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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1 contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers concerning estates; Series 3 contains writings; and Series 4 contains miscellaneous material. Arrangement: This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in 1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00059.frame","See also; Augustine Smith Papers (Mss. Sm. Coll. Smith) for letters from Dr. A. Smith to Alice Page, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Correspondence and papers of members of the Page and Saunders families. Includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. The collection includes a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and correspondence of Robert Page Saunders. There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16 February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","30 items.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Lawsuits and money owed.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer if can get deed of trust.","3 pages on one leaf. Bears seal. Death of her sister's fiancé. Can't visit but entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of her children, Gregory and Peggy.","1 page. Autograph letter signed.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Unhappy by late proceedings of President and Professors. General impression their conduct equally reprehensible as that of the students. Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the faculty and students of William and Mary College.","Scope and Contents Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther, at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs. Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster Gloucester County, Virginia Expectation of visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William, Maria and Mr. Skinner. Illegible SAR handwriting Mr. Skinner returned here.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before. Invites her and our dear William to visit. Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd). Extreme heat. Son has left.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of having William's picture...wishes above all things to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most affectionately to our beloved Maria and William... Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. \" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr. Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of whom you also enquire was well known to your Father. . . He resided either in glister or Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden frequently spoken of, as being at no great Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account. Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr. Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's hire for the last year in his hands) to get and pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to you.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G. G.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Scope and Contents Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. note says one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page wrote","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr. P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident with boat to return to Bowling Green where daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is sending. Mentions what others have been wearing. Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach. Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has female teacher from the North who taught in Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington. . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in town at the Academy.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. Three fortifications going up in our immediate neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed two days ago. Description of defenses at Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade intended to worry people out of a vote for secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript available.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr. Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on him. Not pleased with position but friends worked so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode remains unwell.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military Institute.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs. Morison's porch hit by shell.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea. Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs. Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has visited Ewell's.","Incomplete. Description of Ashland. Visit to the household of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to do.","25 items.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Sends enclosed invitations to Robert? Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth. Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno. Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He was so intemperate in this city before he left and had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders. Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's. sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the Nation.(Christmas present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for Life of Caesar. Burning of house at Shelly.","Elaborate letterhead. Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or her father like it. Mr. Scott does on Ewell's account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to Maryland Churchman. Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett, stationer.","Telegram. Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send box of eats and check.","8 pages on four leaves. Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her health statement. Talks about what her health statement said. Good health for my age.","23 items.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book. Jack Munford's death.","6 letters. 1 postcard.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","5 items.","Incomplete.","13 items. 2 letters.","3 items.","2 letters.","10 items. Includes will.","6 items.","23 pages. 18.5 cm.","83 pages. 15.5 cm. Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back of front cover and on fly leaf.","8 sheets. Manuscript. Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B. J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","6 sheets. Manuscript.","12 pages. Manuscript.","Margaret Lowther Page: Journal \u0026 Poems, 1790. Physical Location: Removed to Rare Books.","1 item.","2 items.","68 pages of which 28 were used. 6.25 x 4 inches.","1 item.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item. This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. Corcoran.","1 item.","10 items. Includes a book of quotations which probably belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.","26 items. Includes memorandum book.","15 items.","6 items.","In fragile condition. Title page torn. Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.","2 items.","Copies from microfilm of Margaret Lowther Page Poems (PS 814 P3) with identification of some people by Margaret Cook, Special Collections.","Autograph album includes signatures of Professor Holmes and others. Williamsburg area. 90 pages.","Barbara Maria Page was the daughter of John Page, Governor of Virginia.  Signatures with prose include James Madison, President of the United States; Dolly Madison; William \u0026 Mary presdents Adam Empie and Thomas Roderick Dew; William \u0026 Mary professor C. de la Pena; Bishop Richard Channing Moore; and others.  Includes notes on the album, 1938, by donor, L.P.W. Poindexter.","Autograph album of Mary Lou Saunders, a student at Nashville Female Academy.  Purchased from Charles F. Heartman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi in February 1938.","Includes signatures of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. George Tucker, A. Empie and others.  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Herrings. Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Unhappy by late proceedings of President and Professors. General impression their conduct equally reprehensible as that of the students. Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the faculty and students of William and Mary College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther, at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs. Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster Gloucester County, Virginia Expectation of visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William, Maria and Mr. Skinner. 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Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of having William's picture...wishes above all things to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most affectionately to our beloved Maria and William... Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. \" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr. Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of whom you also enquire was well known to your Father. . . He resided either in glister or Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden frequently spoken of, as being at no great Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account. Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr. Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's hire for the last year in his hands) to get and pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to you.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G. G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages on 1 leaf. Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money and watch with chain and one seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. note says one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page wrote\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr. P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident with boat to return to Bowling Green where daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClothes she is sewing and clothes she is sending. Mentions what others have been wearing. Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for you.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach. Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has female teacher from the North who taught in Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington. . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in town at the Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. Three fortifications going up in our immediate neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed two days ago. Description of defenses at Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade intended to worry people out of a vote for secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr. Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on him. Not pleased with position but friends worked so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode remains unwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSon's demerits at Virginia Military Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs. Morison's porch hit by shell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea. Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs. Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Has visited Ewell's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete. Description of Ashland. Visit to the household of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has been offered new position (quartermaster).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of his travels in his new position as quartermaster collecting taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants pardon, land back and something to do.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Incomplete. Sends enclosed invitations to Robert? Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvites someone to be guest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from Texas. Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth. Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGabriella is too sick to attend to putting up the stone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno. Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He was so intemperate in this city before he left and had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders. Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's. sermons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciate subscription to the Nation.(Christmas present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for Life of Caesar. Burning of house at Shelly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElaborate letterhead. Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a great charge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas brought place in Hampton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or her father like it. Mr. Scott does on Ewell's account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMortgage rates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubscription to Maryland Churchman. Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett, stationer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTelegram. Death of Mrs. Capron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants to hear from him concerning his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarmody mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad he feels so well. Wishes they could send box of eats and check.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 pages on four leaves. Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her health statement. Talks about what her health statement said. Good health for my age.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book. Jack Munford's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 letters. 1 postcard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. 2 letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 pages. 18.5 cm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e83 pages. 15.5 cm. Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back of front cover and on fly leaf.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 sheets. Manuscript. Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B. J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 sheets. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 pages. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Lowther Page: Journal \u0026amp; Poems, 1790. Physical Location: Removed to Rare Books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e68 pages of which 28 were used. 6.25 x 4 inches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a copy of the Book of Common Prayer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns William W. Corcoran.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes a book of quotations which probably belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes memorandum book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn fragile condition. Title page torn. Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies from microfilm of Margaret Lowther Page Poems (PS 814 P3) with identification of some people by Margaret Cook, Special Collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph album includes signatures of Professor Holmes and others. Williamsburg area. 90 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarbara Maria Page was the daughter of John Page, Governor of Virginia.  Signatures with prose include James Madison, President of the United States; Dolly Madison; William \u0026amp; Mary presdents Adam Empie and Thomas Roderick Dew; William \u0026amp; Mary professor C. de la Pena; Bishop Richard Channing Moore; and others.  Includes notes on the album, 1938, by donor, L.P.W. Poindexter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph album of Mary Lou Saunders, a student at Nashville Female Academy.  Purchased from Charles F. Heartman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi in February 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes signatures of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. George Tucker, A. Empie and others.  Most autographs are initials.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence and papers of members of the Page and Saunders families. Includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. The collection includes a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and correspondence of Robert Page Saunders. There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16 February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","30 items.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Lawsuits and money owed.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer if can get deed of trust.","3 pages on one leaf. Bears seal. Death of her sister's fiancé. Can't visit but entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of her children, Gregory and Peggy.","1 page. Autograph letter signed.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Unhappy by late proceedings of President and Professors. General impression their conduct equally reprehensible as that of the students. Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the faculty and students of William and Mary College.","Scope and Contents Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther, at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs. Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster Gloucester County, Virginia Expectation of visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William, Maria and Mr. Skinner. Illegible SAR handwriting Mr. Skinner returned here.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before. Invites her and our dear William to visit. Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd). Extreme heat. Son has left.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of having William's picture...wishes above all things to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most affectionately to our beloved Maria and William... Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. \" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr. Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of whom you also enquire was well known to your Father. . . He resided either in glister or Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden frequently spoken of, as being at no great Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account. Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr. Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's hire for the last year in his hands) to get and pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to you.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G. G.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Scope and Contents Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. note says one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page wrote","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr. P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident with boat to return to Bowling Green where daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is sending. Mentions what others have been wearing. Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach. Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has female teacher from the North who taught in Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington. . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in town at the Academy.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. Three fortifications going up in our immediate neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed two days ago. Description of defenses at Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade intended to worry people out of a vote for secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript available.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr. Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on him. Not pleased with position but friends worked so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode remains unwell.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military Institute.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs. Morison's porch hit by shell.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea. Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs. Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has visited Ewell's.","Incomplete. Description of Ashland. Visit to the household of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to do.","25 items.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Sends enclosed invitations to Robert? Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth. Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno. Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He was so intemperate in this city before he left and had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders. Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's. sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the Nation.(Christmas present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for Life of Caesar. Burning of house at Shelly.","Elaborate letterhead. Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or her father like it. Mr. Scott does on Ewell's account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to Maryland Churchman. Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett, stationer.","Telegram. Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send box of eats and check.","8 pages on four leaves. Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her health statement. Talks about what her health statement said. Good health for my age.","23 items.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book. Jack Munford's death.","6 letters. 1 postcard.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","5 items.","Incomplete.","13 items. 2 letters.","3 items.","2 letters.","10 items. Includes will.","6 items.","23 pages. 18.5 cm.","83 pages. 15.5 cm. Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back of front cover and on fly leaf.","8 sheets. Manuscript. Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B. J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","6 sheets. Manuscript.","12 pages. Manuscript.","Margaret Lowther Page: Journal \u0026 Poems, 1790. Physical Location: Removed to Rare Books.","1 item.","2 items.","68 pages of which 28 were used. 6.25 x 4 inches.","1 item.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item. This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. Corcoran.","1 item.","10 items. Includes a book of quotations which probably belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.","26 items. Includes memorandum book.","15 items.","6 items.","In fragile condition. Title page torn. Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.","2 items.","Copies from microfilm of Margaret Lowther Page Poems (PS 814 P3) with identification of some people by Margaret Cook, Special Collections.","Autograph album includes signatures of Professor Holmes and others. Williamsburg area. 90 pages.","Barbara Maria Page was the daughter of John Page, Governor of Virginia.  Signatures with prose include James Madison, President of the United States; Dolly Madison; William \u0026 Mary presdents Adam Empie and Thomas Roderick Dew; William \u0026 Mary professor C. de la Pena; Bishop Richard Channing Moore; and others.  Includes notes on the album, 1938, by donor, L.P.W. Poindexter.","Autograph album of Mary Lou Saunders, a student at Nashville Female Academy.  Purchased from Charles F. Heartman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi in February 1938.","Includes signatures of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. George Tucker, A. Empie and others.  Most autographs are initials."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae"],"names_coll_ssim":["College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894"],"famname_ssim":["Page family","Saunders family"],"persname_ssim":["Saunders, Robert,  1805-1868","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","Page family","Saunders family","Saunders, Robert,  1805-1868","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":122,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:42:54.762Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2579","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2579","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2579","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2579","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_2579.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Page-Saunders Papers","title_ssm":["Page-Saunders Papers"],"title_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1790-1932"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1790-1932"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1790/1932"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Page-Saunders Papers, 1790/1932"],"text":["Page-Saunders Papers, 1790/1932","Mss. 39.1 P15","/repositories/2/resources/2579","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century","College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Legal documents","Correspondence","Diaries","Manuscripts (document genre)","Photographs","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 4 Series. Series 1 contains Correspondence; Series 2 contains papers concerning estates; Series 3 contains writings; and Series 4 contains miscellaneous material. Arrangement: This collection is arranged mostly chronologically.","Robert Saunders was born 25 January 1805 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia. Saunders served as professor of mathematics at William and Mary from 1833 to 1848 and was president of the college 1847-1848. He was a captain in the Confederate States Army, head of Eastern State Hospital, mayor of Willamsburg, vestryman of Bruton Parish and served in the Virginia State Senate. Saunders married Lucy Burwell Page in 1828 and had, among other children, Roberta Saunders and Robert Page Saunders. He died 11 September 1868. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00059.frame","See also; Augustine Smith Papers (Mss. Sm. Coll. Smith) for letters from Dr. A. Smith to Alice Page, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.","Correspondence and papers of members of the Page and Saunders families. Includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. The collection includes a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and correspondence of Robert Page Saunders. There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16 February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","30 items.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Lawsuits and money owed.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer if can get deed of trust.","3 pages on one leaf. Bears seal. Death of her sister's fiancé. Can't visit but entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of her children, Gregory and Peggy.","1 page. Autograph letter signed.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Unhappy by late proceedings of President and Professors. General impression their conduct equally reprehensible as that of the students. Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the faculty and students of William and Mary College.","Scope and Contents Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther, at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs. Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster Gloucester County, Virginia Expectation of visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William, Maria and Mr. Skinner. Illegible SAR handwriting Mr. Skinner returned here.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before. Invites her and our dear William to visit. Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd). Extreme heat. Son has left.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of having William's picture...wishes above all things to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most affectionately to our beloved Maria and William... Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. \" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr. Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of whom you also enquire was well known to your Father. . . He resided either in glister or Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden frequently spoken of, as being at no great Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account. Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr. Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's hire for the last year in his hands) to get and pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to you.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G. G.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Scope and Contents Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. note says one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page wrote","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr. P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident with boat to return to Bowling Green where daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is sending. Mentions what others have been wearing. Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach. Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has female teacher from the North who taught in Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington. . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in town at the Academy.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. Three fortifications going up in our immediate neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed two days ago. Description of defenses at Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade intended to worry people out of a vote for secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript available.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr. Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on him. Not pleased with position but friends worked so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode remains unwell.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military Institute.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs. Morison's porch hit by shell.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea. Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs. Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has visited Ewell's.","Incomplete. Description of Ashland. Visit to the household of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to do.","25 items.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Sends enclosed invitations to Robert? Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth. Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno. Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He was so intemperate in this city before he left and had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders. Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's. sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the Nation.(Christmas present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for Life of Caesar. Burning of house at Shelly.","Elaborate letterhead. Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or her father like it. Mr. Scott does on Ewell's account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to Maryland Churchman. Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett, stationer.","Telegram. Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send box of eats and check.","8 pages on four leaves. Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her health statement. Talks about what her health statement said. Good health for my age.","23 items.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book. Jack Munford's death.","6 letters. 1 postcard.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","5 items.","Incomplete.","13 items. 2 letters.","3 items.","2 letters.","10 items. Includes will.","6 items.","23 pages. 18.5 cm.","83 pages. 15.5 cm. Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back of front cover and on fly leaf.","8 sheets. Manuscript. Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B. J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","6 sheets. Manuscript.","12 pages. Manuscript.","Margaret Lowther Page: Journal \u0026 Poems, 1790. Physical Location: Removed to Rare Books.","1 item.","2 items.","68 pages of which 28 were used. 6.25 x 4 inches.","1 item.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item. This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. Corcoran.","1 item.","10 items. Includes a book of quotations which probably belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.","26 items. Includes memorandum book.","15 items.","6 items.","In fragile condition. Title page torn. Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.","2 items.","Copies from microfilm of Margaret Lowther Page Poems (PS 814 P3) with identification of some people by Margaret Cook, Special Collections.","Autograph album includes signatures of Professor Holmes and others. Williamsburg area. 90 pages.","Barbara Maria Page was the daughter of John Page, Governor of Virginia.  Signatures with prose include James Madison, President of the United States; Dolly Madison; William \u0026 Mary presdents Adam Empie and Thomas Roderick Dew; William \u0026 Mary professor C. de la Pena; Bishop Richard Channing Moore; and others.  Includes notes on the album, 1938, by donor, L.P.W. Poindexter.","Autograph album of Mary Lou Saunders, a student at Nashville Female Academy.  Purchased from Charles F. Heartman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi in February 1938.","Includes signatures of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. George Tucker, A. Empie and others.  Most autographs are initials.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","Page family","Saunders family","Saunders, Robert,  1805-1868","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Page-Saunders Papers, 1790/1932"],"collection_ssim":["Page-Saunders Papers, 1790/1932"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.1 P15","/repositories/2/resources/2579"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 39.1 P15","/repositories/2/resources/2579"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century"],"places_ssim":["Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century"],"creator_ssm":["Saunders, Robert,  1805-1868","Page family","Saunders family"],"creator_ssim":["Saunders, Robert,  1805-1868","Page family","Saunders family"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Saunders, Robert,  1805-1868","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Page family","Saunders family"],"creators_ssim":["Saunders, Robert,  1805-1868","Ewell, Benjamin Stoddert, 1810-1894","Special Collections Research Center","College of William and Mary--Alumni and alumnae","Page family","Saunders family"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Purchase"],"access_subjects_ssim":["College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Legal documents","Correspondence","Diaries","Manuscripts (document genre)","Photographs"],"access_subjects_ssm":["College of William and Mary--History--19th century","Legal documents","Correspondence","Diaries","Manuscripts (document genre)","Photographs"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["190.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["190.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Diaries","Manuscripts (document genre)","Photographs"],"date_range_isim":[1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929,1930,1931,1932],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16 February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003e30 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Lawsuits and money owed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer if can get deed of trust.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages on one leaf. Bears seal. Death of her sister's fiancé. Can't visit but entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of her children, Gregory and Peggy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 page. Autograph letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Unhappy by late proceedings of President and Professors. General impression their conduct equally reprehensible as that of the students. Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the faculty and students of William and Mary College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther, at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs. Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster Gloucester County, Virginia Expectation of visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William, Maria and Mr. Skinner. Illegible SAR handwriting Mr. Skinner returned here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages on 1 leaf. Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before. Invites her and our dear William to visit. Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect recovery. Rest of her children quite well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd). Extreme heat. Son has left.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages on 1 leaf. Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of having William's picture...wishes above all things to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most affectionately to our beloved Maria and William... Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. \" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr. Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of whom you also enquire was well known to your Father. . . He resided either in glister or Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden frequently spoken of, as being at no great Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account. Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr. Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's hire for the last year in his hands) to get and pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to you.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G. G.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pages on 1 leaf. Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money and watch with chain and one seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. note says one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page wrote\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr. P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident with boat to return to Bowling Green where daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClothes she is sewing and clothes she is sending. Mentions what others have been wearing. Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for you.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach. Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has female teacher from the North who taught in Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington. . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in town at the Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. Three fortifications going up in our immediate neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed two days ago. Description of defenses at Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade intended to worry people out of a vote for secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr. Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on him. Not pleased with position but friends worked so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode remains unwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 pages on 1 leaf. Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSon's demerits at Virginia Military Institute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs. Morison's porch hit by shell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea. Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs. Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 pages on 1 leaf. Has visited Ewell's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete. Description of Ashland. Visit to the household of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has been offered new position (quartermaster).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of his travels in his new position as quartermaster collecting taxes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants pardon, land back and something to do.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCelebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Incomplete. Sends enclosed invitations to Robert? Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvites someone to be guest.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from Texas. Description of wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth. Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGabriella is too sick to attend to putting up the stone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno. Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He was so intemperate in this city before he left and had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders. Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's. sermons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppreciate subscription to the Nation.(Christmas present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for Life of Caesar. Burning of house at Shelly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElaborate letterhead. Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a great charge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas brought place in Hampton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or her father like it. Mr. Scott does on Ewell's account.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMortgage rates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubscription to Maryland Churchman. Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett, stationer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTelegram. Death of Mrs. Capron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants to hear from him concerning his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarmody mortgage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad he feels so well. Wishes they could send box of eats and check.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 pages on four leaves. Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her health statement. Talks about what her health statement said. Good health for my age.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book. Jack Munford's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 letters. 1 postcard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items. 2 letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes will.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 pages. 18.5 cm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e83 pages. 15.5 cm. Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back of front cover and on fly leaf.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 sheets. Manuscript. Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B. J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 sheets. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 pages. Manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMargaret Lowther Page: Journal \u0026amp; Poems, 1790. Physical Location: Removed to Rare Books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e68 pages of which 28 were used. 6.25 x 4 inches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item. This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a copy of the Book of Common Prayer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns William W. Corcoran.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items. Includes a book of quotations which probably belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items. Includes memorandum book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn fragile condition. Title page torn. Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCopies from microfilm of Margaret Lowther Page Poems (PS 814 P3) with identification of some people by Margaret Cook, Special Collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph album includes signatures of Professor Holmes and others. Williamsburg area. 90 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarbara Maria Page was the daughter of John Page, Governor of Virginia.  Signatures with prose include James Madison, President of the United States; Dolly Madison; William \u0026amp; Mary presdents Adam Empie and Thomas Roderick Dew; William \u0026amp; Mary professor C. de la Pena; Bishop Richard Channing Moore; and others.  Includes notes on the album, 1938, by donor, L.P.W. Poindexter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAutograph album of Mary Lou Saunders, a student at Nashville Female Academy.  Purchased from Charles F. Heartman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi in February 1938.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes signatures of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. George Tucker, A. Empie and others.  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Includes correspondence of Margaret Lowther Page of \"Rosewell,\" Gloucester County, Va. and Williamsburg, Va. with her daughter Lucy Burwell Page Saunders and her son-in-law Robert Saunders. The collection includes a diary, 1826, of Robert Saunders while on a trip from New York to Le Havre; published stories of Lucy Burwell Page Saunders; manuscript stories by Roberta Saunders; and correspondence of Robert Page Saunders. There are references to Benjamin Stoddert Ewell and to the College of William and Mary in the papers; a letter, 16 February 1816, written by William Wirt to Robert Saunders; and letters from Sally M. Galt of Williamsburg.","30 items.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Lawsuits and money owed.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Autograph letter signed. Escape of Yarbrough who owes money to Blair from jail. Willing to give Yarbrough a year longer if can get deed of trust.","3 pages on one leaf. Bears seal. Death of her sister's fiancé. Can't visit but entreats sister to come to her to live. Arrival of General Wayne in Philadelphia. Can she get a letter to sister Penny and Mr. Dawson. Health of her children, Gregory and Peggy.","1 page. Autograph letter signed.","Sister. Illness of her poor Barbara. Peggy helped. 4 children. Herrings. Dr. and Mrs. Sawyer. Unhappy by late proceedings of President and Professors. General impression their conduct equally reprehensible as that of the students. Sorry Samuel signed remonstrance. She would have tried to stop him. Boards with Mr. Tazewell. Piece in Enquirer. Mrs. Byrd's accounts of lots in Lynchburg. Will retract two words. Note: This letter refers to the reprehensible conduct of the faculty and students of William and Mary College.","Scope and Contents Margaret Page, Williamsburg, to Mrs. Lowther, at Edenton, North Carolina. Worried re: her. Death of Chancellor Nelson. My John visiting springs. Lucy, Barbara and myself went to Gloster Gloucester County, Virginia Expectation of visiting Peggy. Waiting for payment for Grain sale. Lucy delighted at thoughts of visiting William. Dr. Hare appointed Professor of Chemistry at Medical College at Philadelphia. Dear William, Maria and Mr. Skinner. Illegible SAR handwriting Mr. Skinner returned here.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Birth of Maria's Skinner child. Condition of her shoulder that was operated on 12 years before. Invites her and our dear William to visit. Daughter Barbara has returned from Richmond and granddaughter Peggy, tho unable to walk is thought by physicians to be in a fair way of perfect recovery. Rest of her children quite well.","Death of Mrs. Henry Skipwith. (Elizabeth Byrd). Extreme heat. Son has left.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Her sister's health. At Elmington visiting daughter. Granddaughter Peggy still unable to use leg. Son John has situated at Union Town, Monroe County, Virginia near White and Sweet Sulphur Springs. Disappointed to hear from Mr. Blair that Mr. Skinner has been in Richmond and she had not seen him. \"Lucy is delighted at the thought of having William's picture...wishes above all things to see the little Penelope.\" \"Present us most affectionately to our beloved Maria and William... Kiss for us all the sweet little Pen.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. \" . . . as I am sensible of the deep Interest you take in our dear Lucy's improvement, hasten to inform you that on the 11th Mr. Morse (the gentleman who boarded at Mrs. Peachy's open'd a school for the education of young ladies. . . \"Mr. Fontaine ... had much skill in gardening and publish'd a garden calendar for every Month in the Year a Manuscript Copy of which I ought to have among my Papers. The great Botanist Clayton of whom you also enquire was well known to your Father. . . He resided either in glister or Middlesex . . . I heard the remains of his Garden frequently spoken of, as being at no great Distance. . . \" Mr. Clayton's grandson. Death of Mrs. Andrews and terms of her will. Tuckers are relieved from anxiety on Mrs. Cabell's account. Sally Tazewell to be married to Mr. Goode. Mayo advertised the revised code and as I requested Mr. Blair (he having both Cooper Jemmy's and Wison's hire for the last year in his hands) to get and pay for the copy I engaged and send it on to you.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Glad to hear people in Williamsburg interested in religion. Would like more rhymes from E. G. G.","3 pages on 1 leaf. Appreciates his sympathy at death of his father (William's uncle). Bequest under will. Left money and watch with chain and one seal.","Trial of Dr. Ducachet (Episcopal minister).","Scope and Contents Rains. Thunder cloud. Dr. Ducachet honorably acquitted. Horrible mob in Baltimore. note says one of last letters Margaret Lowther Page wrote","Pleased at continued recovery of daughter. Dr. P at Jamestown. Cannot get away due to accident with boat to return to Bowling Green where daughter, Sally Cary is ill. Health of friends in Williamsburg. Hot, hot weather there.","Clothes she is sewing and clothes she is sending. Mentions what others have been wearing. Fears confinement of teaching will be too much for you.","Has been to hear Cousin Robert Nelson preach. Staunton Institute opens tomorrow. Mrs. Forest has female teacher from the North who taught in Mississippi and Memphis and knew Kate Millington. . . she is keeping a boy's school but it is in town at the Academy.\"","4 pages on 1 leaf. Three fortifications going up in our immediate neighborhood. Blockade in Virginia. College closed two days ago. Description of defenses at Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Jamestown. Blockade intended to worry people out of a vote for secession. Ewell has commenced erection of plank huts on field on College Landing road. Typescript available.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Is no longer president of the railroad. Mr. Wilmer is chaplain of Ewell's regiment. Professor Morrison died of typhoid fever. Corrects his French.","Has had place in Treasury Dept. conferred on him. Not pleased with position but friends worked so hard to get it for him, he will keep it for awhile to see if he can advance. Mrs. Minnigerode remains unwell.","4 pages on 1 leaf. Bad weather. Mrs. General Gaines. Has not seen Lizzie Ewell but has seen Mr. Stoddert.","Son's demerits at Virginia Military Institute.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Wise is a little above Williamsburg. Probably not going to attack Fort Magruder. Col. Tabb's skirmish at Whitaker's Mill. Went around Williamsburg and Fort Magruder by way of Tutter's Neck. Could have taken Fort Magruder earlier. Mrs. Morison's porch hit by shell.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has sent money to Gen. Smith. Yankees retook possession of Williamsburg after Gen. Wise left it.","Invited to get some of Miss Rebecca's good tea. Visited General Ewell who is installed on house on Franklin Street near Eighth and just opposite Mrs. Stanard's. Found Lizzie there.","2 pages on 1 leaf. Has visited Ewell's.","Incomplete. Description of Ashland. Visit to the household of Bishop Johns and lists who lives there. Has been offered new position (quartermaster).","Description of his travels in his new position as quartermaster collecting taxes.","Wants pardon, land back and something to do.","25 items.","Celebration of 100th anniversary of Asylum will be 12 October 1873. First patient admitted.","Scope and Contents Incomplete. Sends enclosed invitations to Robert? Description of wedding.","Invites someone to be guest.","News of friends. Dick Coke to be senator from Texas. Description of wedding.","Bad weather. Leonora. Death of Mary Booth. Death of Alice Brown Hammond, nee Hankins.","Gabriella is too sick to attend to putting up the stone.","\"Says Dr. Power wrote to ask her to let Jno. Tyler and his daughter rent rooms in the house but she refused. What can he want there I wonder. He was so intemperate in this city before he left and had his daughter with him.\" Wants him to contact publisher in Baltimore to see if he would put story for Indian mission of Bp. Whipple.","Delia Braithwaite and her flock. Kindness of Braithwaites to her in her illness. Intends to be in Baltimore on the 11th. Visit from Rev. William Pettus of Kentucky. Protege of Prof. Ro. Saunders. Mrs. Minnegerode has sent me the dr's. sermons.","Appreciate subscription to the Nation.(Christmas present.)","Visits. Hard times in Williamsburg. Even in Yorktown vegetables and ice very high. Food is scarce in Williamsburg. Lack of money.","Thanks for Life of Caesar. Burning of house at Shelly.","Elaborate letterhead. Cholera epidemic. Illness of family. Uncle. His son \"our poor feeble-minded one is of course a great charge.","Has brought place in Hampton.","Has dispatched sketch. Want of means makes no difference in the Southern manners. Lizzie wrote that Ewell has gone to Texas. Neither herself or her father like it. Mr. Scott does on Ewell's account.","Mortgage rates.","Subscription to Maryland Churchman. Enclosure: An advertisement of Lycett, stationer.","Telegram. Death of Mrs. Capron.","Thanks for bread and cheese. Received iron.","Payment for mortgage.","Wants to hear from him concerning his health.","Carmody mortgage.","Glad he feels so well. Wishes they could send box of eats and check.","8 pages on four leaves. Afraid she has mislead Lucy Page concerning her health statement. Talks about what her health statement said. Good health for my age.","23 items.","Lucy teaching in Fincastle. Wants Page book. Jack Munford's death.","6 letters. 1 postcard.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","Incomplete.","5 items.","Incomplete.","13 items. 2 letters.","3 items.","2 letters.","10 items. Includes will.","6 items.","23 pages. 18.5 cm.","83 pages. 15.5 cm. Note: Signature of Robert P. Saunders on back of front cover and on fly leaf.","8 sheets. Manuscript. Also a newspaper clipping of an article by B. J. Lossing regarding the subject of this picture which hung in the library of Robert Saunders of Williamsburg, Virginia. 1 item.","6 sheets. Manuscript.","12 pages. Manuscript.","Margaret Lowther Page: Journal \u0026 Poems, 1790. Physical Location: Removed to Rare Books.","1 item.","2 items.","68 pages of which 28 were used. 6.25 x 4 inches.","1 item.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item.","1 item.","2 items.","1 item. This tribute is written on the flyleaf of a copy of the Book of Common Prayer.","Concerns William W. Corcoran.","1 item.","10 items. Includes a book of quotations which probably belonged to Mrs. Lucy Page Saunders.","26 items. Includes memorandum book.","15 items.","6 items.","In fragile condition. Title page torn. Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Arch-Deacon of Clogher and published by Mrs. Pope.","2 items.","Copies from microfilm of Margaret Lowther Page Poems (PS 814 P3) with identification of some people by Margaret Cook, Special Collections.","Autograph album includes signatures of Professor Holmes and others. Williamsburg area. 90 pages.","Barbara Maria Page was the daughter of John Page, Governor of Virginia.  Signatures with prose include James Madison, President of the United States; Dolly Madison; William \u0026 Mary presdents Adam Empie and Thomas Roderick Dew; William \u0026 Mary professor C. de la Pena; Bishop Richard Channing Moore; and others.  Includes notes on the album, 1938, by donor, L.P.W. Poindexter.","Autograph album of Mary Lou Saunders, a student at Nashville Female Academy.  Purchased from Charles F. Heartman of Hattiesburg, Mississippi in February 1938.","Includes signatures of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. George Tucker, A. Empie and others.  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The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","At the time of gift the originals were in the possession of Miss Lucy Vaiden, Williamsburg, Va.","Photographs (and negatives) of papers concerning the marriage of Count Antonio Barziza, Venice, Italy to Lucy Paradise, daughter of John and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, Williamsburg, Va. Includes a typed copy of a letter, 24 February 1805, from Lucy Ludwell Paradise to Littleton Waller Tazewell; and a photograph of a letter, 28 January 1831, written by Margaret Nelson Bellett. Description: Photographs Williamsburg, Va. 