Papers collected by Gilmer Speed Adams, 1651-1879.

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Papers collected by Gilmer Speed Adams, 1651-1879.

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Chiefly genealogical information on the Adams family of New Kent Co., Va., descendants of Ebenezer Adams and Tabitha Cocke Adams; on the Innes family of Harry Innes and Elizabeth Callaway Innes and also on the related Callaway, Fry, Griffin, and Speed families. Correspondents include Tabitha Eppes, Innes Callaway Adams, Catherine Elizabeth Innes Adams, and Joshua Fry who describes a trip to Kentucky in 1789. Other items included in the collection are wills, surveys, land grants, and business contracts. Also included in the collection is a printed version of the Fry- Jefferson map (1787), and notes on Huguenot emigration to Virginia from the Virginia Historical Collection, chiefly genealogical. It also includes typed copy of a letter written June 24, 1797, from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge discussing foreign relations with Great Britain and France.

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Rutledge, Edward, 1749-1800

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Edward Rutledge (November 23, 1749 – January 23, 1800) was an American Founding Father and politician who signed the Continental Association and was the youngest signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence. He later served as the 39th Governor of South Carolina from December 1798 until his death. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Rutledge was educated in law at Oxford and studied for and was admitted to the English Bar. Returning to Charleston, he had a successful law practic...

Adams, Catherine Elizabeth Innes, 1779-

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Innes family.

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Adams family.

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Callaway family.

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Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754

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Colonial Virginia educator, landholder, and surveyor. From the description of Bill, 1753. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443060771 ...

Frye family.

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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...

Adams, Gilmer Speed, 1854-

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Innes, Elizabeth Callaway, 1756-1790.

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Griffin family.

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Adams, Tabitha Cocke.

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Speed family.

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Adams, Innes Callaway, 1807-1862,

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Adams, Ebenezer, 1765-1841

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Innes, Harry, 1752-1816

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Harry Innes was involved, at the time this letter was written, in what is now termed the Spanish Conspiracy. The conspiracy involved Kentucky petitioning to become an independent state and then entering into an alliance with Spain. This would be benificial to Kentucky economically while protecting Spain's valuable colony, Mexico. This alliance plan failed after the defeat of the Jay-Gardoqui Treaty. The treaty would have forbidden United States navigation of the Mississippi River for twenty-five...

Eppes, Tabitha, 1756-

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