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Nicholson, Lee, Papers Guide to the Lee Nicholson Papers Mss. 65 N59

Guide to the Lee Nicholson Papers Mss. 65 N59


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Mss. 65 N59
Title
Lee Nicholson Papers 1827-1938
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Language
English

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Preferred Citation:

Lee Nicholson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Scope and Contents

Papers, 1837-1938, of Lee Nicholson, a genealogist of Sussex County, Va. Includes correspondence, notes and charts concerning many Virginia families. Among them are the Batte family, Bolling family, Branch family, Briggs family, Chappell family, Heath family, Jones family, Land family, Mallory family, Mason family, Morton family, Neblett family, Nicholson family, Peebles family, Pegram family and Rives family.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Correspondence
  • Genealogy
  • Manuscripts (document genre)
  • Notebooks
  • Sussex County (Va.)--History
  • Virginia--History

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Virginia--History
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Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 id143936
Box 1: Folders 1-4
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143937
    Batte Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143942
      "Charter- Baron Descent of Henry Batte of Virginia"- typescript
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143945
      Letter: Clayton Torrence --- to Lee Nicholson, n.d., regarding Batte and Jones families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143947
      Genealogical chart from Capt. John Batte of York County, England, to Lee Nicholson and other descendants.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143950
      Chart showing Miss Anne Deffenbaugh's line from Capt. John Batte.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143953
      Genealogical account of Capt. Henry Batte and descendants
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143954
      Genealogical account of Hobbs family from old Bible
      1754-1816
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id143955
      Correspondence with various kin relating to Batte family by Lee Nicholson
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143958
    Batte Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143962
      "The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia"
      Scope and Contents

      Small black notebook "The Jones and Batte Families of Virginia" in long hand. Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Sussex County, Virginia. Pages 11-49 Jones family, 1-5 Batte family. No page numbers, "Genealogical data from Col. C. Jones' Book", The Edwards family, the Lang family, the C. Jones family, the Eppes family, the Brodnax family, the Halcot Pride family.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143990
      Peterson-Batte line
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id143992
      Letters, etc, on Batte family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143994
    Batte Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143996
      "Application of Miss Dorothy Lyon Crowder for membership to the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames of America"
      1920
      Scope and Contents

      With "Supplementary Details" and chart; also "The Batte Family" (typescript).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143998
      Letter from Rev. Clayton Torrence, regarding Battes.
      1920 September 11
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id143999
      Rough notes by Lee Nicholson
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id144000
    Batte Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id144001
      Rough hand notes- ancestry of Miss Virginia Batte, revolutionary ancestors of Miss Batte, typescript of "The Batte Family"
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id147558
Box 2: Folders 5-10
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144002
    Batte Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144320
      Hand notes- Briggs & Nicholson families (from Bible?)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144321
      Letters: Mrs. Fothergill & others to Lee Nicholson
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144322
      Rough notes on "Batte Family"
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id144323
      Typescript on Batte Family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144324
    Batte Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144325
      Letter of Mrs. James Branch Cabell, Richmond, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Va, regarding Ch. Branch.
      1935 September 30
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144327
      Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, to Dr. Lyon G. Tyler.
      1920 December 20
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144328
      Letters. Mary Mason Heath, Washington, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
      1933
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144329
      Letter, Miss Hinton, Raleigh, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
      1937
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144330
      Charter- Baron ancestry of Virginia Batte.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144331
      "Magna Charta Surety line of Col. George Reade." 4 pp. Typed.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144332
      "Batte Notes," typed.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144333
      "Mrs. Harvey Butler's Family Records."
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id144334
      Rough hand notes by Nicholson
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id144336
    Batte, Parham, Eppes, etc. Families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id144337
      Composition Book of Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Virginia
      Scope and Contents

