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| Size | 19.5 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 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, 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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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 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 planter 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 Wilson was the son of Robert Wilson and Catherine Pannill Wilson of Danville, Va. Ruth Stovall Hairston and Robert 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 Comanches in Texas, 1855.
During the 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 without enslaved labor. 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 freedpeople.
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 "colored" farmers. Documents related to land transactions often include surveys of property bought and sold.
The bulk of the family correspondence in the additions 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).
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A. Hairston and Wilson Family Papers, 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.
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Correspondence, 1806-1846.
This series was part of the original deposit.
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.
| Folder 1 |
Colonel George Hairston correspondence |
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Correspondence, 1847-1873.
This series was part of the original deposit.
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.
| Folder 2 |
1847-1848 |
| Folder 3 |
1852 |
| Folder 4 |
1853 January-March |
| Folder 5 |
1853 April-December |
| Folder 6 |
1854-1855 |
| Folder 7 |
1856-1857 |
| Folder 8 |
1858-1859 |
| Folder 9 |
1860-1862 |
| Folder 10 |
1863-1865 |
| Folder 11 |
1866-1868 |
| Folder 12 |
1869 |
| Folder 13 |
1870-1873 |
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Correspondence, 1874-1906.
This series was part of the original deposit.
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.
| Folder 14 |
1874 |
| Folder 15 |
1875 |
| Folder 16 |
1876 |
| Folder 17 |
1877 |
| Folder 18 |
1879 |
| Folder 19 |
1882-1884 |
| Folder 20 |
1885-1886 |
| Folder 21 |
1887-1888 |
| Folder 22 |
1889 January-March |
| Folder 23 |
1889 April-December |
| Folder 24 |
1893 |
| Folder 25 |
1894-1898 |
| Folder 26 |
1904-1906 |
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Correspondence, undated.
This series was part of the original deposit.
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.
Folder 27-28
Folder 27Folder 28 |
J. T. W. Hairston |
| Folder 29 |
Other family members |
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Financial and legal materials: Loose papers.
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 freedpeople formerly enslaved on his plantations, Danshill and Sandy River, 1865-1871.
| Folder 30 |
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 |
1851-1864 |
| Folder 32 |
1865-1871 |
| Folder 33 |
1872-1895 and undated |
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Financial and legal materials: Account books, 1800-1869.
This series was part of the original deposit.
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/1 |
1800-1804Accounts 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. |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/2 |
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 |
1804-1807Halifax County. Accounts with individuals for liquor, merchandise, and labor. |
| Oversize Volume SV-3149/4 |
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 |
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 |
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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B. Hairston and Wilson Family Papers, 1750-1957 and undated (Additions of 2016).
Acquisition information: Accessions 102652 and 102686
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Correspondence, 1778-1957 and undated.
Arrangement: Loose chronological order by year, not by day or month.
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 |
1778 |
| Folder 35 |
1800 |
| Folder 36 |
1808 |
| Folder 37 |
1811
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| Folder 38 |
1812 |
| Folder 39 |
1813 |
| Folder 40 |
1814 |
| Folder 41 |
1816
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| Folder 42 |
1819
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| Folder 43 |
circa 1810s
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| Folder 44 |
1821
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| Folder 45 |
1822 |
| Folder 46 |
1825 |
| Folder 47 |
1826
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| Folder 48 |
1829 |
| Folder 49 |
circa 1820s |
| Folder 50 |
1832
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| Folder 51 |
1833 |
| Folder 52 |
1834 |
| Folder 53 |
1835
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| Folder 54 |
1836 |
| Folder 55 |
1837
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| Folder 56 |
1838 |
| Folder 57 |
1839 |
| Folder 58 |
circa 1830s
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| Folder 59 |
1840
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| Folder 60 |
1842
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| Folder 61 |
1843 |
| Folder 62 |
1844
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| Folder 63 |
1847
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| Folder 64 |
1848Chiefly letters to Marshall Hairston from his daughter Bettie P. Hairston and his wife Ann Hairston. |
| Folder 65 |
1849Letters received by Ann Hairston. |
| Folder 66 |
circa 1840s
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| Folder 67 |
1850 |
| Folder 68 |
1851Letters received by Ann Hairston. |
| Folder 69-70 |
1852 |
| Folder 71 |
1853
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| Folder 72 |
1854
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| Folder 73 |
