of this Buckingham County family. Included are a number of deeds of slaves.
(Mss lF7345a)

742. FRIEND FAMILY PAPERS

18 items, 1792-1871
Business and plantation accounts of this family of White Hill, Prince George County. An 1839-69 account book and the diaries of Charles Friend both contain lists of slaves.
(MsslF9156a)

743. WILLIAM MAYO FULTON PAPERS

42 items, 1819-1865
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this Richmond lawyer. Included are deeds for slaves.
(Mss2F9599b)

744. GEORGE K. GILMER PAPERS

90 items, 1860-96
Business and personal papers of this Richmond postmaster, much of it relating to the Republican party.
(MsslG4215a)

745. GLOUCESTER COUNTY DOCUMENT

1 item, 1767
An order to the county sheriff to apprehend an escaped slave.
(Mss4Gsl84)

746. GOOCH FAMILY PAPERS

367 items, 1812-1961
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of Airfield, Henrico County, and Richmond. Included are 1839-52 lists of slaves.
(MsslG5906a)

747. JOSEPH NOTON GOODMAN COMMONPLACE BOOK

1 item, 1834-79
Included in this Cumberland County and Roanoke County document is a register of slaves for 1809-56.
(MssS:SG6225:1)

748. GRAHAM FAMILY PAPERS

353 items, 1798-1925
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Lexington, Fairfax County. Included is an 1814 affidavit for the hire of a slave.
(MsslG7605a)

749. WILLIAM GREEN PAPERS

323 items, 1806-80
Personal and legal correspondence and accounts of this lawyer of Culpeper County. An 1839 affidavit concerns the death of slave, and an 1840 affidavit concerns the age of a free black indentured to John D. Browning.
(Mss l G8274a)

750. GRIGSBY FAMILY PAPERS

372 items, 1745-1940
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Hickory Hill, Rockbridge County. Included is an undated list of slaves.
(MsslG8785a)

751. HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY PAPERS

6,929 items, 1745-1944
Personal, business, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this resident of Edgehill, Charlotte County, and Norfolk. Included are an 1829 deed for a slave and 1824 lists of slaves.
(Mss1G8782b)

752. GRINNAN FAMILY PAPERS

1,610 items, 1645-1935
Personal, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Brampton, Madison County, Fredericksburg, and Richmond. Included are 1845-65 lists of slaves belonging to John Randolph Bryan, a document for the hire of a slave, and correspondence with Andrew Glassel Grinnan concerning life insurance on slaves.
(MsslG8855a)

753. GRYMES FAMILY PAPERS

20 items, 1815-1919
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Selma, Orange County. Included is an 1816 deed for slaves.
(MsslG9297a)

754. HANNAH FAMILY PAPERS

4,721 items, 1760-1967
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Gravel Hill, Charlotte County. Plantation records concern slaves and the hiring of free blacks, and an 1800-1851 commonplace book contains information on the births of slaves.
(MsslH1956a)

755. HANOVER COUNTY DOCUMENT

1 item, 1780
Tax book of the county assessor. Included are personal accounts of George Clough with entries in 1859 for slaves' corn.
(Mss4H1973a2)

756. RICHARD EGGLESTON HARDAWAY DOCUMENT

1 item, 1825-64
An account book concerning the operation of a blacksmith shop in Nottoway County. Included are 1825-30 accounts with slaves.
(Mss5:3H2164: 1)

757. ABIGAIL GRANBERY HARGROVES DOCUMENT

1 item, 1694-1818
A commonplace book kept in Nansemond and Norfolk counties that contains notations on the births of slaves.
(Mss5:5H2244:1)

758. HAXALL FAMILY PAPERS

431 items, 1835-1920
Chiefly papers of Bolling Walker Haxall of Gordonsville, Richmond, and Springfield, Albemarle County. Included is material on plantation slavery.
(MsslH3203a-c, e)

759. HENRY FAMILY PAPERS

1,085 items, 1763-1920
Personal and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Red Hill and Kenwood, Charlotte County. Included is a letter of a slave, Caesar, to James Pulliam Marshall, lists of slaves, and an 1857- 81 account book of William Wirt Henry which contains lists of slaves and notes on the employment of freedmen.
(MsslH3968a)

760. HILL FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 4,600 items, 1787-1942
Personal, business, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Culpeper County and of Glendalough, Madison County. Included is an 1831 division of the slaves belonging to the estate of James Govan.
(MsslH5565aFA2)

761. ISAAC HITE COMMONPLACE BOOK

1 item, 1776-1859
Kept at Belle Grove, Frederick County, this commonplace book includes lists of slaves.
(Mss5:5H6375:1)

