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| Size | 20.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 7100 items) |
| Abstract | Family correspondence and financial and legal materials dating from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth century comprise the bulk of the collection, which documents several branches of the white Hairston, Wilson, and their extended families of Virginia and Mississippi. Financial and legal documents include bills, receipts, accounts, tax assessments, wills, deeds, indentures, agreements, contracts, ledgers, and slight, scattered business correspondence. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century financial and legal materials document the Hairston family's enslavement of hundreds of human beings, agricultural and other business interests, and extensive land holdings in Virginia and Mississippi, including Beaver Creek Plantation in Henry County, Va. Numerous documents, including bills of sale, lists of enslaved people and tax assessments, and extracts from wills, reflect the antebellum plantation economy in the American South and illustrate the families' use of and reliance on enslaved labor from the colonial period until emancipation. Post emancipation documents include tenant agreements with African American farmers. Other materials include documents related to schools and churches which family members attended, lodges and clubs, Virginia militias in the fist decades of the nineteenth century, and the Beaver Creek Plantation household in the early twentieth century. A small number of photographs depict extended family members including Rorer James Sr., a Virginia state senator. However, most individuals who are pictured are not identified. Genealogical information, family charts, family histories, and transcriptions of nineteenth-century documents were compiled in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries by members of the white Hairston family and related families. |
| Creator | Hairston (Family : Hairston, George, 1750-1827)
Wilson (Family : Danville, Va.) |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Lisa Tolbert, January 1992
Updated by: Laura Hart, May 2017 and June 2018; Amy Morgan and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2019; Laura Hart, January 2020; Nancy Kaiser, September 2023
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Conscious editing by Laura Hart, 2020 (updated abstract); Nancy Kaiser, September 2023 (updated subject headings, contents list)
Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.
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Biographical Information
Colonel George Hairston (1750-1825) built Beaver Creek Plantation in 1776 just outside Martinsville in Henry County, Va. In 1781, he married Elizabeth Perkins Letcher (d. 1819), widow of William Letcher. They had eleven children together.
Elizabeth also had a daughter, Bethenia, by her first husband, William Letcher (1750-1780). Bethenia Letcher married David Pannill and was the maternal grandmother of Jeb Stuart (1833-1864).
Marshall Hairston married his cousin, Ann Hairston (1802-1888), and they lived at Beaver Creek with their four children John A. Hairston (d. 1862), Elizabeth "Bettie" Perkins Hairston (1836-1922), Ann Marshall Hairston, and Ruth Stovall Hairston (1837-1886). In 1837, Marshall Hairston rebuilt Beaver Creek, which had been destroyed in a fire.
In 1873 Bettie Perkins Hairston married her cousin J. T. W. Hairston (1835-1908), son of Harden and Sallie Staples Hairston, of Crawfordsville in Lowndes County, Miss. J. T. W. Hairston was a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, a major in the Confederate States Army, and a plantation owner in Lowndes County, Miss.
Bettie Perkins Hairston and J. T. W. Hairston had two children, Marshall, who died in infancy, and Watt H. Hairston (1876-1916), who never married. After the death of her husband, Bettie Perkins Hairston returned to Beaver Creek and cared for the home until her death.
Ruth Stovall Hairston married Robert A. Wilson (b. 1825). Robert A. Wilson was the son of Robert Wilson and Catherine Pannill Wilson of Danville, Va. Ruth Stovall Hairston and Robert A. Wilson's daughter Annie Marshall Wilson (1869-1938) married Virginia state senator Rorer James Sr. (1859-1921). They had three children Robert James, Rorer "Buddy" James Jr. (1897-1937), and Annie James (1901-1966).
Annie James married James Edward Covington (1891-1977), who made frequent trips to China for the tobacco trade.
Annie Marshall Wilson James, daughter of Robert A. Wilson and Ruth Hairston Wilson, inherited Beaver Creek after Bettie Perkins Hairston died in 1922.
Marshall's brother, John Adams Hairston, married Malinda Corn. They lived with their five children in Yalabusha County, Miss.
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Scope and Content
Original Deposit:
The bulk of the original deposit consists of letters to Elizabeth "Bettie" Perkins Hairston. Correspondents include her mother Ann Hairston, who wrote chiefly from the family plantations near Martinsville, Va. between the 1850s and 1890s; her sister, Ruth Stovall Hairston Wilson, who wrote from Danville, Va.; her brother, John A. Hairston, who wrote from school in Staunton, Va., from 1855 to 1857; and her cousin, Jeb Stuart (1833-1875), who wrote from West Point, from 1853 to 1854, and while fighting against the Comanche people in Texas, 1855.
During the American Civil War, Bettie lived with relatives in Yalabusha County, Miss., where she received letters from her family about life on the home front. There are also letters to Bettie, written after her marriage in 1873, from her husband, J. T. W. Hairston in Lowndes County, Miss., where he was trying to run a cotton plantation. Other significant family correspondence documents the westward movement of various Hairston family members and includes some papers of George Hairston of Halifax County, Va., from circa 1800 to 1820.
In addition to correspondence, several account books document family life, including the involvement of family members in at least two stores in Henry County and Danville, Va., from 1800 to 1829. A household account book, dated 1831 to 1869, provides detailed information about weaving, livestock raising, gardening, and other household production. Other financial and legal materials include scattered bills, receipts, depositions, lists and other records of enslaved people, and labor contracts with freed people.
Additions of 2015:
The 2015 additions consist of letters of Anne Wilson, from Dan's Hill (1887-1892); farming contracts, indentures, and assorted sales records; 5 ledgers from the 19th century, at least three of which pertain to the Beaver Creek Plantation in Martinsville, Va.; and other related family papers.
Additions of 2016:
The bulk of the 2016 additions consists of financial and legal documents, including bills, receipts, accounts, tax assessments, wills, deeds, indentures, agreements, contracts, and slight, scattered correspondence. Materials pertain largely to Hairston and Wilson families' agricultural business interests and their extensive land holdings in Virginia and Mississippi. Numerous documents, including bills of sale, tax assessments, and extracts from wills, reflect the antebellum plantion economy and illustrate the families' use of and reliance on enslaved labor from the colonial period to emancipation. Post emancipation documents include tenant agreements with Black farmers. Documents related to land transactions often include surveys of property bought and sold.
The bulk of the family correspondence in the additions of 2016 dates from the 1870s to the 1920s. Bettie Perkins Hairston and Annie Marshall Wilson James are the chief recipients of the letters from this time period. Other papers relate to schools attended by family members, Virginia militias in the early national period, churches, funerals, lodges and clubs, genealogy, and Beaver Creek Plantation. A small number of photographs depict extended family members including Rorer James Sr.; however, most individuals who are pictured are not identified.
