Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting Papers, 1765-1890.

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Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting Papers, 1765-1890.

Begins with Blair family of Virginia and continues in chronological sequence through their descendants in the Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting families. Topics covered include Williamsburg society, medicine, epidemics and illnesses, wartime conditions (American Revolution and War of 1812), and genealogical information. Majority of letters written by female family members who vividly relate activities and concerns of women in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Virginia. Correspondents of note are: Carter Braxton, Benjamin Rush, Bushrod Washington, and Wilson Cary.

108 items ; 36 cm.

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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a profess...

Braxton, Carter, 1736-1797

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Carter Braxton (September 10, 1736 – October 10, 1797) was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, a merchant, planter, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia politician. A grandson of Robert "King" Carter, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners and slaveholders in the Old Dominion, Braxton was active in Virginia's legislature for more than 25 years, generally allied with Landon Carter, Benjamin Harrison V, Edmund Pendleton and other conservative pla...

College of William and Mary.

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Whiting, Elizabeth Braxton, 1759-1818.

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Blair, John, 1732-1800.

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American judge, delegate from Virginia to the Constitutional Convention and associate justice on the Supreme Court from 1789-1796. From the description of Receipt, 1793 March 2. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 173203791 John Blair, the writer of this letter was a Virginian legal scholar, educated at the College of William and Mary and studied law at London's Middle Temple. He was a delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1787) and serv...

Prescott, Mary Blair Braxton Burwell, d. 1734.

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Banister family.

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Little, Richard H., d. 1854.

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Braxton, George, d. 1761.

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Blair, John, 1687-1771

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John Blair served as president of the Council and acting governor of Virginia from the time Governor Dinwiddie left Virginia in January 1758 until Governor Fauquier arrived in June of that year. He returned to that capacity after Fauquier's death in March 1768, serving until the arrival of Lord Botetourt in October. From the guide to the Land Grant to Samuel Lusk, 1768 July 20, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) President of the [Virginia] C...

Braxton family.

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Cary, Wilson, d. 1772.

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Cary, Sarah Blair, 1738-1804.

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Horner family.

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Blair family.

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Banister, Anne Blair, 1746-1813.

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Constellation (Ship)

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Whiting family.

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Little, Mary Blair Whiting, 1781-1857.

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