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Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. Miscellaneous documents, 1791-1814.

Title: Miscellaneous documents, 1791-1814.

Papers, 1809-1814, connected with the administration of Lewis' estate consisting chiefly of notes signed by Lewis acknowledging debts (including one signed on the reverse by William Clark); and typed copies of the will of John Marks, Lewis' step-father, December 21, 1791; power of attorney, April 17, 1801, to Lewis' half-brother, Reuben Lewis, authorizing him to sell or otherwise dispose of his property in Albemarle County, Virginia; and a letter, Jan. 22, 1812, to Reuben Lewis relating to Meriwether Lewis.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

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Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844,. Papers of the Lewis, Anderson and Marks families, 1771-1908.

Title: Papers of the Lewis, Anderson and Marks families, 1771-1908.

Papers of the related families include correspondence, legal and financial papers. Much of it pertains to land and slave holdings of the families in Virginia and the Arkansas territory. Meriwether Lewis items include power of attorney from Lucy Marks, 1792 June 20; a land indenture 1797 July 13; receipts, 1797, 1798, 1806-1816; draft of a letter, 1809 July 8 concerning financial matters and the trial of a felon; a list of articles contained in two trunks belonging to him, 1809; a document pertaining to a debt owed by Lewis, 1810; a document pertaining to his estate, 1810-1811; John Hastings Marks to Reuben Lewis on a partially successful journey to Chickasaw lands to recover his property [horse, rifle, dirk, pistols] in an1812 letter which also mentions the death of a friend in the Richmond theater fire of 1811; and a letter regarding a land warrant belonging to him, 1819. Wiliam Clark items include letters to John H. Marks, 1810 Mar 29, 1811 Aug. 30; and a memo of a contract concerning the printing of a book on the journey of Lewis and Clark, 1813. Other items of interest include a letter from a slave "Uncle Paul", 1778; copies of the 1791 will of John Marks; letters to Lucy Marks; indenture for sale of slaves by Lucy Marks, 1803; miscellaneous accounts from Louisiana; ;receipts for slave sales, 1815, 1816; letters pertaining to the Bureau of Indian Afairs, and the Cherokee and Osage Indians, 1820; account of Reuben Lewis's travels down the Mississippi, 1821; correspondence regarding land warrents for William Lewis's service in the Revolution; letters from freedman Overton Hollinsworth to his former master, 1889; report cards from Bloomfield Academy; and T.J. Scott Civil War parole paper, 1865, and orders, 1862-1864. Other correspondents include Nicholas Biddle, Anna Seeley, Tuttle, and V.W. Southall.

ArchivalResource: 600 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647953788 View

Lewis, Reuben B., 1899-1988. Papers and photographs, 1917-1987.

Title: Papers and photographs, 1917-1987.

Papers and photographs of Reuben B. Lewis, a bugler and military policeman with the 32nd Division during World War I, a County Veterans Service Officer for Portage County, and an active participant in many veterans organizations, especially Company C from the 4th Wisconsin Infantry.

ArchivalResource: Papers 1.0 linear ft. (2 archives boxes, 1 card file box, 1 flat box, and 2 oversized folders), and.Photographs 0.4 linear ft. (1 archives box), and.Videorecording: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. ; Y2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59007565 View

Flack, Edith L. The Escape from the River Raisin Massacre, 1812,1948.

Title: The Escape from the River Raisin Massacre, 1812,1948.

Six pages typed after 1948 about the escape of Reuben Lewis from the River Raisin Massacre in Monroe, Mich., 1812.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Cunningham, J., fl. 1837. Letter to Reuben Lewis [manuscript] 1837 April 9.

Title: Letter to Reuben Lewis [manuscript] 1837 April 9.

Cunningham, Louisville, writes to Reuben Lewis, Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle County, Va., on Andrew Jackson's reception at Louisville, with ancillary notes by Sarah Anderson Gordon.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647951862 View

Dye, Eva Emery, 1855-1947. Eva Emery Dye Papers, 1776-1997 (bulk 1890-1940).

Title: Eva Emery Dye Papers, 1776-1997 (bulk 1890-1940).

The papers consist of correspondence, ephemera, manuscripts, literary journal, research notes and scrapbooks relating to Eva Emery Dye's career as an author and her interest in Oregon history topics, including pioneers, Lewis and Clark, John McLoughlin, Ranald McDonald, and the Hudson's Bay Company. The papers also document her many other activities and interests, including the Willamette Valley Chautauqua at Gladstone Park, preservation of the John McLoughlin House at Oregon City, and the woman's suffrage movement. The collection includes the family papers of Charles and Eva Emery Dye and their children, Emery C. Dye, Eva Dye Hutchinson, Everett W. Dye, and Trafton M. Dye, as well as the reminiscences of Eva's father, Cyrus Emery, and a genealogy of the Charles Dye and Eva Emery Dye family.

ArchivalResource: 15 document cases, 1 oversize flat box, and 2 oversize folders (11.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39874150 View