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Stuart, Alexander H. H. (Alexander Hugh Holmes), 1807-1891. Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

Title: Papers of Alexander H. H. Stuart and the related Stuart and Baldwin families [manuscript], 1776-1878 (bulk 1850-1861).

The collection contains the political correspondence of Alexander H.H. Stuart, particularly from 1850-1853, when he served in Fillmore's cabinet and from 1857-1861, when he was in the Virginia State Senate. The Whig Party is a major topic. Other topics include national and Virginia politics, the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1868, the reestablishment of a national bank, the Virginia Reform Convention of 1850, the American Know-Nothing Party, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Also slavery, abolition, Southern conservative opposition to secession, Virginia elections of 1831, 1851, 1859, 1867, the aftermath of Nat Turner's rebellion, the use of statistics in government, the Confederate Congress, sectional reconciliation after the Civil War, the Readjustor controversy, political patronage, and internal improvements. Also mentioned are Revolutionary War pension claims, migration of free blacks to Liberia, affairs at the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indian Agency in 1851, California politics and Indians in 1851, the Tehuantepec Isthmus route, Iowa in 1851, San Francisco in 1854, New Orleans in 1861, West Virginia in 1861, the U.S.S. Princeton explosion, Dorothea Dix's efforts to establish hospitals for the mentally ill, building of the U.S. Capitol, the Virginia Central Railroad and the University of Virginia. Many letters convey local news in Staunton and Augusta County, Va., such as the development of Alum Springs, the establishment of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, smallpox cases and land sales and controversies in Virginia and Kentucky. Others refer to legal cases handled by Stuart, including suits involving the Bath Iron Works and Buffalo Forge, and the Wheeling Bridge. Several letters discuss family affairs including plans by a cousin to run a boarding house for young women in Athens, Greece. Only a few letters mention the Civil War and Reconstruction and include references to the military movements of Confederate general Robert S. Garnett. Topics in earlier Stuart and the related Baldwin family papers include ratification of the U.S. constitution, Jeffersonian party politics, political events during the administration of George Washington, Washington Academy, the University of Virginia and its honor system, Washington College, and William Wirt's biography of Patrick Henry. The papers also contain an architectural drawing of an unidentified house, an engraving of Alexander H.H. Stuart, insurance policies, stock certificates, indentures, wills, land plats, and speeches by Alexander H.H. Stuart. Military papers of Captain George M. Cochran, Jr., Quartermaster, 52nd Virginia Infantry, consist chiefly of requisitions and receipts. There are also two printed pamphlets, 1849, in French and German, on the potato blight.

ArchivalResource: 800 (ca.) items.

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Brand, Benjamin, d. 1843. Papers, 1790-1838 (bulk 1823-1838).

Title: Papers, 1790-1838 (bulk 1823-1838).

Chiefly correspondence, accounts, lists, clippings, and other papers relating to Brand's activities as treasurer of the Richmond and Manchester Colonization Society and the Colonization Society of Virginia (formerly a branch of the American Colonization Society) concerning the emigration of freedmen to Liberia (including lists of free Blacks wishing to emigrate from the Virginia counties of Charles City and Sussex, and the city of Richmond), trade with Liberia (especially tobacco and flour), and opinions about the slave trade; and correspondence (including letters from George Mason Cooke [1792-1866] and Dr. Benjamin Coleman as general agents) and accounts concerning the Richmond Mining Company, in particular gold mining operations at Busby's Mine, Goochland County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 417 items.

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Carrington family. Papers, 1755-1839.

Title: Papers, 1755-1839.

Papers of Paul Carrington include account books, 1755-1791, concerning his law practice Mecklenburg, Lunenburg, and other counties in southside Virginia, and expenses while attending the 1775 Virginia constitutional conventions and meetings of the Virginia Committee of Safety, and the 1788 Constitutional Convention of Virginia; and docket books, 1763-1774, with references to his lawsuits. Also included are letters, 1828-1839, to Mary Venable (Carrington) Grigsby about student life at Union Theological Seminary (then located in Hampden-Sydney, Va., and now in Richmond) and at Yale College (now University), slavery and abolitionists, the Nat Turner Insurrection, a Protestant Episcopal Church convention, the Virginia branch of the American Colonization Society (later known as the Colonization Society of Virginia), the 1832 cholera epidemic in Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Richmond, Va., and about a number of small private schools in Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 83 items.

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Colonization Society of Virginia. Records, 1823-1859.

Title: Records, 1823-1859.

Minute book, 1825-1828, for the Virginia branch of the American Colonization Society, later the Colonization Society of Virginia (1828- 1859), providing information about the philosophy and benefits of emigration, the choice of Africa versus Haiti as a destination, the status of the free black population in society, "civilizing" and evangelizing Africa, propriety of allowing convicts to emigrate, providing the colony with farm implements, health and schooling, establishment of military organization and government, trade and commercial activity in the colony, discussion of the potential economic and moral effects of the eradication of the slave trade, southern patriotism, denunciation of abolitionists, legislation concerning freedmen and emigration costs, national unity, the colony of "New Virginia," Liberian independence, and colonization as a social and political necessity. Account book, 1849-1858, of the Colonization Society of Virginia records income from subscriptions and donations by private individuals and church congregations and expenses such as salaries for the society's agents, travel expenses for the society's delegates, printing expenses for the Virginia Colonizationist and other publications, and emigration expenses.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

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Dana, Charles B. Charles B. Dana and family papers, 1799-1949 (bulk 1823-1880).

Title: Charles B. Dana and family papers, 1799-1949 (bulk 1823-1880).

Papers are comprised of sermons, essays, notebooks, and correspondence of Charles B. Dana and family. Papers after 1880 are those of Rev. Charles Dana's sons, Charles B. and Richard H. C. Dana, and of Richard H. C. Dana's guardian, Miss Octavia Dockery of Glenwood Plantation "Goat Castle", Natchez, Miss. Correspondence in general reflects religious activities, expressing concern over sabbath schools, church attendance, and the spread of Catholicism. Family matters, local events, literature, politics, education and slavery, and genealogical information relative to the Dana family are also discussed. A letter of S. A. Kimball of Concord, N. H., discusses the abolitionist movement and members of the Colonization Society (1836). Also among the papers are checks of Richard Dana, bank statements of Octavia Dockery, newspaper clippings, maps, photographs, and a broadside listing officers of the Colonization Society of Virginia. Manuscript volumes are comprised of a diary (1906-1907), cashbooks, registers, sermons, and notebooks. Included in the printed materials are religious pamphlets and journals. Collection also contains two postcard albums (1906-1933, n.d.).

ArchivalResource: 700 items.59 v.1 microfilm reel.

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