Papers, 1766-1871 (bulk, 1800-1848) [microform].

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Dromgoole, Edward, 1751-1835. Papers, 1766-1871 (bulk, 1800-1848) [microform].

Papers, 1766-1871 (bulk, 1800-1848) [microform].

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Chiefly correspondence and other papers, mainly 1800-1848, of Methodist minister Edward Dromgoole and sons Edward Dromgoole, Jr., and George Coke Dromgoole. Pre-1807 papers are mainly letters from other Methodist ministers pertaining to the state of religion in Maryland and Virginia. Included is a letter, 17 September 1783, from John Wesley. From 1807 to 1830, there are family letters concerning religion, land holdings, and plantation business in Brunswick County, Va., and Northampton County, N.C. Included is correspondence from friends who had moved to Ohio with family and regional news, descriptions of the financial prospects there, and exhortations to the Dromgooles to migrate. Later papers are mainly letters to George Coke Dromgoole concerning state and national politics, Democratic Party business, conventions, elections, John C. Calhoun, an 1838 duel, the annexation of Texas, the Mexican War, and monetary issues. There are also letters from two generations of college students at various schools and correspondence among the Dromgooles concerning family business. Some of the correspondents include Francis Asbury, Richard H. Baptist, John Strode Barbour, Philip Ignatius Barziza (of Williamsburg, Va.), Thomas Hart Benton, Chappell Bonner, Alexander Broadnax, Philip Bruce, Alexander M. Cain, Thomas S. Chew, John C. Claiborne, Philip Claiborne, William Irby Cocke, Peter Vivian Daniel, Thomas Davis, Samuel D. DeNoon, John Dickins, William R. Drinkard, Peter P. Dromgoole, Sarah C. Dromgoole, Reuben Ellis, John Finch, Samuel Bassett French, John M. Garrett, Philip Gatch, James Henry Gholson, William Osborne Goode, Samuel E. Goodson, John Hagerty, Henry Harris, E. E. Haynes, William C. Holt, Thomas P. Hunt, Devereux Jarrett, James Jennings, James Alfred Jones, Roger Jones, John Justice, Amos Kendall, James H. Keys, Walter F. Leake, John Letcher, Robert Lindsay, N. M. Martin, R. H. Mason, John Young Mason, Robert Mills, Jeremiah Morton, (Cont.) Stith Parham, John R. Pearson, Jesse Pelham, John B. Pelham, Martha Pelham, Mary Pelham, Peter Pelham, Samuel Pelham, Charles Pettigrew, John Hampden Pleasants, Thomas Ritchie (1778-1854), Thomas Ritchie (1819-1854), Francis Everod Rives, Wyndham Robertson, Peter Ross, John Sale, William B. Shepard, W.E. Simpson, Alexander Dromgoole Sims, Rebecca Sims, William A. Smith, Montfort Stokes, George Stone, John T. Street, R.A. Thompson, Allen Granbery Thurman, Thomas G. Tucker, R.D. Turnbull, H.H. Worthington, George Wright, and Silas Wright.

1350 items.

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