Overton family papers, 1727-1918, 1781-1875.

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Overton family papers, 1727-1918, 1781-1875.

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Papers, chiefly 1781-1875, of members of the related Overton, Ragland, Claybrooke and Hart families of Louisa County, Va. and Haywood Co., Tenn. The early papers are primarily legal documents, accounts and account books of John Ragland and Samuel Ragland and correspondence of the children of Samuel Ragland. After 1797, the collection concerns the legal and business papers of Samuel Overton, Thomas Overton, Waller Overton and Sally Overton Claybrooke. After 1810, the collection concerns the Claybrooke family in Tennessee. There are also papers of James Malcolm Hart, farmer and schoolteacher, which concern education, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Prominent correspondents include Peter Johnston, John Marshall, Dabney Minor, Garrett Minor, John Minor and Edmund Randolph. There are accounts of Francis Jerdone and accounts concerning the boarding of horses; a legal opinion given by Edmund Pendleton; a letter of Jane R. Riordan concerning her learning the millinery trade; and a manuscript volume of distillery tax due in Spotsylvania County, Va.

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Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

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Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney and politician. He was the 7th Governor of Virginia, and, as a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution while serving on its Committee of Detail. He was the first United States Attorney General (1789-1794) and the second Secretary of State (1794-1795) during George Washington's presidency. Born in Williamsburg in the Colony of Virgini...

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...

Claybrooke family.

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Hart, James Malcolm, 1827-1889.

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Ragland, John

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Overton family.

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Overton, Samuel, 1768-1832

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Riordan, Jane R.

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Claybrooke, Sally Overton.

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Jerdone, Francis, 1721-1771.

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Francis Jerdone was a Scots merchant who arrived in Virginia in 1740 to manage the Hanover store of William Johnston, factor for Neill Buchanan. In 1746, Jerdone moved to Yorktown to act as factor for Buchanan & Hamilton, London merchants. He married Sarah Macon in 1753 and in that year moved with her to Louisa County. Just before his death, he purchased, with Wm. Holt, the forge and mills at Providence, New Kent County. He died in November, 1777 leaving a considerable fortune to his several...

Overton, Thomas, b. 1753.

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Marshall, John, 1755-1835

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John Marshall (1755-1835) was born near Germantown, Prince William (currently Fauquier) County, Virginia on 24 September 1755 to parents Thomas Marshall and Mary Randolph Keith. From 1775-1781, Marshall served in the Continental Army and fought in the Revolutionary War. During the spring and summer of 1780, Marshall attended classes at the College of William and Mary and received his license to practice law. After the war, he moved to Richmond, Virginia and began his practice. Marshall married M...

Minor, Dabney, 1749-1799

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Ragland, Samuel.

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Minor, John, 1736-1800.

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Hart family.

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Ragland family.

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Johnston, Peter, 1763-1831

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Peter Johnston (1763-1831), quit school at Hampden-Sydney College to join Light Horse Harry Lee's Partisan Legion with his schoolmate Clement Carrington during the revolutionary war. He later studied law and served in the House of Delegates from Prince Edward County, Virginia, from 1792-1793, 1798-1808, 1810-1811. In 1811 he was appointed judge of the federal court of Virginia. Johnston married Mary Wood of Goochland County in 1788 and, after her death, Anne Bernard of Buckingham County in 1828....

Minor, Garrett, 1743-1799.

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