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Davidson Academy (Nashville, Tenn.). Land indenture, 1805 Dec. 17.

Title: Land indenture, 1805 Dec. 17.

Consists of a land indenture made between Davidson Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, and Thomas Rutherford of Davidson County, Tennessee, for lot number 35, for a price of thirty-five dollars, dated December 17, 1805. Approved by the president of the academy, Thomas B. Craighead, witnessed by secretary David McGavock.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28468733 View

Munford, George Wythe, d. 1882. Papers, 1828-1891.

Title: Papers, 1828-1891.

These items consist of records relevant to Munford and his family, in addition to documents which he appears to have obtained while Secretary of the Commonwealth. Several items concern Powhatan Ellis, Charles Ellis, and Thomas H. Ellis. Included are two sermons which appear to be those of the Reverend John Buchanan, rector of St. John's Church, Henrico Parish, 1785-1822, and a history of the Buchanan Springs Quoit Club, which was an influential group of prominent Richmond men who met to socialize and discuss politics and government.

ArchivalResource: 30 items (143 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122611910 View

Rutherford, Thomas. A meeting was held at St. Matthew's Academy [Newberry, S.C.]..., 1861 May 18.

Title: A meeting was held at St. Matthew's Academy [Newberry, S.C.]..., 1861 May 18.

Report of a town meeting held, 18 May 1861, to discuss food shortages need for assistance among families and military dependents following enlistment of family members in Confederate military service. Account of discussion held during early days of Civil War at St. Matthews' Academy (Newberry, S.C.), "to ascertain the necessities of certain families, whose husbands and sons, patriotically, responded to the state['s call] for volunteers... some now very short both of corn and meat" and resolving to solicit funds to benefit those families in need in Newberry, S.C. Committee members listed include Thomas B. Rutherford, William Ruff, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/744985689 View

Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 1757-1820. Papers of Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1765-1831 (bulk 1765-1820).

Title: Papers of Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1765-1831 (bulk 1765-1820).

Correspondence, accounts, invoices, plats, bills of lading, indentures, and other papers, chiefly 1765-1820, relating to Nicholas' political and military careers and to family and business matters. Family members represented include Nicholas' father, Robert Carter Nicholas, his brothers, George, John, and Philip Norborne Nicholas, and his nephews, Miles Littlejohn and George P. Stevenson. Correspondents include William Berkeley, Joseph C. Cabell, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Jacob Kinney, Moses Myers, Spencer Roane, Thomas Rutherford, Henry Tazewell, and Charles Webb.

ArchivalResource: 1100 items.3 containers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83609199 View

Richards, John. Account book, 1717-1729.

Title: Account book, 1717-1729.

Accounts of the uncle concern buying of lace, clothes, wigs, corn [wheat], jewelry, a book (The Whole Duty of Man), paying rent to Sir William Wolstenholme, Lady Grace Wolstenholme and Lord Hunsdon. Uncle sells marine and life insurance and gives to the poor who live near Forty Hill and Enfield. He pays for lessons for the dog and gives money to the washerwoman, He gives Christmas box money and pays for his nephew's education. The nephew's accounts concern serchers [searchers, those who pronounce the cause of death], wigs, clothes, jewelry, a gold-headed cane and snuff boxes, books (Roman history and Plutarch's Lives) and payment to Thomas Rutherford for drawing an abstract of his uncle's writings.

ArchivalResource: [68] leaves : bound in vellum ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19931817 View