Philander Smith letter, 1806 Apr. 27.

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Philander Smith letter, 1806 Apr. 27.

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Letter from Philander Smith, a planter and politician of the Natchez District, Mississippi Territory, to his brother Jedidiah Smith of Blandford, Mass. Smith writes of the status of his crops, high prices of groceries and merchandise, recent sales of cotton, and the health and activities of relatives and friends in the vicinity. He reserves words of opprobrium for the ne'er-do-well "scoundrel" son of his brother William, whom he recently had to help out of a financial scrape. Declaring himself to be a committed Federalist, Smith avows that he has no intention of running for public office in the Mississippi Territory General Assembly in the next election due to having grown "tired of the bustle of public life."

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Smith, Jedidiah.

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Smith, Philander

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Philander Smith was born in Indiana on 23 May 1835, the son of Samuel Smith. According to the 1860 U.S. Federal Census, he worked as a school teacher and resided at his father's house in Jackson Township, Hancock County, Indiana. Smith enlisted as a sergeant in the Indiana Infantry 8th Regiment in 1861. He was promoted several times and at the time of his discharge in 1865 he was a captain. From the description of Papers, 1862-1885 (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat recor...