Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner, Whiting papers, 1760-1890, 1765-1817.

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Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner, Whiting papers, 1760-1890, 1765-1817.

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Letters, chiefly 1765-1817, of the Blair, Banister, Braxton, Horner and Whiting families. Correspondents include John Blair (1732-1800), Anne (Blair) Banister and Mary (Blair) Braxton Burwell Prescott. Many of the letters are written by women. Subjects covered in the collection include the Baron de Botetourt, William Tryon, Martha Washington, dueling, social life and customs, marriage and courtship, medicine, the Richmond theater fire, slavery, War of 1812, the College of William and Mary, and Williamsburg, Va.

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Washington, Martha, 1731-1802

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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the first First Lady of the United States. Washington is not only remembered as the nation’s first lady who set an example for her future first ladies, but also as a wife, mother, and property owner. She is an example of strength during the Revolutionary War, and as the first lady of a new nation. Born at Virginia’s Chestnut Grove Plantation located in New Kent County, Virginia on June 2, 1731, she was the eldest of eight children born to John and France...

Blair family.

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Horner family.

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Tryon, William, 1729-1788

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Colonial governor of North Carolina, 1764-1771, and New York, 1771-1780. From the description of William Tryon papers, 1772-1784. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58779879 British army officer and colonial lt. governor and governor of North Carolina. From the description of Correspondence of William Tryon, 1773-1774. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82551846 Colonial gov. of New York. From the description of Letter si...

Prescott, Mary Blair Braxton Burwell, d. 1734.

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College of William and Mary.

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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...

Banister, Anne Blair, 1746-1813.

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Whiting family.

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Braxton family.

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Botetourt, Norborne Berkeley, Baron de, approximately 1718-1770

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Colonial Gov. of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Stoke, to an unidentified correspondent (Mr. Grenville?), 1765 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270527718 Governor of Virginia, 1768-1770. From the description of Correspondence, 1768-1770. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 26924929 British colonial governor of Virginia. From the description of Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, papers...

Banister family.

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