Box 2

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Charts, notes, clippings, copies of legal records, obituaries, correspondence, artifacts, and ephemera pertaining to the Baum family. The records in this folder are primarily concentrated on family members of Virginia.

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Genealogy research and records of Virginia and North Carolina families compiled by Elizabeth Baum Wingo. Box 2 contains 24 folders organized alphabetically by surname, Baum to Bowering.

Scope and Contents Pedigree charts, Bible records, notes, correspondence, and photocopies of historic legal documents and vital records, such as marriage licenses pertaining to the Baxter family of Virginia. Historic legal documents include a Chancery suit involving Charles Harris, James Graham, William Conner, James Conner, and William Ingram dated March 1835, and judgment for payment for fees to be paid to the Circuit Supreme Court of Norfolk County for a legal matter dated March 7, 1829; and a record for a...

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Pedigree charts pertaining to the Beane family of Virginia.

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Correspondence to and from Elizabeth Baum Wingo regarding Anne Bell's nomination to the Order of the First Families of Virginia. Included are photocopies of organization statutes. Related names include Tulledge, Hogshead, and Damas.

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Correspondence and copies of marriage registers pertaining to the Benn family of Virginia.

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Photocopies of indentures dated February 8, 1741 and February 9, 1742 pertaining to Solomon Bennett and his wife, Darkas, and 147 acres of land known as Bennet's island, including a phsycial description of boundary lines, in Currituck, North Carolina. Additional names mentioned include Solomon Wilson.

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Research notes pertaining to the Benthall family of Princess Anne County, Virginia. One of the notes includes transcription of the 1850 Census for Princess Anne County, Virginia, of the Benthall family.

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Photocopy of a circa 1700s petition written to the Court by Elizabeth Bicheron (Bickerfon) to assume payments to be made by her son.

Scope and Contents A typewritten accounting of the Blackmer family through Walter Blackmer of Devonshire, England. The history accounts for lineage of the Blackmers to the Blackmar Vikings of Norway. Ancestral familial connections include Joslin of France, Charlemagne of France, Brewster of Massachusetts and England, Macon of France, and Custis (Martha Washington). The history further describes connections to the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Mayflower ship, George Washington, colonial America, New York,...