762. HOLLADAY FAMILY PAPERS

15,396 items, 1728-1968
Business, plantation, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Prospect Hill, Spotsylvania County. There are many lists of slaves and deeds transferring them and accounts of medical treatment of slaves by Dr. Richmond Lewis. Of special interest is a 1799 report concerning the murder of one slave by another.
(MsslH7185a-e)

763. JAMES LAWRENCE HOOFF DIARY

1 item, 1855-1860 microfilm
Farm diary of agricultural operations in Jefferson County. Included are lists of slaves.
(MsslO:no.219)

764. HENRY WATKINS HUNDLEY ACCOUNT BOOK

1 item, 1841-(1923-33)
Kept at Dennison Junction, Halifax County, this account book includes an 1841 list of slaves.
(Mss5:3H8925:1)

765. HUNDLEY FAMILY PAPERS

80 items, 1817-1900, photocopies
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Rose Hill, Essex County. Included is an 1857 pass for a slave.
(MsslH8928a)

766. WILLIAM HUNTINGDON PAPERS

143 items, 1808-56
Included in the papers of this Connecticut native who taught school in Charlotte Court House is an 1839-55 diary which records among other topics the religious activities of slaves.
(MsslH9262a)

767. JOHNSON FAMILY PAPERS

47 items, 1826-50
Personal, business, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Oakland, Chesterfield County, and Petersburg. Some of the accounts concern the sale of slaves. Also included is an undated list of slaves.
(MsslJ6398a)

768. JONES FAMILY PAPERS

69 items, 1808-1942
Legal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of Clarke County. Included is an 1859 bond for a slave.
(Mss1J735b)

769. JONES FAMILY PAPERS

101 items, 1819-1964
Personal, legal, and business correspondence and accounts of this family of Loudoun County. Included are an 1819 account of William Mills of Alexandria with the slave Thideas for flour and an 1861-63 list of slaves belonging to Philip De Catesby Jones.
(Mss1J735c)

770. ROBERT JORDAN COMMONPLACE BOOK

1 item, 1736-1958
Nansemond County journal that includes 1813-21 lists of slaves belonging to Edmund Jordan as well as births of slaves.
(Mss5:5J7664:1)

771. KEITH FAMILY PAPERS

239 items, 1710-1916
Personal, business, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Woodburn, Fauquier County. Included are undated notes concerning the employment of a slave, George, by the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs Company, Fauquier County.
(MsslK2694a)

772. LEE FAMILY PAPERS

1,426 items, 1824-1918
Personal correspondence and accounts of George Washington Parke Custis, Mary Custis Lee, Robert E. Lee, and other members of the Lee and Custis families of Arlington, Alexandria, and Lexington. Some of the personal correspondence concerns individual slaves, such as a January 21, 1843, letter of Robert E. Lee on the hire of a slave, Gardner. Intermixed throughout are lists of slaves.
(Mss1L51c, f)

773. LEWIS FAMILY PAPERS

44 items, 1749-1920
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Augusta and Rockingham counties. A ca. 1790 inventory of the estate of Thomas Lewis contains a list of slaves.
(Mss1L5896b)

774. LUPTON FAMILY PAPERS

ca. 1,400 items, 1745-1895
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this Quaker family of Apple Pie Ridge, Frederick County. Included are records of the administration of the estate of Henry Wells, a free black.
(Mss lL9747aFA2)

775. McKENNY FAMILY PAPERS

11 items, 1814-64
Personal and legal correspondence and accounts of this Richmond- area family. Included are 1844-48 bills of sale for slaves and an 1860 agreement for the hire of a slave.
(Mss2M1997b)

776. MAJETTE FAMILY PAPERS

999 items, 1812-1908
Personal correspondence of this family of Southampton County. A number of the letters for 1864-65 concern slaves.
(MsslM2886a)

777. MARSHALL FAMILY PAPERS

493 items, 1742-1951
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Fauquier County. Included are papers of the Digges family of Fauquier County containing notes on the births and deaths of their slaves, 1758-1859.
(MsslM3587a)

778. MASON FAMILY PAPERS

9,967 items, 1789-1965
Personal, political, business, legal, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Fortsville, Southhampton County, and Homestead, Greensville County. A 1793-1831 account book contains lists of slaves; an 1849-53 account book contains entries about the allocation of slaves to Emily Wingfield; and another document contains accounts of Lewis Edmunds Mason of Fortsville, Southhampton County, which enumerate and list slaves.
(Mss1M3816a-c)

779. MASSIE FAMILY PAPERS

7,030 items, 1698-1900
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of Nelson County. Included are lists of slaves of Henry Massie in Bath and Alleghany counties.
(Mss1M3855c)

