Collection Overview

This collection consists of biographical and genealogical information, corresondence, and financial and legal documents of the Critz family living in Patrick County, Virginia. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Haman Critz's participation in the Civl War. Later letters detail labour troubles and race relations occuring during Reconstruction. The financial and legal documents cover land sales, purchase of enslaved individuals, and tobacco accounts.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of biographical and genealogical information, corresondence, and financial and legal documents of the Lybrook family living in Patrick County, Virginia. The papers of Andrew Murray Lybrook are concerned primarily with the growing and marketing of tobacco products.

Content Description In 1916, using a partially used company ledger book, A.D. Reynolds set out to record his memoir in a series of sketches, anecdotes, and recorded memories. These sketches were written over an eight year period, between 1916 and 1924. Reynolds documents growing up on a tobacco plantation in Virginia, his role in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and his life as a tobacco manufacturer. The recollections themselves document the period between 1862 and 1924. Included among the sketches...

Abstract Established in 1980, the Reynolda Oral History Project gathered recollections from Reynolds family members, former employees, residents, and guests of the estate, particularly those living at Reynolda during Katharine Reynolds’ lifetime. The project uncovered Reynolda history from various points of view, “from the woman who was laundress to the woman who was served breakfast in bed.” It is through these interviews, through the voices of employees and their descendants, that the story of Five...

Abstract

The Reynolds Family Papers were created by the Reynolds family of North Carolina and Virginia, primarily tobacco baron R.J. Reynolds and his wife Katharine Smith Reynolds. Correspondence, financial, and legal records document the creation and early years of the Reynolds’s 1,000-acre estate and working farm, Reynolda, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Other subjects of note are the Reynolds family’s philanthropic and social activities and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.