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Guide to the Austin-Twyman Papers Mss. 69 Au7


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Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
Mss. 69 Au7
Title
Austin-Twyman Papers 1765-1939
Quantity
27.50 Linear Feet
Quantity
Creator
Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837
Creator
Horsley family
Creator
Spiller family
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation:

Austin-Twyman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchased: 10,706 items, 1969.


Scope and Contents

Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.

The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances (Austin) Wright.

Correspondents of Archibald Austin include William H. Cabell, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Yancey, Waller Taylor, George Booker, and Robert T. Hubard.

Subjects include the War of 1812, national politics and the business of the Virginia General Assembly. Papers include correspondence of Archibald Austin's son-in-law, Doctor Iverson Lewis Twyman (1810-1864) who married first, Mary Lavinia Horsley and second, Martha E. Austin. His correspondence concerns slavery, farm management, the study and practice of medicine and the education of his children whose letters are also part of the collection. His children were Iverson Lewis Twyman (1849-1921), John Austin Twyman, Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Samuel Rogers Twyman (concerning Twyman genealogy), Augusta Giles Twyman and Mabel Booker Twyman.

Austin twyman papers collection 1765-1865 Amherst and Buckingham Counties is available on 35 reels of microform in Swem Library's Microforms area call number HD1471 .U5 R43

Papers also contain a few items concerning the Horsley family and much correspondence and many accounts of James Madison Spiller, a friend of Dr. Iverson Lewis Twyman and the father-in-law of Iverson Lewis Twyman, Jr. The collection includes several items relating to Peter Francisco, Revolutionary War hero; materials relating to the James River and Kanawha Canal; letters pertaining to the Civil War; accounts and legal documents concerning Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Botetourt, Buckingham, Campbell, Cumberland, Goochland, King and Queen, Nelson, Powhatan and Prince Edward Counties; genealogical materials relating to the Austin, Booker, Byrd, Clark, Gaines, Lewis, Montague, Rogers, Twyman and Walker families; and miscellaneous material consisting of poetry, religious manuscripts, recipes, memoranda and photographs.

Arrangement of Materials:

Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series: Series 1 contains letters, Series 2 contains the James River and Kanawha Company papers, Series 3 contains accounts and legal papers, Series 4 contains genealogical material, and Series 5 contains manuscript volumes. Arrangement: This collection is arranged into series and then subseries. These subseries are arranged by family names, then by individual name and finally by date. Also available on microfilm University Publications of America.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Account books
  • Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Austin family
  • Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837
  • Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Correspondence
  • Francisco, Peter, d. 1831
  • James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)
  • Legal documents
  • Manuscripts (document genre)
  • Medicine--Practice--Virginia
  • Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia
  • Slavery--Virginia--19th century
  • Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century
  • Slaves--United States--Correspondence
  • Slaves--Virginia--Correspondence
  • Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions
  • Twyman family
  • United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States--History--War of 1812
  • Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates

General

Additional information may be found at: http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00045.frame

Physical Characteristics or Technical Requirements:

When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.


Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Austin, Archibald, 1772-1837
  • Francisco, Peter, d. 1831

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Amherst County (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century

Container List

id162114
Series 1: Letters
1765-1939 and undated
Scope and Contents

Letters are filed in chronological order within each folder. Consequently, there may be more than one letter in the folder written by the person listed in the inventory and also, the letters written by this person may not be filed together within the folder. If the researcher is interested in a person, look throughout the folder. If the researcher is interested in a subject, each letter by the person writing about the subject must be looked at make sure all of the information about the subject has been seen. This series is divided into subseries by family name.

  • id162115
    Subseries 1.1: Letters to, from, or about the Austin Family
    1800-1888
    • id162116
      Archibald Austin
      1808-1837
      Scope and Contents

      22 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id163265
        Letters by Archibald Austin
        1812-1820
        Scope and Contents

        5 items. Includes letters to Thomas Leland, John Austin (concerning a survey of James Breckenridge's grant). William A. Perkins and Robert Garland.

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id163266
        Letters by family to Archibald Austin
        1808-1837
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Includes letters by James Austin (brother, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Grace R. Austin (wife), James M. Austin (son, concerning candidates for House of Delegates in election of 1837), Bernard Austin (son, while studying at an unidentified college which he compares to Hampden-Sydney College; and concerning his law practice and that of his father; and politics), John Austin (son).

    • id163267
      The Archibald Austins
      1800-1853 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      72 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 3 id163268
        Letters by family to the Archibald Austins
        1840-1853 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Includes letters by Bernard Austin (to his mother asserting his independence in regard to a marriage choice and concerning his leaving Virginia), B. G. Booker (brother of Mrs. Austin, concerning his move to the West), I. L. Twyman (asking assent from Grace R. Austin to marry her daughter), Eliza B. Austin, Susan Austin (ensalved woman), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman.

        Susan Austin letter, 18 July 1851 includes transcription of the letter.

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 4 id163269
        Letters by others to the Archibald Austins
        1800-1815
        Scope and Contents

        8 items. Includes letters by James Walker (concerning inoculation), William H. Cabell, Waller Taylor, Thomas McCleland (sending French clover seed from Botetourt Co., Va.), Jeremiah Weaver (money owed for a racehorse and carriage horses), Samuel P. Christian (soldiers from Buckingham County stationed on Craney Island in War of 1812), George Booker (written 26 March 1814, while serving with troops east of Lynnhaven), Gideon Spencer (asking Archibald Austin to run for Congress).

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 5 id163270
        Letters by others to the Archibald Austins
        1820-1829
        Scope and Contents

        19 items. Includes letters by Richard Dabbs (setting up a schedule for preaching), Charles Yancey (written 10 February 1820, concerning session of General Assembly and the Missouri Compromise), Waller Taylor ([several items] Florida Question; Missouri Compromise; death of Stephen Decatur; insanity of John Randolph of Roanoke; Daniel D. Tompkins; opinion of Henry Clay; fear of Jackson and Calhoun; and election of John Q. Adams), Walter L. Fontaine (written 30 January 1821, concerning business of the General Assembly), Ro. B. Jones, Isham Talbot (laying off the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama; description of Alabama; his crops), S. Branch, Samuel C. Scott, John Fauntieroy, A. Caldwell.

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 6 id163271
        Letters by others to the Archibald Austins
        1830-1834
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Includes letters by A. White, Hampden-Sydney College (monthly report), George Booker (concerning business of General Assembly and revision of Virginia Court System in 1831), Stephen Hubbard, E. Booker (concerning anti-tariff convention to be held in Philadelphia September 1821), J. Mills, C. Fontaine, John W. Haskins, Samuel Ford, James W. Bouldin.

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 7 id163272
        Letters by others to the Archibald Austins
        1835
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Includes letters by George Booker (declining to run again for House of Delegates), Charles Yancey (declining to run again for House of Delegates), John Morgan (asking Archibald Austin to run for House of Delegates), James Bouldin (discussing his mailing list to constituents), M. C. Spencer, P. P. Smith, Stephen Hubbard, C. Fontaine, H. Lipscomb, Samuel Ford.

      • Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 8 id163273
        Letters by others to the Archibald Austins
        1836-1850 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Includes letters by P. P. Smith, P. H. Fontaine (news of politics in Washington and Virginia in 1836), Ro. T. Hubard, Thomas McCoy (concerning Bernard G. Austin), W. P. Mosley, University of Virginia (monthly report), Thomas H. Merryman, W. C. Nicholas.

    • id163274
      Archibald Austin, Jr.
      1843-1862
      Scope and Contents

      7 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 9 id163276
        Archibald Austin, Jr.
        1843-1862
        Scope and Contents

        Letters by Archibald Austin, Jr.

    • id163278
      Bernard Gaines Austin
      1840-1856
      Scope and Contents

      17 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 10 id163279
        Bernard Gaines Austin
        1840-1856
        Scope and Contents

        Letters by (and to) Bernard Gaines Austin. Concerning his life in Missouri; and an operation by Doctor [John Peter] Mettauer. To brothers and to Dr. I. L. Twyman.

    • id163280
      Frances (Austin) Wright
      1847-1881 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      111 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 11 id163281
        Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright
        1849-1881
        Scope and Contents

        29 items. Payment for hire of slave Beverly while he was in the woods. Possible sale of slaves to pay off debt. Letters written to John Austin while he was attending the University of Virginia. Family going to the Centennial on borrowed money. News of the centennial. Reconstruction.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 12 id163282
        Letters by Frances (Austin) Wright
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        64 items. Concerning a homesick overseer, preparations for Christmas; food; clothes; hiring and selling of slaves; plants for the yard; slaves weaving cloth and making shoes. Slave Beverly.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 13 id163283
        Letters by others to Frances (Austin) Wright
        1847-1871 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        18 items. Includes two slave letters (Mary to her mother and father; and Lucy Patterson to Beverly, her son). Includes letter, 7 May 1859, of R. Elariage stating he has no objection to a slave marriage and endorsing the prospective husband. Letter outlining how to manage the estate of Archibald Austin ['If we lose when we own the negroes, how much more loss we would sustain when the negroes are hired."] and what has transpired financially since Austin's death twelve years previously including the sale of forty-three slaves. Also letters written from Virginia Female Institute, Staunton, Va.

    • id163284
      George B. Austin
      1848-1888 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      14 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 14 id163285
        George B. Austin
        1848-1888 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        Letters by George B. Austin. Also 2 letters to George B. Austin, 1847 and 1853. Sale of slaves; price of slaves in Richmond in 1854 and Austin's life as a schoolteacher in West Virginia.

    • id163286
      Grace Austin
      1864-1865 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      6 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 15 id163287
        Grace Austin
        1864-1865 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        Letters to Grace Austin. Hiring of slaves in February 1865; and religion.

    • id163288
      John Austin
      1845-1850 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      26 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 17 id163289
        Letters by John Austin
        1850-1851
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Studying medicine at the University of Virginia and at Philadelphia College of Medicine. Hiring out of enslaved persons.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 18 id163290
        Letters by others to John Austin
        1845-1851 and undecided
        Scope and Contents

        14 items. Letters written by J. L. Cabell (describing location of rooms at University of Virginia and recommending Austin), Charles J. Gee (concerning studying medicine and University of Virginia) and Thomas W. Hix (concerning studies at Philadelphia College of Medicine). Hiring of enslaved persons.

    • id163291
      Martha Austin
      1840-1848 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      5 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 19 id163292
        Martha Austin
        1840-1848 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        Letters to Martha Austin, (before her marriage in 1848 to I.L. Twyman - see that file). Letter describing wedding plans and a cap.

    • id163293
      Thomas Austin
      1838-1875 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      29 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 20 id163294
        Letters by Thomas Austin
        1853-1875
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Family rift. Letters, 25 July - 5 September 1861, written by Austin while serving in [Company E, 21st Virginia Infantry Regiment.]

      • Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 21 id163295
        Letters to Thomas Austin
        1838-1870 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        18 items. Includes letter about Civil War, 1861, from S. E. Austin, wife of Dr. James M. Austin and letters, 1838, written by Thomas F. Perkins concerning University of Virginia. Other letters concern hiring slaves to work on railroad and runaway slave.

  • id163296
    Subseries 1.2: Letters to, from, or about the Twyman Family
    1811-1937 and undated
    • id163297
      Iverson L. Twyman
      1829-1864
      Scope and Contents

      513 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 22 id163298
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) of Amherst and Buckingham Co., Virginia
        1838-1839
        Scope and Contents

        6 items. Includes letters to Miss Mary Lavinia Horsley (1838), Mrs. Mary Lavinia Horsley Twyman, capt. Robert Horsley, Miss Rebecca P. Horsley. (See letter, 4 March 1839, to Lavinia Horsley concerning eastern Tennessee).

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 23 id163299
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1840-1848
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Includes letters to Capt. A. W. Flippin, Capt. Harrington, George B. Austin, Martha E. Austin (written during her engagement to Twyman), Mrs. Martha E. Twyman (concerning the practice of medicine; care of a slave's child while she is in the field; sudden death of a slave mourned both as loss of property and as loss of a member of the family; and sale of slave " [?] will tell the negroes and send them to crying and howling."

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 24 id163300
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1849
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin, Thomas Austin (concerning Rebecca Horsley), Grace B. Austin, Bernard Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman, John Austin (hire of the slave Beverly; suggests taking him to a slave trader to see how much he would give for him to know whether to sell him or hire him out).

