Papers of Walker, his son, Francis Walker, and the Walker and Page families [manuscript] 1742-1886.

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Papers of Walker, his son, Francis Walker, and the Walker and Page families [manuscript] 1742-1886.

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Accounts, receipts, legal papers & correspondence regarding debts & estate settlement comprise the bulk of the collection. There are a variety of plats and surveys, land grants and indentures for Louisa and Albemarle Co., Va. property. Many items pertain either to the Loyal Land Co. (1750s) or to the Albemarle Iron Works. Of special interest are copies of treaties, 1744 & 52, with the Six Nations at Lancaster and Logstown, and a sale of 6 million acres in Ohio in 1777. Among the correspondence and miscellaneous papers are a letter protesting the Stamp Act, a letter from John Marshall, discussing legal problems in a slave sale, a Revolutionary soldier's pension claims, a plea for William Wirt to Francis Walker to settle an estate for educational funds for James Gilmer, a list, ca. 1880, of polite literature for a young lady, a midshipman's appointment signed by Andrew Jackson, Pres. U.S., 1850 letters describing Uncle Tom's cabin, & hazing at V.M.I., testimonies to secure a Civil War medical discharge, a letter from an ex-slave describing the murder of Richmond editor Henry Rives Pollard, & 5 newspapers and an almanac, 1799-1864. Correspondents and legal parties include Robert Dinwiddie, John Murray, 4th earl of Dunmore, Joshua Fry, George Gilmer, Peachey Ridgway Gilmer, Sir William Gooch, bart., Thomas Jefferson, Pres. U.S., Fielding Lewis, Benjamin Lincoln, Nicholas Meriwether, James Monroe, Pres. U.S., Mann Page, Louis Philippe Albert d'Orleans, comte de Paris, Judith Page Walker Rives, Alexander Spotswood & James Wood.

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