Excerpts

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Excerpts spanning pages 211 to 217 from Genealogies of Barbados Families, compiled by James C. Brandow (Baltimore, 1983), originally in appearance in Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, v. 36 (1980), pp. 129-135, describing the Carrington family and marriage laws in Barbados in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

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Personal and business correspondence, notes, financial records, wills and deeds from his clients, booklets and pamphlets, newspaper clippings about the Civil War, and photographs. Also included in the collection are the personal papers of the Saunders family.

Scope and Contents Papers relating to the Fred Heutte Center in Ghent Square, Fred Heutte Foundation, Garden Clubs of Greater Hampton Roads, and Norfolk Botanical Gardens. The papers include gardening articles and transcripts of radio broadcasts, along with correspondence relating to the publication of Fred Heutte's 1977 book Gardening in the Temperate Zone. Organizational records include agendas, minutes, budget statements, correspondence, and notes. These papers were...

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Documents relating to the War of 1812 in Norfolk, Virginia, including a transcribed Orderly Book originally written by James Field.

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One excerpt of The Lyfe of Saynt Clare, Folio CCCix-CCCxv. An envelope that originally housed the manuscript is labeled "Imprint of Wynkyn de Werde, Evidently several pages of a book printed by him" and addressed to Robert H. Tunstall of Norfolk, Virginia.