Blackford family papers, 1742-1953.

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Blackford family papers, 1742-1953.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24864354

Chiefly correspondence of three generations of the Blackford family. Included are letters relating to the involvement of Mary Berkeley (Minor) Blackford (1802-1896) in the American Colonization Society; diaries, 1842-1844, kept by William Matthews Blackford (1801-1864) while serving as United States chargeĢ d'affaires in Bogota, New Granada (now Columbia); Civil War letters from Launcelot Minor Blackford (1837-1914) and his brothers; scattered correspondence from missionaries and former slaves in Liberia; three issues of a newspaper, 1854, published in Cavalla, West Africa; Blackford family history information (typed transcriptions), including microfilm of a scrapbook of Launcelot Minor Blackford containing genealogical sketches of the Blackford, Minor, Byrd, Willis, Washington, Ambler, Mason, Jacquelin, and Gray families.

ca. 4,000 items (6.5. linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7138571

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Minor family.

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Byrd family.

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Blackford, Mary Berkeley Minor, 1802-1896

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Willis family.

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Washington family.

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Jacquelin family.

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Blackford, William M., 1801-1864

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Consular officer. Full name: William Matthews Blackford. From the description of William M. Blackford papers, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450683 Lynchburg, Virginia, editor, bank cashier and postmaster. From the description of William Matthews Blackford diaries [manuscript], 1849-1864. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823072 William Matthews Blackford, journalist, diplomat, financial agent, and banker, was born 19 August 1801, ...

Mason family.

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Blackford, Launcelot Minor, 1837-1914,

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Head of the Episcopal High School for boys in Alexandria, Va., 1870-1913. From the description of Launcelot Minor Blackford diaries, 1847-1913. WorldCat record id: 23150017 University of Virginia student from Lynchburg, Va.; afterwards Lt., C.S.A., principal of the Norwood School, and of Episcopal High School. From the description of Launcelot M. Blackford's intermediate and senior mathematics exercises [manuscript], [1855-1856] (University of Virginia). WorldCat...

American colonization society

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The American Colonization Society was founded in 1817 in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of transporting freeborn and emancipated American blacks to Africa and helping them start a new life there. From the description of List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144821 The American Colonization Society was an organization dedicated to transporting freeborn blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa, to what is n...

Blackford family.

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Blackford family members lived in Fredericksburg, Lynchburg, and Alexandria, Va. From the description of Blackford family papers, 1742-1953. WorldCat record id: 24864354 ...

Gray family.

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Ambler family.

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