Gerald & Agnes Ward Washington Family Collection

Archive

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Gerald & Agnes Ward Washington Family Collection

Entry/Object ID

ARC655

Scope and Content

Collection of documents and photographs (a few originals but mostly copies) of the Claymont (Claymont Court) Washington family descended from John Augustine Washington and Hannah Bushrod Washington. Folder 1: Photocopies of handwritten version and typewritten transcript of the Diary of Anna Maria Thomasina Blackburn Washington, January 1828 to February 1833, Clay Mont Plantation, Charles Town, Va. (now W.Va.) Folder 2: Photocopies of two documents concerning the estate of Thomas B. Washington, 1854 and 1855 Folder 3: Photocopies of letters from Bushrod Corbin Washington II to Edward Syle (second husband of BCWII's mother), 1862 to 1883 Folder 4: Photocopies of two documents by B.C. Washington II: "The Trial of John Brown," 1899, and handwritten speech on teaching about John Brown, slavery, and the Civil War, given to the Teachers Institute, ca. 1905 Folder 5: Photocopies of two talks by B.C. Washington II: "What Is Practical Faith?", ca. 1905, and "The Unequal Conflict", 1906 Folder 6: Originals of correspondence, 1908 to 1946, primarily from B. C. Washington II to his daughter Katherine Washington Ward and her children, letters written to or by Ward or other Washington family members, letter to Herbert Lee Alexander Folder 7: Two CDs of photographs: "Washington Family" CD contains photos of Washingtons, primarily Claymont Washingtons of Va./W.Va. and "Ward-Washington Family" CD contains photos of Katherine Washington Ward and her descendants in western U.S. Folder 8: Four-page advertisement for Volume 1 (of 3 volumes) of The Washington Ancestry and Records of the McClain, Johnson, and Forty Other Colonial American Families, Greenfield, Ohio, 1932 Oversize items located in SR2/FF2/D6/F5: Chart, "Ancestry of General George Washington and of his great-aunt, Anne (Washington) Wright and some of her descendants," beginning with Charlemagne and Lady Hildegarde and ending with the McClain family in the early 20th century Four Masonic patents: 1) Thomas B Washington, Malta(?) Lodge, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Virginia, 1850 (?); 2) Thomas B. Washington, Jerusalem Chapter No. 37 (?), under jurisdiction of Grand Chapter of Virginia; 3) Bushrod C Washington, Jerusalem Chapter No. 5, under jurisdiction of Grand Chapter of Virginia; 4) Nathaniel Willis Washington (all information is in Latin) See ARC655 inventory in Media.

Acquisition

Accession

291

Source or Donor

Ward, Gerald L. and Agnes

Acquisition Method

Gift

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1828 - 1946

Archive Size/Extent

Eight folders of documents, 5 oversize documents, and 2 CDs of photographs

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1828 to 1946