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Preferred Citation

Samuel Powell Byrd Papers, Manuscript MS 39.4, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Gift, 1939.

Alternative Form

Also available on microfilm M-1553. Some items transcribed TR/60.

Biographical/Historical Information

Dr. Samuel Powell Byrd was the son of William Byrd, IV and Susan Lewis. Samuel P. Byrd was married to Catherine Corbin who died in 1838. He then married Mary Lewis Brooke. Byrd live at White Hall in Gloucester County, Va.

Scope and Content Information

Letters and accounts of Dr. Samuel Powell Byrd (1807-1863), of Gloucester County, Va., his stepson, William L. Fauntleroy, and his son, Richard C. Byrd, including accounts with Jesse Cole, Nicholas, Vest & Company, B. E. Bucktrout, W. W. Webb & Company, W. W. Vest & Company, and T. B. Taliaferro for medical supplies, household goods, clothing, and furniture; papers regarding S. P. Byrd's notes held by Roscow Cole and Lemuel Bowden; and letters to S. P. Byrd from William Fauntleroy and J. A. Deneufville. Also, two letters from Thomas Marshall to his son, John Marshall (1811-1854), who married Richard C. Byrd's daughter.

Index Terms

Family Names:

• Byrd family.

Persons:

• Bowden, Lemuel Jackson, 1815-1864.
• Bucktrout, Benjamin E., d. 1839.
• Byrd, Richard C., b. 1837.
• Byrd, Samuel Powell, 1807-1863.
• Cole, Jesse, d. 1845.
• Cole, Roscow.
• Deneufville, John Augustine, 1763-1838.
• Fauntleroy, William L., b. 1829.
• Marshall, John, 1811-1854.
• Marshall, Thomas, fl. 1823-1824.
• Taliaferro, T. B.

Subjects:

• Dry-goods--Virginia.
• Merchants--Virginia--Williamsburg.
• Physicians--Virginia--Gloucester County-- Correspondence.

Corporate Names:

• Nicholas Vest and Company.
• W. W. Vest and Company.

Geographical Names:

• Gloucester County (Va.)
• Williamsburg (Va.)