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Anderson Family papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0001
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...
Dates:
1755-1958
Legal Documents
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0077
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a variety of legal documents related to citizens of Rockbrige County. Includes indentures, bonds, materials related to wills, legal agreements, and insurance policies amongst other documents.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1742 - 1895
Mary Trimble Legal Document
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0469
Scope and Contents
This legal document details the repayment of Trimble's debt to Trace Decker of Rockbridge County. Trimble did not write the document herself but instead signed the document with a mark.
Dates:
1709-04-24
Reid Family papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0027
Scope and Contents
Series 1 of this collection primarily covers the period from 1763 through Samuel McDowell Reid's death in 1869. There are also a few later items dealing chiefly with his estate. The bulk of the papers deals with business matters. Documents concern such matters as the James River and Kanawha Company, the North River Navigation Company, Washington College's relationship with the Society of the Cincinnati, slavery, and the financial dealings of John Robinson and the Hare family. Series 2 is...
Dates:
1760-1896