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Please consult a staff member for assistance.","Phi Beta Kappa was founded by five students at the College of William and Mary in 1776.","A portion of this collection was previously part of the University Archives Publications Collection.","Due to the fragile nature of the early portions of the records in this collection, researchers must use microfilm or any other reproductions available in place of the original documents.","A portion of this collection was rehoused and arranged by Kelsey Kavanaugh, SCRC staff, from July-December 2010. Acc. 2010.511 minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in September 2010. Acc. 2010.511 was further processed and added to the exsiting collection by Kelsey Kavanaugh, SCRC staff, from January-June 2011. Acc. 2012.158 accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in May 2012.","The University Archives Artifact Collection (UA 13); Robert Morton Hughes Papers (UA 5.013); Phi Beta Kappa Records of John Lesslie Hall and Charles Washington Coleman (UA 6.022); Office of the President, various accessions; Margetta Hirsch Doyle Papers (UA 5.005); University Archives Photograph Collection (UA 8); University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58); Robert Hunt Land Papers (UA 6.012).","Artifacts transferred to the UA Artifact Collection include: Phi Beta Kappa Key of J. Meriwether Hurt (2010.511.01), Phi Beta Kappa Key of M. Del. Jenkins (2010.511.02).","The records of the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William and Mary include minutes, business records, addresses and speeches, poems, correspondence, publications, membership cards, and other records.","This series includes committee files, minutes of meetings, bylaws, correspondence, and other administrative material from the Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of the College of William and Mary.","Restricted","Restricted","Restricted","Restricted","Restricted","Photocopies","Phi Beta Kappa registration cards for conference. Alphabetical within box.","Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.","Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.","Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.","Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. Alphabetical within box, A-Z.","Cards include each member's date of initiation, major, occupation, and address. 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Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is currently being processed. Please consult a staff member for assistance.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["This collection is currently being processed. 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Acc. 2012.158 accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in May 2012."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe University Archives Artifact Collection (UA 13); Robert Morton Hughes Papers (UA 5.013); Phi Beta Kappa Records of John Lesslie Hall and Charles Washington Coleman (UA 6.022); Office of the President, various accessions; Margetta Hirsch Doyle Papers (UA 5.005); University Archives Photograph Collection (UA 8); University Archives Audiovisual Collection (UA 58); Robert Hunt Land Papers (UA 6.012).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Artifacts transferred to the UA Artifact Collection include: Phi Beta Kappa Key of J. Meriwether Hurt (2010.511.01), Phi Beta Kappa Key of M. Del. 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Prominent poets include Archibald MacLeish, John Hollander, Richard Wilbur, Theodore Roethke, Adrienne Rich, Richard Latimore, W. H. Auden, Mark van Dorn, Robert Penn Warren, Stephen Spender, John Ciardi, Randall Jarrell, May Sarton, William Carlos Williams, X. J. Kennedy, Daniel Hoffman, Richard Eberhart, Reed Whittmore, W. D. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series. Series 1 contains papers of the Powell Family; Series 2 contains copies of historical letters; Series 3 contains legal papers; Series 4 contains cartes de visites; and Series 5 contains diaries, record books, and other miscellaneous volumes. Arrangement: This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by date.","Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849) was born in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia to parents Leven Powell (1737-1810) and Sarah (Harrison) Powell. He was one of eleven children. Cuthbert made his fortune alongside his brother, Leven Powell, Jr. (1772-1807), as a merchant and ship owner. He retired to \"Llangollen,\" Loudoun County, Virginia in 1812 after a decline in business. Later he was elected to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly; the Virginia State Senate in 1829 and the Virginia House of Delegates in 1840. In 1788, Cuthbert married Catherine Simms, daughter of Col. Charles Simms. The couple had ten children including; Anne Maria Powell (1800-1885), who married 1st cousin Dr. William Levin Powell; Dr. Llewellen Powell (1802-1870), who married cousin Sarah Elizabeth Harrison; Charles Leven Powell (1804-1896), who married Selina Lloyd; Mary Emily Powell (b.1807), who married cousin Cuthbert Powell and later Rev. George Adie; Ellen Douglas Powell (1813- 1862) who married Judge William H. Gray; Cuthbert Harrison Powell (1814-1897); and Jane Simms (Fanny) Powell, who married Wellington Gordon. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00085.frame","Included with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988),","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","See:  Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Leven Powell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; include the correspondence of Leven Powell (1737-1810), who was the father of Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849). Leven Powell served in the American Revolution, Virginia House of Delegates and U. S. House of Representatives. Leven Powell Papers, 1774-1806. 93 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 P87","Tabb-Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tabb-Powell Papers, 1797-1894.1,847 items. Collection Number: Mss. 65 T14Geographic interest includes; Alexandria, Leesburg, Winchester, and central Virginia; and Henry [Marshall County] Illinois.","Letters and papers of Charles Leven Powell, his wife Selina (Lloyd) Powell and children of Loudoun County, Virginia; Henry, Illinois; Winchester, Virginia; and Alexandria, Virginia.","There are also included papers of Charles Leven Powell's father, Cuthbert Powell. Prominent correspondents include Johns Hopkins, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Anna Randolph (Custis) Lee, Hunter Holmes McGuire and James Monroe.","Letters concern Robert Young Conrad, Hunter Holmes McGuire, civilian affairs during the Civil War, the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, freedmen, Reconstruction, and the education of women. Many letters are written by women.","In addition, there are a number of letters from and concerning members of the Dupuy family of Prince Edward County, Winchester, Virginia including Robert Young Conrad (president of the Virginia Secession Convention) and his son Holmes Conrad (U. S. Congressman).","Included with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988).","See also  Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Including a statement, 1786 April 8 by J. Nicholson that the witnesses Joshua Lamb and John Lamb (both Quakers) and Joseph Greenwood affirmed and swore that this was the last will and testament of Thomas Hepborn.","Reports on the status of the ship The Rising Sun; says she will dispose of her cargo as soon as possible; says the ship was detained by the British (War of 1812), but given up.","Signed by William Hodgson and Thomas Van Le, Jr.","Her daughter ? Nancy, had a healthy baby boy who is nursing well; Nancy is staying with her now, and her husband Mr. Wallach, spends almost every night there also; is concerned that Nancy will live a hard life because of her husband's financial situation; on the other hand, her daughter Catherine ? will be \"free from the trials attended on a state of poverty,\" being married to Cuthbert Powell, who owns a large farm in Loudoun County; much Simms family news; mentions Mrs. Trist's grandson, Nicholas Trist.","Signed by B. Cottinger.","Fatherly letter giving his opinion of a certain young lady and marriage, as well as general advice.","Discussion of his engagement to this daughter Selina, and the seriousness of the matter, especially in concerning finances; tells of his poor financial state as related to a dowry, or the lack thereof, for his daughter; gives his approval of the \"alliance,\" but hopes they will delay the marriage for some time.","Has given great consideration to his claim against the French government and has turned the case over to Stephen Pleasonton, who is the auditor for the Dept. of State and who is now handling all claims; since Mr. Pleasonton is a personal friend and he (James Monroe) is greatly interested in his Burr Powell case, he knows he will get an answer soon; will also be returning the agriculture pamphlet.","Sends extract of Mr. Pleasonton's reply concerning the claim against the French government and asks that he reply with the necessary information; will also do anything he can to help.","Further discussion of his claim against the French government and dealings with Stephen Pleasanton and Isaac Coxe Barnett.","More instructions about the claim being made against the French government.","Further discussion and explanation of the case involving Burr Powell and his claim against the French government.","Continued information concerning Powell's claim against the French government.","The new court system has kept him extremely busy; social life has slowed down; the fashion these days to relieve boredom is to ride horseback; expresses concern for his own colt in the country; inquires after Dr. Nelson and his medical career; also asks about a large, gay party at South River; recommends books for good reading including Schlegel's History of Literature.","Has received the results of his claim from Mr. Pleasonton and regrets the outcome, which he disagrees with; does not feel anyone is to blame.","Asks her to come visit over Christmas; describes the social events in Arlington; mentions her cousin George Calvert; says the big event is the fair for the benefit of orphans.","Describes a walk she took and the surrounding countryside, including the wildflowers and startling a herd of deer; had many visitors, including a very graceful lady who is said to have been \"addressed\" by Mr. Van Buren, a \"jolly goodnatured ... commodore and some of the ugliest officers,\" and Mrs. Porter and her scholars; tells of books she has read, including Tales of a Grandfather, The Sorcerer, and The Talisman; loving memories and looking forward to their next meeting.","Have just returned from a visit to her grandmother's and her cousin, Ann Marshall; they all are saddened by the death of Mr. Fitzhugh; describes the country from South to West River, where she had visited, and comments on meeting a lovely girl, Bella Carter; mentions the jealousy of another male suitor?, Seldon Page; mentions Mary Custis. 3 pages. letter signed.","Sends his best wishes for her new life with Charles L. Powell; will be able to attend the wedding as well as \"Brother Nelson\"; is uncommonly warm; is sending a bonnet for her and a small diamond breast-pin for Father by the steamboat Franklin, commanded by Admiral Nevitt; describes the long ribbons attached to the bonnet, which are for going once all the way around the bonnet before knotting them by the ear, not for tying a bow under the chin; also includes a diagram of how to tie them in the current fashion; admits to having been helped in choosing the bonnet by Miss Olivia Donaldson.","Discusses events in Washington D.C.; says she went to \"the President's\" on New Year's day; discusses Mr. Marshall's sermons; mentions books she is reading; asks Selina to come visit her.","Says her health is improving; encourages her to ask her for help when she needs it; discusses the articles she is sending her including a lemon tree, curtains, a mattress; discusses how these things will get to her; gives news about the children; Bec, Nanny, Frank, and Fred.","His mother-in-law has told him of the wonderful news of the birth of another daughter Hattie, and that both mother and baby are safe; will be up to visit in about a week; comments on balancing the sexes in the family, and that he has \"no notion of supplying my brother's and sister's children with wives\"...\"we shall hate to transport them his daughters to the wilds of the west\"; all is well at home, a new hen house is being built, but the garden is too wet to work; is lonely but is visiting neighbors; family news; religious sentiments expressed about her, their new daughter, and their family.","Gives account of his trip to Wheeling, including a sweet good-bye from daughter Rebecca; was not able to locate Robert Gray or ? Throckmorton at Harper's Ferry, but later met them at Point of Rocks; detailed description of a railroad and train cars; tells poignant story of a dog on the train searching for his master.","Has had many family visitors since his departure and family news; there is a measle outbreak at \"Llangollen,\" and all of the \"negroes\" have it; she had her teeth filed by Dr. Overfield?; a fire in Upperville destroyed Robert Armistead's new store and the adjoining saddle shop; they have had a beautiful snowfall, covering all of the blossom-filled trees, which melted quickly, doing no harm to the fruit; had a letter from brother John, who advises that he Charles L. Powell \"go directly to Texas\"; loving stories about their daughter's activities.","Had a bad thunderstorm the day she left; inquires about her trip and her relatives; details of children's activities; has let Becca sleep with him.","Their father will be taking a trip West this spring, accompanied by cousin William; family information; social life in Leesburg very quiet; misses her and her family.","Details of his trip from Alexandria; spent the night with relatives; warns her about catching a cold on a windy day; tells of conversations with their young son.","Private financial matters; tells of his busy schedule as a representative from Virginia to the U.S. legislature; gives his negative opinion concerning a bank? bill introduced by Henry Clay,which he feels the President would veto; Daniel Webster shares his opinion; life insurance inquiry.","Will not be home when expected because the House of Representatives is not going to adjourn until Monday; the Congress received their second veto from President Tyler regarding the Bank Bill; describes an assault made by Sen. Henry A. Wise upon Sen. Edward Stanlyin Congress.","Asking about her visit to Washington and the Chamber of National Institute; speaks of floods, bad weather, but comfortable where he is, because of Margaret's? kindness; describes lifestyle and \"humorous remarks of Charles Lamb,\" sexual relationship with her.","Wishing thumb to heal; speaks of cattle and other animals at \"Llangollen\" that he misses; asks about children; saw Ann? mentions Virginia Taylor's visit; will visit wife before harvest; reference to brother, Leven, and his wife, and Sarah?","Hustle and excitement of the House of Representatives; hoping to adjourn on Monday the twenty-second, but difficulties cause many night meetings; political discussion about Tariff question and Tuck bill.","Discusses her story at \"the Springs;\" tells about the politics the company there discussed; gives her own view of these issues; gives news about family and friends; hopes that Congress will soon adjourn so that he can come home.","Compares episode of thief robbing hen house to thieves in Washington trying to rob \"public treasures\"; wants to buy books for her; tells how he wishes to be with her and the rest of his family.","Writes of the bad weather and that they are able to get out very little; says Mr. Powell went to the Inauguration on horseback; tells what books the family members are reading; mentions the issue of white servants; discusses Rebecca's feelings of becoming a young lady; says that they could not get the house they wanted for next year; mentions Mr. Powell's feelings of frustration for not being able to better provide for them; gives more news about the Inauguration; news of family and friends.","Daughter, Harriet, left with Uncle William to spend holidays with them; daughter Minna had a birthday party, inviting Aunt Mary's children and Eskridges; family news; death of Maria Lee.","Discusses her religious feelings; discusses her traveling plans; describes her relationship with each of her relatives where she is staying; says she is staying with Fan and helping her with her wedding.","Discusses the housekeeping and how Rebecca is taking care of the house while she is away; discusses the health of family members; tells how they are altering last year's dresses; says \"Mother\" is quite weak and \"Father\" is very dependent on her; gives news of Brother Nelson and Jeanie (sister?); gives travel plans of family; says Mr. Powell has gotten six teeth put in and looks much younger.","Describes their arrival home with her brother Nelson; gives news of \"little Nan\"?; asks about Rebecca and Minna's trip; tells her to be happy and to follow God; says Charlie is doing well in school.","Family news; mentions Laura's? wedding.","Tells what she did during her visit to Locust Hill; tells what is going on in town; gives news of family and friends. Including news from letter from \"Mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell telling of her many activities.","Discusses Jesus and how one must search for and do things that please Him; asks that she watch her sister, Minna, closely so that she will not overexert herself; Ariana? had a baby boy; describes son Charlie's and daughter Nina's reactions to reading school and learning; family news.","Speaks of John's? carriage and velocipede that once was Minna Lloyd's, describing how she rode the vehicle; describes what a Holly tree is; (has genealogical information about Minna Powell, Lloyd Powell, and Charlie Powell in a different hand, which appears to have been added later.)","Gloucester Court House,Va. Speaks of her \"companion in Matilda Lee?; received visit from Nannie Guy and Maria Harrison; describes celebration in honour of General Taylor's election; describes Mrs. Janney's travels; town gossip and family news.","Family news; speaks of going to Locust Hill; inquires and tells about adventures of many townspeople; obliged to Mrs. Tabb for taking care of her and other daughter, Minna.","Speaks of Cousin Lucy's? party; describes Christmas scene around her house and gifts that the children received; describes Cousin Elizabeth Janney and compares to Cousin Harriet; family news.","Discusses who has come to visit her; describes Cousin Lee's wife, Maria, and their wedding; asks about her Christmas; describes the book marks she made for Christmas presents; asks how Minna is doing.","Speaks of snow and bad weather; notes that daughters, Rebecca and Minna, have been gone for almost three months; Fanny (Powell) Gordon is going to visit Fredericksburg; mentions a letter from Jeannie? who found General Jones, in Washington, quite \"agreeable and handsome\"; Cuthbert Powell is much better, and he speaks of going to Gloucester to join a Mr. Hale; Nina is afraid of everything; family news; mentions hiring of a slave, Margaret.","Rebecca's description of her Uncle Tabb's Dr. John Prosser Tabb house seems far in advance of Old-Virginian architectural styles; speaks of death of Mrs. Douglas Gordon.","Speaks of dancing as a family as a \"social amusement,\" but says that it does offend some \"in the religious world;\" says that one must respect the public opinion of the community where one lives; had severe weather; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Hatty Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Minna Powell, Gloucester Court House, for letter and \"glove-knots\" and sending love to Aunt Rebeccaand Uncle John Prosser.","Her brother Charlie and sister Nina have sore throats, and her father has a bad cold; snowy weather; Hatty went with Aunt Ellen to Selma and Raspberry Plain; Mr. Armistead Rust is to be married before March 4; family news.","Scope and Contents Reports on the snow storms they have had; mentions the coming wedding of Armistead Rust and Lilly Lawrence; tells how he likes working at the store; describes one of their customers; describes the house they may rent next spring. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia Says she is glad to hear Minna's health is improving; gives news of family; says her brother Nelson soon sails for California to dig gold, and may not be back for five years; reports on how he expects to live; says that there are measles and mumps in town.","Maris's? father announced as candidate for re-election; General Rust's family going to New York to attend a wedding; father is renting Carper's house; bad weather and snow causing many colds and illnesses; Mrs. Eskridge's father died; father may go to the Inauguration; family news. 4 pages. letter signed.","Saw Representative John S. Pendleton at the House of Representativesin Washington, D.C.; Pendleton wants a senate appointment; he will not go to Leesburg because he does not want to \"meddle with party movements\"; mentions \"County Repeal of the dog law.\"","Scope and Contents Mother and Father are both sick; \"brother\" has gone to inauguration; describes how to make eggnog, and gives her opinion of it; describes riding horses to the cliff and tells of adventures. 1 page. letter signed. Including letter from Harriet Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 February 27, incomplete letter concerning outbreak of the mumps and family and town news.","Father suffering from piles; mumps are still prevailing; do not have parties during Lent; family news.","Scope and Contents Speaks of gossip saying that Mr. Benedict is having an affair with Mrs. Henderson; describes procession in Washington, D.C. and the inauguration; family news. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 March 26, concerning family news and the time of year.","Scope and Contents Expresses joy that Minna's health is till improving; says she is recovering from her cold; says Lloyd and Hattie have been ill as well; discusses the issue of Rebecca upsetting her aunt Rebecca by being late for a meal; says her aunt is easily vexed in \"her condition\"; gives news of friends and family; describes their new servant Robert. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Charles S. Powell, to Rebecca Powell, , undated, concerning Uncle Prosser's desire to put Minna on \"short allowance,\" and Minna's consumption of beef.","Describes their move to another house which she says is comfortable but small; hopes that the Gloucester air is getting rid of her cold; says their father is busy with court dealings; says many in the area have mumps including Hattie; says that Hattie is getting a tooth plugged; says she does not want Lloyd to leave to live so far away; discusses mesmerism (hypnotism).","Speaks of her bad health; her husband is busy preparing for court; mentions a party at Exeter; Mrs. Fontleroy had a girl so Mrs. Knox is a grandmother; much more family news and information.","Scope and Contents Rebecca Powell will be coming home within a week or so; Fanny? is at Locust Hill with the mumps; family news; Uncle William Graypersuaded Father to go to Gum Springs, Va., until after the election; election day events seemed to be going against Father. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Sister Minna\" Powell, Gloucester Court House, Virginia, 1849 April 26, concerning family news.","Describes Minna's cough and how they are treating it; tells her what clothes Lloyd and Charlie should wear if it gets colder; says she has been doing little except taking care of Minna; discusses new dresses for the winter and corsets; gives news of friends and relatives; discusses travel plans, to come home for the winter.","Discusses dresses, materials and costs; discusses bonnets; gives news of family; thanks her and Hattie for taking care of the household duties while she is away.","Says Minna is now well and that they are anxious to come home; gives news of Jeanie (her sister?), and Rebecca; gives news of \"Mother\" and \"Father\"; discusses books.","Says Mr. Powell had his \"likeness taken\" at the Daguerreotype rooms; says Minna's health continues to improve but that she may have one tonsil taken out; discusses the remedies she is taking; says she feels stronger also; gives news of friends; gives news of Rebecca, Jeanie, and \"sister\" Ann; discusses walking shoes.","Gives advice on her health and over-exertion; describes the illumination that took place in the neighborhood; tells of visits she has made; tells stories about Minna's sister, Nina; gives news of family and friends; says Hattie has lost her \"excess of fat\" and is walking three times a day.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses bonnets; discusses appearance versus reality as concerning materialism; discusses the opportunities for her in Alexandria; discusses the role of children in the family; gives news of friends and family; mentions that \"brother\" John may move and that if they move to Illinois, they will be closer to him.","Says they got there a few days ago and that Mr. Powell, Mr. Grey(?), and \"brother Llew\" have gone to the sale of slaves (\"the sale of the negroes\"); discusses her visit in Alexandria with her grandparents; Discusses the bad weather in Leesburg and the bad condition of the roads; says their family must economize rigidly; says Mr. Powell found the law business in Alexandria too small, so they will not be moving there; expresses her disappointment at the outcome; gives news of family.","Scope and Contents Reviews Christmas gifts received by everyone; describes a \"reading party\"; describes Christmas decorations of the Church; family news. Including note signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, 1849 December 29, concerning when daughter, Rebecca, is to return home.","Tells of the recent social events of the area; describes the format of a reading party; says her mother-in-law could not make it to their home because of the snow; asks her how her mother is doing; says there are still small pox in the area; discusses how many servants she has and what each does; says that Rebecca's Uncle George took Cuthbert to an asylum in Baltimore and hopes he will be happier there then when he was \"out.\"","Gives news of Rebecca's Uncle Richard and Aunt Elizabeth who live in Illinois; says she plans to get a description of the Illinois life from them; gives news of Ellen? who is unwell and is going to a doctor in New York; discusses how Rebecca can get home; describes family activities; says they have been able to do little because of the rain and mud; says she lies on her back all day sewing while her children read to her.","Scope and Contents Reading parties are the only way she can socialize; reports Maria Grady's death; reports about a big baptist meeting going on there headed by Mrs. Lucket; much town news. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 26, 1850, concerning Rebecca Powell's trip home and Maria Grady's \"triumphant death.