Box 1
Container
Contains 11 Results:
Series 1. Hays Family Papers, 1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles)
Series — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
This series includes correspondence, business papers, and biographical notes of Samuel L. Hays, his son Peregrine, and the Hays family of Gilmer County. Subjects include: the formation of Gilmer, Calhoun, Roane, and Upshur Counties; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; "Stonewall" Jackson's boyhood; early frontier conditions in the Wisconsin Territory; immigration, farming, milling, and land speculation in Minnesota, 1857-1870; Charleston and Braxton turnpike; slave sales; Early's...
Dates:
1836-1884, 1952-1962, undated (includes facsimiles)
Genealogy (includes "A Biographical Sketch of the Hays Family, Notably of Samuel Lewis Hays and of Peregrine Hays," completed June 26, 1962 [13 pages], and notes; 3 items), 1962, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Dates:
1962, undated
Correspondence, folder 1 of 5 (includes business and personal correspondence of Peregrine Hays, with a few items to Mary and Samuel L. Hays; correspondents include John Hays, Lewis Maxwell, R.P. Camden, Samuel L. Hays, William E. Arnold, William H. Davis, I.A. Welch, J.M. Bennett, and others; 20 items), 1840-1856
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates:
1840-1856
Correspondence, folder 3 of 5 (includes business and personal correspondence of Peregrine Hays; correspondents include I.A. Welch, Levi Johnson, H.I. Samuels, Peregrine Hays, George W. Silcott, A.C. Branscom, Warren G. Hays, John Scott, and others; includes military correspondence; 20 items), 1862-1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Dates:
1862-1864
Correspondence, folder 4 of 5 (includes business and personal correspondence of Peregrine Hays; correspondents include William P. Arnold, R.R. Marshall, Oreyon Bobbill [?], John Brannon, J.S. Hoffman, Richard P. Camden, Samuel L. Hays, W.P. Cooper [?], John J. Davis, G.D. Camden, Lewis Woodmansey [?], C.B. Conrad, and others; 20 items), 1864-1877
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Dates:
1864-1877
Correspondence, folder 5 of 5 (includes business and personal correspondence of Peregrine Hays; correspondents include Levi Johnson, C.B. Conrad, John S. Withers, Peregrine Hays, W.P. Cooper, J.M. Bennett, John E. Kenna, Louis Bennett, James M. Hayden, W.G. Bennett, Charles E. Hogg, J.N. Camden, Mrs. Katy White [Aunt of Stonewall Jackson], Samuel L. Hays, C.J. [?] Jackson, A. Hanison, and others; 19 items), 1877-1884, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Dates:
1877-1884, undated
Business Papers, folder 1 of 3 (contains receipts for subscriptions and real estate sales, promissory notes, and tax and fine notices to or from members of the Hays family; 10 items), 1836-1854
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Dates:
1836-1854
Business Papers, folder 2 of 3 (contains notices of dishonored checks, an account book, receipts, notices, etc., to or from Peregrine Hays; two receipts are for the sale of "negroes" [slaves] to P. Hays [1858, 1863]; 11 items), 1853-1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Dates:
1853-1863
Business Papers, folder 3 of 3 (contains notices, receipts, promissory notes, a listing of lands owned by P. Hays in Gilmer County [as of February 7, 1866], an invoice; includes a receipt for the sale of a "negroe" [slave] to P. Hays [1865]; 10 items), 1864-1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Dates:
1864-1882