John Rust Eaton Papers, , . 1794-1815 1910

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John Rust Eaton Papers, , . 1794-1815 1910

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John Rust Eaton was a planter of Granville County, N.C., representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder. The collection is two letters from John Rust Eaton to his father Charles Rust Eaton (1743-1822), and seventeen letters to John Rust Eaton--one from William H. Winder (b. 1775), two from Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837), eight from James Winchester (1752-1826), three from James Somervell, one from Robert Marion (1766-1811), and one from Benjamin Williams (1754-1814). Subjects discussed include national politics and relations with England, horse breeding, tobacco and cotton farming in Tennessee, land Eaton owned in Tennessee and prices of other land there, and prices of farm products in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Eaton, John Rust, fl. 1794-1815.

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Planter of Granville County, N.C., representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder. From the guide to the John Rust Eaton Papers, ., 1794-1815, 1910, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) John Rust Eaton was a planter of Granville County, N.C., representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder. ...