Letter, 14 Oct[ober] 1842, Laurens C[ourt] H[ouse], [S.C.] to P[eter] Della Torre, Charleston, So[uth] Ca[rolina].

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Letter, 14 Oct[ober] 1842, Laurens C[ourt] H[ouse], [S.C.] to P[eter] Della Torre, Charleston, So[uth] Ca[rolina].

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Letter soliciting Della Torre's support in his candidacy for Secretary of State and explaining that he planned to seek the office in order to rectify financial difficulties, discharge his debts as he is "left destitute of the means, to support a numerous family...."

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Della Torre, Peter, 1817-1864.

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Attorney of Charleston, S.C.; served as a captain in the Washington Light Artillery, a volunteer militia unit organized in 1843. From the description of Peter Della Torre papers, 1834-1854. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 34307048 ...

South Carolina. General Assembly

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S.C. Statute 1811(5)639 specified that every board of commissioners of free schools was to make a yearly return to the legislature. Governor Middleton recommended the passage of this act as a response to the systematic lack of education in the state. The first appropriation made possible 124 elementary schools for the state. As the system progressed, the term "free school" became embarrassingly exchangeable with pauper schools, because the 1811 act carried within it a written directive that an a...

Jones, Thomas Foster, 1791-1873.

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Native of Wilkes County, N.C.; son of George Jones and Phebe Foster; husband of Sarah Joyce Lenoir, from North Carolina, and Emily Cathcart Thompson, from Greenville, S.C.; owner of "Pleasant Mound" plantation in Laurens County, S.C.; served in the S.C. State Militia as colonel, 1820-1830, brigadier general of the Tenth Brigade, 1830-1835, and major general of the Fifth Division, 1835-1842; represented Laurens District in the General Assembly as member of the S.C. House, 1828-1830 and 1832-1838;...