Papers of the Hutton family, 1762-1887.

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Papers of the Hutton family, 1762-1887.

The collection contains Bible records including birth and death dates of the Smith family of Loudoun County, Va.; a deed, 13 February 1797, for land in Alexandria, Va.; and an inventory and sales account, 1825-1836, of the estate of John T. Smith. The collection also contains Hutton and Atkinson family papers, 1775-1887, including letters, 1775-1851, describing the Baptist church in England, family, financial, and religious matters, and travel in New York and across the Atlantic. There are also broadsides, 1811, regarding protestant dissenters in England; minutes, 1816, of the Albany Sunday Free School Society, a group formed for the religious education of free African-Americans in Albany, N.Y.; and a receipt, 11 April 1827, for the sale of a female slave. Also papers, 1818-1820, of Jabez B. Hyde, concerning the Seneca chiefs and their relationship with the U.S. government; and a copy of a letter, 5 December 1830, from Lewis Cass, Detriot, Mich., to John Henry Eaton, Washington, D.C., regarding the Green Bay Agency. Also a muster roll, 1843, for the 60th regiment of the Virginia Militia, from Fairfax County, Va.; and a letter, 10 September 1886, of George E. Ferebee, concerning the battles of Chancellorsville and the Petersburg Crater. Also a deed, 8 January 1887, for 9.25 acres land in Fauquier County, Va.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7923455

University of Virginia. Library

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...

Ferebee, George E.,

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United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Green Bay Agency

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George Boyd, agent at Green Bay, was a career War Dept. employee and Indian agent. Probably a native of Maryland and related by marriage to John Quincy Adams, Boyd served as a private secretary to Secretaries of War William Eustis and John Armstrong and as a courier and special agent of the War Dept., before accepting appointments as Indian agent at Michilimackinac (1818-1832) and at Green Bay (1832-1840). From the description of Indian agency at Green-Bay : ...

Smith family.

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Albany Sunday Free School Society.

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Eaton, John Henry, 1790-1856

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Biographical note: American lawyer and politician; served as U.S. Senator (1818-1829), U.S. Secretary of War (1829-1831), governor of Florida (1834-1836), and U.S. minister to Spain (1836-1840). Alexander Macomb (1782-1841) was commanding general of the U.S. Army from 1828 to 1841. From the description of Letter to General Macomb, 1829-1829. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 48433475 Tennessee state representative, 1815-1816; Tennes...

Virginia. Militia. Regiment, 60th.

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Hutton family.

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Hyde, Jabez B. (Jabez Backus), 1774-1855

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Sent to the Buffalo Creek Reservation by the New York Missionary Society in 1811. He established a school and taught the Seneca Indians for almost ten years. From the description of Account of the Seneca Indians & mission, 1820 Aug. 20. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 52728193 ...

Atkins family.

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Smith, J. T. (John Thomson)

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