Finding Aid to the Amherst County Collection

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
AMHERST COUNTY COLLECTION
The collection includes three volumes of account books (1847-1864), a copy of a
land grant to Joseph MAYS (1805), census of agriculture (1880), and miscellaneous court
cases, deeds, etc., for Amherst County, Virginia. Most records in the collection are legal
or official.
BOX 1

1-1 Land Grant, Joseph MAYS, 1805
1-2 Miscellaneous court cases (Indexed by parties)
1-3 Miscellaneous deeds, etc. (Indexed by parties)
1-4 Miscellaneous letters, notices, orders, etc.
1-5 Polls, Pedlar Mills, 1845
1-6 Manuscript fragments
1-7 Account Book, Amherst Courthouse (1847-1849)
1-8 Account Book, Cornelius PIERCE (1840-1842)
1-9 Miscellaneous fragments (PIERCE) and family notes

[BOX 2]

Account Book (1849-1851), D & E (John D. DAVIS and Robert N. ELLIS)

[BOX 3]

Account Book (1862-1864) (John CLARK?)

[BOX 4]

1880 Census of Agriculture (ED 18, pp. 1-4)

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JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
ACCOUNT BOOK (1849-1851) D & E
"Robert Newman ELLIS, was born...June 28, 1821. A merchant, by profession, of the
house of 'ELLIS and TAPSCOTT,' of Pedlar Mills, Virginia, and, subsequently, of
the house of 'DAVIS and ELLIS,' of the same place."
"John Dudley DAVIS...was born in the county of Amherst, Virginia, September 22,
1801...A merchant, of the firm of 'DAVIS and ELLIS, Pedlar Mills, Virginia.'"
[Thomas H. Ellis, A Memorandum of the Ellis Family, Rep. ed. (Richmond: Author, 1849), pp. 22, 30.]

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