Manuscripts dealing with his purchase of land in Richmond from Thomas Jefferson (four letters from Jefferson) [manuscript] 1801-1856.

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Manuscripts dealing with his purchase of land in Richmond from Thomas Jefferson (four letters from Jefferson) [manuscript] 1801-1856.

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Manuscripts of two tracts in Albemarle County, the Indian Camp tract (later Moven) from William Short (four documents by Jefferson are included), 1813-1817, and an adjoining tract from James Ross, 1842, along with a copy of a 1730 grant to John Carter of a tract in Goochland, two plats of David's and one of E.G. Higginbotham's lands, 1837-1846, deeds for sale of some land after Higginbotham's death to D.G. Smith by his wife Mary E. Higginbotham and Elmslie G. HIgginbotham, 1853-1856, and photostat of a Jefferson drawing for a house [Morven?]. Manuscript volumes as follows: account books of Higginbotham and others, including records of milling and shipments of much flour and tobacco and invoices for large shipments from London, 1801-1848 ; two letter books containing Higginbotham's copies of letters to Anderson, Blair & Anderson, Francis T. Barbour, Philip P. Barbour, William Barret, John G. Blair, Francis T. Brooke, George D. Fisher, Dr. Robert Haxall, Daniel Higginbotham, Edward G. Higginbotham, Francis Hoskins, Thomas Jefferson, John J. London, James Lynch, Samuel Marx, Boyd Miller, James Monroe, Cornelius Powell, Jaquelin P. Taylor, Nathaniel Wattles, and others, 1819-1853 ; and a journal and ledger of (?) John Higginbotham & Co., Warminster, Va., 1820-1824. Also a scrapbook of newspaper clippings kept by Ebenezer Watts, Charlottesville bookbinder, ca. 1825, and notes on Roman history taken at the University of Virginia by E.G. Higginbotham.

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Anderson, Blair & Anderson.

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Watts, Ebenezer.

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Barbour, Francis T.

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Lynch, James P. (James Patrick), 1949-

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Higginbotham, Elmslie G.

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Wattles, Nathaniel.

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London, John J.

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Higginbotham, Daniel.

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Fisher, George D.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Short, William.

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Carter, John W., 1951-

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Higginbotham, Mary E.

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Higginbotham, David E

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Taylor, Jaquelin Payne

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Smith, D.G.

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Higginbotham, Edward G.

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Brooke, Francis T.

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Powell, Cornelius.

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