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Guide to the Morton Genealogy Collection Mss. 90 M85


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Finding Aid Authors: Phyllis LeGrand and Anne Johnson.

Repository
Special Collections Research Center
Identification
Mss. 90 M85
Title
Morton Genealogy Collection 1830-1978
Quantity
2.01 Linear Feet
Creator
Morton, Margaret H.
Creator
Morton, Estelle
Creator
Morton, Richard Lee, 1889-1974
Language
English

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Use:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Conditions Governing Access:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Preferred Citation:

Morton Genealogy Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Gifts, 1980 - 1986.

Processing Information:

Processed by Phyllis LeGrand in 1990 and Anne Johnson in 2009.

Biographical Information:

Margaret H. Morton was a genealogist who lived in Farmville, Virginia. She was married to William H. Morton and usually signed her correspondence "Mrs. William H. Morton."

Scope and Contents

Genealogy material compiled by Mr. William S. Morton and his wife, Mrs. Margaret H. Morton of Farmville, Virginia which trace the descendants of Joseph Morton of Prince Edward County, Virginia and allied families.  Includes primary source material, such as the 1830 daybook of the J. J. Dupuy Company of Charlotte Court House. Also, contains typescript of Richard Lee Morton's copy of Hugh Blair Grigsby's notes on the Robert Rose Diary  and of William Cryer's transcript of the Charles Campbell diaries.

Includes 82.7 Addition.

The genealogical chart of Sir Thomas West is filed in the oversize file (Accession 90 M85, addition 1980.19).

Arrangement of Materials:

Original Accession and addition physically and intellectually combined in 2009.

Related Material

Mss. 90 M84, Richard Lee Morton Papers.

Mss. 1986.29 Morton  Genealogical Inquiries

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Buckingham County (Va.)--History
  • Campbell County (Va.)--History
  • Charlotte County (Va.)--History--19th century
  • College of William and Mary--Faculty and Staff
  • College of William and Mary--History--20th century
  • Cumberland County (Va.)
  • Daybooks
  • Diaries
  • Genealogy
  • Morton family
  • Notebooks
  • Prince Edward County (Va.)--History
  • Research notes
  • Typescripts
  • Virginia--Genealogy
  • Virginia--History

General

Other Information:

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

  • Morton, Estelle
  • Morton, Margaret H.
  • Morton, Richard Lee, 1889-1974
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Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Buckingham County (Va.)--History
  • Campbell County (Va.)--History
  • Charlotte County (Va.)--History--19th century
  • Virginia--Genealogy
  • Virginia--History
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Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 id152306
Box 1
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id152307
    Folder 1
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id152329
      Daybook of J.J. Dupuy Company of Charlottesville Court House, Virginia
      1830
      Scope and Contents

      297 pp. (MSV I)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id152308
    Folder 2
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id152328
      Platt belonging to Samuel F. Spencer, Charlotte County, Virginia, as surveyed by Samuel F. Moses
      1826 March 24
      Scope and Contents

      1 p. DS.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id152311
      Jno. J. Alston to Mr. Asa Dupuy, Prince Edward Court House
      1829 July 8
      Scope and Contents

      1 p. ALS. Requests payments of money owed to him. Sends respects to Anderson and Venable.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id152314
      Jas. R. Dickinson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to "Uncle" (Dupuy)
      1838 February 7
      Scope and Contents

      Thanks him for his letter; describes weekly routine of medical school; mentions a "Rev. Mr. Blunt, formerly of Va, now of Carolina" who spoke on temperance; cold weather; sleighs on the Delaware; small pox in the city (patients in the almshouse). Refers to people of Philadelphia as "cool and calculating people," "highly enterprising"- true blue Yankees. Mentions a "great number of negroes here... [who he feels] are no better than" the slaves of the South. Begs to be remembered to Aunt Dupuy and cousin Adelaid. 2 pp. ALS.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id152316
    Folder 3
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id152330
      John C. Calhoun to Charles H. Allen
      1847 November 21
      Scope and Contents

      Relates how his father, Patrick Calhoun, emigrated from Wythe County, Va. and, with his relatives, formed a community in 1756. Mentions hostility of the Cherokes and some genealogical material. 2 pp. TCy of L.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id152317
    Folder 4
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id152332
      Genealogical material collected by Mrs. W.S. Morton of Farmville, Virginia and others
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id152323
      Family records
      Scope and Contents

