Dr. James Dabney papers [manuscript], 1774-1902, n.d.

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Dr. James Dabney papers [manuscript], 1774-1902, n.d.

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The collection includes land plats; correspondence; indentures, bills and receipts; and biographical information chiefly chiefly pertaining to Dr. James Dabney and related families of Gloucester County, Va. Letters from Eliza and Martha Forman, Baltimore, to Hester Van Bibber, of Matthews County, Va., 1816-1820, convey family and Baltimore social news, with references to prominent individuals. Of interest are letters from Benjamin Anderson of Goochland county, 1826-1827, pertaining to a contemplated move to Alabama and the hiring out of his slaves to fund the move. A letter 1830 April 9, concerns the sale of Dabney's fugitive slave "George." Other letters pertain to a lawsuit over land and slaves. Chapman Johnson is a correspondent. Of interest is a journal kept by Dabney, May-July 1803, while a medical student in Edinburgh. He records daily rounds made in Andrew Duncan's dispensary, noting the names and ages of patients, their symptoms, treatments and results. Page numbers in the descriptions may be references to Duncan's 1784 "Medical cases, selected from the records of the Public Dispensary at Edinburg with remarks and observations." Some of the papers concern the related Buckner, Page, Tabb, and Van Bibber families.

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Forman, Eliza, fl. 1816-1817,

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Buckner family.

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Van Bibber family.

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Dabney, James, fl. 1803-

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Tabb family.

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Forman, Martha, fl. 1816-1917,

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Van Bibber, Hester, fl. 1816-1817,

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Page family.

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Johnson, Chapman, 1779-1849

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A Federalist, Woods served in the Virginia House of Delegates and was a member of the Virginia Convention of 1788. He briefly served in the Revolutionary War and later was an officer of the Virginia militia, attaining the rank of colonel before resigning in 1816. Woods was president and a director of the North Western Bank of Virginia. He owned a flour mill, traded whiskey and leased out land. One of the founders of Woodsfield, Ohio, Woods was a land speculator in the military warrant land in th...

Dabney family.

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Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828

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Duncan succeeded James Gregory as professor of the Institutes of Medicine at Edinburgh. From the description of Observations from Dr. Andrew Duncan's lectures on the practice of medicine in the years 1789-1790 / by Jno. L. Thompson, 1789-1790. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50002917 ...

Forman, Augusta, fl. 1820,

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Anderson, Benjamin M.

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Benjamin Monroe Anderson is a native of Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1939 with a B.A. degree in geology. His father is Frank E. Anderson who founded Anderson, Clayton and Company, along with his brother and brother-in-law in 1904 in Oklahoma City. After graduating from college, Benjamin Monroe Anderson joined Marvin Greenwood and Lomis Slaughter, Jr., in founding Anderson, Greenwood and Company in 1940 to build light airplanes. However...