Finding Aid to the Lindsey Coleman Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LINDSEY COLEMAN (ca. 1786/88-1876) PAPERS
The COLEMAN papers include over 600 items dating from 1789 until 1911, with
the bulk being from 1810-1850. The collection includes 95 letters and over 260 accounts.
Also included are tax receipts, the papers of the Mt. Moriah Debating Club and the Mt.
Moriah Sunday School, and a jailor's account book (1817-1832).
BOX 1

1-1
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5

BOX 2

2-1 Papers (1830-1833/41)
2-1a Account Book (1831-1832)
2-2 Papers (1834-1836/37)
2-3 Papers (1837-1840/41)
2-4 Papers (1841-1844)
2-5 Papers (1845-1849/57)

BOX 3

3-1
3-2
3-3
3-4
3-5
3-6

BOX 4

4-1 Account book (W. E. C.) for "ordinary"

Papers (1789-1811)
Papers (1811-1817)
Papers (1816-1820/25)
Papers (1821-1824/33)
Papers (1824-1829/39)

Papers (1850-1851/52)
Papers (1854-1859)
Papers (1861-1867)
Papers (1870-1911)
Papers (Undated)
Papers (Miscellaneous - Mt. Moriah Debating
Club; Mt. Moriah Sabbath School
3-7 Account books - Estate sales; Postage accounts; Jailor's accounts;
Miscellaneous accounts

[Detailed finding guide available with collection]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LINDSEY COLEMAN (ca. 1786/88-1876)
Lindsey COLEMAN, of Amherst County, Virginia, was born between 1786 and 1788.
According to census records, he was born ca. 1786/1787. [1850 Census, Amherst County, VA,

National Archives & Records Service (NARS), M-432, Roll 931, p. 91 (age 63); 1860 Census, Amherst
County, VA, NARS, M-653, Roll 1332, p. 325 (age 73); 1870 Census, Amherst County, VA, NARS, M593, Roll 1633, p. 552 (age 84).]

Lindsey COLEMAN died 14 May 1876, aged 88 years, in Amherst County, Virginia.

[Death Records, Amherst County, VA, Microfilmed records, Virginia State Library.] This would

indicate a birth year of ca. 1788.

Lindsey COLEMAN was the son of George COLEMAN and Judith HARRIS. [Death
records, Amherst County, VA; Granville Baxter Coleman, Some Descendants Of Captain Robert
COLEMAN Of Mobjack Bay, Gloucester County, Virginia, Chart, rev. from 1934 chart (Richmond: Author,
1984).]
Lindsey COLEMAN married, first, Nancy TALIAFERRO, date unknown. [Coleman,
Some Descendants...] He married, secondly, Isabella G. READ, of Bedford County,
Virginia, on 27 May 1830. ["Marriages of Bedford County, Virginia," William Wade Hinshaw,
Encyclopedia Of American Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1950), p. 895.]

Lindsey COLEMAN operated a tavern in Amherst between 1820 and 1832.

[Advertisement in Lynchburg newspaper, 1820, Receipts for tavern license, 1828, 1830, The Papers of
Lindsey Coleman of Amherst County, Virginia MS1611, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

Lindsey COLEMAN was Sheriff of Amherst County in 1849 and again in 1850.

[Sheriff's bond, 19 February 1849 and 18 February 1850, Bailey Fulton Davis, The Wills of Amherst
County, Virginia, 1761-1865 (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1985), p. 77.]

In his will, Lindsey COLEMAN names children: Joseph COLEMAN, Charles T.
COLEMAN, Lucy Ellen SMITH [later ROYSTER], William E. COLEMAN, Mary
MASSIE, and Richard M. COLEMAN. He also names grandchildren: Alvin Prince
ROBERTS, Janetta E. COLEMAN, and Alice V. STRATTON ("free from
husband" Alex B. STRATTON). [Ibid., pp. 77-78.]

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VA 24501
(434) 846-0501
LINDSEY COLEMAN (ca.1786/88-1876) PAPERS
The COLEMAN papers include over 600 items dating from 1789 until 1911, with the
bulk being from 1810-1850. The collection includes 95 letters and over 260 accounts.
Also included are tax receipts, the papers of the Mt. Moriah Debating Club and the Mt.
Moriah Sunday School, and a jailor's account book (1817-1832).
[Detailed finding guide available with collection]

MS1611