Papers of Isabella Neff Burnet, 1757-1960.

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Papers of Isabella Neff Burnet, 1757-1960.

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The collections contains a genealogy of the family of Dr. William Burnet (1730-1791); typescript copies of four official letterbooks, 1836-1841, David Gouverneur Burnet, president of Texas; clippings of a newspaper column on the history of Albemarle County, Va., by Glen Curtis Smith; notes on Edward E. Este and the Mier Expedition; Confederate currency; and miscellaneous notes and lists regarding historic Virginia homes, churches and water mills. Jefferson family material includes copies of wills, estate inventories and appraisements of Peter and Jane Jefferson; botanical correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Carrington Cabell; a note on Thomas Mann Randolph's botanical proficiency; a list of plants grown at Monticello; and a memoir of life at Monticello by Jane Cary Smith. There is also a copy of The Dark Blue Chord, December, 1918, a literary effort by men of the U.S. Army General Staff Purchase, Storage and Traffic Division; miscellaneous papers of the Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs; and loose clippings pertaining to Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Va. in the 1930s and 40s; together with three scrapbooks of clippings on local history including sketches later published in book form by Mary Rawlings as "Antebellum Albemarle."

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University of Virginia. Library

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Monticello (Va.)

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Burnet, William, 1730-1791

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William Burnet (December 13, 1730 – October 7, 1791) was an American political leader and physician from New Jersey. He served in the Continental Army and the Continental Congress. Born on December 13, 1730 in Elizabethtown in the Province of New Jersey, Burnet graduated from Princeton University in 1749 and studied medicine under Dr. Staats in White Plains, New York before starting his practice in Newark, New Jersey. He was a member of Newark's Committee of Safety in 1775 before he joined th...

Burnett family.

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Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757

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Peter Jefferson (1708-1757), Virginia planter, cartographer and surveyor, father of Thomas Jefferson, married Jane Randolph 1739. In the 1740s, the family moved to Shadwell Plantation in Albemarle County. In 1744 Jefferson became the Goochland County surveyor. In 1745, he was appointed guardian of the children of his friend and kinsman, Col. William Randolph of Tuckahoe (1712-1745). The Jefferson family soon moved to Tuckahoe, in Goochland County, returning to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson d...

Randolph, Thomas M. (Thomas Mann), 1768-1828

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Congressman; governor of Virginia; son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson. From the description of Letters : Washington, D.C., to Dr. William Bache, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1804 February 11 and November 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793170 U.S. Congressman, 1803-1807; governor of Virginia, 1819-1822; and son-in-law of Thomas Jefferson; from Albemarle Co., Va. From the description of Letters, 1813-1825. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record ...

Cocke, James Powell, 1748-1829.

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Rawlings, Mary, 1873- Albemarle County, Va.

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Este, Edward E., d. 1843.

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University of Virginia

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

Edgemont (Albemarle County, Va. : Dwelling)

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Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856

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Public official of Virginia and businessman. From the description of Joseph C. Cabell correspondence, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452442 Legislator from Virginia. From the description of Joseph C. Cabell papers on the founding of the University of Virginia, 1810-1857. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067601 Aided Jefferson in founding University of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Warminster, to Thomas Je...

Texan Mier Expedition (1842-1844)

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Jefferson, Jane, 1740-1765,

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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...

Smith, Jane Cary.

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Virginia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

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Burnet, David Gouverneur, 1789-1870

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David Gouverneur Burnet (1788-1870) was born in Newark, New Jersey. About 1817 he moved to Natchitoches, Louisiana, and in 1831 to Texas. He was ad interim president of the Republic of Texas from March 17 to October 22, 1836. In 1836 he was elected vice president of the Republic of Texas, serving part time as secretary of state and acting president. From the guide to the David G. Burnet letters MS 188., 1836-1859, (Woodson Research Center, ) Born April 14, 1788,...

Burnet, Isabella Neff, 1885- ,

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Genealogist and historian. From the description of List of Virginia water mills, 1937. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135298 From the description of Papers of Isabella Neff Burnet, 1757-1960. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32135383 From the description of List of Virginia water mills [manuscript], 1937. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647845522 ...

Smith, Glenn Curtis, 1910-1963.

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