Letter, Charlottesville, Va., to his mother, Mrs. John Eversfield, Bladensburg, Md. [manuscript] 1840 Nov. 23.

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Letter, Charlottesville, Va., to his mother, Mrs. John Eversfield, Bladensburg, Md. [manuscript] 1840 Nov. 23.

Describing the murder of University of Virginia professor John Andrew Gardner Davis, naming Joseph G. Semmes of Georgia as the murderer and William A. Kincaid of South Carolina as accomplice.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7927615

University of Virginia. Library

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Davis, John A. G. (John Anthony Gardner), 1801-1840

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Charlottesville, to Thomas Jefferson, 1825 May 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270517658 Jurist, professor of law and chairman of the faculty at the University of Virginia. From the description of Letter, 1837 July 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86164563 John A.G. Davis, b. Middlesex County, Va., killed November 14, 1840, by student he was trying to arrest; professor o...

Eversfield, Charles, 1820-1872.

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Eversfield, John, Mrs.,

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Kincaid, William A., b. 1824.

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Semmes, Joseph G., 1822-1841.

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