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Mark Smith Collection
Ms2015-001


Descriptive Summary

Title:Mark Smith Collection
Span Dates: 1817-1861
Bulk Dates: 1817-1861
ID No: Ms2015-001
Creator: Joel Ellis Family
Extent: 1 box (Ms2015-001); 1 oversized document
Language: English
Repository: West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
Abstract: This collection consists of documents relating to the estate of Joel Ellis of Hampshire County, including freedom and property given to slaves he owned at the time of his death, and a Civil War broadside issued by General Benjamin Kelley in 1861 to the people of Hampshire County.
Administrative Information

Donor: Mark Smith, Springfield, West Virginia
Transfers: Museums
Preferred Citation: [item, collection number], Mark Smith Collection, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV.
Contents List:


Correspondence, Samuel Bumgarner to John H. Nelson, October 23, 1848
Power of Attorney, David Y. Ellis, April 12, 1847
Correspondence, Samuel Bumgarner to William Dunlop, March 13, 1846
Power of Attorney, Laban Records, August 22, 1817
Correspondence, Joel Ellis to Lucinda Dunlop, March 5, 1841
Correspondence, Joel Ellis to Lucinda Dunlop, October 26, 1843
Correspondence, Joel Ellis to Lucinda Dunlop, July 20, 1843
Correspondence, David Y. Ellis to Lucinda Dunlop, August 20, 1846

Oversized Item:
Broadside, To the People of Hampshire County and Upper Potomac by General Benjamin F. Kelley, December 16, 1861


Manuscript Collections

West Virginia Archives and History