Letter : Warminster, to Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, The Wilderness Post Office, Spotsylvania County [Virginia], 1825 August 12.

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Letter : Warminster, to Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, The Wilderness Post Office, Spotsylvania County [Virginia], 1825 August 12.

Tucker writes to his granddaughter with family news and a riddle he read to her uncle to convince him to do his reading lessons. Her grandmother, Leilia, admonishes her for not writing about Mr. Decatur's visit to Orange County and tells her news of family friends, the Masseys and Cabells.

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Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827

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St. George Tucker (1752-1827), was born in Bermuda and emigrated to Williamsburg, Virginia where he attended the College of William and Mary. He served in the Revolutionary War, as a judge of the General Court of Virginia, and as professor of law at the College of William and Mary. He was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. Tucker was appointed to the federal district court for Virginia. He married, firstly, Frances Bland Randolph who was the mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. ...

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Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker.

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