      Rough hand notes on Jones family, Cargill, Higginson, Eppes, Williamson, Turpin, Belscher, Harrison, Jarratt, Peebles, Batte, Mason, Parham, Nicholson, Young, Blow, Goode, and Parker.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id144338
    Bolling Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id144339
      Long hand notes, oversize
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144340
    Briggs Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 id144341
      "The Briggs Family"- copy made by Clayton Torrence for Mrs. Warner Moore.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144342
      Copies from Briggs Bibles- (births, marriages, deaths)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144343
      Chappell- Dobie- Briggs Ancestry (oversize)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id144344
      Odds and ends notes
Mixed Materials Box: 3 id147559
Box 3: Folders 11-14
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144345
    Briggs Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144347
      Application (oversize) of Virginia S. Allen to Colonial Dames of America
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144348
      Chart, Augustine Claiborne family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144349
      Copy of inscriptions on tombs at "Invermay," Cargill home near Sussex C.H. Va. (Cargill, Blow, Ruffin, etc.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144350
      Jones- Harrison families by Nicholson to Dunn
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144351
      Chart of Dr. Thomas Williamson Jones
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144352
      Chart of Gilliam family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144353
      Chart of Rives family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144354
      Chart of Cobb family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144355
      Chart of Jones family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144356
      Chart of Ward family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144358
      Chart of Short family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144359
      Sussex Co. Records (copy)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144360
      Chart of Capt. Wm. Batte.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144361
      Notes on Blows.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144362
      Chart of Mallory family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 11 and 11A id144363
      Chart of Chappell family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144364
    Briggs Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144365
      Mrs. Tom Marshall, Windsor, Va. to Lee Nicholson, regarding home place "Mill-Brook," home of Charles Briggs near Sebrell, Southampton Co., Va. Plat enclosed.
      1917 January 26
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144367
      "My Day in Dinwiddie County" by Thomas H. Boisseau- typescript- gives list of homes in Dinwiddie and descendents of families who owned them. Published in the Virginian
      no date
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144368
      Chart of Henry Briggs and descendants
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144370
      Will of George Briggs of Sussex Co., Va. Grandsons Richard Blow and Charles Nicholson, Sons: Charles, Henry, Howel, Daughters: Mary Blow, Sarah Edmunds, Frances Blunt, Rebekah Irby, Wife: Sarah Briggs
      1783
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144371
      Will of Charles Briggs, Sr., Southampton Co., Va. Daughters: Martha Edmunds, Sarah Briggs, Frances Briggs, Anna Briggs, Mary Briggs, Rebekah Briggs, Dorothy Briggs. Wife: Sarah. Sons: Henry, William.
      1799
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144374
      Oversize typed notes regarding family of Charles Briggs. 4 pp.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144375
      Some 20 pp. rough notes in handwriting of Lee Nicholson; all Briggs data
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144376
      Chart in handwriting of H.F. Hutchinson, Boydton, Va. with note "I am indebted to Clayton Torrence for the greaer portion of above."
      1929
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144377
      Descent of Neblett, Chappell & others from Henry Briggs.
      1686
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144378
      Letter. Clayton Torrence, Alexandria, Va. to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
      1918 December 21
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 12 id144379
      Letter. Sue W. Brown, Petersburg, Va. to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield.
      1928 July 17
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13 id144380
    Briggs Data
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 13 id144381
      Rough notes in handwriting of Lee Nicholson- births, deaths, marriages of various branches of Briggs family & descendants.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14 id144382
    Briggs Data
    • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 14 id144383
      Rough note book: Nicholson, Chappell, Neblett, Baird and others.
Mixed Materials Box: 4 id147560
Box 4: Folders 15-26
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144384
    Branch Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144385
      "Descent of Mrs. John Nelson Stewart (nee: Edwa Hellwege, New Orleans) to International Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemeade"
      Scope and Contents

      Oversize typed record. Also longhand notes by Nicholson.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144386
      A Record of the Belsches family
      Scope and Contents

      Taken from records at Invermay & Greenyard, Scotland, now in possission of Lord Clinton copied by Mr. Edward Tuckerman while a guest of Lord Clinton. Mr. Tuckerman's wife was the daughter of Martha Cargill whose mother was Margaret Belsches. Mr. Tuckerman was a professor at Amherst College. 5 pp. of longhand of Mr. Nicholson's.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144388
      Letter: T.B. Dunn, Halifax, Va. to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
      1936 March 25
      Scope and Contents

      Content regarding ancestry and descent of Col. George Reade.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144390
      "Notes from Branchiana" by James Branch Cabell from Christopher Branch
      1602-1681
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144391
      "Branch of Abingdon" by James Branch Cabell
      1911
      Scope and Contents

      Notes from descent, wills, etc.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 15 id144393
      "Thomas and William Branch of Henrico and some of their descendants" by Wm. Clayton Torrence (from W&M Quarterly Vols. 25&26).
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144394
    Branch Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144395
      Letter: Rev. Clayton Torrence, Baltimore, Md. to Lee Nicholson
      1937 March 22
      Scope and Contents

      Descent of Thomas Jefferson, President, from Mary Branch and Tomas Jefferson: 1)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Branch, 2)Thomas Jefferson mar. Mary Field, 3)Peter Jefferson Mar. Jane Randolph, 4) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) President. See: Bell, Vol. II, 289-292.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144396
      Membership application from Christopher Branch (oversize, typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144397
      Letter: T. Branch Dunn to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Va.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144398
      Notes from Branchiana [by Cabell]
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 16 id144399
      Long hand notes by Nicholson
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 17 id144401
    Branch Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 17 id144402
      London data on Branch- typescript
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 18 id144403
    Brown, Cargill, Downman Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 18 id144404
      Data from Bible records
      1791-1913
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 19 id144405
    James Branch Cabell, Richmond, Va
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 19 id144406
      Letter to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Va.
      1931 June 12
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144408
    Chappell Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144409
      Typed chart Solomon Graves, descendants of : Chappell, Graves, Chambliss, Pennington, Temple & Savedge
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144410
      Notes on Parham family- correspondence- public records
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144411
      Notes on Ellis family (2 pp. typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144412
      Notes on Gilliam family (1 p.).
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144413
      Notes on Blow marriages, Sussex Co. & Southampton Co.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144414
      Notes on Williamson family- marriage bonds.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144415
      War Dept. records for Chapell.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 20 id144416
      Letter regarding Chappell family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21 id144418
    Mason, Chappell, and Briggs Families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 21 id144419
      Letter from J. Rives Childs, Bucharest, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield, Va, regarding data for book.
      1929
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144422
    Dillard Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144423
      Notes of Mrs. R. F. Dillard and Thos. M. Dillard, Blackstone, Va, from Dillard family Bible owned by T.M. Dillard.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144424
      Letters regarding Dillard family: Daisy T. Riddick, Richmond and Norfolk, and Mrs. R.F. Dillard, Blackstone.
      1927, 1932, 1937
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 22 id144425
      Dillard- Cross Records
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144427
    Edmunds- Edwards Families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144428
      Correspondence
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144429
      Will of John Edmunds, Sussex Co.
      1820
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144431
      Will of John Edmunds, Sussex Co.
      1770
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144432
      Will of Ann Green, Sussex Co.
      1785
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 23 id144433
      Edwards data & chart
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144434
    Eppes Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144436
      Will of Francis Epes of Amelia County, Virginia
      1772 January 29
      Scope and Contents

