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Lee Nicholson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Papers, 1837-1938, of Lee Nicholson, a genealogist of Sussex County, Va. Includes correspondence, notes and charts concerning
many Virginia families. Among them are the Batte family, Bolling family, Branch family, Briggs family, Chappell family, Heath
family, Jones family, Land family, Mallory family, Mason family, Morton family, Neblett family, Nicholson family, Peebles
family, Pegram family and Rives family.
"Charter- Baron Descent of Henry Batte of Virginia"- typescript
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143945
Letter: Clayton Torrence --- to Lee Nicholson, n.d., regarding Batte and Jones families
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143947
Genealogical chart from Capt. John Batte of York County, England, to Lee Nicholson and other descendants.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143950
Chart showing Miss Anne Deffenbaugh's line from Capt. John Batte.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143953
Genealogical account of Capt. Henry Batte and descendants
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143954
Genealogical account of Hobbs family from old Bible
1754-1816
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143955
Correspondence with various kin relating to Batte family by Lee Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143958
Batte Family
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143962
"The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia"
Scope and Contents
Small black notebook "The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia" in long hand. Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Sussex County, Virginia.
Pages 11-49 Jones family, 1-5 Batte family. No page numbers, "Genealogical data from Col. C. Jones' Book", The Edwards family,
the Lang family, the C. Jones family, the Eppes family, the Brodnax family, the Halcot Pride family.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143990
Peterson-Batte line
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143992
Letters, etc, on Batte family
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143994
Batte Family
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143996
"Application of Miss Dorothy Lyon Crowder for membership to the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames of America"
1920
Scope and Contents
With "Supplementary Details" and chart; also "The Batte Family" (typescript).
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143998
Letter from Rev. Clayton Torrence, regarding Battes.
1920 September 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143999
Rough notes by Lee Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id144000
Batte Family
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id144001
Rough hand notes- ancestry of Miss Virginia Batte, revolutionary ancestors of Miss Batte, typescript of "The Batte Family"
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id147558
Box 2: Folders 5-10
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144002
Batte Family
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144320
Hand notes- Briggs & Nicholson families (from Bible?)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144321
Letters: Mrs. Fothergill & others to Lee Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144322
Rough notes on "Batte Family"
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144323
Typescript on Batte Family
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144324
Batte Family
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144325
Letter of Mrs. James Branch Cabell, Richmond, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Va, regarding Ch. Branch.
1935 September 30
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144327
Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, to Dr. Lyon G. Tyler.
1920 December 20
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144328
Letters. Mary Mason Heath, Washington, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
1933
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144329
Letter, Miss Hinton, Raleigh, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
1937
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144330
Charter- Baron ancestry of Virginia Batte.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144331
"Magna Charta Surety line of Col. George Reade." 4 pp. Typed.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144332
"Batte Notes," typed.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144333
"Mrs. Harvey Butler's Family Records."
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144334
Rough hand notes by Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id144336
Batte, Parham, Eppes, etc. Families
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id144337
Composition Book of Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Virginia
Scope and Contents
Rough hand notes on Jones family, Cargill, Higginson, Eppes, Williamson, Turpin, Belscher, Harrison, Jarratt, Peebles, Batte,
Mason, Parham, Nicholson, Young, Blow, Goode, and Parker.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id144338
Bolling Family
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id144339
Long hand notes, oversize
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144340
Briggs Family
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id144341
"The Briggs Family"- copy made by Clayton Torrence for Mrs. Warner Moore.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144342
Copies from Briggs Bibles- (births, marriages, deaths)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144343
Chappell- Dobie- Briggs Ancestry (oversize)
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144344
Odds and ends notes
Mixed Materials Box: 3 id147559
Box 3: Folders 11-14
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144345
Briggs Family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144347
Application (oversize) of Virginia S. Allen to Colonial Dames of America
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144348
Chart, Augustine Claiborne family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144349
Copy of inscriptions on tombs at "Invermay," Cargill home near Sussex C.H. Va. (Cargill, Blow, Ruffin, etc.)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144350
Jones- Harrison families by Nicholson to Dunn
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144351
Chart of Dr. Thomas Williamson Jones
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144352
Chart of Gilliam family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144353
Chart of Rives family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144354
Chart of Cobb family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144355
Chart of Jones family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144356
Chart of Ward family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144358
Chart of Short family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144359
Sussex Co. Records (copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144360
Chart of Capt. Wm. Batte.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144361
Notes on Blows.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144362
Chart of Mallory family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144363
Chart of Chappell family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144364
Briggs Family
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144365
Mrs. Tom Marshall, Windsor, Va. to Lee Nicholson, regarding home place "Mill-Brook," home of Charles Briggs near Sebrell,
Southampton Co., Va. Plat enclosed.
