Papers : addition, 1790-1902.

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Papers : addition, 1790-1902.

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Consists of the papers of the Lawrence family, including slave bills of sale and handwritten copies of correspondence. William B. Walton is the buyer listed on all of the slave bills of sale. Correspondents include William Pitt Lawrence, Phila Ann Lawrence, Stockley Donelson, Andrew Jackson Donelson, Rachel Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Nancy P. Lawrence, Rev. Nathaniel Lawrence, Anna Clark Tippens, and J.B. Killebrew.

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Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Donelson, Stockley, d. ca. 1804.

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Killebrew, J. B. (Joseph Buckner), 1831-1906

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Native of Montgomery County, Tenn.; agriculture editor of the Nashville Union and American; Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction for Tennessee; state agent for the Peabody Fund; Secretary of the Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture, Statistics, Mines and Immigration; immigration agent and industrial agent for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway; editor of Southern Farm magazine. From the description of Joseph Buckner Killebrew family papers, 1797-1906. (Tennessee ...

Lawrence, Nancy P.

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Donelson, Andrew Jackson, 1799-1871

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Andrew Jackson Donelson was nephew, ward, and personal secretary to President Andrew Jackson throughout his administration. President John Tyler (1841-1845) appointed him chargeĢ d'affaires of the United States to the Republic of Texas and he was U.S. Minister to Prussia from 1846 to 1849. Donelson was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate of former President Millard Fillmore on the American Party ticket in 1856, but they garnered only 8 electoral votes. From the description o...

Lawrence, Phila Ann.

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Jackson, Rachel, 1767-1828

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Born Rachel Donelson. Some time after 1780 she married Lewis Robards and later separated from him. In 1791, believing herself divorced, she married Andrew Jackson. Later it was discovered that Robards had never completed the proceedings, and the Jacksons had to wait for a final decree and re-marry in 1794. The scandal was used by Jackson's political enemies throughout his career. Rachel died soon after his election to the presidency. From the description of ALS, 1821 July 22, Pensaco...

Lawrence family.

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Lawrence, Nathaniel M. (Nathaniel Morris), 1917-1986

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Attorney General of New York State. From the description of Letter of Resignation, 1795 November 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122486952 ...

Tippens, Anna Clark.

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Lawrence, William Pitt.

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Walton, William B., 1920-

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