Addition of 2017:
The addition contains genealogical information; family charts; family histories and anecdotes; and transcriptions of nineteenth-century family letters and a household ledger. Most materials were compiled by members of the white Hairston family and related extended families in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Also includes letters written by members of the family that pertain to the book The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek (1999).
Addition of 2023:
The addition contains correspondence, chiefly letters from William Wilson at college to his father Robert Wilson. Each letter has a summary of the contents provided by the donor. Other correspondence includes a report from Fort Grove, Canada during the War of 1812; an 1877 letter from Ann M. Wilson to her grandmother about her favorite flowers; a 1912 letter about death from cancer; and other letters and postcards. Financial materials include lists of enslaved people; a will; and an account book and other records of enslavement that document trafficking of enslaved people through the hiring out of their labor, skills, and knowledge. The account book also documents financial relationships with freed people after the Civil War. Another account book contains a record of sawing and tobacco purchased. Miscellaneous financial records include receipts relating to tobacco sales, sundry purchases, and taxes; 2 deeds, 1852-1853, for land in Henry County, Va.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1800-1906 and undated (Original Deposit).
Acquisitions information: Received from Mrs. James E. Covington, daughter of Ann M. Wilson and R. A. James of Richmond and Martinsville, Va., in June 1955.
Correspondence, 1806-1846
Correspondence of Colonel George Hairston with various business associates and family members, and correspondence of Marshall and Ann Hairston at Beaver Creek near Martinsville, Henry County, Va. Subjects are chiefly land and enslaved people, problems of farming, kinds of crops raised, and the westward migration of various family members.
Correspondence, 1847-1873
Chiefly letters to Elizabeth (Bettie) Perkins Hairston Hairston. These include an 1853 letter offering motherly advice from Ann Hairston Hairston at Sassafras Grove, near Martinsville, Va., while Bettie attended school in Salem, N.C.; affectionate and descriptive letters from her cousin Jeb Stuart at West Point, 1853-1854, and fighting Comanches in Texas, 1855; news from her brother, Jack A. Hairston, at Eastwood School near Staunton, Va., 1855-1857; and letters, 1866, from Danville, Va., where her sister, Ruth Stovall Wilson lived with husband, Robert Wilson.
After 1854, Bettie spent much time at her Uncle John Adams Hairston's in Yalabusha County, Miss. There she received letters from a few family members fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War, but most correspondence concerns civilian issues--family news, war hopes and fears, accounts of contacts with troops, and problems of refugees--especially in Virginia and Mississippi. Letters after the war were written chiefly by Ann Hairston Hairston and Ruth Stovall Wilson, focusing on labor issues and adjustments to new political and economic realities with the end of slavery. Letters indicate that Ann apparently worked closely with a man named Townes to operate the Virginia plantations. Bettie continued to live alternately with family in Yalabusha County, Miss., and in Martinsville, Va. There are no courtship letters from J. T. W. Hairston, whom Bettie married in 1873.
Correspondence, 1874-1906
The marriage of Bettie and J. T. W. Hairston marks a definite shift in correspondence. Thereafter, letters are chiefly from J. T. W. Hairston, of Crawfordville, Miss., to Bettie (usually in Martinsville, Va.) and their son, Watt. Hairston typically wrote about local events around Crawfordville and the Lowndes County seat, Columbus, Miss. He was preoccupied with farming and the problems of raising cotton without enslaved labor. Letters suggest that he supplemented the family income by working as a land agent renting out property. His letters continue through 1906. Also of note are 1885 letters from Ann Hairston Hairston at the World's Fair in New Orleans and from Europe. Although most of the letters from Europe are undated, Ann seems to have spent an extended period there, perhaps from about 1888 to about 1898.
Correspondence, undated
Letters from J. T. W. Hairston in Hairston, Miss., to his wife, and letters of other family members spanning the various generations represented throughout this collection.
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Series 1A. Correspondence and Other Family Papers, 1887-1895 (Additions of 2015)
Acquisitions information: Accession 102223, 102246
The additions of 2015 consist of letters of Anne Wilson, from Dan's Hill (1887-1892) and other related family papers.
| Box 36 |
Correspondence and other family papers, 1887-1895 |
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Series 1A. Correspondence, 1778-1957 and undated (Additions of 2016)
Arrangement: Loose chronological order by year, not by day or month.
Acquisition information: Accessions 102652, 102686
Processing information: This series has not been fully analyzed or described. Selected quotations from letters are provided to suggest the content of the letters.
Chiefly family letters written from Mississippi and Virginia. Also included are post cards, greeting cards, telegrams, and invitations to weddings and graduations. Topics discussed in the letters include religion and religious devotion; family business interests including tobacco and cotton; enslaved people before the Civil War; employees including plantation overseers, tenant farmers, agricultural laborers, and household servants; health and illness; deaths of friends and family and bereavement; charity; children; neighbors; African Americans; American Indians; and local news. Correspondents occasionally mention national and international events, such as the progression of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the possible impact of the Russo-Japanese War on Russia's place in the world, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the armistice. Correspondence during the Civil War is slight and scattered.
