John Macpherson Berrien Papers, 1789-1942.

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John Macpherson Berrien Papers, 1789-1942.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70254998

This collection consists of manuscripts, printed material, pictures, and scrapbooks. Correspondence within the collection relates to personal, legal, and political matters, specifically regarding the Peggy Eaton affair (also known as the Petticoat Affair) in the Cabinet of President Jackson. In addition, the collection contains genealogical information regarding several families. Correspondence regarding the Peggy Eaton controversy includes letters to and from Berrien and President Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), John Henry Eaton (1790-1856), Samuel D. Ingham (1779-1869), Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876), William Thorne Williams, Richard Wylly Habersham, and John Branch. Among other correspondents in the collection are Francis Stebbins Bartow, Absolom H. Chappell, Henry Clay, Gen. Duncan Lamont Clinch, Howell Cobb, George W. Crawford, Henry H. Cumming, John Alfred Cuthbert, William Crosby Dawson, Peter Stephen DuPonceau, Louis N. Falligant, Hamilton Fish, William Gaston, George Rockingham GIlmer, Charles Harris, Charles Jones Jenkins, Herschel Vespasian Johnston, Reverdy Johnson, Augustus B. Longstreet, Charles James McDonald, James A. Meriwether, John Milledge, Eugenius A. Nisbet, James P. Screven, President John Tyler, John Van Buren, and Daniel Webster. Included with the legal correspondence are other legal papers such as briefs, opinions, and interrogations. Correspondence is arranged chronologically. An abbreviated calendar of the correspondence through 1855 has been compiled and is included in the Descriptive Materials attached to the finding aid. From 1856-1902, the correspondence is personal, of either the Falligant family or Laurence Cecil Berrien, John Macpherson Berrien's son. After 1902, the correspondence is almost entirely of Mrs. Rosa Berrien Burroughs, granddaugher of John Macpherson Berrien, and deals with family history. Family data was compiled by Mrs. Rosa B. Burroughs and is arranged alphabetically by name of family.

10 boxes and 8 volumes; 6.5 cubic feet.

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Berrien family.

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Branch, John, 1782-1863

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Secretary of the Navy. From the description of Letter signed : "Navy Department," to Samuel Hambleton, U.S.N. purser in Baltimore, 1829 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134739 U.S. senator and governor of North Carolina. From the description of John Branch papers, 1830-1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451282 ...

Falligant family.

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Moore family.

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Gibbons family.

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Eaton, Peggy, 1799?-1879

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Full name: Margaret L. O'Neale Timberlake Eaton. From the description of Autobiographical sketch of Peggy Eaton, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71010033 ...

Carr family.

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Raiford family.

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Eaton, John Henry, 1790-1856

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Biographical note: American lawyer and politician; served as U.S. Senator (1818-1829), U.S. Secretary of War (1829-1831), governor of Florida (1834-1836), and U.S. minister to Spain (1836-1840). Alexander Macomb (1782-1841) was commanding general of the U.S. Army from 1828 to 1841. From the description of Letter to General Macomb, 1829-1829. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 48433475 Tennessee state representative, 1815-1816; Tennes...

Bartow, Francis S. (Francis Stebbins), 1816-1861

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Macpherson family.

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Cecil family.

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Richardson family.

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Bartow family.

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Hunter family.

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Stryker family.

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Grymes family.

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Burroughs family.

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Edsall family.

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Falligant, Louis, N., fl. 1840.

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Benedict family.

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Rapelye family.

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Screven family.

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Eaton family.

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Anciaux family.

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Berrien, John MacPherson, 1781-1856

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John Macpherson Berrien was an eloquent lawyer, a U.S. senator, and the attorney general of the United States during U.S. president Andrew Jackson's administration. Berrien County, created in south Georgia in 1856, is named for him. From the description of Berrien, John letters, 1796-1799. (University of Georgia). WorldCat record id: 268674733 Georgia resident (Savannah) and U.S. senator. From the description of Letters, 1820-1852. (Duke University Library). Worl...