      Prob. 1789 April 5. Wife: Mary. Ch: Freeman (left "Causon" Pr. George Co., Va); pt. from Peter Batte, other lands, Blandford lots- Francis (left Amelia Co. land), Thomas (left Amelia Co. land), John (left Amelia Co. land and Lunenburg Co. land), Sara [m. Wm. Fitzgerald], Martha, Mary, Lucy [m. Edmund Wills]. Mother: Sarah Epes, Brother: Peter Epes.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144439
      Typescript: "The Epes Family of Nottoway Co. Virginia"
      1625-1920
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 24 id144692
      Letters to Nicholson regarding Epes family and decendants
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144693
    Gee Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144696
      Typescript from 1694 by T.J. Heath
      1933 November
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144700
      Letters: W.J. Fletcher, Washington, D.C. to Lee Nicholson.
      1937; 1930 January & July; 1931 March; 1930 August 4; 1931 July 23; 1930 August 8
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144704
      Letter: J.O Faison, Chatham to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
      1933 November
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144706
      Letter: Jesse Hargrave, Sussex County to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
      1928 August 14
      Scope and Contents

      Will of Charles Gee (1768) and other records (WBB p. 168)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144709
      Newspapers: Hearst's Sunday American- Atlanta, some Gee records, "Many Georgians Trace Ancestry to Gee Family in Dixie History"
      1931 February 22; 1930 June 1
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 25 id144712
      Longhand chart of Gee Family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144714
    Harrison Family and Other Connections
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144719
      Chart
      1642
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144720
      Memo of Blow family (Albemarle Parish Register) pp. 28-48
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144722
      Harrison- Cargill Record from Mrs. Annie M. Jones
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144725
      Excerpt, will of Mrs. Elizabeth Cargill, widow of Capt. John Cargill, Surry Co. WB3 p. 842 (1744)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144727
      Letter: Lee Nicholson, Wakefield to Mrs. Agnes Brown, Dendron, Va.
      1922 August 4
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144732
      Letters: Annie V. Mann, Petersburg, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
      1922 August 18; 1922 August 3
      Scope and Contents

      Content regarding Harrison family of Sussex County; regarding Harrison family of Sussex County.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144737
      Letter: T. Dunn, Norfolk to Wm. B. Hall, regarding Binns, Cargill, Eldridge and Jones families
      1938 July 31
    • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 26 id144739
      Letter: T.B. Dunn, Norfolk, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
      1938 August 1
Mixed Materials Box: 5 id147561
Box 5: Folders 27-32
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 27 id144742
    Heath Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 27 id144743
      Typed copy, "The Nicholson Family" Chapter I-IV
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 27 id144745
      Heath family- oversize, handwritten partly and typed partly
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144747
    Heath Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144749
      Oversize data (typed) "The Heath Family of England and Virginia" by Mrs. James Gilbert Tanner
      1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144752
      Letters to Mr. Nicholson from Miss Mary Mason Heath
      1929-1938
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144755
      Letter to Mr. Nicholson from Augusta B. Fothergill, Richmond
      1936
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144757
      Letter to Mr. Nicholson from Dr. Lyon G. Tyler, Lions Den
      1926
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144760
      Family Bible Records: Heath, Peebles, Rives, by Miss Jennie Heath, Petersburg
      1930 September
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 28 id144763
      Notes in longhand
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144767
    Heath Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144769
      Correspondene of Miss Mary Mason Heath, Washington, with Lee Nicholson
      1930-1937
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144771
      Typed chart of Baird family
      1749-1924
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 29 id144773
      Handwritten notes of Lee Nicholson
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 30 id144776
    Heath, Chappell, etc. Notes
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 30 id144778
      Small book: long hand notes on Malone, Chappell, Peebles, Baird, Dobie, Gee, Mason families
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 31 id144781
    Jarratt Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 31 id144783
      Small book, longhand notes on Jarratt family
      1922
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144785
    Jarratt Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144787
      Letter to Mary A. Stephenson from Lee Nicholson regarding children of Henry and Elizabeth Magett Jarratt
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144791
      Long hand chart in Lee Nicholson's handwriting of Jarratt descent from Henry Jarratt
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144794
      Chart giving descent from Richard Blow, Sr., Sussex County.
      1762
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144796
      Ellis genealogy longhand
      1634-1798
    • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 32 id144798
      Longhand notes by Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 6 id147562
Box 6: Folders 33-38
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144800
    Jones Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144803
      Marriage permit of Richard S. Jones and Susan E. Scott, Perry County, Alabama
      1838 June 26
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144805
      Chart of the Briggs and related families (oversize)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144806
      Typed pages (17)
      1693-1754
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144808
      Excerpts from Surry Co. record books on Jones family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144811
      Typed chart: Bolling- Jones- Edwards families and supplement
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144813
      Branches of Jones family: Epes, Hardaway
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144815
      "Jones Family of Petersburg"- typed
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144818
      Peter Jones of Amelia- typed
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144820
      Notes from Northampton Co., N.C. on Joneses
      1765-1790
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144822
      D.A.R. application of Mrs. Th. N. Jones, Smithfield.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144824
      Longhand notes- marriages in Sussex County
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144826
      Letter from Surry County Court to Nicholson, regarding John Jones' will.
      1936
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144828
      Jones coat of arms (typescript)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144833
      Application to the Louisiana Society of the Colonial Dames of America of Mrs. John N. Stewart (Edwa Hellwege)
      Scope and Contents

