Title: Samuel McDowell Reid Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1776-1867

Creator:

• Reid, Samuel McDowell, 1790-1869

Call Number: McCormick Mss AU; Micro 682

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (1 archives box and 3 oversize volumes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Samuel McDowell Reid, a planter of Lexington, Virginia, who succeeded his father, Andrew Reid, as clerk of the Rockbridge County court. The papers consist of receipts and promissory notes, accounts for the plantation and mill and for estates of which he was executor, record of charges made to him for blacksmithing and iron repairs, and stock certificates and reports for the James River and Kanawha Company. Also included are personal account books of his father and of his father-in-law, William B. Hare of Lynchburg; financial records, 1808-1818, for the Ann Smith Academy at Lexington; and records of slaves sold on behalf of Washington College.

Language: English

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A chronological listing of items included fills one-half drawer in the McCormick card index file. At this writing, the drawer is in the largest wooden file case, above the Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr. card file drawers, at the SE corner of Floor 3M.

McC Mss AU Box   1	Receipts, promissory notes, and miscellaneous information, 1783-1867, undated Scope and Content Note: Includes information on Ann Smith Academy and on slaves sold on behalf of Washington College. Very little correspondence is present.
Volume   1	Account book of Andrew Reid, 1776-1797 (Oversize)
Micro 682	Microfilm copy
McC Mss AU Box   1 Volume   2	Account Book of Andrew Reid, memoranda and land transfers, 1777-1790
Volume   3	Account book, miscellaneous, of Andrew Reid, 1787-1810 (Oversize)
Volume   4	Personal ledger of Samuel McDowell Reid, 1819-1830 (Oversize)
Box   1 Volume   5	Personal account book of Samuel McDowell Reid, 1840-1841
Box   1 Volume   6	Mill account book of Samuel McDowell Reid, 1848-1853
Box   1 Volume   7	Bankbook, and record of stock at Harewood plantation, kept by Wm. B. Hare, Lynchburg, Va., 1814-1837