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 25 id163301
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1850
        Scope and Contents

        5 items. Includes letters to Daniel Woodson, Glass & Woodson, Lynchburg, Va., Thomas Austin, John Austin. Advice to John Austin concerning the study of medicine. Selling of slaves.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 26 id163302
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1851
        Scope and Contents

        19 items. Includes letters to John Austin (writing a thesis for Austin while Austin is studying medicine in Philadelphia; hiring of slaves), Thomas Austin, Mrs. Martha E. Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 27 id163303
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1852-1853
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Includes letters to Martha A. Twyman, Frances A. Austin (concerning hiring of slaves), John Austin, Thomas Austin, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift), M. M. Pendleton.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 28 id163304
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1854-1855
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Thomas Austin (concerning sale of a slave child), Martha E. Twyman (concerning a division of slaves; advice on raising their son; selling slaves), B. M. DeWitt, W. M. Cabell, Iverson L. Twyman ([b. 1849] encouraging him to learn to read.)

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 29 id163307
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1856-1860
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Includes letters to James M. Spiller, Dr. Isaac Hays, R. S. Ellis, Dr. W. A Horsley (concerning cure for tapeworm), Orville Allen, Gen. Ro. A. Banks (politics), Gen. A. Brown, D. A. Snow (termination of a female schoolteacher's school because of her opinions on the hanging of the John Brown conspirators), Jno. Thompson.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 30 id163310
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1861-1864
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Civil War comments in letters to Thomas Austin, J. M. Spiller, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849), J. B. McCaw (war injury of an Alabama soldier), Martha E. Twyman (concerning his illness and stay at Coyner's Springs), Col. R. H. Gilliam.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 31 id163311
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        8 items. Includes note concerning trying to make slaves look better before they are sold.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 32 id163314
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1829-1839
        Scope and Contents

        14 items. Seth Woodruff (buying slaves in Richmond and taking them south), P. G. Gillum (concerning medical studies in Philadelphia), W. N. Rodes (Tennessee life), Orville Allen, B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 33 id163316
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1840-1842
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Includes letters from F. Hopkins, Samuel Jackson (medical advice), Chas. P. Lee, George S. Thornton (study of medicine in Philadelphia), William H. Diggs.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 34 id163319
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1843-1844
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, John Early (1786-1873), Anthony Thornton, John H. Rodes, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, Pa., Andrew White, Benjamin White.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 35 id163321
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1845
        Scope and Contents

        5 items. Includes letters from Benjamin F. Rodes, F. T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), A. Pamplin, Shelton F. Leake, and B. M. DeWitt.

      • Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 36 id163324
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1846
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, F. Hopkins, Jessie T. Agee, J. B. Reswick & Co., David B. Phelps, S. C. Banks, H. Mongomerie, Julia DeWitt, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Western Asylum), G. T. Thornton. Letters concern hiring of slaves.

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 37 id163326
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1847
        Scope and Contents

        14 items. Includes letters from Geo. T. Thornton (concerning his courtship), B. M. DeWitt (concerning his financial condition), Martha M. Phillips, P[aulus] Powell ([1809-1874] Congressman), James Alexander, D. T. C. Peters, V. Mosby.

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 38 id163329
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1848
        Scope and Contents

        18 items. Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt (concerning George T. Thornton; and the Richmond Examiner), V. P. Mosby, John G. McClanahan, Daniel P. Woodson, James M. Harris, S. P. [Vauter ?], D. P. Gooch, Seth Woodruff (evaluating slaves), W. A. Payne, Charles Scott (by Robert Pleasants), Anthony Thornton.

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 39 id163331
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1849
        Scope and Contents

        18 items. Includes letters from George T. Thornton (concerning Paulus Powell), James Brown (concerning a slavetrader, Samuel Rees), James M. Harris, E. Wingfield, D. P. Gooch, W. A. Payne (concerning possibility of gonorrhea among slaves), Andrew White, D. C. Jones, W. T. Young, Frances Rogers, E. Franklin, Jr. William H. Brown.

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 40 id163333
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1850
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Includes letters from DeWitt H. White (concerning his medical practice), R. B. Gooch (concerning The Southern Planter), W. C. Jordan (granting permission for his slave to marry one of Twyman's slaves if Twyman approves), [Meem ?] Gwatkin, Thomas Robert, Anthony Thornton (concerning George Thornton), David S. Kaufman (describing Texas), Daniel Woodson (concerning Texas), R. D. Palmer, unidentified writer (concerning candidates for Convention for 1850; and poisoning by slaves), Bennitt M. DeWitt (concerning Richmond Examiner), E. A. Palmer, J. B. Strong (concerning hiring slaves).

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 41 id163336
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1851
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Includes letters from Robert A. Stephens (concerning hiring slaves), William M. Blackford, [?] Hopkins, Daniel Woodson (concerning east-west plit of Virginia), Benjamin Winter, Ritchie & Dunnavant, R. Strabler & Co.

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 42 id163338
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1852
        Scope and Contents

        13 items. Includes letters from James D. Watts (asking Twyman to act as a protector and advisor to Watt's slave), R. C. Woody, Nathaniel Woodhouse, F. M. Cabell, L. Brown, Zullock & Crenshaw, Seth Woodruff (asking for slave to be delivered so she can be sent south with others), William N. Chick, William M. Cabell, J. W. Cameron, Mary M. Cameron.

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 43 id163341
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1853
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Includes letters from H. Mundy (his medical studies at University of Virginia; and death of John Austin), Smith Bosworth, L H. Wingfield, B. M. DeWitt (concerning family rift; and editing newspaper in Alabama), Thomas A Carter (punishment of slave), Silas P. Vauter, Joseph Kyle, R. W. Shaw (hiring slave), George T. Thornton, John F. White, B. Gildersleeve, Jackson L. Thornton (concerning George T. Thornton), James M. [Fulks ?], Jno. F. Hix (hiring slaves).

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 44 id163343
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1854
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Includes letters from J. B. Scott (illness of slave), Smith Bosworth (hiring slave), John C. Mundy (medical studies at University of Pennsylvania), James E. Horner (hiring slave), W. H. Perkins (meeting of General Assembly), Samuel Scott, J. B. Wilkinson (hiring slaves), Jefferson Mays, George T. Thornton (his medical practice), Jesse L. Wilkinson, Benjamin S. Vawter (his medical studies at University of Virginia), R. H. Dickinson & Brother (evaluation of slaves), Jno. S. Cocke, Robert H. Gray (hiring slaves to work on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad).

      • Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 45 id163346
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1855
        Scope and Contents

        30 items. Includes letters from A. M. Montgomery (hiring slaves to lay railroad track), Dickinson, Hill & Co. (value of slaves), Pulliam & Davis (value of slaves), James D. Watts (illness of slaves), George G. Curle (hiring of slaves), Jno. W. Haskins, M. F. Perkins (hiring overseer), L. H. Wingfield, George T. Thornton, James M. Cunningham (his illness), Walter S. Dunn ([of James River and Kanawha Canal]; runaway hired slaved), Francis A. Blu[?], W. P. Hill (appointing Twyman delegate for Medical Society of Virginia to National Medical Association in Philadelphia), William M. Cabell, George B. Thurman, B. M. DeWitt, J. C. Mundy, James B. Hargrove, L. H. Wingfield, A. N. Montgomery, W. T. Anderson, L. P. Mercer, James M. Fulks, Smith Bosworth.

      • Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 46 id163450
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1856-1858
        Scope and Contents

        34 items. Includes letters from J. C. Mundy, Taliaferro & Hamilton, S. F. Lucado, N. F. Bocock (runaway slave), B. M. DeWitt, James M. Harris (hire of slaves; runaway hired slave), J. D. Damson, Lewis H. Wingfield, A. Hopkins, Charles R. Shepard, H. Wilson Hix (hire of slave), Lawson G. Tyler (sending slave nurse), John Harry (his illness), James Bolton (treatment of injured eye), David R. Lew, Isaac Hays (treatment of injured eye), Adie Gray, Th. F. Perkins, Eliza Spencer, Mary Miller, D. M. Pulliam & Co. (sale of runaway slave), James M. Fulks (hire of slave), S. J. Woolridge, Elizabeth A. Harvey, Mayo Cabell, R. T. Ellis, Jr., William J. Spencer (overseer of the poor, Buckingham Co., Va.), William D. Cabell (hire of slave and his treatment.)

      • Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 47 id163451
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1859-1860
        Scope and Contents

        35 items. Includes letters from Absalom (slave letter), W. Gill (concerning slave Absalom), James M. Harris (hiring slaves for James River and Kanawha Canal), Robert A. Banks (politics), L. D. Mercer, R. H. Gilliam, Doctor James Bolton, Jordan Taylor (health of slave), D. H. Landon, J. Lawrence Meem, Alfred Iverson (concerning geneology of Iverson family), J. L. Thornton (illness and death of George T. Thornton), M. G. C. Long, W. M. Woodward, Adeline A. Sands (applying for teaching position), E. J. Snow (her firing as teacher), D. A. Snow (for A. Snow concerning firing of E. J. Snow), Hableston & Bro., T. Lyon, A. M. Ford(applying for teaching position), Mary F. Dandridge, John G. Meem, M. E. Walsh (negotiating and accepting teaching position), Lucy C. Bondurant (applying for teaching position), E. H. Gill (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), Ada B. Bocock.

      • Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 48 id163452
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1861-1862
        Scope and Contents

        Includes letters from B. M. DeWitt, W. P. Mosley (candidate for Secession Convention), McCorkle & Co. (hiring enslaved persons), E. H. Gill (hiring enslaved persons for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad), unidentified writer (hiring of enslaved persons), Ella T. Watson (her education), C. Emma Moore, James M. Harris, Lucy C. Bondurant, William Knabe & Co. (piano), John G. Meem, Conrad Freimann (piano), Peter R. Patterson, C. A. Preots (Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), James L. Stephens, Robert (Keats?), L. D. Jones, T. T. Omohundro, E. H. Gill, R. H. Gillam, John Farriss (hiring enslaved persons), Elsom Bro. & Co., Howardsville, Va., Jacob Garrett, H. M. Bondurant, Robert L. Ragland, John H. Bondurant (hiring enslaved persons), Judith B. Smith, Charles R. Ackerly, Z. G. Wood, Sarah S.. Carnifer, Wilson Hix (to Martha (Austin) Twyman), Thomas P. Childress, Mary Clegg (applying for teaching position), R. S. Powers.

      • Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 49 id163453
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1863-1864
        Scope and Contents

        Includes letters by Thomas Dodermead (hiring slaves for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co.; runaway hired hand, Beverly); "A Methodist" (concerning a teaching position; she studied at Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute), W. A. Turner (hiring slaves), Jno. J. Riggins (teaching), Bocock & Parrish, John W. Wingfield (paymaster for Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, hiring slaves), Mary (Annis?) DeWitt (illness of B. M. DeWitt, bears letter of J. C. Mundy), Jno. F Hix (death of B. M. DeWitt), Mary A. Morris (requesting that her husband be re-committed to Western State Asylum), R. B. Shaw, Jr. (speculating that Lee may attack Hooker), Samuel Read (Confederate government's hiring of slaves), J. A. Hefelfinger (Coyner's Springs), Adeline A. Sands (teaching position), Hetty R. Gillam, N. F. Bocock, Stabler & Jones, C. Amanda Hix, J. L. Thornton (describing Union raid in Orange County, Virginia), Robert Atkinson, Hill, Dickinson & Co., Richmond, Virginia, (price of slaves), R. P. Pattison, W. W. Forbes (hiring slaves for Joseph R. Anderson & Co. Tredegar), Brown & Deane, Richmond, Virginia (scarcity of schoolbooks), E. A. Cabell, Thomas F. Perkins (school), Julia E. DeWitt, W. M. Jerdone (his school), Alfred Hughes, A. Brooks (Confederate cavalryman from Georgia).

      • Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 50 id163454
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        36 items. Includes letters by George T. Thornton, J. M. Harris, Jno. F. Hix, Cambridge Austin (slave letter), James Jones, Ths. M. Watson, E. A. Cabell (hiring slaves), Mrs. E. H. Gill, L. D. Jones, Th[omas] Wilson Hix, V. P. Mosby, Francis A. Blair, R. S. Ellis, Jr., Benjamin F. Rodes, E. H. Gill, William D. Hix, E. D. Moore, Jesse A. Watts (at the University of Virginia), Bennitt M. DeWitt (family rift), George W. Clark, O. A. (speech by Governor Barbour), W. C. Jordan (describing how to build a hot bed to grow potatoes), M. F. [Perkins ?], Doctor James Bolton (from Twyman), P[aulus] Powell, Hiram C. Kyle, [?] Austin, L. W. Cabell.

    • id163455
      Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
      1848-1891 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      218 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 51 id163456
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1848
        Scope and Contents

        7 items. Includes letters to Frances Austin Wright (mother's female illness; an alleged malingering and burglarizing female slave; fixing new clothes to sell a slave in; sewing slave clothing; selling of slaves), John Austin (fixing up slaves to sell), mother Grace R. Austin (having teeth fixed - bears letter of Iverson Lewis Twyman to George B. Austin).