      Ancestors: Major General Abraham Ward, Major Peter Jones 1st, Captain Peter Jones 2nd.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 33 id144836
      Records from Thomas B. Dunn regarding Jones Cargill, Branch families
      Scope and Contents

      His line, also, from Col. George Reade; also Batte charter baron ancestors (in folder and typed).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id144838
    Jones Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id144840
      Letter from Dr. Wm. M. Mastin, Mobile, Alabama to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
      1923
      Scope and Contents

      Content regarding Jones, Clairborne, Withers, Mitchell and other families of Petersburg and Dinwiddie County, Va.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id144844
      Transcript from Brunswick County Court Records regarding Binn Jones' will; father, mother, wife & children; wife's will
      1791; 1832
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145153
      Letter from Branch Dunn, Halifax, to Lee Nicholson
      1934
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145156
      Chart showing descent from Richard Jones II and application to Colonial Dames
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145158
      Longhand notes on Nottoway Co., Va
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 34 id145160
      Letter from Mrs. R.D. Gilliam, Petersburg, Va. to Nicholson
      1926
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145164
    Land Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145167
      Regarding Lands of Sussex and Greensville Counties, Va
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145169
      Letter from Dora H. Goodwin, Emporia, to Lee Nicholson
      1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145179
      Letter: Carrie S. Stark, Petersburg
      1926
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145181
      Letter: W.R. Land, Greensboro, to Mrs. Dora Goodwyn
      1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145186
      Letter: Mrs. Goodwyn, Emporia, to Lee Nicholson
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145188
      Typescript "Genealogy of the Land Family" by W.R. Land, Greensboro, N.C.
      1923
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145190
      Will of Maj. Robt. W. Land of Greensville, wife: Sally and son: Thomas Speed Land, an infant
      1810
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145194
      Indenture: Nathaniel Land of Greensville to Ch. Potts and wife
      1880
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145197
      Other court records
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145199
      Military service of Robert W. Land
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145202
      Military service of John Clayton
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145204
      Letter: Clayton Torrence to Lee Nicholson
      1920 October 8
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 35 id145206
      Chart of Edmunds and Edwards family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145207
    Mallory Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145209
      Letter Lucille G. Pleasants, Los Angeles, to Lee Nicholson
      1931
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding Parham and allied families.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145212
      Typed notes and chart of Nicholson family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145215
      Longhand notes on Nicholson family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145217
      The Nicholson coat of arms (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145219
      Small book with longhand notes on Mallory, Batte, and allied families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145221
      Longhand notes on above
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145223
      Letter: J.J. Temple, Prince George Co. to Lee Nicholson, regarding Heath and Mallory wills
      1925
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 36 id145225
      Clipping on Batte and Mallory families (typed copy)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 37 id145228
    Mallory Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 37 id145230
      Book- Longhand notes on Mallory family and kin
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 38 id145232
    Mallory, Booth, Jones, Penick, etc. Notes
    • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 38 id145235
      Book- Longhand notes on Mallory, Booth, Jones, Penick, etc. families and kin
Mixed Materials Box: 7 id147563
Box 7: Folders 39-40
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145236
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145245
      List of Mason Land Grants
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145247
      Miss Mary M. Heath, Washington, to Lee Nicholson, Wakefield
      1930
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145250
      By date genealogy and biography of John Y. Mason
      1799-1859
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145252
      Land grants to Mason (V.S.L. general index)
      1623-1774
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145254
      Letter: Mrs. Williams, Hopewell, to Nicholson listing her children, births and marriages
      1921
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145258
      "From Virginia- A Historical Reminiscence in the Old Dominion" Richmond
      1867 February 1
      Scope and Contents

      Gives description of General Winfield Scoott's old home in sight of Dinwiddie C.H. home: Village View- Burying ground of Scotts to rear of house…

    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145264
      "A Heraldic Description of the Scott, Mason, and Jones coat of arms by Nicholson" (a booklet)
      1919
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145267
      Legal paper: affidavit of John Goodrun as to Capt. James Mason's service in Revolution
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145270
      Mason records from Bible of Emily Boykin Wingfield
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145276
      Notes on Rives, Mason, Chappel and Briggs families and connection with General Scott
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145277
      Typescript of will of James Mason, Greenville, Co., Va
      1784
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145278
      Typescript of will of John Mason
      1783
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145279
      War record of James Mason of Virginia
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145280
      Many letters to Mr. Nicholson from various members of the family giving kinship of Masons to Blows, Chambliss, Batte, etc
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145282
      Printed pamphlet "The Public Life and Diplomatic Correspondence of James M. Mason" by Virginia Mason, his daughter.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145283
      A list of all Mason deeds recorded in Lunenburg Co., Va., clerk's office
      1746-1800
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145284
      Will of Henry B. Mason, Sussex Co. (typed)
      1817
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145357
      Will of Littleberry Mason, Sussex Co. (typed)
      1800
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145358
      Will of Lucy Ann Mason, Sussex Co. (typed)
      1846
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145359
      Will of John Mason, Sussex Co.
      1802
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145360
      Will of Jane Mason, Sussex Co.
      1804
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145361
      Will of John Mason, Sussex Co.
      1783
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145362
      Deed, Peyton Mason of Prince George Co., Va. to John Peebles- land in Greensville Co., Va.
      1821
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145363
      "Copy from Chancery Papers at Emporia, Va., Greensville Co." (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145364
      Suit: Edmunds Mason and Robert Mason, infants, vs. John Mason, infant, by Wm. Harrison, guardian
      1789
      Scope and Contents

