Letters of and about John Randolph of Roanoke [manuscript], 1811-1904.

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Letters of and about John Randolph of Roanoke [manuscript], 1811-1904.

The collection contains letters to J. H. Nicholson; to Thomas Forman from Joseph Bryan; to John Rodgers and Mrs. Joseph Bryan on John Randolph Bryan's Navy service; and from Elizabeth Tucker Coalter. The collection also contains an order of Randolph's for payment of $100 to Cheston Ringgold, and a note from an undertaker on Randolph's measurements. A letter from Daniel Grinnan to Joseph Bryan, 1887, encloses his copy of Franics West's reminiscences of Randolph's death; and a letter from Lambert Tree to Joseph Bryan, 1904, discusses a Randolph document. The collection also contains John Randolph's prayer book, inscribed 1811, and presented to John St. George Randolph in 1818.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7924707

University of Virginia. Library

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There are 14 Entities related to this resource.

Bryan, Joseph, 1845-1908

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Nicholson, James H., 1916-1972

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Bryan, Delia Foreman, 1786-1825,

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Grinnan, Daniel, 1861-1940

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Bryan, John Randolph, 1806-1887.

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John Randolph Bryan, godson and namesake of John Randolph of Roanoke and son of Joseph Bryan of Savannah, Georgia, married Elizabeth Coalter. From the description of Letter : Eagle Point [Gloucester County, Virginia] to D.C. Randolph [Richmond], 1862 April 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122608765 Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within each family. Brown Family Henry Brown 1 (1716-1766) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He mar...

Forman, Thomas.

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Randolph, John St. George, 1792-

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West, Francis, fl. 1833.

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Rodgers, John, 1773-1838

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U.S. Naval officer. From the description of Letter, 1812, Jan. 6 : Newport, Rhode Island, to William P.C. Barton. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992827 President of the United States Board of Navy Commissioners. From the description of Letters, 1818-1831. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70926243 John Rodgers was born in Maryland in 1773. He joined the Navy in the 1790s and served in the Quasi War with France, th...

Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910

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Chicago jurist, diplomat, and Newberry Library trustee, 1892-1903. From the description of Letter and certificate, [ca. 1894]-1903. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 40450428 Cook county lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and US minister to Belgium and Russia. Lambert Tree was born in Washington, DC November 29, 1832, the son of a post office clerk. He began his education in private schools in the capital, attended the University of Vir...

Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, 1805-1856.

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Randolph, John, 1773-1833

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Randolph served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1813, 1815-1817, 1819-1825, 1827-1829), the U.S. Senate (1825-1827), the Virginia Constitutional Convention (1829-1830), and as Minister to Russia (1830-1831). From the description of Letter of introduction, 10 July 1813. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235133950 U. S. Congressman from Virginia. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Liverpool, England, to Jacob Harvey, Cork Irela...

Bryan, Joseph, 1773-1812.

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Joseph Bryan (1773-1812) was the son of Jonathan Bryan (1708-1788). Joseph inherited his father's property on Wilmington and Whitemarsh Islands near Savannah, Georgia. Joseph studied law in the office of U. S. Attorney General Edmund Randolph and represented Georgia in Congress from 1803 until 1806. From the description of Joseph Bryan property records, 1801-1807. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477660 ...

Ringgold, Cheston.

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