Papers of the Maverick and Van Wyck families, 1772-1972.

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Papers of the Maverick and Van Wyck families, 1772-1972.

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Correspondence and land records documenting economic and social activities of Samuel Maverick (1772-1852), and his descendants of Pendleton, S.C.; including 5 letters (1818-1820), written by Maverick in Charleston to Zacharias Taliaferro, Pendleton, re cotton market, shipments of gold and silver to China, and arrangements for purchasing a slave. Other papers include 37 letters, 1854-1861, Dr. Samuel Maverick Van Wyck (1835-1861), to wife Margaret C. Broyles Van Wyck, of Williamston, S.C., re Van Wyck's medical studies and life in New York, 1857-1860. Letters, 1861, from Van Wyck to his wife discuss Confederate camplife, in Alabama, Tennessee, and elsewhere while serving as surgeon to a cavalry unit under General N[athan] B[edford] Forrest. Collection contains land papers, including 10 documents (9 of which are signed by James Monroe), 1784-1823, re endowment of a public school and other property in Ninety Six District, S.C., and re lands owned in Alabama; together with 3 volumes, 1785-1848, containing deeds, plats, town plans, and indexes to land holdings in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Other papers in the collection include essays and addresses of Flora Keith Overman (1849-1935) of Salisbury, N.C., re United Daughters of the Confederacy in North Carolina, Christmas in South Carolina, the role of women in rebuilding the South, and an essay, "South Carolina Architecture" by J. Whitney Cunningham (1905-1956), architect of Sumter, S.C. Bound volume, c. 1877-1880, autograph album chiefly of members of the Forty- fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, including Edwin Booth, Wade Hampton, John L Manning, Johnson Hagood, members of the U.S. Supreme Court, and others; and genealogical information relating to Anderson, Broyles, Calhoun, Maverick, Norris, Pickens, Taliaferro, and Van Wyck families.

324 items and 3 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7259924

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Cunningham, J. Whitney.

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Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902

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Norris family.

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Overman, Flora Keith

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Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893

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American actor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : New York and Chicago, to Elsie Leslie, 1889 Dec. 5 and 1890 Mar. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270532629 From the description of Letters, 1858, 1887. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 56685372 Edwin Booth (1833-1893) was the son of Junius Brutus Booth, the great British tragedian, and the older brother of John Wilkes Booth; Edwin was best known for his Shakespearean roles. ...

Hagood, Johnson, 1829-1898

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Confederate army officer, governor, and public official of Georgia. From the description of Letter of Johnson Hagood, 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450700 ...

Taliaferro family.

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United daughters of the Confederacy

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The Southern Cross of Honor award, which later became the Cross of Military Service, originated on Oct. 13, 1862 as an act of the Confederate Congress to recognize the courage and good conduct of officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the Confederate army. However, due to wartime shortages, the medals were not made, but the recipients' names were recorded in an Honor Roll for future reference. The cross's design was created by Mrs. Alexander S. Erwin in July 1898. It featured a cros...

Maverick family.

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Anderson family.

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Van Wyck family.

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Calhoun family.

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Manning, John L. (John Lawrence), 1816-1889

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Clarendon County, S.C. plantation owner, South Carolina state representative and senator, and governor of South Carolina 1852 to 1854. From the description of John L. Manning papers, 1839-1888 (bulk 1839-1863). (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36794049 Resident of Sumter (Sumter Co.), S.C. From the description of Papers, 1778-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19902886 Governor of South Carolina ...

Pickens family.

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Broyles family.

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Van Wyck, Samuel Maverick, 1835-1861

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Member of Van Wyck-Maverick family of New York and South Carolina; nephew of Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870) who settled in Texas. From the description of Scrapbook, [1847-1849]. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 56826763 ...

Cunningham, J. Whitney, 1905-1956.

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