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Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931. Thirty-one miscellaneous manuscripts [manuscript] : List of Revolutionary or War of 1812 war claims ; Copy of letter by T.H. Kincaid, 1812-1927.

Title: Thirty-one miscellaneous manuscripts [manuscript] : List of Revolutionary or War of 1812 war claims ; Copy of letter by T.H. Kincaid, 1812-1927.

Thirty-one miscellaneous manuscripts signed by Edwin A. Alderman, James Breckenridge, E.C. Cabell, J.L. Cabell, D.H. Conrad, John H. Cocke, Benjamin S. Ewell, Thomas S. Flournoy, Andrew S. Fulton, W.S. Goggin, William A. Harrison, Mann P. Lomax, James Madison (a copy by N.P. Trist), E. Pezend, John Pendleton, James Pleasants, Alexander Rives, Thomas Tabb, and Charles S. Venable. List of Revolutionary or War of 1812 War claims probably from Accomac County, Va., by John Stockley. Copy of letter by T.H. Kincaid defending Andrew Jackson from Robert B. Randolph's attack.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647961257 View

Howe, L. W. Letter to John Howe of Enfield, Massachusetts, from a New Englander in Richmond [manuscript] 31 July 1824.

Title: Letter to John Howe of Enfield, Massachusetts, from a New Englander in Richmond [manuscript] 31 July 1824. 1824.

Describes Gov. James Pleasants, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., and gives his views on Virginia and Virginians.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647960429 View

Barbour, James, 1775-1842. University of Virginia correspondence of James Madison and James Monroe [manuscript], 1827-1830.

Title: University of Virginia correspondence of James Madison and James Monroe [manuscript], 1827-1830.

The collection consists of correspondence of Monroe with Madison, J. T. Kirckland and Col. S. Thayer; and correspondence of Madison with James Barbour, Nathaniel Bowditch, Charles Bonnycastle, Arthur S. Brockenbrough, John C. Calhoun, Timothy Clowes, John H. Cocke, John A. Dix, Robley Dunglison, Alexander Garrett, de Generes de Jourville, W. A. Hatch, W. B. Lawrence, Thomas C. Levins, George Long, Alexander Macomb, William Matthews, James Pleasants, Alfred H. Powell, and William Wertenbaker.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972837 View

Pleasants, James, 1769-1836. Letters, 1818-1855.

Title: Letters, 1818-1855.

Collection contains two letters. One is from Pleasants requesting the insertion of an advertisement in the "National Intelligencer." The second is from Benjamin Pleasants concerning a pending lawsuit against the collector of customs for the Puget Sound District.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39390404 View

Barbour, James, 1775-1842. Walker family papers [manuscript] 1753-1873 (bulk 1816-1853).

Title: Walker family papers [manuscript] 1753-1873 (bulk 1816-1853).

The collection pertains to Alexander Walker, a merchant, mill owner and militia captain, his siblings and five generations of descendants, and includes correspondence, business and legal papers, memoirs, autographs, military documents, poems and ledgers. Much of the correspondence is between Alexander and his brother John who immigrated to Missouri. There are also Civil War letters of Sam A. Walker, 14th Virginia Cavalry. In addition to family news, topics include early settlement,land speculation, and politics in Missouri; Virginia politics; emigration to Tennessee; commerce; epidemics; slavery and emancipation; and the Civil War. There are also letters concerning ironworks in Rockbridge County, Va., and the California gold rush. Business and legal papers contain documents re slave sales and hirings, and a Confederate "tax in kind" form, as well as items pertaining to John Walker's will; insurance; Snicker's Gap Turnpike Company; and the James River and Kanawha Company. A series of land grants signed by early Virginia and Kentucky governors including James Monroe and John Tyler and autographs of prominent Virginia figures are also present. The collection also contains a small group of Virginia military papers; some printed and miscellaneous papers including a pamphlet regarding the Freedman's Bank Swindle and a notice re an auction of Alexander Stuart's land and slaves; ledgers and an account book of Walker family members which contain genealogical information; and a statement of the Graham Society of Washington College.

ArchivalResource: 1200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647840663 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letters to James Pleasants, et al., soliciting for Central College, 4 Aug. 1817, and to Thomas Cooper, 19 Nov. 1819 [manuscript] 1817-1819.

Title: Letters to James Pleasants, et al., soliciting for Central College, 4 Aug. 1817, and to Thomas Cooper, 19 Nov. 1819 [manuscript] 1817-1819.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967340 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826,. Virginia documents from Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe [manuscript] 1786, 1823, 1826, 1829.

Title: Virginia documents from Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe [manuscript] 1786, 1823, 1826, 1829.