1917 January 26
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144367
"My Day in Dinwiddie County" by Thomas H. Boisseau- typescript- gives list of homes in Dinwiddie and descendents of families
who owned them. Published in the Virginian
no date
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144368
Chart of Henry Briggs and descendants
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144370
Will of George Briggs of Sussex Co., Va. Grandsons Richard Blow and Charles Nicholson, Sons: Charles, Henry, Howel, Daughters:
Mary Blow, Sarah Edmunds, Frances Blunt, Rebekah Irby, Wife: Sarah Briggs
1783
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144371
Will of Charles Briggs, Sr., Southampton Co., Va. Daughters: Martha Edmunds, Sarah Briggs, Frances Briggs, Anna Briggs, Mary
Briggs, Rebekah Briggs, Dorothy Briggs. Wife: Sarah. Sons: Henry, William.
1799
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144374
Oversize typed notes regarding family of Charles Briggs. 4 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144375
Some 20 pp. rough notes in handwriting of Lee Nicholson; all Briggs data
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144376
Chart in handwriting of H.F. Hutchinson, Boydton, Va. with note "I am indebted to Clayton Torrence for the greaer portion
of above."
1929
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144377
Descent of Neblett, Chappell & others from Henry Briggs.
1686
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144378
Letter. Clayton Torrence, Alexandria, Va. to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
1918 December 21
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144379
Letter. Sue W. Brown, Petersburg, Va. to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
1928 July 17
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13 id144380
Briggs Data
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13 id144381
Rough notes in handwriting of Lee Nicholson- births, deaths, marriages of various branches of Briggs family & descendants.
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14 id144382
Briggs Data
Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14 id144383
Rough note book: Nicholson, Chappell, Neblett, Baird and others.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 id147560
Box 4: Folders 15-26
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144384
Branch Family
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144385
"Descent of Mrs. John Nelson Stewart (nee: Edwa Hellwege, New Orleans) to International Society Daughters of the Barons of
Runnemeade"
Scope and Contents
Oversize typed record. Also longhand notes by Nicholson.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144386
A Record of the Belsches family
Scope and Contents
Taken from records at Invermay & Greenyard, Scotland, now in possission of Lord Clinton copied by Mr. Edward Tuckerman while
a guest of Lord Clinton. Mr. Tuckerman's wife was the daughter of Martha Cargill whose mother was Margaret Belsches. Mr. Tuckerman
was a professor at Amherst College. 5 pp. of longhand of Mr. Nicholson's.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144388
Letter: T.B. Dunn, Halifax, Va. to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
1936 March 25
Scope and Contents
Content regarding ancestry and descent of Col. George Reade.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144390
"Notes from Branchiana" by James Branch Cabell from Christopher Branch
1602-1681
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144391
"Branch of Abingdon" by James Branch Cabell
1911
Scope and Contents
Notes from descent, wills, etc.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144393
"Thomas and William Branch of Henrico and some of their descendants" by Wm. Clayton Torrence (from W&M Quarterly Vols. 25&26).
