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Barbour, J. S. (John Strode), 1790-1855. Brown Family receipt books [manuscript], 1806-1835.

Title: Brown Family receipt books [manuscript], 1806-1835.

Receipt book, 1806, of Bezaleel Brown, Sheriff of Albemarle County, Va., records the receipt of sums collected on execution of suits in county courts. Signatures include J.S. Barbour, P.P. Barbour, Dabney Carr, Martin Dawson, Alexander Garrett, David Higginbotham, Dabney Minor, Hugh Nelson, Thomas Mann Randolph, John Walker, and Charles Wertenbaker acting as attorneys for various clients including Hore B. Trist. In addition the collection contains the tax receipt book, 1806, of J.D. Jarman for a portion of St. Anne's Parish, Albemarle County; which also contains records of county court cases, and a list of writs returnable; a blacksmith's journal, 1835, of William T. Brown; a bailbond, 1808, Thomas W. Gooch to Thomas Garth; and a letter, 1806 March 3, Thomas Garth to John Henderson re the delivery of a financial note. Blacksmith account book, 1835, of William T. Brown. 1808 Mar 2. Bail bond, Thos. W. Gooch, to Thos. Garth. 1806 Mar 3 note from Thos. Garth, Jr. to John Henderson (re: delivery of Henderson's note against Henry Mills to John Brown, sheriff, for collection).

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806858 View

Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868. Papers of William Cabell Rives, 1824-1842.

Title: Papers of William Cabell Rives, 1824-1842.

The collection consists chiefly of letters to Rives from constituents, friends and family members. Most of the correspondence was written while Rives was serving as U.S. Senator from Virginia and discusses political matters. Specific topics in letters to Rives include Lewis Cass, Duff Green; William Henry Harrison; Andrew Jackson; John Tyler; Abel P. Upshur; "instruction" of Senators; a national bank; the currency question; the public debt; taxes and tariffs; politics in Virginia, Maine and New York; the Loco-focos; the Whigs; diplomacy and the Quintuple and Webster-Ashburton Treaties in regards to the slave trade; the U.S. Navy; the American Colonization Society; agriculture in Albemarle County;and the University of Virginia Board of Visitors. Correspondents include John S. Barbour, William M. Burwell, Virginia R. Cary, Edward Coles, Charles Augustus Davis, Charles Duncombe, Robley Dunglison, Samuel Dyer, James M. Garnett, John Thornton Gilmer, Thomas W. Gilmer, Isaac Hull, John Letcher, Nathaniel Niles, Jr., Richard Pollard, Francis O.J. Smith, and James Tallmadge. Topics in the general family correspondence include Dolley Madison; William Branch Giles' gubernatorial chances; the elections of 1828 and 1844; the Whigs; John Tyler; Henry Clay; the National Bank; and politics in Albemarle County and in Virginia. Of interest is a typescript copy of a letter from Judith Page Rives describing her impression of Charles Dickens. The papers also contain political essays, hymns, newspaper clippings of a series of articles on the slavery question by Judge S. Wilkeson, and some legal and financial documents including a petition to the House of Representatives on the Bankrupt Law from 50 citizens of New York City, mostly tradesmen, 1842. Essay topics include indirect taxes;a fiscal agent of the United States government (national bank); national revenue from tariffs vs public land sales and the compromise of 1833 (amendments to resolutions by Henry Clay); and Thomas Jefferson's letter to Peter Carr on travel.

ArchivalResource: 190 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53004443 View

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855,. Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Title: Argosy collection [manuscript], 1795-1893.

Letters, papers, portraits of Revolutionary and nineteenth century statesmen. Subjects dealt with in the letters include slavery, the currency question, agriculture, land grants, politics and government, the silver question, education, and religion.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647893815 View

