Papers, 1810-1862.

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Papers, 1810-1862.

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The bulk of this collection is letters from Robert W. Withers to William H. Broadnax (30 letters, 1 memo, 1823-1834) from Alabama. Withers writes about purchasing slaves and their health, land contracts, crop conditions, French land grants, travels in Alabama, Mississippi, and New Orleans where he saw Andrew Jackson, sale of cotton, Douglas Wilkins' Mississippi land purchase, death of his brother, and requests to borrow money. The other correspondents deal with a variety of subjects: W.M. Atkinson (religion, and offer of law professorship at University of Virginia), Richard P. Bolling (purchase of slaves), Joseph Goodwyn (supplying lumber for house), John Grammer, Jr. (religion), John J. Hinton (regimental court), E.H. Lundy (marriage), J.F. May, A.P. Smith, Belfield Starke, William Thornby (slave for sale), and Burwell B. Wilkes (seeks legal help). Other items include Brodnax's letter to Col. Albert Allmand concerning the 1824 readiness of the 15th militia brigade, an 1810 speech to a philosophical society, a speech he intended to deliver about the Dinwiddie County convention members' election, and an account he kept of money owed him by Robert W. Withers. The last item appears unrelated to Brodnax: 25 May 1862 orders for Private T.M. Pledger, Co. G, 22nd Georgia Regiment, C.S.A. to serve as a nurse in the South Carolina Hospital in Petersburg.

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Hinton, John W. (John Wallace)

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Withers, Robert W.

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Pledger, T.M.

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Starke, Belfield.

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Grammer, John, Jr.

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Wilkins, Douglas.

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Wilkes, Burwell B.

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Brodnax, William H. (William Henry), 1786-1834

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William H. Brodnax, a lawyer, served as a brigadier general of the Virginia militia and as a representative to the House of Delegates from Greenville (1818-19) and Dinwiddie (1830-33). From the description of Papers, 1810-1862. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553270 William H. Brodnax served in the Virginia General Assembly and in the Virginia Convention of 1829/1830. From the description of Papers, 1825-1834. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id...

Atkinson, W.M.

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Withers, Eliza, 1846-

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Mason, Edmunds.

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Smith, A. P. D.

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Thornby, William.

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Bolling, Richard P.

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Lundy, E.H.

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Goodwyn, Joseph.

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May, J.F.

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