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 52 id163457
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1849-1850
        Scope and Contents

        7 items. Includes letters to sister Grace Austin, Frances Austin (family rift), John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 53 id163458
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1851-1869
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (letter, 13 September 1853 bears letter of Frances A. Austin concerning slave leaving to visit his wife). Other letters concern dressing slaves up to sell them and slave Beverly apparently with Confederate Army during Gettysburg Campaign), James M. Spiller, R. S. Ellis, Jr. (to Martha Twyman), J. Avis Bartley and Sarah F. Harris.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 54 id163459
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1870-1871
        Scope and Contents

        25 items. Includes letters to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921), concerning her worry about him, the education of his brothers and sisters, an umber mine on her farm, and sharecropping with freed blacks. Includes a letter to James A. Wright and one letter from Mabel Twyman to her brother Iverson Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 55 id163460
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1872
        Scope and Contents

        27 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller and a letter from Mabel B. Twyman. Includes a draft of a letter to C. L. Cocke concerning Hollins Institute.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 56 id163461
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1873
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concerns the family's poverty and her concern over the sale of family land. Includes a letter to Mary Spiller.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 57 id163462
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1874
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Concerns the family's poverty and money owed to West & Agee which may force the sale of her land.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 58 id163463
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1875-1877
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern over her son's safety.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 59 id163464
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1878-1879
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Written to her son Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921). Concern the family's poverty and her concern for her son.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 60 id163465
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1880-1890
        Scope and Contents

        13 items. Written to her son John Twyman. Includes letters to John Twyman from Sam Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman and Augusta G. Twyman and a letter of Martha E. (Austin) Twyman to Iverson L. Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 61 id163466
        Letters by Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        6 items. Written to Iverson L Twyman (1810-1864). Frances (Austin) Wright, Nannie [?], John Austin, Iverson L. Twyman (b. 1849) and Grace Austin.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 62 id163467
        Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1849-1869
        Scope and Contents

        25 items. Includes letters from L. J. Payne, W. C. Jordan, an unidentified woman (complaining of verbal abuse by slaves), Penariah Layne, Samuel McCorkle, M. A. Robertson, Kate F. Evans, I. B. Garden (sprinkling of chloride of lime about the [slave] cabins to prevent the spread of fever), W. M. Cabell, Samuel Read (hire of slave by Confederate States Army), [James M. Spiller ?], Junius E. Leigh, James Avis Bartley, Seymour W. Holman (bears engraving of Washington College now Washington and Lee University), Internal Revenue Service (enclosing bank income tax form for 1868) and William J. Spencer.

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 63 id163468
        Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        1870-1891
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Includes letters from E. A. Carter, James M. Harris, Seymour W. Holman (concerning Iverson Twyman's courtship of a Georgia woman), Charles Lewis Cocke (concerning his deduction for indigent students and his standard for hiring teachers at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), N. F. Ellis, [Sue Asa Washington ? - former slave ?], J. S. Tompkins (at Hollins Institute [now Hollins College] sending his treatment for typhoid fever), M. N. Cabell (concerning will of James M. Wright).

      • Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 64 id163469
        Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        23 items. Includes letters from R. S. Ellis, Jr., Nannie F. Ellis (concerning Hollins Institute [now Hollins College]), L. C. P., [John Dismuke ?], George J. Hundley, M. A. Robertson, Eliza M. Eldridge (bears draft of a letter to [?] concerning the hiring of a teacher), M. K. Cabell, Amanda [?], N. A. Moseley (concerning a slave marriage), K. M. Perkins, and Samuel B. Partin.

    • id163470
      Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
      1861-1921
      Scope and Contents

      390 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 65 id163471
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1861-1871
        Scope and Contents

        26 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia) to father Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864), mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances A. Wright, [?] Gill (draft, 5 July 1871, of a love letter), and sister Augusta Giles Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 66 id163472
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1872
        Scope and Contents

        21 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Georgia, from New Orleans and while moving to Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Dan [?], Hank [Frances A. Wright], Uncle Paschal Twyman, Fannie [?], Annie [?] (love letter), James M. Spiller, M. Edwards.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 67 id163473
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1873
        Scope and Contents

        19 items. Includes letters written (while teaching school in Texas) to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?] (love letter), [?] Lowe, Augusta Giles Twyman, John Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 68 id163474
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1874
        Scope and Contents

        14 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, Annie [?], John Twyman, Alice Johnson (love letter), Letter, 14 September 1874, concerns Texas and Black persons.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 69 id163475
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1875
        Scope and Contents

        8 items. Includes letters written from Texas to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Frances (Austin) Wright, John A. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, William Dixon, Augusta Giles Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 70 id163476
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1876
        Scope and Contents

        28 items. Includes letters written to mother Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta Giles Twyman, John A. Twyman, Samuel A. Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 71 id163477
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1877
        Scope and Contents

        30 items. Includes letters written from Texas to Augusta Giles Twyman, John Austin, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Hank (Frances A. Wright), Mabel Booker Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 72 id163478
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1878
        Scope and Contents

        30 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Thomas Austin, Augusta Giles Twyman, Miss Yelverton, John A. Austin (concerning Greenback Party).

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 73 id163479
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1879
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Includes letters (written from Texas) to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Mabel Booker Twyman, Emma Buson, Thomas [?], Albert Langley. Last letter in folder written from Virginia.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 74 id163480
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1880
        Scope and Contents

        6 items. From Virginia to brother John in Nashville, Tennesse. One letter bears composition "Management of Common Schools" and another bears note of M. E. Twyman asking her son not to drink.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 75 id163481
        Letters by Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1881
        Scope and Contents

        28 items. Include letters from Virginia to brother John Twyman in Nashville (where he is attending college at State Normal College, now Peabody College) and in Texas. Two letters bear letters of Augusta Giles Twyman. Letters concern Readjuster politics in Buckingham County. "The Readjusters all over the county voted for the negro [Shed Dungee] and John Eldridge says he is prouder of that one act than of any other in his whole life." Lists other individuals who voted for Dungee. Turkey and deer hunting.

      • Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 76 id163482
        Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1882-1887
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Letters to brother John Twyman in Texas. Concerns Mabel Booker Twyman leaving State Normal School (Peabody College) and Eben Sperry Stearns. Includes letter to Antonia (Spiller) Twyman (whom he married in 1884). Letters to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman and a letter, n.d., to J. Avis Bartley.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 77 id163483
        Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1867-1871
        Scope and Contents

        5 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman, John A. Twyman. Also includes letters from J. W. Fishburne to W. J. Moseley, B. F. Outze and J. R. Taylor concerning I. L. Twyman and Twyman's teaching certificate, 1871, issued in Meriwether County, Ga.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 78 id163484
        Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1872
        Scope and Contents

        14 items. Includes letters written by Seymour W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), Fannie [?], Stanley P. Mosley, Addie M. Walker, W. W. Wisdom, a school agreement drawn up by Twyman and letters of recommendation written by Holman concerning Twyman's qualifications to teach school.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 79 id163485
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1872-1874 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        25 items. Love letters from Miss Annie Vickers (See also folders 66-68 for drafts of Twyman's letters).

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 80 id163486
        Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1873
        Scope and Contents

        30 items. Includes letters from J. L. Lowe, Seymour W. Holman, W. P. Moseley, Mary P. Moreland, Gussie Moreland, W. H. Richardson (to George J. Hundley concerning appointment of John A Twyman to VMI), P. H. Dunson, J. P. Philpott, Wilson, Hinkle & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio (concerning schoolbooks), Hattie Harris, A. M. Johnson, Maggie Harris, A. M. Johnson, L. D. Forbes. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 81 id163487
        Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1874
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Includes letters from W. M. Thornton, George J. Hundley, John M. Colby, J. W. Fishburne, M. Washington, C. F. Scott. Letters concern teaching school.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 82 id163488
        Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1876-1877
        Scope and Contents

        20 items. Includes letters from R. F. Mills, Jno. T. Blalock, Thomas F. Lewis, Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, W. B. Blalock, W. L. Price, and letters concerning Twyman's church membership and letters of recommendation. Includes a teaching certificate for Limestone, Texas.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 83 id163489
        Letters to or about Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1878
        Scope and Contents

        24 items. Includes letters from Seymour W. Holman, (letter, 8 May 1878, concerns lynching of a black), W. P. Moseley, Rush G. Kimball, James B. Thurman, Thomas Waters, S. P. Moseley, Fanny Prendergast, Laura Rogers. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 84 id163490
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1879
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Includes letters from M. E. Robertson, H. Beall, Albert Langley, C. P. Estill, Jno. F. Blalock, R[ush] G. Kimball, Henry L. Holman. Letters concern Mexia, Texas and teaching school.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 85 id163491
        Letters to Iverson L. Twyman (1849-1921)
        1880
        Scope and Contents

        4 items. W. T. Williams, S. W. Holman (of Mexia, Texas), F. P. Moseley, S. A. Moreland (bears letter of Holman), J. P. Philpott, Bass Williams, letter of recommendation of Twyman signed by citizens of Buckingham.

    • id163492
      John A. Twyman
      1871-1937 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      383 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 86 id163493
        Letters by John A. Twyman
        1871-1906
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Letters to Iverson L. Twyman bear letters from Samuel R. Twyman and Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, concerning family's poverty and his desire for an education; two people in jail for whipping children to death. Letter (draft) to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston , State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and teachers certificates signed in 1902-1905 by Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.

      • Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 87 id163494
        Letters by John A. Twyman
        1907-1930 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        21 items. Includes copies of letters to Joseph Dupuy Eggleston concerning a controversy over the location of a school; copies of love letters to ""Miss Smith"" in December 1907 - January 1908 and copies of love letters to Josephine White, December 1922 - January 1923.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 88 id163495
        Letters to and about John A. Twyman
        1875-1880
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Includes letters from William Merry Perkins, N. A. Moseley, J. R. Blackburn, Eben S. Stearns (concerning Twyman's attendence at State Normal School, now Peabody College) and William S. Eldridge. Includes teachers certificates. One letter is to Iverson L. Twyman from John M. Colby concerning sale of Lee's Reminiscences.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 89 id163496
        Letters to and about John A. Twyman
        1881
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Letters to Twyman in Starrville, Texas concerning State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody), from Charles W. Bache, E. G. Littlejohn, Jr., J. S. Dobbins.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 90 id163497
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1882-1899
        Scope and Contents

        7 items. Letters to him in Texas and Virginia. Includes letters from Joseph E. Dobbins, E. G. Maller, J. A. Mundy, E. W. Twyman, [W. M. or Wm.] Cabell. Concern State Normal College, Nashville, Tenn. (now Peabody) and dissension in Mulberry Grove Church, Buckingham County.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 91 id163498
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1900-1905
        Scope and Contents

        6 items. Includes four letters from Miss Sally M. Smith (see folder 87 for copies of his letters to her) and C. M. [Feigenspan ?].

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 92 id163499
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1906
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James M. Thomas, Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Courtney Irving, William G. Ransom. Includes letter, 11 January 1906, concerning Sally M. Smith (see folders 91 and 87).

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 93 id163500
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1907 January - February
        Scope and Contents

        34 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. from James S. Thomas, Walter R. Smith, A. L. Smith, Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Virginia Education Exhibit of Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, E. H. Russell, James S. Thomas, J. S. Jarman (president State female Normal School, Farmville, Va., now Longwood College).

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 94 id163501
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        March - December 1907
        Scope and Contents

        32 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Willis A. Jenkins (concerning Jamestown Exposition), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, James S. Thomas, William G. Ransom, Willie Sue Nicholas, Calva Watson, Lila Waller Duval, Charles M. Robinson, J. W. Hebditch, Hattie E. Forbes (concerning Sally M. Smith).

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 95 id163502
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1908
        Scope and Contents

        26 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools in Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Calva Watson, Willie Sue Nichols, A. L. Pitts, L. O. Prince, Jno. W. Prince, James S. Thomas, Love Hardy, Joseph D. Eggleston, J. W. Hebditch, G. W. Patteson, Wm. G. Ransom, Lila Waller Duval, Courtney Irving, W. B. Forbes, C. J. Morris, W. W. Haskins.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 96 id163503
        Letters to and about John A. Twyman
        1909
        Scope and Contents

        23 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include James B. Thomas, James H. Dilliard (concerning Jeanes Fund for black teachers), Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, T. E. Williams, Agnes White, H. Blankinship, Edna Wright, A. W. Carter, W. G. Edwards, Jackson Davis, Annie C. Coleman, A. W. Moore. Includes petitions requesting Twyman's reappointment as Superintendent.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 97 id163504
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1910-1912
        Scope and Contents

        8 items. Includes letters to him as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include O. J. Morgan, Nannie Baldwin, Calva Watson, Anna Roy[ster ?] Rogers, Eliza [?] (deciding not to marry Twyman because if her mother's objections), Plummer F. Jones (Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va.)