\"","Scope and Contents Speaks of terrible weather; boasts of learning to spin rolls of cotton on a spinning wheel; reports death of Rebecca Gray, Robert Gray's daughter; describes her daily routine; discusses Mary Grady. Including letter signed from \"devoted mother,\" Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Bec,\" Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 1850, concerning bad weather, family news, and attendance to the convention.","Says many in the family have been very sick for a couple of days and that she has had to nurse them; says Minna is now sick; and never had fully recovered from the chicken pox she had before; gives advice of how to be a good guest; advises her on her studies.","Says she has a toothache but must wait until May to get them pulled; describes a humorous reading party; says there was a case of small pox in the area and that many are being revaccinated. Including letter signed from \"mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell. Discusses her travel plans home; tells her to follow her grandparents' advice; gives news of family.","Expresses joy that her younger siblings are recovering from the measles so well; reports on health of \"Grandma\" and \"Grandpa\" Lloyd; gives news of Aunt Rebecca, Jeanie, and Minnie; Tells what she had done each day.","Inquires about many weddings in Leesburg and about who will need new dresses; speaks of ball thrown by Maria Washington; other city news.","Gives general description of Henry and discusses the family's move there; discusses the house they will build; advises what they should bring; reports on the emigrants in the area; discusses their travel plans in detail; asks Charlie to bring Newfoundland puppies; gives news of family there.","Describes presents sent to grandchildren; tells of Christmas scene in Alexandria; wants granddaughters to meet a polite gentleman that impressed her. Including poem, 1852, by R. C. Powell, beginning \"'Ours the cross.' Yes it is ours,\" giving a religious viewpoint.","Speaks of how she makes embroidery patterns and what colors are preferred; inquires about some of her friends; John Leven Powell says that Brooke? looks badly; aunt Fanny trying to match Brooks with Lucy Gordon; speaks of a Mr. Beverley breaking out around his face and \"bleeding profusely\".","Scope and Contents Mr. Gordon? will be a delegate to the democratic convention in Richmond, Virginia; much use of her eyes results in inflammation of her eyelids; \"Llangollen\" property is deteriorating; much town news and family news; mentions her dower right.","Speaks of helping Frank and Lucy ? with their new baby; describes female servants and her experiences with them; describes health of her daughters, Harriet, Rebecca, and Minna; reports of a few cases of \"cholera\"; reports of a good garden.","Gives a detailed report of Minna's health, expressing hope that her headaches are definitely getting better; tells about people who have visited the family; mentions a desegregated school in \"abolition ground\"; tells what her sisters have been doing since she left; discusses Rebecca's journey.","Mrs. Janney's baby died while she was ill; a Mr. Anderson, a Presbyterian Minister, says that his wife, Miss Harper, is a relative of Selina's (her father's Aunt); speaks of Fred's? wedding; tells of episode when she goes to visit a Mrs. Brown?; describes a visit they made to some neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Mentions Fanny's ? wedding; family news; possibility that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon ? might be elected to legislature; family does not wish Rebecca Powell to return home this winter.","Describes a visit they made to some new neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Describes their busy preparations for winter; describes their daily routine; says she is glad to have Lucy and Fred stay with them; describes their Sunday school; reports on Scholastics (a servant) who is now reading well; news of family and friends; discusses dresses and styles; asks about Rebecca's Uncle Nelson; mentions that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon was elected; asks about Fan's? wedding and hopes she and William will be happy.","Speaks of his daughter's trip, whom she should visit, and money matters; hopes to soon reap the financial benefits of his store; mentions Bishop Whitehouse's determination to give the college broad foundations; family news.","Family news; sleet and bad weather; religious discussion and viewpoints; Lucy and John? have a daughter now.","Scope and Contents Mr. Powell, Charles and Richard Lloyd are busy with new business as \"Land Agents\"; town of Henry, Illinois now has a newspaper and a steam mill; hopes to have a railroad passing through soon; there is not a decent Church and she wishes to see one built; Lloyd Powell, son of Selina, studies German because there are so many Germans in their town to do business with.","Scope and Contents Sarcastically teases her sister about differences between lifestyles of \"Far West\" and the East; Uncle Fred ? went to Springfield to see that railroad went from Peoria through Henry, Illinois; mentions problems with scarlet fever; family news.","Speaks of liquor laws and problems with drinking; describes lectures; such family and town news; mentions other religious lectures.","Expresses desire for daughter Rebecca to return home; Minna Powell still having problems with headaches; family news; Fred? went to Chicago to see stockholders of the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad; asks for Rebecca to send asparagus seed and large lima beans; mentions Thackery's lectures, and gives her opinion about his books and religious teachings.","Scope and Contents Family news; \"land business\" will provide many opportunities for travel; Rebecca planning to go to Leesburg soon. Including note from Charles L. Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"darling,\" Rebecca Powell, , 1853 March 11, sending his daughter ten dollars and writing her as to how to handle her expenses and requesting her to bring home her Grandfather's papers.","States that even though he just left yesterday, she wanted to put a letter in the books to be sent to him; comments on their inability to see each other even though he is only seven miles away.","Mentions his job as a traveling salesman and how he hopes to soon be Uncle Richard's Lloyd administration; resolved in town meeting to build the Railroad Peoria and Chicago.","Scope and Contents Expresses her disappointment that she cannot see Rebecca before Rebecca returns to Henry, Illinois; describes the friendship between them; news of friends in Baltimore.","Tells of carriage accident involving Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dulaney, where their horses were scared by the Clifton Mill and threw Mrs. Dulaney; she and father attended Dr. Rutherford's lectures; emphasizes that ladies got to vote, as well as gentlemen, on whether they were satisfied with the lectures; new wharf boat has arrived.","Describes the towns of Rushville and Pittsfield; said he enjoyed Pittfield more, but that Uncle Richard Lloyd sent him an assignment for Rushville; says he will be there about a month; asks about friends and family.","Scope and Contents Rebecca has come home; Minna joined the church with her family; gives religious views; family news. Including letter from Minna Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"Brother\" , 1853 May 11, referring to Rushville, as location of brother; tells of beautiful spring weather and describes scenery.","Will soon be coming home; complains of sore throat and headaches; has had scarlet fever; family information.","Gossips about \"Miss Jane,\" a mutual friend; says he and Dr. Winslow found her in her parlor with a man; says the servant did not want to let them in and that it was an uncomfortable situation. Including letter written in margins from \"Cousin\" Jane to Rebecca Powell concerning religious publication, an Episcopal convention.","Expresses how much she misses him; discusses reading material.","Describes Aunt Ellen's Powell Gray recovery from an illness; much family news; describes wedding that she went to; expresses romantic interest in a Dr. Claggett; includes printed poems.","Describes physical appearance of \"Llangollen\" as well as her feelings towards the place; reminisces about when family lived in Virginia. Talks about old friends; family news.","Scope and Contents Tells her little sister Nina about old friends and family; gives details of things she has been doing. Including letter from \"Hatty\" Harriet Powell, \"Llangollen,\" Virginia, to \"Mother,\" Selina Powell, 1853 October 10. Concerning warmer clothes; advantages of \"flannel draws\" over a \"wadded petticoat.\"","Scope and Contents Says she has been extremely ill and so have many in the area; says she has been traveling in order to improve her health; tells of her problems with Custis and his lessons; says Robert is still holding his office in Washington but wishes to leave; asks how she likes \"the West\" and if her husband is finding success; news of friends.","Reports Lucy's? death and grief everyone feels; Nelly? is to be baptized; other family news.","21 items.","Tells of their Christmas and New Years celebrations. Also includes \"Mother\" Selina Powell, to Rebecca Powell. Expresses hope that Rebecca can be with her relatives in Baltimore; discusses the nature of receiving advice and making her own decisions concerning her travel plans.","Speaks of attending a party; mentions \"matching up\" procedures at party; family news; details Christmas gifts.","Mentions religious feelings; speaks of a railroad being built nearby; Virginia? had her annual get-together on December 26; of family members; mentions a friend's visit to the Crystal Palace; Mrs. Augustine Washington had the first male child born at Mt. Vernon recently; family news; mentions Rear Admiral Leven Minn Powell.","Mentions Brooks'? wedding; describes details of the wedding; much family news.","Tells of her day spent with Lizzie King and Jane Norris; describes a dinner given for a couple about to get married; news of other friends.","Mentions sicknesses of Nelson Lloyd and John Lloyd; speaks of a Douglas Forrest who attends Yale College; has to take a boat to Washington D.C.; gives price rates per acre of land at that time; gives prices for a lot of land.","Family news about cousins Nannie and Fanny?; mentions Uncle Nelson's Lloyd recovery; travels by omnibus.","Family news; describes her garden and its contents; Regina? was married; Mr. Livingston? requests influence of Charles L. Powell to obtain the consulship of London through General Baercel?; mentions Mr. McFaddin as being the mayor of Henry.","Family news; describes the scenery at Locust Hill; some of Uncle George's ? children have chicken pox.","Identified as much of note added in unknown handwriting, possibly that of Selina Lloyd Hepburn.","Description of Minna's gravesite; tells what he's doing to improve its appearance.","Describes trip to Niagara Falls; describes places visited in New York and where he lives; describes his studies.","Describes courses he is studying at school; describes the first time he saw a man dive under water and the suit he wore below water; staying at a boarding house.","John Lloyd who died in 1854; estimated price value are given.","Describes study habits and classes; mentions prices of a ring and a clock; describes his financial situation. .","Describes in detail her Quaker wedding to Frank? on 1854 December 14.","Nina's Christmas gift from Charles arrived safely; mentions wedding of a fellow student; serenaded the couple with a \"horse fiddle\"; describes his activities in his spelling class; mentions plans to return home in the spring.","Expresses religious beliefs; lists prices for renting his room.","Describes Charter Oak, an attraction in Hartford; describes his visit to an armory; staying with a Mr. Parsons and describes his family.","Scope and Contents Discusses financial settlements he is making for his father concerning the house, lands, furniture; says Uncle Fred and Uncle Neb are leaving Henry and they are all \"disgusted\" with Henry and that he thinks his (father's) decision not to come back was wise; mentions the family move to Winchester, Virginia","12 items, 1856. 16 items, 1857","Describes their Christmas which was spent at Uncle Fred's and Aunt Lute's; describes a Christmas ball and a New Year's ball in detail; says he has had some problems with dyspepsia; asks about cousin Kate's wedding to a senator.","Reports on Aunt Lib and Uncle R?'s new son, Richard; says he rented out their house in Henry; says he has been away from \"home\" now for three months; and will not go to New Orleans, Mobile, and Augusta; describes how he decorated Minna's grave, and expresses hope that her resting place will soon be Virginia; asks about their school; sends money from a large profit he made selling land.","Describes his visit to Louisville where he saw his cousins and went to many social events; says that the train ride from Kentucky was very rough; says he will be in Vicksburg in a week and then will go to Wilmington, North Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; and Memphis, Tennessee; asks about family and friends.","Describes his stay in Vicksburg, and his visit with Mr. And Mrs. Eilbeck Mason and Miss Louisa Fox; says that he did not see Cousin John Russell while in New Orleans; discusses his travel plans; asks about Hatty's teaching.","Expresses joy that she is well from the influenza; says he has recently traveled to Portsmouth, Va,, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; says he will now go to Texas; discusses travel plans; asks her to pick out one of her friends for him; discusses Charlie's new job in St. Louis.","Scope and Contents Describes St. Louis and the Virginia House Hotel; inquires about the new scholars the family has taken on; harasses Nina for not writing. Including note from Charles L. Powell, St. Louis, Missouri, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1856 May 4, concerning his happiness about Nina joining the Church.","Describes hard times in Illinois; intent to move back to Virginia when business picks up; family news.","Speaks of influenza and other illnesses prominent in the town; reports the death of Mr. Adies ?; Ellen Powell is in Washington Infirmary; house is being renovated; family news.","Says he just returned from Henry; says Charlie is on his way to Henry to start his new job in Uncle Fred's store; describes Henry and the house they used to live in; reports that Uncle Fred is building a house; gives new of Scholastics and Monsieur Carlo; says he will go to Pennsylvania next and then visit them.","Reports that Lloyd Powell is on his way to Virginia; describes their yard and home in Henry; yellow fever is not a problem this year in Illinois; he went to a concert given by the Baleis.","Inquires about the \"weddings fair\"; discusses his travels and the loneliness involved in his job; mentions his relief that the campaigns and elections are over; sends messages to friends at home.","Nina has begun studying Latin and learning how to draw; mentions the extension of the Chicago and Pern canal down to Henry; much family news.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses religion and the duties of a Christian; gives news of friends who have joined the church; discusses Minna's grave; discusses letter writing; tells of recent marriages and engagements; gives her philosophy on why he should not begin to chew tobacco; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Valentine's Day and Washington's Birthday; mentions last year's parade and the marching continentals; reports of bad rain storm that tore up the railroad track and caused problems with mud and flooding; family news. Includes note signed from Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1857 February 22, telling her to turn to their 'one friend' for strength and advice.","Scope and Contents Describes a storm which kept him in Henry, Illinois, unable to travel; gives recent travel plans, including a trip to Philadelphia by boat; gives news of friends and family in Henry; says many river towns are flooded.","Reports his knowledge of Lloyd's Powell return to Winchester; relatives are going to the Episicpal Church for Easter; reports Dr. Hoagland ? as being a bad tenant in their house in Illinois; mentions happiness that Nina Powell is joining the church today.","Gives news of relatives in Alexandria; tells his travel plans; says he finds the women of Virginia far more appealing than those of South Carolina.","Uncle Fred? and Aunt Lucy? are leaving for Virginia; sending his mother his daguerreotype, a photograph; reports that Lloyd is in St. Louis; Bridget, a past boarder, had a little girl; family news.","Describes the family vacation and adventures; describes the baths; mentions the parties they have attended; family news.","Family is on vacation; describes activities and scenery at Capon Springs; family news.","Speaks about taking inventory at the store; family news.","Says they just got back from Capon; asks her not to take silver nitrate for her headaches; says they have all improved their health by the visit to Capon; says \"brother\" Nelson is now there hoping the springs will help him; says they did not get the house that they wanted to rent; gives news of friends; says Rebecca, Hatty, and Lloyd are there. Including letter from Charles L. Powell to Nina Powell. Says that he misses her and wishes she could have been at Capon; asks about her headaches.","Describes his travels from Baltimore to Henry; mentions shortage of money due to bank failures; gives detailed news of the town, including improvements being made; news of Henry relatives; mentions that the bank failures will result in fewer land dealings and therefore, less work for him; asks about the young ladies of Winchester.","Inquires about Mr. Waler's? lectures; attends the Methodist Church now; reports of the adventures during hunting season; mentions the new idea of pavement sidewalks.","Describes a severe snowstorm and its effects on Henry; tells how he spent Thanksgiving day; describes their new cook with whom he is infatuated; mentions the death of Robert Conrad?; gives messages of friends in Winchester.","Reports of Nina getting her teeth straightened; describes method; reports that the number of scarlet fever cases is greatly reduced; she is very busy with the boarding school; tells of a fight between Charlie McCormick and a police officer; mentions Hunter Holmes McGuire; family news.","Discusses the death of Robert ? and the reaction of the town; gives news of friends; sends her love to her mother and relatives; wants to know what Dr. Chase said about her teeth.","Writes about Nina's plans to go home; says she is concerned about her traveling when her teeth are in such a condition.","20 items.","Refers to the \"hard times\" everyone is experiencing; describes farm activities; family news; describes how to make a mousetrap.","Describes midwest weather and the usual fall-like temperatures; says that they are all much healthier because of the mild weather; says ties are hard and the bank in Henry just closed, but that the town is continuing to improve; asks about Mrs. Powell's occupation, teaching; mentions the death of Robert Conrad and describes his character; messages to family members.","Reports of freezing temperatures of -15 F and snow in Henry; mentions sleighing in the snow; reports story of a bank robbery.","Reports of Lloyd's Powell trip to St. Louis to try and find Charles a job; family news; mentions a Mr. Lombard who plans to return to Henry and open a bank of issue.","Discusses who owes him letters from home; says he could not find a job for Charley Charles L. Powell, Jr.? in St. Louis because of the poor economy; gives news of Randolph Powell, of St. Louis, and John Webb Powell, of Utah; says he will be home during the summer.","Mentions that she missed his birthday with a card but thought of him that day; expresses religious feelings and beliefs; family news; lists people recently confirmed in the Church; outbreak of typhus fever at the University ?","Tells of his travels; describes Memphis, Tenn.; gives news of \"cousin\" William Powell who resides in Memphis; gives news of Mr. And Mrs. Mason, residing in Vicksburg; describes Leake County where he sold some of his Uncle Nelson's land; gives news of \"cousin\" John Wilson of New Orleans and of \"cousin\" John Chilton, who may send his daughter Sarah to school in Virginia; tells his travel plans, stating he will be in Virginia in a month; gives news to family and friends.","Describes scenery where he is; tells of a May party that some school girls had; describes his boat riding trip; family news; mentions arrival of Mr. Winn, the new Presbyterian minister.","Reports having been sick with a bad cold; family news; Nina has problems with other schoolgirls because her parents operate the school; trying to plan Charlie's return home for the summer.","Asks about fourth of July entertainment; Mr. Winn gave an exceptional sermon; Uncle Richard? bought a piano and a side-saddle; family news.","Inquires about boarding students; inquires about vacations at Capon Springs, West Virginia; tells of his success at duck hunting; family news; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Gives news of Uncle Richard's and Uncle Fred's families; says that Frank's baby is still ill; gives news of Hammond and Minna; comments that he will not see his family for another year; gives news of Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. and his employment possibilities; asks about Uncle Neb of Clark, Va?.","Gives her opinion about chewing tobacco, smoking, and other bad habits; incorporates religious duty into her opinion; some family news.","Discusses his habit of chewing tobacco and how he should discipline himself to quit.","Discusses the weather; reports on Hammond; reports that Mr. Chandler of Henry is getting married in Boston; says they will stay at Mrs. Taber's for the winter; gives news of Charlie (Charles) L. Powell, Jr.; comments on the involvement of women in politics in Henry; news of friends; comments on the decreased enrollment at the family school, saying they will at least have a lighter workload; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Expresses her disappointment in Charlie's having tasted tobacco; tells him that he is doing wrong to continue this habit; voices many religious views.","Reports that river is flooding the town; talks of Christmas holidays; family news.","A birthday letter for Nina's sixteenth birthday; describes the weather; family news; Min? is the \"editress\" of the \"Minnehaha\"; tells of the affairs of a Miss Amanda?.","Gives account of how he spends his days with emphasis on his Sunday activities; tried to quit chewing tobacco but couldn't; tells of episode where Uncle Richard? lost his saddle bags in the town of Bradford; river was frozen and people are ice skating; family news.","Tells where the girls boarding with them are going for Christmas; describes their Christmas plans; recollects their last Christmas with Minna; gives religious advice; sends her love to Lloyd.","18 items.","Would love for her to stay with him; mentions a sister Hannah.","Reports that Lloyd Powelland Uncle Richard ? have gone to Memphis, Tenn.; tells of the building of a road for $10,000; describes a surprise party he attended; mentions Valentine's Day and how many he has received; family news.","Reports that Uncle Richard and Frank are with him in Memphis, to see if they want to move there; says that he does not believe Uncle Richard will leave Illinois, but that Frank probably will; says that they tried to look up William Powell but he had moved to Arkansas; discusses the possibilities of his parents establishing a school in the area, and the risks involved.","Gives news of Uncle Richard and Uncle Fred; says Uncle Fred and Frank will close their business and leave Henry; tells of a conversation with Bishop Otey of Memphis on the subject of establishing a girls school there; gives details of the proposal in case his father is interested; gives news of the private school situation in Arkansas; reports on his business dealings in Arkansas; discusses financial matters.","Gives news of Uncle Fred who has been ill; says that the women of the town are all inspecting the new spring goods brought in from Saint Louis; discusses his daily schedule; says Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. is in singing school; asks about Nina's walks and lectures on the benefits of exercise to health and appearance.","Describes spring in Illinois; inquires about relatives in Alexandria; comments on Uncle Nelson's helpless state; discusses the chances of recovering Uncle Nelson's lands in Arkansas; describes the area of Henry where the family used to live; comments that she now weights 108 lbs., which is more than her daughters weigh; sends his love to Grand Ma Powell, Aunt Ann, and Uncle Neb.","A baby girl was born who is Nina's cousin Uncle Richard's daughter?; describes a fishing trip; mentions finding several Indian graves with skeletons and other items; tells story of a \"mad\" dog who bit many people.","Gives news of Illinois relatives; describes a trip that he and Uncle Richard took through Stark County, emphasizing the changes that have taken place in the last five years; comments on Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. development into a young man; reports that Uncle Richard will leave the land business on September 1st; discusses his involvement in the business and his desire to visit Virginia.","Scope and Contents Expresses his relief that his brother Charles arrived safely in Va.; comments on how scattered the family is at present; mentions Cousin Fanny Cochran's wedding in Middleburg, Virginia; discusses Mr. Hyde's trip in the \"aerial vessel\" Atlantic from St. Louis to New York, as reported in the \"Republican\"; reports that Frank has another son, Horatio Nelson; news of other Illinois relatives; describes the July 4 festivities.","Discusses an unprofitable year for his business; discusses a business proposition made to his brother Charles and Harry and Benton Janney by Uncle Richard, concerning the opening of the store; gives news of Illinois relatives; comments that his Uncle Richard, who just turned 43, may begin to use his middle name again and become Richard H. Lloyd; comments on how, in the past twenty years, the Powell family has spread from \"New York to Salt Lake City, and from the 'Lakes' to the Gulf of Mexico.\"","Reports that Uncle Richard, Minna will stop at Fulton County to visit relatives; gives his opinion about Minna not returning to Winchester Va. for school, stating that she has become too undisciplined and used to complete freedom in Illinois to be effectively taught in a school; describes Frank's son Horatio Nelson; comments on the family's health, saying that his father Charles L. Powell weights twenty pounds more than he does and his mother Selina L. Powell weighs only six pounds less, and also weighs more than any of her three brothers in Illinois; asks her if she is finished school and will make her debut.","Reports that Charley (Charles) L. Powell, Jr., Harry and Benton Janney have begun their business named \"H and TB Janney and Co.