Printer Friendly VersionHEATWOLE, JOHN L. COLLECTION. SC# 2040.
CARRIER LIBRARY, JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
Compiled February, 1988 by Chris Bolgiano;
Revised 9/88 by Orville Bame; 3/89 by Chris Bolgiano
SCOPE AND CONTENT.
This collection contains 4 folders, consisting of legal and business documents from Rockingham, Augusta, and Page Counties from 1802 to 1901. It also contains herbal recipes and other documents used by the donor in his 1995 book, Shenandoah Voices. The collector's theme was to acquire documents that, by virtue of the person who signed it, or the letterhead it bore, or the printer, or the location of the event, or some other characteristic, had distinct and particular significance to Shenandoah Valley history. Accompanying the collection are notes by the donor on most of the individual documents.
PROVENANCE.
Donated to Carrier Library by John L. Heatwole of Bridgewater, Va., on several occasions beginning in December, 1987.
ORGANIZATION.
Materials are in chronological order. Collection may receive additions.
Folder 1. General Valley documents. (See list below).
Folder 2. Page County documents. (See list below).
Folder 3. "Zigler Documents" - recepits for muster fines and orders granting Private Entertainment to John or David Zigler of Timberville, VA, 1828-1850. Purchased by donor at Zigler auction ca. 1989.
Folder 4. Recipes: 2 printed and 2 handwritten recipes for herbal cures and for gunpowder, with explanatory notes by donor.
DATA ON ITEMS IN FOLDERS 1-2: The following information was researched and written by donor, John L. Heatwole for SC #2040 folders 1-2:
1802 Arrest warrent for Jacob Cherryholmes for swearing "three profain oaths."
1802 Order for the seizure of goods of George Pence for non-payment of a debt.
1807 Dry River Road petition. One of the signers is Samuel Gilmore who was badly wounded by broadsword and bayonet at the Battle pf Waxhaws, South Carolina on May 29, 1780. The battle has also been called Buford's Defeat (after the American Commander) and Colonel Tarleton's Massacre (after the British Commander).
1808 Indenture of George and Joseph Hamilton and James Anderson to Samuel Henry in Rockingham County.
1808 Indenture of James Smily to John Carthrea in Rockingham County.
1809 Bond between David Thompson and Henry Smith on one part and Asher Waterman Sheriff of Rockingham County.
1809 Note of obligation "printed by Jacob D. Dietrick." Dietrick(h) was one of the first valley printers, first in Winchester, then in Staunton.
1809 Summons issued for Aaron Gains.
1810 List of Rockingham County court cases of interest to Augusta County officials. It is signed by Judge John McDowell and attorney Chapman Johnson who served in the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates and was one of the most respected lawyers in Western Virginia. He was born in Louisa County in 1779.
1811 Order for the seizure or goods of George Pants and Paul ? for non-payment of a debt.
1811 Road Petition for "We the Naked Creek people." Eastern Rockingham County.
1812 Document signed by Justice Asher Waterman. Waterman had been a surgeon for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Later he owned and sold thousands of acres of land in western Rockingham County.
1817 Estate receipt. Rockingham County.
1818 Document signed by John Crummy as a Justice of the Peace for Rockingham County. He is holding a hearing at the tavern of Thomas Lanahan to hear a complaint against a barney ward brought by another Harrisonburg tavern keeper, James Duff. Crummy was a gunsmith by trade.
1827 Virginia tax receipt. Orange County.
1834 Greenville lots tax receipts.
1836 List of 1836 tax levy showing 4645 tithables.
1841 Legal receipt of John Newton.
1845 Document signed by Wm. Robertson, a Virginia state senator in the 1840s.
1847 Document authorizing a payment to the Rockingham County jailer, Peter Irick, for repairs he has made to the jail. It is signed by Henry Gambill, the clerk of county court.
1857 Complaint filed by William Brown against Zachariah Raines. Raines was known as the Commodore of the Shenandoah River Fleet. He organized and led the flatboat flotillas down the Shenandoah River to Harper's Ferry in the early 19th century.
1861 Tax receipt signed by John Newton, Agent for C.H. McCormick of Augusta County.
1868 Notice of debt to Joseph Salyards by George Petty.
1870 Document signed by Joseph Salyards, considered by many to be the most learned man in the Valley prior to the Civil War.
1889 Documents signed by James Kerr Edmondson. He was Colonel of the 27th Virginia Infantry Regiment (Stonewall Brigade) during the Civil War. He lost his left arm on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Later he served as Mayor of Lexington, Virginia.
1896 Business letterhead. The Harrisonburg Steam Pottery Company. The company was founded by Emanual Suter who was trained before the Civil War as a folk potter. This is in his handwriting.
1896 Business letterhead. S.H. Heatwole Eureka Roller Mills.
1897 Business letterhead. C.H. Eshman Fine Cigars, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
1901 Business letterhead. Bridgewater Manufacturing Company. This was located where Wildwood Park now stands.