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 98 id163505
        Letters about John A. Twyman
        1913
        Scope and Contents

        50 items. Letters to State Board of Education from W. L. Boatwright, A. H. Clement, A. C. Garnett, George Braxton Taylor, E. V. Anderson, A. S. Hall, Frank P. Brent, Sands Gayle requesting that Twyman be appointed again as school superintendent in place of Plummer F. Jones. Includes petitions.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 99 id163506
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1914
        Scope and Contents

        22 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. and to R. C. Stearns, Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction. Correspondents include Florence L. Pettit, W. W. Haskins, Joseph W. Everett, Jno. B. Terrell, C. G. Baughan, R. F. Andrews, D. A. Christie, Jackson Davis, Joe B. [Davis ?], Sands Gayle, C. J. Holsinger, E. E. Worrell.

      • Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 100 id163507
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1915
        Scope and Contents

        19 items. Include letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Everett E. Worrell, H. L. Webb (to W. W. Haskins), Joseph W. Everett, R. C. Stearns. Includes regulations and grading system of Arvonia High School, 1915-1916.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 101 id163508
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1916-1926
        Scope and Contents

        22 items. Letters written to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Harris Hart, J. A. C. Chandler (asking that teachers be paid even though school sessions were shortened because of the influenza epidemic of 1918), Chandler & Blakey, Jno. P. McConnell, G. L. Brown, Arthur D. Wright, W. W. Haskins, George Braxton Taylor, Olivia L. Wyson (to P. P. Glover), Harris Hart (to Frank T. West), Josephine White, [Edward ?] C. Spencer, Polly Garnett Saunders, nan Edwards, James W. Wigginton, Harry F. Byrd (concerning Shenandoah National Park). Includes wedding announcement; and minutes, 1925, of Democratic County Committee.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 102 id163509
        Letters to and about John A. Twyman
        1927
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Include letters to Twyman as Superintendent of Schools, Buckingham County, Va. Correspondents include Claude R. Wood, W. J. Hubard, G. L. Morris (and A. J. Terill and A. W. Carter to Morris), Edyth Jenkins, Carey M. Scales, R. S. Burruss, A. H. Trent.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 103 id163510
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1928-1929
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Letters concerning Anti-Smith Democratic Movement. Correspondents include Lewis Twyman, J. Sidney Peters, Frank B. Dunford, G. W. M. [Taylor ?], J. Dwight Martin, James Cannon. Includes speech by T. N. Hass.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 104 id163511
        Letters to John A. Twyman
        1930-1936
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Mostly concern Republican party politics. Correspondents include Dr. P. E. Tucker, L. F. Harris, Emmett D. Gregory, J. W. Blackwell, Harry F. Byrd. Includes broadside, 1930, entitled "Notice to the Republican voters of Buckingham County."

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 105 id163512
        Letters to John A. Twyman (in Miami, Florida)
        1937 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        21 items. Correspondents include Grover Hudgins, Cora Wood, Lilliam Eldridge, Russell Moon, Gertrude Sadler, Harry Byrd, Carter Glass, Rebekah Ellis, Hunter McGuire (dictated), Charles M. Barrell. Letters from Byrd and Carter Glass thank Twyman for opposition to packing U. S. Supreme Court.

    • id163513
      Samuel Rodgers Twyman
      1871-1930 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      229 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 106 id163514
        Letters by Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1871-1877
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. To his brother Iverson L. Twyman or John A. Twyman. Concern family's poverty.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 107 id163515
        Letters by and about Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1881-1930
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Includes letters to John A. Twyman, 1881-1882. Other letters concern Austin and Twyman genealogy.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 108 id163516
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1879-1906
        Scope and Contents

        18 items. Correspondents include Addison Spencer, Alice H. Bagby, L. F. Walker, W. R. Twyman, Iverson Twyman (of Bonham, Texas), Lizzie Twyman, C. Humphry, Julia Shipp, W. G. Stanard (concerning membership in the Virginia Historical Society), Lou. E. Twyman, John M. Daniel, Sm. L. [Clothworthy ?], John Lamb. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 109 id163517
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1907-1909
        Scope and Contents

        32 items. Correspondents include R. L. D. McAllister, Robert O. Garrett, Thomas M. Green, H. J. Eckenrode, William F. Bagby, Carl A. Lewis, John C. Underwood, George Braxton Taylor, Mrs. F. Handy, Anna Royster Rogers, James Y. Lloyd, Jno. W. Richardson, W. R. Twyman, E. V. Anderson, H. R. McIlwaine, George E. Booker, Lillie Beall Lewis, Ruth Beall, Jackson Davis (bears letter of Plummer F. Jones), E. W. Twyman. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 110 id163518
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1910
        Scope and Contents

        22 items. Correspondents include Ruth Beall, Sands Gayle, H. Silverthorn Co., Benjamin Twyman, M. A. Twyman, H. R. McIlwaine, H. J. Eckenrode, Nusbaum Book & Art Co., Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Daphne A. Carter. Concern genealogical inquiries on Twyman family and Twyman crest.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 111 id163519
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1911
        Scope and Contents

        26 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman, Nusbaum Book & Art Co., Champ Clark, Margaret Huff (paper bears Twyman-coat-of-arms), D. W. Twyman, Jr., Thomas S. Martin, Leila C. Handy, Mrs. M. A. Twyman, Ruth Beall, Jno. C. Underwood, G. W. D. Twyman, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Sands Gayle, Lillie Geall Lewis. Concern genealogical inquiries on the Twyman family.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 112 id163520
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1912
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Jno. C. Underwood, The Genealogical Association [William A. Crozier], Benjamin Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (in Rome, Italy), Margaret H. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 113 id163521
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1913-1914
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Correspondents include Leila C. Handy, Anna Roy[ster] Rogers, Jno. C. Underwood, Ruth Beall, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.

      • Mixed Materials box: 10 Folder: 114 id164332
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1915-1916
        Scope and Contents

        14 items. Correspondents include Benjamin Twyman (enclosing photos), Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, H. D. Flood (concerning statue in Richmond to George Rogers Clark), J. M. Street, Laura K. Crozier, [?] Nichols, Fannie Twyman Gilbert. Concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 115 id164333
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1917-1919
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Lewis Twyman, Margaret Huff, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, I. M. S., William Ellyson (for State Mission Board of Baptist General Association), W. R. Boyd, Jr. (League to Enforce Peace), David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League and pamphlet - Liquor vs. Life: Anarchy vs. Law by George W. McDaniel. Letters concern World War I, Influenza Epidemic of 1918.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 116 id164334
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1920-1923
        Scope and Contents

        22 items. Correspondents include Mary Twyman Klayder, Ruby M. Naylor, Oliver J. Sands, H. R. McIlwaine, Julia Twyman, George E. Booker, Duval Porter, C. M. Barrell, Effle E. Carney, Mrs. R. J. Gilbert, Arthur Kyle Davis, David Hepburn (Anti-Saloon League), Julien Gunn, J. H. Lewis, J. E. West, L. E. Mauch, Mildred Jones Lewis (concerning Lewis Association). Many letters concern genealogical inquiries of Twyman family and death of Augusta Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 177 id164335
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        1924-1925
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Correspondents include Nettie [?], Mrs. Richard Floyd burke, James William Wigginton, Ruth Beall, Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert, Buford Twyman, Mary Twyman Klayder, H. F. Byrd (announcing his candidacy for governor), Eula May Burke, George Braxton Taylor, W. J. Hubard (concerning Lee Last Camp Association.)

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 118 id164336
        Letters to Samuel Rogers Twyman
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        8 items. Correspondents include Kate M. Cannon, Margaret Beale, James Lewis (English dog postcard), Lillie [?], Jamie Rouston Boulware, Kate M. Cannon, Mary T. Klayder.

    • id164337
      Augusta G. Twyman
      1863-1920 and undecided
      Scope and Contents

      84 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 119 id164338
        Letters by Augusta G. Twyman
        1871-1879
        Scope and Contents

        23 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning teaching and the family's poverty), Bettie [?], Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, [Seymour W.] Holman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 120 id164339
        Letters by Augusta G. Twyman
        1880-1885
        Scope and Contents

        31 items. Letters written to Iverson L. Twyman, Mabel B. Twyman, Samuel R. Twyman, Addie Walker.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 121 id164340
        Letters to Augusta G. Twyman
        1863-1920 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        30 items. Letters written by Louise E. Twyman, Daphne [?], Benjamin Twyman, V[irginia] Aldridge, S. F. Kitchen, Lucy Twyman (describing Episcopal Home in Richmond), M. V. Scruggs, M. M. Ellis, M. G. Carter, Ella Watson, Julia W. [Viditz?], L. F. Walker, [Nettie ?] Wright. Includes booklet (The Light of Christmastide).

    • id164341
      Julia Twyman
      1914-1920
      Scope and Contents

      17 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 122 id164342
        Julia Twyman
        1914-1920
        Scope and Contents

        Letters by and to Julia Twyman. Correspondents include her mother, Uncle John Twyman, letter of recommendation of her as a teacher, Florida teaching certificates, M. Gordon Twyman while studying law at the University of Virginia.

    • id164343
      Mabel B. Twyman
      1872-1895
      Scope and Contents

      46 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 123 id164344
        Letters by Mabel B. Twyman
        1872-1895
        Scope and Contents

        29 items. Correspondents are Iverson L. Twyman, John A. Twyman (one letter bears note by Iverson L. Twyman; most letters written while she was attending State Normal School, Nashville, Tenn., [now Peabody College]), Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Augusta G. Twyman (concerning Mabel Twyman's ill-health, Dr. Edward McGuire, Dr. Hunter McGuire, streetcars in Richmond), Dr. Hunter McGuire.

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 124 id164345
        Letters to Mabel B. Twyman
        1886-1895
        Scope and Contents

        Letters written from Nellie [?].

      • Mixed Materials box: 11 Folder: 125 id164346
        Miscellaneous Twyman material
        1811-1937 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Photograph of Jack Twyman (as Lorenzo in "Merchant of Venice"), spiritual autobiography (copy), 1811, of George Twyman. Letters of Julia [?] and A. S. H. to Mary Lavinia Twyman, Alexander H. Sands (to Dr. William P. Twyman), Lizzie Twyman, Ben Twyman, Mrs. John Eldridge and Grover Hudgins to Lewis Twyman, Emmett D. Gregory, M. Gordon Twyman (to Edith Twyman and Julia Twyman), Mrs. M. V. Ayres, Belle [?] to Pa.

  • id164347
    Subseries 1.3: Letters to, from, or about the Horsley Family
    1834-1859
    • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 126 id164348
      Various Horsley Letters
      1840-1849 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      5 items. Letter of E. P. Richardson to sister Ann S. Horsley, 1840, concerning qualms of her husband concerning slavery; letters, undated, of A. E. Horsley, letters, 1849 and n.d., of F. C. Horsley to Iverson L. Twyman (concerning his not being appointed to faculty of U. Va. : "The faculty always intended to make their selections from the lower classes...They wanted to conciliate ragtag & bobtail because ragtag & bobtail vote for the delegates and the delegates vote for the annuity); John Horsley to James M. Spiller.

    • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 127 id164349
      Mary Lavinia Horsley
      1837-1838 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      5 items. Letters, 1837 and n.d., written by Mary Lavinia Horsley to Henry Rodes. Letters, 1837-1838, of Henry A. Cabell and Henriann Cabell to Mary Lavinia Horsley. Mary Lavinia Horsley was the first wife of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864). They were married in Nov. 1838; she died in 1844.

    • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 128 id164350
      Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin
      1853 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      6 items. Letters, 1853 and undated by Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to Geo. B. Austin (concerning her separation from Austin) and to Iverson L. Twyman concerning her separation. Letters to Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin.

    • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 129 id166634
      Various Horsely Lettters
      1834-1853
      Scope and Contents

      7 items. Correspondence, 1834-1853, of Robert Y. Horsley with to Iverson L. Twyman, Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin, George Austin and Lorenzo Norvell. Includes letter of Rebecca P. (Horsley) Austin to George B. Austin.

    • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 130 id166635
      Doctor William A. Horsley
      1838-1859
      Scope and Contents

      7 items. Correspondence, 1838-1859, of Doctor William A. Horsley with Iverson L. Twyman (concerning Horsley's study of medicine at MCV) and William H. Summerell (concerning graduation at a medical school in Philadelphia).

  • id166636
    Subseries 1.4: Letters to, from, or about the Spiller Family
    1837-1889
    • Various Spiller Letters
      1849-1882, and undatedEnglish
      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 131 id166637
        Various Spiller Letters
        1851-1883 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. 2 letters, Margaret Miller to Antonia (Tony) Spiller, 1868-1869. (In 1884 she married Iverson L. Twyman [1849-1921]. Letter, undated, by Hampden Spiller to George Spiller. Letters, 1851-1883 & undated, of Mary Frances Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman [bear letters of J. M. Spiller], Mrs [?] Bocock and letter, 1903, by F. G. Woodson to Mary F. Spiller.

