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Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Gift: 3,980 items, 5 November 1937. Gift: 6,000 items, 27 June 1939.
The Woolfolk family originally emigrated from Wales. John George Woolfolk (1750-1819) ran a stage line and had a contract to carry the mail. His sons Pichegru Woolfolk and Jourdan Woolfolk continued the stage line. Jourdan had a son, John William Woolfolk, among other children.
Papers of the Woolfolk family of Caroline County, Virginia including correspondence and accounts of John George Woolfolk, Jourdan Woolfolk, Pichegru Woolfolk and John William Woolfolk. The collection includes correspondence, accounts and vouchers for the stage line run by the Woolfolk family (Allen & Woolfolk; Jourdan Woolfolk & Company; and Woolfolk & Hoomes). Includes records of routes, rates, supplies, arrangements for layover of passengers and mail contracts of the Potomac Steamboat and Stage Company as well as papers concerning stock purchases in the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. Also includes bound account books for the stage lines. Note: Includes letters written by James Lyons, Timothy Pickering, Robert Ryland and Benjamin Waller; letters of and accounts concerning members of the Maury family; and lists, 1829 and 1837, of vaccinated slaves. Lot 2 consists of about 6000 pieces of papers of the Woolfolk Family of Caroline County, Virgini, dated 1793-1876. There are financial records relating to the stage line and mailservice, records relating to agricultural business, correspondence, insurance records, military records, records relating to the erection of Antioch Baptist Church, and copies of newspapers.
Organized into 14 series. Lot 1 comprises series 1-7. Lot 2 comprises series 8-14. There is a certain overlap between some of the series of lot 1 and 2. Lot 2 is has not been processed beyond the Series arrangement. Series 1: Correspondence relating to the stage line; Series 2: Accounts and vouchers of the stage line; Series 3: Other papers relating to the stage line and the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad; Series 4: Correspondence of the Woolfolk family; Series 5: Papers of various persons, A-Z; Series 6: Other Papers; Series 7: Bound volumes; Series 8: Papers relating to the stage and mail service operated by members of the Woolfolk Family; Series 9: Papers relating to members of the Woolfolk Family, A-Z; Series 10: Papers relating to the estate of John Hoomes; Series 11: Subscription lists, invoices and receipts relative to the erection of Antioch Christian Church, Bowling Green, Virginia; Series 12: Records of the Caroline troop of cavalry, 1816-1820; Series 13: Newspapers; Series 14: Miscellaneous.
ArrangementLot 1: The series are arranged chronologically, with the exception of series 5, which is arranged alphabetically by last name and chronologically within. Lot 2: Series 9 is arranged alphabetically by last name; the other series of Lot 2 have not been further arranged at this point.
An article by Vera Palmer in the Richmond Times Dispatch, January 2, 1938, concerning the Woolfolk family, the stage line, and Mulberry Place, the Woolfolk plantation in Caroline County, Virginia.
This file contains also letters relating to the carrying mails and to connections with the Fredericksburg and Potomac Steamship Company, and the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad.
chronological
This file contains also accounts of the Potomac Steamboat and Stage Company and accounts for the carrying of mail. All the accounts after 1840 pertain to the carrying of mail. See also Bound Volumes.
Arranged into two groups: papers realting to the stage line are followed by papers relating to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, within each group chronological.
Trust deed to secure payment to John G. Woolfolk for the purchase of his interest in the stage line from Richmond to Norfolk and in the carrying of mail by that line, and from Osborns to Bermuda hundred.
Includes several receipts for cash paid in purchase of stock.
chronologically
Enclosure: Invoice for goods purchased of E. Andrews by John Hoomes for John G. Woolfolk.
Enclosure: Certificate of redemption by Henry P. Brodnax for John Woolfolk of four tracts of land in Lincoln, Shelby, and Hardin Counties, Kentucky, which had been sold for taxes.
Note: A receipt for money allowed Thomas Swann by the overseers of the poor appears on the same sheet.
Enclosure: An account of James Covington with William W. Dickinson.
Date is that of postmark, New Amsterdam, Hanover County, Virginia.
This letter contains information about contracts for carrying mail.
Arranged alphabetically, within each name chronologically.
Note.
Agreement of Pleasant Terrell and Lewis Webb Co., creditors of Wilson Allen.
See also Bound Volumes.
Invoice.
Invoices, receipts, notes, memoranda. Note: Jourdan Woolfolk was administrator. See also Bound Volumes.