\" Asks about the boarding school and discusses the difficulties of running one; reports that Frank's family and Mrs. Hammond? are on their way to Memphis to live; reports that Uncle Fred is planning an extended visit to Virginia, and then will probably move to Memphis; says he and Uncle Richard dissolved their partnership and that Uncle Richard plans to move to Memphis as well; reports that crops are poor, so his business will be slow; plans to see them for Christmas.","Reports that there is a County Fair next week; describes in detail an incident of a burning well; expresses sorrow that the family school will be so small this year; reports that the 'W. S. Fair' in Chicago is now over.","Scope and Contents Discussing fall and winter goods being stocked at \"Lloyd's Big Brick\" in Henry, Illinois","family news; mentions marriage of Miss Hutchins, and deaths of 2 children of Mrs. Clara Ferguson; received invitation to wedding of \"Miss Mittie;\" gives his opinion of marriage.","A French teacher at the boarding school died; mentions excitement due to 'John' Browne's execution and that there are 26 companies of soldiers at Charlestown, West Virginia; mentions growing discontent of slaves; describes how men have loaded pistols ready in their homes; tells how many people are being imprisoned; tells of other strains between North and South; some family news; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Reports that Uncle Richard's baby has been christened Elizabeth Jenkins Lloyd; comments that this is the day that John Brown is to be executed; comments on the number of arrests in Virginia of strangers traveling through the state. Including newspaper clipping, n.d., of a poem about infants.","Discusses Professors Wise and LaMountain's attempt to establish daily balloon transportation from the \"Western\" states to the East Coast; family news; says he is anxious for the family in Illinois to move south; mentions the execution of \"Cook and his Confederates\" involved in John Brown's attempted insurrection on December 16.","Invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Scope and Contents Mentions and encloses invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party; describes events at the party; describes weather and reports of a sleighing party; reports marriage of Mary Ann Hoyt, friend of the family. Including note from Maggie J. Richmond, Henry, Illinois, to Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, 1860 February, inviting him to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Talks about Uncle Richard's? baby girl; gives report of Charles L. Powell and some family news.","Discusses \"spring fever\" concerning work; describes weather; speaks of Uncle Nelson's Lloyd death and how it should be a happy time; thanks his father for \"Alexandria Gazettes\" containing articles about the Whig convention; family news.","Writes about her feelings during the time following her brother Nelson's death; recounts the last days she spent with Nelson Lloyd.","Talks about assessed value of some land or property and makes reference to Lloyd Brothers and Co.; speaks of crops and the effects of the weather; mentions how road being finished would provide trade with those on the other side of the river; township will vote on how to acquire additional funds to complete the road; mentions the whig convention and how they now represent such a small minority of people.","Talks of spring dresses and bonnets; mentions hearing address by William McDonald; discusses opening of a shoe and book manufactory; speaks of beating \"the 'Yankees' with their own men;\" family news; religious advice; mentions use of telegraph.","Discusses agriculture and effects of weather on crops; talks of visiting New England and of dislike of their attitudes; expresses extreme negative opinion of 'Yankees.'","Family news; mentions work at the store; discusses events around town. Including poem? written in Latin on both sides of envelope. Locks of hair also enclosed.","Discusses crops and agriculture; describes Illinois scenery; family news; inquires about trip to Capron Springs; mentions \"Uncle Richard's\" card selling tour.","Discusses Congressional race; mentions Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky and his visit to Illinois; talks about rise in crime; family news.","Discusses confusion about having joined the church; religious discussion; some family and neighborhood news.","Inquires about trip to New England; mentions \"Alexandria Sentinel;\" family news.","Discusses climate and busy season of Christmas; debates issue of Civil War and effects; gives religious advice; family news; Robert Young Conrad.","Discusses problems due to political and financial situation of the country; talks about boils on his hand; family news; mentions kindness of Mayor Turner.","Nina's eighteenth birthday; discusses the weather; talks about sleighing and skating; mentions \"Pickwick Papers\" and describes hunting interest; makes reference to several literary works.","Talks of trade being slow; election of a Mr. McFadden as \"Justice of the Peace\"; mentions sleighing and the weather; describes hayride in snow and people he went with.","Discusses his indebtedness to his father and his financial situation.","Discusses political situation and \"imminent danger of Civil War\"; comments on government involvement and troops in a war; mentions social life.","Scope and Contents Discusses the imminent war and that it will be the third one in her lifetime; talks about effects of a war from past experience; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from \"grandmother\" Catharine Powell, Bellevue, Va.?, to Rebecca Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 January 20, inquiring about being able to paint for her.","Describes his dog and its habits and actions; talks about a fight at a warehouse; family news.","Discusses pros, cons, and possibilities of a war; talks about being able to cross North/South Line if he comes to Virginia; describes weather; mentions indoor winter activities; refers to marriage and courting habits; family news.","Briefly discusses the Navy; describes wedding of Nellie Hall and a Mr. Kellogg; family news.","Information concerning troop movements around Harper's Ferry; mentions a Col. Bowen, superintendent Barbour, and a Col. Moore.","Discusses explosion of armory at Harper's Ferry; speaks of united Southern forces; mentions involvement of friends including Powell Grady; Powell and Holmes Conrad; family news.","Suffering from inflammation of eyes; discusses possibility of Illinois and Virginia residents being separated during the war; Virginia's succession from the Union; Democrats opposition to the war with the South; talks about surrender of Fort Sumter; confusion about whether to leave or stay in Henry; some family news.","Discusses Colonel Robert Lee and movement of troops; mentions Georgetown Heights, Alexandria Heights, and the Valley counties; some family news; mentions Rockingham Rifles.","Blockade established at the mouth of the Ohio; Southern trade suspended; some family news; inquires about situation in Virginia concerning the war.","Discusses a proclamation of Lincoln; politics and effects of the Civil War; dominance of Lincoln's party in Louisville, Kentucky; some family news.","Orders to stop mail from Virginia.; Alexandria occupied by North; Fairfax cavalry taken prisoner; family news.","War's effects on postal service; family news.","Thanks her for package of food and lists contents; speaks of newspaper Richmond Dispatch as a rare luxury; describes camp life; enemy is at Williamsport, Md.","Discusses camp life and its required adjustment; mentions accidental shooting of two men as their only pessimistic experience so far; gives account of battles reported in the Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun; majority of men in army are under 21; describes how soldiers try to get food from surrounding farmers and their families.","Scope and Contents Discusses uniforms, saying that they are everywhere, and that a \"John Brown\" has increased the \"military spirit\" in Virginia; asks about Lloyd; discusses books he has read and that she recommends; describes their daily schedule and when she has time to read; discusses food in season; news of family and friends.","Prepares for battle; states that he is ready to do his duty for his country; mentions that the Continentals lost two men in the engagement the day before.","Regrets that he cannot keep their date for the afternoon due to Army business.","Scope and Contents Mentions her husband's attack of dysentery; family news; gives news of friends and family; hopes war will soon be over so that the family can all be together; expresses religious feelings; wishes that they could write more freely; tells him to send his letters to E. J. Lee in Maryland who will forward them South to them. Including note, from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Winchester, Virginia, to \"Charlie,\" Charles L. Powell, Jr., , relating more family news.","Asks for specific items of clothing to be sent because he does not know when he can return home; refers to Haresack? and asks that she make him a smaller one.","Includes description of L. Powell.","Description of how Lloyd Powell was shot in battle of Manassas; details of his personal characteristics and attitudes.","Scope and Contents Expresses sympathy in regard to Lloyd Powell's death; offers comforting words from the Bible. Including letter, from Sue P. Lee, Lexington, Va. to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 29, offering condolences on the death of her brother, Lloyd Powell.","Thanks Nina for her letter of sympathy concerning the death of her mother; gives news of her brothers and sisters; says that she has terminated her relations with cousin R.? because she could not marry a first cousin; discusses their friendship.","Complains of poor postal service; tells him of Lloyd Powell's death; remembers about Lloyd's characteristics and qualities; says that typhoid fever is spreading in the town; talks about her servants; family news; reports of Willie Lee Chilton's death, a second cousin; expresses religious view.","Love letter to her; proposes marriage to her and her guardian and asks for a reply.","Signed also by J. R. Bowen, Justice of the Peace, stating that Charles L. Powell, Jr. has taken necessary oaths to become Deputy Marshal. . Including on verso, document, from Brigadier General James H. Carson, 1861 October 24, Charles L. Powell, Jr. permission to cross back and forth over enemy lines.","Thanks her for package she sent him; describes his situation and effects of the Civil War.","Thanks her for cap she sent him; his company is located at the \"Big Spring\" near Mr. Gray's.","States that 'Yankees' were in Shepherdstown, WVa. a few nights ago; family news; sends condolences on loss of her brother Lloyd Powell.","Sympathizes upon loss of Nina's brother, Lloyd Powell; relates her story of when her father died; expresses indebtedness to Nina's mother Selina (Lloyd) Powell; mentions sickness prevalent in Winchester, Va.; discusses her brother's Bob Lucas experiences as a soldier; Charles L. Powell, Sr., has accepted position in Richmond; news of spending summer at Col. LaRue's in Clarke to escape the Yankees.","Thanks her for a cap she made and sent to him; expecting to go to camp soon; some family news.","Tells of explosion that a Mr. Hubard caused trying to perfect something like \"Greek fire\" to sell to the government, similar to a powder to use in shells; describes condition of Mr. Hubard, his subsequent operations and death.","Scope and Contents Wanted to give her news from Winchester, Virginia, but \"the spy\" had to burn his information for fear it would fall into enemy hands; tells stories of houses being searched by soldiers; news of friends and relatives; decorated with \"Confederate States of America\" seal.","Trying to catch up with Stonewall Jackson's troops; describes camp life and strategy concerning the Yankees.","Possibility of 'Yankees' taking Richmond; discusses importance of trust in God during battles; inquires about Robert Lee.","General information on troop movements; mentions Battle of Williamsburg.","Describes being a member of Jackson's Army; mentions \"Rockbridge Artillery\" being full; family news. Decorated with \"Liberty and Union\" seal.","Stonewall Jackson captured two entire enemy regiments; enemy took part of Central Railroad; troop movements.","Family news; disappointment about not being able to be with Stonewall Jackson in his last fight.","Discusses the family's living arrangements; thanks her for finding a home for her to stay in, but feels it would be less imposing if she stayed where Nina is teaching in Prince Edward County; hopes that they can all live together soon; rejoices over Jackson's victory in retaking the \"old town\"; says that the Garlands have been very kind during her stay with them; discusses her traveling plans.","Death of friends, Willie Gray and Marshall Barton; death of various others in war including Turner Asby; talks of having made herself a sun-bonnet; news of family and friends.","Speaks of getting a job as a clerk in Major Vaun's office; information about Stonewall Jackson's victories; reports Colonel Ashby's death.","Reviews routine activities; much family and friend news; discusses Stonewall Jackson's troops.","Scope and Contents Everyone feeling ill and weighing less; family news; possible fighting in Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson is at Hanover Junction, Va.; problem with fleas.","He cannot get into the Rockbridge Artillery; she is staying with a Col. and Mrs. Tucker; battle of Richmond has begun; family news.","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Fighting around Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson's Army arrived to help; describes strategies and events of war.","Details about progress of the war; family news.","Scope and Contents Personal experience in Army. Including newspaper clipping of a poem by John. R. Thompson, entitled \"Ashby\" from a Richmond, Virginia newspaper dated 1862 June 13 , about the war.Verso is Rebecca Powell to Selina (Lloyd) Powell.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Stonewall Jackson's army and his efforts in Richmond, Virginia; relates events of war and involvement of friends and relatives; family news.","Discusses people she knows who have been wounded or killed in the war; refers to battles at Richmond and Chickahominy, Va.; family news.","Expresses disappointment that her parents didn't get to visit her; complains of \"M's\" temper; gives list of supplies that she has purchased or ordered.","Preparing to go to Gordonsville to join Braxton's Battery; family news.","Has joined Braxton's artillery; give details of battles and accounts of those wounded and killed.","Describes battle between his battery and the 'Yankees;' describes Captain Braxton.","He has jaundice; personal account of stay in Richmond; discusses salary; accounts of the war.","Charles L. Powell, Jr. was killed; added to letter later her husband is still yellow with jaundice; saw the President Davis and his wife; family news.","Explains events of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death near Warrenton Springs, Va.; includes sketch of battlegrounds.","Town gossip; tells story of a Dr. Conrad's arrest and ordeal; family news.","Talks of our troops making it into Maryland; family news; prevalence of typhoid fever; discusses Southern attitudes about the Civil War, and Northerners.","Religious account and explanation of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death.","Informs her of \"Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. death; encloses a copy of Capt. Carter M. Braxton's report of the events leading to Charles L. Powell's death.","Offers sympathy for the loss of his son, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes the death of their sister Ellen Powell Gray; reports on the welfare of Ellen's family - Mr. William Gray, Kate and Arthur; news of family. Including letter from \"Mother\" Selina L. Powell, to Hattie Powell. Discusses the state of their belongings in their former house in Winchester and what will be sold through cousin Sarah Powell Conrad; says if they do not intend to return, then it should all be sold.","Thanks her for her sympathy upon death of Rebecca's brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; expresses religious views; family news.","Responds to news of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death; family news; reports on her own health.","Includes description of Charles L. Powell and the battle. (Newspaper clipping.)","Scope and Contents Lots of family and town news; mentions that army is located near her in Winchester, Virginia","Gives her daily routine schedule; involved in knitting for the soldiers; doesn't seem to think 'Yankees' will approach Richmond, Va.; remembers her son \"Charley\" Charles L. Powell, Jr. often.","Discusses their friendship and situation of the Civil War.","Expresses sympathy for the death of her brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes in detail the death of her mother, Ellen Powell Gray and reveals her feelings concerning it; gives news of their Powell relatives.","Discusses daily routine; problem with typhoid fever; family news.","Family news.","Comments on incidents of typhoid fever; family news; discusses her minister and baptism of a baby.","Describes circumstances of her daughter Annie's sickness and death; offers sympathy for death of Charles L. Powell, Jr.; family news; including recital of Fenella's funeral rites; \"Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust...\".","Discusses business matters in Winchester that she is taking care of for Charles L. Powell; discusses the ear and the situation in Winchester; sends him some books, stating that the 'Yankees' carried off the rest of them; reports of a proposed armistice.","Describes sickness causing a delirious state for a few days; family news; knitting as a popular pastime; discusses weather; 'Yankees' still have Gloucester Point as a fort; soldiers suffering from \"rot\" that kills them.","Scope and Contents Discusses John Milton's works; family news; Longstreet's Corps has occupied many points near Culpeper Court House. 2 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va. to \"sister\" either Hattie or Rebecca Powell, , 1862 November 5, reporting family news. Also including note from Selina Powell,Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va.. Expresses grief over Annie Lee's death; asks about Robert E. Lee; prevalence of typhoid fever; describes weather and landscape; 'Yankees' did not disturb Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s grave; family news.","Sends this letter with a letter from Hunter, her brother; comments that Hattie has now been gone from Winchester eight months; says life is fine when Confederate soldiers are in Winchester, but that it is miserable when the 'Yankees' come; says General Jackson has visited them and has his headquarters on the road to Front Royal; says he gave her his photograph and he will send a copy; writes that they are working very hard because the few servants in town are cooking for the soldiers; lists people who will leave town if the 'Yankees' return; says Cousin Betty looks unwell because she works so hard in the hospitals ; writes that they only have 500 sick beds in the hospitals; mentions the destruction by 'Yankees' in other counties; fears they will soon suffer.","Sends thanks for present he received because it will be useful during the winter; expresses desire for peace in the country.","Family news; expresses concern that the Southern army is suffering from a lack of clothes.","Expresses her feelings of loneliness, as she lives among strangers; expresses other worries of disease and of the war; discusses problems with diphtheria in the neighborhood; comments on the shortage of men in the neighborhood, in particular healthy, attractive ones; discusses the hardships of Uncle Prosser and Aunt ReBecca whose former servants burnt much of their property; news of friends and family.","Discusses the condition of Charles L. Powell's estate and what business has been transacted; lists what articles from their home have been sold, commenting that most people in Winchester are not buying things because they are leaving to journey \"up the Valley\"; reports that 4000 men are guarding Winchester, that some tobacco has been burned, and that preparation for evacuation is underway; describes 'Yankee' attacks in Charlestown; comments on the effect of the fear of attack on everyone in the town; gives news of friends.","Scope and Contents Comments on problems with influenza; refers to a Capt. Duff and his defense of Leesburg, Virginia; gives news of town since troops have arrived; family news.","Makes references to the Clarke Cavalry and a Capt. Carter; possessions have been pillaged and towns have been ruined; has to quit farming because of war.","Wishes Nina a Happy Birthday; refers to God and asks to enter his Kingdom; mentions a friend who died from diphtheria; discusses Stonewall Jackson's opposition to the enemy at Port Royal, Va.; family news.","Discusses everyone's fear of diphtheria; family news.","Makes references to Gen. Robert E. Lee's victories; lots of family news.","Expresses the difficulty of losing so many brave men in the war.","Reminisces about their last Christmas together; discusses the slaves and their ability to be dangerous.","Scope and Contents Expresses desire for peace and to return to Winchester, Virginia; much town and family news; sorry they can't spend Christmas together.","She has been ill with a cough and cold; family news.","Inquires about a John Tabb; tells activities of Kate Gordon who is staying with them; mentions a bombazine fine twilled silk fabric; people looking for teaching positions; family news.","Lots of town and family news.","Problems with smallpox; family news; mentions Judge Lee's ? suicide. .","Her husband, Charles L. Powell, Sr., is still looking for a teaching job; recommends reading as a worthwhile hobby.","Describes how her family spent Christmas; thanks her for the cap she made for her brother Rob; discusses the sadness of Hattie's Christmas; discusses friendship; reports that she heard from Mary ? who is living behind Union lines in King George.","Mentions a Col. Tucker?; talks about her personal health; refers to the \"conscript act\"; gives impressions of deaths resulting from the Civil War and ideas of a forthcoming peace; family news.","Family news; refers to robbery of all servants; tells stories of confrontations with the enemy and experiences while at war; discusses food he has to eat; mentions has heard news of Grandma's death; mentions William Edmonson Jones.","family news; discusses her pay for tutoring.","Mentions their father's new employment in Greenville; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Family news; describes some of daily activities.Including N. C. E.?, to Nina Powell, , post 1863 March 13 giving neighborhood news.","Scope and Contents Comments on Cavalry's victory in Culpeper, Va.; describes poverty situation in Winchester, Virginia, as result of Civil War; discusses situations in Romney, West Virginia; family news.","Gives information on job prospects; family news.","Found a teaching job in Powhatan; describes location and plans to build a house.","Comments on his activities in the Army; refers to \"the Picketts;\" tells of damage and destruction in Winchester, Va., as a result of 'Yankee' invasion.","Comments on experiences in Army; expresses sadness that young men can't receive education during the war; family news; states that Tip? Powell and Frank Grady were captured in Loudoun, Va.","Discusses clothes; family news; says they will visit Shirley Plantation soon; says Mary? must remain within the Union lines because the only way to leave is to walk eighteen miles at night, carrying baggage; mentions Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Custis Lee.","Mentions interest in soldiers, especially the South Carolina gentlemen; talks about sources of entertainment; family news.","Describes his house and surroundings; family news.","Mentions \"taking bitters (a tea) made of sarsaparilla root\" for strength and to purify her blood; expresses hopes for war to soon be over; 'Yankees' now have Fauquier under their control; family news; refers to receiving news through the Enquirer.","Scope and Contents Discusses when the family members will see each other; gives news of Powell relatives at Locust Hill; says that goods cannot be sent to them from Locust Hill Leesburg, Virginia because of a blockade; inquires about the fighting in Fredericksburg.","Talks about General Stuart's decision to review his Division; refers to great loss at Battle of Chancellorsville in the death of General \"Stonewall\" Jackson; describes events of war near Rowlesburg, WVa.; comments on his troops various attacks on different Railroads; gives details about other battles.","Family news; comments on how quickly her chickens are dying.","Discusses fighting in the Civil War and loss of servants; family news and sick and wounded from Battle of Gettysburg.","Comments on war, pestilence and famine; discusses the Civil War.","States that Nina Powell has been recommended to him to take care of his children as well as tutoring them; requests response to his offer.","Discusses pillaging by the Union troops; comments on men who have given their lives for the southern cause; family news.","Comments on scarcity of various staples; offers her $300 to come and teach his children.","Scope and Contents Discusses \"keeping house\" and how much it costs to do so; family news; comments on the Battle of Manassas.Including note from ?, , to Hatty sic Powell, , undated, discussing delivery of enclosed note to Custis Lee.","Attempts to appease Nina's apprehensions about coming to Hanover County if the enemy is there; wants her to begin working the first of October.","Offer to substitute himself for William Henry Fitzhugh Lee as a Northern prisoner of War.","Family news; questions Nina about her \"beaux\" and his courting ways; discusses education.","Refers to burning her previous letter in case of a fight whence it could become public; relates news of troops; family news; discusses fight from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan Rivers.","Scope and Contents Family news.","Lots of family news; states that a man named Taylor Johns has fallen in love with Nina Powell; discusses situation at the Stringfellow's, where Nina now lives.","Discusses in detail his new teaching position; family information.","Gives cotton prices as $3.75 a yard; discusses Battle at Manassas; family news.","Comments on her husband's new position in Albemarle; family news; mentions some events in reference to the Civil War.","Says she saw her father Charles L. Powell, Sr. on his way to move into Cousin R's?; describes her trip to Charlottesville; expresses satisfaction that her mother is able to stay with Uncle Fred and Lute; reports she has eleven scholars.","Family news; discusses her job as a teacher; discusses \"preserving with molasses\"; expresses anger and confusion about Nina's beaux David ?","Discusses his teaching position.","Family news.","Gives opinion on attitudes of young people; family news; expresses interest in religion.","Discusses plans for Christmas, including costs involved and where they can stay; discusses death of Cousin? Temple Grady and its effect on other relatives; discusses teaching and their role in the war effort.","Refers to a battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee; and General Longstreet; discusses cotton and its discount price of $18 a bale; comments on young gentlemen who have come to visit her; other town and family news.","Thanks Hattie for her kind gift of a Bible; gives details of present experience as a soldier in the Civil War; expresses sadness for those who died in the battle.","Mentions a Carrie Hobson's death resulting from a \"perforation of the bowels\" (typhoid fever); family and town news; mentions Temple Grady's brother of C. Powell Grady? death; refers to having some corsets made.","Family news.","Family news; expresses concern about \"national affairs;\" discusses religious point of view.","Family news; discusses General Bragg and his great ability as a leader.","Family news; states that he met Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War and they discussed Judah Benjamin; gives some views of what is happening with the Civil War.","Mentions General Longstreet's retreat from Knoxville, Tenn.; comments on giving Nina some linen for \"sleeves or sleeve bands;\" family news; discusses harvesting of crops; comments on threats that \"Yanks\" are making.","Discusses insufficiency of cotton crops; mentions that her son is on a war vessel, in the ocean, \"larger than the Florida and the Alabama.