Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #1312-z
                  LETITIA PRESTON FLOYD PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Typed copy of memoirs of Letitia Preston
           Floyd, daughter of Colonel William Preston Floyd and
           wife of John B. Floyd, governor of Virginia, 1830-
           1834.  The memoirs are in the form of a letter to her
           son, Rush Floyd, dated 22 February 1843.  Included are
           reminiscences about 18th-century pioneers of western
           Virginia and Kentucky, especially Colonel James Patton
           and her father; genealogical information about the
           Preston, Floyd, Breckenridge, and Ingles families of
           Virginia; and description of warfare and other
           incidents with Indians originally written for a
           projected book to be called "Sketches of the
           Pioneers." Original is held by the Filson Club,
           Louisville, Ky.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Breckenridge family.
   Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
   Floyd family.
   Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1807-1863.
   Floyd, Letitia Preston.
   Floyd, William Preston.
   Frontier and pioneer life--Kentucky.
   Frontier and pioneer life--Virginia.
   Indians of North America--Kentucky--History.
   Indians of North America--Virginia--History.
   Ingles family.
   Kentucky--History--18th century.
   Patton, James.
   Preston family.
   Virginia--History--18th century.
   Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.

Size:  1 volume (1 folder).

Provenance:    Received from Mrs. Waddy Grove, W. Va., in 1947.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.