Document 14 Invitation to Ball

Date: 1 Jan 1833 [unknown]
Location: Belfield, Virginia
Surnames/tags: Mason Moody Wright [A Printed Invitation]

The pleasure of your Company is solicited at a BALL to be given at Dr. John Butts’, in Belfield, on Wednesday the 23d January, 1833.

Dr. IRWIN STITH

Col. D. C. BUTTS

Dr. P. Q. BEAKMAN

PETERSON GOODWYN

JOS. TURNER

January 1, 1833

{Managers}

WILLIAM MASON

B. C. D. BYNUM

JOS. S. BATTE

(Some one, probably Mary Leigh Hays, has written “This was addressed to Mrs John Moody.”)

LEV - In 1887, Belfield and Hicksford merged to form Emporia, Virginia.

Acknowledgement

• Many thanks to cousin Virginia Leigh Refo whose research and transcriptions added to this profile. The originals were donated to the Library of Virginia in 2004 by Liz Edens Vermillion with the help of Virginia Refo Moody Family Papers, 1750-1881. Accession 40535, Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.