Name/Title
JCM's paper research filesEntry/Object ID
ARC998Scope and Content
JCM's paper research files, by topic. These files are not comprehensive and are composed primarily of documents/ articles given to JCM over many years, many by people doing genealogical research. Some are copies of publications.
[See also electronic research files on JCM's computer network under Shared documents/Research-files-requests-sources/ Research files by topic (as of 6/25/2022)]
Drawer 1:
African American info-general or collective:
Enslaved people bought/sold
Enslaved families
Black Civil War soldiers
Underground Railroad
Jeff Co Black History-misc.
Arts:
Women artists
Willis, Patty
Cornet bands
Businesses-industries:
Breweries
Belvidere Brewing Co., Harpers Ferry
Cigar Manufacturing
Ferries
Rock Ferry
Gun Manufacturing
Harpers Ferry Armory
Horse Racing
Horse racing industry
Hospitals
Charles Town General Hospital, Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Hotels & Resorts
Hotel Powhatan / Wormley's Inn
Shannondale Springs
Mills
Baney's Mill / Turner's Mill
Bullskin Mills / McCurdy Mill
Feagans Mill
Haines Mill
Head Spring Mill
Hopewell Mill/Little's Mill/Washington Mills (Shen River)
Hopewell Mill - Leetown
Kable Mill
Kable & Johnston Woolen Mill
McPherson Mill
Muse Mill
Porter Mill
Renner Mill
Rocks Mill
Bullskin / Long Marsh / Shenandoah / Evitts Mills
Newspapers
Spirit of Jefferson
Shepherd University/Virginia/Martinsburg repositories
Photographers
Fitzpatrick, Edwin
League, William
Post Offices / Rural Free Delivery
Rural Free Delivery
Potteries
Weis Pottery
Sycamore Pottery
Quarries
Millville / Standard Quarry
Railroads
Shenandoah Valley Railroad / Wheatland Station
Shenandoah Valley Railroad
Winchester & Potomac Railroad
Tourism
Tourist brochures
Turnpikes
Kabletown-Bloomery Turnpike
Utilities
Charles Town Gas & Water Company
Caves / Caverns:
Caves / caverns in Jefferson County
Cemeteries:
Muse-Lewis Cemetery
Churches:
Beulah Chapel, Wheatland Road
Bullskin Quaker Meeting House
Charles Town Baptist
Christ Church on the Mountain (Blue Ridge)
First Zion Baptist Church, Harpers Ferry
Grace Episcopal Church, Middleway
Halltown Memorial Church
Kabletown Church
Mount Zion Freewill Baptist Church, Kearneysville
Murrill Hill Church
St. Bartholomew Church, Leetown
St. George's Chapel
St. James Church or Priory of the Annunciation of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, Charles Town
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, Harpers Ferry
St. Philips Church & School, Charles Town
Shepherdstown Presbyterian Church
Trinity Episcopal Church, Shepherdstown
Wickliffe Church, Clarke Co. (served southeastern Jeff. Co.)
Wickliffe Church Rectory (in Jefferson Co.)
Zion Baptist Church, Charles Town
Zion Episcopal Church, Charles Town
Families & Individuals A-C
Addison
Alexander
Allen
Aton
Ambler
Anderson
Anderson (including Nimrod Anderson Ware)
Baker
Barbour
Barnes
Barry
Bassett
Bates
Baugh
Baylor
Beale
Beall
Beall, John Yates
Beckwith
Bedinger
Beeson / Whitmore
Beheathland
Beltzhoover
Belvoir
Blackburn
Bond
Boosey
Booth, John Wilkes
Bosworth
Botts, Lawson
Bowles
Bowling
Boyd
Brackett
Briscoe & related families
Briscoe & related families genealogy
Briscoe family genealogical records
Broomell
Brown, Gustav
Brown, John
Brown, John & Harpers Ferry raid
Browse
Bryan
Buckles
Burgess
Burns
Burns & related families
Burns & related families VanMeter / Vanmetre and Rohrer
Burr
Butler
Calhoun
Calvert
Calvin
Carson
Cary
Chamberlain / Chamberlin
Chamberlin, Elijah (?-1818) (husband of Mary McPherson)
Chamberlin, Jonas (?-1794) (husband of Elizabeth)
Chamberlin, Mary McPherson (wife of Elijah)
Chamberlin, Elizabeth (wife of Jonas)
Chew, Roger Preston & Louisa Fontaine Washington family
Clay
Clenending
Coe
Conklyn
Cooke
Coontz
Cornine (Kabletown blacksmith)
Costello & related families (Nave/Knave, Mills, Redman,
Pomeroy)
Cowan
Coyle
Craig
Craighill (Perry / Berry)
Creamer
Cunningham
Curl
Drawer 2:
Families & Individuals D-F
Dandridge
Daniel / O'Daniel
Davenport
Davis
Delany, M
Denny, Wright
Dixon
Dosh
Downing
Drake
Drew
Drish
DuBois
Dunjee
Eltinge
Engle
Fairfax, Ferdinando
Fairfax, Thomas Lord & Northern Neck Proprietary
Faulkner
Fay
Flagg
Flower
Foreman
Frame, Ann
Frame, Matthew
Fry
Funkhouser
Families & Individuals G-I
Gamble
Gant / Gantt / Gaunt
Gaynor family lineage (3 folders)
Gaynor, Ireland Resource Book
Gaynor, D. Watts Report: 2010, Ireland trip
Gibson
Gilbert
Goens / Goings / Goins / Goines (also Hart / Newman)
Grantham
Gray
Green
Gregg
Griggs (Harris / Carter)
Grove
Gunnell
Haines
Hall
Hammond
Hardin
Harding
Harlan
Harmon
Harper
Harris
Hart
Hatter
Haynes
Heedwohl (Kable / Chamberlin)
Heflebower
Hendricks
Hess
Higgs
Higley
Hite
Hoge
Hogue
Hollingsworth
Hooff
Hopkins
Howell
Howland
Hunter
Hurst
Hutter
Families & Individuals J-L
Jackson
Janney
Jaquelin
Jenkins
Johnson, Charles D. & Anna Fay Kable
Johnston
Jones, Francis M. & Jones, Jane J.