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144394
Branch Family
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144395
Letter: Rev. Clayton Torrence, Baltimore, Md. to Lee Nicholson
1937 March 22
Scope and Contents
Descent of Thomas Jefferson, President, from Mary Branch and Tomas Jefferson: 1)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Branch, 2)Thomas
Jefferson mar. Mary Field, 3)Peter Jefferson Mar. Jane Randolph, 4) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) President. See: Bell, Vol.
II, 289-292.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144396
Membership application from Christopher Branch (oversize, typed)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144397
Letter: T. Branch Dunn to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Va.
Notes on Parham family- correspondence- public records
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144411
Notes on Ellis family (2 pp. typed)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144412
Notes on Gilliam family (1 p.).
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144413
Notes on Blow marriages, Sussex Co. & Southampton Co.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144414
Notes on Williamson family- marriage bonds.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144415
War Dept. records for Chapell.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144416
Letter regarding Chappell family
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21 id144418
Mason, Chappell, and Briggs Families
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21 id144419
Letter from J. Rives Childs, Bucharest, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Va, regarding data for book.
1929
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144422
Dillard Family
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144423
Notes of Mrs. R. F. Dillard and Thos. M. Dillard, Blackstone, Va, from Dillard family Bible owned by T.M. Dillard.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144424
Letters regarding Dillard family: Daisy T. Riddick, Richmond and Norfolk, and Mrs. R.F. Dillard, Blackstone.
1927, 1932, 1937
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144425
Dillard- Cross Records
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144427
Edmunds- Edwards Families
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144428
Correspondence
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144429
Will of John Edmunds, Sussex Co.
1820
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144431
Will of John Edmunds, Sussex Co.
1770
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144432
Will of Ann Green, Sussex Co.
1785
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144433
Edwards data & chart
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144434
Eppes Family
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144436
Will of Francis Epes of Amelia County, Virginia
1772 January 29
Scope and Contents
Prob. 1789 April 5. Wife: Mary. Ch: Freeman (left "Causon" Pr. George Co., Va); pt. from Peter Batte, other lands, Blandford
lots- Francis (left Amelia Co. land), Thomas (left Amelia Co. land), John (left Amelia Co. land and Lunenburg Co. land), Sara
[m. Wm. Fitzgerald], Martha, Mary, Lucy [m. Edmund Wills]. Mother: Sarah Epes, Brother: Peter Epes.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144439
Typescript: "The Epes Family of Nottoway Co. Virginia"
1625-1920
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144692
Letters to Nicholson regarding Epes family and decendants
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144693
Gee Family
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144696
Typescript from 1694 by T.J. Heath
1933 November
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144700
Letters: W.J. Fletcher, Washington, D.C. to Lee Nicholson.
1937; 1930 January & July; 1931 March; 1930 August 4; 1931 July 23; 1930 August 8
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144704
Letter: J.O Faison, Chatham to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
1933 November
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144706
Letter: Jesse Hargrave, Sussex County to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
1928 August 14
Scope and Contents
Will of Charles Gee (1768) and other records (WBB p. 168)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144709
Newspapers: Hearst's Sunday American- Atlanta, some Gee records, "Many Georgians Trace Ancestry to Gee Family in Dixie History"
1931 February 22; 1930 June 1
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144712
Longhand chart of Gee Family
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144714
Harrison Family and Other Connections
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144719
Chart
1642
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144720
Memo of Blow family (Albemarle Parish Register) pp. 28-48
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144722
Harrison- Cargill Record from Mrs. Annie M. Jones
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144725
Excerpt, will of Mrs. Elizabeth Cargill, widow of Capt. John Cargill, Surry Co. WB3 p. 842 (1744)
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144727
Letter: Lee Nicholson, Wakefield to Mrs. Agnes Brown, Dendron, Va.