      Cralle, Richardson, Holman, Branch, Rives, Edmund, Robards, Lancaster, Flournoy, Blanton, Eldridge, Browne, Aston, Buckner, Kennon, Stokes, Venable, Blunt, Garland, Chappell, and Crawley families. 81 items. NwsCl, TCys and XCys of Ds.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id152326
      Cralle family genealogy chart
      1656-1967
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy of D. (See oversize folder)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id152333
    Folder 5
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id152334
      Family Records
      Scope and Contents

      Jackson, Hamblen, Cox, Miles, Dupuy, Currie, Daniel, Lucas, Worth, London, Daniels, Sprunt, Anderson, Hodges, Langford, and Smith families. 58 items. Cys and TCys of Ds.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id152335
      Chesley Daniel- Will
      1814 August 17
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy. (See Medium oversize file)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id152336
    Folder 6
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id152337
      Family Records
      Scope and Contents

      Jennings, Pulliam, Fowlkes, Billups, Collier, Penick, Knight, Jackson, Watkins, Bouldin, Morris and Fore Families. 75 items. NwsCl, Cys, TCys of D and XCy of Ds.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6A id152338
    Folder 6A
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6A id152339
      James Moss, Declaration in court in Prince Edward County, Virginia
      Scope and Contents

      Relating his several drafts into service during the Revolution. Moss was in battle in Gullford, N.C., and at Yorktown, Va. He was a resident of Cumberland County, Va. 2 pp. Cy.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id152340
    Folder 7
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id152341
      Morton and Allied Families- Book 1
      Scope and Contents

      255 pp. TCy of MsV

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id152342
    Folder 8
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id152343
      Morton and Allied Families- Book II
      Scope and Contents

      253 pp. TCy of MsV.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id152344
    Folder 9
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id152345
      Morton and Allied Families (Books I and II)
      Scope and Contents

      Includes unorganized material with no pages indicated. 58 items. TCy.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152346
    Folder 10
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152347
      Family Records
      Scope and Contents

      Morton, Price, Booker, Venable, Gilliam, Daniel, Fair, Davis, Madison, Glenn, Rudisill, Watkins and Flournoy families. 14 items. TCys.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152348
      Joseph Morton's will
      1784 April 4
      Scope and Contents

      He died in 1753 in Halifax County. 1 item. Cy. (See medium oversize file).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152349
      Abram Morton to J. Harry Allen
      1854 November 13
      Scope and Contents

      Gives genealogical material on descendants for David Morton of Stockholm, Sweden. 1 item. Cy. (See Medium oversize file).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152350
      Wm. Morton's deed to Wm. Scott Morton
      1874 April 10
      Scope and Contents

      1 item, Cy. (See Medium oversize file).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152351
      Agreement between William Morton, Charlotte County, Virginia, and Patrick H. Jackson, Prince Edward County, Virginia
      1874 April 10
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy (See Medium oversize file)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152352
      W.S. Morton- Land tract. Mentions A.R. Spencer, Briery Church [Presbyterian], Hills Creek and Roanoke Bridge [Briery Church was in Keysville, Virginia]
      1888 March
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy. (See Medium oversize file)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152353
      William S. Morton- Deed to Margaret Haw Morton, Charlotte, Virginia
      1911 January 26
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy. (See Medium oversize file).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152354
      Morton family of Virginia
      1955
      Scope and Contents

      2 items. TCy. (See Medium oversize file).

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 id152355
      Genealogical notes- Inventory of Morton and allied families
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy. (See medium oversize file).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id152356
    Folder 11
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id152357
      Family Records
      Scope and Contents

      Morton, Watkins and allied families (also Anderson, Brunskill, Allen, Redd, Worley, Mosby, Coleman, Duncan, James, Jenkins, Alderson, Ligion, Michaux, Smith, Martin, Moss, Brown, Page, Perrow, Davis, Bernard, Deane, Forsee, Walton, Lawless, Hubbard, Maxey, Hobson, Tyree, Wade, Winfrey, Haggatt, Cruse, Mason, Isbell, Oakley, Robinson, Cox, Spears, Bryant, McLaurine, Woodson, Fore, Macon, Venable, Robinson, Roberson, Wright, Bradley, Taylor, Carter, Lockett, Meador, Cooke, Boatright, Pearce, Booker, Womack, Hughes, Williams, Hobson, Frazer, and Williamson families.) 84 items. TCys and Cys of DS.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 id152358
      B.S. Scott vs. Scott. Prince Edward County, Virginia
      1883 January 9
      Scope and Contents

      Reference to William Morton. 1 item. Cy (See Medium oversize file.)