      Suit regarding will fo John Harrison of Sussex Co. (d. 1776). Wm. Harrison one of executors.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145365
      Other typed pages on Masons of Sussex and Greensville
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145366
      "The Briggs Family" (typed) from Henry Briggs Surry Co.
      1635
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145367
      "Col. David Mason's Heirs Certified" at Greensville Co. Court.
      1839
      Scope and Contents

      Died interstate 1792 leaving 9 children: Littleberry, Thomas, Nath'l, Elizabeth, Mary, Rebecca, Littleton, William and Henry.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 39 & 39A id145368
      Marriage permit Greensville Co., Peyton Mason and Martha H. Turner
      1808
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145369
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145370
      Pencil tracing of Mason coat of arms (oversize)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145371
      Letter. Mrs. Archer Anderson to Lee Nicholson regarding Mason family (Mrs. Anderson was Mary Mason)
      1918 November 17
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145688
      Letter. Mrs. Archer Anderson to Nicholson regarding Young family, and Mason's marriage 1792
      1920 December 9
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145691
      Chambliss data: Col. John R. Chambliss mar. Sarah Blow of Sussex.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145695
      Typed copy of will of Harry Flood, Surry Co.
      1729
      Scope and Contents

      Daughter Elizabeth Nicholson, wife of Robert Nicholson who was exec. of Harry Flood. The Nicholsons had 6 children (1739)- Henry, Robert, Mary, George, James, and Anne.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145697
      Affidavits regarding Scott, Mason families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145700
      Joseph Daniel Mason's line of ancestry (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145705
      "Judge John Young Mason's line of ancestry" (typed), with letter from W.G. Stanard, Va. Hist. Soc. attached.
      1919
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145708
      Letter. Lyon G. Tyler, Williamsburg, to Nicholson regarding Masons.
      1918 April
    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145709
      Typescript: "Record of Trial of Slayer of Col. David Mason, from Sussex Co. records 1820"
      1820; 1813
      Scope and Contents

      3 pp. Also, marriage bond of Col. David Mason and Lucy Davis, Sussex Co., Va.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 40 id145710
      Many letters from various branches of Mason family to Lee Nicholson (25 or more)
Mixed Materials Box: 8 id147564
Box 8: Folders 41-43
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id145711
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id145712
      Letter. Eliza C. Rucker, Bedford, to Lee Nicholson regarding "Col. David Mason's family. Henry Williamson and Rebecca Mason's descendants."
      1931 October 13
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146246
      Letter: Tiffany & Co. New York to Lee Nicholson regarding "Description of Coat-of-Arms of Scott, Mason, Nicholson and Mallory families"
      1919 August 13
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146248
      Typescript: "A Heraldic Description of the Scott, Mason and Jones (and Nicholson) coat-of-arms."
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146256
      "Chart of Mason Family from Sir John Mason of England" (oversize)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41, 41A id146258
      Mason family Bible records from Mrs. W.H. Cole's Bible. 7 pp.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146260
      Mrs. Fletcher's records
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146262
      Children of Judge John Young Mason & Mary Ann Foot
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 41 & 41A id146264
      Several dozen letters from various members of the Mason family giving records
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146270
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146274
      Letters: Jos. D. Mason, New York to Lee Nicholson, regarding Mason family
      1918-1928
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146276
      Family of Dr. Thomas Field Scott
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146278
      Family of Dr. Wm. Baker Scott
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146279
      Buford family records by E.P. Buford
      1912
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146283
      Copy of Mason data lent by Mrs. A.M. Jones of Mobile
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146285
      Copy of Mr. W.G. Stanard's letter to Gertrude Mason
      1896 June 6
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146300
      Copy of Rebecca Thweatt La Monte's letter with references
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 42 id146302
      Typed (11 pp.) Gregory family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146304
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146317
      Typescript, 4 pp. Dr. George Mason ancestry, of 'Pleasant Shade," Greenville Co., Mrs. Jones' ancestry, Mrs. Archer Anderson's ancestry
      1902
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146329
      Typescript, 2 pp. Jos. D. Mason, New York to Lee Nicholson.
      1927
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146332
      Early Virginia immigrants by Greer
      1623-1666
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146336
      Letter J. D. Mason, N.Y. to Lee Nicholson.
      1926 September 6
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146338
      Jones family data by Branch Dunn (typed 14 pp.)
      1934
    • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 43 id146340
      Correspondence- many letters- from various members of family to Mr. Nicholson
Mixed Materials Box: 9 id147565
Box 9: Folders 44-48
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146341
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146437
      Children of Edmunds Mason and Frances Young. 1 p.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146438
      Chart, longhand: "The Mason family of Albemarle Parish"
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146439
      Will of John R. Mason of Sussex- lived at "Windsor," Sussex Co.
      1826
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146440
      Letter: Lee Nicholson to Mr. C.K. King, Harriman, Tenn. "Review of Mason family" (5 pp. typed)
      1926 June 14
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146441
      Letter; Peyton Turner, Emporia, to Lee Nicholson. Regarding: Turner- Chambliss family (3 pp. typed)
      1927 April 19
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146442
      Mrs. Wm. R. Todd's Mason Ancestry (2 pp. typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146874
      Downman family ancestry by T.B. Dunn
      1934
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146878
      Dr. John Raines Mason family (longhand)
      1796-1815; 1799-?; 1793-1828; 1820
      Scope and Contents

