Papers. 1820-1822.

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Papers. 1820-1822.

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Army officer, civil engineer. Copies of recommendation received by Maskell Ewing when he was making his application to the United States Military Academy; letter, 24 March 1821, Department of War from John C. Calhoun confirming Ewing's appointment for 1822; letter, 4 April 1822, Radner, Delaware, to John C. Calhoun in reply to the latter's letter thanking Calhoun for the appointment; letter, 30 April 1822, from Thomas Picton enumerating the items needed by cadets and making arrangements to meet Ewing upon his arrival at West Point; journal, 20 June-10 July 1822, telling of a cadet's earliest experiences at West Point.

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Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

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John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics. He did this in the context of protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, mo...

Ewing, Maskell C., 1807-1849.

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Ewing, Maskell, 1758-1825

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Maskell Ewing, Jr., the son of Mary Paget and Maskell Ewing, Sr., was born in Greenwich, New Jersey on January 30, 1758. He was appointed Clerk of the General Assembly in Trenton before he was twenty-one years old. Maskell, Jr. relocated to Trenton and stayed in the position of Clerk for the next twenty years. He also served as the Recorder of the City of Trenton from approximately 1799-1805 and, after moving to Philadelphia and then to Delaware County, Pennsylvania in 1805, he served as the Sta...

Picton, Thomas, 1822-1891

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