1922 August 4
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144732
Letters: Annie V. Mann, Petersburg, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
1922 August 18; 1922 August 3
Scope and Contents
Content regarding Harrison family of Sussex County; regarding Harrison family of Sussex County.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144737
Letter: T. Dunn, Norfolk to Wm. B. Hall, regarding Binns, Cargill, Eldridge and Jones families
1938 July 31
Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144739
Letter: T.B. Dunn, Norfolk, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
1938 August 1
Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147561
Box 5: Folders 27-32
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 27 id144742
Heath Family
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 27 id144743
Typed copy, "The Nicholson Family" Chapter I-IV
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 27 id144745
Heath family- oversize, handwritten partly and typed partly
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144747
Heath Family
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144749
Oversize data (typed) "The Heath Family of England and Virginia" by Mrs. James Gilbert Tanner
1924
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144752
Letters to Mr. Nicholson from Miss Mary Mason Heath
1929-1938
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144755
Letter to Mr. Nicholson from Augusta B. Fothergill, Richmond
1936
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144757
Letter to Mr. Nicholson from Dr. Lyon G. Tyler, Lions Den
1926
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144760
Family Bible Records: Heath, Peebles, Rives, by Miss Jennie Heath, Petersburg
1930 September
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144763
Notes in longhand
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144767
Heath Family
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144769
Correspondene of Miss Mary Mason Heath, Washington, with Lee Nicholson
1930-1937
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144771
Typed chart of Baird family
1749-1924
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144773
Handwritten notes of Lee Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 30 id144776
Heath, Chappell, etc. Notes
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 30 id144778
Small book: long hand notes on Malone, Chappell, Peebles, Baird, Dobie, Gee, Mason families
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 31 id144781
Jarratt Family
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 31 id144783
Small book, longhand notes on Jarratt family
1922
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144785
Jarratt Family
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144787
Letter to Mary A. Stephenson from Lee Nicholson regarding children of Henry and Elizabeth Magett Jarratt
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144791
Long hand chart in Lee Nicholson's handwriting of Jarratt descent from Henry Jarratt
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144794
Chart giving descent from Richard Blow, Sr., Sussex County.
1762
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144796
Ellis genealogy longhand
1634-1798
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144798
Longhand notes by Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 6 id147562
Box 6: Folders 33-38
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144800
Jones Family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144803
Marriage permit of Richard S. Jones and Susan E. Scott, Perry County, Alabama
1838 June 26
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144805
Chart of the Briggs and related families (oversize)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144806
Typed pages (17)
1693-1754
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144808
Excerpts from Surry Co. record books on Jones family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144811
Typed chart: Bolling- Jones- Edwards families and supplement
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144813
Branches of Jones family: Epes, Hardaway
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144815
"Jones Family of Petersburg"- typed
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144818
Peter Jones of Amelia- typed
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144820
Notes from Northampton Co., N.C. on Joneses
1765-1790
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144822
D.A.R. application of Mrs. Th. N. Jones, Smithfield.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144824
Longhand notes- marriages in Sussex County
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144826
Letter from Surry County Court to Nicholson, regarding John Jones' will.
1936
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144828
Jones coat of arms (typescript)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144833
Application to the Louisiana Society of the Colonial Dames of America of Mrs. John N. Stewart (Edwa Hellwege)
Scope and Contents
Ancestors: Major General Abraham Ward, Major Peter Jones 1st, Captain Peter Jones 2nd.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144836
Records from Thomas B. Dunn regarding Jones Cargill, Branch families
Scope and Contents
His line, also, from Col. George Reade; also Batte charter baron ancestors (in folder and typed).
