Subj: [KENNON] Great info...VA KENNON's
Date: 06/23/2000 10:53:53 AM Central Daylight Time
From: kennonl@guilford.k12.nc.us (Kennon, Laura)
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Hey Cuzzins...from that message I just sent. I went in and copied the info
it gave on the first hit.
This is great stuff!! We have to find a way to get a copy of it!!!!

Take care
Blessings
Laura

PS. The control number (at the bottom) indicates it is at the University of
VA library

Records 1 through 1 of 9 returned.


Author: Kennon, William H.
Title: Papers of William H. Kennon [manuscript], 1808-1903.
Description: 950 (ca.) items.
Notes: Include correspondence and business records and
papers, 1808-1903, of the Kennon family, chiefly of
William H. Kennon, Beverley Randolph, Nancy Randolph Kennon Selden, Miles C.
Selden, Charles Randolph Kennon and William Upshur Kennon, pertaining to
management of family plantation, Norwood (Powhatan County, Va.), and
estate settlements.
Topics also include family and social matters, the courtship
of Nancy Randolph and William H. Kennon and her father's objections, William
H. Kennon's naval career, a lawsuit (Kennon vs. Wilkinson), a fugitive slave
(1841), and mention of Beverley Kennon's death in U.S.S. Princeton accident
(1844).
Also include correspondence, 1830-1840, of Beverley Randolph
to his son, Charles H. Randolph, pertaining to Charles' studies at the
University of Virginia and the University of Paris, including one letter
referring briefly to the riot at the University of Virginia (1831).
Also include letter, 1861, to Nancy Randolph Kennon Selden
from Landonia Randolph concerning family matters, slavery, and secession;
two letters, 1861, pertaining to the requested return of a hired slave;
letters, 1862-1865, of William Upshur Kennon and Charles Randolph Kennon to
their mother concerning camp life, including one letter mentioning a slave
at the front.
Also include correspondence, 1875-1883, of William Upshur
Kennon, acting plantation manager for James Murray of England, owner of
Bendover plantation, Goochland County, Va., pertaining to agricultural
concerns, plantation management and sales of livestock and wheat, including
a crop rotation plan (1879); and farm journal, ca. 1880, of William Upshur
Kennon.
Also include letter, 1824, for Abel Upshur concerning William
H. Kennon's naval career and social life and celebrations honoring
Lafayette; letter, 1837, from John Hartwell Cocke offering his consolations;
letter, 1840, from James Kirke Paulding accepting William H. Kennon's
resignation; and a receipt and letter, 1842, of Thomas Mann Randolph
pertaining to sale of cattle.
Also include plantation journal, 1808, of Beverley Randolph
including slave records; six bank books, 1822-1832, of Beverley Randolph;
one bank book, 1827-1828, of John Heth; farm journal, 1840-1842, of W. A.
Kennon; two time books, 1873-1883; four farm books, 1873-1883, including
freedmen's accounts; balance book, 1887-1903; and two bank books, 1897-1903,
of William Upshur Kennon.
Also include catalog, 1866, of the private library at
Norwood.
Also available in microfilm Published by University
Publications of America, Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations (series
E).
Represented in this collection are: Beverley Randolph,
planter of Powhatan County, Va.; his daughter, Nancy Randolph Kennon Selden;
her husband, William H. Kennon, an officer in the United States Navy; their
children, Charles Randolph Kennon and William Upshur Kennon, residents of
Virginia.
Annotated list available.
Papers of William H. Kennon, 1808-1903, Accession
#38-95 and #885, University of Virginia Library,
Charlottesville, Va.
Subjects: Financial records. aat
Journals. aat
Letters (correspondence). aat
Bendover (Va. : Estate)
Confederate States of America. Army -- Military
life.
Kennon, Beverley, 1793-1844.
Kennon, Charles Randolph.
Kennon, William H.
Kennon, William Upshur.
Kennon family.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du
Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.
Murray, James.
Norwood (Va. : Estate)
Princeton (Steamship)
Randolph, Beverley.
Selden, Nancy Randolph Kennon.
United States. Navy -- Officers -- History --
1783-1865.
Universite de Paris -- Students -- History --
19th century.
University of Virginia -- History -- 19th
century.
Actions and defenses -- Virginia.
Agriculture -- Virginia -- History.
Books -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Cash crops -- Virginia -- History.
Courtship -- Virginia -- History -- 19th
century.
Crop rotation -- Virginia -- History -- 19th
century.
Decedents' estates -- Virginia -- History.
Finance, Personal -- Virginia -- History.
Freedmen -- Virginia.
Fugitive slaves -- Virginia.
Goochland County (Va.) -- History -- 19th
century.
Livestock -- Virginia -- History.
Marine accidents -- History -- 1783-1865.
Plantation life -- Virginia -- History.
Plantations -- Management -- Virginia --
History.
Powhatan County (Va.) -- History.
Secession.
Slave records -- Virginia -- History -- 19th
century.
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion.
Slaves -- Employment -- Virginia -- History --
Civil War, 1861-1865.
Virginia -- History.
Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th
century.
Other authors: Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866, correspondent.
Kennon, Charles Randolph.
Kennon, William Upshur.
Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860, correspondent.
Randolph, Beverley.
Randolph, Charles R., correspondent.
Randolph, Landonia, correspondent.
Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828.
Selden, Miles C., correspondent.
Selden, Nancy Randolph Kennon.
Upshur, A. P. (Abel Parker), 1790-1844,
correspondent.
Control No.: VAUVRBA11136490-A

Laura Kennon
Technology Services
Guilford County Schools

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