Invoices.
See also Bound Volumes.
Suit in Caroline County.
Draft in favor of A. Samuel.
Invoices.
Invoice.
Invoives.
Invoice.
Papers relating to the estate of John Hoomes, including accounts and invoices of John Hoomes and Company. This group contains a statement of tobacco shipped in 1799, giving the names of planters.
Suit in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Deed to a tract of land in Caroline County called Millford.
Receipt.
Invoice.
Papers relating to the estate of Thomas Jones.
Papers relating to a trusteeship for the benefits of Catharine Long, wife of John Long.
Legal papers and invoices. See also Bound Volumes.
Deed of trust covering certain lots of land in or near the city of Richmond.
Invoice and drafts. See also Bound Volumes.
Invoice and receipts.
Note.
Invoice.
Bond given by Bill Jones, Pichegru Woolfolk and others to secure payment of rent for a tract of land in Caroline County, called Milford, belonging to the estate of Reuben Tankersley.
Clerks' fees and taxes.
Agreement for lease of a house to Richard Cross.
Draft of an agreement drawn up by John W. Woolfolk, agent of S. F. and M. E. Winston, for the lease of Shepherds Hill, Caroline County. The name of the lessee is not given.
Invoice and memoranda.
Bill of sale for a dress.
Invoice and receipts.
Deed of gift for a horse given by Elizabeth P. Woolfolk to John Woolfolk.
Accounts and invoices.
Agreement of Frances Woolfolk with John W. Coleman, Pichegru Woolfolk and Sublett McGruder concerning the support and use of negroes.
Accounts.
Copy of the court order for the appraisal of the John Woolfolk estate.
Accounts and invoices of the John Woolfolk estate including the trusteeship of Mary Elizabeth Woolfolk.
Agreement of Jourdan Woolfolk and John W. Woolfolk, trustees of Mary Elizabeth Woolfolk, with Emily G. Carrett and James Garrett, for the rental of Sheperds Hill, Caroline County.
Trust deed covering certain lots of land in or near the city of Richmond, also certain slaves and personal property.
Suit in Caroline County.
Suit in Caroline County.
Bills of sale for slaves purchased by John G. Woolfolk.
Papers relating to the controversy over a portion of the Chase tract of land in Caroline County, sold by Carter Beverley to John G. Woolfolk.
Suit in Richmond.
Agreement between Jourdan Woolfolk, Hawes Coleman and John M. Burke, administrators.
Suit in Fredericksburg.
Bill of sale for negroes.
Bonds given by the heirs of Sophia F. Burke to John Woolfolk to protect him against loss in the settlement of the estate of John C. Woolfolk.
Trust deed covering certain lots of land in or near the city of Richmond, also certain slaves and personal property.
Suit in Caroline County.
Suit in Caroline County.
Bills of sale for slaves purchased by John C. Woolfolk.
Papers relating to the controversy over a portion of the Chase tract of land in Caroline County, sold by Carter Beverley to John G. Woolfolk.
Suit in Richmond.
Agreement between Jourdan Woolfolk, Hawes Coleman and John M. Burke, administrators.
Suit in Fredericksburg.
Invoices, receipts and drafts. Including accounts of the estate and correspondence concerning accounts.
Some of the letters are addressed to Jourdan Woolfolk.
See also John Hoomes estate.
Student's notebook, containing notes on physiology and on the Bible. See Manuscript Volumes, Students' Notebooks.
Accounts.
Trust deed covering a tract of land.
Suit.
Trust deed covering stages, horses and mail contracts from Fredericksburg to Stafford Court House and to Halifax Court House, and a tract of land in Caroline County.
Assignment of a debt to secure his creditors.
Suit.
Trust deed covering a tract of land in Caroline County called Edmundsberry, and the fees due him as clerk of Caroline County and Superior Court.
Suit in Fredericksburg.
Suit in Caroline County.
Suit in Caroline County.
Agreements for the sale of mulberry trees.
Suit.
Suit in Caroline County, Virginia.
Accounts and letters. See also bound volumes.
John C. Woolfolk and others to Frances Woolfolk, administratrix of Charles Woolfolk who was executor of Samuel Woolfolk. Refunding bond for the settlement of the estate.
List of slaves vaccinated (1829), and list of members of the Woolfolk family and slaves vaccinated, (1837).
The volume also contains stage line accounts, 1794-1796.
The volume also contains blacksmith and grain accounts of Elizabeth P. Woolfolk, 1823-1825, and accounts of the estate of Elizabeth P. Woolfolk, 1839.