780. DAVID JOHN MAYS PAPERS

ca. 8,250 items, 1905-85
Business and professional correspondence and records of this Richmond attorney and author. Included are records of his service as chairman of the Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government, concerned with integration and school desegregation.
(Mss1M4555gFA2)

781. MERCER FAMILY PAPERS

569 items, 1656-1869
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Marlborough, Stafford County. Included are frequent references to and lists of slaves.
(MsslM5345a)

782. JOHN PETER METTAUER PAPERS

128 items, 1812-58
Among the records of this Prince Edward County physician are documents on the medical treatment of slaves.
(MsslM5677a)

783. MINOR FAMILY PAPERS

5,167 items, 1657- 1942
Personal and military correspondence and accounts of this family of Linden, Fauquier County, and Richmond. Included is a receipt issued by Robert Dabney Minor for slaves detailed to work for the Ordnance Bureau of the Confederate States of America.
(Mss1M6663c)

784. MONTAGUE FAMILY PAPERS

337 items, 1808-1939
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this Gloucester County family and related families. Of interest are materials concerning the buying and selling of slaves.
(MsslM7607a)

785. MYERS FAMILY PAPERS

283 items, 1763-1929
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of Richmond. Included is an 1855 pass to slaves Richard and Narcissa to reside in Richmond.
(MsslM9924a)

786. NALLE FAMILY PAPERS

79 items, 1800-62
Mainly personal, business, legal, and military correspondence and accounts of Jesse Nalle and family members of Culpeper County. A large part of the collection concerns slaves and slavery, such as 1809-19 deeds for slaves and 1839-61 letters concerning individual slaves.
(MsslN1495a)

787. NASH FAMILY PAPERS

8,438 items, 1734-1889
Personal, business, legal, and political correspondence and accounts of this family of Red Hill, Powhatan County. There are frequent references to slavery, such as lists, inventories, and deeds. A 1792-1859 account book of John White Nash mentions a fee for defending two slaves accused of poisoning their master.
(MsslN11786a)

788. NEBLETT FAMILY PAPERS

673 items, 1819-91
Business and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Brickland, Lunenburg County. Included are lists of slaves for 1860 and undated.
(MsslN2795a)

789. NICHOLSON FAMILY PAPERS

26 items, 1711-1877
Legal and business correspondence and accounts of Thomas Nicholson and family members of Norfolk and Princess Anne counties. Included are papers of the Matthias family with registers of slave births, 1759-99.
(MsslN5287a)

790. JANE FRANCES PAGE COMMONPLACE BOOK

1 item, 1802-45
Kept at Castle Hill, Cobham, and Turkey Hill, Albemarle County, this record includes clothing and food accounts for slaves.
(Mss5:5P1432: 1)

791. PEYTON FAMILY PAPERS

1,767 items, 1731-1919
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Gordonsdale, Fauquier County. A number of the documents refer to slavery, including deeds.
(Mss1P4686b)

792. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION

ca. 200 items, ca. mid-nineteenth century to present
Many photographs and prints of Afro-Americans and Afro-American scenes are included in subject files under "Negroes," "Agriculture," and "Transportation." Prints and photographs of individual Afro-Americans are filed under their names, including Arthur Ashe, Lott Carey, John Jasper, James Hugo Johnson, James Armistead Lafayette, John Mercer Langston, Maggie Walker, and Booker T. Washington.

793. PICOT FAMILY PAPERS

63 items, 1753-1907
Business, legal, personal, and genealogical correspondence and accounts of this Richmond family. Included are 1863 lists of slaves held by Elizabeth Temple of Ampthill, Chesterfield County.
(MsslP5884a)

794. PITTS FAMILY PAPERS

346 items, 1848-1926
Personal and business correspondence and accounts of this family of Essex County. Included are 1860-1922 notes that concern among other things the labor performed by slaves.
(MsslP6875a)

795. POLLARD FAMILY PAPERS

2,743 items, 1782-1907
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of King and Queen County. Included is material on the buying and selling of slaves.
(MsslP7637a)

796. PRESTON FAMILY PAPERS

4,702 items, 1744-1961
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Fincastle, Washington, Halifax, and Botetourt counties. Included are deeds transferring slaves.
(MsslP9267a-e)

797. REPUBLICAN PARTY IN VIRGINIA

852 items, 1896-1926
Consists mainly of correspondence of party officials. Included is an October 1897 pamphlet entitled Address to Colored Voters ....
(Mss3R2997a)

