Papers of the Carpenter and White families of North Garden, Albemarle County, Virginia, 1836-1965.

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Papers of the Carpenter and White families of North Garden, Albemarle County, Virginia, 1836-1965.

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The collection consists primarily of private correspondence, legal and financial documents, genealogies and some printed material. Frances Ann (White) Carpenter and Alfred Carpenter are the chief correspondents. There are also letters and papers of their daughter, Amanda, and some financial papers of their sons, Stephen Alfred and William L. Carpenter. Correspondence of Frances and Alfred Carpenter, 1842-1844, is chiefly personal with much discussion of their engagement and marriage, with occasional comments on his work in the Richmond, Va., post office. Other topics include religious events, including a revivals and a discourse by John Johns; a Richmond flood; a visit to Richmond by Postmster General Charles A. Wickliffe and "spry" John Tyler, a probable candidate for matrimony; and a 4th of July celebration. Additional correspondence of Frances and Alfred Carpenter contains personal letters from family and friends. Topics include an 1844 slave sale; genealogy, and the Civil War and Reconstruction, particularly letters from Richard Carson Triplett, one of Mosby's men captured and imprisoned in February, 1864. Louis T. Hanckel of Charlottesville is also a correspondent. Of interest are detailed and witty accounts of a revival in North Garden, Va., in 1842. Financial and legal papers include accounts for sales of crops; tax in kind estimates and assessments, 1864 and 1865; doctor visits to family and slaves; settlement receipts for the estate of John Carpenter; and an amnesty oath. There is also genealogical data on the Carpenter, White, Teel and related Anderson, Ellis and Johnson families; some poetry; and other miscellaney including an oversize silk printing of Andrew Jackson's farewell address.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Anderson family.

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Wickliffe, C. A. (Charles Anderson), 1788-1869

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Hanckel, Louis T., fl. 1879-1880,

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Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916

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Ellis family.

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Carpenter, Alfred, 1825-1892

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Tyler, John, 1790-1862

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