Papers, 1629-1915; (bulk 1775-1897).

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Papers, 1629-1915; (bulk 1775-1897).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19465493

Family correspondence and miscellaneous papers of four generations of the Clopton family and three generations of the Wallace family, centering in Virginia. The earlier papers are genealogical records. Papers of John Clopton, Virginia legislator and U.S. Representative contain comments on politics in the Jeffersonian Republican Party, the Continental Congress, Jay's treaty, the Alien and Sedition acts, the Embargo act, and American relations with France. Letters to son, John Bacon Clopton, Virginia judge, relate to the operation of a plantation in New Kent County. Correspondence of Charles Montriou Wallace, Sr., a Richmond merchant, includes accounts of an overland journey to California (1849) and subsequent residence there, Reconstruction, and Virginia politics. Of interest also are Civil War letters from William Izard Clopton. Letters from a Richmond commission firm concern wartime and postwar business conditions. The collection also includes several memorandum books, scrapbooks, account books, legal casebooks, journals of trips to California, Texas and England, records of an unidentified temperance society, and financial records of a teacher.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6964872

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Wallace family.

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Clopton, William Izard

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Clopton, John, 1756-1816

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Epithet: spice dealer, of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000174.0x000374 ...

Clopton family.

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Clopton, John Bacon, 1789 or 1790-1860

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Wallace, Charles Montriou, 1825-1910

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Charles Montriou Wallace, Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia on 22 November 1866 to Charles Montriou, Sr. and Joyce Clopton Wallace. He was an attorney and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1897 to 1904. He also wrote The Boy Gangs of Richmond and The History of the Capitol of Virginia . He died on 22 April 1957 and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery. From the guide to the Charles Montriou Wallace Collection of Negro Melodies, 1896-1912, (Library of Virginia) ...