Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

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Collection of manuscript items, 1756-1865.

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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.

10 items.

Library of Virginia

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SNAC Resource ID: 6761740

Library of Virginia

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Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...

Wythe, George, 1726-1806

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George Wythe (December 3, 1726 – June 8, 1806) was the first American law professor, a noted classics scholar, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia judge. The first of the seven Virginia signatories of the United States Declaration of Independence, Wythe served as one of Virginia's representatives to the Continental Congress and the Philadelphia Convention. Wythe taught and was a mentor to Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Henry Clay and other men who became American leaders. ...

Lomax, Lunsford Lindsay, 1835-1913

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Lunsford Lindsay Lomax (1835-1913) served as a major general in the military of the Confederate States of America. From the guide to the Lunsford Lindsay Lomax Papers, ., 1843-1909, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Madison, James, 1749-1812

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First Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. From the description of James Madison papers, 1792-1970s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 659814628 President of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., and bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1787-1808. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19902858 First Episcopal bishop of Virginia and president of the College of William and Mary. ...

Harrison, Mary, -1700?

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Harrison family.

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Goolsby, Andrew.

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Harrison, Mary Bain, collector, d. 1989.

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McElsom, Ann E.

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Grymes, Philip

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Epithet: late Receiver-General in Virginia British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001189.0x00009e ...

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Huddy, Joshua, ca.1745-1782.

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Harrison, Robert Hanson, 1745-1790

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Lippincott, Richard, 1745-1826

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Loyalist. From the description of Richard Lippincott papers, 1782. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066685 ...