| Folder 34 |
Correspondence, 1778Includes a letter discssing a draft in Halifax County. |
| Folder 35 |
Correspondence, 1800Includes a letter describing the death of an infant. |
| Folder 36 |
Correspondence, 1808Includes a letter with marital advice. |
| Folder 37 |
Correspondence, 1811
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| Folder 38 |
Correspondence, 1812Includes a letter with description of a battle waged near Queens Town, in which the Americans were beathen. |
| Folder 39 |
Correspondence, 1813Includes a letter describing an attack by a group of Indigenous people with a detachment of regulars and New York volunteers near Fort George upper Canada. |
| Folder 40 |
Correspondence, 1814 |
| Folder 41 |
Correspondence, 1816
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| Folder 42 |
Correspondence, 1819
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| Folder 43 |
Correspondence, circa 1810s
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| Folder 44 |
Correspondence, 1821
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| Folder 45 |
Correspondence, 1822Includes a letter describing the health of enslaved people, including America and Nancy, a maid, and the presence of fever in the neighborhood. |
| Folder 46 |
Correspondence, 1825 |
| Folder 47 |
Correspondence, 1826 |
| Folder 48 |
Correspondence, 1829 |
| Folder 49 |
circa 1820sIncludes a letter to Ann Hairston on her Wedding day. |
| Folder 50 |
Correspondence, 1832 |
| Folder 51 |
Correspondence, 1833 |
| Folder 52 |
Correspondence, 1834Includes a letter describing the crowds at White Sulphur Springs. |
| Folder 53 |
Correspondence, 1835 |
| Folder 54 |
Correspondence, 1836Includes a letter with description of Indigenous people in town and shopping at the store and mentions meeting Colbert, a member of the Chickasaw nation. |
| Folder 55 |
Correspondence, 1837 |
| Folder 56 |
Correspondence, 1838Includes a letter discussing plans to traffick unidentified enslaved people through sale. |
| Folder 57 |
Correspondence, 1839Includes a letter describing health of family, explicitly including the people enslaved by the whtie family. |
| Folder 58 |
Correspondence, circa 1830s |
| Folder 59 |
Correspondence, 1840 |
| Folder 60 |
Correspondence, 1842 |
| Folder 61 |
Correspondence, 1843Includes a letter anticipating poverty and the forfeiture of enslaved people except for one small family. Another letter mentions that there are cousins with black eyes and light skin. |
| Folder 62 |
Correspondence, 1844 |
| Folder 63 |
Correspondence, 1847 |
| Folder 64 |
Correspondence, 1848Chiefly letters to Marshall Hairston from his daughter Bettie P. Hairston and his wife Ann Hairston. |
| Folder 65 |
Correspondence, 1849Letters received by Ann Hairston. |
| Folder 66 |
Correspondence, circa 1840s |
| Folder 67 |
Correspondence, 1850 |
| Folder 68 |
Correspondence, 1851Letters received by Ann Hairston. |
Folder 69-70
Folder 69Folder 70 |
1852Includes a letter reflecting on the loss of a child. Another letter concerns the health of enslaved people in Mississippi and the high cost of replacing enslaved people who died. |
| Folder 71 |
Correspondence, 1853 |
| Folder 72 |
Correspondence, 1854 |
| Folder 73 |
Correspondence, 1855Includes a letter sending greetings to the enslaved people. |
Folder 74-75
Folder 74Folder 75 |
Correspondence, 1856Includes a letter relating the health of enslaved people. Another letter reports good treatment by white and enslaved people alike. |
Folder 76-77
Folder 76Folder 77 |
Correspondence, 1857Includes a letter reporting on enslaved people who froze to death. |
| Folder 78 |
Correspondence, 1858 |
| Folder 79 |
Correspondence, circa 1854-1858Letters written by J.T.W. Hairston from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). |
| Folder 80 |
Correspondence, 1859 |
Folder 81-82
Folder 81Folder 82 |
Correspondence, circa 1850s |
| Folder 83 |
Correspondence, 1860 |
| Folder 84 |
Correspondence, circa 1861Contains a letter from Alfred Ely to "General" that may have been written when Ely was a prisoner of war in Richmond, Va. |
| Folder 85 |
Correspondence, 1862 |
| Folder 86 |
Correspondence, 1863Includes a letter concerning the grave of a soldier. |
| Folder 87 |
Correspondence, 1864 |
| Folder 88 |
Correspondence, 1865Includes a letter describing the requirements and economic benefits of hiring imported Swedish labor and the practice of shorting their monthly wages so that they don't leave employment. |
| Folder 89 |
Correspondence, 1866 |
| Folder 90 |
Correspondence, 1867 |
| Folder 91 |
Correspondence, 1868 |
| Folder 92 |
Correspondence, 1869Includes a letter mentioning watermelon patches grown by Black people on the river. |
| Folder 93 |
Correspondence, 1870Includes a letter discussing the firing and hiring of a Black woman cook. Another letter cocerns the death of Sam Hairston in the collapse of the courthouse in Richmond, Va. |
| Folder 94 |
Correspondence, 1871Includes a letter about writing an historical novel that would mention the murder of Colonel Letcher by Nichols during the Revolutionary War. |
| Folder 95 |
Correspondence, 1872 |
| Folder 96 |
Correspondence, 1873 |
| Folder 97 |
Correspondence, 1874Includes a letter mentioning that Black people were working well. |
| Folder 98 |
Correspondence, 1875Incudes a letter expressing skepticism of white and Black preachers being truthful. |
| Folder 99 |
Correspondence, 1877 |
| Folder 100 |
Correspondence, 1878 |
| Folder 101 |
Correspondence, 1879 |
| Folder 102 |
Correspondence, circa 1870s |
| Folder 103 |
1880 |
| Folder 104 |
Correspondence, 1881Includes a leter describing an old man and his destitute family of daughter. |
| Folder 105 |
Correspondence, 1882 |
| Folder 106 |
Correspondence, 1884 |
| Folder 107 |
Correspondence, 1885 |
| Folder 108 |
Correspondence, 1886Includes a letter written by a child. |
Folder 109-112
Folder 109Folder 110Folder 111Folder 112 |
Correspondence, 1887Includes many letters written on bereavement stationery. |
Folder 113-114
Folder 113Folder 114 |
Correspondence, 1888 |
Folder 115-116
Folder 115Folder 116 |
Correspondence, 1889Contains letters written from cities in Italy. |
Folder 117-118
Folder 117Folder 118 |
Correspondence, circa 1880s |
Folder 119-120
Folder 119Folder 120 |
Correspondence, 1890 |
Folder 121-126
Folder 121Folder 122Folder 123Folder 124Folder 125Folder 126 |
Correspondence, 1891Most letters are from Rorer James Sr., writing from Richmond, Va., to his wife Annie Marshall Wilson James. |
Folder 127-134
Folder 127Folder 128Folder 129Folder 130Folder 131Folder 132Folder 133Folder 134 |
Correspondence, 1892Most letters are from Rorer James Sr., writing from Richmond, Va., to his wife Annie Marshall Wilson James. |
| Folder 135 |
Correspondence, 1893Contains letters written from cities in Italy. |
| Folder 136 |
Correspondence, 1894 |
| Folder 137 |
Correspondence, 1895 |
| Folder 138 |
Correspondence, 1896 |
| Folder 139 |
Correspondence, 1897 |
| Folder 140 |
Correspondence, 1898 |
| Folder 141 |
Correspondence, 1899 |
| Folder 142 |
Correspondence, circa 1890s |
| Folder 143 |
Correspondence, 1900Includes a letter from archaeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore, who studied and excavated American Indian sites. |
| Folder 144 |
Correspondence, 1901Includes a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 145 |
Correspondence, 1902 |
| Folder 146 |
Correspondence, 1903 |
| Folder 147 |