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id152359
    Folder 12
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 id152360
      Family Records
      Scope and Contents

      Morton, Watkins, Venable, Booker and Buckner families. Briery Presbyterian Church Manual is mentioned. 22 items. Cy, TCy, TDS, PsT and Cy of DS.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id152361
    Folder 13
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 id152362
      Family Records
      Scope and Contents

      Morton, Watkins, Woodson, Venable, Glenn, Cunningham, Madison, Michaux, Daniel, Carrington and Chappell families. 41 items. Cy, TCy, TDS and PD.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id152363
    Folder 14
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 id152364
      1811 will of Joseph Morton, Oglethorpe County, Georgia
      Scope and Contents

      2 pp. 1 item. TCy.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id152365
    Folder 15
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 15 id152366
      Nelson family, 1782-1790
      Scope and Contents

      Lists 11 members of that family in North Carolina and 5 members of Nelson family in Virginia. Sites pages numbers in U.S. Census of 1790. 1 item. Cy of D.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id152367
    Folder 16
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id152368
      Family Records: Watkins, Chappell, Tucker, Guerrant and Weaver families
      Scope and Contents

      29 items. TCys and Cys of DS.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id152369
      West genealogical chart (2nd Lord de la Warr)
      1555-1828
      Scope and Contents

      Also mentions families of Dandridge, Aylett, Payne, Henry, Watkins, Claiborne, Spotswood, Gregory, Taylor, Anderson, Morriss, Harrison, Jones, Cocke, Peterson, Fox, Richerson, Phillips, and Meredith. 1 item. PM and Cy.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id152370
      Henry Watkins. Indenture to his grandchildren
      1798 March 8
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. TCy. (See Medium oversize file)

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 16 id152676
      A.H. Watkins. Deed. William Morton is plaintiff
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy. (See Medium oversize file).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id152677
    Folder 17
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 17 id152678
      Watkins, Woodson and Venable families
      Scope and Contents

      25 items. TCy and Cy.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18 id152679
    Folder 18
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18 id152680
      Amelia County, Va, marriages, 1755-1861
      Scope and Contents

      1 item. Cy of D.

    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 18 id152681
      County records and other data
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19 id152682
    Folder 19
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 19 id152683
      Amelia and Goochland counties, Virginia Land surveys made by William Watson, Surveyor
      1736 April 10-1751 March 20
      Scope and Contents

