Preston family : papers, 1658-1896.

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Preston family : papers, 1658-1896.

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Papers include correspondence, 1658-1896, concerning family, business, political, military, and legal matters; land papers, 1789-1873; wills of James Patton, 1750, and William Preston, 1777; genealogical notes; James Patton's Woods River entry book, 1746-1749, 1781; map of the Big Sandy and Tug River area of Ky.; copy of the journal of the Sandy Creek expedition, 1756; copy of the diary of Mrs. William Campbell Preston, ca. 1834-1838; broadsides about General Albert Sidney Johnston and General William Preston; poems of Margaret Junkin Preston; map of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va.; newspaper clippings relating to Robert E. Lee; and miscellaneous photostats, clippings, and other material. The material is a combination of originals, typescripts, and photostats. Correspondents include P.G.T. Beauregard, Judah Philip Benjamin, Alexander Breckinridge, James Breckinridge, Robert Breckinridge, John Brown, Jefferson Davis, Reuben Thomas Durrett, John Walker Fearn, Robert T. Ford, Horatio Gates, William McKendree Gwin, George Hancock, James Harrison, Charles John Helm, Patrick Henry, Robert William Hughes, Henry Inman, Edward Johnson, William Preston Johnston, Thomas Jordan, Edmund Kirby-Smith, James Madison, George Monck, First Duke of Albemarle, Donn Piatt, Caroline Hancock Preston, Margaret Wickliffe Preston, Mary Owen Preston Brown, Robert Preston, Robert Wickliffe Preston, Sarah Buchanan Preston, Susan Marshall Preston Christy Hepburn, Thomas Lewis Preston, Colonel William Preston, Major William Preston, General William Preston, William Ballard Preston, William Campbell Preston, John Slidell, Waddy Thompson, Joseph Waddell, and Charles Anderson Wickliffe.

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