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Coolidge, Ellen Wayles Randolph, 1796-1876. Correspondence of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1810-1861.

Title: Correspondence of Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge, 1810-1861.

The collection consists chiefly of correspondence between Ellen Coolidge and her mother Martha Jefferson Randolph, and sisters Virginia Trist, Cornelia Randolph and Mary Randolph. They discuss family and friends; trips to Richmond, Philadelphia and Baltimore; life in Boston, and at Monticello and Poplar Forest; the University of Virginia students, faculty and Board of Visitors; Thomas Jefferson's illness and death, debts, the proposed lottery, and the sale of Monticello and his slaves. Also Martha Randolph's life in Washington and continuing financial problems; the careers of Joseph Coolidge in the China trade, Nicholas Trist in the diplomatic service, Benjamin Franklin Randolph in medicine and George Wythe Randolph in the navy; and the publication of "Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson. Other topics of interest include Richmond dentistry, 1819; the panic of 1819 and financial ruin of Wilson Cary Nicholas; Thomas Mann Randolph's strained relations with his family; Lafayette's visit to Monticello; the sale of Jefferson's paintings; Harvard College politics; historian Jared Sparks; Nat Turner's rebellion; the Hemings family, Ellen's maid Sally [Cottrell Coles]; and contrasts between slaves in the South and domestic servants in New England. The collection also contains autobiographical reflections by Ellen Coolidge and a volume of copies of correspondence between Ellen Coolidge and Henry Stephens Randall concerning Jefferson and his family.

ArchivalResource: 251 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51207509 View

Shadwell Mills journal, 1824-1827.

Title: Shadwell Mills journal, 1824-1827.

The journal records the amounts of wheat and corn brought for milling, the charge, the payment in cash or kind, and whether the load was brought in by the owner or a "boy." Customers at the mill include [Edmund?] Bacon, John H. Cocke, James Dinsmore, Charles Everett, Frederick W. Hatch, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Peter Minor, Mann Page, John M. Perry, Thomas E. Randolph, Thomas J. Randolph, and Valentine Southall, as well as members of the Alexander, Ballard, Bibb, Broadhead, Brown, Burnley, Carr, Davis, Dunkum, Durrett, Farish, Fitch, Garrett, Garth, Gentry, Gillum, Gooch, Harlow, Johnson, Jones, Key, Leitch, Lewis, Maupin, Maury, McKennie, Meriwether, Michie, Moore, Petitt, Price, Quarles, Rogers, Sampson, Shackleford, Shifflett, Slaughter, Snyder, Teel, Thurman, Tompkins, Walker, Watson, Wayt, Wertenbaker, White, Wingfield, and Wood families.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53357900 View

Bankhead, Chas. L. (Charles Lewis), 1788-1835. Farm account book, 1813-1828.

Title: Farm account book, 1813-1828.

Agricultural account book, 1813-1828, concerning Carlton plantation in Albemarle County, Va., and Port Royal in Caroline County, Va. Accounts record number of hogs butchered, weights of pork and bacon, numbers of lambs and fowl, quantities for tobacco, wheat, corn, oats, and fodder for horses and cattle. Also include accounts concerning the gristmill and sawmill operations on Carlton, amounts of tallow and dry goods bought. The end of the volume lists slaves and include information pertaining to age, occupation, and family units.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32671949 View

Bankhead, Chas. L. (Charles Lewis), 1788-1835. Letter, Charlottesville, Va., to John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg, Va. [manuscript] 1813 Sept. 30.

Title: Letter, Charlottesville, Va., to John Taliaferro, Fredericksburg, Va. [manuscript] 1813 Sept. 30.

Concerning the purchase of a horse, with mention that Thomas Jefferson received a letter from Hackley, American consul at Cadiz, Spain.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647942717 View

Bankhead, Chas. L. (Charles Lewis), 1785-1835,. Charles L. Bankhead letter and John S. Mosby certificate [manuscript] 1813, 186[?]

Title: Charles L. Bankhead letter and John S. Mosby certificate [manuscript] 1813, 186[?]

In a letter to John Taliaferro, 1813 September 30, Charles L. Bankhead discusses a merino sheep purchased for Taliaferro: "The ewe that bore him and the ram that begat him were attached to the celebrated flock of Prince the Lord knows what but he was a prince. Long may he live with you and much may he do." The collection also contains a fragment [left half] of a certificate of enlistment, January 2, 186[?], for J. S. alias [?] in the Partisan Rangers signed by John S. Mosby.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/466868696 View

Randolph, Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas), 1839-1892. Papers of the Randolph family [manuscript], 1790-1903.

