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This series includes items from 1816–1817 written by Robert Williams, and undated papers
probably written by William Henry Burwell, consisting of love letters, school compositions, poems,
and essays.
Series 4. Other Papers (1812–1943 and undated)
This series comprises miscellaneous papers of the Burwell family. Genealogical information
about the Burwell family includes a history of the family from Burwell, Spotswood, Dandridge,
West and Allied Family Histories (Lawrence, 1943); Blair Burwell’s family tree; a copy of the
tombstone inscription of Lewis Burwell; and two memorial pamphlets about William Henry
Burwell. There are also school records, 1874–1893, for William Henry Burwell’s children from
Randolph-Macon College, Greensboro Female College, and Peace College; lists of subscribers
to a building fund for the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church and a list of children in the
Fishing Creek School District; and valentines dating from the 1850s belonging to William Henry
Burwell and his soon-to-be wife, Laura Pettway.
Printed items include advertising circulars for tobacco and agricultural dealers; cut-out
pictures of horses and other farm animals; advertisements for medicinal cures, household items,
insurance, and other products; prices current newsletters; and clippings of the series, “Pen and
Ink Sketches of the University of North Carolina, As It Has Been,” from the Weekly Sentinel,
1869. Miscellaneous items include business cards; a playbill for 1819 performances of “Wanted a
Wife!” and “Ella Rosenberg” at the Philadelphia Theatre; a medicinal recipe; cards; drawings; and
party invitations.
Series 5. Volumes (1805–1910)
This series comprises thirty-eight manuscript volumes belonging to Armistead Burwell and his
wife Lucy Crawley Burwell, Spotswood Burwell, William Armistead Burwell, and William Henry
Burwell of Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and Warren, Granville, and Vance counties, North
Carolina; and some volumes of the Williams family of Warren County, North Carolina.
Subseries 5.1. (1805–1860) This subseries includes account books, farm journals, and
church books of Armistead Burwell, Lucy Crawley Burwell, Spotswood Burwell, William Armistead
Burwell, and members of the Williams family. Volumes include: a “Horse Book” listing horse
breeding records for 1805; the birthdates and names of slaves and horses belonging to the
Burwell family for various years; slave purchases and sales; records of household and farm
expenses; settlement of estates of the Burwell and Williams family; records of payments and
visits of doctors and midwives; weather and farm work notes; a blacksmith shop book dated
1837; lists of both black and white members of the Tabernacle Society of the Tabernacle
Methodist Episcopal Church for the 1830s through the 1850s; and an expense book of William
Henry Burwell’s travels to Alabama in the 1850s.
Omissions
A list of omissions from the Burwell Family Papers is provided on reel 15, frame 0721.
Omissions include: Subseries 1.2. Correspondence, 1861–1923; Subseries 2.2. Financial and
Legal Material, 1861–1923; and Subseries 5.2. Volumes, 1861–1910. Descriptions of omitted
materials are included in the introductory materials included with this collection.
N.B. A related collection among the holdings of the Southern Historical Collection is the
George Burwell Papers.
Reel 10 cont.
0177 Introductory Materials. 18 frames.
Introductory Materials
Series 1. Correspondence, 1792–1923 and Undated
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