Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Hudson Martin Papers, Accession 38-2, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Purchase 1936 December

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection contains one bound volume and ca. 15 items of miscellaneous papers. The volume is an account book of general merchandise belonging to Hudson Martin & Co. of Albemarle County , 1775-1785. The ledger also contains Martin's business proceedings as Clerk of Albemarle County, 1779-1781: accounts of monies received payable to the Commonwealth; a "register of strays [livestock 1781-1783] from the time the papers were destroyed by the enemy"; a list of marriages in Albemarle County, 1781-1783; daily journal of the weather for January 1881, and an account of rum, wine and sugar bought from Robert Hoakesly by Martin and sold to the Convention Army by order of Theodorick Bland .

The miscellaneous papers are a group of business and legal papers, ca. 1880-1898, pertaining to another Hudson Martin , who was a Justice of Nelson County  , Virginia . There is also a "letter to the editor," November 7, 1885, concerning the public roads of Nelson County .