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id144838
Jones Family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id144840
Letter from Dr. Wm. M. Mastin, Mobile, Alabama to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
1923
Scope and Contents
Content regarding Jones, Clairborne, Withers, Mitchell and other families of Petersburg and Dinwiddie County, Va.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id144844
Transcript from Brunswick County Court Records regarding Binn Jones' will; father, mother, wife & children; wife's will
1791; 1832
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145153
Letter from Branch Dunn, Halifax, to Lee Nicholson
1934
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145156
Chart showing descent from Richard Jones II and application to Colonial Dames
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145158
Longhand notes on Nottoway Co., Va
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145160
Letter from Mrs. R.D. Gilliam, Petersburg, Va. to Nicholson
1926
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145164
Land Family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145167
Regarding Lands of Sussex and Greensville Counties, Va
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145169
Letter from Dora H. Goodwin, Emporia, to Lee Nicholson
1923
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145179
Letter: Carrie S. Stark, Petersburg
1926
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145181
Letter: W.R. Land, Greensboro, to Mrs. Dora Goodwyn
1923
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145186
Letter: Mrs. Goodwyn, Emporia, to Lee Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145188
Typescript "Genealogy of the Land Family" by W.R. Land, Greensboro, N.C.
1923
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145190
Will of Maj. Robt. W. Land of Greensville, wife: Sally and son: Thomas Speed Land, an infant
1810
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145194
Indenture: Nathaniel Land of Greensville to Ch. Potts and wife
1880
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145197
Other court records
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145199
Military service of Robert W. Land
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145202
Military service of John Clayton
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145204
Letter: Clayton Torrence to Lee Nicholson
1920 October 8
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145206
Chart of Edmunds and Edwards family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145207
Mallory Family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145209
Letter Lucille G. Pleasants, Los Angeles, to Lee Nicholson
1931
Scope and Contents
Regarding Parham and allied families.
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145212
Typed notes and chart of Nicholson family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145215
Longhand notes on Nicholson family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145217
The Nicholson coat of arms (typed)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145219
Small book with longhand notes on Mallory, Batte, and allied families
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145221
Longhand notes on above
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145223
Letter: J.J. Temple, Prince George Co. to Lee Nicholson, regarding Heath and Mallory wills
1925
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145225
Clipping on Batte and Mallory families (typed copy)
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 37 id145228
Mallory Family
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 37 id145230
Book- Longhand notes on Mallory family and kin
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 38 id145232
Mallory, Booth, Jones, Penick, etc. Notes
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 38 id145235
Book- Longhand notes on Mallory, Booth, Jones, Penick, etc. families and kin
Mixed Materials Box: 7 id147563
Box 7: Folders 39-40
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145236
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145245
List of Mason Land Grants
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145247
Miss Mary M. Heath, Washington, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
1930
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145250
By date genealogy and biography of John Y. Mason
1799-1859
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145252
Land grants to Mason (V.S.L. general index)
1623-1774
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145254
Letter: Mrs. Williams, Hopewell, to Nicholson listing her children, births and marriages
1921
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145258
"From Virginia- A Historical Reminiscence in the Old Dominion" Richmond
1867 February 1
Scope and Contents
Gives description of General Winfield Scoott's old home in sight of Dinwiddie C.H. home: Village View- Burying ground of Scotts
to rear of house…
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145264
"A Heraldic Description of the Scott, Mason, and Jones coat of arms by Nicholson" (a booklet)
1919
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145267
Legal paper: affidavit of John Goodrun as to Capt. James Mason's service in Revolution
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145270
Mason records from Bible of Emily Boykin Wingfield
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145276
Notes on Rives, Mason, Chappel and Briggs families and connection with General Scott
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145277
Typescript of will of James Mason, Greenville, Co., Va
1784
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145278
Typescript of will of John Mason
1783
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145279
War record of James Mason of Virginia
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145280
Many letters to Mr. Nicholson from various members of the family giving kinship of Masons to Blows, Chambliss, Batte, etc
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145282
Printed pamphlet "The Public Life and Diplomatic Correspondence of James M. Mason" by Virginia Mason, his daughter.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145283
A list of all Mason deeds recorded in Lunenburg Co., Va., clerk's office
1746-1800
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145284
Will of Henry B. Mason, Sussex Co. (typed)
1817
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145357
Will of Littleberry Mason, Sussex Co. (typed)
1800
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145358
Will of Lucy Ann Mason, Sussex Co. (typed)
1846
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145359
Will of John Mason, Sussex Co.