The collection contains a land grant, 1786 August 1, from Patrick Henry to Henry Banks for a tract in Botetourt County; a letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 1823 November 12, concerning the Literary Board, the Bursar and the Proctor; and letters from James Madison and James Monroe to the President of the Board of Directors of the Literary Fund, 1826 November 24 and 1829 November 30, conveying reports of the disbursement of funds and a general statement of conditions at the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647958784 View

University of Virginia. Board of Visitors. Commission and summonsh[manuscript] 1824 March 1.

Title: Commission and summonsh[manuscript] 1824 March 1.

The collection contains a commission, 1824 March 1, appointing James Breckenridge a Visitor of the University of Virginia. Also, order in council, 1824 March 1, appointing Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph Carrington Cabell, George Loyall, Breckenridge, and John Hartwell Cocke as visitors, and summoning them to a meeting. sgd William Henry Richardson [d. 1876].

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647929175 View

Pleasants, James, 1769-1836. Letter : Richmond, Va., to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1825 January 25 [manuscript].

Title: Letter : Richmond, Va., to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1825 January 25 [manuscript].

Pleasants reacts to the resolution of U.S. Senator Rufus King to use the proceeds from the sale of public lands for the emancipation and resettlement of slaves. He mentions briefly the visit of Lafayette to Richmond and the anticipated election of Jackson.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835476 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1822 April 27, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia], to James Pleasants, n.p.

Title: Letter, 1822 April 27, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia], to James Pleasants, n.p.

Favor of 21st received, with Col. Peyton's acknowledgment of receipt of $118 balance due him from Ronald's estate; University worth a visit from Pleasants; withdrawn from politics, but realizes the encroachments of the supreme court upon rights of the states; principles of court are leading to consolidated government, which will be a corrupt one; Congress has gone more than halfway to meet the Federalists.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 25 cm. x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62287362 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Correspondence and related papers as Rector of the University of Virginia, 1817-1825.

Title: Correspondence and related papers as Rector of the University of Virginia, 1817-1825.

Jefferson's correspondence concerns the building of the University and the hiring of professors, particularly his desire to hire Thomas Cooper. Correspondents include Cooper, A.S. Brockenbrough, Samuel J. Harrison, Philip S. Physick, and G.E. Stack. In addition there are documents signed by William H. Richardson and James Pleasants.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50734333 View

Pleasants, James, 1769-1836. Letter : Richmond, Va., to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1825 January 25.

Title: Letter : Richmond, Va., to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1825 January 25.

Pleasants reacts to the resolution of U.S. Senator Rufus King to use the proceeds from the sale of public lands for the emancipation and resettlement of slaves. He mentions briefly the visit of Lafayette to Richmond and the anticipated election of Jackson.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793123 View

Rust, George, Jr., 1788-1857. Papers, 1788-1858 (bulk 1815-1858).

Title: Papers, 1788-1858 (bulk 1815-1858).

The collection contains Gen. Rust's political, personal, and business papers. There are a few drafts of letters by Rust, including one to President Franklin Pierce, dated March 9, 1853, concerning one Henry Bedinger and various Virginia political figures, and a second to Pierce, dated March 7, 1856, being "a list of the persons from [Loudoun] County, Virginia, now holding offices in Washington under the federal government." The business papers contain routine accounts and copies of agreements and deeds. A number of the items concern Rust's "Indian Town" tract in Lancaster County, Virginia. Rust sent letters to: William Allen, William Segar Archer, Henry Bedinger, George Bomford, Horace C. Cammack, Richard Kidder Meade, Charles Fenton Mercer, John Moore, P.N. Nicholas, Franklin Pierce, James K. Polk, J. William Roper, George Rust, William Rust, Landry Trasimond and G.B. Wager. Rust received letters from: James Barbour, L.P. Bayne, George W. Bolling, John H. Briscoe, W.C.B. Butler, William H. Handey, R.H. Henderson, William M. Hume, Richard M. Johnson, Robert Ward Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Amos Kendall, Andrew Keyser, Clarence F. LeGrand, Joseph Lewis, Edward Lucas, Armistead Thomson Mason, John Mason, Richard Norris, Ben Peyton, James Pleasants, Asa Rogers, Albert Rust, Bushrod Rust, W. Selden, W.G. Singleton, Smith Slaughter, Joseph R. Snyder, Pierre Soule, Agnes Taylor, and R.I. Taylor.

ArchivalResource: 214 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145409242 View

McDowell, James, 1770-1835. Papers of James McDowell [manuscript], 1752-1878.

Title: Papers of James McDowell [manuscript], 1752-1878.

