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Totty Family (Sc 2793), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Totty Family (Sc 2793), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2793. Correspondence and research materials relating to the genealogy of the Totty family of Kentucky, and related families Carter and Cosby. Includes military records, birth, marriage, will and deed records, and pedigree charts.
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 - Relating To (Sc 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 - Relating To (Sc 1273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1273. Insurance application, dated 17 October 1859, for the home and barn of General Robert E. Lee in Arlington, Virginia. Includes a detailed description of the structures.
Dead Virginians: The Corpse And Its Uses In Early Virginia, David Roettger
Dead Virginians: The Corpse And Its Uses In Early Virginia, David Roettger
Theses and Dissertations
The thesis traces the history of colonial Virginia in an attempt to uncover the origins of several peculiarities in Virginia death-ways. Elite Virginians buried at home more often than not (where they could protect the dead from animal desecration), while avoided death’s heads, reapers, and bone based tomb and mourning jewelry iconography even though such was popular throughout the British Atlantic. Research done for this thesis reveals a fear on the part of elite Virginias regarding questions of both corpse desecration and natural putrefaction. The cause of this cultural obsession lie in two facts: The blackening of the early colony’s …
"To Preserve, Protect, And Pass On:" Shirley Plantation As A Historic House Museum, 1894–2013, Kerry Dahm
"To Preserve, Protect, And Pass On:" Shirley Plantation As A Historic House Museum, 1894–2013, Kerry Dahm
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis provides an analysis of Shirley Plantation’s operation as a historic house museum from 1894 to the present period, and the Carter family’s dedication to keeping the estate within the family. The first chapter examines Shirley Plantation’s beginnings as a historic house museum as operated by two Carter women, Alice Carter Bransford and Marion Carter Oliver, who inherited the property in the late nineteenth century. The second chapter explores Shirley Plantation’s development as a popular historic site during the mid-twentieth century to the early part of the twenty-first century, and compares the site’s development to the interpretative changes that …
The Virginia House Of Burgesses' Struggle For Power From 1619-1689, Nathanael Kreimeyer
The Virginia House Of Burgesses' Struggle For Power From 1619-1689, Nathanael Kreimeyer
Masters Theses
After experiencing the freedom to choose representatives for the House of Burgesses in 1619, Virginian freemen and freeholders would resist living under a political system that did not allow them to participate in choosing their leaders. In 1619, the Virginia Company set up a new kind of governmental legislature in Virginia where every freeman and freeholder held the right to vote for their representative. Over time, the representatives came to see their legislature as equal with the British Parliament and believed it held the right to make its own laws and choose its own leaders. By Bacon's Rebellion in 1675-1676, …
Carmichael Family Papers (Mss 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Carmichael Family Papers (Mss 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 467. Correspondence, legal papers, and miscellaneous material from several related families: Standrod, Campbell, and Carmichael. Includes a claim made after the Civil War for compensation for an enslaved man who joined the Union Army (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Klein, Wilma - Collector (Sc 2766), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Klein, Wilma - Collector (Sc 2766), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2766. Will (1823) of James Bray, Chesterfield County, Virginia, in which he frees his slaves and bequeaths all his property to them; poem (1928) to her parents by Ruthia Chloe Jane Miller, Bowling Green, Kentucky; Beech Grove Missionary Baptist Church ordination minutes, 27 November 1994; and birthday greetings to William H. Howard, Tompkinsville, Kentucky, from Governor Paul E. Patton, 8 April 1996.
Howard, Obediah, 1741-1804 - Relating To (Sc 2754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Howard, Obediah, 1741-1804 - Relating To (Sc 2754), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2754. Wills for Obediah Howard, Barren County, Kentucky, and James Bray, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Also includes a short vignette about Eliza Lewis, a former slave of the Howard family, Barren County.
Harris, Downey Lamar, 1875-1956 (Sc 1033), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, Downey Lamar, 1875-1956 (Sc 1033), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1033. World War I letters written by Downey L. Harris from Camp Lee, Virginia to his family in Franklin, Kentucky, consoling them over the loss of his brother, George DeWitt Harris in France. The letters also contain information about Downey’s work as a physician at Camp Lee during the war.
''Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!'': Reclaiming Richmond's African Burial Ground, Mai-Linh Hong
''Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!'': Reclaiming Richmond's African Burial Ground, Mai-Linh Hong
Faculty Journal Articles
By treating spatial conflict as one way communities wrestle with the memory and legacy of slavery, this article unites critical landscape analysis, a tool of legal geography, with legal and cultural analysis and recent scholarship on African American reparations. A slave cemetery lay beneath a parking lot in Shockoe Bottom, a neighborhood of downtown Richmond that was once a major slave-trading hub. In recent years, controversy arose over the site’s use, generating racially charged local debate and two failed lawsuits seeking to preserve the site. This article examines the significance of the African Burial Ground controversy by analyzing its symbolic, …
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1767-1845 (Sc 2713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1767-1845 (Sc 2713), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 2713. Typescript of a diary kept by Benjamin McReynolds about a trip taken with his wife Sarah “Sally” from Logan County, Kentucky to Bedford County, Virginia in 1823. Introductory material, maps, photos and annotations supplied by Raymond Dixon Stapleton.
