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Carrington family. Papers: Lunenburg and Charlotte counties, Virginia, 1756-1843.

Title: Papers: Lunenburg and Charlotte counties, Virginia, 1756-1843.

This collection contains documents pertaining to land acquisitions by Paul Carrington and his son Clement Carrington in Lunenburg and Charlotte counties, Virginia: deeds from John and Ryland Randolph, William Townes, Clement Read, Samuel Firth, William Firth, Anthony and Mary Hundley, James and Elizabeth Collier, William P. Hunt estate (Moses and Susanah Hoge, Joel Watkins, Henry A. Watkins, William M. Watkins, executors), Elizabeth Watkins, Pleasant and Prudence Cayce, Robert and Virginia Atkinson, Robert and Joanna T. Carrington; land deeds from Walter and Lettice P. Coles, Elisha E. and Ann Hundley to Robert Carrington; Charlotte County and land deeds from John Logan to Thomas Bedford, Beverly Randolph to James Venable, John Winn estate (Thomas and Joseph Winn, executors) to Anthony Hundley, William Britton to David Sims, Drury Stith to Anthony Hundley; Person County, North Carolina land deed from Joseph Jones to Alexander Smith and Samuel S. Downey; surveys and plats for some of the above land; plat for land purchase by William W. Boldin from John Daniel; will, Thomas Bedford's land and slave to Stephen Bedford, 1785; military land warrants, 1796, for Richard Anderson, Clement Carrington, and Clement Read on Little Miami River [Ohio]; Kentucky land grant to Clement Carrington, 1799; ALS James Taylor, Newport, Kentucky to Clement Carrington, 1822, concerning 1799 Kentucky land grant; deed of gift of 40 slaves by Clement Carrington to his daughter, Nancy Cabell McPhail, and son-in-law John Blair McPhai.

ArchivalResource: 99 items (159 p.)

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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