Correspondence 1904Includes a letter mentioning the isolation of white people. Another letter mentions that someone's son was killed, allegedly by Black people. |
| Folder 148 |
1905Includes a letter about the role of the Japanese in helping the people of Russia gain freedom. |
| Folder 149 |
Correspondence, 1906 |
| Folder 150 |
Correspondence, 1907 |
Folder 151-153
Folder 151Folder 152Folder 153 |
Correspondence, 1908 |
| Folder 154 |
Correspondence, 1909Contains letters written by a child. |
| Folder 155 |
Correspondence, circa 1900-1910 |
Folder 156-157
Folder 156Folder 157 |
Correspondence, 1910 |
Folder 158-159
Folder 158Folder 159 |
Correspondence, 1911Contains a letter written by a child. |
Folder 160-161
Folder 160Folder 161 |
Correspondence, 1912Contains a letter written by a child. |
Folder 162-163
Folder 162Folder 163 |
Correspondence, 1913 |
Folder 164-165
Folder 164Folder 165 |
Correspondence, 1914Includes a letter expressing bitter feelings against the Huns and the Kaiser and destruction of homes in Europe. |
| Folder 166 |
Correspondence, 1915 |
Folder 167-169
Folder 167Folder 168Folder 169 |
Correspondence, 1916Contains a letter written by a child. |
Folder 170-171
Folder 170Folder 171 |
Correspondence, 1917 |
Folder 172-173
Folder 172Folder 173 |
Correspondence, 1918Includes a letter expressing contempt for the Kaiser and his supporters from the perspective of a U.S. Army officer. |
Folder 174-176
Folder 174Folder 175Folder 176 |
Correspondence, 1919Includes a letter written from a small town in France where U.S. military came off the line after the Armistice was signed. |
| Folder 177 |
Correspondence, circa 1910s |
Folder 178-179
Folder 178Folder 179 |
Correspondence, 1920 |
Folder 180-185
Folder 180Folder 181Folder 182Folder 183Folder 184Folder 185 |
Correspondence, 1921Includes many letters expressing sympathy following the death of Rorer A. James Sr. |
| Folder 185a |
Telegrams, 1921Processing information: These telegrams represent a sample of those donated to this collection. Approximately 100 telegrams were discarded because they had become too brittle to handle and fell apart at the touch. Expressions of sympathy following the death of Rorer A. James Sr. |
| Folder 186 |
Correspondence, 1922 |
| Folder 187 |
Correspondence, 1923 |
| Folder 188 |
Correspondence, 1924 |
| Folder 189 |
Correspondence, 1926 |
| Folder 190 |
Correspondence, 1927 |
| Folder 191 |
Correspondence, 1928 |
Folder 192-204
Folder 192Folder 193Folder 194Folder 195Folder 196Folder 197Folder 198Folder 199Folder 200Folder 201Folder 202Folder 203Folder 204 |
Correspondence, circa 1900-1920s |
Folder 205-207
Folder 205Folder 206Folder 207 |
Greeting cards, circa 1900-1920s |
| Folder 208 |
Correspondence, 1930 |
| Folder 209 |
Correspondence, 1936 |
| Folder 210 |
Correspondence, 1937
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| Folder 211 |
Correspondence, circa 1930s
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| Folder 212 |
Correspondence, 1951-1954Contains a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 213 |
Correspondence, 1957Includes a letter mentioning relocation to a different climate and bringing a Black maid along with for several months. |
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Series 1A. Correspondence, 1907-1943 (Addition of 2023)
Acquisitions information: Accession 20230519.1
| Folder 735 |
Correspondence, 1813, 1857-1859, 1869, 1877, 1912, 1920-1921, 1925Letters chiefly from William Wilson at Emory and Henry College to his father Robert Wilson, concerning academic studies and college life, family news, agriculture and crops, health news, including deaths of students. Each letter has a summary of the contents provided by the donor. Also included are a letter from [Samuel?] Hairston at Fort Grove, Canada to Colonel George Hairston at Martinsville, Henry County, Va., reporting from the War of 1812; a letter from Ruth at Beaver Creek to her husband Robert A. Wilson in Danville; an 1877 letter from Ann M. Wilson to her grandmother about her favorite flowers; a 1912 letter about death from cancer; and 3 letters from the 1920s concerning financial matters. |
| Folder 736 |
Postcards, 1907-1943Postcards are addressed chiefly to Minnie Deshazo, and then to Mrs. Sam Watkins. |
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Series 2. Financial and legal materials (Original Deposit).
This series was part of the original deposit.
Lists of enslaved people, bills, receipts, agreements, depositions, and other documents. Of note are Robert Wilson's labor contracts with freed people formerly enslaved on his plantations, Danshill and Sandy River, 1865-1871.
Accounts with individuals for liquor, merchandise, and labor, perhaps at Beaver Creek. The volume was also used as a scrapbook, and many pages have been pasted over with newspaper clippings and poems.
| Folder 30 |
Financial papers, 1810-1849 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/1 |
"Bill of A hous for Mr Saml. Hairston," circa 1823Includes floor plan, specifications, and bill for labor and materials. |
| Folder 31 |
Financial papers, 1851-1864 |
| Folder 32 |
Financial papers, 1865-1871 |
| Folder 33 |
Financial papers, 1872-1895 and undated |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/1 |
Account book, 1800-1804 |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/2 |
Account book, 1803-1807Accounts with individuals showing labor performed and miscellaneous purchases. Also included is a "Cash account Halifax County," 1804-1805, and an "Inventory of the plantation utensils, household and kitchen furniture, and Stock of all kind delivd. to Washington Rowland by Parrish Green at Booker's ferry on the 19th day December 1804." |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/3 |
Account book, 1804-1807Halifax County. Accounts with individuals for liquor, merchandise, and labor. |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/4 |
Account book, 1804-1816"G. H. Ledger, Halifax." Entries made by George Hairston and Henry Hairston. In addition to ledger accounts with individuals with few itemized charges, the volume also contains "A statement of weights Tobo. made by James Elder at Bookers ferry in the year 1806" and "A Statement of Crop Tobo. made by Daniel Perkins in the year 1806." |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/5 |
Account book, 1811-1829Account, 1811-1812, for Caswell County showing merchandize purchased and labor performed and daily accounts, 1818-1829, for the Goblen Town Store, Danville, Va. |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/6 |
Account book, 1831-1869Household accounts for Beaver Creek and other plantations, possibly kept by Ann Hairston Hairston. A wide variety of entries document spinning and weaving, sewing, care of livestock, vegetable gardening, recipes, candle and butter making, and miscellaneous items purchased for the household. There is much information about enslaved people on the two plantations, including work performed, birth records, and clothing distributed. Many entries describe provisions lent or bartered to neighbors. |
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Series 2A. Financial Records, 1800s (Additions of 2015)
Acquisitions information: Accessions 102223, 102246
The additions of 2015 consist of 3 account ledgers of Beaver Creek Plantation in Martinsville, Va., 1800s, farming contracts, indentures, assorted sales records, and ledgers, 1893 and 1895.
