Ephemera - Unidentified, n.d.
Scope and Content
The Jeremiah White Graves Collection includes a cash book, correspondence, receipts and ledger pages, newspaper clippings, and genealogy materials.
The manuscript portion of the collection consists of the cash book and account ledger pages documenting Graves' business ventures (sales of crops, purchases from local businesses, etc.) and correspondence created in Graves' role as real estate and slave broker, as well as letters of a personal nature exchanged between family members.
The genealogy portion of the collection includes types copies of wills, deeds, and contracts, as well as typed, compiled histories for branches of the Graves, Whitehead, and Jones and Hunt families.
Dates
- Creation: n.d.
Creator
- From the Collection: Graves, Jeremiah White (Pittsylvania County, Va.) (Person)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 0.5 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu