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Prince Edward County (Va.) Plan of the Town of Farmville, 1804 Oct. 15

Title: Prince Edward County (Va.) Plan of the Town of Farmville, 1804 Oct. 15

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Bankhead, Anne Cary Randolph, 1791-1826,. Carr-Cary Papers [manuscript], 1785-1839.

Title: Carr-Cary Papers [manuscript], 1785-1839.

The papers include correspondence of Thomas Jefferson, his nephew Peter Carr, his cousin John Garland Jefferson, his brother Randolph Jefferson, his sister Martha Jefferson Carr and her children and other family members particularly Esther "Hetty" Stevenson Carr, George Pitt Stevenson, Dabney S. Carr, Maria Jefferson Carr, Jane Margaret Carr Cary, Wilson Miles Cary, Wilson Jefferson Cary, Virginia Randolph Cary, and John Wayles Eppes. Additional correspondents include Sir John Leslie, General J. G. Jackson, and Judith Randolph. Topics include family and social news of Charlottesville, Va., and Baltimore, Md.; agricultural matters and plantation life in Virginia and Louisiana; family advice, education and study of law; family's increasing financial distress and other financial matters; religious thought; local and national politics including the Louisiana Purchase; scattered references to the University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson; distribution of Bibles in Fluvanna County; and genealogical notes by Wilson Miles Cary. Topics also include Jefferson's advice on various matters; education, study of law and suggested courses of study; training a slave to use a spinning-jenny; slave hire; flood damage suffered by family members; medical services for slaves; and Jefferson's increasing financial difficulties; with scattered references to the University of Virginia. Topics also include national and local politics; Jefferson's reasons for declining John Garland Jefferson's request for a political appointment; Jefferson's refusal to sell Poplar Forest. Of interest is a letter, 1810, from Jefferson commenting on the observance of law conflicting with the laws of necessity, with examples from Washington's actions at Yorktown and happenings in his own administration. Topics also include proposed and subsequent sale of Carrsbrook; sale, hire, and purchase of family slaves; Hetty Carr's move to Baltimore; fight between Charles Lewis Bankhead and Thomas Jefferson Randolph and its after effects; John Addison Carr's career in the navy; dental care; controversial lotteries and subscription for Thomas Jefferson's financial relief; and travel to Florida. The papers also contain correspondence, 1793-1807, of Thomas Mann Randolph concerning agricultural and social matters; the possible engagement of John Leslie as tutor for Randolph family; and a letter, 1802, from Thomas Mann Randolph to Peter Carr concerning his plans to respond to Thomas Callender's accusation and decision not to do so. Also of interest is a letter, 1826, from Thomas Jefferson Randolph concerning Thomas Jefferson's death, desire for keeping his father from misusing money from Jefferson's estate, his concerns about debts and the future poverty of the family. The papers also contain a letter, 1797, from George Washington commenting on the divisive nature of politics and on political attacks aimed at him; a letter, 1800, from James Monroe regarding the hire of slaves and financial matters regarding "some Jews in Richmond"; a statement, 1814, by Anne Cary Randolph Bankhead on Thomas Jefferson Randolph's courtship and marriage; an obituary, 1815, of Peter Carr by William Wirt; with two student essays by Peter Carr and poems by Virginia Randolph Cary. Wills of Peter Carr and Randolph Jefferson are present as well as a deposition, 1815, from Thomas Jefferson concerning the settlement of Randolph Jefferson's estate; and letters, 1816, from James Lilburne Jefferson on legal difficulties concerning his father's will.

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Taylor, Creed, 1766-1836. Papers of Creed Taylor [manuscript], 1791-1873.

Title: Papers of Creed Taylor [manuscript], 1791-1873.