798. MARIA GORDON PRYOR RICE REMINISCENCES

1 item, 1855-85
Among the topics discussed by this South Isle, Charlotte County, woman are slavery and freedmen.
(Mss5:1P3652:1)

799. RICHMOND CITY SERGEANT PAPERS

22 items, 1841-51
Registers of prisoners including slaves and free blacks.
(Mss3R4156b)

800. ARCHIBALD GERARD ROBERTSON DOCUMENT

1 item, 1974
Memoir of preparation of the case of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 concerning school desegregation.
(Mss5:1 R5453:1)

801. ROBINS FAMILY PAPERS

4,290 items, 1784-1939
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Point Lookout, Gloucester County. Included are inventories and lists of slaves. Of special interest are 1862-63 lists of fugitive slaves owned by Thomas Coleman Robins.
(MsslR559Sa)

802. EDMUND RUFFIN PAPERS

826 items, 1818-65
Personal papers of the Marlbourne, Hanover County, agriculturalist and author, including essays and correspondence about the subject of slavery.
(Mss1 R8385a)

803. RUTHERFOORD FAMILY PAPERS

200 items, 1811-1946
Personal, legal, and genealogical papers of this Richmond family. Included are materials on plantation slavery and slavery in Virginia, such as lists of slaves.
(Mss1R9336:1)

804. SAUNDERS FAMILY PAPERS

3,571 items, 1798-1903
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Bleak Hill, Franklin County. Included are lists of slaves belonging to Anna Maria and Thomas Lewis Preston and 1817-53 lists of slaves sold by Samuel and Fleming Saunders.
(MsslSA878a)

805. SHEPHERD FAMILY PAPERS

87 items, 1732-1907
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Princess Anne County and Norfolk. Included are 1856-62 lists of slaves and documents concerning the hire of slaves.
(MsslSH485a)

806. ROBERT WINN SNEAD PAPERS

75 items, 1860-62
Personal correspondence of this Confederate soldier from Amherst County. Included is correspondence with Aunt Peggy, a slave.
(MsslSN215a)

807. PHILIP TURNER SOUTHALL ACCOUNT BOOK

2 items, 1817-46
Volume kept by this Amelia County physician that includes entries on the medical treatment of slaves.
(Mss5:3So875:1-2)

808. CAROLINE T. SPARROW COLLECIION

1 item, n.d
Notes about the case of a female slave tried before the Hustings Court of Richmond in February and March 1843 for burning a dwelling occupied by William Rushmer.
(Mss7:3E443SP272:1)

809. SPRAGINS FAMILY PAPERS

7,572 items, 1753-1967
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Cherry Hill, Halifax County. Frequent references to slavery and slaves include an 1816 notice of slaves for hire, a register of ages of slaves bought by Melchizedek Spragins, and an 1845 affidavit concerning the fugitive slave Charles.
(MsslSP716a-b)

810. JAMES STANARD PAPERS

6 items, 1833-74
Personal and legal correspondence and documents of this free black from Philadelphia, including his emancipation and a manumission certificate for Maria Spencer.
(Mss2ST2423b)

811. STICKLEY FAMILY PAPERS

416 items, 1795-1912
Business, legal, military, and personal correspondence and accounts of Daniel Stickley of Shenandoah County. Included is a November 25, 1844, slave list.
(MsslSTSlSa)

812. EDMUND FITZGERALD STONE LETTER

1 item, December 7, 1864, photocopy
Letter mentioning the use of black troops by the Federal army during the Civil War.
(Mss2ST714al)

813. STUART FAMILY PAPERS

1,005 items, 1785-1888
Chiefly legal and business papers of Archibald Stuart of Staunton. Subjects discussed include land, slaves, and colonization.
(MsslST9102b-e)

814. PETER SUBLETT DOCUMENT

1 item, December 18, 1788
Deed of emancipation for slaves.
(Mss2SU162al)

815. TALIAFERRO FAMILY PAPERS

42 items, 1820-1920
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Belleville, Gloucester County. Included is a list of slaves.
(MsslT1438a)

816. TAYLOE FAMILY PAPERS

28,335 items, 1650-1970
Business, personal, and legal papers of this family of Mount Airy, Richmond County. A large part of the collection concerns the management of plantations, including significant materials on overseers and slavery and the movement of slaves from Virginia to Mississippi.
(Mss1T2118a-e)

817. TEMPLE FAMILY PAPERS

175 items, 1675-1901
Business, personal, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Ampthill, Chesterfield County. Included are an 1865 list of slaves belonging to Benjamin Temple and an 1831 letter of Charles Thompson in England to Judith, a slave belonging to George Garrett of Middlesex County, concerning her daughter, Mary Ann Markham, an escaped slave.
(Mss1T2478b)