1802
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145360
Will of Jane Mason, Sussex Co.
1804
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145361
Will of John Mason, Sussex Co.
1783
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145362
Deed, Peyton Mason of Prince George Co., Va. to John Peebles- land in Greensville Co., Va.
1821
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145363
"Copy from Chancery Papers at Emporia, Va., Greensville Co." (typed)
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145364
Suit: Edmunds Mason and Robert Mason, infants, vs. John Mason, infant, by Wm. Harrison, guardian
1789
Scope and Contents
Suit regarding will fo John Harrison of Sussex Co. (d. 1776). Wm. Harrison one of executors.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145365
Other typed pages on Masons of Sussex and Greensville
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145366
"The Briggs Family" (typed) from Henry Briggs Surry Co.
1635
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145367
"Col. David Mason's Heirs Certified" at Greensville Co. Court.
1839
Scope and Contents
Died interstate 1792 leaving 9 children: Littleberry, Thomas, Nath'l, Elizabeth, Mary, Rebecca, Littleton, William and Henry.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145368
Marriage permit Greensville Co., Peyton Mason and Martha H. Turner
1808
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145369
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145370
Pencil tracing of Mason coat of arms (oversize)
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145371
Letter. Mrs. Archer Anderson to Lee Nicholson regarding Mason family (Mrs. Anderson was Mary Mason)
1918 November 17
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145688
Letter. Mrs. Archer Anderson to Nicholson regarding Young family, and Mason's marriage 1792
1920 December 9
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145691
Chambliss data: Col. John R. Chambliss mar. Sarah Blow of Sussex.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145695
Typed copy of will of Harry Flood, Surry Co.
1729
Scope and Contents
Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson, wife of Robert Nicholson who was exec. of Harry Flood. The Nicholsons had 6 children (1739)-
Henry, Robert, Mary, George, James, and Anne.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145697
Affidavits regarding Scott, Mason families
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145700
Joseph Daniel Mason's line of ancestry (typed)
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145705
"Judge John Young Mason's line of ancestry" (typed), with letter from W.G. Stanard, Va. Hist. Soc. attached.
1919
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145708
Letter. Lyon G. Tyler, Williamsburg, to Nicholson regarding Masons.
1918 April
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145709
Typescript: "Record of Trial of Slayer of Col. David Mason, from Sussex Co. records 1820"
1820; 1813
Scope and Contents
3 pp. Also, marriage bond of Col. David Mason and Lucy Davis, Sussex Co., Va.
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145710
Many letters from various branches of Mason family to Lee Nicholson (25 or more)
Mixed Materials Box: 8 id147564
Box 8: Folders 41-43
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id145711
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id145712
Letter. Eliza C. Rucker, Bedford, to Lee Nicholson regarding "Col. David Mason's family. Henry Williamson and Rebecca Mason's
descendants."
1931 October 13
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146246
Letter: Tiffany & Co. New York to Lee Nicholson regarding "Description of Coat-of-Arms of Scott, Mason, Nicholson and Mallory
families"
1919 August 13
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146248
Typescript: "A Heraldic Description of the Scott, Mason and Jones (and Nicholson) coat-of-arms."
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146256
"Chart of Mason Family from Sir John Mason of England" (oversize)
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41, 41A id146258
Mason family Bible records from Mrs. W.H. Cole's Bible. 7 pp.
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146260
Mrs. Fletcher's records
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146262
Children of Judge John Young Mason & Mary Ann Foot
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146264
Several dozen letters from various members of the Mason family giving records
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146270
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146274
Letters: Jos. D. Mason, New York to Lee Nicholson, regarding Mason family
1918-1928
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146276
Family of Dr. Thomas Field Scott
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146278
Family of Dr. Wm. Baker Scott
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146279
Buford family records by E.P. Buford
1912
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146283
Copy of Mason data lent by Mrs. A.M. Jones of Mobile
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146285
Copy of Mr. W.G. Stanard's letter to Gertrude Mason
1896 June 6
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146300
Copy of Rebecca Thweatt La Monte's letter with references
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146302
Typed (11 pp.) Gregory family
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146304
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146317
Typescript, 4 pp. Dr. George Mason ancestry, of 'Pleasant Shade," Greenville Co., Mrs. Jones' ancestry, Mrs. Archer Anderson's
ancestry
1902
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146329
Typescript, 2 pp. Jos. D. Mason, New York to Lee Nicholson.