Barksdale, Narcissa L. Smith, d. 1875. Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Title: Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Papers of the Janney and allied families of Gilmour and Pollock consisting of personal and political correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical material and photographs, particularly of John Janney of Loudoun County, Va. The papers cover Janney's legal practice, his career as a Whig politician, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and president of Virginia's secession convention. His correspondents include Arthur Ingram Borreman; John Minor Botts; Henry Clay; J.J. Crittenden; Charles J. Faulkner; Philip R. Fendall; Joshua F. Fisher; Willis Green; John W. Mallet; R.C.L. Moncure; Jeremiah Morton; Richard William Noland; Francis H. Pierpoint; William Cabell Rives; Wyndham Robertson; Valentine Wood Southall; James F. Strother; Alexander H.H. Stuart; and George Summers. Major topics include the Whig Party and the elections of 1840, 1844, 1848 and 1860; the tariff; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; the Loco-Focos; slavery and the new territories; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; the University of Virginia; the Constitutional Union Party; the Virginia Convention of 1861; a re-union of Virginia and West Virginia and debt readjustment. Of interest is an 1861 electoral ticket for Jefferson Davis. People discussed in the correspondence include J.S. Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Joseph Johnson; Robert E. Lee; "Extra Billy" Smith; Alexander H. Stephens; Zachary Taylor; and Daniel Webster. Of interest in Janney's financial and legal papers are a letter from Abbott Lawrence to John S. Pendleton on the machine shop at Lowell, Mass.; correspondence regarding the building of the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad; papers conderning the Mutual Assurance Society; and a slave bill of sale for one Harriet Jackson. Papers of Solomon Parsons, 1810-1830, concern business in Alexandria, Gloucester and Occoquan, and include letters on the War of 1812 and British Admiral J.B. Warren; and an 1829 letter from a slave to "Dear Master." Civil War and Reconstruction papers include passes; a letter to J.E. Johnston regarding Janney's slave "George"; a list of sick soldiers nursed by Mrs. Janney; letters, 1862, 1866, from Narcissa L. Smith Barksdale regarding the Civil War in Louisiana and the death of her husband at Gettysburg; letters from Joseph E. Segar regarding reconstruction; and two memoranda by Alcinda S. Marmaduke Janney, 1862 and 1863, relating details of the war in Leesburg and Loudoun County, including the arrest of John Janney, Federal occupation and outrages, Confederate procurement, and second hand news about personalities and battles. The collection also contains letters and a portrait of World War II American pilot, Robert Stevenson Janney. Topics include student life at Princeton, travel in Europe and Japan in the 1930s including a 1937 Nazi festival, and World War II experiences in training, in North Africa and in Italy. Topics of interest in the miscellaneous Gilmour, Janney and Pollock family papers include the early ministry of W.H. Milton; slavery; St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1830s and 40s; foreign travel; Pantops Academy of Charlottesville; V.M.I. in the 1890s; U. Va. in the 1850s and 1890s; medical missionary work in China and Japan in the 1930s; social life in Virginia in the 1930s; the great depression; the Leesburg, Va., Presbyterian church; Virginia governor Almond and Massive Resistance; and life in Pioche, Nevada and Pasadena, Calif. Correspondents include W. Sinclair Bowen, Lily H.D. Dabney, William E. Dodd; Edward Griffith Dodson;and the Rev. James Shannon Montgomery. In addition there are photographs, scrapbooks and travel journals.

ArchivalResource: 2750 (c.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57123190 View

Allen, Robert, 1794-1859. Papers of Virginia Congressmen [manuscript] 1810-1849.

Title: Papers of Virginia Congressmen [manuscript] 1810-1849.

Letters, notes, receipts, etc. of Robert Allen, William Segar Archer, William Armstrong, Archibald Atkinson, Thomas Hamlet Averett, John Strode Barbour, Burwell Bassett, John Minor Botts, James Breckenridge, and William Armistead Burwell--Bill, 1845 Aug. 2, George Blyth to Peter Hob for 3 months tuition of Louisa Hob [1 l. 8 cm. holograph signed]--Formula, n.d., a cure for the ague, by David Downey [1 l. 7 cm. holograph signed.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950403 View

Archer, William Segar, 1789-1855. Virginia political correspondence, 1779-1930.

Title: Virginia political correspondence, 1779-1930.

This is an artificial collection of letters, mostly political, assembled on the basis of the writers' associations with Virginia, in some instances tenuous. A few legal documents such as indentures and affidavits are included. Many documents are from Virginia members of Congress to presidents of the United States, the secretaries of the Navy and governors of Virginia, most often on matters of patronage; about sixty letters request appointments as midshipmen or as officers in the Marine Corps. Some of the correspondents include John Strode Barbour (6 letters, 1 certificate, 1829-1849), William Segar Archer (5 letters, 1822-1845), John Minor Botts (6 letters, 1842-1884), John Samuel Caskie (8 letters, 1852-1858), John Critcher (8 letters, 1871-1879), Thomas Croxton (7 letters, 1874-1890), William Alexander Harris (7 letters, 1841-1899), John Warfield Johnston (7 letters, 1873-1888), William Atkinson Jones (15 letters, 1891-1899), Anthony Kennedy (5 letters, 1857-1863). Others include Benjamin Watkins Leigh (2 letters, 1806-1835), William McCoy (6 letters, 1815-1835), Francis McFarland (9 letters, 1837-1860), Francis Mallory (6 letters, 1839-1851), Hugh Nelson (8 letters, 1784-1822), Thomas Newton (11 letters, 1808-1841), John Mercer Patton (5 letters, 1836-1869), John Howell Porter (12 letters, 1870-1872), Andrew Stevenson (5 letters, 1863-1872), John Randolph Tucker (8 letters, 1878-1894), Robert E. Withers (5 letters, 1877-1879).

ArchivalResource: 431 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254383 View

Barbour, J. S. (John Strode), 1790-1855. Letter, 1829 February 10, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., to Editor of National Intelligencer.

Title: Letter, 1829 February 10, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., to Editor of National Intelligencer.

Letter concerns a dispute with Congressman Elisha Whittlesey.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19868790 View

Gilmer, Thomas W. (Thomas Walker), 1802-1844. Letters to Briscoe G. Baldwin and Philip Williams, 1832 October 18 and November 16.

Title: Letters to Briscoe G. Baldwin and Philip Williams, 1832 October 18 and November 16.