      Found in Clerk's Office, Prince Edward County, Va. 3 items. Cys and TCys of DS.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20 id152684
    Folder 20
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 20 id152685
      Item
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21 id152686
    Folder 21
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 21 id152687
      Amelia County, Va, wills. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1744-1886
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22 id152688
    Folder 22
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 22 id152689
      Augusta County, Va marriages, 1785-1802. 1 item. Cy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 23 id152690
    Folder 23
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 23 id152691
      Buckingham County, Va. members of the New Stone Presbyterian Church, 1844-1876. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 id152692
    Folder 24
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 24 id152693
      Buckingham County, Va. Platt book. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25 id152694
    Folder 25
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 25 id152695
      Buckingham County, Va. Records in the District Court Papers. (Reference to families of Curd, Cabell, Bolling, Hooper, Daniel, Guilliam and others.) 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 26 id152696
    Folder 26
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 26 id152697
      Campbell County, Va. Cases in Chancery compiled by Mrs. W.S. Morton. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1831-1832
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 id152698
    Folder 27
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 27 id152699
      Campbell County, Va marriage bonds, 1796- 1856. 2 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28 id152700
    Folder 28
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 28 id152701
      Campbell County records. Campbell County, Va. Includes wills of Thomas Wright, Jane Watkins, Thomas West, and Mary Smith. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 29 id152702
    Folder 29
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 29 id152703
      Charlotte County marriages. 1774-1844. 6 items. Cy and TCy.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 30 id152704
    Folder 30
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 30 id152705
      Charlotte County, Va. records. Lists the "Justices in the Commission of Peace," the Sheriffs, and the "Peddler's Licenses." 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31 id152706
    Folder 31
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31 id152707
      Charlote county, Va militia officers and their rank. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1775-1780
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31 id152708
      Subpoena in Chancery, Chesterfield County, Va. Refers to Morton family. 4 items. TCy. (See Medium oversize file).
      1910 July 3
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31A id152709
    Folder 31A
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31A id152710
      Cumberland County records, Cumberland County, Va. Wills of Johnson family. 4 items. TCy.  (See Medium oversize file.)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 31A id152711
      Cumberland County, Va. Baptisms in Cumberland Presbyterian Church Session Book. 1822-1824, as copied by W.S. Morton. 1 item. TCy.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32 id152712
    Folder 32
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 32 id152713
      Cumberland County, Va census for 1850 [p. 74 is missing]. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 33 id152714
    Folder 33
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 33 id152715
      Cumberland County marriages, 1772-1773, 1806-1808, and 1779-1781. 4 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 34 id152716
    Folder 34
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 34 id152717
      Cumberland County, Va records include wills, death records, names given to tracts of land before 1860 and lists of free negroes given for the year 1837. 11 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 35 id152718
    Folder 35
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 35 id152719
      Cumberland County, Va records, Session Book of the Buffalo Church, Prince Edward County, Va property tax lists, 1824, and marriage bonds for 1815. Includes a partial index of families: Morton, Daniel, Booker, Pulliam, Price, Watkins, Gulliam, Michaux. Register of deaths for Prince Edward County, Va. for 1878-1879. 101 pp. with 3 pp. index. (MSV 2)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 36 id152720
    Folder 36
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 36 id152721
      Cumberland Court House, Cumberland County, Va, will of Henry Martain, 1750. 1 item. Cy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 37 id152722
    Folder 37
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 37 id152723
      Cumberland County, Va, wills. Includes families of Hodges, Pankey, Martin, Mayo, Allen, Woodson, Wilson, Womack, Hughes, Hobson, Davenport, Daniel, Fugue, Spencer, Holloway, Harrison, Smith, Fleming, Langhorne, Robertson, Marshall, Mill, Scruggs, Stratton, Taylor, Williams, Carrington, Hambleton, Harrison, Moss, Cox, Phelps, Guerrant, Harris, Merryman, McGehee, Mill, Meredith, Hooper, Lacy, Low, Walker, Turner, Turpin, Armistead and Price. 116 pp. (MSV 3)
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 37 id152724
      Cumberland County records, Cumberland County, Va. Wills of Johnson family. 4 items. TCy. (See Medium oversize file).