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 149 id166656
        Various Spiller Letters
        1850-1882
        Scope and Contents

        8 items. Letters written by or addressed to Sue M. Payne, Caroline Spiller, Emma Spiller, H. B. Spiller, J. H. Spiller, James Spiller, P. H. Spiller, I. L. Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 132 id166638
        Various Spiller Letters
        1849-1855 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        36 items. Letters, 1849, by G. A. Spiller to I. L. Twyman and James M. Spiller, George Spiller (while a student at VMI in 1862, working for New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad, Mobile, Ala., Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Jackson, Tennesse; Texas Investment Co., Ltd., Fort Worth, Texas; Cattle Raisers Association, Jacksboro, Texas; Daily and Weekly Gazette, Fort Worth, Texas) to James M. Spiller and Mary Francis Spiller. Letters, 1855- , written to George Spiller by Charles B. Stewart, J. A. Kinnter, C. W. Figgat, L. W. Frazer, John Dooley.

    • id166639
      J. M. Spiller Letters
      1837-1889
      Scope and Contents

      219 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 133 id166640
        Letters by J.M. Spiller
        1847-1849
        Scope and Contents

        9 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller, Guard Lock No. 4, James River & Kanawha Canal. One, 2 October 1848, is a detailed account of appearance and conversations of Thomas Hart Benton. Other letters concern politics, [Spiller's hatred of Whigs], slavery ["I did not intend you to make a cook of Sally. Please leave her to herself to attend to the cows and her business - the women who suckle can and must cook"] and requesting Twyman's aid in keeping Spiller's sister from going back to her former husband.

      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 134 id166641
        Letters by J.M. Spiller
        1850-1853
        Scope and Contents

        13 items. Letters written by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman and George B. Austin concerning slaves (buying and selling) and farm management.

      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 135 id166642
        Letters by J.M. Spiller
        1854-1855
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Letters of J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman (one letter bears letter of Mary F. Spiller to Twyman), John H. Johnson, William McCorkle, H. Johns.

      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 136 id166643
        Letters by J.M. Spiller
        1856-1864 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Iverson L. Twyman, Pauline V. Reid, Virginia J. McDowell, William A. Glasgow. Letters concern Civil War.

      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 137 id166644
        Letters by J.M. Spiller
        1865-1880
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Letters by J. M. Spiller to Martha E. (Austin) Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman, and S. M. Bocock, concerning Reconstruction, povery of Twyman family and Readjusters.

      • Mixed Materials box: 12 Folder: 138 id166645
        Letters to J. M. Spiller
        1837-1858
        Scope and Contents

        18 items. Letters from C[hapman] Johnson, George Booker, F. Jones, John A. Cooke, Josiah Samuel, Charles T. Bocock (concerning separation from Sarah Ann (Spiller) Bocock (concerning disposition of slaves and her ex- husband Charles T. Bocock), Mathew McDaniel, Henry Loving (concerning settling Balc people in Ohio), Holison Johns, Walter Gwynn, Eliza Carrington, John J. Grasty.

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 139 id166646
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1859-1861
        Scope and Contents

        24 items. Letters written by Eliza H. Carrington, D. P. Gooch, J. D. Davidson, H. C. Snyder, Reuben Sorrel (disposition of slaves), B. T. Stanley, N. H. Massie.

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 140 id166647
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1862-1869
        Scope and Contents

        21 items. Letters written by A. H. Benson (of 11th Va. Infantry Regiment ?, bears drawing of engagement at Dranesville, Va., 20 December 1861), B. C. Megginson, N. F. Bocock, B. M. DeWitt, J. D. Davidson, T. Henry Thompson, [?] Rowland, Jones & Miller, Lynchburg, Va., F[rancis] H[enney] Smith (concerning supplies in 1865 for Virginia Military Institute), H. S. Lochery, George T. Lyle, John S. Grasty, B. Gould, A. C. Smith, Hall A. Winston & Co., Baltimore, Md., E. F. Blair.

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 141 id166648
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1870-1872
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Letters written by J. W. Walkup, Ben A. Donald (describing his recommendations for stuccoing), B. C. Megginson, Edward J. Chaffin, W. A. Deas (treasurer of VMI), Jno. K. Watkins, B. Gould, John T. Bocock, Charles A. Davidson, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister).

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 142 id166649
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1873-1876
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Includes letters from John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), S. M. Bocock, Elliott Spiller (while student at Hampden-Sydney College and including report) and M. N. Hylum (bears seal of and concerns Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Va.)

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 143 id166650
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1877
        Scope and Contents

        23 items. Many letters about death of Elliott Spiller by gunshot wound at Hampden-Sydney College. Other letters concern Patrons of Husbandry, State Grange of Virginia. Correspondents include John A. Preston, William M. McPheeters, J. M. Blanton, D. W. Sparks, M. N. Hayburn, J. M. R. Sprinkel, Charles J. Jones, C. M. Reynolds, John F. White, L. T. Wilson, Frank G. Ruffin, William B. Cowper, Mary E. K. Damson, J. B. Seeley, Snow & Johnson, [n. p.]

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 144 id166651
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1878-1879
        Scope and Contents

        10 items. Letters written by A. F. Robertson, John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), William Mahone (calling a conference of Readjusters), Fannie Hamilton.

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 145 id166652
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1880-1881
        Scope and Contents

        11 items. Letters written by John T. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), John F. White, William E. Cameron, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning election of ? and his own office in state government), J. M. Reynolds.

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 146 id166653
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1882-1883
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Letters written by John F. White (d. 1883), S. V. Reid, Mary Jasper Bocock, John S. Grasty (Presbyterian minister), Dr. James Madison Blanton, Jno. Henry Loving, George Hylton, William A. White.

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 147 id166654
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1884-1887
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Letters written by Fleming Harris (former slave in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio), Charles J. Jones, J. M. Harris, S. T. Young, Ro[bert] F. Mays, W. G. Payne, William L. Royall, R. W. Glass, Catherine E. Phelps, William Mahone (letters, 25 June 1886 and 16 October 1887; concerning tariff and providing campaign strategy to Joseph B. Buhoman in his race against [?] Figgatt).

      • Mixed Materials box: 13 Folder: 148 id166655
        Letters to J.M. Spiller
        1888-1889 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        15 items. Letters written by Catherine E. Phelps, R. W. Glass, William Mahone (Republican patronage), W [Skeny ?], Fulvia [?], P. H. McCaull, Robert M. Hudson, C. W. Humphreys, Elliott Spiller, James Spiller (grandson).

  • id166657
    Subseries 1.5: Miscellaneous Letters
    1769-1930 and undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 150 id166658
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1796-1809
      Scope and Contents

      16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Dudley Brooke, Edward Cunningham, Joseph Curd, Joseph Davis, Alexander Fulton, James Govan, Mary (Twyman) Greenwood (b. 1733 - copy), Micajah [?], Henry McClurg, Jonathan Maxey, Richard North, Richard C. Potter, Richard Phelps, Thomas Pleasants (Quaker), Charles H. Saunders, John Seayres, Reuben Sims (issuing slave pass), George Twyman, Dr. James Walker, Willis Wills, Hill & Rea.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 151 id166659
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1810-1819
      Scope and Contents

      20 items. Letters written by or addressed to Christopher Anthony, John Baskerville, J. Bolling, David Bondurant, Jeffrey Bondurant, George Booker, Thomas Boulware, William Dunford, Henry Flood, Walter L. Fontaine, Charles Garrote (or Garrott), James T. Hubard, Ben Maxey, Jacob Maxey, Jonathan Maxey, Zachariah Nevit, J. Pittman, Thomas E. Pleasants, Philip Slaughter, John Taylor of Caroline (2 letters written by him), Mutual Assurance Society, Messrs. Scott & Gilliam, Ca Ira, Va.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 152 id166660
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1820-1829
      Scope and Contents

      22 items. Many letters are permissions for slaves to join Mulberry Grove Baptist Church or are letters of dismissal from churches. Include letters written by or addressed to George Booker, James Christian, John Couch, R. Eldridge, Jr., Levy Gibson (petition to get out of jail), J. P. Gipson, D. Guerrant, William Horsley, James T. Hubard, James Jones, W. B. Jones, Peter Klipstine, Richard G. Morris (agrees to slaves being baptized, but objects to their being immersed in November), William Moseley, William P. Moseley, Mildred Rose, Poindexter P. Scott, Seymour Scott, Frances W. Talbot, Isham Talbot, Frances W. Taylor, M. P. Thomas, Jno. M. Walker (bears opinion of Benjamin Watkins Leigh), Gilbert Walker, Warner Williams, Charles Yancey, and the Mulberry Grove Baptist Church.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 153 id166661
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1830-1839
      Scope and Contents

      13 items. Includes letters concerning slaves joining the church. Letters written by or addressed to W. Alexander, [?] Austen, William H. Carter (slave Patty), [?] M. Hollingsworth, Josias Jones, Thomas Jones, S. H. Laughlin, Jacob Maxey, William B. Maxey, R. E. Moseley, Reuben B. Patterson (slave), Charles Perrow, Robert A. Phelps, Robert Rives, Moses Spencer (concerning slave) and Lewis C. Tindall (concerning slave).

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 154 id166662
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1840-1849
      Scope and Contents

      13 items. Letters written by or addressed to James Brown, E. W. Cabell, Jno. Crews, Mr. and Mrs. crews (invitation), B. M. DeWitt, Julia DeWitt, P. A. Forbes, Richard H. Gambria (Western State Lunatic Asylum), Elizabeth Glover, Charles Perrow, Margret S. Phillips, W. H. Plunkett, Webb, Brown & Co., [?] and a letter concerning Frederick C. Horsley's application for a position at the University of Virginia.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 155 id166663
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1850-1859
      Scope and Contents

      31 items. Letters written by or addressed to John M. Atkinson, Robert Atkinson, Sarah Austin, Anika Blew (black and perhaps slaves), Dr. James Bolton, [?] Breckinridge, F. M. Cabell, John B. Childers, Bennitt DeWitt, Samuel H. Dunn, Susie Ford, W. Franklin, James M. Fulks (hiring slaves), Sarah J. Garland, Joseph Grow, Jno. F. Hix, W. Hix, Joseph Kyle, Marcus T. C. Loving, Samuel McCorkle, W. A. Miller, [?] Moseley, R. D. Palmer, Peter S. Parker, J. W. Randolph, James H. Rodes, V. W. Southall, Jno. R. Thompson, Charles C. Tucker (land warrant claims), Iverson L. Twyman (concerning eye injury of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.), George C. Walton, Jno. Walton, Seth Woodruff (selling of slave girls) & McCorkle, Simpson & Jones.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 156 id166664
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1860-1869
      Scope and Contents

      28 items. Letters written by or addressed to Ben (slave working on Richmond defenses, 14 August 1864), Ada Bocock, [?] Brownes, Eliza H. Carrington, R. A. Coghill, N. F. Ellis, Richard Ellis, James H. Fitzgerald, P. A. Forbes (concerning escape of Bennett Dodge from Central Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Va.), H. M. Garland, Jr., William A. Glasgow, J. H. Howell, R. R. Irving, Jeter & Dickinson, Kensey Johns, Harry O. Locher, Samuel McCorkle, A. D. Martin, Doctor John Peter Mettauer, B. G. Morris, Charles Y., Morris (concerning turning in names of all slaves aged between eighteen and fifty-five: 9 February 1864), William F. Oliver (commanding Davidson's Battery and concerning service record of Jessie A. Peters), Camm Pattison, Peyton, Cary & Co., Samuel Read, Jno. J. Riggins, Robert Shaw, Francis T. Stribling (superintendent of Central Lunatic Asylum), J. L. Thornton, Dr. [?] Walton (concerning Robert A. Gilliam, Co. F, 18th Virginia Regiment), James A. Wright.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 157 id166665
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1870-1879
      Scope and Contents

      22 items. Letters written by or addressed to Grace R. Bagby, Joseph Brown, Jno. J. Echol, A. Eubank (describing a shooting outside saloon in San Antonio, Tx.), R. H. Gilliam, S. O. Larche, Bennie Lynn, Albert McDaniel, W. D. Moore, W. P. Moseley, Eva S. Newton, William Merry Perkins, Mary Philpott, Willie B. Philpott, Frank G. Ruffin (concerning Grange), James R. Thompson, William E. Walkup (concerning person who needs assistance from county), Samuel Lother Wynn, Jeter & Dickinson, Richmond, Virginia.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 158 id166666
      Miscellaneous Letters
      1880-1930
      Scope and Contents

      16 items. Letters written by or addressed to Mrs. J. Curry Abbitt (transfer of church membership for Thomas J. Davidson), Alice Bagby, A. J. Clore, Jr., Rosa V. Cole, J. W. Falson, George Hylton, Mrs. Paul A. Klayder (concerning Twyman genealogy), Nelia Miller (concerning Twyman genealogy), J. H. Montgomery, D. A. Richardson (for Armenian Relief Committee of Chicago), W. J. Sadler, Idah Meacham Stobridge, Robert M. Tarleton, S. Reed Vaughn, New Canton Motor Company.