818. THOM FAMILY PAPERS

343 items, 1670-1924
Legal, business, and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Berry Hill, Culpeper County. Included are a number of wills specifying the division of slaves, an undated list of slaves, and account books with information concerning the emancipation of slaves.
(MsslT3602a)

819. THORNTON FAMILY PAPERS

1,248 items, 1744-1954
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of these families of Lauderdale County, Shelby County, and Memphis, Tennessee. Included are estate papers deeding slaves and an 1855 agreement leasing slaves.
(Mss1T3977b)

820. BENJAMIN TOLER DOCUMENT

1 item, November 12, 1783
List of slaves belonging to Sam[ue]l Gist in Goochland, Hanover, and Louisa counties.
(Mss2T5757al)

821. TOMPKINS FAMILY PAPERS

2,930 items, 1792-1869
Personal, legal, business, and plantation correspondence and accounts of this family of Poplar Grove, Mathews County. Included are lists of slaves and correspondence concerning individual slaves. A 1864-65 diary of Christopher Tompkins concerning operations at the Dover Coal Mine, Goochland County, contains lists of slaves, and there are 1863-64 letters written to Tompkins from Jack Foster, a slave with the 36th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army.
(MsslT5996a-d)

822. TREDEGAR COMPANY DOCUMENT

1 item, January 1, 1864
Bond to J. M. Burton concerning the employment of a slave as an ironworker.
(Mss4T7138al)

823. UPPER APPOMATTOX COMPANY RECORDS

22 items, 1796-1935
Business documents of this company including minutes, reports, stockholder certificates, and account books. Also included is an 1809 list of slaves.
(Mss3UP65a)

824. ARCHIBALD VAUGHAN DOCUMENT

1 item, 1835-66
An account book which includes 1850-66 accounts of Henry Carrington of Ingleside, Charlotte County, concerning the hire of slaves.
(Mss5:3V4654: 1)

825. WILLIAM MACON WALLER PAPERS

27 items, 1843-50
Personal and business papers of this planter of Forest Hill, Amherst County. Included are letters from Waller concerning his trip to Mississippi to sell slaves and the trial of the slave Virginia.
(Mss2W1567b)

826. RICHARD HENRY WATKINS DOCUMENT

1 item, 1847-96
An account book kept at Linden, Prince Edward County, which includes information on the births of slaves.
(Mss5:3W3275:1)

827. WATKINS FAMILY PAPERS

640 items, 1801-1960
Personal, business, and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Linden, Prince Edward County. There is little material on slavery, but an undated deed concerning a slave is included.
(MsslW3286a-b)

828. BEVERLEY RANDOLPH WELLFORD PAPERS

187 items, 1773-1907
Includes a 1779 inventory of the estate of Landon Carter and an October 8, 1773, deed to Timothy Younglove for a slave.
(MsslW4597e)

829. WEST FAMILY PAPERS

2,005 items, 1843-1976
Business and legal correspondence and accounts of this family of Gravel Hill, Buckingham County. Included are a bond for the hire of a slave and 1860 accounts concerning slaves.
(Mss1W5207b)

830. WILLIAMS FAMILY PAPERS

4,062 items, 1811-1946
Personal, business, and legal papers of this Richmond family. Included is a January 1, 1811, deed for two slaves.
(MsslW6767a-b)

831. WILLSON FAMILY PAPERS

210 items, 1781-1838
Business and plantation correspondence and accounts of this Amelia County family. Included is an October 7, 1826, affidavit for a runaway slave.
(MsslW6867a)

832. BICKERTON LYLE WINSTON ACCOUNT BOOK

1 item, 1846-59
Included in this document of this Hanover County planter are accounts with slaves.
(Mss5:3W73341)

833. JENNINGS CROPPER WISE PAPERS

101 items, 1886-1965
Business and personal papers of this Richmond and New York lawyer. Included is material on the integration of schools.
(MsslW7544a)

834. WOOLFOLK FAMILY PAPERS

579 items, 1780-1936
Business, legal, and personal correspondence and accounts of this family of Mulberry Place and Shepherd's Hill, Caroline County. Included is an 1811-19 account book with a list of slaves.
(MsslW8844a)

835. YIELDING ZION BAPTIST CHURCH DOCUMENT

1 item, February 25, 1923
A letter to A. B. Bland concerning his dismissal as pastor of the black church in Burkeville, Nottoway County.
(Mss4Y525al)

836. WILLIAM PROBY YOUNG DIARY

1 item, 1860
Included in this diary of a ship's doctor on the Castilion is discussion of the American Colonization Society.
(MssS:lY876:1)

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