Oversize Volume SV-03149/7-9
SV-03149/7SV-03149/8SV-03149/9 |
Ledgers, 1800s |
| Box 36 |
Financial records, 1832-1892Farming contracts, indentures, and assorted sales records; ledgers. |
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Series 2A. Financial and legal materials, 1750-1936 and undated (Additions of 2016).
Arrangement: Loose chronological order by year, not by day or month.
Acquisitions information: Accessions 102652, 102686
Processing information: The series has not been fully analyzed or described. In the initial culling of the financial and legal materials, items with a direct and readily apparent connection to enslavement were filed separately within a given year. Please note that the items filed separately do not represent an exhaustive analysis or the comprehensive identification of documents related to enslaved persons or the institution of slavery.
Bills, receipts, accounts, tax assessments, wills, land grants, deeds, indentures, agreements, contracts, and slight, scattered correspondence pertain to Hairston and Wilson family business interests including cotton and tobacco and to their extensive land holdings in Virginia and Mississippi. Early documents, including bills of sale and extracts from wills, illustrate the families' use of and reliance on enslaved labor from the colonial period to emancipation. Many documents related to land transactions include surveys of property bought and sold.
| Folder 214 |
Financial and legal materials, 1750-1754 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/2 |
Land grants, 1756-17613 items. Counties of Lunenburg and Pittsylvania, Va. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/3 |
Deeds and indentures, 1756-18044 items. Halifax County and Franklin County, Va. |
| Folder 215 |
Financial and legal materials, 1767Contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 216 |
Financial and legal materials, 1768-1769 |
| Folder 217 |
Financial and legal materials, 1770-1772 |
Folder 218-219
Folder 218Folder 219 |
Financial and legal materials, 1773 |
| Folder 220 |
Financial and legal materials, 1774 |
Folder 221-222
Folder 221Folder 222 |
Financial and legal materials, 1775Folder 222 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 223 |
Financial and legal materials, 1776 |
| Folder 224 |
Financial and legal materials, 1777Includes documentation of a fifteen dollar bounty for enlisting in the Continental Army. |
Folder 225-226
Folder 225Folder 226 |
Financial and legal materials, 1778 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/4 |
Deeds and indentures, 1778-1857 (bulk 1790s)18 items. Henry County, Va. |
Folder 227-228
Folder 227Folder 228 |
Financial and legal materials, 1779Folder 228 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 229 |
Financial and legal materials, circa 1770sContains records of enslavement. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/5 |
Land grants, 1779-17838 items. Counties of Patrick and Henry, Va. |
| Folder 230 |
Financial and legal materials, 1780 |
| Folder 231 |
Financial and legal materials, 1781 |
| Folder 232 |
Financial and legal materials, 1782 |
Folder 233-235
Folder 233Folder 234Folder 235 |
Financial and legal materials, 1783Folder 235 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 236-237
Folder 236Folder 237 |
Financial and legal materials, 1784 |
Folder 238-240
Folder 238Folder 239Folder 240 |
Financial and legal materials, 1785Folder 240 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 241-243
Folder 241Folder 242Folder 243 |
Financial and legal materials, 1786Folder 243 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 244-247
Folder 244Folder 245Folder 246Folder 247 |
Financial and legal materials, 1787Folder 247 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 248-250
Folder 248Folder 249Folder 250 |
Financial and legal materials, 1788Folder 250 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 251-254
Folder 251Folder 252Folder 253Folder 254 |
Financial and legal materials, 1789Folder 254 contains records of enslavement. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/6 |
Land grants, 1789-17993 items. Franklin County and Henry County, Va. |
Folder 255-258
Folder 255Folder 256Folder 257Folder 258 |
Financial and legal materials, 1790Folder 258 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 259-261
Folder 259Folder 260Folder 261 |
Financial and legal materials, 1791Folder 261 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 262-265
Folder 262Folder 263Folder 264Folder 265 |
Financial and legal materials, 1792Folder 265 contains records of enslavement. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/7 |
Deeds and indentures, 1792-18196 items. Patrick County, Va. |
Folder 266-269
Folder 266Folder 267Folder 268Folder 269 |
Financial and legal materials, 1793Folder 269 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 270-273
Folder 270Folder 271Folder 272Folder 273 |
Financial and legal materials, 1794Folder 273 contains reocrds of enslavement. |
Folder 274-279
Folder 274Folder 275Folder 276Folder 277Folder 278Folder 279 |
Financial and legal materials, 1795Folder 279 contains records on enslavement. |
Folder 280-282
Folder 280Folder 281Folder 282 |
Financial and legal materials, 1796Folder 282 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 283-286
Folder 283Folder 284Folder 285Folder 286 |
Financial and legal materials, 1797Folder 286 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 287-290
Folder 287Folder 288Folder 289Folder 290 |
Financial and legal materials, 1798Folder 290 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 291-294
Folder 291Folder 292Folder 293Folder 294 |
Financial and legal materials, 1799Folder 294 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 295-296
Folder 295Folder 296 |
Financial and legal materials, circa 1790s |
Folder 297-299
Folder 297Folder 298Folder 299 |
Financial and legal materials, 1800Folder 299 contains records of enslavement. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/8 |
Land grants, 1800-18555 items. Counties of Patrick and Henry, Va. |
Folder 300-303
Folder 300Folder 301Folder 302Folder 303 |
Financial and legal materials, 1801Folder 303 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 304-308
Folder 304Folder 305Folder 306Folder 307Folder 308 |
Financial and legal materials, 1802Folder 308 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 309-312
Folder 309Folder 310Folder 311Folder 312 |
Financial and legal materials, 1803Folder 312 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 313-315
Folder 313Folder 314Folder 315 |
Financial and legal materials, 1804Folder 315 contains records of enalvement. |
Folder 316-319
Folder 316Folder 317Folder 318Folder 319 |
Financial and legal materials, 1805Folder 319 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 320-323
Folder 320Folder 321Folder 322Folder 323 |
Financial and legal materials, 1806Folder 323 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 324-328
Folder 324Folder 325Folder 326Folder 327Folder 328 |
Financial and legal materials, 1807Folder 328 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 329-331
