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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Size | 35 items |
Abstract | The Lilly, Cook, Blose, Luttrell, Bywaters, Perry, Corbin, Gawthrop, Whitescarver, Walden, Washington, Miltenberger, Breeding, and Hess families all resided in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The collection contains scattered family letters and business papers of various persons in Augusta, Page, and Rappahannock counties, Va. The collection includes letters, 1830s to 1880s, from natives who had migrated to Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky, business papers such as licenses, bonds, promissory notes, bills, and a shoemaker's ledger (218 pages) with records of purchases of leather and of shoes made for cash or barter. Correspondents that appears frequently include members of the Lilly, Cook, and Blose families; their letters briefly discuss crops, health, and other family matters. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, December 2010
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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The Lilly, Cook, Blose, Luttrell, Bywaters, Perry, Corbin, Gawthrop, Whitescarver, Walden, Washington, Miltenberger, Breeding, and Hess families all resided in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, including Augusta, Page, and Rappahannock counties.
Back to TopThe collection contains scattered family letters and business papers of various persons in Augusta, Page, and Rappahannock counties, Va. The collection includes letters, 1830s to 1880s, from natives who had migrated to Ohio, Missouri, and Kentucky, business papers such as licenses, bonds, promissory notes, bills, and a shoemaker's ledger (218 pages) with records of purchases of leather and of shoes made for cash or barter. Correspondents that appears frequently include members of the Lilly, Cook, and Blose families; their letters briefly discuss crops, health, and other family matters.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Original finding aid |
Papers, 1809-1828 |
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Folder 2 |
Papers, 1832-1858 |
Folder 3 |
Papers, 1859-1901 and undated |
Folder 4 |
Shoemaker's ledger, 1860-1901 |