      Henry Mason of "Laurel Spring", Capt. John Raines Mason, Dr. John Raines Mason, graduate of Edinburg University, married Lucy Davis

    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 44 id146881
      Many letters to Nicholson regarding branches of Mason family
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146883
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146885
      History of Mason family (longhand, oversize)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146886
      Photographs of home of Col. David Mason
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146889
      Photographs of home of Major John Mason near Joseph Swamp, Sussex Co.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 45 id146890
      Letter: W.G. Bean, Dean of W. & L. University to Nicholson regarding John Young Mason- sketch for D.A.B.
      1930 January 14
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146894
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146896
      Letter. Lee Nicholson to Mrs. Fothergill regarding Heath family and connections, Mason family and connections, and Cargill family and connections.
      1929 September 1
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146902
      Children of Martha Wingfield and Thomas Field (typed 4 pp).
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146904
      Mason genealogy (oversize)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146906
      "Report of searches made in quest of ancestry of Capt. John Mason of Surry Co. 1715"
      1715
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146909
      "The Mason family, by Mrs. Fothergill"
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 46 id146910
      "Dobie Genealogy" (longhand)
      1929
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146911
    Mason Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146912
      Oversize chart- Mason family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146913
      Land owned by Capt. James Mason as shown in his will.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 47 id146914
      Chart of descendants of Christopher Rives by his son John Rives
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 48 id146915
    Mason, Briggs, Batte, Epes
    • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 48 id146916
      Notes by Lee Nicholson, in black notebook
Mixed Materials Box: 10 id147566
Box 10: Folders 49-53
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146917
    Mason, Daugherty, Cobb, and Blow Families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146920
      Records in brown envelope of: (following envelope-items were removed from envelope) Mason, Westry, Cobb, and Blow families
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146965
      Records copied from old Drumwright family Bible.
      1877
      Scope and Contents

      Thomas J Drumwright m. Nancy W. Blow February 11 1836. Alex Blow m. Elizabeth M. Jarrad April 20 1809 (Alex Blow, son of Henry Blow and Rebecca born 1788). Elizabeth M. Jarrad, daughter of Henry Jarrad and Margaret B., b. June 28, 1784. Nancy W. Blow, daughter of above born 1812, February 20. George Blow Drumwright, son of T.J. and Nancy W., was born 1850, June 18;

    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146966
      Blow genealogy from Richard
      1762
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146967
      Blow records; Magett, Jarratt, Blow
      1936
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 49 id146968
      Blow chart (longhand): Cobbs, Drumwright, Chambliss, Batte, Bailey, Magett, Jarratt
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 50 id146969
    Mason, Heath, Mallory, etc. Notes
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 50 id146970
      Notebook- longhand notes on various families
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146971
    Miscellaneous Genealogy
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146973
      Longhand copy of will of Rowland Ward, Amelia Co.; also typed copy.
      1800
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146974
      Chart of Baird family (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146975
      Longhand copy of will of Henry Embry, Brunswick Co.
      1763
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146976
      Notes on Cargill family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146977
      Will of John S. Chappell, Sussex Co. (excerpt)
      1907
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146978
      Heath- Peebles family
      Scope and Contents

      (4 pp. typed)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146979
      Rough notes on Stephenson family of Southampton Co.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146980
      Rough notes on Henry Browne
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146981
      Deeds- excerpts Wharton
      1865
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146982
      Mallory, Walker, Broadnax, and Embry connections- a letter from Mrs. W.H. Merritt, Charlottesville, to Nicholson
      1931
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146983
      Cameron family, Petersburg
      Scope and Contents

      1 p. typed

    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146984
      Notes on Wilson family of Surry County
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146985
      Notes on Gilliam, Hull, Bushrod, Maybury, Briggs (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146986
      Notes on Everard, Hamilton, Parham (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146987
      Longhand will of Richard Fletcher, Brunswick Co.
      1833
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146988
      Chart of Baker family
      1860-1869
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146989
      "The Gilliam Family" by Col. Thos. H. Ellis typed
      1849
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146990
      Myrick family (longhand) Southampton Co., Va.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146991
      Cobb family (longhand) Southampton Co., Va.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146992
      "Proofs of service of Revolutionary soldiers. Exact copy" Scott, Jones, Mason, Ward, Pegram
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146994
      Thomas H. Boisseau's acct. of Winfield Scott's house, office and other homes in Dinwiddie Co.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146995
      "Jas. E. MacFarland- Death of a Participant in the Trent Affair"
      Scope and Contents

      (typed) (MacFarland was a great nephew of General Winfield Scott).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146996
      "Royal ancestry of Col. George Reade, Virginia" (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146997
      Will of Henry Embry, Brunswick Co., Va. - (court copy typed)
      1762
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 51 id146998
      Correspondence by various members of families with Mr. Nicholson.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 52 id146999
    Miscellaneous Genealogical Notes
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 52 id147002
      Notebook- longhand notes- Cocke, Dobie, Parham, and other families
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 53 id147003
    Miscellaneous Notes
    • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 53 id147004
      Longhand notes
Mixed Materials Box: 11 id147570
Box 11: Folders 54-55
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147357
    Miscellany
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147358
      Vestry book church register- Emanuel Episcopal Church, Wakefield, Va. (See Folder 54A)
      1891-1910
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147359
      Booklet: "Wakefield Birthplace of George Washington"- Chas. Moore
      1932
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147360
      Picture & write up of Mrs. Lewis Burwell (Mary Willis) by Chas. Bridges
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147361
      Picture of Lewis Burwell
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147362
      Batte Coat-of-Arms, Yorkshire
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147363
      Engraving- "Studley Royal"London- The Mallory homestead in England
      1851
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147364
      "The Language of Flowers" compiled by Lee Nicholson (longhand)
      1907
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147367
      "Harrison & Meade Genealogies" by T.B. Dunn, Halifax, Va.
      1921
      Scope and Contents

