Virginia. Militia
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Baer Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155
Scope and Contents
This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...
Dates:
1744 - 1929
James McDowell Regimental books
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0078
Scope and Contents
This collection contains James McDowell's regimental manuscript books. The books were kept from August-November 1814 while McDowell served as a Lt. Colonel in the War of 1812. The volumes document various orders related to military appointments, court martials, drills, furloughs, inspections, etc. The first volume includes a roster of officers of the 5th Regiment of Virginia Militia. Most of the pages in this volume are blank.
Dates:
1814 August 29-November 29
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- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Business records 1
- Correspondence 1
- Genealogy 1
- Germans 1
- Hand weaving -- Patterns 1
- Immigrants 1
- Indentures 1
- Maps 1
- Military orders 1
- Militia 1
- Promissory notes 1
- Receipts (Acknowledgments) 1
- Registers 1
- Textile crafts 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginia -- Goshen 1
- Virginia -- Panther Gap 1
- War of 1812 1
- Wills 1 + ∧ less
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