1927
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146332
Early Virginia immigrants by Greer
1623-1666
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146336
Letter J. D. Mason, N.Y. to Lee Nicholson.
1926 September 6
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146338
Jones family data by Branch Dunn (typed 14 pp.)
1934
Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146340
Correspondence- many letters- from various members of family to Mr. Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 9 id147565
Box 9: Folders 44-48
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146341
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146437
Children of Edmunds Mason and Frances Young. 1 p.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146438
Chart, longhand: "The Mason family of Albemarle Parish"
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146439
Will of John R. Mason of Sussex- lived at "Windsor," Sussex Co.
1826
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146440
Letter: Lee Nicholson to Mr. C.K. King, Harriman, Tenn. "Review of Mason family" (5 pp. typed)
1926 June 14
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146441
Letter; Peyton Turner, Emporia, to Lee Nicholson. Regarding: Turner- Chambliss family (3 pp. typed)
1927 April 19
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146442
Mrs. Wm. R. Todd's Mason Ancestry (2 pp. typed)
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146874
Downman family ancestry by T.B. Dunn
1934
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146878
Dr. John Raines Mason family (longhand)
1796-1815; 1799-?; 1793-1828; 1820
Scope and Contents
Henry Mason of "Laurel Spring", Capt. John Raines Mason, Dr. John Raines Mason, graduate of Edinburg University, married Lucy
Davis
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146881
Many letters to Nicholson regarding branches of Mason family
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146883
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146885
History of Mason family (longhand, oversize)
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146886
Photographs of home of Col. David Mason
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146889
Photographs of home of Major John Mason near Joseph Swamp, Sussex Co.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146890
Letter: W.G. Bean, Dean of W. & L. University to Nicholson regarding John Young Mason- sketch for D.A.B.
1930 January 14
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146894
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146896
Letter. Lee Nicholson to Mrs. Fothergill regarding Heath family and connections, Mason family and connections, and Cargill
family and connections.
1929 September 1
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146902
Children of Martha Wingfield and Thomas Field (typed 4 pp).
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146904
Mason genealogy (oversize)
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146906
"Report of searches made in quest of ancestry of Capt. John Mason of Surry Co. 1715"
1715
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146909
"The Mason family, by Mrs. Fothergill"
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146910
"Dobie Genealogy" (longhand)
1929
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146911
Mason Family
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146912
Oversize chart- Mason family
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146913
Land owned by Capt. James Mason as shown in his will.
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146914
Chart of descendants of Christopher Rives by his son John Rives
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 48 id146915
Mason, Briggs, Batte, Epes
Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 48 id146916
Notes by Lee Nicholson, in black notebook
Mixed Materials Box: 10 id147566
Box 10: Folders 49-53
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146917
Mason, Daugherty, Cobb, and Blow Families
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146920
Records in brown envelope of: (following envelope-items were removed from envelope) Mason, Westry, Cobb, and Blow families
Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146965
Records copied from old Drumwright family Bible.
1877
Scope and Contents
Thomas J Drumwright m. Nancy W. Blow February 11 1836. Alex Blow m. Elizabeth M. Jarrad April 20 1809 (Alex Blow, son of Henry
Blow and Rebecca born 1788). Elizabeth M. Jarrad, daughter of Henry Jarrad and Margaret B., b. June 28, 1784. Nancy W. Blow,
daughter of above born 1812, February 20. George Blow Drumwright, son of T.J. and Nancy W., was born 1850, June 18;