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Box 1

 Container

Contains 131 Results:

Item 1. Manuscript (Typed Copy) -- "Colonel Thomas Tavenner's Plantations as they Remain Today" by Minnie Kendall Lowther. Includes many dates and names of Tavenner's ancestors and children. Also includes a brief history of the Beauchamps of Wood and Wirt counties, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 2. "M. Calloway's Captivity" (Photocopy) by A.S. Withers, includes genealogical information on the extended Withers family, ca. 1868-1869

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: ca. 1868-1869
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 3. Letter -- (Old Photocopy) Robert Walter Withers, Rock Castle, Virginia to Lyman C. Draper about Draper publishing an annotated edition of the book Chronicles of Border Warfare. Also contained in the letter is genealogical information on the Withers family, 1869

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: 1869
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 4. Letter -- (Old Photocopy) Mrs. J.S. Tavenner, Parkersburg, to L.C. Draper about his publishing a 2nd edition to Chronicles of Border Warfare. The letter also comments on receiving information from Mr. Zane and Mr. Hacker, ca. 1890

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: ca. 1890
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 5. Typed Manuscript -- (Typed Copy) "Autobiography of an Octogenarian" by Robert Enoch Withers, cites the Last Will and Testimony of John Withers, dated 29 August 1698. Three pages of Withers genealogy follow. Two copies, 1907

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: 1907
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 6. List -- Thayer Genealogy, including Richard Thayer, Nathanial Thayer, Zachariah Thayer, Able Thayer, Job Thayer, William Taylor Thayer, and John Atkinson Thayer, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: undated
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 7. Letter -- C.W. Esher, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to Roy Bird Cook, regarding the genealogy of the Flesher family and the naming of Flesherville (now Weston), 1952

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates: 1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 1. Genealogy, Box 1, Folder 1 (7 items)

Item 8. Letter -- (Copy) P. Henry to Lt. Colonel George Rogers Clark authorizing him to raise five companies of Virginia Militia and transport them down the Ohio River to attack a British outpost, 1778

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1778
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 9. Letter -- (Copy) L.E. Davisson to his nephew Frederick Augustus Davisson informing him of the death of his grandfather Daniel Davisson, 1819

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1819
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 10. Militia Fine -- (Typed Copy) Cabell Tavenner fined by G.H. Beall, County Clerk, for failing to attend Regimental muster in Captain P. Cox's Company, 1837

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1837
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)