Title: Papers of the Randolph family [manuscript], 1790-1903.

The collection, which contains correspondence of the Randolph and Nicholas families, centers on Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Topics include slavery in Virginia, particularly the emanicipation bill of 1832; University of Virginia, national, state and Albemarle County politics and government; internal improvements; the Second Bank of the United States and the independent treasury system; scientific agriculture; the disposal of the estate of Thomas Jefferson and the impecunity of the Randolph family; Thomas Jefferson Randolph's biography of Jefferson; John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson and the South Carolina nullification crises; Thomas Jefferson Randolph's political campaign in 1832; and the building of a railroad through Albemarle County. The collection also contains scattered business and legal papers including an 1801 land grant to John Lewis signed by James Monroe; correspondence, 1870-1871 of Sarah Nicholas Randolph with Harper and Brothers, N. Y. regarding The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson and an edition of his letters; and correspondence, 1889-1891 between Ellen Wayles (Randolph) Harrison and J. R. Lamb Co., N. Y. regarding a stained glass memeorial window. There is also a considerable amount of miscellaneous printed material. The accounts include one small slip docketed by Jefferson April 22, 1819; and three accounts with John R. Jones, one brought over to the estate of Jefferson and two directly with the estate. Also of interest is a letter (in another hand) from Madison Hemings to [Thomas Jefferson?] Randolph, 1833 Jan. 15, requesting payment for his work. Correspondents include Philip Pendleton Barbour, Charles Lewis Bankhead, James Breckinridge, William H. Cabell, Dabney Carr, Wilson Miles Cary, Charles Cocke, John Hartwell Cocke, Francis Corbin, John Andrew Gardner Davis,, Robley Dunglison, John Patten Emmet, William Maxwell Evarts, Edward Everett, Alexander Garrett, William Branch Giles, Peachy Ridgeway Gilmer, Thomas Walker Gilmer, Duff Green, Randolph Harrison, Madison Hemings, Samuel Leitch, James Murry Mason, Philip Norborne Nicholas, Robert Carter Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, William Cabell Rives, Samuel Smith, George W. Spooner, John Timberlake, Valentine Wood Southall, Nicholas Philip Trist, Daniel Wolsey Voorhees and Joel Yancey.

ArchivalResource: 3,200 items.

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Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798. Papers, of the Randolph, Jefferson, Eppes, Nicholas and Kean families [manuscript] 1785-1865.

Title: Papers, of the Randolph, Jefferson, Eppes, Nicholas and Kean families [manuscript] 1785-1865.

The papers contain three letters from Jefferson and ten to him discussing the papers of Freneau and Bache, the French West Indies, the payment of debts, shipment of a polygraph to [Rubens?] Peale, the education of Francis Wayles Eppes and Maria Jefferson, health of family members and Maria's death, John Wayles Eppes' return to the Senate and Wilson Cary Nicholas's appointment as collector at Norfolk, a possible farm purchase by Hore Browse Trist, and a loan of $4000 to Jefferson to be repaid in slaves. The collection also contains an 1824 medical bill and a receipt for Confederate military documents. Correspondents include Charles Lewis Bankhead ][1788-1833], Elizabeth Eppes, John Wayles Eppes [1773-1823], Maria Jefferson Eppes [1778-1804], Robert Garlick Hill Kean [1828-1898], Wilson Cary Nicholas [1761-1820], Joseph Higbee, George Wythe Randolph [1818-1867], Martha (Jefferson) Randolph [1772-1836], Thomas Jefferson Randolph [1792-1875], Thomas Mann Randolph [1741-1793], and Thomas Ritchie [1778-1854].

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647967079 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill [manuscript] 1749(1790-1850)1886.

Title: Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill [manuscript] 1749(1790-1850)1886.

Containing papers of the allied Nicholas family and Jefferson family. The collection includes 64 letters from Thomas Jefferson and 375 to him relating to family affairs, management of Monticello and his financial relations. Letters from John Taylor of Caroline to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1806-1808, contain important material on politics; a group of letters of George Wythe Randolph, Secretary of War of the Confederacy, contain copies of his correspondence with Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders. The bulk of the papers after 1820 consists of the correspondence of George Wythe Randolph, his brother Thomas Jefferson Randolph and wife Jane Nicholas Randolph, and their children, particulary Mary Buchanan Randolph and A draft copy of the will of Martha Jefferson Randolph, April 18, 1834 is included. The collection includes deeds, plats, patents, and other legal papers concerning lands in Albemarle, Fluvanna, Goochland, Henrico, and Powhatan Counties, several of which establish the chain of title to Edgehill. Deeds for land owned by the Randolph Family (Richard Randolph, Jr., Thomas Mann Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph), the Eppes Family (Francis Eppes, Richard Eppes, and William Eppes), and the Nicholas Family (John Nicholas, George Nicholas, and Robert Carter Nicholas.) Of interest is a plat of the town of Beverley, Henrico County, surveyed by Peter Jefferson (1751 June 6) and a survey of Thomas Bryan Martin's land (1762 March 29) The survey is of the Manor of Greenway Court, a tract of 8840 acres in Frederick County granted to Martin by Thomas Lord Fairfax, made in connection with the lawsuit of Thomas B. Martin vs. Peter Wolf, defendant in an ejection suit. (Perhaps used after 1762 in an early case, not listed in T. J.'s Case Book.). Correspondents include John Adams, John Barnes, Charles L. Bankhead, James Breckenridge, James Brown, Dabney S. Carr, Peter Carr, Charles Clay, Henry Clay, Ellen Coolidge, Joseph Coolidge, Tench Coxe, Andrew Donald, Francis Eppes, John Wayles Eppes, Maria Jefferson Eppes, Edward Everett, Albert Gallatin, Elbridge Gerry, George Gilmer, Burgess Griffin, Alexander Hamilton, Richard Hanson, John Harvie, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Marie Joseph Paul Marquis de Lafayette, Richard Henry Lee, Nicholas Lewis, James Lyle, James Madison, Philip Mazzei, James Maury, James Monroe, Robert Morris, Timothy Pickering, Thomas Pinckney, Anne Cary Randolph, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr., Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., William Short, Samuel Smith, Nicholas P. Trist, Virginia Randolph Trist, Thomas Walker, George Washington, Eli Whitney, James Wilson, and George Wythe.

ArchivalResource: 5000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647962220 View

Bankhead, Chas. L. (Charles Lewis), 1788-1835. Farm account book [manuscript], 1813-1828.

Title: Farm account book [manuscript], 1813-1828.

Agricultural account book, 1813-1828, concerning Carlton plantation in Albemarle County, Va., and Port Royal in Caroline County, Va. Accounts record number of hogs butchered, weights of pork and bacon, numbers of lambs and fowl, quantities for tobacco, wheat, corn, oats, and fodder for horses and cattle. Also include accounts concerning the gristmill and sawmill operations on Carlton, amounts of tallow and dry goods bought. The end of the volume lists slaves and include information pertaining to age, occupation, and family units.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647849371 View

Bacon, Edmund, b. 1785,. Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill and Wilson Cary Nicholas [manuscript], 1765-1869.

Title: Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill and Wilson Cary Nicholas [manuscript], 1765-1869.

The collection correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and the following: Francis Eppes, Thomas Walker, Maria Jefferson Randolph, Francis Walker, James Strange, Matthew Maury, Thomas Mann Randolph, Wilson Cary Nicholas, John Barnes, Dabney Carr, Edmund Bacon, Patrick Gibson, James Madison, Martin Dawson, and John Steele. Also included are maps of Germany, a map dividing Albemarle County, Jefferson's map of the James and Fluvanna Rivers from Richmond to Monticello, Jefferson's notes on Monticello, his deed of slaves to Thomas Mann and Martha Randolph, and a marriage contract between Charles Bankhead and Anne Cary Randolph. The Nicholas papers contain letters to Robert C. Nicholas, discssing his business and shipping endeavors, particularly from John Norton of the firm John Norton and Son, merchants of London. There are occasional references to the political situation, including an apology from Norton for signing an address in support of the King. Other topics include the introduction of copper coinage and slave hiring. The Duke of Beaufort, Coloniel Richard Corbin, and Richard Oswald are mentioned briefly. Correspondence of Wilson Cary Nicolas discusses Nicholas's increasingly distressed financial affairs, business endeavors, family matters, western (Kentucky) land, national politics including the elections of 1800, 1804, and 1808, governorship of Virginia, foreign affairs including the War of 1812, high taxes caused by the War of 1812; the Second Bank of the U. S.; and the settlement of George Nicholas's estate. Of interest are letters from Joseph C. Cabell on Jefferson's trade embargo; John Guerrant on the Virginia Militia; James Monroe discussing his plans to travel to the 'western country' and purchase of land near Charlottesville; Nelson Nicholas on studies at the College of William and Mary; Peggy Nicholas on a rumored slave uprising and correct punishment for a young girl; Robert Carter Nicholas on the situation at Fort George; Wilson Cary Nicholas, Jr., on a county fair; Richard Randolph on a shipment of flour stopped by the Committee of Safety and a claim on the same rejected by Patrick Henry; Edmund Randolph on changes to the Constitution which would extend its powers, and Samuel Smith on the Miranda affair and the Burr trial. Several letters mention slaves and slave sales. Other correspondents include James Breckinridge, William Brockenbrough, William A. Burwell, Joseph C. Cabell, William H. Cabell, Dabney Carr, Thomas Fairfax, Albert Gallatin, William B. Giles, George Hairston, Bishop James Madison, John Mason, James Morrison, George Nicholas, Philip Nicholas, Peyton Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, Spencer Roane, George William Smith, John Smith, Robert Smith, Samuel Smith, John Taylor of Caroline, Abram Trigg. There are brief mentions of George Logan, James Madison, John Marshall, Commodore John Rodgers, and Littleton Waller Tazewell. Legal and financial papers include bills of sale, bills of exchange, bills of lading, receipts, invoices, promissory notes, land grants, indentures, wills, lottery tickets, speeches on the salary and compensation of the keeper of the penitentiary, and on internal improvements, and notes by Wilson C. Nicholas on militia, currency, military bounties, pardons, slaves and land. Document signers include Isaac Coles, James Leitch, and John Page. Also incudes a biographical sketch of George Nicholas and information on the Ambler family. Militia papers include commissions, returns, orders, lists of fines and instructions regarding an Indian campaign, 1775. Several pertain to the 47th Virginia Militia Regiment from Albemarle County. Papers of the Randolph family of Edgehill concern land sales, legal matters and family news, Of interest are a copy of a letter from Thomas Jefferson; a letter to John M. Perry and James Dinsmore re plans for the University of Virginia; a letter from Richard Kidder Meade on the morality of dancing; letters from Joseph Coolidge on publication of Thomas Jefferson's works and possible arrangements by Lafayette for translation and publication in France; letters from Robert C. Nicholas on the Sub Treasury bill; G.W. Randolph on his Civil War service together with receipts from the Quartermaster's Dept. signed by T. J. Randolph; and letters concerning the Soldiers' Christian Association. Correspondents include H. I. Bowditch, Francis Eppes, Thomas W. Gilmer, Martha Randolph (Patsey), Bernard Peyton, Sarah Nicholas Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, William Starke, and Thomas Jefferson Randolph Taylor. The collection also contains an announcement of the first session of the University of Virginia; a photostat of a list in Jefferson's hand [1811?] of current prices for tobacco from Virginia, Maryland and Kentucy, cotton and rice found with a John Barnes letter; an undated petition to the General Assembly for education slaves before manumission; draft articles/ notes on military bounties and presidential pardons; a Jefferson lottery ticket; and a ghost story. Drawings, maps and surveys include drawings of stands or tables, a plan for a well winch and two views of an unidentified piece of machinery and a hand-painted woodcut of Adair, Ireland. There are also maps and/or surveys of lands in Albemarle and Bedford counties, particularly Jefferson's survey surveys of his property in Albemarle; plat of Edgehill as surveyed by Achille Broadhead; a map of Albemarle County,showing St. Anne's Parish, 1777; and a a survey and plat in Bedford county;

ArchivalResource: 787 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647846245 View

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.

ArchivalResource: 285 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647871832 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letters : Monticello, to Craven Peyton, Monteagle, 1814 August 13 and 1821 August 12.

Title: Letters : Monticello, to Craven Peyton, Monteagle, 1814 August 13 and 1821 August 12.

In his first letter, Jefferson writes of a deed from Charles L. Lewis to Peyton. In his second letter Jefferson discusses: payment from Isham Randolph; his granddaughter, Anne Bankhead; Charles Bankhead's alcoholism; Jefferson's travels to Bedford; and his sister's health.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793099 View