1855 |
| Folder 74-75 |
1856 |
| Folder 76-77 |
1857 |
| Folder 78 |
1858
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| Folder 79 |
circa 1854-1858Letters written by J.T.W. Hairston from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). |
| Folder 80 |
1859
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| Folder 81-82 |
circa 1850s
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| Folder 83 |
1860
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| Folder 84 |
circa 1861Contains a letter from Alfred Ely to "General" that may have been written when Ely was a prisoner of war (POW) in Richmond, Va. |
| Folder 85 |
1862
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| Folder 86 |
1863 |
| Folder 87 |
1864 |
| Folder 88 |
1865 |
| Folder 89 |
1866
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| Folder 90 |
1867
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| Folder 91 |
1868
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| Folder 92 |
1869 |
| Folder 93 |
1870 |
| Folder 94 |
1871 |
| Folder 95 |
1872
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| Folder 96 |
1873
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| Folder 97 |
1874 |
| Folder 98 |
1875 |
| Folder 99 |
1877
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| Folder 100 |
1878
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| Folder 101 |
1879
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| Folder 102 |
circa 1870s
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| Folder 103 |
1880
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| Folder 104 |
1881 |
| Folder 105 |
1882
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| Folder 106 |
1884
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| Folder 107 |
1885
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| Folder 108 |
1886Contains a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 109-112 |
1887Contains many letters written on bereavement stationery. |
| Folder 113-114 |
1888
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| Folder 115-116 |
1889Contains letters written from cities in Italy. |
| Folder 117-118 |
circa 1880s
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| Folder 119-120 |
1890
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| Folder 121-126 |
1891Most letters are from Rorer James, Sr., writing from Richmond, Va., to his wife Annie Marshall Wilson James. |
| Folder 127-134 |
1892Most letters are from Rorer James, Sr., writing from Richmond, Va., to his wife Annie Marshall Wilson James. |
| Folder 135 |
1893Contains letters written from cities in Italy. |
| Folder 136 |
1894
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| Folder 137 |
1895
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| Folder 138 |
1896
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| Folder 139 |
1897
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| Folder 140 |
1898
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| Folder 141 |
1899
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| Folder 142 |
circa 1890s
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| Folder 143 |
1900Includes a letter from archaeologist Clarence Bloomfield Moore, who studied and excavated American Indian sites. "We hope to visit your place this coming winter…Our present plans are to begin work at the lower end of the river and do all the work we can on our way up." |
| Folder 144 |
1901Contains a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 145 |
1902
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| Folder 146 |
1903
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| Folder 147 |
1904 |
| Folder 148 |
1905 |
| Folder 149 |
1906
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| Folder 150 |
1907
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| Folder 151-153 |
1908
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| Folder 154 |
1909Contains letters written by a child. |
| Folder 155 |
circa 1900-1910
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| Folder 156-157 |
1910
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| Folder 158-159 |
1911Contains a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 160-161 |
1912Contains a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 162-163 |
1913
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| Folder 164-165 |
1914 |
| Folder 166 |
1915
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| Folder 167-169 |
1916Contains a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 170-171 |
1917
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| Folder 172-173 |
1918 |
| Folder 174-176 |
1919 |
| Folder 177 |
circa 1910s
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| Folder 178-179 |
1920
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| Folder 180-185 |
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 |
1922
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| Folder 187 |
1923
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| Folder 188 |
1924
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| Folder 189 |
1926
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| Folder 190 |
1927
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| Folder 191 |
1928
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| Folder 192-204 |
circa 1900-1920s
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| Folder 205-207 |
Greeting cards, circa 1900-1920s
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| Folder 208 |
1930
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| Folder 209 |
1936
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| Folder 210 |
1937
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| Folder 211 |
circa 1930s
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| Folder 212 |
1951-1954Contains a letter written by a child. |
| Folder 213 |
1957 |
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Financial and legal materials, 1750-1936 and undated.