Folder 329Folder 330Folder 331 |
Financial and legal materials, 1808Folder 331 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 332-336
Folder 332Folder 333Folder 334Folder 335Folder 336 |
Financial and legal materials, 1809Folder 336 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 337 |
Financial and legal materials, circa 1770-1810 |
| Folder 338 |
Financial and legal materials, circa 1800-1810 |
Folder 339-345
Folder 339Folder 340Folder 341Folder 342Folder 343Folder 344Folder 345 |
Financial and legal materials, 1810Folder 345 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 346-350
Folder 346Folder 347Folder 348Folder 349Folder 350 |
Financial and legal materials, 1811Folder 350 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 351-355a |
Financial and legal materials, 1812Folder 354 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 355b-357 |
Financial and legal materials, 1813 |
| Folder 358 |
Financial and legal materials, 1813Tax receipt. |
Folder 359-363
Folder 359Folder 360Folder 361Folder 362Folder 363 |
Financial and legal materials, 1814Folder 363 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 364-367
Folder 364Folder 365Folder 366Folder 367 |
Financial and legal materials, 1815Folder 367 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 368-370
Folder 368Folder 369Folder 370 |
Financial and legal materials, 1816Folder 370 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 371-375
Folder 371Folder 372Folder 373Folder 374Folder 375 |
Financial and legal materials, 1817Folder 375 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 376-380
Folder 376Folder 377Folder 378Folder 379Folder 380 |
Financial and legal materials, 1818Folder 380 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 381-384
Folder 381Folder 382Folder 383Folder 384 |
Financial and legal materials, 1819 |
Folder 385-391
Folder 385Folder 386Folder 387Folder 388Folder 389Folder 390Folder 391 |
circa 1770s-1820sFolder 391 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 392-396
Folder 392Folder 393Folder 394Folder 395Folder 396 |
Financial and legal materials, 1820Folder 396 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 397 |
Will: George Hairston, circa 1820 |
Folder 398-403
Folder 398Folder 399Folder 400Folder 401Folder 402Folder 403 |
Financial and legal materials, 1821Folder 403 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 404-409
Folder 404Folder 405Folder 406Folder 407Folder 408Folder 409 |
Financial and legal materials, 1822Folder 409 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 410-415
Folder 410Folder 411Folder 412Folder 413Folder 414Folder 415 |
Financial and legal materials, 1823Folder 415 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 416-419
Folder 416Folder 417Folder 418Folder 419 |
Financial and legal materials, 1824Folder 419 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 420-423
Folder 420Folder 421Folder 422Folder 423 |
Financial and legal materials, 1825Folder 423 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 424-426
Folder 424Folder 425Folder 426 |
Financial and legal materials, 1826Folder 426 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 427-428
Folder 427Folder 428 |
Financial and legal materials, 1827Folder 428 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 429-431
Folder 429Folder 430Folder 431 |
Financial and legal materials, 1828Folder 431 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 432-433
Folder 432Folder 433 |
Financial and legal materials, 1829Folder 433 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 434 |
Financial and legal materials, 1830 |
Folder 435-436
Folder 435Folder 436 |
Financial and legal materials, 1831Folder 436 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 437-439
Folder 437Folder 438Folder 439 |
Financial and legal materials, 1832 |
Folder 440-442
Folder 440Folder 441Folder 442 |
Financial and legal materials, 1833Folder 442 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 443-444
Folder 443Folder 444 |
Financial and legal materials, 1834Folder 444 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 445-447
Folder 445Folder 446Folder 447 |
Financial and legal materials, 1835Folder 447 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 448-449
Folder 448Folder 449 |
Financial and legal materials, 1836Folder 449 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 450-451
Folder 450Folder 451 |
Financial and legal materials, 1837 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/9 |
Maps and surveys, 1837-19017 items. Counties of Henry, Patrick, and Pittsylvania, Va. |
| Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-3149/1 |
Survey, 19001 item. Henry County, Va. |
Folder 452-453
Folder 452Folder 453 |
Financial and legal materials, 1838 |
Folder 454-456
Folder 454Folder 455Folder 456 |
Financial and legal materials, 1839 |
| Folder 457 |
Financial and legal materials, 1840 |
| Folder 458 |
Financial and legal materials, 1841 |
Folder 459-461
Folder 459Folder 460Folder 461 |
Financial and legal materials, 1842Folder 461 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 462-464
Folder 462Folder 463Folder 464 |
Financial and legal materials, 1843Folder 464 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 465-467
Folder 465Folder 466Folder 467 |
Financial and legal materials, 1844Folder 467 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 468-470
Folder 468Folder 469Folder 470 |
Financial and legal materials, 1845Folder 470 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 471-473
Folder 471Folder 472Folder 473 |
Financial and legal materials, 1846Folder 473 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 474-476
Folder 474Folder 475Folder 476 |
Financial and legal materials, 1847Folder 476 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 477-479
Folder 477Folder 478Folder 479 |
Financial and legal materials, 1848Folder 479 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 480-485
Folder 480Folder 481Folder 482Folder 483Folder 484Folder 485 |
Financial and legal materials, 1849Folder 485 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 486-489
Folder 486Folder 487Folder 488Folder 489 |
Financial and legal materials, 1850Folder 489 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 490-493
Folder 490Folder 491Folder 492Folder 493 |
Financial and legal materials, 1851Folder 493 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 494-498
Folder 494Folder 495Folder 496Folder 497Folder 498 |
Financial and legal materials, 1852Folder 498 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 499-503
Folder 499Folder 500Folder 501Folder 502Folder 503 |
Financial and legal materials, 1853Folder 503 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 504-507
Folder 504Folder 505Folder 506Folder 507 |
Financial and legal materials, 1854Folder 507 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 508-511
Folder 508Folder 509Folder 510Folder 511 |
Financial and legal materials, 1855 |
| Folder 512 |
Financial and legal materials, 1855Tax receipts. |
Folder 513-515
Folder 513Folder 514Folder 515 |
