Papers of Bowker Preston [manuscript], 1773-1882.

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Papers of Bowker Preston [manuscript], 1773-1882.

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The collection contains miscellaneous legal papers, 1773-1849, including indentures for the hire of slaves, and indentured servitude agreement, depositions, complaints, warrants, affidavits, a subpoena, and a decree by the Virginia Court of Appeals regarding the excution of a deed of trust. There are also papers, 1792-1808, of John Hook, regarding legal matters, accounts, the sale of livestock, a land dispute, land deeds, receipts, financial matters, allowing a slave to testify in a legal case, and the purchase of tobacco and dry goods. There is also a warrant, 1806, against George Hancock, who was accused of harboring a slave belonging to Hook. Miscellaneous financial papers, 1816-1842, of the firms Davis & Preston and Leftwich & Davis, include checks, receipts, letters, accounts, and promissory notes, regarding the sale of tobacco and other dry goods. Miscellaneous papers, 1813-1882, regard Virginia social life and customs, fugitive slaves, legal matters, a telegraph line from Winchester, Va., to Staunton, Va., the Hale family, courtship, Civil War news and camp life, the Holland family, redemption from sin, and selling land. Papers, 1823-1862, of Bowker Preston, concern the tobacco market, the sale and hire of slaves, family, legal, and financial matters, the settlement of decedents' estates, a cholera epidemic, slave health, the standard of living in Ohio in 1835, the sale of animal hides, a land sale, and purchasing livestock. There is also a newspaper clipping, 15 October 1865, from the New York Times, entitled, "The Future of the South : Necessity of Emigration -- Letter from J. D. B. De Bow to Gov. [B.F.] Perry," provisional Governor of South Carolina; and lottery tickets, n.d., to support the New London Academy, Forest, Va.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7923029

University of Virginia. Library

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Leftwich & Davis.

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New London Academy (Forest, Va.)

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Hook, John, 1745-1808

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Scottish merchant and Tory, of Hale's Ford (Franklin Co.), Va. From the description of John Hook papers, 1737-1889; (bulk 1770-1848). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19793632 John Hook (1745-1808) came to Virginia at the age of twelve or thirteen years in 1758 as a clerk for William and James Donald, Scotch merchants and ship owners of Greenock, Scotland. He later married Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Colonel John Smith of Goochland to which union ...

Preston, Bowker

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Tobacco merchant and planter of Bedford County, Va. From the description of Papers, 1773-1882. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959903 From the description of Papers of Bowker Preston [manuscript], 1773-1882. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647853833 ...

Hancock, George, 1754-1820

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U.S. representative from Virginia, army officer, and lawyer. From the description of Letter of George Hancock, 1796. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450749 ...

Holland family.

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De Bow, J. D. B. (James Dunwoody Brownson), 1820-1867

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Editor and statistician, of New Orleans, La. From the description of Papers, 1779-1915. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19491448 Robert William Hughes was born at Muddy Creek Plantation, Powhatan County, Va. in 1821. His parents died in 1822 and he was raised by Edward C. Carrington and Eliza Preston Carrington. He attended Caldwell Institute, Greensboro, N. C. and studied law in Fincastle, Va. He married Eliza M. Johnston, niece of Joseph E. John...

Davis & Preston.

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Hale family.

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