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Brown, John.

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Logan Osborne Family and Business Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2941
Overview A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Dates: 1761-1982

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0081
Overview

Papers of Thomas Tavenner and the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence; memoirs; journals; financial and legal documents; pamphlets; newspapers; and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family were Confederate sympathizers.

Dates: 1772-1955; Majority of material found within 1855-1866

Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0858
Overview Papers of the Tavenner family of western Virginia, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and other material. Much of the material in this collection regards the Civil War. The Tavenner family was sympathetic to the Confederate cause. One member of the family, William Cabell Tavenner, served in the Confederate army; his letters are part of the collection. This collection also contains material related to families allied to the Tavenner family by marriage, particularly the...
Dates: 1778-1953; Majority of material found within 1819-1884

Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates: 1732-1965

T.T. Perry, Collector, Publications

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2253
Overview

Microfilm copy of assorted books, speeches, and pamphlets related to early West Virginia history. Includes: On The Plains In '65 by George H. Holliday; Heyward Shepherd, Victim Of Violence, by Matthew Page Andrews; and The Harpers Ferry Insurrection by J. Ewing Glasgow. For a complete listing, see the control folder.

Dates: 1806-1859

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  • Subject: Virginia X

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 4
Civil War -- letters 3
Diaries and journals. 3
Harrison County (W. Va.) 3
Land. 3
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Ohio County (W. Va.) 3
Wood County (W. Va.) 3
Civil War - Southern sympathizers in WV. 2
Civil War -- War diaries 2
Jefferson County. 2
Surveyors and surveying. 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Account books 1
Banks and banking 1
Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
Berkeley Border Guards 1
Berkeley County (W. Va.) -- Topography 1
Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 1
Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
Charles Town (W. Va.) 1
Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
Civil War - Virginia 133rd Regiment. 1
Civil War - Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 17th Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. 1
Civil War - Virginia 19th Cavalry. 1
Civil War - Virginia 2nd Cavalry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia 11th Infantry. 1
Civil War - West Virginia. 1
Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Civil War -- Cheat Mountain campaign 1
Civil War -- Confederacy 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate newspapers 1
Civil War -- Confederate sympathizers 1
Civil War -- Indiana 15th Regiment, Company I 1
Civil War -- Kanawha Riflemen 1
Civil War battles - Cheat Mountain. 1
Civil War battles - Kernstown. 1
Civil War battles - Piedmont. 1
Civil War battles - Rich Mountain. 1
Civil War battles. 1
Diaries - Civil War. 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Genealogy 1
General stores 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 1
Jefferson County - Topography. 1
Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
Logan County. 1
Maps. 1
Marshall County. 1
Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
Martinsburg, W.Va. - formation. 1
Mason County. 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
Newspapers. 1
Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
Poets and poetry. 1
Preston County (W. Va.) 1
Railroads - Ohio River Railroad. 1
Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
Ravenswood (W. Va.) 1
Richmond (Va.) 1
Roane County (W. Va.) 1
Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
Shepherdstown. 1
Slaves and slavery. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons 1
Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
Virginia 1
Volcano (W. Va.) 1
West Virginia -- History 1
West Virginia - Civil War. 1
Weston (W. Va.) 1
Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
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