\"","Family news.","Refers to travel by carriage; discusses mailing \"bleached cotton;\" family news.","Mentions story where 'Yankees' come into towns and arrest Southerners; refers to daguerreotypes; writes a poem/prayer to God about grief he and others have experienced.","Wishes Nina a Merry Christmas since she (Nina) will be together with her parents; family news.","Discusses the inclement weather; states that she had butter and tea for celebration on Christmas morning; gives price of calico as $ 6 per yard.","Comments on her friends spending New Year's Eve at the President's; mentions walking to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; family news; refers to cotton vs. bleached cotton; discusses typhoid fever; comments on subject of religion.","Family news; expresses hopes for an end to the Civil War; mentions a book, \"Home Influency\" that deals with raising children.","Mentions losing her heart to a Lieutenant Blackford; family news.","Mentions having forgotten Nina's birthday and becoming more absent minded; states that demonstrating affection in public is not good practice; gives advice and opinion on men and courting; has put \"vie dollars in gold and $25 in Virginia. Bank notes\"; and discusses school teaching; family news.","Has been suffering from sickness similar to typhoid fever; mentions that many servants have the measles; states that the key to her watch is worn out and she cannot wind it.","Offers advice about teaching; has seen John C. Pemberton; family news.","Discusses her illness typhoid fever?; describes her Christmas diversions.","Comments on how he misses having the women in his family at home; family news; discuses some aspects of the Civil War; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Family news; expresses hope that the Civil War will soon end; expresses grief of her Mother's death.","Expresses concern about Hattie Powell's sickness; family news and town gossip; mentions some of the types of food they've been eating; talks about \"yanks\" and their disruptiveness; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Gives Nina advice on how to terminate her engagement with John Dupuy; writes of the death of Hunter McGuire's sister, May; says she now has twelve scholars; news of family and friends; discusses books and mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Says she has been busy knitting gloves, sewing, teaching, nursing, and being sick; says she is nearly \"well and fat\" again; says that her hair has not started to come back yet, but that when it does, she has been told to shave it; asks who Nina's friend Lizzie is; describes people she has met; reports where troops are; discusses ways she is trying to get cotton.","Advises Minnie not to be grieved about their mother's death; some family news.","Article in which Jefferson Davis praises the Confederate soldiers for their \"devotion and self-sacrifice,\" and assures them of their capabilities against the declining enemy; also includes a commentary about Davis' speech, stating that the present spirit of the South has never been paralleled in history.","Congratulates Nina on her engagement to John J. Dupuy; discusses their friendship; news of family and friends.","Family news.","Mentions a girl's death from diphtheria; refers to traveling by train; discusses blockade of the Potomac River; comments on greenbacks and their value; refers to the 'Yankee Congress;' general Civil War news.","Gives consent for him to marry Nina after listing the pros and cons of the situation.","Town news and family news; refers to knitting as a past time; states that her hair has not begun to \"come out yet\".","Discusses her new beau; much family and town news; refers to events of the Civil War and the Powhatan troops.","Says that her employer, Mrs. Stringfellow, has offered to allow her two weeks for Easter; asks permission to come home; gives detailed plans on how she could get there cheaply; says the \"troops\" will return before Easter; asks if her father is coming home for the holiday.","Discusses selection of a minister; comments on her knitting for the soldiers; town gossip and family news.","Discusses sale of a draft on New York for $625.","Thanks her for gloves she knitted and set to him.","Comments on her sister's problem with inflammatory rheumatism; much town and family news; tells stories of soldiers who have returned home; comments on lack of patriotism in the country; mentions readying.","Tells of a shopping trip she took to Charlottesville, and the people she saw; describes a visit to see their father at Cousin R. Nowland's; discusses the new tax law, the \"panic,\" and the new monetary issue; news of friends and family; mentions reading.","Makes reference to needing a straw-splitter; discusses financial situation; comments on Nina's engagement to \"Brother John\" Dupuy?","Mentions interruption of communications due to Yankee Raid; states that he sat near Gen. Robert E. Lee and Mr. Edmund Lee on a train car and talked with them; describes conversation; discusses the events of the Civil Warincluding Lee's near capture by Custis' divisionary raid through Albemarle County, during the Kilpatrick - Dahlgren Raid on Richmond; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Much town news; discusses 'Yankees' and their progression; comments on her attempts to hide her silver on her body in order to keep it from the Yankees.","Family news; expresses religious views.","Family news; discusses events of the Civil War; including raid by Custis on Albemarle; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Family news.","Discusses the weather; much town and family news.","Says her Easter plans have been cancelled because of the snow storm; mentions how close she (Nina) has been to the Union troops; says she feels much better and now weights 114 pounds; reports on fatal measles in the area; reports on how she has spent her time with Captain Morgan.","Sends her a letter from Kate?","Discusses buying and selling cotton; comments on college opportunities; family news.","Family news and town gossip; comments on gold lace on the coats of those who make rank of Captain.","Family news; refers to Nina's grandmother's Anne Harriotte (Lee) Lloyd death; discusses 'Yankees' and their progress; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Comments on reading as a pastime and mentions ? Cooper's novels; family news; refers to 'Yankees' taking hostages; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Describes her daily schedule; reports how their Aunt Jeanie Lloyd and Aunt ReBecca are doing in relation to the war; describes social visits; mentions an Aunt Nannie; news of family and friends.","Discusses weather and its effects on gardens and crops; comments on 'Yankees' and news about the Civil War; family news.","Family news; comments on news of the Civil War.","Gives detailed description of fighting near Beaver Dam, Va., as told to her by some of the soldiers; mentions visit by Gen. Stuart; describes other events of the war from personal point of view.","Family news; discusses struggle on the Rapidan River; tells of other Civil War news.","Scope and Contents Discusses general battle news; expresses concern about struggle in Hanover County, Virginia.","Discusses events of the war; comments on actions of Yankees.","Scope and Contents Comments on armies being at Hanover Junction and expresses her concern and fears; refers to burning of Powhatan depot by Union troops. Including note from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Charlotte County, Va., to Nina Powell, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 May 24, correcting some spelling errors.","Expresses relief that the 'Yankees' did not come through the area where Nina is; says that her father wants her Nina to leave soon because of the danger; says things are so scarce in Charlotte that there would not be enough to feed her; expresses relief that Nina is not living between the two railroads; says the news they get about the war is encouraging, but she thinks the conflict will be a long one; discusses plans to get the family together.","Refers to battle of Vicksburg; tells of other developments of the Civil War.","Refers to a cousin, Mrs. Randolph Tucker whose house is at the corner of Grace and Adams street in Richmond; family news.","Asks about Nina's daily schedule and when she says prayers; expresses sorrow that Hattie's teaching position near Nina did not work out; tells her she must be self-reliant; says she is waiting to find out if she can join Mr. Powell; discusses the fashions of hats; sends her respects to Mr. Stringfellow.","Much town and family news.","Describes her social schedule; encourages her to pursue a relationship with Willie Booker; news of family.","Recounts all he has been doing for the past two years (has been in charge of a prison).","Asks Nina to change her mind and work for them another year; claims they are safe from the 'Yankees' and that the war will soon be over; praises her teaching of their three girls.","Discusses Union troops' burning of houses in Richmond; gives views on death; family news.","Comments on typhoid fever; family news.","Family news. Mentions not being able to find a nail-brush in the city and forgot India ribbon; comments on 'Yankees' treating people badly; refers to buying lip-glue at Randolph's Book Store; discusses her (Nina's), new house.","Describes Mr. Powell's teaching position with the Scott family; says he is trying to find a place near him for her to stay; says there was a Yankee raid near where he is staying; discusses where friends who are soldiers are stationed; mentions families who are looking for wounded soldiers to employ as teachers.","Much family and town news.","Comments on symptoms of the \"fever\"; expresses religious beliefs concerning deaths resulting from battles; family news and town news.","Family news; discusses teacher's pay.","Much family and town news; inquires about her new home in Richmond, Va..","Discusses one of Nina's pupils and how Nina should act towards the family that is employing her; mentions arrangements to exchange a pair of shoes; reports on friends and family; reports on \"her Willie,\" and where he is stationed; mentions soldiers for whom she has knitted gloves.","Discusses the suitability of Mr. Starke's teaching offer for her mother.","Chides Nina for not writing her; asks if she is spending all her time with Willie Dupuy, who has a wounded shoulder; reports on what she has done socially; asks her to get some cartridges for her pistol when she buys some for her own gun; says Minna Booker is to be married November fourth; discusses sewing.","Transcription of cross hatch letter by Alison Herring:","Blenheim  October 24th","Sunday morning [1864]","Well my lady-love do you know","that it has been almost three weeks","since the arrival of your last letter","to me, and two weeks since I answered","it, and not a line have I had from","you since, no nor a word from either","Pa or Sis since the 9th of the month.","you all must think I am dead, buried,","and forgotten, at least you quite forget","that I get the blues horribly shut up here","in the country when none of you write","to me. I got a letter from Ma on Friday","last the very first letter I had had from","anyone for 10 days, or from anybody","but her for 16.  I have no correspondents this","year at all except you all \u0026 you ought to","write to me often.  And pray miss what are","you so occupied with that you can't find","time to write, friend Markoe or your","poor dear wounded Willie.  I hear through","a letter from Aunt Bec to Ma that you","have spent the day with her, \u0026 thro' Mrs","Stewart that John Tabb was at church","with you and [?] Powell. I suppose","you have not been so quiet that you","[Page 2]","had nothing to write about and I","am just disposed to be charitable","towards you at all, so if you want to","get into my good graces you had better","set yourself right down \u0026 write me","two or three good long letters.  Mother","writes me that Willie Dupuy is at","home wounded in the shoulder \u0026","Capt Watkins in the hand but neither","of them dangerously, however.  I suppose","you have heard all about them, tis not","worth while for me to tell you, and","I reckon Willie will manage to see","Miss Nina before he returns to the army.","Have you ever heard anything from","Mr. Markoe since you went down","in the cars with him, Sis seemed to","think you are decidedly smitten.","Well I suppose as you are so long writing","to me you hardly care to hear what I","have been doing, so I have a great mind","not to tell you, and in fact I hardly","quite know where to begin it has been","so long but just for my own gratification","I will try.  Mr. Willis Hobson has three","South Carolinians at his house, sent from","the hospital, they have been there a long","time very sick \u0026 are just now getting","well enough to visit about. One of them","is a Col Dogan, without exception","[Page 3]","the rudest, most boisterous, vulgar","man I ever saw, well yesterday week","I heard his voice down stairs \u0026","knew he had come to stay all day","so I dressed myself, slipped out the","back way and went over to old","Mrs. Hurt's to spend the day.  I had a","very pleasant day indeed, I found","her [?] an exceedingly intelligent","agreeable girl, I took to her very much","indeed \u0026 I think she did to me, but","she has just lost her father so the vis-","iting will have to be all on my side","for a while.  When I get back in the even-","ing here was Col D still \u0026 he staid until","Wednesday.  Sunday I went down to Eman-","ual and saw Fannie, she was as sweet \u0026 Cordi-","al as ever, she seemed so glad to see me \u0026 says","she is coming up for me soon some Fri-","day evening.  Monday night Mr. [Reich?] a","Marylander belonging to the 3rd Cavalry","staid here all night.  I found him a","very agreeable gentleman I forgot to","say that Sunday while we were at din-","ner Mrs. W. Hobson came over \u0026 brought","her Cousin young Bolling, son of Mr. Robert","Bolling of Fauquier, and brother of Hunter","[Page 4]","McGuires old friend of Philadelphia Dr. B","and Mr. Venning one of the S.C. especial-","ly to see me and I enjoyed their visit","very much indeed.  Mr. Bolling is only","18 but he is six feet tall very handsome","and very agreeable.  Mr. V sings very well","and is a quiet gentlemanly widower but","nothing remarkable.  Tuesday evening Mrs.","H sent a horse for me \u0026 I went over there \u0026","staid all night, and then saw the third","S.C. a Dr. Waring a married man, and","one of the most accomplished elegant","gentlemen I have ever met with. I","came home on horseback Wednesday morning","in time for school \u0026 when I came out of school","found Cousin John here.  He says if it is good","weather next Friday he is coming up to take","me down to his house to stay until Sun-","day where I will come home with the Dr.","from church.  Thursday all the gentlemen","from Mr. H's spent the day here, and Fri-","day Mr. B left this county, but he is a paroled","prisoner and if he is not exchanged soon","will come back.  Friday evening Mrs. H \u0026 my-","self walked over to Mrs. Goodmans one of","our nearest neighbors \u0026 I paid my first","visit there, and her son who went down","in the cars the day you did with Bell","Stewart, walked home with me.  He is a plain","honest, good, solider, but not over burdened","[sideways on page 1]","with intellect.  He says he is coming over to see me this week","and going to bring his pistol for me to practice shooting with","but I doubt whether he does. By the way have you ever been able","to get cartridges for your pistol, if you have I wish you would","get some for me, \u0026 if you haven't get John Tabb to look for some","for you \u0026 me too, I have only two \u0026 I want some very much.","And now, I come to the very purpose for which my let-","ter is written which is to tell you that Dr. Hobson is going","to Richmond this week, probably on Tuesday, the same day","this letter will go, but I shall send this by mail, as there","will be a chance of your getting it sooner, \u0026 I shall send","you by him the handkerchief, collar, \u0026 [shirt sleeves?] for your","silk dress \u0026 a little of my perfume but it did not turn","out well, it will I think do to put in hair oil but that is all.","[sideways across page 2]","The Dr. will stay at Mr. Stewart for about two days I reckon","so if you have gotten cartridges \u0026 have a chance I wish","you would send me some by him.  Have you made your","alpaca dress yet \u0026 how did you make it particularly","the sleeves. I have not picked mine yet nor considered","what to do with it, but Minna Booker is to be married the","4th of next month \u0026 I think I must make it by that","time. I had a present sent me the other day of 3 yds","of unbleached cotton to make a chemise.  I have done","nothing lately except patch a few old clothes \u0026 knit","on my [opra?] stockings for next summer in fact","I have nothing to do.  Well I believe I have exhaust-","ed myself of my subjects too so I will stop, but","mind I expect two letters in answer to this. I am","very anxious to know what Mother will do, and","rather hope she will go to Albemarle, tho' I should","like her to be near you, or I think we could go to","see her there.  Write soon to your own loving","Sister Hattie","Monday.  Dr. H's is so unwell today he thinks he will not","be able to go to Richmond this week and don't know when","he will go so I shall not be able to send your things yet. I","got an invitation yesterday to Minna's wedding next Thurs-","day week.  I am much inclined to go, if the Dr. Don't for-","bid which he seems to be inclined to do. Mrs. H is very anx-","[Sideways on page 3]","ious that I should go.  If I go I shall want my new","dress \u0026 shall have to set to work immediately to make","it, so if you have a new dress pattern, send it to me by","mail at once, I can get a pattern of the yoke come-","ing [waist?], Mag Harris has it.  Yours truly,","H.L.P.","Complains about difficulties in the teaching profession; family news.","Describes her situation at the Garrett's, teaching Lizzie and others; emphasizes the importance of letter writing now that they are apart; discusses Mr. Irving's? failing health; says Lizzie has diphtheria; describes social events; discusses Nina's problems with teaching Blanche; reports on friends who have been wounded or killed in the war; asks bout Cousin Mary Lee and Cousin Emily.","Reports that her brother Rob has been wounded and may have to have his leg amputated; says her brother Jimmie is in Charleston where there is much yellow fever; says they work all day without rest; more family news.","Gives advice on how Nina should manage one of her pupils; reports on what she is doing; discusses clothes; mentions Minna's wedding.","Gives reasons why she hasn't written of late; describes her brother's episode of being shot in the hand and its effects; comments on number of men that are off at war and says that those who remain are \"quaking\"; family news; expresses hope that God will get them through \"these difficulties.\"","Describes her social activities; discusses balancing work and pleasure; news of family and friends.","Asks about her \"new home\" in Richmond and her \"new occupation\" with Mrs. Paleski; describes Minna's wedding; says the weather was so bad that no one could go home, so the reception lasted all night; reports what she has done socially; describes in detail a dress she just made.","Expresses joy that Nina and their mother can live close to each other; reports on her social activities; discusses plans for Christmas; mentions how well the Confederate Cavalry is doing; discusses friends that are soldiers, and which of them she has knitted gloves for.","Describes a preacher, Mr. McGill, who is visiting; describes social events; discusses clothes she is making; questions Junius Powell's decision to go to Bermuda instead of joining the army; mentions Harry Harrison Mrs. Huge's brother who came home after a prisoner at Fort Delaware. .","Discusses how her home was destroyed; details experiences with the Yankees; comments on incarceration of many Southerners in northern prisons and their suffering; family news.","Describes her trip to Charlottesville and the people she visited, including cousin Gert; mentions Sally's? death; says she must soon accept an offer for teaching from Mr. Frank Cabell; discusses depreciation of money; mentions a cousin Ann and a cousin Laura; reports that Tip Powell was taken prisoner.","Discusses the bad weather and muddy roads, says she has not heard from Custis Lee, for whom she made gloves; discusses clothes and Christmas plans; tells Nina to \"change her dress\" whenever she desires, since she will always mourn inside; says she and Rebecca will change theirs in the spring; discusses the problems Winchester is having with the Yankees; mentions Minna's wedding.","Discusses a prospective teaching job for her and his plan for her.","Family news; begs her to spend Christmas with them.","Expresses happiness that her mother and father will finally be able to live together again; comments on Nina Powell's loss of hair; refers to suffering Loudoun County, due to Yankees; family news; describes how a friend spends time trying to find hiding places for her possessions.","Describes a \"homespun\" dress that she has; family news; describes weather; tells her to go to a Christmas get-together where she can met many people, including Robert E. Lee, Custis Lee, and perhaps \"our beloved President\" Jefferson Davis; later mentions rumors that President Davis may be dead.","Mentions pastime crocheting a cap; comments on delay of mail; discusses ordering some supplies from her sister; refers to troop movement on \"the Danville road\"; family news.","Scope and Contents Describes social activities; urges Nina to spend Christmas in Richmond with Cousin Emily; discusses cotton and where to buy it. Including fragment of letter from \"cousin\" Laurence B. Taylor, to ?, , undated, stating that he hopes they will see much of each other in Albemarle County.","Discusses the difficulties of sending mail; inquires about their mother's health; news of friends and the war.","Thanks her for the gauntlets, testament, and book of psalms that she sent him.","Tells what she did during Christmas holidays; discusses her job as a teacher as well as who and what subjects she teaches; family and town news.","Comments on Robert E. Lee's thoughts that the South is in danger; discusses her knitting and whom she has made gloves for; states how she doesn't understand men; family news.","Discusses the possibility of Nina being engaged to Willie Dupuy; says she would like to know him better before she can consent; would like for her to make the final decision herself; says their engagement would last indefinitely because they are both poor and Willie was \"disabled\" from the war; asks her to consider these issues.","Scope and Contents Responds to her requesting permission to be engaged to Mr. William Dupuy?; gives feelings about entire situation; refers to evacuation of Richmond, Virginia.","Family news; asks her to send her stamps and black glazed cotton and to look for strawsplitters; describes episode of being thrown from horse.","Discusses how busy she is making gloves; mentions Nina's engagement/involvement with a \"brave, Christian soldier.\"","Discusses possibility of Nina moving to Norwood if Richmond is given up.","family news; discusses the bond between two who love each other.","Expresses happiness about Nina's now official engagement to Mr. William Dupuy; other family news.","Hattie Powell, Blenheim, Albemarle County, Va., to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell.","Gives advice on how to express feelings of love to her fiance, in her correspondence.","Gives her advice about her situation with Mr. Dupuy; tells her to make up her own mind and to be sure of his character and their love; advises that if she is certain that she wants to be engaged to him, then not to hold back her feelings and to show her trust; gives more advice.","Scope and Contents Family news; expresses her approval of William Dupuy as Nina's fiance. 4 pages. letter signed. Includes copy of letter, 1865 February 10 from William Dupuy to \"Sir\" Charles L. Powell, Sr., , discussing his and Nina's relationship and betrothal.","Gives advise on Nina's relationship with a young man Willie Dupuy; says that if they ever get married they would always be poor; discusses what he will want in a wife; discusses Nina's fear that her ways are not elegant enough for him because he was brought up in higher society; reveals her philosophy on how to act in society, how to view oneself, and how to act towards men to keep them interested.","Comments on attempts to regain some of their family possessions; discusses the break-up of Nina Powell's engagement; mentions Hattie Powell's arrival in Goochland, Va., family news.","Discusses Nina's problem with an employer, Mrs. Powell, and suggests other families she could work for; says she can spend $ 350 on material for summer clothing; discusses the plight of the South; reveals her feelings about Nina's engagement; describes a visit to Norwood where her parents are working for Mr. Cabell; reports that cousin Lizzie Powell, fourth daughter of Uncle Llew, is to be married; news of family and friends; mentions teaching.","Discusses materials for sewing dresses; expresses her anger at how Mrs. Powell (an employer) treated Nina; discusses her neighbors where she is teaching, saying none are suitable for Nina to live with and teach for; gives news of friends and family; says they have a soldier staying there; mentions teaching. Including newspaper clipping advertising for teachers.","Thanks her for presents she sent him; expresses hope of seeing her again soon.","Lots of family news; discusses Union troops.","Says Mr. Philip Cabell is stopping by \"Bremo\" on his way to Richmond, so she is taking this opportunity to send a letter; discusses opportunities for her to work with other families and how she should set this up; wishes she could come to see them but says it is impossible because the canal is \"broken up,\" the roads are bad, and the 'Yankees' destroyed the carriage; hopes that she is comfortable at General Cocke's; hopes that he doesn't mind her being there since he is a wealthy man. Letter is continued on a small slip of paper - advises on the different uses of \"shall\" and \"will\" in writing letters.","Expresses relief that she is safe after traveling through dangerous area; says that their parents had some trouble when traveling, and that they lost some clothes; discusses an offer to teach in Keysville, Charlotte County; reports battle action in the area; asks what she thinks about her giving her silver cup to \"the government;\" mentions the death of their aunt Ann's baby, Fannie.","Mentions sending carpet bags to her parents filled with necessary items she could spare; comments on 'Yankees' being on southside of the James River, Va. and dreading a raid.","Send the key to her bonnet box; mentions a cousin Kate Noland and an Aunt Bettie Conrad; news of family and friends.","Discusses surrender of Confederates in detail; expresses religious beliefs about result of the Civil War; describes battle in Richmond, Va..","Comments on prohibition from traveling North; mentions recognition by France and the French position; gives religious opinions; describes some of the remnants left by 'Yankees.'","Reports news of post-war events since Hattie receives no news in the country; expresses the sentiments and anxieties of those in an occupied city, discusses Robert E. Lee and his sons; reports rumors about Booth, Jefferson Davis, and the surrender of the army of Joseph E. Johnston to William T. Sherman; discusses the sacrifices of the last four years and where it has led.","Describes the people with whom she is staying; expresses joy that she feels comfortable in Richmond; says she hears rumors about whether Richmond will be given up or not; tells her to come to them if there is any danger; news about friends.","Describes a battle at Fort Jackson that she was able to witness from her cousin's house; says Hunter ? is the medical doctor of Ewell's Corps; mentions lack of provisions; says she had to work very hard last winter.","Refers to \"free negroes\" and the fall of Richmond; tells stories of robbers in various neighborhoods; discusses difficulty to have faith in God where there is so much suffering; also refers to bands of \"negro robbers\" and describes their actions.","Lots of family news; expresses sorrow and grief about living through these times.","Lots of family news; comments on problems with servants; refers to death of Lincoln and memorial service for him.","Reports that Mr. Cabell bought a horse from a Mississippi soldier; reports that a Yankee soldier came to the house asking for brandy; says that she and Fan ? are closing school for the summer; says she will soon come to Norwood to visit them.","Discusses health, says she has rheumatism; says they will stay in Richmond until July; tells their options of where to go; considers the cost of the Civil War; discusses the condition of President Davis, prisoner at Fort Monroe; says the \"Yankee officers\" are being kinder to Richmonders; says Pierrepont has just arrived in Richmond.","Reports she is staying with relatives but that it is so crowded, she will leave soon; says the house has been burned down, so they are living in log cabins; tells that she will soon go to Canada to visit her brother Horace; discusses where Nina could set up a school in that neighborhood.","Tells of her religious belief about the Civil War and how she prays daily; discusses subject of white vs. black labor; family news; comments on cruel treatment of \"our\" President Jefferson Davis; refers to a Dr. Hoge who denies trying to begin a colony in Brazil.","Expresses difficulty in accepting downfall of Confederacy; family news; discusses Nina's engagement to Willie Dupuy.","Family news.","Poem entitled \"The Bachelor's Consolation\" written by \"Goodman A. Bachelor.