This folder contains:- “Love You. M.” ribbon - Letters that appear to pertain to the Fieldmont farm of Mary Ackerly Field in Fauquier County including land deeds, surveys, etc. • Copy of William S. Pickett’s will Jan. 10, 1798 [James Pickett and William Pickett appointed executors] 7 • Obligation of sale of land to James Pickett April 15, 1824 • Copy of deed/land survey April 8, 1826 given under hand & seal June 20, 1838 • Combs vs Pickett letter addressed to Major B Powell. Middleburg no date including letter from James Pickett 7 • James Pickett to Major B. Powell, Middleburg, December 26, 1826 [in re: claim on Sanford Pickett’s land] - Letter Mar, 7, 1840 (Jackson [Mississippi?])to Mr. & Mrs. Pickett announcing the death of their daughter from “Sister in the Best of Bonds Sarah Holloway” - Letter Oct. 22, 1849 to John Pickett “Dear Brother Pickett” from Washington, DC chatting mostly about buildings in the city “Your sincere & affectionate friend Wm T Ince” - Letter Apr. 29, 1839 to John Pickett from Jackson [Mississippi?] “My Dear John” signed GA Pickett - “Love You. M.” ribbon - Letters that appear to pertain to the Fieldmont farm of Mary Ackerly Field in Fauquier County including land deeds, surveys, etc. • Copy of William S. Pickett’s will Jan. 10, 1798 [James Pickett and William Pickett appointed executors] 7 • Obligation of sale of land to James Pickett April 15, 1824 • Copy of deed/land survey April 8, 1826 given under hand & seal June 20, 1838 • Combs vs Pickett letter addressed to Major B Powell. Middleburg no date including letter from James Pickett 7 • James Pickett to Major B. Powell, Middleburg, December 26, 1826 [in re: claim on Sanford Pickett’s land] - Letter Mar, 7, 1840 (Jackson [Mississippi?])to Mr. & Mrs. Pickett announcing the death of their daughter from “Sister in the Best of Bonds Sarah Holloway” - Letter Oct. 22, 1849 to John Pickett “Dear Brother Pickett” from Washington, DC chatting mostly about buildings in the city “Your sincere & affectionate friend Wm T Ince” - Letter Apr. 29, 1839 to John Pickett from Jackson [Mississippi?] “My Dear John” signed GA Pickett - Letter Dec, 7, 1839 to John Pickett from Jackson [Mississippi?] “My Dear John” signed GA Pickett - Letter Apr. 19, 1848 from Saint Farm [?] “My dear brother” mostly discussion of a silk dress for sister Ann; signed “Your affectionate sister, Eloise” - Letter to John Pickett, - Sept. 24, 1848 Dudley Wayne Co., NC “Dear Friend” mostly about young ladies; B.A. Curtis - Letter Oct. 25, 1866 from Holly Springs, “My Dear John” re: John Pickett’s departure from Fruit Farm; writer’s departure from Holly Springs “my headquarters during the war” to Columbia [SC?] “Your brother Thomas” 7 - Letter Apr. 20, 1849 [?] Salem Station “Mr. Jno Pickett” re “Foster H. account” signed “Thos. R. Foster” - P.W. Dawe’s Last Will and Testament Nov. 5, 1844 - Letter Mat 13, 1869 “My dear Bro. Pickett” concerning religious labors with numerous pious quotes “Yr. Brother H.W. Dodge” - Letter Dec. 25, 1866 Dear Mr. Pickett from Charlottesville – Christmas remembrances to “My dear Pastor” … from “Your fond and attached friend L. Octovia Harris” “PS – I am sorry I haven’t a photograph ready to send you” - Letter Apr. 12, 1867 from Office of B&O Railroad Parkersburg “Dear John” chatty letter from A. G. Pickett including political comments re: franchise of negroes “in the hands of the madmen now ruling the country with despotic sway” “It is said 30,000 of the best citizens of West Virginia are disenfranchised” - Letter Sept. 9, 1883 from Memphis, TN “Dear Lee” lively letter from young man with little money and few ‘cloths to ware’ [sic] but who does have a job [Hampton Herron & Co. Cotton Factors] signed Jno. P. Pickett - Letter in faded ink and in poor shape Mar. 20, 1883 [?] Success P.O. “My Dear Nellie” apparently reporting in detail on death of sister Kate [incomplete] - “Love You. M.” ribbon - Letters that appear to pertain to the Fieldmont farm of Mary Ackerly Field in Fauquier County including land deeds, surveys, etc. • Copy of William S. Pickett’s will