Papers of the Fontaine and Brown families and of Trinity Presbyterian Church, New Canton, Va. [manuscript] 1740 [1815-1894] 1915.

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Papers of the Fontaine and Brown families and of Trinity Presbyterian Church, New Canton, Va. [manuscript] 1740 [1815-1894] 1915.

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The Fontaine papers consist chiefly of correspondence and legal & financial papers of Walter Fontaine, a Buckingham Co. lawyer. Most are routine financial cases, collections for debt, and the settlement of estates including those of George Nicholas and Asbury Crenshaw. Financial papers contain considerable correspondence with Dean & Brown, Richmond tobacco merchants. There is very little personal correspondence except for letters of the Brown family, 1841-1894. Of interest are conflicting testimonies in the trial of a farmer for murdering a slave, an anti-John Marshall political address, 1789, surveyor plats of Fontaine land, a 1740 Goochland deed & a 1760 Albemarle deed. Among the correspondents are Charles Yancey, who comments on triumphant Whiggery in 1838, and John Hartwell Cocke & Cary Charles Cocke who object to the James River & Kanawha Canal Co.'s proposed dam at New Canton, Va. in 1849. The church records, 1827-1915, contain minutes of elder's sessions and congregational meetings which include financial statistics, baptismal records, & membership lists, as well as a manuscript history of the church, 1883, by J. Bentley Brown.

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Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866

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Fluvanna County, Va. planter, reformer, and University of Virginia Board of Visitors member. From the description of Papers : of John Hartwell Cocke, 1806-1866. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793405 Planter, agricultural reformer, and brigadier general in the War of 1812. From the description of Papers, 1825-1872. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39330821 The James River and Kanawha Company The creation of Virg...

Marshall, John, 1755-1835

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Nicholas, George, d. 1812.

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Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.

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The Transylvania Presbytery was organized by appointment of the synods of New York and Philadelphia. The Synod of New York made part of the Presbytery of Abingdon into the Transylvania Presbytery, which encompassed the district of Kentucky and the settlements on the Cumberland River. The Reverend David Rice, Adam Rankin, Andrew McClure, and James Crawford met at the Danville, Kentucky courthouse to organize the presbytery. The synods of New York and Philadelphia appointed David Rice as moderator...

Brown, J. Bentley, fl. 1883.

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Brown, J. Bentley,

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Fontaine, Walter, 1787-1860,

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Crenshaw, Asbury.

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Cocke, Cary Charles, 1814-1888.

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Brown family.

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James River & Kanawha Canal Co.

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