Private journal of Mary S. Boyden [manuscript], 1857-1864.

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Private journal of Mary S. Boyden [manuscript], 1857-1864.

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Mary Boyden records daily activities in a diary filled with religious sentiment (daily precepts, prayers and promises), comments on her work as a private school teacher,Albemarle County social life and residents, slavery, and illnesses and deaths. There are frequent references to the progress of the Civil War, both general news and rumors and the fate of friends and family, particularly D. Hanson Boyden of Carrington's Company, Virginia Light Artillery.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Boyden, Mary S.

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Albemarle County, Va., resident; daughter of the Reverend Ebenzer Boyden, rector of Grace Episcopal Church. From the description of Private journal of Mary S. Boyden [manuscript], 1857-1864. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648004477 ...

Boyden, D. Hanson.

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Boyden, Ebenezer, 1803-

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