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Papers [M940
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in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide 1) Letterbook of William Wilson 1823-24, Sydney. 2) Notebook 1828, 1830, of voyages by John Wilson in the brig Sisters and the barque Dover. 3) Letters 1824-34, to James and Willisam Wilson from their sister Jane. 4) Letters 1827-49, to James and William Wilson from their parents John and Barbara Wilson. 5) Papers 1835-80, of Sir James Milne Wilson, including letters to his family and Francis Watkins, documents, drafts of parliamentary bills, drafts of speeches and photographs. 6) Wilson papers 1814-94. 7) Correspondence 1828-50, of the Allardyce family, with a copy of the will of William Allardyce. 8) Papers 1935-44, relating to the history of the Wilson and Degraves families.
Papers, 1790-1944
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in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Chiefly papers of Rev. Lewis Feuilleteau Wilson of Gerrardstown and Hedgesville, Berkeley County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1831- 1873, loose accounts, 1833-1872, Presbyterian church materials for Berkeley County and for Shenandoah County, Va., and post office records, 1836-1845, for Woodstock, Va. Also present are the papers of Mary Elizabeth (Chamberlin) Wilson of Gerrardstown and of Kabletown, Jefferson County, W. Va., including correspondence, 1844-1894, and scrapbooks; papers of Hall Wilson of Gerrardstown and Kabletown, including correspondence, 1867-1910, loose accounts, 1859-1915, and other materials; and papers of Charles Lee Wilson of Kabletown, San Francisco, Calif., and Astoria, Ore., including correspondence, 1870-1889, describing his life and work in California and Oregon and his travels in the Washington Territory, 1885-1888, accounts, 1875-1889, Hampden-Sydney College materials, 1871-1874, and general miscellany. Also present in the collection are the diary, 1827-1828, of William McPherson (1748?-1831) and correspondence, 1836-1875, of Jane MacPherson (d. 1877) of Charles Town, W. Va., and Baltimore, Md., including many letters from family members in the North and Midwest giving a Union perspective on the Civil War.
Wilson-Treece family material, 1903-1954
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in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Deed, marriage license, death certificates, and family Bible record.
Wilson family papers, 1868-1893
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in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide This collection consists of correspondence (1868-1893) among members of the Wilson family, including primarily letters from John Wilson (1868-1882) while he was residing in Montana (1868-1869) and Iowa (1868-1882). In his letters he discusses family matters, his freighting business between Fort Benton and Virginia City, and the people and economic conditions of towns in Montana and of Algona, Iowa.
John Thomas Wilson papers, 1830-1918 (bulk 1849-1895)
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in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Papers of John T. Wilson and family.
Papers, 1862-1945; (bulk 1880-1910)
by Susan Colston Wilson
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in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Correspondence, literary mss., reminiscences, financial and legal papers, artwork, memorabilia, postcards, clippings, photos, and other papers, of Wilson, her parents, Susan Colston Minor Wilson (1864-1937) and John Wilson (1861-1899), her grandfather, John Barbee Minor (1813-1895), her aunt, Nannie Jacquelin Minor, her brother, Edmund Minor Wilson (1897-1935), and her sister, Charlotte Miller Minor Wilson (1898-1923). Topics include life at University of Virginia (1890-1910), World War I, particularly Edmund Minor Wilson's service in the artillery and Susan Colston Wilson's therapy work, life at Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va. (1914-1916), and Wilson's volunteer work (1931) with International Grenfell Association in Labrador.
Report on the muniments of the Knyvett-Wilson family, 13th-19th century
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1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Papers of the Wilson family of Mt. Pleasant, Va. 1814-1871
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide The collection contains letters and miscellaneous items of Samuel M. Wilson, St. Julien Wilson, Nannie Oliver, Lucy Oliver Cocke, and Mildred Lee, discussing family matters including the impact of the Civil War on the family. Also included are a letter to Robert E. Lee and correspondence by members of the Cocke family of Bremo, Fluvanna County, Virginia, including John Hartwell Cocke.
