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Additional papers of the Watson family [manuscript] 1791-1830.

Title: Additional papers of the Watson family [manuscript] 1791-1830.

Chiefly of Major David Watson, including 4 diaries relating to farm and family events at Bracketts, Louisa County, Virginia, and including entries on his matriculation of William and Mary College, 1796, biographical sketches of himself and his father Major James Watson, a criticism of University of Virginia buildings, 1819, and a description of a trip to Warm Springs, Virginia, 1822. Also two letters, 15 February 1809, on his political career, and 6 March 1930, discussing Thomas Jefferson's religious beliefs. Three letters, 1791, of Garritt Minor on family affairs. 1799 Nov. 6, signed Attorney's license to David Watson, 1773-1830.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. Louisa County, Va., papers [manuscript], 1751-1864.

Title: Louisa County, Va., papers [manuscript], 1751-1864.

Papers contain a grant, 1751 Sept. 20, signed by Lewis Burwell, of four hundred acres land in Louisa County, Va., to Archibald Carver; commission, 1782 Jan. 12, signed by Benjamin Harrison, for justices of the peace for Louisa County, including Garret Minor; two broadsides, 1786 Feb. 20, signed by Patrick Henry, regarding military pensions; and broadside, 1787 Jan. 29, signed by Edmund Randolph, regarding the payment of military pensions. Papers also include appointment, 1788 Oct. 2, signed by Edmund Randolph, of Turner Anderson as coroner for Louisa County, Va.; appointment, 1814 July 30, signed by James Barbour, of John Downing as sheriff for Louisa County; and appointments, 1821 June 22, signed by Thomas M. Randolph, of sheriff and justices of the peace for Louisa County. Papers also include a letter from Mrs. M. E. Walker to Jefferson Davis, 1864 February 10, regarding the sale of provisions to her at government prices in order to relieve her distressed situation following the burning of her home in Culpeper by the Yankees. Mentions that she has "but a few servants and these are my children and I cannot sell them."

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647867919 View

Minor, James, 1785-1828. Papers of James Minor, 1801-1817.

Title: Papers of James Minor, 1801-1817.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Minor while an assistant to Dr. James Carmichael of Fredericksburg, 1803-1805, and a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics include the study of anatomy, the lectures of Benjamin Rush, professors William Shippen and Caspar Wistar, and studies at the University of Edinburgh by Minor's friends, George Watson and James Alexander, who found their medical studies there disappointing. Of interest are a description of surgery performed by Dr. Carmichael and two other Fredericksburg physicians in 1805; a discussion of Dr. Rush's "unity of disease" vs. Dr. William Cullen's "nosology"; manuscript notes on Rush's theory of the functions of the liver, spleen and pancreas; and an 1810 description of trans-Allegheny lands. Additional correspondents include Robert Briggs, John Lewis, Robert Miller, Peter Minor, Garret Minor, John Quarles, and J. Shelton Watson.

ArchivalResource: 81 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32958717 View

University of Virginia. Library. Materials from the manuscript collection in the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia [microform].

Title: Materials from the manuscript collection in the Alderman Library of the University of Virginia [microform].

Includes correspondence concerning naval and military operations during the Revolutionary War; official cipher codes used during the Revolution in the hand of Thomas Jefferson; map, 1776, of Gwynn Island, Va.; diary, 1777 February 3-28 of Landon Carter; table of money depreciation during the Revolution; and a scale, 1776-1781, of depreciation of Virginia currency. Correspondents include William Anderson, Landon Carter, Rawleigh Colston, Garrett Minor, James Monroe, Edmund Randolph, Artemas Ward, and George Washington.

ArchivalResource: 41 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43356169 View

Louisa County, Va., papers, 1751-1821.

Title: Louisa County, Va., papers, 1751-1821.

Include grant, 1751 Sept. 20, signed by Lewis Burwell, of four hundred acres land in Louisa County, Va., to Archibald Carver; commission, 1782 Jan. 12, signed by Benjamin Harrison, for justices of the peace for Louisa County, including Garret Minor; two broadsides, 1786 Feb. 20, signed by Patrick Henry, regarding military pensions; and broadside, 1787 Jan. 29, signed by Edmund Randolph, regarding the payment of military pensions. Also include appointment, 1788 Oct. 2, signed by Edmund Randolph, of Turner Anderson as coroner for Louisa County, Va.; appointment, 1814 July 30, signed by James Barbour, of John Downing as sheriff for Louisa County; and appointments, 1821 June 22, signed by Thomas M. Randolph, of sheriff and justices of the peace for Louisa County.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34567095 View