Person:Obediah Winfrey (1)

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Guide ot African American Manuscripts in the Collection of The Virginia Historical Society http://www.vahistorical.org/aamcvhs/guide_p.htm

565. Page, Gabriella (1874-1949), collector, papers, 1786-1891. 37 item s. Mss2P1424b. Collected papers of historical Virginia figures. Include an 1802 receipt issued to Peter Carr by James Lyons of Richmond for the sale of the slave James; an 1820 letter of John Randolph of Roanoke to W. J. Barksdale in part concerning the debate over the Missouri Compromise in the U.S. Senate; and an undated list of slaves belonging to the estate of Obadiah Winfree of Chesterfield County, with an agreement covering their distribution among Winfree's heirs.

About the African American Manuscripts Project The late Waverly K. Winfree (1933-1993), long the Society's curator of manuscripts, was the first among our staff to suggest a project to increase access to the rich body of African American materials he knew to be present within the Society's manuscript holdings. As a plan evolved, the Society successfully approached the National Endowment for the Humanities for funding of what was entitled the "African-American Manuscripts Access Project." NEH funding allowed the Society's project staff to accomplish two major goals: creating MARC-formatted automated cataloging records for 250 collections in the Society's manuscript holdings for inclusion in the OCLC database and the Society's own online catalog, along with compiling the first edition of our Guide to African-American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society. The guide, published in 1995, provided enhanced access to specific materials by and about African Americans through narrative descriptions of the papers and indications of the exact physical locations within collections of such records. It likewise provided ready evidence of the great wealth of material and information on the lives and careers of African Americans in the commonwealth that the Society possesses and wishes to make available to an international audience of researchers. SOURCE: http://www.vahistorical.org/aamcvhs/guide_development.htm

810. Winfree, Judith Gates (1856-1939), "A Little Southern Girl’s Memories Without Her Mother," 1856-1871. 27 pp. Mss5:1W7265:1.An autobiography written by Judith Winfree in 1930 concerning her childhood experiences following the death of her mother. Included in her reminiscence of life at Seguine in Chesterfield County is information on specific slaves, cotton and tobacco cultivation, and life during and after the Civil War. SOURCE: http://www.vahistorical.org/aamcvhs/guide_wz.htm

1. ↑ Marty Grant. Descendants of Issac Winfrey (Surry, Wilkes, Cherokee counties NC). (http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/winfrey/winfrey-families.htm).
2. ↑ Marty Grant. Descendants of Issac Winfrey (Surry, Wilkes, Cherokee counties NC). (http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/winfrey/winfrey-families.htm).
3. ↑ Marty Grant. Descendants of Issac Winfrey (Surry, Wilkes, Cherokee counties NC). (http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/winfrey/winfrey-families.htm).
4.   Particia McNulty Winfree. Descendants of Jacob Winfrey. (E-mail from Patricia McNulty Winfree, Fountain Inn SC, to James E Winfrey on 25 Sep 2005. The e-mail included a gedcom file of Pat's research on the descendants of Jacob Winfrey.).