Langdon Cheves papers, 1735-1941.

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Langdon Cheves papers, 1735-1941.

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Papers of Langdon Cheves are divided into his land papers pertaining to plantations mainly in Georgetown and Beaufort counties, S.C., real estate in Charleston, S.C., and Newport, R.I., and other properties; correspondence, including personal, business, and family letters; historical and genealogical research papers, including a transcription of the Shaftesbury Papers; legal papers, including estate records and correspondence; financial papers, mostly accounts; family papers, including photographs and transcriptions of correspondence of John R. Cheves and Ann Heatly Reid Lovell; and miscellaneous papers, including school and organizational records, sketchbooks, and wills. In addition, there are are family papers (1819-1881) of Charles Thomson Haskell, including correspondence and Civil War military records; papers (1870-1923) of Sophia Lovell Haskell Cheves, wife of Langdon Cheves, which mainly consist of her correspondence with Langdon Cheves and family members; Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord's notes and letters (ca. 1876) concerning her father Langdon Cheves (1776-1857); and transcriptions (1941) of Cheves family correspondence by Langdon Cheves West. Scattered papers of Henry A. Middleton, Sr., grandfather of Langdon Cheves, are also included.

ca. 21 linear ft.

South Carolina Historical Society

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South Carolina Historical Society

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Cheves, Sophia Lovell Haskell, 1845-1922

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Haskell family.

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West, Langdon Cheves

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Cheves, John R.

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Cheves, Langdon, 1848-1939

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Charleston, South Carolina attorney and historian. From the description of Abstracts of title (1694-1850) for lands in Charleston and the Lowcountry, between 1900 and 1940. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32139054 Charleston, S.C., attorney. In the last year of the Civil War he joined the Confederate Army. After graduating from the College of Charleston in 1871, he went into railroad construction in Georgia, but later returned to Charleston to st...

Haskell, Charles T. (Charles Thomson), 1802-1874

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Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857

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Langdon Cheves (September 17, 1776 – June 26, 1857) was an American politician, lawyer and businessman from South Carolina. He was a U. S. Representative from 1810 to 1815, served as Speaker of the House in 1814–1815, and was president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1819 to 1822. Langdon Cheves was born at Bull Town Fort, on the Rocky River in South Carolina. His father, Alexander, was a native of Scotland; his mother, Mary Langdon, was from Virginia. At the age of ten he went t...

Middleton, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1793-1887

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Cheves family.

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McCord, Louisa Susanna Cheves, 1810-1879

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Cheeves family.

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Lovell, Ann Heatly Reid

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Resident of Orangeburg (Orangeburg Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1819-1850. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903060 ...