Arrangement: Loose chronological order by year, not by day or month.
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 |
1750-1754
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| 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. Counties of Halifax and Franklin, Va. |
| Folder 215 |
1767Contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 216 |
1768-1769
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| Folder 217 |
1770-1772
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| Folder 218-219 |
1773
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| Folder 220 |
1774
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| Folder 221-222 |
1775Folder 222 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 223 |
1776
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| Folder 224 |
1777 |
| Folder 225-226 |
1778
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| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/4 |
Deeds and indentures, 1778-1857 (bulk dates 1790s)18 items. Henry County, Va. |
| Folder 227-228 |
1779Folder 228 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 229 |
Circa 1770sContains records of ensalvement. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/5 |
Land grants, 1779-17838 items. Counties of Patrick and Henry, Va. |
| Folder 230 |
1780
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| Folder 231 |
1781
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| Folder 232 |
1782
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| Folder 233-235 |
1783Folder 235 contains records of eslavement. |
| Folder 236-237 |
1784
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| Folder 238-240 |
1785Folder 240 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 241-243 |
1786Folder 243 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 244-247 |
1787Folder 247 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 248-250 |
1788Folder 250 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 251-254 |
1789Folder 354 contains records of enslavement. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/6 |
Land grants, 1789-17993 items. Counties of Franklin and Henry, Va. |
| Folder 255-258 |
1790Folder 258 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 259-261 |
1791Folder 261 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 262-265 |
1792Folder 265 contains records of enslavement. |
| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/7 |
Deeds and indentures, 1792-18196 items. Patrick County, Va. |
| Folder 266-269 |
1793Folder 269 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 270-273 |
1794Folder 273 contains reocrds of enslavement. |
| Folder 274-279 |
1795Folder 279 contains records on enslavement. |
| Folder 280-282 |
1796Folder 282 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 283-286 |
1797Folder 286 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 287-290 |
1798Folder 290 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 291-294 |
1799Folder 294 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 295-296 |
circa 1790s
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| Folder 297-299 |
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 |
1801Folder 303 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 304-308 |
1802Folder 308 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 309-312 |
1803Folder 312 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 313-315 |
1804Folder 315 contains records of enalvement. |
| Folder 316-319 |
1805Folder 319 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 320-323 |
1806Folder 323 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 324-328 |
1807Folder 328 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 329-331 |
1808Folder 331 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 332-336 |
1809Folder 336 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 337 |
Correspondence, circa 1770-1810
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| Folder 338 |
circa 1800-1810
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| Folder 339-345 |
1810Folder 345 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 346-350 |
1811Folder 350 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 351-355a |
1812Folder 354 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 355b-357 |
1813
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| Folder 358 |
1813Tax receipt. |
| Folder 359-363 |
1814Folder 363 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 364-367 |
1815Folder 367 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 368-370 |
1816Folder 370 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 371-375 |
1817Folder 375 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 376-380 |
1818Folder 380 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 381-384 |
1819
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| Folder 385-391 |
circa 1770s-1820sFolder 391 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 392-396 |
1820Folder 396 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 397 |
Extract from the last Will + Testament of Geo Hairston, circa 1820 |
| Folder 398-403 |
1821Folder 403 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 404-409 |
1822Folder 409 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 410-415 |
1823Folder 415 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 416-419 |
1824Folder 419 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 420-423 |
1825Folder 423 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 424-426 |
1826Folder 426 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 427-428 |
1827Folder 428 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 429-431 |
1828Folder 431 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 432-433 |
1829Folder 433 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 434 |
1830
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| Folder 435-436 |
1831Folder 436 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 437-439 |
1832
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| Folder 440-442 |
1833Folder 442 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 443-444 |
1834Folder 444 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 445-447 |
1835Folder 447 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 448-449 |
1836Folder 449 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 450-451 |
1837
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| 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 |
1838
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| Folder 454-456 |
1839
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| Folder 457 |
1840
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| Folder 458 |
1841