Retaliation With Restraint: Destruction Of Private Property In The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Jeannie Cummings Harding
Retaliation With Restraint: Destruction Of Private Property In The 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, Jeannie Cummings Harding
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
The Second Shenandoah Valley Campaign in 1864 created new challenges for commanders, soldiers, and civilians on both sides. Pressure on General Grant and President Lincoln to end the war quickly precipitated an increase in the use and severity of hard war policies in the South. Meanwhile, Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Early worked against his foe, implementing hard war in southern Pennsylvania in a desperate attempt to maintain his supply base in the Shenandoah Valley. Soldiers and civilians found themselves caught in the middle of an increasing cycle of destruction that they seemed to find equally demoralizing. Three towns suffered significant …
Active Religion: James Ireland, The Separate Baptists, And The Great Awakening In Virginia, 1760-1775, Cooper Pasque
Active Religion: James Ireland, The Separate Baptists, And The Great Awakening In Virginia, 1760-1775, Cooper Pasque
Masters Theses
In the mid-eighteenth century, the religious fervor of the Great Awakening entered Virginia. Evangelical Baptists soon threatened to undermine the authority of the Anglican Church and its planter patrons. Despite their efforts to quiet the Baptists, evangelical religion took root in Virginia by the end of the American Revolution. Historical works on these events offer valid but incomplete explanations. Puzzling dynamics in the Virginian context require a more complex interpretation. The life of James Ireland provides a unique window into possible answers. His autobiography provides evidence for what appears to be the most fundamental reason for evangelicalism's successes in Virginia. …
Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bowles, Orlando Charles, 1839-1896 (Mss 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 455. Correspondence, accounts, land surveys, and miscellaneous business and legal papers of Orlando C. Bowles, a Civil War veteran, lawyer, farmer, and timber trader of Pike County, Kentucky. Includes some material relating to the Cecil family of Floyd and Pike counties.
Helm Family Papers (Sc 2697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm Family Papers (Sc 2697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2697. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Helm family of Bowling Green, Kentucky and Logan County, Kentucky. Includes family letters, 1938 financial information relating to the Morehead House Hotel, family reunion literature, a letter of praise to Walter A. Baker from U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, and materials relating to the 1994 drowning death of Thomas Carson Helm.
Patrick, William, 1763-1835 (Sc 947), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patrick, William, 1763-1835 (Sc 947), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 947. Augusta County, Virginia citizen William Patrick’s will, written in anticipation of his travel to Kentucky. His siblings are listed.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Letters (Sc 956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 956. Letters, 1861-1864 (3), written by three soldiers from Indiana. Two are stationed in Virginia and describe recent battles and camp life. The letter writer from 1864 speculates that the war is almost over and describes Raleigh, North Carolina, and military affairs there.
Victim Of A Revolution: Nicholas Cresswell's American Odyssey, 1774-1777, Matthew Exline
Victim Of A Revolution: Nicholas Cresswell's American Odyssey, 1774-1777, Matthew Exline
Masters Theses
The diary of Nicholas Cresswell, a young Englishman who traveled in America from 1774-1777, has long been an important primary source on the American Revolution. Cresswell's travels took him from the eastern seaboard (and Barbados) to Kentucky and Ohio, and from Williamsburg, Virginia to New York City. The people he met encompassed almost the entire political spectrum of the day, ranging from William Howe and Loyalist operatives such as John Connolly to grassroots patriot activists on the Committees of Public Safety and founding luminaries such as George Rogers Clark, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. He rubbed shoulders with people from …
Logan, Benjamin, 1743-1802 And Ann (Montgomery) Logan, 1752-1825 (Sc 692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan, Benjamin, 1743-1802 And Ann (Montgomery) Logan, 1752-1825 (Sc 692), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 692. Deed, 18 February 1785, from Benjamin Logan and his wife Ann Logan of Lincoln County, Virginia, to Richard Jackman of the same place, for one hundred acres in Lincoln County. In 1792, the county became part of Kentucky.
Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 672. Printed copy of the will of Mary Washington, mother of President George Washington, as registered in the Clerk’s Office at Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Roark, Ethel Elizabeth (Stagner), 1913-1992 (Mss 105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 105. Miscellaneous papers collected by Ethel Roark, Franklin, Kentucky. Includes a World War II letter; personal letters (4); Knights of Pythias certificate; general store ledger with a 1929 inventory; 1954 letter promoting legal alcohol sales in Simpson County; and 1965 farm diary.
Croghan, William (Lg 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Croghan, William (Lg 17), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 17. Original land grant, 8 December 1821, by which James Monroe, President of the United States of America granted Samuel Fenley, 160 acres in Arkansas.
Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmunds Family Papers (Mss 443), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 443. Correspondence, deeds, legal and other personal papers of the Edmunds family of North Carolina and Caldwell County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data and papers of associated families, primarily the Cameron family of North Carolina.
Lyne, John (Lg 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lyne, John (Lg 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 6. Original land grant, 29 December 1786, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted John Lyne 300 acres.
Craddock, Robert Edward, 1757-1837 (Lg 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Craddock, Robert Edward, 1757-1837 (Lg 11), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 11. Original land grant, 28 February 1789, by which Beverley Randolph, Governnor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted Robert Edward Craddock, 590 acres.
May, John (Lg 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
May, John (Lg 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 9. Original land grant, 1788, June 25, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted John May ??? acres. Water damaged and chiefly illegible.
Dunlap, John (Lg 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dunlap, John (Lg 16), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 16. Original land grant, 4 February 1788, by which Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted John Dunlap and Michael Willegas, assignees of William McWilliams, 98,000 acres in Nelson County, Virginia.
Banks, Henry (Lg 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Banks, Henry (Lg 52), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 52. Copy of land grant, 1 June 1786, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of of Virginia, granted to Henry Banks, 12,500 acres in Jefferson County on Rough Creek.
Chapline, Abraham (Lg 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chapline, Abraham (Lg 51), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 51. Original land grant, 15 July 1786, by which Patrick Henry, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted to Abraham Chapline, assignee of Christopher Roan, 1000 acres on Beaver Creek.
Reynolds, William (Lg 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reynolds, William (Lg 7), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 7. Original land grant, 24 May 1792, by which Henry Lee, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, granted William Reynolds, 1,000 acres.