Jan. 10, 1798 [James Pickett and William Pickett appointed executors] 7 • Obligation of sale of land to James Pickett April 1824 • Copy of deed/land survey April 8, 1826 given under hand & seal June 20, 1838 • Combs vs Pickett letter addressed to Major B Powell. Middleburg no date including letter from James Pickett • James Pickett to Major B. Powell, Middleburg, December 26, 1826 [in re: claim on Sanford Pickett’s land] - Letter Mar, 7, 1840 (Jackson [Mississippi?])to Mr. & Mrs. Pickett announcing the death of their daughter from “Sister in the Best of Bonds Sarah Holloway” - Letter Oct. 22, 1849 to John Pickett “Dear Brother Pickett” from Washington, DC chatting mostly about buildings in the city “Your sincere & affectionate friend Wm T Ince” - Letter Apr. 29, 1839 to John Pickett from Jackson [Mississippi?] “My Dear John” signed GA Pickett - Letter Dec, 7, 1839 to John Pickett from Jackson [Mississippi?] “My Dear John” signed GA Pickett - Letter Apr. 19, 1848 from Saint Farm [?] “My dear brother” mostly discussion of a silk dress for sister Ann; signed “Your affectionate sister, Eloise” - Letter to John Pickett, - Sept. 24, 1848 Dudley Wayne Co., NC “Dear Friend” mostly about young ladies; B.A. Curtis - Letter Oct. 25, 1866 from Holly Springs, “My Dear John” re: John Pickett’s departure from Fruit Farm; writer’s departure from Holly Springs “my headquarters during the war” to Columbia [SC?] “Your brother Thomas” 7 - Letter Apr. 20, 1849 [?] Salem Station “Mr. Jno Pickett” re “Foster H. account” signed “Thos. R. Foster” - P.W. Dawe’s Last Will and Testament Nov. 5, 1844 - Letter Mat 13, 1869 “My dear Bro. Pickett” concerning religious labors with numerous pious quotes “Yr. Brother H.W. Dodge” - Letter Dec. 25, 1866 Dear Mr. Pickett from Charlottesville – Christmas remembrances to “My dear Pastor” … from “Your fond and attached friend L. Octovia Harris” “PS – I am sorry I haven’t a photograph ready to send you” - Letter Apr. 12, 1867 from Office of B&O Railroad Parkersburg “Dear John” chatty letter from A. G. Pickett including political comments re: franchise of negroes “in the hands of the madmen now ruling the country with despotic sway” “It is said 30,000 of the best citizens of West Virginia are disenfranchised” - Letter Sept. 9, 1883 from Memphis, TN “Dear Lee” lively letter from young man with little money and few ‘cloths to ware’ [sic] but who does have a job [Hampton Herron & Co. Cotton Factors] signed Jno. P. Pickett - Letter in faded ink and in poor shape Mar. 20, 1883 [?] Success P.O. “My Dear Nellie” apparently reporting in detail on death of sister Kate [incomplete] - Letter June 8, 1850 to Mr. William Ackerly Lexington, VA from George W. Bowsman re: unanswered letter to “Mr. Letcher, an attorney in Lexington” concerning some of Bowsman’s wife’s property. Attached note by Lucy Ackerly reads “Wm. Ackerly was the father of my grandfather Jno. Paul Ackerly. Wm. Ackerly died Aug. 4, 1853, my great grandfather” - Letter July 15, 1932 from Conna White Ackerly (Mrs. William) to her daughter, Lucy, at University of Virginia sent from Big Island, GA where her mother was visiting - Letter Jan. 16, 1878 (?) to Lucy Ackerly at Summer, VA from her cousin N. E. White written from Lone Pine mainly about how dull Christmas was - Letter Nov. 12, 1867 Cleveland to John [Pickett] considerably damaged and written cross-over… “Cousin John… I could not believe that you were less my sincere friend or felt less interested in me because you were no longer my pastor” signature illegible - Letter Sept. 9, 1878 to Mary Ackerly from Mrs. Mary Denham Talcott, Pasadena, CA for whom Mary was named - Letter Sept. 9, 1878 to Mary Ackerly from Mrs. Mary Denham Talcott, Pasadena, CA for whom Mary was named - Letter Feb. 26, 1895 Lone Pine VA “Grandmama” (mother of Mrs. W.P. Ackerly to Mary Ackerly… full of news of sicknesses and deaths - Series of Letters from John Milton White to his daughter Lonna B. White Ackerly (Mrs. John Ackerly) Oct. 22, 1890; May 16, 1892; Aug. 2, 1892; Apr. 16, 1893; June 3, 1894; Mar. 4, 1897; Dec. 22, 1916.