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Harrison, Mary Bain, collector, d.1989. Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

Title: Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

These items, 1756-1865, are from the estate of Mary Bain Harrison (d. 1989) and include two unsigned letters of James Madison to Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803), August 27 and September 10, 1782, discussing a fugitive slave belonging to Pendleton's nephew, financial problems, and current events, including the court martial of Captain Richard Lippincott for the hanging of Joshua Huddy; the fragment of an address leaf directed to Edmund Pendleton, Caroline County, docketed Thomas Jefferson, May 12, 178;̲ a copy of an account, n.d., signed by George Wythe, who was clerk of the House of Burgesses from 1768 to 1776; a 1756 deed between Lunsford Lomax of Caroline County and the Honorable Philip Grymes, Middlesex County, recorded by the General Court; letter from Mary T. Harrison to her father Robert H. Harrison, King William County, December 13, 1842; three letters from Andrew F. Goolsby, Company E, 46th Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, to his sister Ann E. McElsom, April 20 and May 26, 1862, October 23, 1864, relating military action around Richmond and on the Peninsula, including the siege of Yorktown; request for interest on two Confederate States bonds, 1865; and a Harrison family record.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

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Harrison, Richard, 1808-1882. Journal [microform] 1838-1867, (Typescript).

Title: Journal [microform] 1838-1867, (Typescript).

Born in Spring Mire, Dudley-Worcestershire, England, son of William Harrison and Elizabeth Baker. Family data; baptism of him and his wife, Mary Ann, into the LDS Church in Liverpool, 1840; removal to Parowan, Utah; activities at home and in the church; plural marriage to Jane Fryer, 1855.

ArchivalResource: 15 p. ; partial reel : microfilm ; 35 mm.

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