Copy of letter [manuscript] 1790-1886.

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Copy of letter [manuscript] 1790-1886.

Copy of letter, 1859 November 25, Henry A. Wise to President James Buchanan regarding plans being made in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland to effect the escape of John Brown. Letter, 1829 February 23, Chapman Johnson to Chiswell Dabney. Letter, 1790 March 20, John Rose to "Lawrence". Letter, 1824 February 23, W.F. Pendleton to "Garnett". One page list, 1848-1886, of descendants of Charles Bruce.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Pendleton, W. F.

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Mott, Howard S.

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Dabney, Chiswell.

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Rose, John A.

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Johnson, Chapman, 1779-1849

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A Federalist, Woods served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was a member of the Virginia Convention of 1788. He briefly served in the Revolutionary War and later was an officer of the Virginia militia, attaining the rank of colonel before resigning in 1816. Woods was president and a director of the North Western Bank of Virginia. He owned a flour mill, traded whiskey and leased out land. One of the founders of Woodsfield, Ohio, Woods was a land speculator in the military warrant land in th...

Brown, John, 1800-1859

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John Brown (May 9, 1800, Torrington, Connecticut – December 2, 1859, Charles Town, Virginia) was born in Connecticut in 1800 before migrating with his family at an early age to the Connecticut Western Reserve. He failed at several business ventures and land speculations before devoting his life to the abolition of slavery. Brown was executed in 1859 following his failed attempt to incite a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Edwin Coppoc, a native of Salem, Ohio, joined Brown in his rai...

Buchanan, James L.

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Bruce, Charles M.

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