Papers regarding Virginia history [manuscript] 1858-1968.

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Papers regarding Virginia history [manuscript] 1858-1968.

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The collection contains a copy of Daniel Bedinger's membership certificate in the Society of Cincinnati; correspondence of Hench and William Munford Ellis Rachal regarding literary allusions in letters of Edmund Pendleton to James Madison; an 1858 issue of The South, Richmond, Va., mentioning Henry Bedinger; two Sunday School teacher's attendance books, 1865 & 70 & a Sunday School librarian's charge-out book; assignment for collection of debt, 1876 Oct., by Albemarle Co. Court to John H. Wood; Some meagre recollections of Mammy, by Mary Kelley Watson Smith about Bibby Mosby; Easter thoughts by Alice Earl Wood; prospectus from the Dietz Press for Ham Chamberlayne, Virginian; sample election ballot, 1932; distributed by the Democratic Party; photographs and slides of Sweet Chalybeate Springs, 1970, and a barn in Syria, Madison County, Va., 1968, with an unusual overhang; and assorted clippings regarding Virginia history.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

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Edmund Pendleton (September 9, 1721 – October 23, 1803) was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge, and a Founding Father of the United States. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the position of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared inde...

Society of the Cincinnati

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The Society of the Cincinnati was formed on 10-13 May 1783 by American Revolutionary Army officers who met at Mount Gulian, the American Army's cantonment on the east bank of the Hudson River. After resigning his post as General, George Washington (1732-1799) accepted an invitation to become the society's first president. Major General Henry Knox (1750-1806) was the secretary and for years the guiding spirit of the organization. Membership extended to those officers of the Continental Army and N...

Wood, Alice Earl, d. ca. 1948.

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Mosby, Bibby.

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Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974

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Professor of English at the University of Virginia. From the description of Letter of Atcheson Laughlin Hench to Dr. and Mrs. Edward Harper Rynearson [manuscript], 1950 October 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821141 Professor of English at the University of Virginia, 1922-1962. From the description of Oral history interview of Atcheson L. Hench by Ann L.S. Southwell [manuscript], March 15, 1972. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 6...

Chamberlayne, C. G. (Churchill Gibson), 1876-1939

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Churchill Gibson Chmberlayne was an editor and historian, headmaster of St. Christopher's School near Richmond, Virginia, and a recognized authority on the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. From the description of Papers, [193-?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122602554 ...

Wood, John H. (John Harold)

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Madison, James, 1751-1836

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James Madison (1751-1836) was the fourth president of the United States, born in Port Conway, Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1776 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1786, and the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1783. His proposals at and management of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 earned him title "father of the U.S. Constitution." He cooperated with Alexander Hamilton and Jay in writing a series of papers (pub. 1787-88 under title of The Federalist) explaining the ne...

Bedinger, Henry, 1753-1843

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Smith, Mary Kelley Watson.

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Rachal, William M. E. (William Munford Ellis), 1910-

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