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Whittle family. Whittle family papers, 1779-1922 [microfilm manuscript].

Title: Whittle family papers, 1779-1922 [microfilm manuscript].

Personal correspondence, diaries, biographical and genealogical data pertaining the the Whittle and related Bolling, Davies, Kennon, Munford, Murray, Page, Randolph, Sinclair, and Skipwith families. Included are letters, 1807-1824 (128 items), of Elizabeth Beverley (Munford) Kennon (b. 1762), wife of Gen. Richard Kennon of Mecklenburg County, Va., and her daughter, Sarah ("Sally") Skipwith (Kennon) Sinclair, to various member of the Mordecai family of Warrenton, N.C., and elsewhere. Topics include family and social news and discussion of anxieties caused by the War of 1812. Also present are an incomplete diary, September 1753- January 1754, of Rev. Samuel Davies, president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) while on a mission to England for the College and the Presbyterian Church; an orderly book, August-October 1779, of Col. William Davies, commander of the 1st Virginia Regiment, Continental Army, and aide to generals Washington and Lafayette, apparently kept while serving in New Jersey; and the diary, 1829-1831 and 1857-1858, of Commander William Conway Whittle (1805-1878), U.S.N., during his service on various ships, including the U.S.S. Constellation.

ArchivalResource: 156 items.

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