Papers, 1736-1874 [microform].

Thornton, William, 1759-1828

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William Thornton, architect, inventor, and public official, was born in the Virgin Islands on May 20, 1759, of English parents. He came to the United States in 1787 and became a citizen in 1788. On September 12, 1794 Thornton was appointed one of the commissioners of the new federal city of Washington. He championed his own design for the Capitol and the north wing had been constructed in accordance with his ideas by the time Congress removed to Washington in 1800. In 1802 Congress abolished the...

Lewis, Joseph, 1772-1834

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Henry H. Cox came to America in 1799 from Dunmanway, County Cork, Ireland. He settled in Chester County, became a member of the Society of Friends and returned to Ireland in 1817. From the description of Memorial of Henry Hamilton Cox, 1881. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122540352 U.S. representative of Virginia. From the description of Letter of Joseph Lewis, 1814. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015018 ...

Jockey Club (Leesburg, Va.)

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Whiting, Francis Beverley, 1785-1867.

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Burwell, Nathaniel, 1750-1814

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Nathaniel Burwell (1750-1814) was the son of Carter and Lucy Grymes Burwell. He attended the College of William and Mary between 1759 and 1772. He married twice, first to Susannah Grymes and after her death to Lucy Page Baylor. Both unions produced eight children. Burwell lived at Carter's Grove until his second marriage, at that time, he moved to Clark County, Va., where he erected Carter's Hill. He also managed the New Quarter, Mill Quarter, Foaces and Neck of Land Quarter. From th...

Feild, Theophilus, 1788-1826.

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Whiting, Francis, 1780?-1826.

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Lufborough, Nathan

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Burwell, Carter, 1716-1756

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Carter Burwell of James City County studied at the College of William and Mary in 1734. He married Lucy Ludwell Grymes. Nathaniel Burwell, born in 1750, was the son of Carter and Lucy Burwell. He inherited Carter's Grove but moved to Clark County in the Shenandoah Valley where he built and lived in Carter Hall. He married Susanna Grymes in 1772. She bore him eight children before her death in 1788. After Susanna's death, Burwell married Lucy Page Baylor who also bore him...

Randolph, John, 1773-1833

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Randolph served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1813, 1815-1817, 1819-1825, 1827-1829), the U.S. Senate (1825-1827), the Virginia Constitutional Convention (1829-1830), and as Minister to Russia (1830-1831). From the description of Letter of introduction, 10 July 1813. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235133950 U. S. Congressman from Virginia. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Liverpool, England, to Jacob Harvey, Cork Irela...

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...

Burwell, George Harrison, 1799-1873.

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Burwell family.

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Whiting, Fairfax Herbert, 1813-1890.

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