\"","Family news; comments on Nina's engagement; discusses situation with Black persons; comments on elections and how soldiers were put into many of the civil offices; plans for jousting tournament.","Discusses the family's moving to a new house and how they all can be reunited once again.","Discusses where they may move; says the 'Yankees' have possession of her home in Arlington; says the situation in Richmond is better since Pierrepont Pierpont arrived; gives news about family; mentions Robert E. Lee (1843-1914) and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Discusses Nannie's ? wedding; says their father will need her Nina home for the opening of school; tells how she has been spending her time; discusses the school; reports that Mary ? is there; expresses fear for her Aunt Mary because of the threats of a Black uprisings in southern Virginia; asks if everything is going well between Nannie and Willie Booker.","Discusses the continuing uncertainties of where their family will live; says she will return to work at Mr. Cabell's because she cannot depend on family plans; describes her visit to Greenwood.","Discusses a horse riding jousting tournament and social event that followed; family news.","Reports travel plans; lists social events; news of friends; says she will begin at Mr. Cabell's in two weeks.","Says that she just realized that it is her 56th birthday; discusses some issues on etiquette; says that she is glad that she is pleased with her new house; has heard that the 'Yankees' are advancing on Charlottesville; says Gloucester is having problems with the Yankees, so she will not return there; expresses disappointment that Mr. Powell did not secure a certain job that would have allowed them all to live together; says that the Redds and the Bookers have been very kind to her and do not want her to leave; writes that the Dupuy's son Willie? has bullet wounds in both thighs and in the foot.","Family news.","Describes a boat trip she took with Sallie ? to Norwood; gives news of Mr. William Cabell; discusses literature; news of friends and family.","Says Hunter has a small (medical) practice; gives news about what her other brothers? are doing; says Willie is doing well despite the time he spent in prison; tells how he was marched by their home last winter by the 'Yankees' and taken to prison; tells how their house was used as a hospital, her family was put under arrest, and they were forced to live with the 'Yankees' for six months; expresses her hatred of the 'Yankees;' discusses how the last four years have changed her; tells how Gert ? was working in the hospitals and on the battle field, caught a disease and has been bedridden for the last thirteen months; says she was very weak last winter because of the hard work and anxiety; says she could no longer work in the hospitals because of how the sights of war affected her.","Scope and Contents Family news; comments on the meeting of Congress and its result on the restoration of southern property.","Writes about Presbyterian Conference she is attending; gives town and family news.","Scope and Contents Gives history of a family, telling which troop each son is in; comments on the scarcity of paper, which is why she is writing on the back of a letter written to her by her mother. Letter Including on back: Selina Powell, Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to \"daughter\" Hattie Powell. Asks her about her fever and if it is interfering with her teaching; says Mr. Powell visited her for a week; says she will stay in Charlotte all winter; mentions death of Carry Hobson.","Scope and Contents Sends her a pair of slippers which she made the best she could with the materials available; says she wanted to do something for her during \"these war times\"; says her father is not home yet; gives list of things Rebecca needs.","Discusses the importance of having nice handwriting; describes Kate's ? studies; grieves over how many have lost their homes and hopes that her daughter could have a couple of years off from teaching; says those who must have employment are happiest; writes of family and friends; discusses her Uncle G's ? method of teaching. Including attached insert saying that Mr. H. ? declined her father's services.","Describes the scene when the 'Yankees' came into the home of Dr. Robert Baldwin; says Dr. Baldwin was kicked out of town because he refused to pay a servant; describes how the town has changed since the Union troops have taken over; mentions a man named Milroy who seems to be their leader; gives news of family members many of whom have been sick; describes a puppy he has gotten; describes a battle in which many 'Yankees' were taken as prisoners; says Milroy has escaped and has gone to Washington; says all of her furniture is not sold and that they cannot try to sell it while the 'Yankees' are here; discusses Dr. Daniel Conrad's practice.","Asks what Jeanie ? will do all summer; says she has heard that all the carriage horses in Gloucester have been carried off; says she will go to Powhatan to join her husband who is working for Mr. Michaux; says the 'Yankees' are in Shepherdstown but that the Confederates have Winchester.","Speaks of the last four years, the excitement and the trials; discusses \"the college\" that Robert is involving with; discusses the difficulty of finding good help; describes their house, saying it is handsome to \"confederate eyes;\" expresses sadness that her home is still used by Union troops; discusses Alexandria.","Comments on the postal problems and hopes she has been receiving her letters; gives news of the Bookers; writes of her anxiety over how she Nina is and discusses her travel plans to Prince Edward; discusses where the 'Yankees' are stationed; writes of the family's plans for the summer.","Sends her cotton for stockings; comments on postal problems; discusses the safety of Richmond; discusses sewing and fashions; news of family and friends.","Discusses the dilemma of Southerns taking the \"oath\" with the Northerners so that they can protect their property.","Reports that Captain Watkins and Willie Dupuy have been wounded; says she does not know which battle they were in; news of friends; says she has heard from Mr. Powell recently; discusses dresses.","Says that she sent socks to Willie ? who is in the army; mentions the death of James Mcoughty?","Describes how to make Mrs. Sharpe's ? hat; describes Lute's hat; says she will get two or three hundred dollars in Northern money from an Uncle William.","34 items.","Discusses teaching; describes trip to Charlottesville and adventurous train ride; mentions Sandy Pendleton's ? wedding; discusses Trip's ? health.","Sends Rebecca a picture of Robert E. Lee, taken during the war (picture is dated 1866 January 20 ); writes of Lexington where they have just moved; gives news of family.","Describes her social activities; gives teaching position that Hattie is considering; reports that 'Yankees' are being strict in their town.","Discusses poor mail service; describes Alexandria as dull town with spirit of despondency, town may be forced into the District of Columbia; describes visit of Henry Hallowell ?; much family and town news.","Discusses crocheting, books they have read; family news and gossip.","Discusses family news; speaks of financial situation of buying a house in Baltimore; discusses problems of retrieving household items (portraits, furniture, etc.) and where to put them.","Discusses details of retrieving family possessions from the Office of Confiscation; includes list of objects missing.","Describes her trip and her stay with Cousin Lee; tells of relatives and other people she has seen; will continue traveling.","Discusses daily life and schedule; family news.","Describes her trip to Dr. Wights' and tells of the people she met there; discusses dresses; asks about the family.","Description of the political happenings in Washington, D.C.: the disputes between President Johnson and the \"Radicals,\" Mr. Johnson's veto message, the South's need to have representation in Congress; tells his view of these happenings; discusses attempts to retrieve articles from the confiscation office; family news.","Tells of difficulty she has dealing with current hardships, \"Yankee\" rule, and free Black persons; news about friends in the neighborhood.","Describes dinner at New Market and the people she saw there; describes conditions of roads, outlawing carriage rides; much news of family and friends.","Tells of people she has seen or heard from.","Discusses family news and news of friends; talks of sewing projects.","Gives an account of her \"Easter excursion,\" reporting what she did and whom she met; says Mrs. Atkins has no servants, so she will have to clean her own room.","Describes events of neighborhood; tells news of friends; tells of religious happenings, Mr. Wharey's ? reform in the church, and her religious sentiments; writes of her gloomy feelings about the South, her distrust of the Yankees, and her rebellious feels toward them; congratulates Nina on having her own \"home.\"","Tells of stay in Cumberland with her \"sister and brother\"; tells of problems in retrieving household items lost in war; Douglas' Forrest?her husband? law practice is improving.","Asks Nina to welcome her friend, Mr. Henry Theodore Wight, who brings the letter, and make his stay in Alexandria pleasant.","Tries to convince Nina to take a trip next summer; describes new bonnet styles; describes her friend Henry Theodore Wright who will be taking a trip to Alexandria; discusses clothes.","Gives her view on the family taking in boarders, saying children would be easier for their mother to handle; asks about the \"Council;\" reports on what she has done socially; discusses the dresses she has made; says that yesterday the people of Richmond decorated the Confederate soldiers' graves; says she wishes she had gone; says Mrs. Adkins did not go, but sent flowers to Richmond. Written on letter from J. Walker, Dover ?, to Hattie Powell, Rolling Views, undated. Sends her flowers and asks her to come to visit him.","Describes her visit to Richmond, people she visited, and how many commented on how well she looked compared to last winter; describes clothes she is making.","Asks her to send ribbon for a dress she will wear to a day-long affair at Norwood; news of friends.","Discusses their plans to go to Prince Edward County; discusses what clothes she has and what she may need; news of family and friends.","Explains why she cannot attend the gathering at Mr. Redd's that night; says she must listen to her head and not her heart so that she may get well; says she is tired of feeling ill and weak.","Invites Nina and Hattie Powell to come stay with them; says she feels better and is very excited to see them.","Expresses her joy that she arrived home safely, and her regret that her mother Selina Powell has taken ill; describes a jousting tournament among young boys or \"knights,\" in which the girls were honored as Queens and Maids of Honor; news about family and friends.","Gives her condolences for her uncle's death and her mother's illness; tells her of Nancy's Lettie's sister engagement and tells Nina not to leave her to marry a man; much news of family and friends.","Thanks Nina for her letter congratulating her and Willie Booker on their engagement; news about her fiance; tells her adventures of keeping the house while her mother was gone; news of family and friends.","Writes that her father is looking for board for her Selina and until then she will stay in Charlotte; recommends that Nina not write to a man unless she is engaged to him or unless he is an old family friend; news of family and friends.","Discusses how far they are apart but thinks it is best that she (her mother) stay at Uncle Fred's; says she will stay at school for Christmas; writes of family and friends; tells that her health is very good and that she weights 106 pounds; discusses her school duties and her sewing.","Describes the parties she has had at her home recently; speaks of the engagement between Willie Booker and Nancy her sister, and Lou Edmunds and Captain Hill; news of family and friends.","Tells how she and her friends have been together for three weeks now, staying at different homes; wishes Nina could be there; news of courting, engagements and weddings; tells Nina that she will not become an old maid; much news about family and friends; discusses reading societies and books read.","Tells of courtings, engagements and weddings; tells of Christmas plans; discusses the struggle in the Christian life to be pure.","Describes Christmas holidays; discusses the Christian struggle for purity; says she is having more headaches; discusses poor financial situation with no patrons paying for her teachings.","Describes the changes taking place: their Uncle Joe has died and she, Lavalette and her mother have moved to Falkland to take care of his children; she and Lavalette will teach the children; Lavalette is feeling worse; her brother and sister May will take care of Linden; news of engagements, weddings, family and friends.","Describes her new home and her new schedule; news about family and friends.","Tells about her fiance Willie Booker's work in Medical School; describes reactions to the Territorial Bill and to General Scofields; wonders if Lavalette will keep her promise to become an old maid; says the weather is so bad that they will not be able to go to Church for a month because of the roads; says she is trying to guess when weddings will be by who is making their wedding clothes.","Describes her teaching job with her sister Nancy; describes her students; tells how spirits have been low since the passage of the Territorial Bill, says their district is commanded by General Schofield; describes the \"demoralizing\" incident of one of the county men running off with a 'Negro' girl and marrying her; news of family and friends.","Sends this letter through a friend and asks Rebecca to mail a package to Washington, D.C. for her; may have some frames sent to her, which could then be sent to them by steamboat to Richmond and canal boat to Lexington; says Mildred is in Richmond; Rob and Fitzhugh may go to Jennie's? wedding.","Describes the commencement exercises that she and Lavalette attended at Hampden Sydney; describes the fashions she saw there; says the scrub worm is seriously damaging the tobacco crop; describes their summer bonnets bought in Richmond. 4 pages. letter signed.","Says that Nancy her sister has been ill; says that she, Nancy and their mother will take a trip North for their health; says she dreads to be among the 'Yankees;' tells that Lou Booker has typhoid fever and so her wedding must be postponed; discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being an old maid and whether they will be one.","Gives news of gentlemen who are courting her; says that John Smith has been visiting her every other night; tells Nina that it is becoming serious and that she better come home soon or she will be gone; gives advice on the gentlemen that Nina is seeing.","Describes their stay in Danville; tells that her engagement with Willie Booker has been terminated; discusses their plans of where to live next year; news of family and friends; discusses fair.","Thanks Hattie for her announcement of her \"change of condition\" marriage or engagement?; gives her best wishes for her health and happiness.","Discusses which furniture and portraits she would like to have sent to her.","Discusses details of sending furniture from Alexandria to Lexington and of having portraits framed and sent. Includes notes to Selina and Nina.","Discusses her transactions to acquire more furnishings for their home; news about family and friends.","Asks about her interactions with Mr. D?; says Nina's happiness is the only bright spot in their lives; says she hasn't been to church much; says she has seen a lot of Willie S.?; regrets that she can't say everything she would like to, because the letter must go through so many hands; writes of the broken Southern spirit; asks if there are any \"situations\" near them that she could take; says that she cannot write much because it works her \"into such a state\".","Tells of their new life at Linden, helping to take care of \"Sis\" May's children; comments on Nina's sister Hattie's marriage; discusses religion; describes a trip to Richmond; news about family and friends.","Recommends that she or Rebecca go with her to visit friends in Prince Edward County; tells her that since Mrs. Booker'shouse was used as headquarters for them during the war, they must make a pleasure visit to her since the war is over.","Thanks Nina for sending her the objects repossessed from the war; comments on their sentimental value; gives news about Baltimore's social events and her husband Douglas' work.","Tells what family has done since she left for her trip; says everyone is feeling remarkably well on account of the warm weather; tells her to enjoy her visit with Lizza and Aggie ?","Tells what each person in household is doing that evening: Mamma, Papa, Lute?, Lewis?, Fan?; says she visited Hattie who is feeling well \"under the circumstances;\" news about neighborhood.","Describes the health of each family member; says Mr. Powell had dyspepsia for which she gives him a raw onion; says Hattie is the same and cannot leave her room; gives news of friends; discusses a fire at Lee's ? house; hopes she is enjoying her visit with Lizzie and Aggie.","Gives news about family and neighborhood; says that Cousin Lee's house burned; writes that Bob Robert Powell is now a doctor; news about her school.","Discusses news of neighborhood and people who have come to visit her; tells Nina to enjoy her stay with Lizzie and Agnes ?; says she is still flat on her back but hopes to be better in a few weeks.","Regrets that he could not make the picnic that Nina planned; says that he had to pick up Josie ? that day, who traveled flat on her back; says that he saw \"Cousin Rebecca\" in town.","Tells how she had been preserving many foods last summer because of the possible food shortage during the coming winter; describes her stay with \"Sis\" May in Farmville; describes the situation of the churches and Sunday school in her area; news about family and friends; one of Nina's students, Emma Henry, is getting married.","Apologizes to Nina for not calling on her while she was in Baltimore; expresses her job in their friendship.","Writes of their sorrow at the death of Hugh Holmes McGuire (brother of cousin); whose wife just had a child; asks Rebecca to come visit, since the war is over; gives news about who owns the Powell's old home; tells what each of her relatives are doing; gives news about friends; discusses the death of her aunt who never recovered after the 'Yankees' burnt her house down; mentions how many soldiers cannot find employment. Hugh Holmes McGuire MW battle of High Bridge.","Discusses Maggie's wedding her niece; says she has been alone in the evenings since Nina left her; describes her friends who have called during the day.","Apologizes for not writing; describes her schedule to taking care of a family of ten people; gives news about her gentlemen friends.","Extends sympathies to Nina and her family in the death of her sister, Hattie Powell Smoot, who died in childbirth; offers comfort through religion.","Offers her sympathy for the death of her daughter Hattie; discusses Hattie's character; mentions how Hattie has been looking forward to the time of childbirth.","Gives her sympathy for the death of Selina's daughter Hattie; speaks of her husband Robert, saying she thinks he may never be entirely well again; gives news of family.","Tells of her mourning for her cousin Hattie; offers sympathies; gives news of family.","Offer her sympathies for Hattie's death; describes her stay in her Uncle Phil's home in the mountains; says she will return home to Alexandria in the Fall.","Describes the mountain inn and how they spend their time; says the mountain air is helping their mother's health.","Expresses her joy that Nina is engaged; discusses Nina's mother's health; says she is confined to bed and in much pain; says the treatment causes much suffering and that she is anxious to leave for home.","Says she is glad Nina gets a chance to enjoy herself, and visit with her cousin Lizzie, without worrying about daily duties; says her Aunt Lute is taking good care of her.","Gives a report on everyone's health; says she is feeling better; gives news of friends and family; hopes that she is enjoying her stay with \"cousin\" Lizzie.","Discusses grief and religion; teases Nina about her engagement to Sewell Hepburn; tells her to enjoy her stay and to get well soon; news about Alexandria.","News of friends and family; describes the trouble of giving a party for a couple to be married, and wonders why people have marriages in such poor times.","Pleads with her to visit them for Christmas.","Reports that they have been trying both the \"Alleghany Springs\" and the \"Yellow Sulfur\" springs; says the water has helped her health; describes the social life at the springs.","Inquires about her friends in Alexandria; asks if Mrs. Cassius Lee has information on household goods stolen from her.","Tells of her and Nancy's stay in Danville; discusses Nina's wedding; says her brother Abner will be in the Legislature until it adjourns; news about family and friends. Envelope included with list of bridal attendants on the back.","Discusses her daily schedule; describes a sewing machine that she bought; discusses Nina's wedding; news about family and friends.","Expresses her job in hearing Nina is engaged; reports that she has heard Mr. Hepburn described as \"intellectual\" and \"pious\"; says Captain. Grady sends his love; sends her a gift.","Regrets that she cannot come to Nina's wedding; hopes that Nina will be happy living in the parsonage; news about family and friends.","Apologizes that she cannot be there for the wedding; sends her money to buy a wedding present; tells that she had to refuse a gentleman who revealed his feelings for her; wishes her happiness in her new life.","Note accompanying a wedding present, wishing Nina happiness.","Gives a report on her health, saying she is much stronger; tells what remedies she is taking; says they have given most of her wedding cake away; says that everyone thinks her wedding was beautiful; gives her philosophy on marriage and its importance; tells her how lucky she is to have found such a \"good man.\" Including letter from Rebecca C. Powell to Nina giving a report on their mother's health.","Describes how she spent her Easter vacation; describes the events that took place after Nina's wedding; describes a visit to Georgetown.","Reports she is feeling better but that Rebecca has neuralgia from a bad tooth; tells Nina that she should call her husband \"Mr. Hepburn\"; says it is Nellie's wedding day; advises her to obey her husband now that she is no longer there to control her.","Gives news about home and tells Nina that they miss her greatly; says the relationship between herself and John ? is growing stronger; hopes that she is enjoying her stay in the country with her husband.","Discusses their mother's health, noting improvements; expresses eagerness to visit her in her own home; asks about Sewell.","Discusses her arrangements to come see them; says she is feeling better but she is still weak; tells her to ask for what she needs just like when she lived at home; gives news of family and friends.","Writes to tell her that her health has improved since she left home; gives a report on her health and what she has done there at a resort?; says her father will be home soon.","Includes description of S. Powell.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy concerning his wife, Selina Powell; gives a detailed description of her death and a tribute to her life.","Offers her sympathy in the loss of her mother; says that her mother Selina Powell was one of her earliest friends.","Entreats them to warn his wife Lizzie against a woman named Mrs. Hubard who he is convinced is seeking their ruin.","Tells of friends' illnesses and other afflictions; discusses preachers; says she will wait to buy cotton until the price goes down. Including letter (written on top of) of 1864 January 8 from ? Danville, Va., to \"sister.\" Says she would like to visit her and also to see her whole family, but that she cannot leave because of her duties; says she can only leave on \"official business.\"","Describes their summer in the North; describes the Grand Jubilee held in Boston; describes Newport, Maine and the historical sites there; discusses Nina's life in the parsonage; gives news about family and friends back home.","Says she is very happy to return from the North, though she was treated kindly there and it did improve her health; says many people at home are ill with an influenza that follows the Horse Disease; much news about family and friends.","Asks Nina how her little boy is; reveals that she thought she would be getting married this fall, but that the gentleman, Dr. Cole, has been suffering from an illness; news about family and friends.","Expresses hope that she will visit them in Maryland soon, and bring her child; comments on Nina's settling in Waterford, Loudon County; news of family and friends.","Describes the baby Sewell's features; tells how the family is adjusting to new baby.","Discusses tuition for Mildred.","Reports news of her school; discusses the bonds that their father sold, and his financial situation.","Reports that they are taking of Uncle Leven, including paying for his board with Sallie Withers, and giving him clothes; expresses disappointment that other relatives are not helping him; says Uncle Lev had a drinking problem at one time and his wife will not see him.","Tells Nina their plans to visit her; says they will travel through Baltimore and then by boat across the Chesapeake Bay.","Sends a check for Mildred's tuition.","Hopes that Mr. Hepburn has recovered from his fall and hopes he will stick to taming men's spirits rather than taming men's horses; much news about family and friends.","Gives news about family and friends; says that they will visit her in a few weeks.","Sends Nina a fur cape and muff; congratulates Nina on her pregnancy and hopes she feels well; sends a present for the coming baby; asks Nina for her preferred style of dress so that she can make her some.","Tells of the death of her father-in-law and the effects it has had on the family.","Tells of birth of another boy and that Nina is doing fine; says they have not named him because he wanted a girl; tells story of how his errand boy spilled into the well some fish he was cleaning and how he Sewell had to go down and fish them out.","Gives advice on how to take care of oneself after childbirth; thinks that she should have more than one servant; says that she is having some dresses made for her; news about family and friends.","Scope and Contents Gives news of friends in Alexandria; mentions centennial celebrations; says her school is doing well, with 21 scholars; mentions that Robert Powell has a new daughter.","Gives news about Powell and Lee cousins in Philadelphia; says that a few neighbors have scarlet fever; discusses politics.","Tells of his stay at Selma in Leesburg where he visited relatives; tells of weddings in Leesburg.","Says she is glad the children are recovering from their illness; says Nina must take tonic and Lager Beer herself to say well; recommends ways to rid the house of the illness; describes a visit to Baltimore to see an art exhibit.","Wishes he had a mountain house where his grandchildren could go, especially to recuperate; discusses controversy between two churches, St. Stephens and Grace Church, in the neighborhood where he is; says they both want Mr. Jackson from Charleston, South Carolina, to be their minister.","Gives a long description of her boarders and her school; gives news about neighborhood, friends and family.","Teases him about his \"destitute condition,\" having to take care of himself while Nina is in Baltimore; scolds him for not taking good care of himself and says she does not want Nina to become a widow; tells of a surprise visit by Mrs. Beck of his parish to visit one of her students, Hallie; discusses past election and Hancock's defeat.","Is happy that she is enjoying her travels in the North so much; thanks her for her detailed descriptions which allow him to see the places through his \"mental vision\"; discusses his routes home; says he will be home soon with two boys grandsons.","Discusses her travels in the North; tells of his grandsons' (Charles and Sewell) visit to Alexandria; discusses news at home.","Discusses the town of Bethlehem; says her Uncle William is visiting him; discusses his health; tells news of neighborhood.","Says that her \"Scotts Nephew\" has arrived and has settled in a room; says he may go to Orange County, Va.? soon.","Describes a visit by her cousins Kate Powell and Carrie; gives a long and detailed description of Carrie, her immediate family and her experiences.","Discusses Ellen's tuition; says they are pleased with her education; says that their move to Richmond means that they will have to find another teacher.","Describes his journey to Nina's; describes an encounter between Bishop Randolph and Meta Stuart on the train concerning Amelie Rives; gives a description of each of his grandchildren.","Hopes that she and Mrs. Wailes are steadily improving their health while at the springs; tells her of the death of Mrs. Braxton and the prospects of Ingleside; gives news of grandchildren and neighborhood.","Expresses joy that her health is improving; tells of the death of General Wickham and how it affected the area; gives news of family and neighborhood.","Describes the school; says he may join the Blackford Society; tells about a grammar exam.","Describes the taking of an arithmetic exam which exempted him from taking any more; says he got some demerits; tells about football and how he is playing well.","Tells about his schedule and about his exams; says he had tea with Mr. Hooffs; discusses demerits.","Says he cannot teach this week because his nose is going to be operated on; says his mother and Sewell will occupy the children until then; says Sewell will go back to school soon; discusses the structure of his classes and asks her advice.","Discusses the nature of geometry and gives advice on how to learn it.","Says he has been ill; discusses activities at school and grades.","Thanks her for the invitation to come visit while they are in Yorktown; says his two boys will come by sailing a canoe to Yorktown.","Says they are all home for a week holiday; describes how they all got home; says Richard Cook came home with Selina; describes a real old timey Virginia country dance; says Selina likes Alexandria and the new home; describes what each person in the family has been doing; gives a description of the College of William and Mary; says he has overloaded himself with schoolwork this year; tells how the Alumni are reorganizing the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; gives a description of the fraternity; mentions the burning of St. Paul's Church in Hanover; thanks her for the presents she sent.","Discusses examination schedule and work load; questions validity of mid-term examinations; praises the College for its level of academia; praises Dr. Hall, a professor of English; says that main event at the College now is the contest between societies for the society medals; says he is in the Phoenix society and may debate for it; says he took a trip to New Kent to see his \"girl\" and to visit friends; discusses the Daughters of the Revolution and the Organization of the Descendants of the Cincinnati; says he saw Cousin Laura and her husband Mr. Roberts, a preacher, who are in Williamsburg.","Discusses the new house which he is anxious to get home to see; says he and Charles will not finish exams until the end of June; discusses the social events of the \"final week\"; discusses his exams; discusses Selina's academic progress; says one must experience College life to understand the strength of its temptations.","Says he has spent much time with Nanna Powell McCormick, a cousin; describes her and what they have done together; says he is in love with her; discusses love and cupid; describes a card club he belongs to, and a German club.","Hopes that she doesn't feel isolated from his immediate family; says that their \"great mutual loss\" has brought them all closer together; asks about her plans for the future; says he went to York to see Charles; discusses his housing at College; talks of recent fires in Richmond and Baltimore; speaks of his cousins and some girls that he has met.","Discusses their family's genealogy; mentions Nicholas Lloyd, John Lloyd, and Sarah Lloyd.","Discusses the Presbyterian drive in Alexandria to save the old church; discusses church events; expresses joy to hear of Nina's marriage; mentions the fact that her Selina's father is over eighty years old.","Scope and Contents Describes a house nearby; writes about her relatives that are staying there; asks her to come visit. Including Selina Powell to Nina Powell. Asks Nina to write Lizzie about the house, if it can be rented, and who they should talk to.","Wishes her a Merry Christmas; tells what family members are making for presents; asks about her trip to Alexandria and the people she has seen; discusses the propriety of accepting a book for a gentleman; tells her to be happy and not to think too much.","Discusses offers she has had for teaching, saying she will take the offer closest to where Mr. Powell teaches; advises her to get her teeth fixed; discusses styles; gives advice on how to motivate one of her students; says he will not go to Gloucester because of the recent \"outrages\" there; says she has a \"horror of drunken negroes.