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A Guide to the Papers of the Washington Family of Caroline County, Virginia 1800-1875 Washington Family of Caroline County, Papers 3683

A Guide to the Papers of the Washington Family of Caroline County, Virginia 1800-1875

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Accession Number 3683


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
3683
Title
The Papers of the Washington Family of Caroline County, Virginia 1800-1875
Physical Characteristics
This collection consists of ca. 500 manuscripts and 6 ledgers.
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Papers of the Washington Family of Caroline County, Virginia, Accession #3683, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The collection was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. George Washington of Woodford, Virginia on March 16, 1951.

Scope and Content Information

The papers of the Washington Family of Caroline County, including ca. 500 manuscripts and 6 ledgers, 1800-1875, consist of receipts, accounts, and deeds, with a few letters concerning financial matters. Mentioned in the papers are George Washington, [his widow] Elizabeth Washington, [their] children Anna, Selma, William, Dorthea, and Eliza; John Washington, his wife Anne, and their children George B. Walker, and John, Jr., and grandson Thomas Henry Purks; George Buckner and his brother Dr. Horace Buckner, John Vass and his daughter Ann Vass, Thomas Henry Burke and his daughter Susan, and William Taliaferro. Most of the papers are the financial records of Elizabeth, John, and William Washington and of Thomas Henry Burke. Included in the papers is the will of John Washington, 1850, and a deed, 1853, concerning a division of his property among his sons and grandsons.

The ledgers are: (1) John Washington's arithmetic example book, 1816; (2) his notebook of accounts with George Buckner, 1830-1847; (3) his farm account book, 1826-1876; (4) a ledger of accounts, 1823-1829, of Anna, Selma, Willliam, and Dorthea Washington with Elizabeth Washington, Jr., containing accounts of John Washington 1849, records of litigation and law notes taken at the University of Virginia, 1846-1848; (6) John Washington, Jr.'s commonplace and latin excercise book.

Items of special interest include: the folder containing William Washington's orations; a folder of early surveys of the Washington estate; and several documents relating to the purchase of new slaves and the retrieval of runaway slaves, which are located in the Legal and Correspondence folders. Scattered throughout the Bills, Receipts and Financial Records folders are references to the hiring out of slaves: see for example the list of bonds for the hire of Mrs. Sally Hill's negroes located in the 1938 financial folder.

Arrangement

The contents of the collection have been filed by subject, with financial records further subdivided into chronological folders. Financial items involving expenses over a period of years are filed under the earliest relevant year.

Contents List

Correspondence 1823-1924
Box 1
Surveys, Land Boundaries ca. 1796-1850
Box 1
Wills, Estate Accounts, Related Legal Agreements 1813-1853
Box 1
Legal Documents, Court Summonses, Pedigrees 1823-1840
Box 1
Orations of William Washington ca. 1834
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records of the Washington Family 1775-1814
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Mrs. Buckner, Elizabeth Washington 1815-1819
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Henry Burke, Elizabeth Washington 1820
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Vass Brown, Thomas Henry Burke, Elizabeth Washington 1821
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: T. H. Burke, George Buckner, Vass Brown, Elizabeth Washington 1822
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Henry Burke, John Burke, John Vass, Elizabeth Washington 1823
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Henry Burke, Whitaker Campbell, E. Washington, Jn. Washington 1824
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Henry Burke, Mrs. Buckner, Elizabeth Washington, E.D. Withers 1825
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Henry Burke, John Vass, Dorthea, John, and Elizabeth Washington 1826
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Henry Burke, T.S. Courtney, Elizabeth, John, and William Washington 1827
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Henry Burke, John Vass, Elizabeth and William Washington 1828
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Susan Burke, William Purks, Ann Vass, John Vass, Elizabeth, John, and William Washington 1829
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: William Purks, Ann and John Vass, Thomas Walker, Elizabeth, John and William Washington 1830
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Edward, Henry, and George Burke, Elizabeth, John, and William Washington 1831
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: William Taliaferro, Elizabeth, John, and William Washington 1832
Box 1
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Thomas Jones, Elizabeth, John, and William Washington 1833
Box 2
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: William Washington 1834
Box 2
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Joseph Fogg, John, and William Washington 1835
Box 2
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: John and William Washington 1836-1837
Box 2
2 folders
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: Sally Hill, John, and William Washington 1838
Box 2
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: John and William Washington 1839-1840
Box 2
2 folders
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records: William Washington 1841-1842
Box 2
2 folders
Bills, Receipts and Financial Records after 1842 and n.d.
Box 2
Miscellany 1830-1882
Box 2
Edward Burke's Account Book 1830-1850
Box 2
AMs
Autograph Book [1847]
Box 2
John Washington, Jr.'s Latin excercise book 1868
Box 2
Autograph book 1816
Box 2
Autograph book 1823-1824
Box 2
John Washington's Account Book 1823-1848
Box 2
AD
Survey map of 2400 acre property n.d.
Physical Location: Oversize