      "The Harrison Family" (copied from Keith's Ancestry of Benu. Harrison- typed), "Andrew Meade of Ireland and Virginia" by P.H. Baskerville typed)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147368
      Scott coat of arms in color
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 54 & 54A id147369
      Booklet: "Guide to Petersburg, Va.- Historical and Industrial"
      1884
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 55 id147372
    Morton Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 55 id147373
      Application form to D.A.R. for membership
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 55 id147374
      "Ancestor Services- Capt. John Morton of Prince Edward Co., Va."
      Scope and Contents

      (longhand). (also a typed copy)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 55 id147375
      "The Morton Family Genealogy" from John Morton
      Scope and Contents

      (oversize typed copy)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 55 id147377
      Correspondence with War Dept. & Pension Dept. regarding Mortons' services in Revolution
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 55 id147378
      Children of Jeremial Cobb & Anne Briggs of Southampton Co.
      1805-1831
    • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 55 id147379
      Pond family records by Lee Nicholson (longhand). Chart of Pond family
Mixed Materials Box: 12 id147587
Box 12: Folders 56-61
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56 id147380
    May Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56 id147381
      Chart of May- Pegram family (longhand)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 56 id147383
      Letters from Miss Mary M. Heath to Lee Nicholson
      1933 August 7; 1929 July 25
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147384
    Neblett Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147385
      Letter- Wm. J. Barrow, Blackstone, Va. to Lee Nicholson with notes on Neblett- Chappell family
      1931 November 1
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147387
      Excerpt of will of Capt. Sterling Neblett of Lunenburg Co., Va with children & their marriage (5 pp.)
      1829
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147388
      H.F. Hutcheson, Boydton, Va. to Lee Nicholson
      1929 July 30
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding Chappell- Neblett families and kin.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147391
      Miss M.A. Neblett, Petersburg, to Lee Nicholson
      1925
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147392
      Bible records in longhand- Neblett
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147394
      Application to Huguenot Society of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C. of Mary Ann Neblett of Petersburg
      1920 April 6
      Scope and Contents

      Descendant of Hinchia Gilliam who went to Barbados 1666-1680. Endorsed by Mrs. Warner Moore.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 57 id147395
      Richard Gilliam, Petersburg, Va. to Marianne Neblett, Petersburg
      Scope and Contents

      Data giving wills of various Gilliams.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 58 id147398
    Nicholson Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 58 id147400
      Application of Janet Knox Nicholson to D.A.R.
      Scope and Contents

      Description from Captain James Mason of Sussex Co., Va.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147402
    Nicholson Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147406
      Letters Lyon G. Tyler, Williamsburg, to Lee Nicholson
      1916 June 11, 1919 May 23, 1917 October 3 and 5
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147410
      Dr. Tyler's chart of Nicholson- Flood family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147411
      Chart of Edmunds-Howell-Nicholson
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147412
      Letters regarding Nicholson line from various members
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147414
      Dr. Charles H. Peete, Warrenton, N.C.- regarding Briggs, Cobb, Nicholson, Applewhite
      1919-1920
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147416
      Newspaper, full page The Sun, Baltimore, regarding Wyatt family
      1905 April 16
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147418
      Will of Robert Nicholson, Sussex Co. (typed copy)
      1762
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147420
      Will of Mary Nicholson (typed copy)
      1776
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147426
      Binns-Cargill-Nicholson family by T.B. Dunn
      1938
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147427
      H.B. McLemore, Clerk Southampton Co to Lee Nicholson, regarding Susan and Mark Nicholson
      1935
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147428
      Letter: R.D. Davis, Clerk Sussex Co. to Nicholson
      1927
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding Will of John Nicholson and College lands.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147429
      Letter: Jesse Hargrave, Clerk Sussex Co. to Nicholson, regarding Will of John Cargill- 1841
      1927
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 59 and 59A id147431
      Letter: Fannie Copes, formerly Fannie Holloman, to Nicholson
      1920
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding Bain's store & home at Wakefield. Bought from Nicholsons.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 60 id147432
    Nicholson Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 60 id147433
      General Winfield Scott- clippings, photo
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 60 id147435
      Rough notebook
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 61 id147436
    Peebles Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 61 id147437
      Letter: Anne B. Peebles, Washinton, to Lee Nicholson, regarding Lemuel Peebles and Wm. Peebles of Prince George Co. Va.
      1933 August 13
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 61 id147438
      Typed data: Hartwell Peebles, children and grandchildren
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 61 id147439
      Typed data: "Peebles"; Surry Co. deeds
    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 61 id147440
      Letter: P.P. Peebles, Williamsburg, to Lee Nicholson
      1933 October 28
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding descendants of Lemuel Peebles and Rebecca Heath.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 61 id147441
      Letter, Lee Nicholson, Wakefield to Mary A. Stephenson, Wakefield.
      Scope and Contents