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 38 id152725
    Folder 38
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 38 id152726
      Dinwiddie County marriages. 1848-1849. 1 item. TCy.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 39 id152727
    Folder 39
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 39 id152728
      Henry County marriages. 1778-1794. 5 pp. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 40 id152729
    Folder 40
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 40 id152730
      Lunenburg County marriages, 1750-1872. 26 items. TCys of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 41 id152731
    Folder 41
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 41 id152732
      Powhatan County marriage records. 1778-1816. 13 items.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 42 id152733
    Folder 42
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 42 id152734
      Prince Edward County, Va, census for 1850 compiled by Mrs. W.S. Morton. 1 item. Cy of D.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 42 id152735
      Franklin vs. Dupuy. Deed. Prince Edward County, Va. 1 item. Cy. (See Medium oversize file.)
      1888 November 30
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 43 id152736
    Folder 43
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 43 id152737
      Prince Edward County, Va, District Court records. Sanderson vs. Dibrell, Nathaniel Jefferies, Anthony Charroon, Kincaid vs. Miller, Webb vs. Cooper, Wright vs. Jones and William Price. (Includes counties of Buckingham, Charlotte, Cumberland, Halifax and Prince Edward.) Willis. (Includes families of Bell, Branch, Kidd, Leach, Beasley, Hurt, Cox, Maddox and Curd.) 23 items. Cys and TCys of Ds.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 44 id152816
    Folder 44
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 44 id152817
      Prince Edward County, Va. Index of Records in Court House, Circuit Court of that county as compiled by M.H. Morton in November 1961. 1 item. Ns.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 45 id152818
    Folder 45
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 45 id152819
      Prince Edward County, Va. marriage bonds, 1756-1879. 77 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 46 id152820
    Folder 46
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 46 id152821
      Prince Edward County, Va. marriages, 1747-1865. 38 items. Cys and TCys of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 47 id152822
    Folder 47
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 47 id152823
      Prince Edward County marriage records, 1779-1887. 79 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 48 id152824
    Folder 48
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 48 id152825
      Prince Edward County, Va. marriage returns, 1781-1810. 29 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 49 id152826
    Folder 49
    • Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 49 id152827
      1853-1862. Prince Edward County, Va Register of Deaths. 6 items. Cy of D.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 id152828
Box 2
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id152829
    Folder 1
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id152830
      Pay roll of Captain John Morton Company or Regulars 4th Regiment. Includes Morton, Woodson, Daniel, Jennings, Watkins, Fore, Fugua, Chafin, Lee, Cunningham, and McGehee families. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1776
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id152831
      Revolutionary War material
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id152832
      Pay roll of Captain John Morton Company of Regulars. 1 item. XCy. (See Medium oversize file).
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id213030
      Will of Captain John Morton, Prince Edward County, VA. 1796. TCY
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id152833
    Folder 2
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id152834
      List of Revolutionary soldiers from Campbell County records. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1782-1785
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id152835
    Folder 3
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id152836
      List of pensioners of Revolution from Goochland County, Va. records. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1832-1833
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id152837
    Folder 4
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id152838
      List of pensioners filed in Prince Edward County, Va. Includes Watkins, Davis, Dickinson and Caldwell families. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1786
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id152839
    Folder 5
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id152840
      U.S. Census of pensioners of the Revolution in Virginia in 1840 as compiled by W.S. Morton. Includes Virginia counties of Cumberland, Amelia, Buckingham, Charlotte, Essex, Fluvanna and Louisa. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1840
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id152841
    Folder 6
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id152842
      Revolutionary soldiers of Virginia listed by counties: Amelia, Charlotte, Cumberland, Goochland, Mecklenburg, Powhatan and Prince Edward. A partial index for four counties. 13 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id152843
    Folder 7
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id152844
      Bath county, Va. dispute over property settlement made by John Dean to son, William McClanahan Dean. Lists the daughters of John Dean and gives other genealogical data on the Deans. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1810