    • Mixed Materials box: 14 Folder: 159 id166667
      Miscellaneous Letters
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      Many are incomplete and fragmentary. Genealogical material. Includes letters written by or addressed to George E. Booker, Charles L. Cocke, Bennitt M. DeWitt, Minnie Ellis, John Abner Eubank, Charles R. Fontaine, Thomas W. Garnett, E. G. Grasty, V. Hill, W. Hubard, David Kyle, Carol Martin, [?] Perkins, James Rowland, William Sands, W. Thompson, Nettie Walker (enclosing photograph of "The Willows"), Samuel D. Williams, E. A. Wright, James A. Wright, cloth fragment. Genealogical material, ca. 1850.

id166668
Series 2: James River and Kanawha Company Papers
1847-1879
  • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 161 id166669
    James River and Kanawha Canal Papers
    1847-1857
    Scope and Contents

    12 items. Includes letters written by Flippen & Montgomery, [Lynchburg ? Virginia], W. Gill, James M. Harris, John H. Hill, J. M. Spiller, James C. Turner, Iverson Lewis Twyman. See also J. M. Spiller letters and Twyman and Spiller manuscript volumes.

  • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 162 id166670
    James River and Kanawha Company
    1858-1859
    Scope and Contents

    15 items. Papers relating to the canal. Letters written toJames M. Spiller by Thomas Harding Ellis and E. Lorraine. Minutes of the President and Directors of the James River and Kanawha Company. James M. Harris to Iverson L. Twyman.

  • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 163 id166671
    James River and Kanawha Company
    1860-1879
    Scope and Contents

    25 items. Papers relating to the canal. Includes letters written by or addressed to Frances A. Austin, Grace B. Austin, J. G. S. Boyd, E. L. Chinn, Thomas H. DeWitt, Thomas Harding Ellis, J. M. Harris, William P. Munford, Jno. B. Robertson, Francis H. Smith (of Virginia Military Institute), James M. Spiller; and receipts.

  • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 164 id166672
    James River and Kanawha Company
    1855-1856 and undated
    Scope and Contents

    2 items. Papers relating to the canal. Time book for Gwynn Dam & Lock. Drawing - section of fender. Gwynn Dam, undated.

id166673
Series 3: Accounts and Legal Papers
1765-1919 and undated
  • id166674
    Subseries 3.1: Austin Family
    1796-1872 and undated
    • id166675
      Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
      1796-1872 and undated
      • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 167 id166676
        Accounts, legal papers and correspondence, Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1796-1779
        Scope and Contents

        17 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 168 id166677
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1800
        Scope and Contents

        24 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 169 id166678
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1801
        Scope and Contents

        41 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 170 id166679
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1802
        Scope and Contents

        50 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 171 id166680
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1803
        Scope and Contents

        63 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 172 id166681
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1804
        Scope and Contents

        41 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 16 Folder: 173 id166682
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1805
        Scope and Contents

        55 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 16 Folder: 174 id166683
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1806
        Scope and Contents

        82 items

      • Mixed Materials box: 16 Folder: 175 id166684
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1806
        Scope and Contents

        82 items

      • Mixed Materials box: 16 Folder: 176 id166685
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1807
        Scope and Contents

        88 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 16 Folder: 177 id166686
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1807
        Scope and Contents

        88 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 16 Folder: 178 id166687
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1808
        Scope and Contents

        65 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 16 Folder: 179 id166688
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1808
        Scope and Contents

        65 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 17 Folder: 180 id166689
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1809
        Scope and Contents

        53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.

      • Mixed Materials box: 17 Folder: 181 id166690
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1809
        Scope and Contents

        53 items. Folder 180 includes a copy of John Randolph agreement with James Hall, dated 27 April 1809.

      • Mixed Materials box: 17 Folder: 182 id166691
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1810
        Scope and Contents

        73 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 17 Folder: 183 id166692
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1810
        Scope and Contents

        73 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 17 Folder: 184 id166693
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1811
        Scope and Contents

        84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.

      • Mixed Materials box: 17 Folder: 185 id166694
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1811
        Scope and Contents

        84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.

      • Mixed Materials box: 17 Folder: 186 id166695
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1811
        Scope and Contents

        84 items. Folder 184 includes 2 items involving Thomas Jefferson, Jr.

      • Mixed Materials box: 18 Folder: 187 id166696
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1812
        Scope and Contents

        44 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 18 Folder: 188 id166697
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1813
        Scope and Contents

        57 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 18 Folder: 189 id166698
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1813
        Scope and Contents

        57 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 18 Folder: 190 id166699
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1814
        Scope and Contents

        50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.

      • Mixed Materials box: 18 Folder: 191 id166700
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1814
        Scope and Contents

        50 items. Folder 190 includes 2 items signed by Edmund Henry.

      • Mixed Materials box: 18 Folder: 192 id166701
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1815
        Scope and Contents

        54 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 18 Folder: 193 id166702
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1815
        Scope and Contents

        54 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 19 Folder: 194 id166703
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1816
        Scope and Contents

        60 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 19 Folder: 195 id166704
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1816
        Scope and Contents

        60 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 19 Folder: 196 id166705
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1817
        Scope and Contents

        29 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 19 Folder: 197 id166706
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1818
        Scope and Contents

        24 items. Includes item signed by Edmund Henry about a legal matter.

      • Mixed Materials box: 19 Folder: 198 id166707
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1819
        Scope and Contents

        34 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 19 Folder: 199 id166708
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1820
        Scope and Contents

        43 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 19 Folder: 200 id166709
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1820
        Scope and Contents

        43 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 20 Folder: 201 id166710
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1821
        Scope and Contents

        40 items. Includes copy of legal paper involving Edmund Henry.

      • Mixed Materials box: 20 Folder: 202 id166711
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1822
        Scope and Contents

        49 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 20 Folder: 203 id166712
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1823
        Scope and Contents

        45 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 20 Folder: 204 id166713
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1824
        Scope and Contents

        31 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 20 Folder: 205 id166714
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1825
        Scope and Contents

        32 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 206 id166715
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1826
        Scope and Contents

        33 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 207 id166716
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1827
        Scope and Contents

        35 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 208 id166717
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1828
        Scope and Contents

        41 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 209 id166718
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1829
        Scope and Contents

        23 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 210 id166719
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1830
        Scope and Contents

        26 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 211 id166720
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1831
        Scope and Contents

        31 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 212 id166721
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1832
        Scope and Contents

        31 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 21 Folder: 213 id166722
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1833
        Scope and Contents

        27 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 214 id166723
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1834
        Scope and Contents

        27 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 215 id166724
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1835
        Scope and Contents

        20 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 216 id166725
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1836
        Scope and Contents

        20 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 217 id166726
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1837-1839
        Scope and Contents

        15 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 218 id166727
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1840-1842
        Scope and Contents

        21 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 219 id166728
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1843-1849
        Scope and Contents

        38 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 220 id166729
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        1850-1872
        Scope and Contents

        26 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 22 Folder: 221 id166730
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        74 items.

    • id166731
      Archibald Austin (1815-1886)
      1841-1857
      • Mixed Materials box: 23 Folder: 222 id166732
        Archibald Austin (1815-1886)
        1841-1857
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id166733
      B. Austin and Bernard Austin
      1810-1858
      • Mixed Materials box: 23 Folder: 223 id166734
        B. Austin and Bernard Austin
        1810-1858
        Scope and Contents

        13 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id166735
      Frances Austin
      1848-1863
      • Mixed Materials box: 23 Folder: 224 id166736
        Frances Austin
        1848-1863
        Scope and Contents

        47 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id166737
      George B. Austin
      1842-1855
      • Mixed Materials box: 23 Folder: 225 id166738
        George B. Austin
        1842-1855
        Scope and Contents

        108 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id166739
      Grace R. and Grace B. Austin
      1842-1871
      • Mixed Materials box: 23 Folder: 226 id166740
        Grace R. and Grace B. Austin
        1842-1871
        Scope and Contents

        91 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id166741
      James Austin
      1811-1862
      • Mixed Materials box: 23 box: 227 id166742
        James Austin
        1811-1862
        Scope and Contents

        12 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168211
      John Austin
      1801-1857
      • Mixed Materials box: 23 Folder: 228 id168213
        John Austin
        1801-1857
        Scope and Contents

        101 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.

    • id168214
      Martha Austin
      1839-1840
      • Mixed Materials box: 24 Folder: 229 id168216
        Martha Austin
        1839-1840
        Scope and Contents

        2 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. See also Martha E. Twyman.

    • id168219
      Thomas Austin
      1806-1869
      • Mixed Materials box: 24 Folder: 230 id168221
        Thomas Austin
        1806-1869
        Scope and Contents

        126 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Apparently more than one person by this name.

    • id168223
      Unidentified Austins or more than one name per paper
      1840-1869 and undated
      • Mixed Materials box: 24 Folder: 231 id168225
        Unidentified Austins or more than one name per paper
        1840-1869 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

  • id168226
    Subseries 3.2: Twyman Family
    1820-1939 and undated
    • id168229
      Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
      1820-1839
      Scope and Contents

      84 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 24 Folder: 232 id168234
        Acounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1820-1829
        Scope and Contents

        13 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 24 Folder: 233 id168237
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1830-1839
        Scope and Contents

        71 items.

    • id168239
      Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
      1840-1869
      • Mixed Materials box: 24 Folder: 234 id168241
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1840-1841
        Scope and Contents

        40 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 24 Folder: 235 id168242
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1842-1843
        Scope and Contents

        66 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 25 Folder: 236 id168244
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1844
        Scope and Contents

        66 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 25 Folder: 237 id168245
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1845-1846
        Scope and Contents

        62 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 25 Folder: 238 id168247
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1847
        Scope and Contents

        49 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 25 Folder: 239 id168249
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1848
        Scope and Contents

        73 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 25 Folder: 240 id168251
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1849
        Scope and Contents

        65 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 25 Folder: 241 id168252
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1850
        Scope and Contents

        38 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 25 Folder: 242 id168253
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1851
        Scope and Contents

        40 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 26 Folder: 243 id168254
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1852
        Scope and Contents

        64 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 26 Folder: 244 id168255
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1853
        Scope and Contents

        57 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 26 Folder: 245 id168256
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1854
        Scope and Contents

        73 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 26 Folder: 246 id168258
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1855
        Scope and Contents

        94 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 26 Folder: 247 id168259
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1856
        Scope and Contents

        117 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 27 Folder: 248 id168260
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1857
        Scope and Contents

        69 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 26 Folder: 249 id168262
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1858
        Scope and Contents

        97 items. Includes statement of 27 February 1858 of sale of a Negro man for $1075.00 by D. M. Pulliam & Co., Richmond, Va. A/c Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman.

      • Mixed Materials box: 27 Folder: 250 id168263
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1859
        Scope and Contents

        78 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 27 Folder: 251 id168264
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1860
        Scope and Contents

        93 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 27 Folder: 252 id168266
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1861
        Scope and Contents

        84 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 27 Folder: 253 id168267
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1862
        Scope and Contents

        89 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 254 id168268
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1863
        Scope and Contents

        51 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 255 id168269
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1864
        Scope and Contents

        37 items. Includes receipt, 6 August 1864, for Negro slave to work on fortifications.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 256 id168270
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1865
        Scope and Contents

        20 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 257 id168271
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864)
        1866-1867
        Scope and Contents

        36 items.

    • id168274
      Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate
      1868-1910 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      302 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 258 id168276
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate
        1868-1869
        Scope and Contents

        48 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 259 id168277
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate
        1870-1871
        Scope and Contents

        73 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 260 id168279
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate
        1872-1879
        Scope and Contents

        35 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 261 id168280
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate
        1880-1910
        Scope and Contents

        20 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 262 id168290
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Martha E. Twyman, Iverson L. Twyman (1810-1864) Estate
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        86 items.

    • id168299
      Iverson L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921)
      1870-1910
      Scope and Contents

      55 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 263 id168301
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921)
        1870-1879
        Scope and Contents

        38 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 28 Folder: 264 id168303
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Iverson L. Twyman, Jr. (1849-1921)
        1880-1910
        Scope and Contents

        17 items.

    • id168308
      Augusta Twyman, Fanny Twyman, George Twyman, James Twyman, Jean Twyman
      1733-1939
      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 265 id168311
        Augusta Twyman, Fanny Twyman, George Twyman, James Twyman, Jean Twyman
        1733-1939
        Scope and Contents

        17 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Copy of a George Twyman will of 1733, and last advices of another George Twyman, 1803. Other Twyman items 1873-1939.