      Typed letter of Heath genealogy. Also Ellis, Jarratt families.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 61 id147442
      Much correspondence of related families
Mixed Materials Box: 13 id147588
Box 13: Folders 62-63A
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147443
    Pegram Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147444
      "Ancestral line of General Wingfield Scott"
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147445
      "History of the Scott family on my father's side"- James Daniel Scott (typed 3 pp.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147446
      "Wm. Pegram's family" (typed copy 9 pp)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147447
      "Mr. James West Pegram's family" (1p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147448
      "The Pegram family record" (longhand 8 pp)- transcribed from family Bible of Robert B. Pegram of U.S. & Conferate Navies
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147450
      "Capt. Jack Pegram's family" (1 p. typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147451
      "George William Pegram's family" (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147452
      "Col. (or Rev.) Robert Pegram's family" (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147454
      Application to D.A.R. for Corinne Pegram Partridge
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147456
      Copy of letter written by Gen. Winfield Scott to niece
      1845 January 28
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147458
      University of Penna. inquiry regarding Wm. Baker Scott, class of 1820, Medicine
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147464
      Chart of Pegrams from Edward I (1 p. longhand)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147465
      Many letters from various members of family thru U.S.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 62 & 62A id147591
      Copy of letter published in Richmond Times-Dispatch
      1909 August 14
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding finding a part of sword "The gift of Virginia to General Scott."

  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147592
    Pegram Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147618
      Notebook: Bath Parish Register- The Scott & Pegram & Starke family data collected by Lee Nicholson (see Folder 63A).
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147619
      Letter of John Y. Mason
      1831 January 28
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding his grandfather, Captain James Mason's Bounty Lands grant; also for great uncle David Mason.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147620
      Jones family data
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147621
      Edward family data
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147622
      Briggs family data
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147623
      Many other Bible & court records
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147624
      Dinwiddie Co., Va. court suit Daniel Pegram vs. other Pegrams; exec. of Wm. Pegram
      1785 August 18
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147625
      Chart: "Capt. Rich. Gregory Pegram's family" (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147626
      Record of births of children of Francis Gregory & Eliz. Pegram (m. 1804)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147627
      Pegram data- (3 typed items of 5 p., 18 pp., and 5 pp.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147628
      "Capt. Edward Pegram" (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147629
      "John Pegram May's family" (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147630
      "Gen. Jas. West Pegram's family" (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147631
      Pegrams, by Slaughter (4 pp.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147632
      Coleman family (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147633
      "The Ward Family Line" (typed chart 1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 63 & 63A id147634
      Notebook "The Pegram Family" (longhand). (See Folder 63A)
Mixed Materials Box: 14 id147589
Box 14: Folders 64-66
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64 id147635
    Pegram Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64 id147636
      Oversize typed chart of Pegram-Scott family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64 id147638
      Oversize typed data on Pegram-Scott branch
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64 id147639
      Typed copy of Pegrams & kin (50 pp.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 64 id147640
      Description of "An Ancestral Mansion"- residence of General Winfield Scott near Dinwiddie C.H. Va.
      Scope and Contents

      Author unknown.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147641
    Rives Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147642
      Bible records of Ben W. Mason
      1793-1861
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147643
      Will of Eliz. Turner nee Rives, widow of James Turner of Greensville Co., VA.
      1827 December 11
      Scope and Contents

      Sarah J.R. Blow, a niece [married John R. Chambliss], sister: Winifred G. Blow

    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147691
      Letter, Dora Goodwyn, Emporia, to Lee Nicholson
      1924 March 10
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding Rives, Blow, Chambliss families.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147692
      Brown family Bible records in poss. of Mrs. Gilbert J. Cox
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147693
      Jarratt family records
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147694
      Letter, J. Rives Childs, American Consul, Jerusalem, to Lee Nicholson
      1924 April 19
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147695
      Typed data from Parish register (Sussex)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147696
      Typed fragments of the Rives pedigrees (6 pp.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 65 id147697
      Notes from books in the Land Registry office at Richmond. Rives land grants
      1653-1764
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66 id147698
    Scott- Pegram Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66 id147699
      Smithy chart (1 p.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66 id147700
      Walker genealogy (typed)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 66 id147702
      Many family letters
Mixed Materials Box: 15 id147590
Box 15: Folders 67-72
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147703
    Scott- Pegram Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147704
      Clipping from the Richmond-Virginian
      1910 March 11
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147705
      Article by Thomas H. Boisseau, Petersburg, Va
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147706
      Williamson- Parker data
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147707
      Walker genealogy
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147708
      Letter, Lyon G. Tyler, Williamsburg, to Lee Nicholson
      1910 March 14
      Scope and Contents

      Regarding parents and grandparents of General W. Scott.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147709
      Children of General Scott- chart
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147710
      Clipping describing "Columbia," Haxall home in Richmond & marriage there of Dr. D.C. Mitchell's daughter
      1923 June 12
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 67 id147711
    Starke Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 68 id147712
      Data "Family of Mrs. Elizabeth Pegram Scott" (typed 3 pp)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 68 id147713
      "Ancestry of General Peter Burwell Starke" (1 p.).
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 68 id147745
      Letter, L.G. Tyler, regarding Starkes, Broadnax, Walkers
      1931 October 7
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 69 id147746
    Turnbull Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 69 id147747
      Chart (1 p.)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 70 id147748
    Walker Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 70 id147749
      Typed data by Lee Nicholson
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 70 id147750
      Charts typed
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 70 id147751
      Notes by Capt. Philip Haxall- typed (2 pp.). Bolling, Starke, Walker, Broadnax, Griswold
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 71 id147752
    Bailey Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 71 id147753
      Bailey data found at "Tower Hill," Blow plantation at time of sale, xerox copy.
      1959-1960
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 72 id147754
    Scott Family
    • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 72 id147755
      "The Scott Family" (30 pp. typed oversize)