Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers, 1784-1881, n.d.

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Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers, 1784-1881, n.d.

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The Smithfield Preston Foundation collection consists of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell of Rockbridge County, Virginia.

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Preston, Francis, 1765-1835

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The second son and third child of Col. William Preston and his wife Susanna Smith, was born at "Greenfield," Botetourt County (Va.), 2 August 1765. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1783, and practiced law in Montgomery and Washington counties in Virginia. Preston served in the House of Delegates in 1788 and 1789. From March 1793 until March 1797, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives. Settling in Abingdon, he returned to law practice and again entered ...

McDowell family, Rockbridge County, Va.

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McDowell, Sarah Preston

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Preston family, Montgomery County, Va.

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McDowell, James, 1795-1851

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Governor of Virginia, U.S. Representative, and planter. From the description of Papers, 1767-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19934292 James McDowell (October 13, 1795–August 24, 1851) was a U.S. Congressman and Governor of Virginia from 1843 to 1846. From the guide to the Gov. James McDowell Land Grant to Samuel Blackburn, 1843 June 30, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Governor and U.S. representat...

McDowell, James, 1795-1851

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Governor of Virginia, U.S. Representative, and planter. From the description of Papers, 1767-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19934292 James McDowell (October 13, 1795–August 24, 1851) was a U.S. Congressman and Governor of Virginia from 1843 to 1846. From the guide to the Gov. James McDowell Land Grant to Samuel Blackburn, 1843 June 30, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Governor and U.S. representat...

McDowell, Susana Smith Preston

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Preston, William C. (William Campbell), 1794-1860

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Lawyer and college adminstrator of South Carolina; member of S.C. House of Representatives, 1828-1834, and the U.S. Senate, 1833-1842; president of South Carolina College, Columbia, S.C., 1845-1851, and trustee, 1851-1857; an 1812 graduate of South Carolina College; studied law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; practiced law in Virginia and S.C.; formed law partnership with David J. McCord, 1832; founded the Columbia Antheneum; husband of Maria Coalter and Penelope Davis. Fro...

Smithfield Preston Foundation

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Smithfield Plantation is the historic home of the Preston family, one of the founding families of Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built by William Preston (1729-83), who emigrated from northern Ireland with his family in 1737. He married Susanna Smith in 1761 and settled at Greenfield in Botetourt County in 1769. Preston established himself as a leader in the Virginia frontier by serving in the militia in the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars, in the House ...