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Ancestors of Walter Darnall Vinyard Jr. - June 14, 2007
A typewritten pamphlet titled "Ancestors of Walter Darnall Vinyard Jr." including an ahnentafel chart [German for ancestor (ahnen) table (tafel)] for Walter Darnall Vinyard Jr. through ten generations, an Appendix A - Sources, and an Index.
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Artillery Experiences at Petersburg & Elsewhere by Dr. Joseph W. Eggleston - January 3, 1895
Eggleston's letter is fragile, the paper is aged, and the edges are beginning to break off. The type is also very light. The letter was used as a talk given to the A. P. Hill Camp of Confederate Veterans, January 3, 1895. Eggleston's opening remarks mention that the current generation shows little interest in the events that occurred between 1861-1865. They are neglecting to preserve the history for future generations. But their children will ...
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A Trooper's Reminiscences by Benjamin Boisseau Vaughn - May 27, 1894
Object ID 2009.75.220 is a duplicate of this newspaper article. Object ID 2009.75.026 - The content of the object ID referred to is a one-page entry that is in pieces, but is part of this same newspaper article, which is the same as page 5. Page 3 and 4 are duplicates, but the second image has more of the article on the right top. The newspaper is split into smaller portions where it was folded. Vaughan was a trooper in the 1st Virginia ...
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Biography of George J. Hundley - 1896
George Jefferson Hundley was born March 22, 1838. He was raised in Amelia County, Virginia by his mother's relatives, the Jeffersons, as his mother died when he was three. His ancestry on both sides was from Virginia, his father's side was English and Huguenot and his mother of English descent. He attended Fleetwood Academy in Nelson County and Hampden-Sydney College. Hundley then went to the law school of Judge Brockenbrough in Lexington, Virgin...
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Copy of a judgment by the Amelia County Court in the case of Joseph Payne against Charles Knight - July 1783
Copy of a judgment by the Amelia County Court in the case of Joseph Payne against Charles Knight, awarding £5 and costs. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document.
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Copy of a judgment by the Amelia County Court in the case of Pascal Greenhill, plaintiff, against Samuel Jordan and Thomas Jordan - July 1783
Copy of a judgment for £112 by the Amelia County Court in the case of Pascal Greenhill, plaintiff, against Samuel Jordan and Thomas Jordan, signed by John Wily, deputy clerk. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document.
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George Jefferson Hundley recollections - April 29, 1895
George Jefferson Hundley was born near Mobile, Alabama in 1838. On his mother's side he was the great-great-grandson of Peter Field Jefferson, who was an uncle of President Thomas Jefferson. Orphaned at an early age he was reared by relatives in Amelia County, Virginia. He studied law in Lexington, Virginia, and was licensed to practice in 1860. Hundley enlisted as a private in the 19th Virginia Infantry, where he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant....
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Judgment by the Amelia County Court; William Thompson against Bartholomew Vaughn and Matthew Robertson - October 1783
Copy of a judgment by the Amelia County Court in the case of William Thompson against Bartholomew Vaughn and Matthew Robertson, awarding 1,000 pounds of tobacco, of specified quality in Petersburg, Virginia, with interest from December 25, 1782 and costs of 264 pounds of gross tobacco and some cash. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document.
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Judgment by the Amelia County Court; William Thompson against Bartholomew Vaughn and Matthew Robertson - October 1783
Copy of a judgment by the Amelia County Court in the case of William Thompson against Bartholomew Vaughn and Matthew Robertson, awarding 1,000 pounds of tobacco, of specified quality in Petersburg, Virginia, with interest from December 25, 1782 and costs of 264 pounds of gross tobacco and some cash. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document.
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Judgment of the Amelia County Court in the case of Bate & Gray against William Bottom awarding a judgment of 490 pounds of tobacco and costs - July 1783
Judgment of the Amelia County Court in the case of Bate & Gray against William Bottom, awarding a judgment for 490 pounds of tobacco and costs. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document.
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Judgment of the Amelia County Court in the case of George Walton against James Jenkins, awarding £9 and costs - March 1784
Judgment of the Amelia County Court in the case of George Walton against James Jenkins, awarding £9 and costs, on a writ of fieri facias; document signed by John Wily, deputy clerk. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document.
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Letter from John Watts to his brother, William Watts, reporting on the current status of several lawsuits and business matters - July 23, 1789
Letter from John Watts to his brother, William Watts, reporting on the current status of several lawsuits and business matters involving William's father-in-law Thomas Scott, and mostly unidentified people named Alfriend, Booker, Dupee, Gooch, Holcomb, McGehee, Meade, Tucker, Venable, Watkins, Wood; Colonel William Fleming and the correspondents mother, Alice Watts, are also mentioned. Transcription by English Showalter accompanies the document.
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