Collection : of Robert Williams Daniel, 1776-1882.

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Collection : of Robert Williams Daniel, 1776-1882.

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The collection contains a letter from Edmund Pendleton to James Mercer, 19 March 1776, concerning Sir Andrew Snape Hamond and Charles Lee, the Virginia Committee of Safety, the arming of slaves by Lord Dunmore, raids in Virginia by British navy ships, and the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge (N.C.). George Washington writes (via Tench Tilghman) to the governors of seven colonies and officials in four other colonies on 31 January 1777 concerning desertions from the U.S. Continental Army. Also included are letters (1792-1795) by Edmund Randolph; a land grant (1788) from the Virginia Land Office to Samuel Woodson for 440 acres in Henry County, Va.; a printed act (1794) of the U.S. Congress concerning construction of a naval fleet to be sent to the coast of North Africa; and a letter (1801) from Elizabeth Nicholas Randolph to Jacob I. Cohen. There is also a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Hopper Nicholson, 7 December 1804, concerning the pension claims of Mrs. Ann Welsh of New London, Conn. Other Jefferson papers as President include clearance papers, and a grant for 100 acres of military bounty land in Ohio. There is a letter (1841) from Peter V. Daniel to Henry St. George Tucker; an 1845 deed for pew no. 14 in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va.; a letter (1861) from Raleigh Travers Daniel concerning the Virginia militia; and a pass issued to Peter Vivian Daniel (1818-1889) by the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company. Also included are passes (1861-1862) issued to Robert Findlater Williams by the Confederate States Army of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, Confederate States War. Dept., and the mayors of Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga. There are also an affidavit (1777) of John Eede of Sussex, England concerning a deed; revenue stamps and seal of Horsham, Sussex, England; and a receipt (1827) for the purchase of two slaves.

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Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

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Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney and politician. He was the 7th Governor of Virginia, and, as a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution while serving on its Committee of Detail. He was the first United States Attorney General (1789-1794) and the second Secretary of State (1794-1795) during George Washington's presidency. Born in Williamsburg in the Colony of Virgini...

Mercer, James, 1736-1793

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James Mercer (February 26, 1736 – October 31, 1793), was an American lawyer, military officer, planter, jurist, and politician. Born at his family's Marlborough plantation in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia, Mercer received a private education suitable as well as access to his father's library, if not the best, then one of the best in the area. Mercer traveled to Williamsburg for higher education under prominent lawyer George Wythe and others, and graduated from the College of Willi...

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...

Daniel, Raleigh Travers, 1805-1877.

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Virginia. Militia

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Daniel, Peter Vivian, 1818-1889.

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Tucker, Henry St. George, 1780-1848

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U.S. representative from Virginia, jurist, educator, and soldier. From the description of Henry St. George Tucker correspondence, 1822 November 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980667 Henry St. George Tucker, b. Mataox, Chesterfield County, Va., served in the War of 1812; graduated William and Mary where he studied law; professor of law at UVA where he introduced the Honor Code in 1842; served in the Virginia House of Delegates, practiced law and was chancellor of a priv...

Daniel, Peter V. (Peter Vivian), 1784-1860

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Peter Daniel was a member of the Privy Council of Virginia (1812-1835), a judge for the U.S. district court of Virgina (1836-1840) and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1841-1860). Philip Nicklin was a Philadelphia bookseller. From the description of Letter to Philip Nicklin, 1828. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234342900 United States Supreme Court Justice. From the description of Will and two codicils [manuscript] 1857-1859. (Un...

St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Va.)

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Woodson, Samuel, 1752?-1810.

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Randolph, Elizabeth Nicholas, 1753-1810.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad

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Richmond, Va. railroad company. From the description of Papers, 1863-1864. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36437730 ...

Cohen, Jacob I., approximately 1744-1823

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Nicholson, Joseph Hopper, 1770-1817

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Jurist and U.S. Representative from Maryland. From the description of Papers of Joseph Hopper Nicholson, 1789-1827. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80468811 ...

Williams, Robert Findlater, 1831?-1893.

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United States. Navy

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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...

Daniel, Robert Williams, 1936-

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Welsh, Anna, 1748-1832

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...