Memories
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide This is a memoir compiled by Irene Russell Blasdell about her family in 1991. It includes copies of pictures of the family. Included in the collection is a hand-written letter from Ms. Blasdell in Bellingham, WA. In the letter dated Nov. 9, 1996, she states she is 86 years old. She wrote about her early years in Whatcom County.
Papers of Abel Pennington Wilson and descendants, 1783-1933
by Abel Pennington Wilson
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Family papers, including correspondence, legal and land documents, receipts, bills of sale, and other papers.
Wilson Family papers, 1812-1912
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Papers of Robert Wilson and his son Richard C. Wilson of Westerlo, Maryland, and Schenevus include deeds, legal papers, estate inventories, and family letters.
Wilson family papers 1850-1853
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Papers include correspondence written by James L. and William Swan Wilson to their family in York County, Pa. Letters describe sheep herding, a railroad passage over the Allegheny Mountains, canal boat travel, temperence movements and a typhoid epidemic in 1851.
Wilson and Hairston family papers, 1751-1928
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Business correspondence, financial and legal papers and scattered personal correspondence of six generations of the Wilson and Hairston families. Among the activities represented are the sale of tobacco through Virginia commission merchants; the service of Peter Hairston (1752-1832) as a deputy sheriff in Henry County, Va., mainly 1751-1788; the manumission of six Hairston slaves in 1832 through the American Colonization Society; purchase of supplies for plantation and household use; and activities of the Sandy Creek, Mayo, County Line, and Staunton River Baptist associations, 1833-1868. Civil War materials are few and consist of scattered family letters and some receipts for foodstuffs sold to the Confederate Army. Throughout the collection there is material concerning the management of the various family plantations. Approximately one-fourth of the collection consists of the personal and professional correspondence of Alfred Varley Sims as a professor at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa), 1895-1904, and as a civil engineer, and includes materials related to his time in Cuba, 1905-1908, and to his connections with various southern and Cuban railroads and other businesses in Cuba and elsewhere.
Papers], 1854-1975
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Land deed records, real-estate and personal property records, clippings.
Wilson family records, 1886-1897
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Correspondence
Photographs, 1940
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1 edition published in 1940 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Wilson family scrapbook 1895-1972
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide The scrapbook consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and ephemera documenting the life of Rev. and Mrs. Wilson. The bulk of the material deals with E.C.'s ministerial career, documenting all his assignments. Items range from 1905 report cards for Rev. Wilson to letters of condolence after his death. Later entries document Mrs. Wilson's work in Methodist organizations as well as her attendance at various ceremonies on behalf of her husband. The last page of the scrapbook is a copy of Mrs. Wilson's obituary.
Wilson family papers, 1848-1902
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Letters among family members describing daily life and family activities.
Miscellaneous papers and letters, 1855-1941. Includes diaries of Fannie wilson and Thomas B. Wilson
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Hairston and Wilson family papers, 1800-1906
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide The collection includes letters to Elizabeth ("Bettie") Perkins (Hairston) Hairston from her mother, who wrote chiefly from Beaver Creek, the family plantation, 1850s-1890s; her sister, Ruth Stoval (Hairston) Wilson, who wrote from Danville, Va.; her brother, John A. Hairston, who wrote from school in Staunton, Va., 1855-1857; and her cousin, Jeb Stuart (1833- 1875), who wrote from West Point, 1853-1854, and while fighting against the Comanches in Texas, 1855. During the Civil War, Bettie lived with relatives in Yalabusha County, Miss., where she received letters from her family about life on the home front. There are also letters to Bettie, written after her marriage in 1873, from her husband, J. T. W. Hairston in Lowndes County, Miss., where he was trying to run a cotton plantation without slave labor. Other significant family correspondence documents the westward movement of various Hairston family members and includes some papers of George Hairston of Halifax County, Va., ca. 1800-1820. In addition to correspondence, several account books document family life, including the involvement of family members in at least two stores in Henry County and Danville, Va., 1800-1829. A household account book, 1831-1869, gives detailed information about weaving, livestock raising, gardening, and other household production. There are also other financial and legal materials, including scattered bills, receipts, depositions, slave lists and other slave records, and labor contracts with freedmen. more
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