Correspondence contains information on plantation life at Taylor's "Needham" and Judith Randolph's "Bizarre"; legal and financial matters; Virginia politics and the Republican Party; the law school maintained at "Needham" by Taylor; the Virginia Literary Fund to support public education; the division of Fincastle County, Va., in 1799; James Monroe's presidential bid of 1808; and cases before the Superior Court of Chancery, including one involving William W. Hening. Other topics include the Virginia-Kentucky boundary dispute of 1803; the necessity of a Republican university education (Eldred Simkins); a Virginia state bank (John Taylor of Caroline); a book endorsement; the Mutual Assurance Society (Alexander McRae); changes in the Virginia judicial system (Archibald Stuart, ); judicial procedure (Dabney Carr); residency requirements for judges of courts of chancery (Robert Nelson, William Nelson); safety of court records in war time (Archibald Thweatte); Mordecai's school in Warrenton (Samuel Taylor); the sale of Thomas Mann Randolph's estate and Randolph's distrust of Francis Walker Gilmer's motives; Taylor's incipient problem with alcohol (Samuel Taylor, 1828 Feb 27). Also of interest are letters concerning the binding out of a free black youth (John Michaux, Nat Dodson) and the disposition of Taylor's property and the fate of his slave Rhody and her family (Samuel Taylor 1826 Aug. 28). In a note, 1802 February 1, James Monroe sends a publication. In a letter fragment, ca. 1808, Monroe suggests corrections in the wording of an endorsement of his presidential bid by Taylor. In a letter, 1811 Janaury 21, he writes re the appointment of a Mr. Robinson to an unnamed position. In a letter, 1813 January 4, Taylor writes to Monroe recommending the appointment of William Randolph as Captain. In a letter, 1813 January 4, James Madison writes re the appointment of R. M. Chapman as clerk of the Chancery Court at Fredericksburg. There are several letters from admirers concerning Creed's Journal of the Law School including one from Thomas Jefferson,1823 March 24. In addition the collection contains accounts of Creed Taylor as executor of Beverley Randolph. Correspondence of Creed Taylor, Jr., chiefly convey family news. An 1863 letter concerns salt rationing, an 1873 one concerns the whereabouts of a former servant "Aleck" "carried to Kentucky by the Federal Army." The collection also contains the diaries, 1852-1856, of Jennette Knickerbocker, a Madison County, New York school teacher, as well as her correspondence with Albert Howard, Jr. The 1852 diary describes her year at an institute in Cazenovia, N.Y. (Cazenovia College?).

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Bryan, John Randolph, 1806-1887,. Papers of the Bryant, Coalter, Randolph, and Tucker families [manuscript] 1770-1887.

Title: Papers of the Bryant, Coalter, Randolph, and Tucker families [manuscript] 1770-1887.

Consisting chiefly of letters to and from the following: Elizabeth T. Coalter Bryan, 1812-1887, John Randolph Bryan, 1818-1835, Joseph C. Cabell, 1804-1827, Frances B. Tucker Coalter, 1791-1831, John Coalter, 1788-1832, St. George Coalter, 1822-1826, Francis Walker Gilmer, 1818-1821, John Randolph, Sr., 1770-1774, John Randolph of Roanoke, 1781-1833, Judith Randolph, 1796-1814, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1804-1851, and St. George Tucker, 1781-1826. Letters to or from the following are also included: Theoderick Bland, Theoderick Bland, Jr., Delia F. Bryan, Thomas M.F. Bryan, Richard Randolph, St. George Randolph, Theoderick Randolph, John Taylor, Henry St. George Tucker, Lelia Tucker, Thomas Tudor Tucker, and William Wirt. There are also copies of the Augusta, Georgia, Weekly Republic, 9 July 1850, the Union Seminary Magazine in September-October 1893, and the Petersburg Virginia, Index-Appeal, 24 February 1901, as well as a few prints of John Randolph and a few Confederate prints.

ArchivalResource: 719 items.

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Randolph, Richard, 1770-1796. Will of Richard Randolph, Jr. [manuscript], 1796.

Title: Will of Richard Randolph, Jr. [manuscript], 1796.

Will, 18 February 1796, of Richard Randolph, Jr., of the Bizarre estate, Cumberland County, Va., emancipating his slaves, declaring his moral opposition to slavery, providing land for their subsistence, and leaving the remainder of his property to his wife, Judith Tucker Randolph.

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