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Documents
Bibliography
List of sources, published and unpublished.
Court
Records
Marriage licenses, wills and deeds from Proffit stored
at the Albemarle County Court House
Letters
of Kate Coles
Samples from letters and other materials written by Kate
Coles from as early as 1894 up to her death around 1943. The letters indicate
that Coles was born on January 7, 1857 as a slave at Gale Hill plantation
in Albemarle County, where her mistress, Mary Terrell Minor, taught her
to read and write. At some point—presumably after emancipation—Kate Coles
and her husband, Jeff, moved to Proffit, where they spent the rest of
their lives. The letters included in the collection were written mostly
to members of the local planters with whom Coles had apparently developed
on-going friendships.
Family
Trees
Moore/Tinsley
Family Tree. Images of the Richard and Josephine Moore family tree
and history, presented at the Second Reunion, July 1, 1995, McIntire Park,
Charlottesville, Virginia.
Flannagan Family Tree.
Created by Pauline (Flannagan) Johnson, Larnell Flannagan, and Mieka Brand,
2001.
Maps
of Proffit and Vicinity
Portions of maps dating from 1875 to 1987
Newspaper
Clips
Selected articles relating to Proffit's citizens and local events. The
clippings come from three newspapers published during the 19th century—Charlottesville
Chronicle, Richmond Planet, and Jeffersonian Republican.
Timeline
Historic
Documents, Newspapers, & Literature
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Albemarle County Circuit Court. Clerk’s office.
Deed Books, Chancery Orders, Land Books. |
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Bitting, Samuel T.
1915 Rural Land Ownership Among the Negroes of
Virginia with a Special Reference to Albemarle County. Publication
of the University of Virginia Phelps-Stokes Fellowship Papers (Number
Two). |
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Carr, Hugh Thomas
1976 My First Eighty Years on the Planet Earth.
Claremont Harbor, MS: Privately Printed. |
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Charlottesville Chronicle. Various issues.
This newspaper was published intermittently
from 1866 to 1904, first as a tri-weekly and eventually as a daily
newspaper. Copies of some relevant items can be found in the
‘News Clips’ section. Microfilm
and hard copies can be found at the University of Virginia library
(call number Micfilm N-US Va-5), or in the Special Collections Department. |
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Coleman, Elizabeth Dabney
1944 “Peter Carr of Carr’s-Brook (1770-1815).”
In Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society, Vol. IV (1943-44):5-23.
Item can be found at the Albemarle County Historical
Society, Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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Freedman’s Bureau Records
“A microfilm copy of the records of Charlottesville
and Albemarle County made from the originals in the National Archives.”
Located on microfilm at the University of Virginia. Call Number: M-632. |
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Gee, Wilson, P. B. Barringer, A. L. Bennett, Ottie Craddock,
Elizabeth Fahrney, Odie Mayhew, Mable Nussman and C. F. Whitmore
1922 University of Virginia Record Extension Series:
An Economic and Social Survey of Albemarle County. Charlottesville:
University of Virginia. |
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Hedges, Dr. Halstead S.
1943 “A Doctor’s Reminiscences of Albemarle County.”
In Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society, Vol. III (1942-43):5-16.
Item can be found at the Albemarle County Historical
Society, Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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Irwin, Marjorie Felice
1929 The Negro in Charlottesville and
Albemarle County: An Exploratory Study. Publication of the University
of Virginia Phelps-Stokes Fellowship Papers (Number Nine). “A
Thesis Presented to the Academic Faculty of the University of Virginia
In Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts 1929.”
Includes approximately 1½ pages
about Proffit Town (or relevant to Proffit). Provides information
about landscape, house structure, and household layouts of places
where African Americans were living in the first part of the 20th
century, as well as some info about the economic role of African Americans
in and around Charlottesville, including Proffit. A copy of the book
can be found at the University of Virginia library. Call numbers:
UVA 3/P 51/9 and E 185.93 .V8 I72 1929. |
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Jeffersonian Republican. Various issues.
