Campbell Family Papers Guide to the Campbell Family Papers Mss. 39.1 C16

Guide to the Campbell Family Papers Mss. 39.1 C16


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Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.

Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
Mss. 39.1 C16
Title
Campbell Family Papers 1726-1920
Quantity
4.00 Linear Feet
Quantity
Creator
Campbell family
Creator
Campbell, Susan, Mrs.
Creator
Campbell, William, 1755-1823
Creator
Coleman, Emma Cornelia Parran
Creator
Coleman, Reuben Lindsay
Creator
Graves family
Creator
Hill, A. P. (A. Powell)
Creator
Letcher, John, 1813-1884
Creator
Magurk, M. E.
Creator
Parran, William S., d. 1862
Language
English

Administrative Information

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Conditions Governing Access:

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Preferred Citation:

Campbell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Gift of 1,732 items from Miss Catherine Scott in 1930; and purchase of 13 items on 12/29/1952.


Family History:

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Scope and Contents

Papers of four generations of the Campbell family of Orange Co., Va. including correspondence of William Campbell (1755-1823). His papers pertain to Revolutionary pensions, bounty land claims, the War of 1812, his superintendency of the Virginia State Penitentary, and his estate and includes a diary of a trip to Kentucky in 1798. There are also papers (correspondence and accounts) of his wife, Mrs. Susan Campbell and their children. The collection includes papers of the Graves family and correspondence, medical accounts, military orders and reports of Dr. William S. Parran who served in the 13th Virginia Regiment of Confederate States Army at the battles of Bull Run, Cedar Mountain and who was killed at Antietam. Correspondents of Parran include A. P. Hill and John Letcher and there is one letter, 1861, concerning Thomas Jonathan Jackson.

The collection includes letters and accounts, 1890-1905, of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Emma Cornelia (Parran) Coleman,  a 1904 letter of M. E. Magurk, first superintendent of hospitals in the Canal Zone describing local conditions and 1813-1815 accounts with Valentine Johnson and Farmer's Bank of Virginia with William Campbell.

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Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

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Container List

Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 1 id246532
Papers Relating to the Estate to William Campbell of King and Queen County, Virginia
1811-1816
Scope and Contents

4 pieces.

Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 2 id246537
Letters of Col. William Campbell of Orange County, Virginia
1785-1804
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 3 id246831
Letters of Col. William Campbell
1805-1823
Mixed Materials box: 1 Folder: 4 id247008
Letters of Col. William Campbell
1814-1823
Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 5 id247180
Accounts of Col. William Campbell
1793-1822
Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 6 id247197
Legal Papers
1770-1822
Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 7 id247310
Personal Items and Papers of Col. William Campbell
Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 8 id247348
Estate of Col. William Campbell, Letters
1825-1849
Mixed Materials box: 2 Folder: 9 id247468
Estate of Col. William Campbell, Letters
1850-1860
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 10 id247563
Estate of Col. William Campbell
1823-1854
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 11 id247583
Letters of Mrs. Susan Campbell
1792-1840
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 12 id247670
Letters of Mrs. Susan Campbell
1843-1860
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 13 id247803
Mrs Susan Campbell (1764-1852) Accounts
1825-1852
Scope and Contents

Accounts and Deed

Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 14 id247812
Letters of the Children of William Campbell
1813-1874
Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 15 id248040
Acounts, Invoices, Receipts of the Children of William Campbell
1814-1888
Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 16 id248041
Legal Papers of the Children of William Cambell
1853-1870
Mixed Materials box: 4 Folder: 17 id248045
Letters of Charles T. Graves
1821-1888
Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 18 id248047
Accounts of Charles T. Graves
1822-1878
Scope and Contents

General accounts of Charles T. Graves, 440 pieces.

Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 19 id248051
Accounts of Charles T. Graves
1833-1865
Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 20 id248053
Papers, Warrants, and Deeds of Charles T. Graves
1823-1879
Mixed Materials box: 5 Folder: 21 id248055
Charles T. Graves as Administrator of Thompson Cockerill.
1830-1842
Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 22 id248058
Charles T. Graves as Executor of William Crittenden
1770-1854
Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 23 id248063
Charles T. Graves as Executor of Claiborne G. Graves
1801-1845
Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 24 id248067
Charles T. Graves as Administrator of Claiborne Graves and Major Williams.
1835-1845
Mixed Materials box: 6 Folder: 25 id248071
Accounts of the Graves Family
1847-1880
Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 26 id248075
Letters of William S. Parran and Family
1855-1861
Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 27 id248078
Letters of William S. Parran and Family
1862-1920
Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 28 id248082
Accounts and Bills of William S. Parran and Family
1855-1888
Mixed Materials box: 7 Folder: 29 id248083
Personal Papers of William S. Parran and Family
1855-1879
Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 30 id248085
Letters of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Family
1904-1909
Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 31 id248090
Accounts of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Family
1891-1905
Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 32 id248093
Accounts of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Family
1903-1905
Mixed Materials box: 8 Folder: 33 id248097
Accounts of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Family
1895-1912
Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 34 id248100
Legal Papers of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Family
1891-1908
Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 35 id248105
Genealogical Notes, Envelopes, and Labels of Reuben Lindsay Coleman and Family
undated
Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 36 id248107
Letters, Accounts, and Legal Papers
1726-1869
Mixed Materials box: 9 Folder: 37 id248108
Invitations, Clippings, and other Materials
1893 and undated