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This box includes folders on Lucy P. Ackerly, the Alexander family, the Anderson family, the Baker family, the Beard family, James Beatty, the Bell family, the Bogan family, the Borden family, the Bowyer family, the Brooke family, and the Brown family.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This box includes folders on Lucy P. Ackerly, the Alexander family, the Anderson family, the Baker family, the Beard family, James Beatty, the Bell family, the Bogan family, the Borden family, the Bowyer family, the Brooke family, and the Brown family.

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This file consists of a notebook containing 113 pages o genealogical notes. There is also an additional 34 pages of manuscript notes on the Caruthers family in a different hand (likely the same hand as the notes on the Leyburn Family in folder 15).

Scope and Contents This collection contains items of the Anderson and Alexander families including correspondence dealing with legal business, family matters, and Lexington, Virginia affairs. Consists largely of the family correspondence of William Alexander Anderson, Francis T. Anderson, and Mary Anne Alexander Anderson; includes letters to and from Virginia Governor John Letcher, and two letters from Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee. Other correspondents include William A. Glasgow, George Hutcheson...

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This file contains two copies of E.P. Tompkins article on the Borden Grant, as well as a number of Lexington New Gazette articles on the same topic.

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This file consists of a typescript paper on the ownership of the Clifton House on the corner of McDowell and Jefferson streets. Also includes a handwritten note on the Clifton house and its relationship to the Alexander family.

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This file consists of handwritten notes by Dr. E.P. Tompkins on the history of "Clifton at East Lexington." Includes information on the origin of the name, the history of ownership, and notes directly on the Alexander family. Includes some genealogical information about the Alexander family, including a list of children and descendants.

Content Description This collection is comprised of an eight page typescript essay titled "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957" by Estelle V. Anderson. The essay was written in 1973 and details African American schools, churches, and families of the Buffalo District of southwest Rockbridge County, Va., one of six former magisterial districts which included such communities and locales as Collierstown, Bolivar Mills or Murat, North and South Buffalo, Black's Creek, and Kyger's Hill. The essay...

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There are two volumes of carbon copied letters from Francis Thomas Anderson Junkin to many notable Lexington, Virginia families as well as several photographs and pamphlets.

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This folder contains a report on Red House, a home near Fairfield on the west side of Route 11. The report covers the history of the house and its inhabitants, including the McDowells, the Treavys, the Laymans and the Alexanders; information about the physical house, landscaping, and the McDowell Burying Ground, farm, and orchard; and photographs of the house and surrounding land. Also contained is a newspaper (Lexington Gazette) article about Red House and the McDowells.

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This collection contains a deed, dated August 13, 1747, for a tract of land near the town of Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia, conveyed to Robert Alexander from William Beverley and two legal papers connected with the deed. There is also an authorized English Bible, 1766, with Robert Alexander's signature. Genealogical information by George Diehl is housed in the control folder.