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| Folder 459-461 |
1842Folder 461 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 462-464 |
1843Folder 464 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 465-467 |
1844Folder 467 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 468-470 |
1845Folder 470 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 471-473 |
1846Folder 473 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 474-476 |
1847Folder 476 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 477-479 |
1848Folder 479 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 480-485 |
1849Folder 485 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 486-489 |
1850Folder 489 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 490-493 |
1851Folder 493 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 494-498 |
1852Folder 498 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 499-503 |
1853Folder 503 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 504-507 |
1854Folder 507 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 508-511 |
1855
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| Folder 512 |
1855Tax receipts. |
| Folder 513-515 |
1856Folder 515 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 516-518 |
1857Folder 518 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 519-522 |
1858Folder 522 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 523-531 |
1859Folder 531 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 532 |
Personal account book and travel journal, circa 1851-1860
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| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/10 |
Indenture and plats, 1859 and circa 19003 items. Mississippi. |
| Folder 533-535 |
1860Folder 535 contains records of enslavement. Includes a receipt for "midwifery." |
| Folder 536-537 |
1861Folder 537 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 538-540 |
1862Folder 540 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 541-542 |
1863Folder 542 contains records of enslavement. Includes accounts with references to soldiers. |
| Folder 543-546 |
1864Folder 546 contains records of enslavement. Includes a treasury note for fifty dollars for "support of indigent families of soldiers." |
| Folder 547-548 |
1865Folder 548 contains records of enslavement. |
| Folder 549 |
1866
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| Folder 550-551 |
1867 |
| Folder 552-554 |
1868 |
| Folder 555 |
1869
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| Folder 556-558 |
circa 1820s-1860s
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| Folder 559-560 |
1870
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| Folder 561-564 |
1871
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| Folder 565-567 |
1872
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| Folder 568 |
Household accounts, 1866-1872Part of the volume appears to have been used as a school notebook (1847). |
| Folder 569-571 |
1873
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| Folder 572-574 |
1874
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| Folder 575-577 |
1875
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| Folder 578-580 |
1876
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| Folder 581-583 |
1877
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| Folder 584-586 |
1878
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| Folder 587-590 |
1879
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| Folder 591 |
circa 1870s
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| Folder 592-593 |
1880
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| Folder 594-595 |
1881
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| Folder 596-597 |
1882
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| Folder 598-599 |
1883
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| Folder 600-601 |
1884
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| Folder 602 |
1885
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| Folder 603-604 |
1886
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| Folder 605-606 |
1887
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| Folder 607-609 |
1888
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| Folder 610-613 |
1889
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| Folder 614 |
Account book, 1886-1889 |
| Folder 615-617 |
1890 |
| Folder 618-619 |
1891
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| Folder 620-621 |
1892Includes tenant agreements and a letter requesting a rental agreement for "a two horse farm." |
| Folder 622 |
"Memorandum Book," 1891-1892
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| Folder 623-624 |
1893Includes a tenant agreement. |
| Folder 625-626 |
1894Includes a tenant agreement. |
| Folder 627-629 |
1895Includes a tenant agreement. |
| Folder 630-631 |
1896
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| Folder 632 |
1897
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| Folder 633-634 |
1898
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| Folder 635-636 |
1899
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| Folder 637 |
1900
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| Folder 638 |
1901
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| Folder 639 |
1902
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| Folder 640 |
1903
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| Folder 641 |
1904
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| Folder 642 |
1905
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| Folder 643 |
1906
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| Folder 644 |
1907
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| Folder 645 |
1908
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| Folder 646-647 |
1909
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| Folder 648 |
1910
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| Folder 649 |
1911
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| Folder 650 |
1913
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| Folder 651 |
1914
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| Folder 652 |
1916
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| Folder 653 |
1918
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| Folder 654 |
1925
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| Folder 655 |
circa 1870s-1920sIncludes a tenant agreement. |
| Folder 656 |
1934
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| Folder 657-659 |
1935
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| Folder 660 |
1936
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Other papers, 1794-1957 and undated.