Includes personal, legal, political, and business correspondence and papers, 1752-1852, of James McDowell and his son, also James McDowell. Personal correspondence, chiefly of members of the McDowell and Preston families (including Thomas Hart Benton), contains family and social news from Rockbridge County, Va., Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo.; one letter includes a note from young Jessie Benton (Fremont). Business correspondence pertains to land claims in the Southern states and Ohio, and a fugitive slave; accounts concern slave hiring, school, stud horses, and cattle (including a livestock record); and miscellaneous business papers concern slave appraisals, Revolutionary War claims, and plantation management. Legal papers concern estate settlements, especially of Preston family members, custody, financial interests of Washington College, and land purchases in Augusta and Rockbridge counties, Va., with pertinent records and documentation. Military correspondence, 1797-1826, relates to the elder James McDowell's service as colonel of 8th Regt. Va. Militia, and its records for the War of 1812, some relating to courts-martial, and a discharge for John Floyd (1813). Political correspondence pertains to Virginia and national politics, the Democratic party, the War of 1812, the Staunton Convention of 1816, reasons to locate the University of Virginia at Lexington, the Virginia Constitutional Conventions of 1829-1830 and 1850-1851, military appointments in the Mexican War, temperance, and the tariff. Correspondents include Allen Trimble, William H. Cabell, John Tyler (Sr.), Robert Bland Lee, James Pleasants, James Barbour, John Floyd, Francis H. Smith, Robert Craig, Alexander H.H. Stuart, William H. Richardson, William P. Anderson, John Letcher, and various local politicians. Also include letter, 1869, of introduction from W.H. Smith to John Letcher for Gilbert C. Walker; and letter, 1870, of William Mahone to a constituent concerning Virginia railroads and the constitutional convention. Also include correspondence, 1823-1866, of various Rockbridge County residents re: education, horses, estate settlements, medical practice; letter, 1826, from William Cabell Rives re: medical treatment; and letters, 1859, from a man alleged to be mentally ill applying to John Letcher for legal help. Also include letters, 1861-1862, from James B. Dorman re: secession, the organization of 3rd Regt. Va. Artillery, and a request for a pistol; and a letter, 1862, from Thomas Martin, Letcher Artillery, requesting a court-martial of his captain, with witness list. Also include letter, 1864, from Ham Webb, 7th Miss. Regt., concerning wounded friends; letter, 1864, concerning imprisonment of John Humphreys, 52nd Regt. Va., in Fort Delaware; printed broadside, 1864, declaring protection of soldiers' families' supplies; and two love letters, 1865, to a Confederate soldier. Also include fundraising letters, 1870-1878, for the Lee Memorial Association, including a letter, 1875, from J. William Jones, donating his book profits; and petition, n.d., to raise money to buy Jefferson Davis a cotton plantation. Also include home remedy, 1816; a subcribers' contract, 1834, to teach a sewing class; Goggin family genealogy, 1854; and notebook, ca. 1855, with notes about the Democratic and Know-Nothing parties and Henry Wise.

ArchivalResource: 500 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647849616 View

Barbour, James, 1775-1842. Virginia documents, 1770-1913.

Title: Virginia documents, 1770-1913.

Include appointment, 25 October 1770, of James Lane as sheriff of Loudoun County, Va., signed by William Nelson; appointment, 27 November 1783, of justices of the peace for Loudoun County, Va., also assigning them special powers to hear criminal cases involving slaves, signed by Benjamin Harrison; and order, 2 January 1778, to George Rogers Clark to raise a force to attack a British post at Kaskaskia, Ill., signed by Patrick Henry. Also include appointment, 11 December 1844, of William Massie as sheriff of Nelson County, Va., signed by James McDowell; and commissions, 1787-1830, for officers in the Virginia Militia, predominantly from Rockbridge County, Va., including a commission for James McClung, signed by James Barbour, John Floyd, James Monroe, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Page, James Pleasants, Thomas M. Randolph, and James Wood. Also include certificates, 1912-1913, of the electors from Virginia of votes for president and vice-president for the election of 1912, one signed by William Hodges Mann.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34931248 View

Pleasants, James, 1769-1836. Letter, 1816 November 28, Brookeville, [Maryland] to [Thomas Jefferson], n.p.

Title: Letter, 1816 November 28, Brookeville, [Maryland] to [Thomas Jefferson], n.p.

Informed that Virginia is to improve facility of intercourse; prefers roads over canals; gives figures to prove that double force will not give double velocity in water; increased velocity on land requires less force [than in water]; boats in Holland drawn by horses which can not stand strain of traveling at 12 miles an hour; discusses weight, miles and time a horse can travel on various kinds of roads; there is an improvement on this method which he can explain; thinks that turnpike roads may be made at one-half the expense they are now made at.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. on 1 leaf ; 40 cm. x 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62286750 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Burwell, William M. (William MacCreary), 1809-1888. Papers of William M. Burwell [manuscript], 1734-1893.

