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Preferred Citation:
Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift
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Scope and Contents
Papers, 1783-1862, of the Thomas Smith family of Powhatan County, Va., Kentucky, and Ohio. Includes typescripts of letters, 1841-1842, of James George Smith; typescript of letter, 1862, of Thomas E. Smith; constitution, 1798, of the Emigration Society; and letter, 1799, and address, n.d., of the Humane Society against slavery. The Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers are primarily the genealogical charts and notes used to trace ancestral lines to the twenty-five Sureties of the Magna Carta (Barons of Runnymede). The notes are almost all from printed sources. Research covers Huguenot settlers in Virginia and Quaker and Scots-Irish settlers of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The collection also includes genealogical charts and notes compiled by Marie M. Smith and Edith W. Smith.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Anti-slavery movements
- Correspondence
- Notebooks
- Powhatan County (Va.)--History--18th century
- Powhatan County (Va.)--History--19th century
- Typescripts
- United States--Abolition--History
General
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Container List
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id145457
Papers of Thomas Smith (1783-1841) Powhatan County, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio1809-1831
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id145458
Papers of the Smith family of Powhatan County, Virginia, and Ohio1785-1820
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id145459
Letters from Mary and Thomas Smith of Warren County, Ohio1836-1857
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id145460
Typescripts of James George Smith letters and one Thomas E. Smith Letter1841-1842, 1862
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id145461
Typescripts of 1841-1842 letters from James George Smith1841-1842Scope and Contents
James George Smith was a founder of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Miami College in Ohio from which he graduated in 1840. The letters were written while Smith was on a trip to Florida for reasons of health- tuberculosis. He recovered but died of cholera in 1849.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id145462
Typescript of letter written by the donor's father, Thomas E. Smith1862 December 5Scope and Contents
Letter written December 5, 1862 from Callatin, Tennessee where he was serving in the U.S. Army.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id145461
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id145463
Emigration Society Constitution, Anti-Slavery Letter to President of Humane Society and Humane Society Address1798, 1799 and undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id145464
The Constitution of the Emigration Society1798 March 27Scope and Contents
The Constitution of the Emigration Society was formed to assist settlers moving to land north of the Ohio River and in securing clear title to the land. Meeting held at Smith's Chapel, March 27, 1798. Manuscript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id145465
Letter to the president of the Humane Society et. al, against slavery, Springfield (Ohio)1799 September 25
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id145466
Address of the "Human Society N.W. of the Ohio River" for Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the N.W. Territory.Undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id145464
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id145467
Notes and genealogical charts on the Smith familyScope and Contents
Includes notes on the Smith family of Powhatan County, Virginia and other Smith families, early settlers in Virginia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id145468
Genealogy Charts and Notes
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id145469
Genealogical charts of ancestors, Hancock, Harris, early Virginia settlers.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id145470
Typescript of notes and papers on the Watkins and Clay families of Virginia and Kentucky
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id145471
List of names and addresses of relatives and friends with whom the donor corresponded relative to family history
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id145469
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id145717
Notes, letters, etc. relative to the donor's research.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id145718
Notes, letters, etc. relative to the donor's research.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id145719
Notes, letters, etc. relative to the donor's research.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id145720
Genealogical notesScope and Contents
Genealogical notes on families: Querrant - Virginia; Richard Thompson - Maryland; Usula Bysshe - Maryland; William Brewster - Massachusetts; Pearce - Massachusetts; Pierce - Virginia and Massachusetts; and Trabue - Virginia. Includes notes on Porter, Harris, Watkins families of Powhatan County, Virginia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1
Genealogical notes and correspondenceScope and Contents
Genealogical notes on families: Bowens - New Jersey and Pennsylvannia; Watkins - Virginia; Hancocks - Virginia; Tygon - New Jersey and Pennsylvannia; Subletts -Pennsylvannia and Ohio; Maxeys - Tennessee; and Whitehills - Pennsylvannia and Ohio. An envelope containing notes and extracts on the Huguenots in the U.S.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1
Genealogical notes and correspondenceScope and Contents
Genealogical notes and correspondence relative to Gaddis and McKay families of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1
Genealogical notes and correspondenceScope and Contents
Genealogical notes on families: Wormeley - Virginia; Lippincotts - New Jersey and New York; Porter - Virginia; Ridgeway - Pennsylvania and Ohio; Willoughby - General; and Stockton - Shattock - New Jersey.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1 id145727
Books on MarylandScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2 id145729
Books on VirginiaScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3 id145730
The Colonial Council of VirginiaScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4 id145732
Life of John KeanScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5 id145733
Dalrymple FamilyScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6 id145735
Philip Gatch - by John McKean, Supreme Court JusticeScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7 id145737
Life in Old Virginia - Jas. J. McDonaldScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8 id145740
Notes from Vestry Book of King William ParishScope and Contents
Extracts and Notes.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9 id145743
Scotch-Irish in America - by Robert A. Gray.Scope and Contents
Extracts from printed sources.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10 id285055
Extracts from Americans of Gentle Birth, and their AncestorsScope and Contents
Typed and handwritten pages, many from the book "Americans of Gentle Birth and their Ancestors" by Mrs H.D. Pittman published in St Louis 1903.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11 id285060
Typed and handwritten notes of variety of subjectsScope and Contents
"A Few Notes on some Historic Ships that came to the New World bearing the People called Quakers to the Colony of New Jersey" with hand written and typed notes. Handwritten and typed pages on "Vermont, the Green Mountain State", "The Mayflower Compact", Governor WIlliam Bradford, Ethan Allen, Thomas Chittenden, and Forebears of Herbert Hoover.
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of RunnymedeScope and Contents
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of Runnymede. Particular emphasis is laid upon the descendents of the twenty-five Sureties.
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of RunnymedeScope and Contents
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of Runnymede. Particular emphasis is laid upon the descendents of the twenty-five Sureties.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 1
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of RunnymedeScope and Contents
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the Barons of Runnymede. Particular emphasis is laid upon the descendents of the twenty-five Sureties.