Dabney-Joyes Family Papers, 1786-1921
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Dabney-Joyes Family
Title: Papers, 1786-1921
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: 3 boxes
Location Number: Mss. A D114
Scope and Content Note
Collection includes correspondence from the Dabney, Joyes, and allied families of Ky. Correspondence includes the business papers of Edmund Lyne; a letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson about a debt; letters to John J. Crittenden from Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Daniel Webster, and Winfield Scott; letter from John Marshall Harlan to John W. Barr; a letter from William H. Taft to Miss Anna W. Barr; a letter from Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. to William C. Dabney, and other letters from family and friends.
Also included are legal papers concerning land and legacies; newspaper clippings about the Barr, Coleman, Dabney, and Joyes families, and other matters; papers concerning the Society of the Cincinnati, including a copy of John Crittenden’s commission, 1787.
Miscellaneous invitations, programs, and memorials; and genealogical materials on the Barr, Coleman, Dabney, Joyes, Lee, Crittenden, Swope, Bromby, Leicht, Wentworth-Woodhouse, and allied families are also included.
Biographical Note
The Dabney and Joyes families, were prominent Kentucky families allied with the Barr, Coleman, Crittenden, and Swope families.
Folder List
Box 1
1 Lyne papers, 1786-1791.
2 Correspondence, 1790-1960.
3 Legal papers, 1863-1880.
4 Poetry.
5 Newspaper clippings: Barr family.
6 Newspaper clippings: Coleman family.
7 Newspaper clippings: Dabney family.
8 Newspaper clippings: Joyes family.
9 Society of the Cincinnati materials.
10 Genealogy I: chiefly European sources.
Box 2
11 Genealogy II: chiefly Coleman and allied families.
12 Genealogy III: chiefly on the Lee family of Va.
13 Genealogy IV: Thomas Joyes’s research into the allied families of Bromby -Staines, Swope, Leicht, etc.
Box 3
14 Barr family genealogical chart. Filed in the large oversize file.
15 Miscellaneous.
16 Memory book.
17 Florence Coleman Joyes scrapbook of society news, 1915-1916.
