ALS: Nashville, [Tenn.], to Francis Preston, Arlington, Virginia, 1810 May 3.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

ALS: Nashville, [Tenn.], to Francis Preston, Arlington, Virginia, 1810 May 3.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226721731

Letter concerns matters of bookkeeping and finances relative to a contract between Jackson and Preston.

1 item (4 p.) ; 25 cm.

New York State Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7081027

New York State Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f29rp1 (person)

Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Preston, Francis, 1765-1835

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pr836k (person)

The second son and third child of Col. William Preston and his wife Susanna Smith, was born at "Greenfield," Botetourt County (Va.), 2 August 1765. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1783, and practiced law in Montgomery and Washington counties in Virginia. Preston served in the House of Delegates in 1788 and 1789. From March 1793 until March 1797, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives. Settling in Abingdon, he returned to law practice and again entered ...