The Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church Collection
Title
The Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church Collection
Description
The items of interest include: (1) a letter from Bushrod WASHINGTON, Washington[D.C.], 20 January 1827, to an unknown person in Albemarle County, Virginia, aboutsettling an account; and (2) a note from John A. WASHINGTON, 1824, to the sheriff ofJefferson [County, Virginia, now West Virginia] authorizing the sale of Betty [a slave]from the estate of John THROCKMORTON.
Digital images of the Fort Avenue Quaker Meeting House from JML photograph file CH (churches), QUA (Quaker) A-C.
Photos are of the original meeting house constructed in 1787 and sow the meeting house in ruins.
Photo A from 1893, gift of H.C. Fetherston
Photo B - photocopy from Views of the Old Quaker Church near Lynchburg, Va.; gift of Mrs. Carrington Jordan
Photo C - copy from Sketchbook of Lynchburg, Va. by Edward Pollock and S.C. Judson 1887.
