Papers of the Stanard family [manuscript], 1761-1865.

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Papers of the Stanard family [manuscript], 1761-1865.

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Papers, chiefly of Robert Stanard [1781-1846], of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., and Richmond, Va. The papers consist mostly of Stanard's legal and business correspondence. There are also scattered legal documents, copies of Spotsylvania Co. court records, and some personal correspondence from his father Larkin Stanard, brothers Hugh and Thomas Stanard, and Beverly Stanard, and son, Robert C. Stanard, a University of Virginia student, General John Minor and Alexander Spotswood. Topics include tobacco shipments, slave hiring, agriculture, estate settlement, an 1815 suit against Henry Lee and Bushrod Washington, land sales, the James River and Kanawha Canal Company, and the Whig Party.

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Lee, Henry, 1756-1818

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Whig Party (Va.)

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University of Virginia

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James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)

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Spotswood, Alexander, approximately 1746-1818

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Minor, John, 1761-1816

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