Papers of the Lewis, Anderson and Marks families, 1771-1908.

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Papers of the Lewis, Anderson and Marks families, 1771-1908.

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Papers of the related families include correspondence, legal and financial papers. Much of it pertains to land and slave holdings of the families in Virginia and the Arkansas territory. Meriwether Lewis items include power of attorney from Lucy Marks, 1792 June 20; a land indenture 1797 July 13; receipts, 1797, 1798, 1806-1816; draft of a letter, 1809 July 8 concerning financial matters and the trial of a felon; a list of articles contained in two trunks belonging to him, 1809; a document pertaining to a debt owed by Lewis, 1810; a document pertaining to his estate, 1810-1811; John Hastings Marks to Reuben Lewis on a partially successful journey to Chickasaw lands to recover his property [horse, rifle, dirk, pistols] in an1812 letter which also mentions the death of a friend in the Richmond theater fire of 1811; and a letter regarding a land warrant belonging to him, 1819. Wiliam Clark items include letters to John H. Marks, 1810 Mar 29, 1811 Aug. 30; and a memo of a contract concerning the printing of a book on the journey of Lewis and Clark, 1813. Other items of interest include a letter from a slave "Uncle Paul", 1778; copies of the 1791 will of John Marks; letters to Lucy Marks; indenture for sale of slaves by Lucy Marks, 1803; miscellaneous accounts from Louisiana; ;receipts for slave sales, 1815, 1816; letters pertaining to the Bureau of Indian Afairs, and the Cherokee and Osage Indians, 1820; account of Reuben Lewis's travels down the Mississippi, 1821; correspondence regarding land warrents for William Lewis's service in the Revolution; letters from freedman Overton Hollinsworth to his former master, 1889; report cards from Bloomfield Academy; and T.J. Scott Civil War parole paper, 1865, and orders, 1862-1864. Other correspondents include Nicholas Biddle, Anna Seeley, Tuttle, and V.W. Southall.

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Southall, Valentine Wood, d. 1861.

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Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844

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Writer, politician and financier, of Pennsylvania. From the description of Nicholas Biddle letters, 1817-1840, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34992389 José Francisco Correia da Serra was a Portuguese scholar, naturalist and diplomat. From the guide to the José Francisco Correia da Serra letters, 1810-1823, 1810-1823, (American Philosophical Society) William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, writ...

Bloomfield Academy (Albemarle County, Va.)

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Clark, William, 1770-1838

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Explorer, governor of the Territory of Missouri, army officer, and the U.S. superintendent of Indian Affairs. From the description of William Clark papers, 1816-1818. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452648 Explorer. From the description of [Codicil to will] 1837. (Denver Museum of Nature & Science). WorldCat record id: 29305311 Army officer best known for partnership in the Lewis and Clark expedition. In 1794, he was Lieutenant in the 4th sub-legion...

Hollinsworth, Overton, fl. 1889,

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Heck, Anna Seeley Tuttle, -1922

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Scott, T. J., fl. 1862-1865.

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Marks, Lucy Meriwether Lewis, 1752-1837,

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Marks, John Hastings, fl. 1812,

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Lewis, Reuben B., 1899-1988

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Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809

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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were explorers. Nicholas Biddle was requested by William Clark to write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the description of Journal, 1803 Aug. 30-1803 Dec. 12; 1810. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 154298060 From the guide to the Meriwether Lewis journal, August 30, 1803 - December 12, 1803; 1810, August 3...