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Austin, Moses, 1761-1821. Papers of the Preston and related Radford families [manuscript], 1726-1895.

Title: Papers of the Preston and related Radford families [manuscript], 1726-1895.

The collection contains correspondence, surveys, indentures, receipts and other financial, legal and military papers of the related families. Topics include farming and crops, land sales, mercantile purchases, and slave hirings. Of interest are a series of letters, 1819-1828, from University of Virginia students mentioning negotiations with a D.F. Carr, Thomas Jefferson's reputation and John H. Cocke's intentions to keep students out of Charlottesville by a moat or physical barrier. Other topics include early land transactions in Augusta and neighboring counties, 1744-1810, the estate settlement of Colonel James Patton, and the military service of William Preston against Indians on the Virginia frontier.

ArchivalResource: 1300 items.

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Tyler, John, 1790-1862. John Tyler letter to Letitia Floyd [manuscript], 1846 October 20.

Title: John Tyler letter to Letitia Floyd [manuscript], 1846 October 20.

Floyd writes concerning the appointment of her son-in-law George Frederick Holmes as a professor at William and Mary. He also notes the birth of David Gardiner Tyler, his first son by his second wife Julia Gardiner Tyler, remarking that he is "a glorious boy who renews my youth."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Floyd family. Genealogical notes, ca. 1880.

Title: Genealogical notes, ca. 1880.

Pages, apparently from a family Bible containing records of the Floyd family; and newspaper clippings, 1880, from The Standard, Richmond, Va., containing the recollections of Letitia Preston Floyd of "Incidents of Border Life in Virginia: concerning the capture of Mary Draper Ingles and describing members of the Preston family.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Johnston, John W. (John Warfield), 1818-1889. Papers, 1778-1890.

Title: Papers, 1778-1890.

Papers of Johnston and of his wife, Nicketti Virginia (Floyd) Johnston, of her parents, John Floyd, governor of Virginia, and Letitia (Preston) Floyd, Letitia's brother, Francis Smith Preston, and other members of the Preston family. Includes letters, fictional and political writings, and other papers, including many references to plantation life, Virginia and national politics, pioneers of southwestern Virginia and genealogical material on the Breckinridge, Buchanan, Floyd, Preston, and other Virginia families.

ArchivalResource: 416 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19934075 View

Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871. Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Title: Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's papers consist mainly of correspondence pertinent to his "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States." Other topics include anti-Federalism, travel to the West Indies and advice to a son. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's correspondents include William Goddard, Christopher R. Greene, Nathanael Greene (copies), Andrew Jackson (copy), Lafayette (copy), Ann Hill Carter Lee, James Madison (copies), Nathaniel Pendleton, and George Washington (copy). Major Henry Lee's papers consist primarily of correspondence written during his residence in Europe in the 1830s. Topics of interest include James Wilkinson's defeat before Montreal, Jacksonian era politics, David Porter in the Mediterranean, Lee's biography of Napoleon and proposed biography of Andrew Jackson, Lee's financial and legal troubles, Lee's literary efforts. Prominent people discussed include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John H. Eaton, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Gales and Seaton, Henry St. George Tucker, and Daniel Webster. There is fairly extensive correspondence with Charles Carter Lee, Major William B. Lewis and Duff Green. Other correspondents include John Armstrong, James Biddle, Charles L. Bonaparate, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, James L. Cathcart, Edward Vernon Childe, John Browne Cutting, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George William Featherstonhaugh, and Robert Selden Garnett. Also Francis Walker Gilmer, James A. Hamilton, William B. Hodgson, Sam Houston, Rachel Jackson, Peter Augustus Jay, Anne R. Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Hugh S. Legaré, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John McLean, James Madison, John Marshall, John Moore of Paris, Nathaniel Niles, Barry O'Meara, Thomas Ritchie, Meritt M. Robinson, Gilbert C. Russell, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, William Conway Whittle, and James Wilkinson. The papers of Charles Carter Lee constitute the bulk of the collection and contain manuscripts of his literary works and speeches, correspondence, and legal and financial papers. Topics include his student days at Harvard; a reply to George Henry Moore's "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777. The treason of Charles Lee"; scattered political commentary including remarks on William Cabell Rives; and a description of the capture of General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, 1863. Correspondents include William S. Archer, Henry Carey Baird, Nathaniel Burwell, George H. Calvert, David Campbell, Bernard M. Carter, J. H. Chamberlayne, Jr., Robert Young Conrad, E. S. Davis, Frederic De Peyster, Lyman C. Draper, Benjamin Rush Floyd, Letitia Floyd, David Graham, Robert Greenhow, William Wirt Henry, Francis Kinloch, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Also George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lyons, A. W. McDonald, Louis McLane, James Madison (copy), Hugh Nelson, Beverley Randolph, Charles H. Randolph, Robert E. Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Norborne M. Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, Peter Van Winkle, Daniel Webster (copy), John Wickham, and William F. Wickham. John Penn Lee papers, consist of miscellaneous printed matter, routinme legall papers and business papers of the law firm of Dillard and Lee, Rocky Mount, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1917 items.