    • id168313
      John A. Twyman
      1870-1939
      Scope and Contents

      223 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 266 id168315
        Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman
        1870-1879
        Scope and Contents

        14 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 267 id168317
        Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman
        1880-1889
        Scope and Contents

        33 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 268 id168319
        Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman
        1890-1899
        Scope and Contents

        24 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 269 id168323
        Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman
        1900-1909
        Scope and Contents

        49 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 270 id168326
        Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman
        1910-1919
        Scope and Contents

        11 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 271 id168328
        Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman
        1920-1929
        Scope and Contents

        75 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 272 id168332
        Accounts and Legal Papers of John A. Twyman
        1930-1939 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        17 items.

    • id168334
      Samuel R. Twyman
      1880-1925
      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 273 id168347
        Samuel R. Twyman
        1880-1925
        Scope and Contents

        44 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168684
      Various Twymans: Absalom Twyman, Dr. John L. Twyman, Dr. Lewis J. Twyman
      1849-1852
      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 274 id168685
        Various Twymans: Absalom Twyman, Dr. John L. Twyman, Dr. Lewis J. Twyman
        1849-1852
        Scope and Contents

        4 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

  • id168686
    Subseries 3.3: Accounts and Legal Papers with two or more last names
    1830-1909 and undated
    • id168687
      Twyman - Austin
      1830-1879
      • Mixed Materials box: 29 Folder: 275 id168688
        Twyman - Austin
        1830-1879
        Scope and Contents

        112 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.

    • id168689
      Twyman - Horsley
      1834-1859 and undated
      Scope and Contents

      250 items. Papers involving both names.

      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 276 id168690
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley
        1834-1842
        Scope and Contents

        30 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 277 id168691
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley
        1843
        Scope and Contents

        55 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 278 id168692
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley
        1844-1845
        Scope and Contents

        51 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 279 id168693
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley
        1846-1847
        Scope and Contents

        21 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 280 id168694
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley
        1848-1849
        Scope and Contents

        27 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 281 id168695
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley
        1850-1851
        Scope and Contents

        42 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 282 id168696
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Twyman - Horsley
        1852-1859 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        24 items.

    • id168697
      Twyman - Spiller
      1847-1909 and undated
      • Mixed Materials box: 30 Folder: 283 id168698
        Twyman - Spiller
        1847-1909 and undated
        Scope and Contents

        56 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Papers involving both names.

  • id168699
    Subseries 3.4: Horsley Family
    1809-1850
    • id168700
      John Horsley, Robert Horsley
      1809-1829
      • Mixed Materials box: 31 Folder: 284 id168701
        John Horsley, Robert Horsley
        1809-1829
        Scope and Contents

        31 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168702
      Robert Horsley
      1830-1839
      • Mixed Materials box: 31 Folder: 285 id168703
        Robert Horsley
        1830-1839
        Scope and Contents

        142 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168704
      Robert, William, Ann and Rebecca Horsley
      1840-1849
      • Mixed Materials box: 31 Folder: 286 id168707
        Robert, William, Ann and Rebecca Horsley
        1840-1849
        Scope and Contents

        117 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168708
      Robert Horsley, Wm. Horsley
      undated
      • Mixed Materials box: 31 Folder: 287 id168709
        Robert Horsley, Wm. Horsley
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        24 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168710
      Horsley and other families
      1811-1850
      • Mixed Materials box: 31 Folder: 288 id168711
        Horsley and other families
        1811-1850
        Scope and Contents

        7 items. Accounts and Legal Papers. Horsely - Austin, 1811. Horsley -Spiller, 1818-1850. Papers involving both names.

  • id168712
    Subseries 3.5: Spiller Family
    1807-1909 and undated
    • id168713
      George Spiller, James M. Spiller
      1807-1835
      Scope and Contents

      195 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 289 id168714
        Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller
        1807-1830
        Scope and Contents

        55 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 290 id168715
        Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller
        1831-1832
        Scope and Contents

        22 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 291 id168716
        Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller
        1833
        Scope and Contents

        58 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 292 id168717
        Accounts and Legal Papers of George Spiller, James M. Spiller
        1834-1835
        Scope and Contents

        60 items.

    • id168718
      James M. Spiller
      1836-1839
      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 293 id168719
        James M. Spiller
        1836-1839
        Scope and Contents

        64 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168720
      George A. Spiller, Sara Ann Spiller and James M. Spiller
      1840-1849
      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 294 id168722
        George A. Spiller, Sara Ann Spiller and James M. Spiller
        1840-1849
        Scope and Contents

        58 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168724
      James M. Spiller, Preston F. Spiller and others
      1850-1851
      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 295 id168725
        James M. Spiller, Preston F. Spiller and others
        1850-1851
        Scope and Contents

        19 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id168727
      James M. and other Spillers
      1852-1909 and undated
      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 296 id168728
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1852
        Scope and Contents

        22 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 297 id168729
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1853
        Scope and Contents

        49 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 298 id168731
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1854
        Scope and Contents

        44 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 32 Folder: 299 id168732
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1855
        Scope and Contents

        59 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 300 id168734
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1856
        Scope and Contents

        118 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 301 id168736
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1857
        Scope and Contents

        87 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 302 id168737
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1858
        Scope and Contents

        70 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 303 id168739
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1859
        Scope and Contents

        70 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 304 id168740
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1860
        Scope and Contents

        99 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 305 id168742
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1861
        Scope and Contents

        103 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 306 id168743
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1862
        Scope and Contents

        40 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 307 id168744
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1863
        Scope and Contents

        29 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 33 Folder: 308 id168745
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1863-1866
        Scope and Contents

        21 items. Includes bill of James M. Spiller of 1863-1864 to Confederate States of America for hay, corn, etc. Also pardon from Andrew Johnson to James M. Spiller for "taking part in the late rebellion."

      • Mixed Materials box: 34 Folder: 309 id168746
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1867-1868
        Scope and Contents

        195 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 34 Folder: 310 id168748
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1869
        Scope and Contents

        106 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 34 Folder: 311 id168749
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1870
        Scope and Contents

        81 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 34 Folder: 312 id168750
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1871
        Scope and Contents

        161 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 34 Folder: 313 id168752
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1872
        Scope and Contents

        164 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 314 id168753
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1873
        Scope and Contents

        103 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 315 id168754
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1874
        Scope and Contents

        28 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 316 id168755
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1875
        Scope and Contents

        26 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 317 id168757
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1876
        Scope and Contents

        30 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 318 id168763
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1877
        Scope and Contents

        46 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 319 id168764
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1878
        Scope and Contents

        32 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 320 id168767
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1879
        Scope and Contents

        16 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 321 id168770
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1880-1882
        Scope and Contents

        32 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 322 id169272
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1883-1885
        Scope and Contents

        57 items. Includes dentist's bill of period 1873-1883 finally settled in 1887.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 323 id169273
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1886-1889
        Scope and Contents

        63 items. Includes copies of will of 1889 of J. M. Spiller.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 324 id169274
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        1890-1909
        Scope and Contents

        73 items. The majority of the material concerns Miss Mary Spiller.

      • Mixed Materials box: 35 Folder: 325 id169275
        Accounts and Legal Papers of James M. and other Spillers
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        41 items.

  • id169276
    Subseries 3.6: Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
    1774-1928 and undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 326 id169277
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1774-1799
      Scope and Contents

      65 items. Includes part of deed dated 1 May 1784 signed by Benjamin Harrison, Governor.

    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 327 id169278
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1800
      Scope and Contents

      40 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 328 id169279
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1801
      Scope and Contents

      27 items. Includes papers on the estate of William Adams.

    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 329 id169280
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1802
      Scope and Contents

      20 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 330 id169281
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1803
      Scope and Contents

      30 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 331 id169282
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1804
      Scope and Contents

      32 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 332 id169283
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1805
      Scope and Contents

      33 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 36 Folder: 333 id169284
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1806
      Scope and Contents

      32 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 37 Folder: 334 id169285
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1807
      Scope and Contents

      33 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 37 Folder: 335 id169286
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1808
      Scope and Contents

      49 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 37 Folder: 336 id169287
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1809
      Scope and Contents

      25 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 37 Folder: 337 id169288
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1810
      Scope and Contents

      45 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 37 Folder: 338 id169289
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1811
      Scope and Contents

      44 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 37 Folder: 339 id169290
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1812
      Scope and Contents

      34 items. Includes document dated "Cold Comfort 5 February 1812" and signed by Mary and Martha Harrison, sisters of Benjamin Harrison dealing with his slave estate.

    • Mixed Materials box: 37 Folder: 340 id169291
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1813
      Scope and Contents

      93 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 341 id169292
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1814
      Scope and Contents

      14 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 342 id169293
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1815
      Scope and Contents

      28 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 343 id169294
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1816
      Scope and Contents

      17 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 344 id169295
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1817
      Scope and Contents

      21 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 345 id169296
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1818
      Scope and Contents

      15 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 346 id169297
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1819
      Scope and Contents

      19 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 347 id169298
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1820
      Scope and Contents

      21 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 348 id169299
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1821
      Scope and Contents

      16 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 349 id169300
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1822
      Scope and Contents

      33 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 350 id169301
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1823
      Scope and Contents

      40 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 351 id169302
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1824
      Scope and Contents

      24 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 38 Folder: 352 id169303
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1825
      Scope and Contents

      17 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 353 id169304
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1826
      Scope and Contents

      12 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 354 id169305
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1827
      Scope and Contents

      11 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 355 id169306
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1828-1829
      Scope and Contents

      11 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 356 id169307
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1830-1832
      Scope and Contents

      32 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 357 id169308
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1833-1835
      Scope and Contents

      30 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 358 id169309
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1836-1839
      Scope and Contents

      30 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 359 id169310
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1840-1843
      Scope and Contents

      42 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 360 id169311
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1844-1846
      Scope and Contents

      99 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 361 id169312
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1847-1849
      Scope and Contents

      52 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 362 id169313
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1850-1855
      Scope and Contents

      57 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 363 id169314
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1856-1859
      Scope and Contents

      23 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 39 Folder: 364 id169315
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1860-1862
      Scope and Contents

      22 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 40 Folder: 365 id169316
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1863-1869
      Scope and Contents

      27 items. Includes extract of Special Order #64 of May 29, 1865 concerning "harsh or cruel treatment" of employees.

    • Mixed Materials box: 40 Folder: 366 id169317
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1870-1889
      Scope and Contents

      38 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 40 Folder: 367 id169318
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      1890-1928
      Scope and Contents

      23 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 40 Folder: 368 id169319
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      217 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 40 Folder: 369 id169320
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      217 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 40 Folder: 370 id169321
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      217 items.

    • Mixed Materials box: 40 Folder: 371 id169322
      Miscellaneous Accounts and Legal Papers
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      217 items.

  • id169323
    Subseries 3.7: County Accounts and Legal Papers
    1765-1919
    • id169324
      Buckingham County Records
      1800-1919 and undated
      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 372 id169328
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1765-1799
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Includes land grant of 1789 signed by Governor Beverly Randolph.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 373 id169329
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1800-1801
        Scope and Contents

        21 items. Includes "A list of Magistrates as also those named in different Commissions of the Peace for Buckingham County" for 1777-1800.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 374 id169871
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1802
        Scope and Contents

        24 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 375 id169872
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1803
        Scope and Contents

        8 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 376 id169884
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1804
        Scope and Contents

        16 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 377 id169891
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1805
        Scope and Contents

        18 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 378 id169892
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        January-February 1806
        Scope and Contents

        14 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 379 id169893
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        March-April 1806
        Scope and Contents

        21 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 380 id169894
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        May-June 1806
        Scope and Contents

        46 items. Includes judgment involving Randolph Jefferson and John Jefferson.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 381 id169895
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        July-August 1806
        Scope and Contents

        33 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 382 id169896
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        September-October 1806
        Scope and Contents

        7 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 383 id169897
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        November-December 1806
        Scope and Contents

        27 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 384 id169898
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1807
        Scope and Contents

        35 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 385 id169899
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1808
        Scope and Contents

        23 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 41 Folder: 386 id169900
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1809
        Scope and Contents

        29 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 387 id169902
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1810
        Scope and Contents

        35 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 388 id169903
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1811-1812
        Scope and Contents

        28 items. Includes "A list of a Company of Light Infantry --- of the 100th Regiment (of) Buckingham Militia," 19 April 1812.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 389 id169906
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1813-1814
        Scope and Contents

        18 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 390 id169908
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1815-1819
        Scope and Contents

        18 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 391 id169910
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1820-1824
        Scope and Contents

        33 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 392 id169913
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1825-1829
        Scope and Contents

        23 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 393 id169915
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1830-1839
        Scope and Contents

        14 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 394 id169917
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1840-1849
        Scope and Contents

        173 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 395 id169920
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1850-1859
        Scope and Contents

        16 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 396 id169921
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1860-1869
        Scope and Contents

        16 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 397 id169924
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        1870-1919
        Scope and Contents

        6 items.