Financial and legal materials, 1856Folder 515 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 516-518
Folder 516Folder 517Folder 518 |
Financial and legal materials, 1857Folder 518 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 519-522
Folder 519Folder 520Folder 521Folder 522 |
Financial and legal materials, 1858Folder 522 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 523-531
Folder 523Folder 524Folder 525Folder 526Folder 527Folder 528Folder 529Folder 530Folder 531 |
Financial and legal materials, 1859Folder 531 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 532 |
Personal account book and travel journal, circa 1851-1860 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/10 |
Indenture and plats, 1859 and circa 19003 items. Mississippi. |
Folder 533-535
Folder 533Folder 534Folder 535 |
Financial and legal materials, 1860Folder 535 contains records of enslavement. Includes a receipt for "midwifery." |
Folder 536-537
Folder 536Folder 537 |
Financial and legal materials, 1861Folder 537 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 538-540
Folder 538Folder 539Folder 540 |
Financial and legal materials, 1862Folder 540 contains records of enslavement. |
Folder 541-542
Folder 541Folder 542 |
Financial and legal materials, 1863Folder 542 contains records of enslavement. Includes accounts with references to soldiers. |
Folder 543-546
Folder 543Folder 544Folder 545Folder 546 |
Financial and legal materials, 1864Folder 546 contains records of enslavement. Includes a treasury note for fifty dollars for "support of indigent families of soldiers." |
Folder 547-548
Folder 547Folder 548 |
Financial and legal materials, 1865Folder 548 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 549 |
Financial and legal materials, 1866 |
Folder 550-551
Folder 550Folder 551 |
Financial and legal materials, 1867Includes record of Reconstruction. |
Folder 552-554
Folder 552Folder 553Folder 554 |
Financial and legal materials, 1868Includes records of Reconstruction. |
| Folder 555 |
Financial and legal materials, 1869 |
Folder 556-558
Folder 556Folder 557Folder 558 |
circa 1820s-1860s |
Folder 559-560
Folder 559Folder 560 |
Financial and legal materials, 1870 |
Folder 561-564
Folder 561Folder 562Folder 563Folder 564 |
Financial and legal materials, 1871 |
Folder 565-567
Folder 565Folder 566Folder 567 |
Financial and legal materials, 1872 |
| Folder 568 |
Household accounts, 1866-1872Part of the volume appears to have been used as a school notebook (1847). |
Folder 569-571
Folder 569Folder 570Folder 571 |
Financial and legal materials, 1873 |
Folder 572-574
Folder 572Folder 573Folder 574 |
Financial and legal materials, 1874 |
Folder 575-577
Folder 575Folder 576Folder 577 |
Financial and legal materials, 1875 |
Folder 578-580
Folder 578Folder 579Folder 580 |
Financial and legal materials, 1876 |
Folder 581-583
Folder 581Folder 582Folder 583 |
Financial and legal materials, 1877 |
Folder 584-586
Folder 584Folder 585Folder 586 |
Financial and legal materials, 1878 |
Folder 587-590
Folder 587Folder 588Folder 589Folder 590 |
Financial and legal materials, 1879 |
| Folder 591 |
Financial and legal materials, circa 1870s |
Folder 592-593
Folder 592Folder 593 |
Financial and legal materials, 1880 |
Folder 594-595
Folder 594Folder 595 |
Financial and legal materials, 1881 |
Folder 596-597
Folder 596Folder 597 |
Financial and legal materials, 1882 |
Folder 598-599
Folder 598Folder 599 |
Financial and legal materials, 1883 |
Folder 600-601
Folder 600Folder 601 |
Financial and legal materials, 1884 |
| Folder 602 |
Financial and legal materials, 1885 |
Folder 603-604
Folder 603Folder 604 |
Financial and legal materials, 1886 |
Folder 605-606
Folder 605Folder 606 |
Financial and legal materials, 1887 |
Folder 607-609
Folder 607Folder 608Folder 609 |
Financial and legal materials, 1888 |
Folder 610-613
Folder 610Folder 611Folder 612Folder 613 |
Financial and legal materials, 1889 |
| Folder 614 |
Account book, 1886-1889Includes "List of Renters Tobacco Sold Rent." |
Folder 615-617
Folder 615Folder 616Folder 617 |
Financial and legal materials, 1890Includes a tenant agreement and a notice of eviction. |
Folder 618-619
Folder 618Folder 619 |
Financial and legal materials, 1891 |
Folder 620-621
Folder 620Folder 621 |
Financial and legal materials, 1892Includes tenant agreements and a letter requesting a rental agreement for "a two horse farm." |
| Folder 622 |
"Memorandum Book," 1891-1892 |
Folder 623-624
Folder 623Folder 624 |
Financial and legal materials, 1893Includes a tenant agreement. |
Folder 625-626
Folder 625Folder 626 |
Financial and legal materials, 1894Includes a tenant agreement. |
Folder 627-629
Folder 627Folder 628Folder 629 |
Financial and legal materials, 1895Includes a tenant agreement. |
Folder 630-631
Folder 630Folder 631 |
Financial and legal materials, 1896 |
| Folder 632 |
Financial and legal materials, 1897 |
Folder 633-634
Folder 633Folder 634 |
Financial and legal materials, 1898 |
Folder 635-636
Folder 635Folder 636 |
Financial and legal materials, 1899 |
| Folder 637 |
Financial and legal materials, 1900 |
| Folder 638 |
Financial and legal materials, 1901 |
| Folder 639 |
Financial and legal materials, 1902 |
| Folder 640 |
Financial and legal materials, 1903 |
| Folder 641 |
Financial and legal materials, 1904 |
| Folder 642 |
Financial and legal materials, 1905 |
| Folder 643 |
Financial and legal materials, 1906 |
| Folder 644 |
Financial and legal materials, 1907 |
| Folder 645 |
Financial and legal materials, 1908 |
Folder 646-647
Folder 646Folder 647 |
Financial and legal materials, 1909 |
| Folder 648 |
Financial and legal materials, 1910 |
| Folder 649 |
Financial and legal materials, 1911 |
| Folder 650 |
Financial and legal materials, 1913 |
| Folder 651 |
Financial and legal materials, 1914 |
| Folder 652 |
Financial and legal materials, 1916 |
| Folder 653 |
Financial and legal materials, 1918 |
| Folder 654 |
Financial and legal materials, 1925 |
| Folder 655 |
Financial and legal materials, circa 1870s-1920sIncludes a tenant agreement. |
| Folder 656 |
Financial and legal materials, 1934 |
Folder 657-659
Folder 657Folder 658Folder 659 |
Financial and legal materials, 1935 |
| Folder 660 |
Financial and legal materials, 1936 |
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Series 2A. Financial Materials, 1847-1904 (Addition of 2023)
Acquisitions information: Accession 20230519.1
| Folder 737 |
Financial materials about enslaved people, 1855-1862
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| Folder 738 |
Financial materials, 1847-1862, 1879, 1904Miscellaneous financial records, including receipts relating to tobacco sales, sundry purchases, and taxes; 2 deeds, 1852-1853, for land in Henry County, Va., granted to Peter Watkins and to Louisa H. Watkins. |
| Folder 739 |
Account book, 1851-1880Records of enslavement and Reconstruction:
|
| Folder 740 |
Account book: Sawing, 1853, 1855; Tobacco purchase, 1859-1860Volume of P. Watkins. |
| Folder 741 |
Financial materials: Miscellaneous, undatedLoose fragments. |
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Series 3A. Other Papers, 1794-1957 and undated (Additions of 2016).