Gilmer writes to both Baldwin and Williams concerning the case of the Loyal Company vs. Walker. He comments briefly on the success of the President [Jackson] in the election of 1832, and regrets that [John Strode] Barbour did not win his Congressional race.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63167501 View

Bocock, Thomas S., 1815-1891. Papers of Bocock and of the Bocock, Thornhill Christian, Stephens, Flood, Patteson, and Diuguid families of Buckingham and Appomattox counties, 1760-1897.

Title: Papers of Bocock and of the Bocock, Thornhill Christian, Stephens, Flood, Patteson, and Diuguid families of Buckingham and Appomattox counties, 1760-1897.

Correspondence, financial and legal papers, ledgers, and speeches. Letters to Bocock, 1840-1887, comprise almost half the collection. Most are from his constituents and concern routine matters such as pension and bounty claims, academy appointments, mail routes, requests for copies of documents and speeches, and for legal assistance. Topics of interest include a contested 1847 election with Henry P. Irving; the admission of California, and the Compromise of 1850; the Nashville Convention of 1850; slavery, abolition, and the ante-bellum South; the Whig, Democrat and American (Know Nothing) parties; the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1880; and local Appomattox Co. politics. Many prominent figures of the day are mentioned including Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Cass, Douglas, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Fillmore, Buchanan, Hayes, and Louis Kossuth. Speeches on the tariff of 1842, the Wilmot Proviso, slavery, the Confederacy, and William Wilson Corcoran are included, as are a memorandum book, 1861-1866, of personal finances, papers from his chairmanship of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, a printed report on the Confederate Navy, and some legal and financial papers. The family papers contain correspondence, financial and legal papers. Topics of interest include Buckingham Co. politics, slavery, the Civil War, the tanning business, the American Tract Society, pioneer life in Alabama and Missouri, and the administration of several estates. Letters of note mention the confiscation of arms in Appomattox Co. for naval use, the gift of McCormick Observatory to the University of Virginia, the California gold rush, and the use of slaves on military fortifications. Also included are a minute book of the New Hope Baptist Church, Augusta Co., Va. with many references to blacks, an 1830s physician's ledger, a Buckingham Co. tax register, 1832, and an 1830s diary / journal listing family events and home remedies.

ArchivalResource: 3000 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821332 View

Barbour, J. S. (John Strode), 1790-1855. Letter of John Strode Barbour, 1839 September 10.

Title: Letter of John Strode Barbour, 1839 September 10.

Barbour, Culpeper, Virginia, writes to Luke E. Lawless, Thomas Hart Benton and Leslie F. Linn, St. Louis, Missouri, introducing Richard Johnson Tutt, of Culpeper, who wishes to settle in Missouri.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31448260 View

Goss, Isabelle H. (Isabelle Hunter), d. 1947. Sketch of the life of John Goss, Baptist minister of Albemarle County, Va. [manuscript], 1938.

Title: Sketch of the life of John Goss, Baptist minister of Albemarle County, Va. [manuscript], 1938.

Deals with the Albemarle County, Va., Baptist minister's travels in Kentucky and Georgia, western lands, business affairs of John S. Barbour and James Barbour and their land dealings, the Preddy's Creek Baptist Church.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647955434 View

Swem, E. G. (Earl Gregg), 1870-1965,. Autographs of Virginians.

Title: Autographs of Virginians.

Autographs of John Strode Barbour, Thomas Henry Bayley, John Warwick Daniel and Charles Triplett O'Ferrall. The autographs are signatures to letters that appear perfunctory in nature.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43077846 View

Barbour, J. S. (John Strode), 1790-1855. J. S. Barbour letter to Dolley Payne Todd Madison [manuscript], 1846 Nov. 30.

Title: J. S. Barbour letter to Dolley Payne Todd Madison [manuscript], 1846 Nov. 30.

Barour, Catalpa, offers his services to her.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647927027 View

James, Edward Wilson,. Papers collected by Edward Wilson James [manuscript], 1635-1906.

Title: Papers collected by Edward Wilson James [manuscript], 1635-1906.

Personal and business papers, land grants, deeds and other papers signed by Virginia governors and others, relating to the history of Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne Counties, Va., and the James family. Includes the wills of Jacob Hunter, Edward James, Elizabeth James, John James, and William James, vestry book of Lynnhaven Parish, and List of tithable and taxable property, 1784. Names represented include John Strode Barbour, Sir William Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Robert Dinwiddie, John Floyd, Sir William Gooch, Sir John Harvey, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Lee, James Madison, John Page, Beverley Randolph, Edmund Randolph, John West, William Wirt, and James Wood.

ArchivalResource: 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647892445 View

Barbour, J. S. (John Strode), 1790-1855. Letter of John Strode Barbour [manuscript], 1839 September 10.

Title: Letter of John Strode Barbour [manuscript], 1839 September 10.

Barbour, Culpeper, Virginia, writes to Luke E. Lawless, Thomas Hart Benton and Leslie F. Linn, St. Louis, Missouri, introducing Richard Johnson Tutt, of Culpeper, who wishes to settle in Missouri.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647840512 View

Records of the U.S. Coast Guard.

Title: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard.

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https://catalog.archives.gov/id/355 View