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id152847
      Miscellaneous notes.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id152845
    Folder 8
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id152846
      Briery Session Book compiled by W.S. Morton. Includes index notes for "Book 2." 8 items. (MsV4)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id152848
    Folder 9
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 9 id152849
      Chancery Court Suits, Va. Part of the file on which Mrs. W.S. Morton had indexed her material. 1 item. Cy of D.
      1753-1854
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id152850
    Folder 10
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 10 id152851
      Chancery Court Suits, 1753-1854. Includes Hoggatt, Perkinson, Hanbury vs. Harris, Martin, Fore vs. Perrow, Michaux, Trent, Moss, Ferguson vs. Jennings, Williamson, Keeble, Pool-Poole, Rowlett, Penick, Cunningham, Caldwell, Robertson, Oliver, Flournay vs. Smith, Fuqua vs. Ferguson, Scott vs. Mayo, Fore, Jones, Hill, Richie vs. Richardson, Watkins vs. Anderson, Bibb, Booker, Swann, Michaux, Olsen, McGehee, Daniel, Coleman, Glen, Degraffenreidt, Mosby, Lipford and Anderson families. 37 items. Cys and TCys of Ds.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id152852
    Folder 11
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 11 id152853
      District Court papers [Chancery Court]. District Court was held in Prince Edward County from 1789 for five counties: Cumberland, Buckingham, Charlotte, Halifax, Prince Edward. Families mentioned include: Rice, Garrett, Bryant, Glover, Jones, Walker, Gills, Jones, Woodson, Fore, Anderson, Cobbs, Cross, Miller, Williams, Ragland, Pettus, Wall, Stokes, Ware, Cary, Miller, Thornton, LeGrand, Allen, Rowton, Wingfield, Rogers, Fitzgerald, Spencer and Hoggatt. 22 items. TCys and Cys of Ds.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id152854
    Folder 12
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 12 id152855
      Marriage bonds, Petersburg, Va., 1786-1790. 2 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13 id152856
    Folder 13
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 13 id152857
      Marriage register of Rev. John Cameron. Includes counties in Virginia of Prince George, Dinwiddie, Prince Edward, Sussex, Chesterfield, Mecklenburg, Surry, Lunenburg, Nottoway, Brunswick, Amelia and Petersburg. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1785-1806
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14 id152858
    Folder 14
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 14 id152859
      Marriages and deaths copied from "The Visitor and Telegraph." Includes Madison, Mill, Maury, Boisseaux, Pullum, Berkley, Witt, Cocke, Gordon, Randolph, Walker, Fuqua, Irwine, Davies, Boyle, Sydner, Austin, Brown and Meade families of Virginia. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1829
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15 id152860
    Folder 15
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 15 id152862
      Obituary notices in the Watchman of the South (a typed index to 5th Volume 1842). 1 item TCy of D.
      1838-1842
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16 id152861
    Folder 16
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 16 id152863
      "Three Bachelors Resolution." Humorous note written to anonymous friend. Signed by Lee W. Morton, W.P. Morton, and E.L. Dupuy. 1 item. Cy of D.
      1885 December 17
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17 id152864
    Folder 17
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17 id152865
      Will of Richard Dudgeon, Lunenburg County, Va. Owned land in Halifax given him by wife's father. Court case gives names of those who married daughters of Dudgeon: John Dickerson, William Hill and John Royal. 1 item. TCy of D.
      1763 April 12
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 17 id152868
      Genealogical notebooks compiled by Mrs. W.S. Morton of Farmville, Va.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id152866
    Folder 18
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 18 id152867
      Allen family of Virginia. Includes West family Bible records. 50 pp. (MsV 5)
      1806-1813
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id152869
    Folder 19
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 19 id152870
      Harrison family of Virginia from county records of Amelia, Surry, Goochland, Prince Edward, Prince George, Cumberland and Lunenburg. 74 pp. (MsV 9)
      1645-1774
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20 id152871
    Folder 20
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 20 id152872
      Booker, Morton, Hannah, Flournoy, Woodson, Venable and Watkins families of Virginia. 7 pp. NwsCl, Pm and Cy. (MsV 7)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21 id152873
    Folder 21
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 21 id152874
      Daniel, Wilson, Venable, Morton, Woodson, Ruffner, Frayser, Watkins, Cabell, Knight, Battle, Gordon, Quaries and Mathews families of Virginia. 56 pp. (MsV 8)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22 id152875
    Folder 22
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 22 id152876
      Harrison family of Virginia from county records of Amelia, Surry, Goochland, Prince Edward, Prince George, Cumberland and Lunenburg. 74 pp. (MsV 9)
      1645-1774
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23 id152877
    Folder 23
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 23 id152878
