Bell, Edna Evans. Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia [manuscript] 1759 (1800-1898) 1968.
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Papers of the Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia [manuscript] 1759 (1800-1898) 1968.
The collection contains correspondence of Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, Littleton Dennis Teackle, Elizabeth Ann Upshur Teackle Quinby, Aaron Balderston Quinby, and Upshur Balderston Quinby with friends, family and business associates. They send news regarding family affairs and local events with a few references to national events, particularly the War of 1812. Of interest are the letterbook, 1805-1807, of Littleton D. Teackle detailing his eastern shore ship supply business, and Great Britain and West Indies trade, correspondence, 1837-1842, of Aaron B. Quinby regarding ship propellers and improved steamboat design, and letters regarding the contemplated construction of a railroad through the eastern shore in 1836. There are also letters, 1825 & 1843, from Henry Clay on paper money and the Whigs, a letter, 1826, from James Madison, on primary schools in Maryland, letters, 1840s, from Jese B. Quinby on English investment in the U.S., letters from Isaac Dashiell Jones and others to Daniel Webster recommending AB Quinby for a patent office job, letters of Upshur B. Quinby, 1860-61, from U. Va. describing Monticello and the University on the outbreak of war. The collection also contains recommendations and a legal opinion, 1877 and 1879, of John Barbee Minor, and U.B. Quinby's correspondence regarding Onancock Academy and his candidacy for the Eastern Shore Circuit Court Judgeship in the 1880s, and a letter, 1861, from Pittsfield, Mass. describing the death of Mrs. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Legal papers of A.B. and U.B. Quinby contain correspondence regarding debt collection, property claims, a Virginia Military District land claim and personal land holdings. Genealogical material includes charts, Bible records and correspondence regarding the related Andrews, Balderston, Cutler, Dennis, Little, Quinby, Revell, Richardson, Scarburgh, Stockley, Sturges, Teackle, Upshur, Walter, and West families. The collection also contains prayerbooks, commonplace books, law lecture notes from the U. Va., classes of J.B. Minor and James Philemon Holcombe, Onancock Academy fee & account books, farm and legal account books, an Accomack Co. court practise book, "My birthplace and my home, "1968, by Edna Evans Bell regarding Roanoke Island, N.C.,and two clippings concerning Upshur B. Quinby, 1881, 1898. Correspondents include Richard Lee Tuberville Beale, James Biddle, George Edmund Badger, Andrew Donaldson Campbell, Robert Thruston Hubard, Judge John M. Jeffries, the Rev. J.W. Hoffman of Monroe, Conn. James Kirke Paulding, Charles Stuart, and Henry Alexander Wise.
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