Dunkin family papers, 1837-1876.

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Dunkin family papers, 1837-1876.

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Correspondence of Alfred H., and Bethune Dunkin and Ann B. Adams between Charleston, (S.C.), Massachusetts, and elsewhere. Miscellaneous papers, including commissions for office. Alfred H. Dunkin's papers (1844-1860s) include commissions, letters, agreements, and other papers of Dunkin and other family members. There are business letters to Dunkin from his father, Benjamin F. Dunkin (1844), from John Belton O'Neall concerning personal matters, and one letter of Dunkin about his anxiety over a woman acquaintance meeting with another man. Also contains Dunkin's commissions (1845-1849) for the Charleston Light Dragoons and as a notary public (1849), articles of agreement (1851) between Dunkin and Charles R. Brewster, husband of his mother's sister, concerning their law practice in Charleston, and manumission papers (1860) for slave Josephine Smith by Mary Levin. Benjamin F. Dunkin's family papers (1837-1876) include a commission (1837) for the office of Chancellor of the Court of Equity, and a letter (1845) from Alfred Huger Dunkin concerning general and religious matters. Also includes correspondence (1865-1874) of Benjamin F. Dunkin with Bethune Dunkin and Ann B. Adams of Waltham, Mass. and others concerning family matters, worries of Northern relatives about post-Civil War conditions in Charleston and Columbia (1865), the S.C. constitution, Dunkin's job as a judge (1868), and other personal and political matters. Also contains a title to land at 220 Calhoun Street in Charleston, S.C.

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Dunkin family.

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Family of South Carolina and Massachusetts. Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin (1792-1874) was born in Medford, Massachusetts, and later lived in Charleston, South Carolina, where he became an attorney and later a judge and state representative. Ann B. Adams (wife of Dr. Horatio Adams, resident of Waltham, Mass.) was the sister of Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin, and their brother was Bethune Dunkin. Alfred Huger Dunkin (1822-1906), an attorney, was the son of Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin. From the descript...

Levin, Mary, 1819-1887.

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Dunkin, Bethune.

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Dunkin, Benjamin Faneuil, 1792-1874

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Dunkin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and moved to Charleston upon graduating from Harvard College in 1811. He became an attorney and later a judge and South Carolina state representative. From the description of Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin reminiscences and family history, 1861-1862. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522727 Charleston, S.C. attorney, judge, and South Carolina state representative. A native of Pennsylvania and a graduate of H...

Brewster, Charles R.

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Adams, Ann B.

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Smith, Josephine R. (Josephine Reist)

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O'Neall, John Belton, 1793-1863

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Author, judge, and state legislator of Newberry County, S.C.; raised in the Quaker faith; educated at South Carolina College; began practicing law, May 1814; espoused Unionist views during the Nullification controversy of 1832; served four terms in the S.C. House between 1816 and 1828, including two terms as Speaker of the S.C. House. From the description of John Belton O'Neall papers, 1815-1953. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 744565098 ...

South Carolina. Militia. Charleston Light Dragoons.

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Dunkin, Alfred Huger, 1822-1906.

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Duncan family.

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