Whittle family papers, 1779-1922 [microfilm manuscript].

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Whittle family papers, 1779-1922 [microfilm manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24639089

Personal correspondence, diaries, biographical and genealogical data pertaining the the Whittle and related Bolling, Davies, Kennon, Munford, Murray, Page, Randolph, Sinclair, and Skipwith families. Included are letters, 1807-1824 (128 items), of Elizabeth Beverley (Munford) Kennon (b. 1762), wife of Gen. Richard Kennon of Mecklenburg County, Va., and her daughter, Sarah ("Sally") Skipwith (Kennon) Sinclair, to various member of the Mordecai family of Warrenton, N.C., and elsewhere. Topics include family and social news and discussion of anxieties caused by the War of 1812. Also present are an incomplete diary, September 1753- January 1754, of Rev. Samuel Davies, president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) while on a mission to England for the College and the Presbyterian Church; an orderly book, August-October 1779, of Col. William Davies, commander of the 1st Virginia Regiment, Continental Army, and aide to generals Washington and Lafayette, apparently kept while serving in New Jersey; and the diary, 1829-1831 and 1857-1858, of Commander William Conway Whittle (1805-1878), U.S.N., during his service on various ships, including the U.S.S. Constellation.

156 items.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Sinclair family.

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Kennon family.

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Sinclair, Sarah Skipwith Kennon.

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

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Whittle, William Conway, 1805-1878,

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Skipwith family.

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Davies, William R.

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William R. Davies served as the second president of the Eau Claire State Teachers College/Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire from 1940-1959. Davies was born in Tenino, Washington. His family migrated to Cambria, Wisconsin when he was four years old. He graduated from Ripon College with a bachelor's degree in 1915 and the University of Wisconsin with a Master's degree in 1921. He taught briefly at a private school in Endeavor, Wisconsin, but left that position to serve in World War I. When he ...

Kennon, Elizabeth Beverley Munford, b. 1762.

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Constellation (Frigate)

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Davies, Samuel, 1723-1761

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Samuel Davies, fourth president of Princeton University, was born in New Castle County, Delaware, on November 3, 1723. He was licensed to preach when he was twenty-two, and was ordained as an evangelist to Virginia. In 1753 Davies and Gilbert Tennant were chosen by Princeton trustees to go to Great Britain and Ireland in search of donations for the College. Davies kept a diary of the mission, which was later published. During their stay in the British Isles they were able to secure sufficient fu...

Page family.

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