      Morton, Flournoy, Booker, Davidson, Fuqua, Leigh, Bird, Ligon, LeGrand, Simmons, West, Michaux, Porter, Fore, Caldwell, Richie, Womack, Boyd, Comer, and Garrett families of Virginia. 90 pp. (MsV 10)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24 id152879
    Folder 24
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 24 id152880
      Morton, Fore, Allen, Owen, Foster, Hill, Holcombe, Womack, Booker, Walker, LeGrand, Moss, Lowe, Gilliam, Alford, Cole, Bates, Jackson, Read, Jones, Callicot, Wilson, Watson, Madison, Grigg, Watts, Taylor, Foster, Ligon, Gordon, Pearce, and Guqua families of Virginia. 108 pp. (MsV 11)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25 id152881
    Folder 25
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 25 id152882
      Morton, Fugua, Anderson, Allen, Venable, Price, Booker, Taylor, Leach, Baker, Perkins, Carrington, Woodson, Michaux, McGehee, Daniel, Womack, Bradley, Watkins, Baker, Jennings, Caldwell, Patton, Walton, Vaughan, Collier, Jones, LeGrand, Richardson, Williams, Biggs, Owen and Oliver families of Virginia. 234 pp. (MsV 12)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26 id152883
    Folder 26
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 26 id152884
      Morton, Venable, Watkins, Whitlock, Haggatt, Allen, Watson, Fore, Langhourne, Smith, Degraffenriedt, Gordon, Walton, Nash, Carter, Ellyson, Wyatt, McGehee, Harris, Walker, LeGrand, Wade, Elebank, Holcombe, Hamblin, Austin, Rice, Ligon, Scott, Harper, Spencer, Cox, Neal, Moss, Callicott, Baldwin and Foster families of Virginia. Includes index to loose papers. 108 pp. (MsV13)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27 id152885
    Folder 27
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 27 id152886
      Randolph, Bland, Walke, Cox, Allen and Boling families of Virginia from county records of Amelia, Albemarle, Nottoway, Chesterfield, Prince William, Prince Edward and Surry. Includes some data from Surry County, N.C. 117 pp. (MsV 14)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28 id152887
    Folder 28
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 28 id152888
      Tood, Bass, Penick, Allen, Ferguson, Wilson, Stone, Reynolds, Mathews, Rudd, Brown, Jackson, Fore, Morton, Watkins, Harrison, Davis, Ligon, Lee, Lowe, Rowlett, Cox, Jennings and Harrison families of Virginia. 66 pp. (MsV 16)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29 id152889
    Folder 29
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 29 id152890
      Venable, Flournoy, Daniel, Cabell, Carrington, Watkins and Morton families of Virginia. 66 pp. (MsV 16)
      1733-1911
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30 id152891
    Folder 30
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 30 id152892
      Watkins, Kenner, Buckner, Fox, West, Hundley, Barsett, Burton, Allen, Morton, Jennings, Baker, Womack, Holcombe, Read, Bruce, Jackson, Martin, and LeGrand families of Virginia. Includes partial index. 146 pp. (MsV 17)
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id152893
    Folder 31
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id152894
      Cover from the Record of the Hampden-Sydney alumni Association. Picture of "The Grotto," home of the Misses Venable. 1 item. PM.
      1932 April
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 31 id152895
      Printed material.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 32 id153388
    Folder 32
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 32 id153389
      "Handy Book for Genealogists" by George B. Everton, Sr. and Gunnar Rasmuson, published by The Everton Brothers, 526 North Main, Logan, Utah, 1957. 1 item. PM.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 33 id153390
    Folder 33
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 33 id153391
      "Heads of Families, Virginia" (Census of 1790) Washington. Government Printing Office, 1908, with typed index. 190 pp. 22 items. PM and TCy.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 34 id153392
    Folder 34
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 34 id153393
      June 1978. Letter from Briery Presbyterian Church, Keysville, Va announcing Homecoming. Includes photgraph of church, organized in 1755 along with a history of the church. 1 item. PM.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 35 id153397
    Folder 35
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 35 id153398
      "The Pankey Family of Virginia, 1635-1968" by William Russell Pankey. Private edition printed in 1968. 1 item. PM.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 36 id153399
    Folder 36
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 36 id153400
      1709-1896. Bible records of William Morton, Charlotte County, Va. 3 items. TCy.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 36 id153404
      Genealogical notes, typescripts of reminescences and extracts of diaries relating to the ancestry of Dr. Richard L. Morton, former member of the Department of History, College of William and Mary.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 36 id153406
      1 May 1882. Deed of Wm. Morton giving Roanoke Bridge tract of land to his son, Wm. Scott Morton, Charlotte Co., Va. 1 item. Cy of D. (See Medium oversize file.).
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 37 id153401
    Folder 37
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 37 id153402
      1 September 1751. Will of John Morton, Henrico County, Va. 1 item. XCy of D.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 37 id153407
      1619-1969. Chart of ancestors and descendants of John Flood Morton and Lucy Morton Watkins. 1 item. PM. (See Medium oversize file).
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 38 id153415
    Folder 38
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 38 id153416
