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Parker family

 Family

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Copeland Parker Ledger

 Collection — 1 folder
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-326
Scope and Contents One 1787-1816 ledger from Smithfield, Virginia documenting an account of sundries for various individuals, though prominent names include Josiah Parker and John Parker. The second page indicates the volume is "A Ledger for the Manufacturing Mills, August 21, 1787." Toward the back of the ledger, there are several entries titled "District of Norfolk, Virginia, Port of Smithfield, Account of foreign spirits imported, marked and gauged according to Law under the Inspection of Copeland Parker,...
Dates: created: 1787-1816; Other: Majority of material found in 1790s; Other: Date acquired: 11/24/2014

Grace Parker Tazewell Collection on the Parker, Brooke, and Waldrop Families

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 0000-207
Scope and Contents Personal correspondence of the Parker, Brooke, and Waldrop families. Much of the correspondence is between Mr. and Mrs. James H. Parker from 1937-1976. Other prominent correspondents include Ellen Douglass Waldrop, Ellen Brooke, Ellen Parker, and Warren L. Brooke. Also included are financial and travel records, wills and deeds, certificates, photographs, and miscellaneous records and artifacts such as academic papers and military uniform insignia. The collection also includes a circa...
Dates: created: circa 1860-1993; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/2009

Parker Family Papers

 Collection — 2 folders
Identifier: 001-01-MSS 2018-010
Scope and Contents Eighteenth-century through 20th-century documents relating to the Parker family of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. The collection includes original indentures, wills, bills of sale, correspondence, and other legal documents, particularly relating to Copeland Parker and Nicholas Wilson Parker. Other content includes genealogical information on the Parker family and related families, including Sinclair, Boush, and Nash. Folder 2 includes documents that were compiled into a three-ring binder by...
Dates: created: 1756-1943, undated; Other: Date acquired: 03/23/2018