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Carrington, Eliza Jaquelin Ambler, fl. 1796-1823,. Papers of the Ambler, Carrington and Minor families [manuscript], 1796-1845.

Title: Papers of the Ambler, Carrington and Minor families [manuscript], 1796-1845.

The collections contains a letterbook with manuscript copies, 1883, of letters, 1780-1823, from Eliza Jacquelin Ambler Carrington to her sister, Ann Ambler Fisher, and friends Mildred Dudley and Frances Cairnes. The letters convey news of family and friends including Eliza and Ann's brother-in-law John Marshall. A scandal involving the seduction of family friend Rachel Warrington by the Viscount Rochambeau and the U.S. naval career of their son Louis [Lewis] Warrington is discussed for forty years. Other topics include life in colonial Yorktown, Va., royal governors Botetourt and Dunmore, the siege of Yorktown, flight to Winchester, Va., Tarleton's raid, verbal abuse of a family slave by visitors from England, a visit to Mt. Vernon shortly before George Washington's death, and the decline of the Anglican church after the Revolution. The volume also includes an introduction and one chapter of a proposed autobiographical novel by Carrington titled "Variety or the Vicissitudes of Life," an extract from a letter by a sister-in-law of Chief Justice Marshall and a copy of Marshall's eulogy for his wife. In addition there are eleven letters, 1831-1845, from John Barbee Minor to Lucian Minor and Charles R. Slaughter about his student life at Kenyon College and the University of Virginia. Of interest is an 1845 letter discussing the possible sale of a slave.

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