Business papers and legal documents of the Seay family of Richmond, Virginia and Caroline County, Virginia, probably for a country store [manuscript] 1840-1900.

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Business papers and legal documents of the Seay family of Richmond, Virginia and Caroline County, Virginia, probably for a country store [manuscript] 1840-1900.

Several Civil War items including exemption from military service signed by Judah P. Benjamin.

200 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7932332

University of Virginia. Library

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Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884

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Judah Philip Benjamin, QC (August 6, 1811 – May 6, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who was a United States Senator from Louisiana, a Cabinet officer of the Confederate States and, after his escape to the United Kingdom at the end of the American Civil War, an English barrister. Benjamin was the first Jew to hold a Cabinet position in North America and the first to be elected to the United States Senate who had not renounced his faith. Benjamin was born to Sephardic Jewish parents from Londo...

Seay family.

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