Virginia letters [manuscript].

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Virginia letters [manuscript].

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In a letter, 1832 May 18, Joseph William Chinn, Washington, asks Secretary of War Lewis Cass to appoint Dr. Thomas M. Lewis as assistant surgeon in the U.S. Army. In a letter, 1849 August 17,the Rev. Abner Leavenworth, Milford, Conn., writes "to all at home" about his journey from Petersburg, Va., to New York and Connecticut to interview applicants for a position at his Leavenworth Academy and College Seminary for Young Ladies. He mentions attending commencement at Yale and a family friend Frederick John Kingsbury and concludes with a "Howdy" to the servant. In a retained copy of a letter, 1845 May 27, Thomas B. Evans, Middlesex County, Va., writes to Oliver D. Wells to discuss settlement of a dispute with J. B. Bagley of Portsmouth over the C. Island Saw Mill in which Bagley would supply Perry and Wells with a quantity of "merchantable cypress lumber." In letter, 1850, August 24, James Young, Rainsboro, Ohio, asks John Letcher, Lexington, Va., to serve as his attorney in some matters involving the estate of Virginia governor James McDowell. The collection also contains ten letters to Loudoun County, Va., lawyer and Confederate Major John Moore Orr, 1850-1887. His correspondents include Enoch J. Cantwell, Elizabeth C. Fitzhugh, William Graham, Virginia Hutchinson, Daniel Janney, Samuel L. Jenkins, John S. Pollock, W. A. Stepenson, Robert Tyler, and Joseph B. Watters. Topics include guardianship of children, estate settlements (including the sale of slaves), legal cases, purchase of cedar posts, and the Hygeia Hotel at Old Point [Comfort] as the Saratoga of the South. The collection also contains fifteen letters to John Fitzgerald pertaining to the Virginia tobacco trade, 1847-1852. Letters discuss current prices; anticipated effect on the trade of the closing of the canal, a cholera epidemic, drought, competition from Kentucky, and revolutions in Europe; cost of shipping insurance; inspections; and other commodities including hogs. Correspondents include Winfree & Sheppard, Winfree & Watkins, and Sheppard and Williamson, tobacco factors, as well as Captain Thomas C. Eppes, and James Gray. Of interest is a compilation [in Fitzgerald's hand?] of a several slave lists for an undetermined purpose. The collection also contains a letter to Fitzgerald from Methodist clergyman James E. Joyner concerning purchase of a horse, the Methodist quarterly meeting which produced seven converts, and travels. In addition D. S. Wooldridge writes concerning bonds of a Mr. Mann; and T. H. Campbell writes concerning a tax issue.

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Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

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Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United States Senate and served in the Cabinets of two U.S. Presidents, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. He was also the 1848 Democratic presidential nominee and a leading spokesman for the Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty, which held that the people in each territory should decide whether to permit slavery. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he attended Philli...

Cantwell, Enoch J., fl. 1868,

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Pollock, John C., 1857-1937

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Graham, William, 1782-1858

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Hygeia hotel (Old Point Comfort, Virginia.)

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Young, James, fl. 1850,

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Watters, Joseph B., fl. 1887,

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Wells, Oliver, 1808-1882,

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Lewis, Thomas (British painter, active 1835-1852)

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Janney, Daniel, fl. 1867,

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Joyner, James E., 1809-1868,

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Bagley, J. B., fl. 1845.

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Eppes, Thomas C., fl. 1850,

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Chinn, Joseph William, 1798-1840

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U.S. Congressman from Virginia. From the description of Address before Union College, Schenechtedy, N.Y. [manuscript], 1819 July 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647956813 ...

C[ypress?] Island Saw Mill.

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Hutchinson, Virginia (Virginia A.)

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Leavenworth, Abner J., 1803-1869,

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Letcher, John, 1813-1884

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Richmond, Va., to President Buchanan, 1860 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270591184 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Lexington, Va., to Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, 1813-1884. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590807 Native of Virginia; graduate of Washington College; lawyer, newspaper editor, presidential elector in 1848, and member of Virginia's constitutional c...

Kingsbury, Frederick John, 1823-1910

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Evans, Thomas, active 1847-1858

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Wooldridge, D. S., fl. 1851,

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Fitzgerald, John, 1805-1878,

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Leavenworth Academy and College Seminary for Young Ladies.

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Campbell, T. H. fl. 1852,

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Jenkins, Samuel L., fl. 1857,

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Tyler, Robert, 1816-1877

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Gray, James M. (James Martin), 1851-1935

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Orr, John M.,

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McDowell, James, 1795-1851

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Governor of Virginia, U.S. Representative, and planter. From the description of Papers, 1767-1888. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19934292 James McDowell (October 13, 1795–August 24, 1851) was a U.S. Congressman and Governor of Virginia from 1843 to 1846. From the guide to the Gov. James McDowell Land Grant to Samuel Blackburn, 1843 June 30, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) Governor and U.S. representat...

Stephenson, W. A., fl. 1851,

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Yale College (1718-1887)

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The Linonian Literary Society was founded in 1753. All undergraduates were allowed to be members of the Linonian Society. The club provided students with a forum to debate, stage plays, and deliver poems, essays, and orations. The society disbanded in 1868. From the guide to the Linonian Society, Yale College, records, 1753-1870, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...

Winfree & Watkins,

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