The volume also contains personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.
This volume contains accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk as administrator, trustee and guardian, and accounts with the stage line.
The book contains also accounts of the estate of John C. Woolfolk and personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.
The book contains also accounts of the estate of John C. Woolfolk with Jourdan Woolfolk and personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.
The book contains also accounts of the estate of John G. Woolfolk with Jourdan Woolfolk and personal accounts John C. Woolfolk.
The book contains also a few personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.
The book contains also personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.
The book contains also many personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.
The book contains also personal accounts of Jourdan Woolfolk.
The book contains also stage line accounts, 1827-1833, and post office department drafts received by J. W. Woolfolk & Co. for carrying mail, 1836-1847.
Papers in this series have not been arranged yet.
Contains tax records, receipts, correspondence, and accounts.
Contains a contract with the U.S. Government and several Post Office contracts, a share in the Potomac Steamboat Company, correspondence and miscellaneous financial records.
Contains receipts, accounts, records and correspondence pertaining to legal questions regarding the Woolfolk family business.
Contains receipts and accounts.
Includes two issues of the National Intelligenzer, 1841 and 1849, as well as two incomplete volumes of government publications on legislation regarding mail service (ca. 1833-1834).
Includes accounts, business correspondence and tax receipts for John G. Woolflok, John Hoomes, and Woolfolk & Holmes with various clients.
Includes letters received by Jourdan Woolfolk, Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia. The bulk of the letters were written by B.[?] Bradley, Washington D.C. Also includes letters from Conway Robinson, President of the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad Company, and letters (copied) by Bradley to Robinson and others.
Papers in this series have not been arranged yet.
Includes accounts and receipts for household items and relating to agricultural operations, including a medical bill for slaves, tuition bills, and receipts for wages paid to James Cox.
Includes accounts and receipts of John Woolfolk, including a subscription list for a church building (n.d.), as well as a list of bonds on his estate (1854).
Includes will of Frances Woolfolk (1794), estate inventory and papers relating to his estate and his two orphaned children, Sallie and Anna (John G. Woolfolk, guardian). Also includes medical bills with medical fees for visits to slaves, as well as tuition bills.
Includes bonds, bills, accounts, and receipts.
Includes accounts, receipts, legal records, a workmen's book, and a surveyer's report.
Includes accounts, bonds, an indemnification bond, insurance policies, receipts, memoranda, banknotes, deeds and indentures, as well as a deed of trust documenting the sale of a slave and her two children. Also included are accounts of Sophia Hoomes with John G. Woolfolk, who was her guardian. Also includes a letter from Richard Woolfolk, Jefferson County, 1810, explaining his financial problems and the sale of slaves. He also mentions the sale of a horse to St. George Tucker.
Includes correspondence, report cards from Bethany College (West Virginia), accounts, receipts, and bills.
Includes correspondence dating 1821-1866. Of special interest is the Civil War correspondence. A letter to Jourdan Woolfolk, written by Roy Huly [?], Edge Mont. [?], dated 26 July 1864, describes an encouter with Sheridan's forces: according to Huly's account, horses and four slave boys were led away and but there was little damage property. Also includes a group of letters from Confederate soldiers, a group of letters relating to the culture of silkworms, and bancruptcy notices.
Included are indentures, agreements, court summons, membership certificates, insurance policies, and estate accounts for John M. Burke.
Accounts with various individuals. Includes name index.
Vouchers.
Bond.
Papers in this series have not been arranged yet.
Includes financial and legal records relating to the estate of John Hoomes, among those an abstract of his will.
Papers in this series have not been arranged yet.
Subscription lists, invoices and receipts relative to the erection of Antioch Christian Church, Bowling Green, Virginia.
Papers in this series have not been arranged yet.
Includes lists of delinquents at muster 1816-1817, amount of money collected at a muster, n.d., reports of troop meetings, and a financial record.
Papers in this series have not been arranged yet.
Issue of the Richmond Enquirer, September 6, 1842. The following issues of the Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser that were originally part of this collection, were moved to the Newspaper Collection: February 15, 1839, October 7, 1840, and February 12, 1842.
Papers in this series have not been arranged yet.
Includes memoranda, receipts, instructions, accountbooks, bonds. A plat showing property lines and listing the names of owners, n.d. A 1795 copy of Constitutions, Rules and Regulations of the Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia was transferred to the Rare Books Collection.