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Thomas & Hurt Family Papers, Accession # 1527, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was given to the Library by Mrs. Elizabeth Hurt Louthan, on September 23, 1942.
The Thomas and Hurt Family papers, 1813-1886, and undated, consists of ca. 600 items (1 Hollinger Box), chiefly the business papers of four men, Benjamin Hurt, Thomas Hurt, James Thomas and Ira Lomax Thomas, with Ira Lomax Thomas comprising the majority of the collection.
The papers of Ira Lomax Thomas concern his tobacco plantations in Clarksville and White Chimneys, Caroline County, Virginia. The papers consist of letters from agents, bills of sale, accounts and receipts. They detail the sale of tobacco at various markets, mostly Richmond, as well as the changes in tobacco prices, freight charges and other information about the market for different grades of tobacco. Thomas worked with several agents, including James Blair, Bridges, McKinney & Co. and Henry Thweatt.
The business papers of James Thomas, a Commission Merchant from Richmond, 1813-1860, are also concerned with tobacco as well as the purchase and sale of other merchandise such as nails and ribbon. Also included are a series of checks from the period 1857-1860.
The papers of Thomas and Benjamin Hurt (1813-1843) consist mostly of bills of sale, business letters, receipts and accounts from various merchants.