Title: Papers of William M. Burwell [manuscript], 1734-1893.

The collection of papers consists chiefly of the letters and miscellaneous writings of William MacCreary Burwell. Also include early household accounts of the Burwell family; autographed letter signed, 1813 November 13, William Harris Crawford to William A. Burwell; and "The Lost Will" and "A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War" by Letitia M. Burwell. Correspondence relating to internal improvements and the political situation in Virginia and nationally, diary (1850-52) including brief discussions of congressional activities, drafts and notes for magazine articles, treatises on the 1st Battle of Bull Run, a notebook (1840-1880's) on Southern railroads, notes, reports, clippings, and broadsides on the Tehuantepec inter-ocean route and the Tehuantepec Companyy, and a résumé of Burwell's trip (1852) to Mexico. Includes letters to Burwell's father, William Armistead Burwell, diary and journal (1860-62) of Burwell's daughter, Letitia McCreary Burwell, describing her life in Washington and civilian life in Bedford County, Va., during the Civil War, accounts of the earlier Burwells, and genealogical information on the Armistead, Bacon, Burwell, Lydell, and Willis families. Burwell's correspondents include Judah Philip Benjamin, John Buchanan Floyd, Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, John Murrary Mason, William Ballard Preston, Roger Atkinson Pryor, William Cabell Rives, Daniel Edgar Sickles, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, and Robert Augustus Toombs. Correspondents include Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, William Cabell Rives, John Reuben Thompson, William Ballard Preston, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, Daniel Edgar Sickles, Judah Philip Benjamin, Robert Augustus Toombs, John Buchanan Floyd, Roger Atkinson Pryor, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, and James Murray Mason.

ArchivalResource: 250 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647881033 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Correspondence, 1814-1826

Title: Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, 1814-1826

Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson regarding the founding of the University of Virginia. The collection also contains the report of the Rockfish Gap Commission; balance sheets and estimates of University income and expenses; financial statement; a construction estimate; land plats; a bond; a petition to Congress regarding the removal of tariff on books; specifications; Board of Visitors resolutions; book lists; a plat by Achilles Broadhead; and a deed from the Proctor to the Board. In addition there are elevations for several buildings including Nichols # 374, 375, 376, and 377 as well as the Architrave fragment Nichols #378. Correspondents include John Q. Adams, Thomas Appleton, Franklin Bache, Peter Barlow, George Blaettermann, A. S. Brockenbrough, Francis T. Brooke, William S. Clarke, John Hartwell Cocke, P. F. B. Constant, Thomas Cooper, William H. Crawford, Claudius Crozet, Cummings, Hilliard, & Co., James Cutbush, Martin Dawson, Henry A. S. Dearborn, James Dinsmore, Peter DuPonceau, John P. Emmet, Alexander Garrett, Francis Walker Gilmer, Thomas Gimbrede, and John Griscom. Also George Hancock, Robert Hare, Randolph Harrison, F. R. Hassler, James E. Heath, William Hilliard, Chapman Johnson, John V. Kean, Rufus King, John T. Kirkland, William Lambert, William Lee, James Madison, James Monroe, Hugh Nelson, Wilson Cary Nicholas, Thomas J. O'Flaherty, Mann A. Page, Granville Sharp Pattison, James Pleasants, James Patton Preston, C. S. Rafinesque, Thomas Mann Randolph, William Cabell Rives, John Roane, Richard Rush, G. E. Stack, Archibald Stuart, John Vaughan, Benjamin Waterhouse, and John Wood. There are also contracts with George Blaetterman, Charles Bonnycastle, Robley Dunglison, Thomas H. Key, and George Long.

ArchivalResource: 245 items.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1822 December 20, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia], to James Pleasants, n.p.

Title: Letter, 1822 December 20, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia], to James Pleasants, n.p.

Congratulates him on accession to chair of Virginia government; future of University rests on disposition of governor; a friend from Philadelphia recommends Major S.H. Long for Civil Engineer to the Board of Public Works; does not know Major Long but trusts friend's judgment; supposes it is same person who conducted the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 leaf ; 25 cm. x 10 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62287415 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter, 1812 February 9, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia] to James Pleasants, n.p.

Title: Letter, 1812 February 9, Monticello, [Albemarle County, Virginia] to James Pleasants, n.p.

Encloses a letter addressed to them both concerning two young gentlemen; has no personal knowledge of them but has written Secretary at War respecting them; goes from home seldom; finds neighbors expecting was and approving it; willing to meet any tax except stamp tax; some wish whiskey tax could be levied solely on licenses to be issued for selling it.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on 1 leaf ; 25 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62286545 View