Conditions Governing Use

The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Baer Family Papers, WLU Coll. 0155, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Collected by Ethelyn B. Goodman. Gift of her estate, 1974.

Biographical / Historical

The Baer family were German immigrants, who settled in Panther Gap area of Rockbridge Co., Virginia.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains principally business and family correspondence of Jacob, Joseph, and John Baer. Includes land maps, indentures, wills, militia fines, bills and receipts. Also included are a German family Bible (l744) and other genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt) families, as well as two farming account books of Joseph Baer, 1853-1859. The collection mainly concerns the sale, rental, and inheritance of the Baer property.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Agriculture
• Business records
• Correspondence
• Decker family
• Genealogy
• Germans
• Goodman, Ethelyn B.
• Hite family
• Immigrants
• Indentures
• Maps
• Promissory notes
• Receipts (Acknowledgments)
• Virginia -- Goshen
• Virginia -- Panther Gap
• Wills