Cheves family papers, 1808-1934.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Cheves family papers, 1808-1934.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28415366

Family and business correspondence of Langdon Cheves (1776-1857), lawyer, planter, financier, and Congressman from Charleston; his wife, Mary Elizabeth Dulles, of Charleston and Philadelphia; their daughter, Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879), a South Carolina author, and her husband, David James McCord, editor and nullification leader. Antebellum material includes medicinal recipes for the treatment of slaves' aliments, 1808 and undated; letter, 6 Jan. 1819, from J[osehp] J. Dulles, Cheves' brother-in-law, Philadelphia, re movement to secure Cheves' appointment to the presidency of the Bank of the United States. Letter, 25 Sept. 1836, New York, Ed. W[illia]m Johnston, to Langdon Cheves, Jr. (1814-1863), Columbia, re his expedition in the Va. mountains and research on Patrick Henry, re Duff Green's contemplated revival of "Southern Review" with Johnston as editor and the support of William Campbell Preston, John C. Calhoun and James Hamilton, and re his objections to Hugh Swinton Legare's political views. Letter, 30 Dec. 1846, Log Hall (near the Ogeechee River in Georgia), Langdon Cheves to T. P. Huger, reviewing his gifts of a plantation, African American slaves, and cash to his daughter when she married Huger, and criticizing Huger's management of the property and treatment of his daughter. Civil War materials include thirty-two letters, 1861-1863, of Langdon Cheves, Jr., relating primarily to his work as an engineer with the Confederate States of America Corps of Engineers on coastal fortifications, particularly on Hilton Head Island and at Battery Wagner on Morris Island; andletters, June and July 1862, referring to his work on the design and construction of gas balloons for military observation. Reconstruction and later-era correspondence includes letter, 28 Mar. 1868, from Russell McCord at Quissaman, Brazil, to his sister, Mary, describing life as a Confederate emigre living with a slaveholding family in Brazil; letter, 6 Feb. 1869, Mont[gomer]y, [Ala.], R. P. McCord to "Dear Charlotte," re the situation of various family members in Ala. and re planting activities; and letter, 25 Jan. 1896, Charleston, Langdon Cheves, to Cha[rle]s N. West, Savannah, commenting on West's "Courts and Judges of Georgia".

74 items.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7259412

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 17 Entities related to this resource.

Henry, Patrick, 1736-1799

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s0045v (person)

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 – June 6, 1799) was an American attorney, planter, politician, and orator known for declaring to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and was for the most part educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, and assisting his father-in-law ...

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp3z99 (person)

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics. He did this in the context of protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, mo...

Preston, William C. (William Campbell), 1794-1860

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ff3sg8 (person)

Lawyer and college adminstrator of South Carolina; member of S.C. House of Representatives, 1828-1834, and the U.S. Senate, 1833-1842; president of South Carolina College, Columbia, S.C., 1845-1851, and trustee, 1851-1857; an 1812 graduate of South Carolina College; studied law at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; practiced law in Virginia and S.C.; formed law partnership with David J. McCord, 1832; founded the Columbia Antheneum; husband of Maria Coalter and Penelope Davis. Fro...

Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6352cd5 (corporateBody)

Hamilton, James, 1786-1857

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6959jvk (person)

Governor of S.C., 1830-1832, and politician landowner of Texas; legislator, lawyer and mayor of Charleston, S.C.; political offices held include: S.C. House, 1819-1822; S.C. Senate, 1834-1838; U.S. House for S.C., 1823-1829; U.S. Senator of Texas, 1857; co-founder of "Southern Quarterly Review;" son of James Hamilton (1750-1833); husband of Elizabeth Mathews Heyward Hamilton. From the description of James Hamilton papers, 1820-1859. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id:...

Cheves family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b08bm5 (family)

Residents of South Carolina. From the description of Cheves family papers, 1808-1934. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 28415366 ...

Johnston, Edward William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv508n (person)

Green, Duff, 1791-1875

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr2665 (person)

Journalist, politician, and industrial promoter. From the description of Papers of Duff Green, 1810-1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71070528 Businessman, publisher, printer for U.S. Congress, 1827-1833. From the description of Letter : Washington, to W.R. Smith, 1834 Oct. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22456195 From the description of Letter : Dalton, Ga., to H. Maynard, 1874 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22456215 Editor, indus...

Dulles, Joseph J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61z7jsc (person)

Cheves, Mary Elizabeth Dulles.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6157xd2 (person)

McCord, Louisa Susanna Cheves, 1810-1879

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n02k49 (person)

Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60v8g08 (person)

Langdon Cheves (September 17, 1776 – June 26, 1857) was an American politician, lawyer and businessman from South Carolina. He was a U. S. Representative from 1810 to 1815, served as Speaker of the House in 1814–1815, and was president of the Second Bank of the United States from 1819 to 1822. Langdon Cheves was born at Bull Town Fort, on the Rocky River in South Carolina. His father, Alexander, was a native of Scotland; his mother, Mary Langdon, was from Virginia. At the age of ten he went t...

Cheves, Langdon, 1814-1863

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vq351g (person)

Son of Mary Elizabeth Dulles and Langdon Cheves (1776-1857); brother of author Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879); known as "Langdon Cheves, Jr." From the description of Letter, 1837 Dec. 2, Columbia, S.C., to P[ierce] M[ason] Butler. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 47112629 ...

McCord, David James, 1797-1855

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc096j (person)

Author and editor of the Columbia Telescope (Columbia, S.C.), an outspoken newspaper that favored Nullification. From the description of Letter, 1831 June 29 (Columbia, S.C.), to David Bailie Warden (Paris, France) (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 191703383 Stephen Decatur Miller, Governor of S.C. From the description of Letters to Stephen Decatur Miller, Governor of South Carolina, Moses Benbow, and J.M. Adams, regarding nullification in South...

West, Charles N. (Charles Nephew), 1844-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6808gx7 (person)

Bank of the United States (1816-1836)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gn209h (corporateBody)

In 1816, the Bank of the United States was rechartered, the first charter having expired in 1811, in an attempt to stabilize the national currency. Within the first three years, the bank was nearly ruined due to mismanagement. Langdon Cheves was elected president of its board of directors in 1819 and restored the bank's credit. In 1822, he resigned the post and was succeeded by Nicholas Biddle. The national charter for the bank expired in 1836, but Biddle kept the bank in operation until 1841, u...

Legaré, Hugh Swinton 1797?-1843

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m0k8t (person)

Legare was a lawyer and legislator whose career included terms in the South Carolina legislature and in Congress (elected 1836). In 1841, President Tyler appointed him attorney-general. From the description of Letter to B. Northrup, 22 September 1841. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234341782 Lawyer, editor, and politician, from Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1837-1843. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19865911 ...