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Bryan, Joseph, 1773-1812. Joseph Bryan property records, 1801-1807.

Title: Joseph Bryan property records, 1801-1807.

This collection consists of a settlement award granted to Ebenezer Jackson and paid by Joseph Bryan for a dispute over 100 acres on Whitemarsh Island, Georgia. The document is dated April 8, 1801. The second item is a typed certified copy from the Chatham County, Georgia Superior Court Office (1901) of a relinquishment of any claims against the estate of Joseph Bryan. The relinquishment was made by David and Ann Middleton to Joseph Bryan, Hannah Houston, and Mary Wylly on November 11, 1808.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38477660 View

Meade family. Papers : of the Meade family, 1785-1863.

Title: Papers : of the Meade family, 1785-1863.

The papers of the family, particulary Richard Everard Meade primarily contain news of family and friends. Of interest are letters written to Meade when he was studying medicine at Edinburgh and touring Europe, and a few letters written to him by a medical student in Philadelphia. Slavery and western settlement are mentioned briefly. There are also scattered bills and certificates in French, a preface to a cookbook by Harriet Meade Brown and an 1833 suicide note by Edwin Randolph.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793176 View

Bryan family. Forman, Bryan, and Screven families papers, 1797-1901.

Title: Forman, Bryan, and Screven families papers, 1797-1901.

The collection is largely family letters and memorabilia of the family of Joseph Bryan, and his wife, Delia (Forman) Bryan. There are some business letters to General Thomas Marsh Forman in the collection. Family correspondents are: General Thomas Marsh Forman, Augusta Forman, Charles Forman, John Randolph Bryan, Thomas Marsh Forman Bryan (changed his name to Thomas M. Forman), Georgia Hannah Bryan (Mrs. James Proctor Screven), Virginia Sarah Bryan, Joseph Bryan [Jr.], M. Richardsone, Mrs. E.F. Chambers, Benjamin R. Daniell, Emily S. (Screven) Bond, James Proctor Screven, Colonel John Screven, Richard Bedon Screven, Thomas Forman Screven, Miss C.B. Screven, Sarah Ada (Screven) Henderson, the Reverend Matthew H. Henderson, William W.B. Henderson, Marion Henderson, Mrs. S.E. Van Bibber. Other correspondents are: John Barney, James Brown, James Brade, Timothy Barnard, Jr., Samuel Bradford, John Randolph of Roanoke, Mary Brown, Solomon Barrett, Thomas R. Buchanan, Augusta Bowers, Mary Howard, Julianna Miller, Sarah A. Minis, M.M. Gardner, C.C. Brown, Eliza Goldsborough, Aurora Greland, C. Lesly, Benjamin Tilghman, E. Macfarlane, Charles Colcock Jones, Jr. Of special interest are 7 letters from William Baldwin, the botanist, some of whose letters were published in Reliquae Baldwinanae, ed. by William Darlington (1843; reprinted 1969), to General Forman re plan specimens around St. Mary's, Georgia. The letter of Thomas F. Bryan to his sister, Georgia Hannah Screven, July 22, 1838, tells of the loss of their sister, Virginia Sarah (Bryan) Mackay and her children in the wreck of the steamer, Pulaski. Included are genealogical notes on the Forman and Bryan families and legal documents and a sketch re the Henderson family. The clippings are largely obituaries, tributes of respect, etc., of Colonel John Screven, Judge Thomas Screven and the Reverend Matthew H. Henderson. A few concern other members of the family.

ArchivalResource: 12 folders (.50 cubic feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77501652 View

Andrews, Thomas Patrick, 1794-1868. Thomas Patrick Andrews papers, 1845-1850.

Title: Thomas Patrick Andrews papers, 1845-1850.

The papers record a Congressional Committee Hearing, where Colonel Andrews, senior Indian commissioner at Council Bluffs and Osage River, was questioned as to his part in negotiating the treaty signed by the Potawatami Indians in June 1846, financial agreements that the Indians made with the traders, especially G. W. and W. G. Ewing, and conversations with the Ewings.

ArchivalResource: 79 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702127319 View

Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Correspondence, with John Marshall, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Daneil Webster, and others [manuscript] : correspondence, 1845-51, between members of the Leigh family, 1800-1833(1851).

Title: Correspondence, with John Marshall, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, Daneil Webster, and others [manuscript] : correspondence, 1845-51, between members of the Leigh family, 1800-1833(1851).

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647965865 View

Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Letters of and about John Randolph of Roanoke [manuscript], 1811-1904.

Title: Letters of and about John Randolph of Roanoke [manuscript], 1811-1904.

The collection contains letters to J. H. Nicholson; to Thomas Forman from Joseph Bryan; to John Rodgers and Mrs. Joseph Bryan on John Randolph Bryan's Navy service; and from Elizabeth Tucker Coalter. The collection also contains an order of Randolph's for payment of $100 to Cheston Ringgold, and a note from an undertaker on Randolph's measurements. A letter from Daniel Grinnan to Joseph Bryan, 1887, encloses his copy of Franics West's reminiscences of Randolph's death; and a letter from Lambert Tree to Joseph Bryan, 1904, discusses a Randolph document. The collection also contains John Randolph's prayer book, inscribed 1811, and presented to John St. George Randolph in 1818.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647898603 View

France. Ministère de la Police Générale. Passport issued to Joseph Bryan [manuscript], 1797 January 8.

Title: Passport issued to Joseph Bryan [manuscript], 1797 January 8.

Passe-port délivré en vertu de l'arrêté de Directoire exécutif, du 19 Nivôse, au 5e, No. 230...Laissez passer Joseph Bryan, américain, âge de 26 ans...allant à Bordeaux.... Signed by Fouché.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647884823 View

Randolph, John, 1773-1833. Letters to Richard E. Meade, 1802-1807.

Title: Letters to Richard E. Meade, 1802-1807.

Randolph writes about his health and mental depression and the health of his family. He frequently mentions their mutual friend Joseph Bryan and enquires after the health of Meade and his family. There are brief interesting comments on the Yazoo land fraud, the women of Virginia and his horses Dragon and Mrs. Vixen.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793179 View