Papers, 1850-1857.

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Papers, 1850-1857.

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Chiefly letters to White regarding the business of his law practice, including settlement of claims and estates, collection on notes, and land sales and warrants. Twenty are from A.A. Cassiday of Louisville, Ky., concerning the settlement of an estate and claim to slaves in the Tennessee and Mississippi courts. Other letters to White are primarily from Tennessee but also from Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Alabama, Texas, and North Carolina. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Presbyterian Church and ministers, the principal of an academy, and politics are other topics. Correspondents include Cortlandt Van Rensselaer and White's brother A.H. White.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

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Van Rensselaer, Cortlandt, 1808-1860

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Courtlandt Van Rensselaer (1808-1860) was the son of Stephen and Cornelia Patterson Van Rensselaer. After graduating from Yale in 1823 and studying law, he attended Union Seminary at Hampden-Sydney, Va., and was ordained in April 1835. He gave religious instruction to slaves on Virginia plantations for about a year before opposition to him increased to such an extent that he went back to the North in August 1836. He spent the rest of his career in the North as a Presbyterian fund ra...

White, John J., fl. 1850s.

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Lawyer in Gallatin, Tennessee. From the description of Papers, 1850-1857. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 22767942 ...