      1774-1921. Ancestors and relatives of Morton family who attended Hampden-Sydney College or who served the College as Trustees. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 39 id153418
    Folder 39
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 39 id153419
      1828-1947. Reminiscences of the Morton family concerning Margaret Watkins Morton, Charles Reed Morton (missionary to Brazil), William Morton, Joseph Morton and William Scott Morton. 6 items. Cys and XCys of Ds.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 40 id153420
    Folder 40
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 40 id153421
      14 October 1846. Jacob Morton to John Booker Morton, his brother, from Cuba, where he had gone for his health. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 41 id153422
    Folder 41
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 41 id153423
      1846-1894. Extracts of diaries of members of the Morton family. Includes two narratives of William Morton and one by his son, William Scott Morton. 3 items. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 42 id153424
    Folder 42
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 42 id153425
      2 February 1847. Jacob Morton to David F. Morton, Roanoke Bridge, Va. Describes Journey to Cuba, Spanish customs, his "cholic" like illness, his intention to visit the English islands and to bring his son "some Cuban shoes." 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 43 id153426
    Folder 43
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 43 id153427
      5 December 1848. Wm. Morton, West Baton Rouge, La., to David F. Morton, Roanoke Bridge, Va. Describes the sugar business, a visit to New Orleans and encourages him [his brother] to get married. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 44 id153428
    Folder 44
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 44 id153429
      April 1865. Jacob Morton, Charlotte County, Va. to his friend and neighbor, Hugh Blair Grigsby. Comments on fighting around Cumberland and Farmville. Mentions Lee and Grant. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 45 id153430
    Folder 45
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 45 id153431
      [post 1865]. On the treatment of free negroes at "Camperstella," Charlotte County, Va. home of William Morton. 1 item. TCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 46 id153432
    Folder 46
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 46 id153433
      4 April 1916. Article of Colonel J. Thomas Goode copied from the Richmond [Va.] "Times-Dispatch." Comments on his military service and personal life. 1 item. XCy of D.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 47 id153434
    Folder 47
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 47 id153435
      20 June 1932. W.S. Morton, Farmville, Va. to the Editor of the "Times-Dispatch" [Richmond, Va.]. Relates story of Colonel Thomas J. Spencer, ranking officer under General Lee at Appomattox, 1865, as he carried news to Grant of his need for food and gift of money from two Federal soldiers. 1 item. NwsCl.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 48 id153436
    Folder 48
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 48 id153437
      [n.d.] Genealogical reference books and MSS used by John Morton in his research. 8 items. TCy.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 49 id153438
    Folder 49
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 49 id153439
      [n.d.] Genealogical notes on the Morton family of Va. includes a Bible record sent to W.S. Morton of Farmville, Va. from a relation in Shelbyville, Kentucky. 4 items. TCy.
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 49 id153440
      1820. Prince Edward County, Va, map. Includes family names mentioned in Morton genealogical notes- Watkins/Morton, Woodson, Venable, Anderson, Allen, Price, Booker, LeGrand, Woods, Stephens, Jackson, Dupuy, Watson, Harrison, Penick, McGehee, Miller, Fowlkes, Ligon, Flournoy, Womack, Michaux, Clarke, Rudd and Scott. 1 item. XCy. (See Medium oversize file).
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 50 id153441
    Folder 50
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 50 id153442
      "The Negro in Virginia Politics, 1865-1902", by Richard L. Morton, the University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Va., 1919. 1 item. PM.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 51 id153443
    Folder 51
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 51 id153444
      "The University of North Carolina Catalogues, 1897-98," published by the University, Chapel Hill, 1898. 1 item. PM.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 52 id153445
    Folder 52
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 52 id153446
      "William and Mary Quarterly", Second Series, Vol. 1, No. 4, published by William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., October 1921. Contains article on Colonel William Morton, written by W.S. Morton. 1 item. PM.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 53 id153447
    Folder 53
    • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 53 id153448
      "William and Mary College Quarterly", Second Series, Vol. 16, No. 3, published by William and Mary College, Williamsburg Va., July 1936. Contains article on the Michaux family written by W.S. Morton. 1 item. PM.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 54 id153450
    Ms. vol. notes on the Booker family by Mrs. W.S. Morton.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 55 id153451
    Ms. vol. of notes on Prince Edward Co., Va. wills by W.S. Morton.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 56 id153452
    Annotated copy of "John Price the Emigrant, Jamestown Colony, 1620 with some of his descendants" belonging to W.S. Morton.