3.3 Linear Feet, Summary: 3 ft. 4 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each)
Creator
Ellison family
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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Conditions Governing Access
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Ellison Family Papers, A&M 2484, West Virginia and Regional History Center,
West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe
County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members
in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence
and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an account book
of William Petrie. There is also an 1831 journal of William Petrie with entries about his travels to England, Cuba, New Orleans,
and along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. There are separations from this collection of photographs, pamphlets, newspapers,
and broadsides.
Correspondence -- Charles Baldwin to Addison Dunlap (originals)
1841–1844
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 8
Correspondence -- Dunlap Family letters (originas)
1882–1923
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 9
Miscellaneous material -- printed material, court records, and school report
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 10
Correspondence -- Fragments (originals)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 11
Correspondence -- Ellison Family letters (originals)
1912–1916
Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 12
Correspondence to Jennie Dunlap (originals)
ca. 1871-1881
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1
Petrie-Dunlap letters (originals)
1824
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2
Petrie Family letters (originals)
ca. 1830s-1840s
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3
Petrie Family letters (originals)
ca. 1830s-1840s
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4
Petrie Family letters (originals)
ca. 1870s
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 5
Petrie Family letters (originals)
1831–1848
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 6
Wills - Elizabeth Stodghill, James A. Dunlap [1838], Addison Dunlap [185?-?], John Ellison [1840] (originals)
ca. 1838-1850s
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 7
J. Z. Ellison letters (originals) (photo attached to 1912 letter)
1907, 1912
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 8
Dunlap letters (originals)
1845–1881
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 9
Kansas letters from Dunlap (originals)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 10
Accounts for farm products & farm labor (originals)
ca. 1840s-1850s
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 11
Farm deeds -- J. Z. Ellison to A. D. Ellison [1954], S. S. Miller to A. D. Ellison [1886], agreement for division of property
between J. Z. Ellison, Mrs. Julia A. Smith, and J. W. Fleshman [1881], John Miller to J. Z. Ellison [1869], John Hutchinson
to Jennie Ellison [1842] (several surveys included)
1842, 1869-1886, 1954
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12
Diaries (two) of F. H. Petrie
1834–1841
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 12
A.D., C.A., & Clara Ellison student account book (originals)
1900–1907
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 13
Ellison farm deeds (originals)
1830, 1857, 1873
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 14
Eillison Family correspondence (originals)
1879–1924
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 15
Correspondence concerning Ellison family history (originals), genealogical charts
1920–1946
Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 16
Miscellaneous receipts (originals)
1836–1914
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1
Ellison-Dunlap photos (originals)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2
Ellison-Dunlap photos (originals)
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3
Ellison-Dunlap photos (originals) (Copies of these photos filed in Monroe County folder of picture collection)