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 |
Virginia militias, 1802-1829
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| Folder 667 |
Cipher book, circa 1794-1820
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| Folder 668 |
Recipe for malt beer, undated
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| Folder 669 |
Dance instructions, undated
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| Folder 670 |
Election results in Patrick County, Va., 1824
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| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/11 |
Certificate from the State of Mississippi, 1861 |
| 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, 1865 |
| Folder 672-674 |
Funerals and memorials, circa 1819-1921
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| Folder 675-677 |
Genealogical information
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| Folder 678 |
Household inventory of Beaver Creek, circa 1920s
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| Folder 679 |
Library catalog for Beaver Creek, circa 1920s
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| Folder 680 |
Lodges and clubs, 1911-1952
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| Folder 681-685 |
Church, circa 1900-1930Episcopal, Baptist, and Presbyterian churches. |
| Folder 686-710 |
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 |
Passports
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| Folder 713-716 |
Clippings
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| Folder 717 |
Railroad tickets, 1901-1910
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| Folder 718-720 |
Printed items
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| Oversize Paper Folder OPF-3149/12 |
Printed items, 1898-1921 and undatedBroadside advertising the sale of the Danville Register (1898). Commission for W.H. Hairston as a delegate to the Good Roads Convention (1909). Resolution from the United States House of Representatives concerning the death of Rorer A. James (1921). Pedigree chart for dogs, undated. |
| Folder 721-726 |
Miscellaneous items
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| Box 35 |
Empty envelopes and calling cards
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Photographs, undated circa 1900-1920s.
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.
| Image Folder PF-3149/1 |
Rorer James, circa 1910s3 images
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| Image Folder PF-3149/2 |
unidentified woman in a photographer's studio, circa 1910s
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| Image Folder PF-3149/3 |
unidentified woman outdoors, circa 1910s
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| Image Folder PF-3149/4 |
Unidentified woman with infant outside of a house, circa 1920s |
| Image Folder PF-3149/5 |
Unidentified man standing outside a dilapidated cabin, circa 1910s |
| Image Folder PF-3149/6 |
Unidentified man and woman standing next to an automobile, circa 1910s
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| Image Folder PF-3149/7 |
Unidentified woman with a small child in a photographer's studio, circa 1910s
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| Image Folder PF-3149/8 |
Unidentified young girl outdoors, circa 1910s
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| Image Folder PF-3149/9 |
Unidentified place, circa 1910sAppears to be the covered entranceway of a hotel. |
| Image Folder PF-3149/10 |
Three unidentified women and one unidentified man in a photographer's studio, circa 1900Tintype.
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C. Papers, 1887-1895 (Addition of May 2015)
Acquisitions information: Accession 102223
The addition of May 2015 consists of letters of Anne Wilson, from Dan's Hill (1887-1892); farming contracts, indentures, and assorted sales records; 2 ledgers, 1893, 1895; and other related family papers.
| Box 36 |
PapersLetters, farming contracts, indentures, and assorted sales records; ledgers, and related family papers. |
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D. Ledgers, 1800s (Addition of June 2015)
Acquisitions information: Accession 102246
The addition of June 2015 consists of 3 account ledgers of Beaver Creek Plantation in Martinsville, Va., 1800s.
SV-03149/7-9
SV-03149/7SV-03149/8SV-03149/9 |
Ledgers, 1800s |
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E. 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" |
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Box
37
Folder 728 |
"Genealogy of the Wilson Family of Pittsylvania County Virginia" |
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Box
37
Folder 729 |
"Some Data on Rorer family and James family" |
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Box
37
Folder 730 |
"Collection of materials" about Beaver Creek Plantation |
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Box
37
Folder 731 |
"The Stories of Beaver Creek" |
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Box
37
Folder 732 |
"Chart Showing Ancestors and Descendants of William Letcher Pannill and Maria Bruce Banks" |
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Box
37
Folder 733 |
Transcription of "Account Book of Ann Hairston Hairston (Mrs. Marshall Hairston) c 1830-1853" |
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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, African Americans ("the negroes"), and meetings of a local Mississippi chapter ("Grange") of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. |
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