William Patterson Smith papers, 1791-1943.

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William Patterson Smith papers, 1791-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20159133

Personal and business correspondence and other papers of Smith; of his son-in-law, Isaac Howell Carrington, provost marshal and lawyer, of Richmond; and of their families. Nearly one-half of the collection relates to Smith's mercantile firm in Gloucester, the grain trade throughout the Chesapeake area, grain and land speculation, commodity prices, economic conditions, and foreign trade. Other papers concern social life and customs in Tidewater Virginia, slavery, religion, agriculture, education, U.S. territorial expansion, secession, life in the Confederacy, Reconstruction in Virginia, and family matters. Correspondents include William Jennings Bryan, Winfield Scott, Marion Seddon Smith, John Tyler, and Woodrow Wilson.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6996202

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Smith family.

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Carrington family.

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Carrington, Isaac H., 1827-1887.

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Lawyer and Confederate Army officer. From the description of Papers, 1842-1945. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19464945 ...

Smith, William Patterson, 1796-1878.

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Merchant and planter, of Gloucester County, Va. From the description of William Patterson Smith papers, 1791-1943. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20159133 William Patterson Smith was the second son of the Reverend Armistead Smith (1756-1817) and Martha Tabb (1757-1821), of Mathews County, Virginia. Other children of this union were Thomas Smith, merchant and politician (1785-1841), Lucy (Smith) Tabb, Harriet (Smith) Todd, Leah (Smith) Taliaferro, and Elizabet...