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Johnston, Joseph E., 1807-1891, and Holmes, George Frederick, 1820-1897. Papers of Joseph E. Johnston and George Frederick Holmes, 1821-1885

Title: Papers of Joseph E. Johnston and George Frederick Holmes

Johnston family papers include a letter, 1821 June 15, from Mary Johnston to her husband Judge Peter Johnston noting family activities; a letter, 1825 July 17, from Peter Johnston to his son Joseph E. Johnston conveying news of his mother's death; a letter, 1825 December 4, from Benjamin Rush Johnston to his brother Joseph sending family news since the death of their mother and noting his current tastes in reading; and a letter of advice, 1829 January 12, from John Floyd to his son John Buchanan Floyd, on education and conduct of life and his service on a U. S. House committee holding hearings on John C. Calhoun's conduct as Secretary of war. With these is a United States Treasury receipt, 1859 to Joseph E. Johnston in account with a survey of the the southern Kansas boundary; a partial genealogical tree for Johnston family, n.d.; and a billfold with carte-de-visite of Joseph E. Johnston and a lock of his hair. The George Frederick Holmes papers include letters, 1846-1870, to his mother-in-law, Letitia Preston Floyd, and sister-in-law, Nicketti Buchanan Johnston, concerning family and social news, political news, comments on Gov. James McDowell, employment opportunities at various colleges, the University of Virginia, and financial difficulties of students at the University of Virginia (1857), and his dissatisfaction at Richmond College. The collection also contains a letter, 1846, John T.L. Preston to George Frederick Holmes regarding an open faculty position at V.M.I., duties and pay; a letter, 1847, of John Cochran to Letitia Floyd regarding the desire of Floyd's son [William Preston Floyd?] to obtain a teaching appointment at a medical school; a letter, 1850, from Jared Sparks to George Frederick Holmes announcing faculty position at Harvard already filled; and letter, 1856, from Andrew Stevenson to George Frederick Holmes on a faculty position at the University of Virginia. Also of interest are a letter, 1 January 1861, from George Frederick Holmes to the Johnston household on family and social news, concerns for a possible Civil War, the resignation of Governor Floyd as Secretary of War, and plans for the plantation Tanglewood and where to keep his slaves which he does not want under the influence of Piedmont area slaves; a letter, 1882, from John W. Johnston to uncle Joseph E. Johnston on Joseph E. Brown's response to section in Jefferson Davis' book concerning the removal of Johnston from command; and a letter, 1885, from James Strong to George Frederick Holmes re: an article.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

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Floyd, George Rogers Clark, 1781- . Papers, 1840-1849, 1875-1878.

Title: Papers, 1840-1849, 1875-1878.

Papers of George Rogers Clark Floyd, a native of Virginia who served as secretary of Wisconsin Territory, 1843-1846.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145786414 View