Processing information: This series has not been fully analyzed or described.
Chiefly items related to schools attended by members of the Hairston and Wilson families. Of note are presidential pardons for Marshall Hairston and J.T.W. Hairston signed by President Andrew Johnson in 1865. Other materials are related to the Virginia militias in the early national period, churches, funerals, lodges and clubs, and genealogy of the white members of the Hairston, Wilson, and related families. Also included are a household inventory and library catalog for Beaver Creek Plantation in Virginia from the early twentieth century and an 1898 broadside advertising the sale of the Danville Register.
Folder 661-666
Folder 661Folder 662Folder 663Folder 664Folder 665Folder 666 |
Virginia militias, 1802-1829 |
| Folder 667 |
Cipher book, circa 1794-1820 |
| Folder 668 |
Recipe for malt beer, undated |
| Folder 669 |
Dance instructions, undated |
| Folder 670 |
Election results in Patrick County, Va., 1824 |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/11 |
Certificate from the State of Mississippi, 1861"J.T.W. Hairston was duly and constitutionally Elected to the office of Captain of the Prarie Guards, a Company in the Army of Mississippi." |
| Folder 671 |
Confederate States of America, 1861-1865Includes general orders from Northern Virginia and an oath of allegiance following the war's end. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/11 |
Presidential pardons, 1865Pardon signed by President Andrew Johnson for Marshall Hairston of Henry County, Va., and J.T.W. Hairston of Lowndes County, Miss. |
Folder 672-674
Folder 672Folder 673Folder 674 |
Funerals and memorials, circa 1819-1921 |
Folder 675-677
Folder 675Folder 676Folder 677 |
Genealogical information |
| Folder 678 |
Household inventory of Beaver Creek, circa 1920s |
| Folder 679 |
Library catalog for Beaver Creek, circa 1920s |
| Folder 680 |
Lodges and clubs, 1911-1952 |
Folder 681-685
Folder 681Folder 682Folder 683Folder 684Folder 685 |
Church, circa 1900-1930Episcopal, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches. |
Folder 686-710
Folder 686Folder 687Folder 688Folder 689Folder 690Folder 691Folder 692Folder 693Folder 694Folder 695Folder 696Folder 697Folder 698Folder 699Folder 700Folder 701Folder 702Folder 703Folder 704Folder 705Folder 706Folder 707Folder 708Folder 709Folder 710 |
School, circa 1850s-1910sIncludes report cards, compositions, notes, and requests for the removal of demerits. Many of the school items are related to Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Va., where Launcelot Minor Blackford was the headmaster. |
Folder 711-712
Folder 711Folder 712 |
Passports |
Folder 713-716
Folder 713Folder 714Folder 715Folder 716 |
Clippings |
| Folder 717 |
Railroad tickets, 1901-1910 |
Folder 718-720
Folder 718Folder 719Folder 720 |
Printed items |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/12 |
Printed items, 1898-1921 and undated
|
Folder 721-726
Folder 721Folder 722Folder 723Folder 724Folder 725Folder 726 |
Miscellaneous items |
| Box 35 |
Empty envelopes and calling cards |
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Series 3A. Other Papers, 1893-1980 (Addition of 2023)
Acquisitions information: Accession 20230519.1
| Folder 742 |
Printed material, 1893-1980
|
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/13 |
Greensboro Daily News, 2 September 1951: Reporting on the solar eclipse |
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Series 4A. Photographs, undated circa 1900-1920s (Additions of 2016).
Processing information: This series has not been fully analyzed or described.
A small number of photographs depict family members including Rorer James, Sr. However, most individuals who are pictured are not identified.
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Series 4A. Photographs, circa 1880s-1950s (Addition of 2023).
Acquisition information: Accession 20230519.1
| Image Folder PF-3149/11 |
Photographs, circa 1880s-1900s5 images Carte-de-visite Formal portraits |
| Image Folder PF-3149/12 |
Souvenir cards, circa 1880s-1900s3 images Images of Yosemite Falls, the grand dining hall in Fredericksburg Castle, Denmark, and a pulpit in the World Cathedral in Brussels, Belgium. Images were commercially produced by Underwood & Underwood. |
| Image Folder PF-3149/13 |
Photographs, circa 1890s-1900s2 images Informal group portrait of 7 men, women, and a child; street scene of people around the court house on election day, including "old man Logan," "Missie" the bird dog, Bob [Nash?], and Frank Neal. |
| Image Folder PF-3149/14 |
Photographs, circal 1900s-1950s8 images Black-and-white print, colorized photographs Formal and informal portraits and snapshots of unidentified people; 1 photo Christmas card of "Ethel and grandchildren." |
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Series 5A. Genealogy and Family History Materials, circa 1970s-2017 (Addition of 2017).
Acquisition information: Accession 103057
Series contains genealogical information; family charts; family histories and anecdotes; and transcriptions of nineteenth-century family letters and a household ledger. Most materials were compiled by members of the white Hairston family and related extended families in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Also includes letters written by members of the family that pertain to the book The Hairstons An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek (1999).
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Box
37
Folder 727 |
"Hairston Family Genealogy 1695-1980s" |
|
Box
37
Folder 728 |
"Genealogy of the Wilson Family of Pittsylvania County Virginia" |
|
Box
37
Folder 729 |
"Some Data on Rorer family and James family" |
|
Box
37
Folder 730 |
"Collection of materials" about Beaver Creek Plantation |
|
Box
37
Folder 731 |
"The Stories of Beaver Creek" |
|
Box
37
Folder 732 |
"Chart Showing Ancestors and Descendants of William Letcher Pannill and Maria Bruce Banks" |
|
Box
37
Folder 733 |
Transcription of "Account Book of Ann Hairston Hairston (Mrs. Marshall Hairston) c 1830-1853" |
|
Box
37
Folder 734 |
Volume with transcriptions of family letters, 1869-1876Transcribed letters of members of the white Hairston family written chiefly from Hairston, Miss., and Martinsville, Va., during Reconstruction. Topics of letters include family news, farming, land purchases and sales, elections, Black people, and meetings of a local Mississippi chapter ("Grange") of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. |
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Series 5A. Genealogy and Family History Materials, circa (Addition of 2023).
Acquisition information: Accession 20230519.1
| Folder 743 |
Family history, 1887, 1919, 1928, 1976, and undated
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| Oversize Volume SV-3149/10 |
Family BibleBible: at the end of the Old Testament: "Peter Hairston was born the 16th day January 1796. Wounded the 17th October died the 28th of the same month in the year of our Lord 1810." George Hairston and Elizabeth married 1 January 1781 and had 13 children:
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