Papers of Robert Beverley, 1783-1831.

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Papers of Robert Beverley, 1783-1831.

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Include letters, 1783, from Edmund Randolph re legislative procedures in the General Assembly including a bill to pay off the Army debt; letters, 1809-1810, from British minister plenipotentiary Francis James Jackson re the recall of Erskine following the Chesapeake-Leopard affair, Jackson's peace initiatives, and protests against a renewed embargo; and an indenture and bond for London and Jefferson County land signed by Ferdinando Fairfax. Most of the papers are concerned with Beverley's settlement of the estate of William Augustine Washington. Correspondents include John Tayloe Lomax, Thomas B. Barton, Thomas Gresham, William Brooke, William Macfarlane, Phillip Pendleton Barbour, Briscoe Gerard Baldwin, Daniel Sheffey, Bushrod Washington, and Sarah Tayloe Washington.

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