Jones
Jordan
Kable, Daniel (Jeff Co Courthouse documents)
Kable family (Burns & Marshall)
Kable & related families (Dudrear / Alder (Alder) / Chamberlain
Kable
Kemp-Kennedy / Taylor-Lane
Keyes (Roger Keyes)
Keyes
Keyes family
Kirby
Kizer
Lackland
Lamon / Lemen
Lane
Lane, Harriet (J. E. & M. N. Lane family in Jeff Co)
Lawson - McIver
Latimer
Lawrence
Lee
Leavell
Leisenring
Lewis (see also Muse, Battaile, & Margaret Tate descendants)
Link
Lippitt
Lloyd, David/Henry Lloyd Report
Locke (primarily Wm J. Locke)
Lock / Locke ( 3 folders)
Long
Lucas
Lupton
Drawer 3:
Families & Individuals M-O
Marshall & related families
McClun
McCormick
McDonald
McGarry
McMechen
McPherson
Mercer
Miller (Joseph M. and Mary Wilson)
Mills
Moore
Moreland
Morgan
Morrow / Walton
Moxley
Muse, Battaile & Margaret Tate Muse & descendants (see also
Lewis family)
Naylor
Neer
Nichols
O'Brien
Oldham
Opie
Orndorff, Robert (correspondence)
Orndorff, Robert family
Orr
Osburn (see also Palmer, Adeline Osburn
Osburn, Franklin
Oxley
Families & Individuals P-R
Paca-Kennedy Lane family
Packett
Packette
Palmer, Adaline (Adeline) Osburn
Parker
Payne
Peake
Pence
Perry
Phelps
Pierce family
Pinninger
Pomeroy (see also Costello)
Porterfield family
Pryor
Pulse / Puls
Pults / Pultz
Pusey
Quick
Quigley
Redman
Reed
Reister
Reynolds
Rickard (locksmiths)
Riddle family
Riddleberger
Rissler family
Robinson, Charles
Roper
Rouss
Rowland
Rumsey, James
Russell
Rutherford
Families & Individuals S-V
Sardane
Seaton
Selden
Senseny
Sewell
Sharff
Shenton
Shepherd
Sheward
Shindler
Shirley
Shortle
Shugart
Shutt
Sidwell
Simmons
Sims (African American family)
Sims (Simms / Semmes)
Smith
Sprague
Stephens
Stickle
Stipp
Stockett
Strider
Strode
Stroud
Swearingen
Tabb family genealogy
Tabb, George Washington & Mary Creighton Wilson family
Tanner
Tate (also Muse & Fletcher)
Terrell
Teter
Thompson
Thornton, Susan B.
Tilden
Todd
Trapnell
Tullis
Van Meter
Van Metre
Vestal
Families & Individuals W-Z
Ward
Washington
Watson
Watts (Donald E. Watts genealogical materials)
Webb
Webster
Weiner
West
White
Williams
Willis, Patty (artist)
Willson, Charles & Euphemia (Summit Point)
Wilson family papers
Windle
Winning
Wood
Wormeley, Ralph, V.
Wormeley, Ralph, James (Also Mann Page tract; The Rocks;
Ferdinando Fairfax) (3 folders)
Worthington
Wright
Wysong, Julia Sampler
Yates
Yeasley / Yeisley
Homes-Farms
Cool Spring Farm
Head Spring (Reiley / Riely)
Needwood Farm - Title Chain
The Rocks - Insurance 1803
Jefferson County Museum
JCM history
Maps
Virginia and West Virginia, 18th and 19th centuries
Charles Town - street occupants
Drawer 4:
Miners Trials
Miners Trials
Miners Trials - newspapers
Patents - Jeff. Co.
Spreadsheets, misc. info
Patents Jeff. Co. to 1970
Schools
Mt. Hope School
Kabletown schools
Myerstown schools
Storer College
Mt. Parvo
Schools
Social/Fraternal Organizations
Kabletown Masonic Lodge (Jefferson Lodge # 51)
Towns/Communities
African American communities
Charles Town Westend history
Hartstown
Jamestown
Jocundity
Kabletown
Middleway
Mt. Pleasant
Shenandoah Junction
Summit Point
Drawer 5:
Roper, Laley, & Horn families
Nicholas Roper 1738-1817
James Roper
James Roper's children
Laley
HornAcquisition
Accession
62Source or Donor
Jefferson County MuseumAcquisition Method
Purchase