This newspaper was published weekly from 1835
to 1862, and semi-weekly from 1873 to 1894 and was aimed mostly at
the University of Virginia student body, although occasional entries
pertained to non-student issues. Copies of some relevant items
can be found in the ‘News Clips’
section. Microfilm and hard copies can be found at the University
of Virginia library (call number Micfilm N-US Va-48), or in the Special
Collections Department. |
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Leap, William Lester
1933 Red Hill—Neighborhood Life and Race Relations
in a Rural Section. Publication of the University of Virginia Phelps-Stokes
Fellowhip Papers, Number 10. William Lester
Leap was a Phelps-Stokes Fellow during 1929-1930. |
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Rawlings, Mary
1935 Ante-Bellum Albemarle. Historical Sketches
by Mary Rawlings, Drawings by H. Heyward and A. Robinson.
This book contains drawings and short descriptions
of some of the wealthy houses around Albmarle County. Among
these are included Bentivar, Glen Echo and various other houses in
the Proffit vicinity. This book is held by the Albemarle County
Historical Society, Charlottesville, VA. |
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Richmond Planet. Various issues.
This newspaper was published weekly from 1883
to 1945 and catered specifically to the interests and concerns of
African Americans. The Planet was published in Richmond but
covered also outlying areas including Albemarle County. Copies
of some relevant items can be found in the ‘News
Clips’ section. Microfilm and hard copies can be found at
the University of Virginia library (call number Micfilm N-US Va-11),
or in the Special Collections Department. |
News Clips
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Russell, James S.
1926 Rural Economic Progress of the Negro in Virginia.
In Journal of Negro History, Volume 11, Issue 4 (October, 1926), 556-562.
This article describes the successes achieved
by African Americans in Virginia in the sixty years since emancipation.
The article details such statistics as the amounts of land that had
been purchased, the value of the land and other assets held by African
Americans, and other factors which the author uses to demonstrate
a successful transition. |
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Southall, James P. C.
1944 “Reminiscences of Charlottesville in the 1880’s.”
In Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society, Vol. IV (1943-44):24-34.
Item can be found at the Albemarle County Historical
Society, Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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United States Bureau of the Census
Albemarle County Returns for 1840, 1860, 1870, 1880,
1900, 1910, 1920. (1890 returns for Virginia were destroyed by fire).
Aside from pertinent information about the people
who lived in Proffit, the US Census provides insight also into residents’
lifeways and activities, especially as they pertained to agriculture.
The 1880 census, for example, lists John Coles, Ben Brown, James Lot,
James Flannagan and W. W. Minor all within one 10-house group and
provides information about the number of acres owned by each, types
of agriculture and horticulture and labor invested in the land.
Census records can be found at the University of Virginia library. |
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A Virginian
1855 A Southern Home.
Richmond: A. Morris.
The book—published anonymously in the Antebellum
period—describes in detail the daily lives of affluent whites living
in the South in this period. The book is presumed to have been
written by Clarissa Carr Woodson, who resided at Bentivar. Two
Chapters, “An Old Servant” and “Servants,” can be viewed in this website.
A copy of the book is held by the University of Virginia library.
Call number: PZ7 .S7 1855. |
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Waddell, W. W.
1942 “Charlottesville in 1875.” In Papers
of the Albemarle County Historical Society, Vol. II (1941-42):5-8.
This item can be found at the Albemarle County
Historical Society, Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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Wilson, Susan Colston. Susan Colston Wilson Papers.
“ca. 1,000 items, 1895-1960. Personal,
financial, and legal correspondence of the Minor family of Charlottesville
and the Wilson family of New Jersey. Included are photographs
of Afro-Americans who were servants for the Minor family).”
Located at the Special Collections department at the University of
Virginia. Call Number: 10489. |
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Woods, Edgar
1978 [1901] Albemarle County in Virginia: Giving
some account of what it was
by nature, of what it was made by man, and of some of the men who
made it. C. J. Carrier Company, Harrisonburg, Virginia. |
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As research on Proffit continues, more
documents will be added to this section. These will include
various types of personal documents as well as public documents
such as land deeds, church records, court papers, and road orders.
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