      • Mixed Materials box: 42 Folder: 398 id169927
        Accounts and Legal Papers of Buckingham County Records
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        23 items.

    • id169931
      Albermale and Amherst County Records
      1789-1861
      • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 399 id169933
        Albermale and Amherst County Records
        1789-1861
        Scope and Contents

        77 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id169936
      Appomattox County Records, Botetourt County Records. Campbell County Records
      1804-1874
      • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 400 id169939
        Appomattox County Records, Botetourt County Records. Campbell County Records
        1804-1874
        Scope and Contents

        16 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id169942
      Cumberland County Records
      1774-1848
      • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 401 id169945
        Cumberland County Records
        1774-1848
        Scope and Contents

        29 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id169948
      Goochland County Records, King and Queen County Records, Nelson County Records
      1774-1855
      • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 402 id169950
        Goochland County Records, King and Queen County Records, Nelson County Records
        1774-1855
        Scope and Contents

        21 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id169951
      Powhatan County Records, Prince Edward County Records
      1800-1810
      • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 403 id169952
        Powhatan County Records, Prince Edward County Records
        1800-1810
        Scope and Contents

        20 items. Accounts and Legal Papers.

    • id169953
      Accounts and Legal Papers - Scraps
      undated
      • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 404 id169954
        Accounts and Legal Papers - Scraps
        undated
        Scope and Contents

        57 items.

    • Mixed Materials Folder: 160 id171703
      Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County
      November 1827
      Scope and Contents

      Minutes of a meeting of citizens of Buckingham County, "friendly to the Election of General Andrew Jackson as...[the] next President."

id169955
Series 4: Genealogical Material
  • id169980
    Austin Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 409 id169982
      Austin Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      5 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id169984
    Booker Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 410 id169987
      Booker Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      7 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id169988
    Byrd Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 411 id169991
      Byrd Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Genealogical Materials.

  • id169996
    Clark Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 412 id169998
      Clark Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      2 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers and Twyman.

  • id170000
    Gainer Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 413 id170002
      Gainer Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      15 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id170006
    Lewis Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 414 id170008
      Lewis Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      34 items. Genealogical Materials. See also Rogers.

  • id170010
    Montague Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 415 id170016
      Montague Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      2 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id171545
    Rogers Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 416 id171548
      Rogers Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      16 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id171550
    Spiller Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 416A id171552
      Spiller Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Genealogical Materials. See also J. M. Spiller Ledger (cash accounts). 1839-57, pp. 80-81 and pp. 292-294 for family notes by Spiller.

  • id171554
    Twyman Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 417 id171556
      Twyman Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      135 items. Genealogical Materials.

    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 418 id171557
      Twyman Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      135 items. Genealogical Materials.

    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 419 id171558
      Twyman Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      135 items. Genealogical Materials.

    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 420 id171559
      Twyman Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      135 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id171561
    Walker Family
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 421 id171563
      Walker Family
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      5 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id171564
    Miscellaneous Names - Greenwood, Gwathmey, etc.
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 422 id171566
      Miscellaneous Names - Greenwood, Gwathmey, etc.
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      10 items. Genealogical Materials.

  • id171568
    Miscellaneous printed matter
    undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 46 Folder: 423 id171570
      Miscellaneous printed matter
      undated
      Scope and Contents

      116 items. Entire box. Genealogical Materials. Includes metal sign "B. Austin, Attorney at Law"

id171573
Series 5: Manuscript Volumes
1799-1896 and undated
  • id171581
    Subseries 5.1: Adams Family
    1799-1801
    • Mixed Materials box: 47 Bound_Volume: 1 id171583
      MsV. 1: Adams Family
      1799-1801
      Scope and Contents

      Account book of William Adams and his estate.

  • id171585
    Subseries 5.2: Austin Family
    1804-1848 and undated
    • Mixed Materials box: 47 Bound_Volume: 2 id171587
      MsV. 2: Accounts of Archibald Austin (1772-1847)
      1804-1832
    • Mixed Materials box: 47 Bound_Volume: 3 id171589
      MsV. 3: Attorney fee book of Archibald Austin (1772-1837)
      1807-1835
    • Mixed Materials box: 47 Bound_Volume: 4 id171592
      MsV. 4: Accounts of Archibald (1772-1837)
      1824-1848
      Scope and Contents

      Accounts of Archibald, 1824-1828. Court records, 1847-1848.

    • Mixed Materials box: 48 Bound_Volume: 5 id171594
      MsV. 5: Twyman and Austin notebook of miscellany
      undated
  • id171595
    Subseries 5.3: Twyman Family
    1832-1879
    • Mixed Materials box: 48 Bound_Volume: 6 id171597
      MsV. 6: Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1832-1837
    • Mixed Materials box: 48 Bound_Volume: 7 id171599
      MsV. 7: Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1840-1843
    • Mixed Materials box: 49 Bound_Volume: 8 id171601
      MsV. 8: Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1844
      Scope and Contents

      Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.

    • Mixed Materials box: 49 Bound_Volume: 9 id171603
      MsV. 9: Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1845
      Scope and Contents

      Includes James River and Kanawha Canal accounts.

    • Mixed Materials box: 49 Bound_Volume: 10 id171606
      MsV. 10: Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1846
    • Mixed Materials box: 50 Bound_Volume: 11 id171607
      MsV. 11: Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1847
    • Mixed Materials box: 50 Bound_Volume: 12 id171609
      MsV. 12: Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1848
    • Mixed Materials box: 50 Bound_Volume: 13 id171615
      MsV. 13: Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1849-1864
      Scope and Contents

      Account books, 1849-1856, including farm notes, 1860-1864.

    • Mixed Materials box: 51 Bound_Volume: 14 id171618
      MsV. 14: Dr. Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman farm and household accounts
      1853-1867
    • Mixed Materials box: 51 Bound_Volume: 15 id171621
      MsV. 15: Accounts of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1854-1856
      Scope and Contents

      Including farm notes and notes of calls on patients.

    • Mixed Materials Bound_Volume: MsV 16 Bound_Volume: 16 id171623
      MsV. 16: Account book of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      1856-1863
    • Mixed Materials box: 51 Bound_Volume: 17 id171626
      MsV. 17: Notes of calls by Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman
      January - March 1860
    • Mixed Materials box: 51 Bound_Volume: 18 id171628
      MsV. 18: School notes of Dr. and Mrs. Iverson L. Twyman, Jr.
      1877-1879
  • id171630
    Subseries 5.4: Spiller Family
    1829-1892
    • Mixed Materials box: 52 Bound_Volume: 19 id171631
      MsV. 19: Account book of J. M. Spiller
      1829-1838
      Scope and Contents

      Includes farm notes in back, 1840.

    • Mixed Materials box: 52 Bound_Volume: 20 id171633
      MsV. 20: Ledger of J. M. Spiller
      1829-1847
    • Mixed Materials box: 52 Bound_Volume: 21 id171634
      MsV. 21: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1850-1868
      Scope and Contents

      Including the estate of George Spiller.

    • Mixed Materials box: 52 Bound_Volume: 22 id171636
      MsV. 22: Accounts of J. M. Spiller, Mayo's Island
      1836-1838
      Scope and Contents

      Includes time charts for worker in the James River and Kanawha Canal.

    • Mixed Materials box: 53 Bound_Volume: 23 id171639
      MsV. 23: Ledger of J. M. Spiller and Thomas A. Mera
      1837-1839
    • Mixed Materials box: 53 Bound_Volume: 24 id171640
      MsV. 24: Ledger and Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1839-1892
      Scope and Contents

      Ledger of J. M. Spiller, 1839-1859, other accounts 1886-1892. Spiller genealogical data, pp. 80-81, 292-294.

    • Mixed Materials box: 54 Bound_Volume: 25 id171643
      MsV. 25: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1846-1865
      Scope and Contents

      Including time sheets of work on locks, James River and Kanawha Canal.

    • Mixed Materials box: 54 Bound_Volume: 26 id171644
      MsV. 26: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1850-1851
      Scope and Contents

      Includes work on the James River and Kanawha Canal.

    • Mixed Materials box: 55 Bound_Volume: 27 id171645
      MsV. 27: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1851-1867
    • Mixed Materials box: 55 Bound_Volume: 28 id171647
      MsV. 28: Cash book of J. M. Spiller
      1852-1853
      Scope and Contents

      Includes vouchers of Ada and Sarah Bocock.

    • Mixed Materials box: 55 Bound_Volume: 29 id171649
      MsV. 29: Account book of J. M. Spiller
      1852-1865
    • Mixed Materials box: 55 Bound_Volume: 30 id171651
      MsV. 30: Cash book of J. M. Spiller
      1854 - June 1855
    • Mixed Materials box: 54 Bound_Volume: 31 id171652
      MsV. 31: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1854-1869
    • Mixed Materials box: 55 Bound_Volume: 32 id171654
      MsV. 32: Cash book of J. M. Spiller ?
      1855-1856?
    • Mixed Materials box: 55 Bound_Volume: 33 id171657
      MsV. 33: Cash book of J. M. Spiller
      1856
    • Mixed Materials box: 55 Bound_Volume: 34 id171659
      MsV. 34: Cash book of J. M. Spiller
      1856-1863
    • Mixed Materials box: 56 Bound_Volume: 35 id171660
      MsV. 35: Cash book of J. M. Spiller
      1857-1858
    • Mixed Materials box: 54 Bound_Volume: 36 id171663
      MsV. 36: Account book of J. M. Spiller
      1862-1867
    • Mixed Materials box: 56 Bound_Volume: 37 id171665
      MsV. 37: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1867-1873
    • Mixed Materials box: 56 Bound_Volume: 38 id171667
      MsV. 38: Accounts of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills
      1867-1878
    • Mixed Materials box: 56 Bound_Volume: 39 id171668
      MsV. 39: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1869-1873
    • Mixed Materials box: 56 Bound_Volume: 40 id171670
      MsV. 40: Religious notes and clippings of Emma C. Spiller
      1875-1894
    • Mixed Materials box: 57 Bound_Volume: 41 id171671
      MsV. 41: Flour grinding accounts of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills
      1871-1875
    • Mixed Materials box: 57 Bound_Volume: 42 id171673
      MsV. 42: Account book of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills
      1875-1879
    • Mixed Materials box: 57 Bound_Volume: 43 id171675
      MsV. 43: Ledger of J. M. Spiller
      1876-1888
    • Mixed Materials box: 57 Bound_Volume: 44 id171678
      MsV. 44: Account book of J. M. Spiller, Castle Mills
      1880-1886
    • Mixed Materials box: 57 Bound_Volume: 45 id171680
      MsV. 45: Farm notes of J. M. Spiller ?
      1881
    • Mixed Materials box: 57 Bound_Volume: 46 id171682
      MsV. 46: Ledger of J. M. Spiller
      1882-1888
    • Mixed Materials box: 57 Bound_Volume: 47 id171684
      MsV. 47: Accounts of J. M. Spiller
      1882
  • Subseries 5.6: Other Accounts
    English
    • Mixed Materials box: 58 Bound_Volume: 48 id171688
      MsV. 48: Buckingham Court House decisions involving debts
      1845-1847
    • Mixed Materials box: 58 Bound_Volume: 49 id171689
      MsV. 49: Unidentified accounts
      1850
    • Mixed Materials box: 58 Bound_Volume: 50 id171692
      MsV. 50: Unidentified accounts and school attendance records
      1860
    • Mixed Materials box: 58 Bound_Volume: 51 id171694
      MsV. 51: Unidentified, including travel notes and total abstinence pledge
      1844
    • Mixed Materials box: 58 Bound_Volume: 52 id171696
      MsV. 52: Unidentified, including farm account
      1892-1896
    • Mixed Materials box: 58 Bound_Volume: 53 id171698
      MsV. 53: Index to Account Book
      undated
id171701
Series 6: Miscellaneous Folders
  • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 165 id171706
    Slavery items
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    2 items. Draft of note about whipping a slave. Form of bill of sale of slave. (Other slavery items among dated papers).

  • Mixed Materials box: 15 Folder: 166 id171708
    Peter Francisco
    1802-1829 and undated
    Scope and Contents

    24 items. Legal papers involving him. Concerns money owed by Francisco.

  • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 405 id171710
    Poetry and religion manuscripts
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 43 Folder: 406 id171712
    Recipes and formulae manuscripts
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 44 Folder: 407 id171713
    Memoranda manuscripts
    undated
  • Mixed Materials box: 45 Folder: 408 id171715
    Photographs
    undated
    Scope and Contents

    7 items. Photographs.