Isle of Wight County (Va.)

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One circa 1979 genealogy research notebook compiled by Debra Padden Scott. Families include Arrington, Drake, Derring, Drewry, Foster, Harrison, Rawlings, Sampson, Scott, Simmons, and Wesson. Geographic locations of families include Isle of Wight County, Southampton County, Brunswick County, and Norfolk, Virginia; and Nash County, North Carolina.

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...

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Five maps: one 2000 map of North Carolina and four 1980s-1990s maps of Southeastern Virginia, including Southampton, Isle of Wight, and Sussex Counties. The collection also includes two bulletins commemorating the 170th and 180th anniversaries of Great Fork Baptist Church in Suffolk, Virginia.

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Photographs of Beatrice Smyth Steele and the nurses at St. Vincent's Hospital, and family and friends of Beatrice Smyth Steele. Photographs from the Texaco Company and Eddie Buchanan. Photographs of the Capps family and friends.

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A copy of Thomas Applewhaite's will, written in Barbados. The document refers to plantations and lands owned in Isle of Wight, Virginia and refers to various members of the Applewhaite and Archer families.