\"","Advises her to come home after her visit with Lizzie Watkins; gives a report on the health of family and friends; says almost \"all black and white\" went to the \"procession\" in Washington the day before; says her cousin Jinny Taylor's family is ill; sends her money. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses her poor health, saying she has been diagnosed as having a diseased heart; says she is staying with her sister Aggie who just got married; news of family. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses Nina's visit with her friends and her trip to the \"Bear's Den\"; writes of the many parties there have been since Nina left; says she has not seen Nina's sisters since they got back from Capon; discusses their friendship.","Says her father still has not come home; describes a trip Nina and Rebecca made and the people they visited; writes of young men and friends who have come to visit Nina; news of friends and family.","Discusses dresses; writes of a \"Mr. C.,\" assuring her mother that they are not romantically involved; says Mr. and Mrs. Stringfellow left them to the care of the housekeeper; gives news about friends.","Says that Uncle J. Powell does not think Lexington is a good place to open a school and Lynchburg would be better; discusses prices for boarding; says that her Father may have to look for a tutoring job for a family and then she will have to find work as close to him as possible; discusses sewing she has done; gives news about family and friends.","Discusses the remedies \"Mother\" has tried for her sore throat; describes Mrs. Wildman's receipt for asparagus; says \"Ma\" is experimenting on her throat and then will tell Minna how to treat hers.","Describes her daily schedule, including teaching for \"the girls;\" says the \"Captain\" and the girls included her in a visit to Mrs. Cooke's; describes the people she met there and the house.","Says he spent Christmas at Uncle Frank's and Aunt Jane's; reports on what he has been doing.","Scope and Contents Discusses whether Emily ? will move to Fairlee as a servant?; asks if she will take someone from the \"Home for Fallen Women,\" if Emily declines.","Says she went shopping for her and is sending her some articles; discusses fashions; says her Aunt Ann is still unwell.","Tells her to take of herself while she is sick; discusses whether she should come home; tells of people there that are sick.","Scope and Contents Discusses Mary's furniture and which of it she can use; discusses Frank ?'s health; says Mrs. Hammond has died after being very ill; discusses health of friends and family; gives news of what her family is doing.","Tells of safe arrival of Maud's baby daughter and her appearance; sends greetings to Becca, Nina, and herself.","Gives advice on letter writing and spelling. 1 page. letter. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Advises her not to work too hard; discusses board prices in Albemarle, where Mr. Powell is teaching; discusses hair styles; encloses a sample of material of Rebecca's berage ?; writes of the crowded conditions in Mrs. Sharpe's ? home; mentions reading.","Sends this note with a letter she is forwarding; hopes she is enjoying her visit; says she is feeling better.","Discusses dresses and asks what else she will need for the summer; sends her a poem.","Scope and Contents Consoles her in her time of \"troubles\"; says she has heard from their mother that she \"bears them bravely\"; urges her to take an interest in life and to try to be happy again.","Describes a dress that Minnie is making; discusses other dresses.","News of family and friends.","Describes a walk he took from North Hampton to East Hampton; discusses Thanksgiving vacation.","Asks her to send socks.","Tells about her dolls; mentions some Powell relatives.","Thanks her for the donation for the restoration of a church on Fairfax St., near Selina's Aunt Rebecca's home; mentions a celebration for the laying of the corner stone of the District; describes a light hose that the government gave the Mount Vernon Chapter D.A.R.; mentions more historic work.","Discusses religious matters; lists social events.","Describes duties and responsibilities of husband and wife; describes the state of marriage; pronounces the couple as husband and wife; states Benediction.","Scope and Contents Signed as written by Laura ?; added note in different handwriting states \"written by Minna when eight years of age.\"","Scope and Contents 4 items.","Tells of his appointment as Commander of the Continental Army, and his reluctance to accept the position due to hopes of a more peaceful solution and reluctance in leaving his family; gives information as to other Congressional decisions, such as the striking of 2 million dollars in Continental currency to pay troops.","Scope and Contents In answer to a previous letter, he feels that the only principle that will affect them the British? is fear, and that treating them cavalierly will make them despair of their undertaking. Statement on verso: Copy is in handwriting of Rebecca C. Powell of Alexandria.","Scope and Contents Wishes to spend remainder of his life in \"rural amusements;\" prediction of what a great city Washington, D.C. will become, \"though not as large as London,\" and description of how Alexandria, Virginia has grown; feels that if the United States can steer clear of European politics, it could become \"one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Discusses how he saved the papers of the Revolutionary Government by taking them to Leesburg, Virginia before the British burned the District of Columbia in the War of 1812. These papers included the Declaration of Independence, the journals of Congress, letter of General George Washington, Letters of General Greene and papers of the State Department. 2 pages. copy of letter signed, first part missing.","Mainly letters written from Illinois to Charles L. Powell dealing with land transactions. Also includes land certificates and letters to Lloyd Powell.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: See Oversize file. Concerning the transfer of 100 acres of land in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Va..","Physical Location: See medium oversize file.","Scope and Contents Signed on front by R. E. Lee and on verso by Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va..","Scope and Contents Signed on front and back by Mary Custis Lee.","Includes detailed descriptions of battles and movements of armies. Manuscript Volume 1.","Scope and Contents Book includes a biographical sketch of Col. Leven Powell by Major Burr Powell son: a description of the battle at Manassas Junction on 1861 July 21in a letter from Dr. Hunter McGuire, Surgeon of Jackson's Brigade, to his Mother (Copy); Civil War Journal (May 1 - May 27); list of names: dead? under Civil War battles; Civil War Journal 1862 December 18 -1863 March 28; Leven Powell, Hampton to Sally Sarah Powell,1776 January 27, (Copy). Manuscript Volume 2.","Also includes recipes and how to dye cloth. Manuscript Volume 3.","Includes visiting, baptismal and confirmation lists, and marriages performed, accounts and prayers. included of pages concerning members of Powell Family. Manuscript Volume 4.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Powell, Cuthbert (1775-1849)","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Powell Family papers, 1775/1929"],"collection_ssim":["Powell Family papers, 1775/1929"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["01/Mss. 65 P875","/repositories/2/resources/8863"],"unitid_tesim":["01/Mss. 65 P875","/repositories/2/resources/8863"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Powell, Cuthbert (1775-1849)","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)"],"creator_ssim":["Powell, Cuthbert (1775-1849)","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Powell, Cuthbert (1775-1849)","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"creators_ssim":["Powell, Cuthbert (1775-1849)","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)","Special Collections Research Center"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift: 682 items and 2 MsV., 1952."],"access_subjects_ssim":["African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Va., 1864","Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Virginia","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Women--United States--History--19th century","Correspondence"],"access_subjects_ssm":["African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Va., 1864","Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Virginia","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Women--United States--History--19th century","Correspondence"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["684.00 items"],"extent_ssm":["3.25 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["3.25 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence"],"date_range_isim":[1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1877,1878,1879,1880,1881,1882,1883,1884,1885,1886,1887,1888,1889,1890,1891,1892,1893,1894,1895,1896,1897,1898,1899,1900,1901,1902,1903,1904,1905,1906,1907,1908,1909,1910,1911,1912,1913,1914,1915,1916,1917,1918,1919,1920,1921,1922,1923,1924,1925,1926,1927,1928,1929],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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Series 1 contains papers of the Powell Family; Series 2 contains copies of historical letters; Series 3 contains legal papers; Series 4 contains cartes de visites; and Series 5 contains diaries, record books, and other miscellaneous volumes. Arrangement: This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by date.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series. Series 1 contains papers of the Powell Family; Series 2 contains copies of historical letters; Series 3 contains legal papers; Series 4 contains cartes de visites; and Series 5 contains diaries, record books, and other miscellaneous volumes. Arrangement: This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by date."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCuthbert Powell (1775-1849) was born in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia to parents Leven Powell (1737-1810) and Sarah (Harrison) Powell. He was one of eleven children. Cuthbert made his fortune alongside his brother, Leven Powell, Jr. (1772-1807), as a merchant and ship owner. He retired to \"Llangollen,\" Loudoun County, Virginia in 1812 after a decline in business. Later he was elected to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly; the Virginia State Senate in 1829 and the Virginia House of Delegates in 1840. In 1788, Cuthbert married Catherine Simms, daughter of Col. Charles Simms. The couple had ten children including; Anne Maria Powell (1800-1885), who married 1st cousin Dr. William Levin Powell; Dr. Llewellen Powell (1802-1870), who married cousin Sarah Elizabeth Harrison; Charles Leven Powell (1804-1896), who married Selina Lloyd; Mary Emily Powell (b.1807), who married cousin Cuthbert Powell and later Rev. George Adie; Ellen Douglas Powell (1813- 1862) who married Judge William H. Gray; Cuthbert Harrison Powell (1814-1897); and Jane Simms (Fanny) Powell, who married Wellington Gordon. 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The couple had ten children including; Anne Maria Powell (1800-1885), who married 1st cousin Dr. William Levin Powell; Dr. Llewellen Powell (1802-1870), who married cousin Sarah Elizabeth Harrison; Charles Leven Powell (1804-1896), who married Selina Lloyd; Mary Emily Powell (b.1807), who married cousin Cuthbert Powell and later Rev. George Adie; Ellen Douglas Powell (1813- 1862) who married Judge William H. Gray; Cuthbert Harrison Powell (1814-1897); and Jane Simms (Fanny) Powell, who married Wellington Gordon. 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Leven Powell served in the American Revolution, Virginia House of Delegates and U. S. House of Representatives. Leven Powell Papers, 1774-1806. 93 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 P87\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Tabb-Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tabb-Powell Papers, 1797-1894.1,847 items. Collection Number: Mss. 65 T14Geographic interest includes; Alexandria, Leesburg, Winchester, and central Virginia; and Henry [Marshall County] Illinois.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Leven Powell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; include the correspondence of Leven Powell (1737-1810), who was the father of Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849). Leven Powell served in the American Revolution, Virginia House of Delegates and U. S. House of Representatives. Leven Powell Papers, 1774-1806. 93 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 P87","Tabb-Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tabb-Powell Papers, 1797-1894.1,847 items. Collection Number: Mss. 65 T14Geographic interest includes; Alexandria, Leesburg, Winchester, and central Virginia; and Henry [Marshall County] Illinois."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLetters and papers of Charles Leven Powell, his wife Selina (Lloyd) Powell and children of Loudoun County, Virginia; Henry, Illinois; Winchester, Virginia; and Alexandria, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also included papers of Charles Leven Powell's father, Cuthbert Powell. Prominent correspondents include Johns Hopkins, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Anna Randolph (Custis) Lee, Hunter Holmes McGuire and James Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concern Robert Young Conrad, Hunter Holmes McGuire, civilian affairs during the Civil War, the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, freedmen, Reconstruction, and the education of women. Many letters are written by women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are a number of letters from and concerning members of the Dupuy family of Prince Edward County, Winchester, Virginia including Robert Young Conrad (president of the Virginia Secession Convention) and his son Holmes Conrad (U. S. Congressman).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \nIncluded with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \nSee also  Southern Women and their Families in the 19\u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003eth\u003c/emph\u003e Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eIncluding a statement, 1786 April 8 by J. Nicholson that the witnesses Joshua Lamb and John Lamb (both Quakers) and Joseph Greenwood affirmed and swore that this was the last will and testament of Thomas Hepborn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on the status of the ship The Rising Sun; says she will dispose of her cargo as soon as possible; says the ship was detained by the British (War of 1812), but given up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by William Hodgson and Thomas Van Le, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer daughter ? Nancy, had a healthy baby boy who is nursing well; Nancy is staying with her now, and her husband Mr. Wallach, spends almost every night there also; is concerned that Nancy will live a hard life because of her husband's financial situation; on the other hand, her daughter Catherine ? will be \"free from the trials attended on a state of poverty,\" being married to Cuthbert Powell, who owns a large farm in Loudoun County; much Simms family news; mentions Mrs. Trist's grandson, Nicholas Trist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by B. Cottinger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFatherly letter giving his opinion of a certain young lady and marriage, as well as general advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of his engagement to this daughter Selina, and the seriousness of the matter, especially in concerning finances; tells of his poor financial state as related to a dowry, or the lack thereof, for his daughter; gives his approval of the \"alliance,\" but hopes they will delay the marriage for some time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas given great consideration to his claim against the French government and has turned the case over to Stephen Pleasonton, who is the auditor for the Dept. of State and who is now handling all claims; since Mr. Pleasonton is a personal friend and he (James Monroe) is greatly interested in his Burr Powell case, he knows he will get an answer soon; will also be returning the agriculture pamphlet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends extract of Mr. Pleasonton's reply concerning the claim against the French government and asks that he reply with the necessary information; will also do anything he can to help.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFurther discussion of his claim against the French government and dealings with Stephen Pleasanton and Isaac Coxe Barnett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMore instructions about the claim being made against the French government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFurther discussion and explanation of the case involving Burr Powell and his claim against the French government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinued information concerning Powell's claim against the French government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe new court system has kept him extremely busy; social life has slowed down; the fashion these days to relieve boredom is to ride horseback; expresses concern for his own colt in the country; inquires after Dr. Nelson and his medical career; also asks about a large, gay party at South River; recommends books for good reading including Schlegel's History of Literature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received the results of his claim from Mr. Pleasonton and regrets the outcome, which he disagrees with; does not feel anyone is to blame.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to come visit over Christmas; describes the social events in Arlington; mentions her cousin George Calvert; says the big event is the fair for the benefit of orphans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a walk she took and the surrounding countryside, including the wildflowers and startling a herd of deer; had many visitors, including a very graceful lady who is said to have been \"addressed\" by Mr. Van Buren, a \"jolly goodnatured ... commodore and some of the ugliest officers,\" and Mrs. Porter and her scholars; tells of books she has read, including Tales of a Grandfather, The Sorcerer, and The Talisman; loving memories and looking forward to their next meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave just returned from a visit to her grandmother's and her cousin, Ann Marshall; they all are saddened by the death of Mr. Fitzhugh; describes the country from South to West River, where she had visited, and comments on meeting a lovely girl, Bella Carter; mentions the jealousy of another male suitor?, Seldon Page; mentions Mary Custis. 3 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends his best wishes for her new life with Charles L. Powell; will be able to attend the wedding as well as \"Brother Nelson\"; is uncommonly warm; is sending a bonnet for her and a small diamond breast-pin for Father by the steamboat Franklin, commanded by Admiral Nevitt; describes the long ribbons attached to the bonnet, which are for going once all the way around the bonnet before knotting them by the ear, not for tying a bow under the chin; also includes a diagram of how to tie them in the current fashion; admits to having been helped in choosing the bonnet by Miss Olivia Donaldson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses events in Washington D.C.; says she went to \"the President's\" on New Year's day; discusses Mr. Marshall's sermons; mentions books she is reading; asks Selina to come visit her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays her health is improving; encourages her to ask her for help when she needs it; discusses the articles she is sending her including a lemon tree, curtains, a mattress; discusses how these things will get to her; gives news about the children; Bec, Nanny, Frank, and Fred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis mother-in-law has told him of the wonderful news of the birth of another daughter Hattie, and that both mother and baby are safe; will be up to visit in about a week; comments on balancing the sexes in the family, and that he has \"no notion of supplying my brother's and sister's children with wives\"...\"we shall hate to transport them his daughters to the wilds of the west\"; all is well at home, a new hen house is being built, but the garden is too wet to work; is lonely but is visiting neighbors; family news; religious sentiments expressed about her, their new daughter, and their family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives account of his trip to Wheeling, including a sweet good-bye from daughter Rebecca; was not able to locate Robert Gray or ? Throckmorton at Harper's Ferry, but later met them at Point of Rocks; detailed description of a railroad and train cars; tells poignant story of a dog on the train searching for his master.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had many family visitors since his departure and family news; there is a measle outbreak at \"Llangollen,\" and all of the \"negroes\" have it; she had her teeth filed by Dr. Overfield?; a fire in Upperville destroyed Robert Armistead's new store and the adjoining saddle shop; they have had a beautiful snowfall, covering all of the blossom-filled trees, which melted quickly, doing no harm to the fruit; had a letter from brother John, who advises that he Charles L. Powell \"go directly to Texas\"; loving stories about their daughter's activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad a bad thunderstorm the day she left; inquires about her trip and her relatives; details of children's activities; has let Becca sleep with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir father will be taking a trip West this spring, accompanied by cousin William; family information; social life in Leesburg very quiet; misses her and her family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails of his trip from Alexandria; spent the night with relatives; warns her about catching a cold on a windy day; tells of conversations with their young son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate financial matters; tells of his busy schedule as a representative from Virginia to the U.S. legislature; gives his negative opinion concerning a bank? bill introduced by Henry Clay,which he feels the President would veto; Daniel Webster shares his opinion; life insurance inquiry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not be home when expected because the House of Representatives is not going to adjourn until Monday; the Congress received their second veto from President Tyler regarding the Bank Bill; describes an assault made by Sen. Henry A. Wise upon Sen. Edward Stanlyin Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking about her visit to Washington and the Chamber of National Institute; speaks of floods, bad weather, but comfortable where he is, because of Margaret's? kindness; describes lifestyle and \"humorous remarks of Charles Lamb,\" sexual relationship with her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishing thumb to heal; speaks of cattle and other animals at \"Llangollen\" that he misses; asks about children; saw Ann? mentions Virginia Taylor's visit; will visit wife before harvest; reference to brother, Leven, and his wife, and Sarah?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHustle and excitement of the House of Representatives; hoping to adjourn on Monday the twenty-second, but difficulties cause many night meetings; political discussion about Tariff question and Tuck bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her story at \"the Springs;\" tells about the politics the company there discussed; gives her own view of these issues; gives news about family and friends; hopes that Congress will soon adjourn so that he can come home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompares episode of thief robbing hen house to thieves in Washington trying to rob \"public treasures\"; wants to buy books for her; tells how he wishes to be with her and the rest of his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of the bad weather and that they are able to get out very little; says Mr. Powell went to the Inauguration on horseback; tells what books the family members are reading; mentions the issue of white servants; discusses Rebecca's feelings of becoming a young lady; says that they could not get the house they wanted for next year; mentions Mr. Powell's feelings of frustration for not being able to better provide for them; gives more news about the Inauguration; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter, Harriet, left with Uncle William to spend holidays with them; daughter Minna had a birthday party, inviting Aunt Mary's children and Eskridges; family news; death of Maria Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her religious feelings; discusses her traveling plans; describes her relationship with each of her relatives where she is staying; says she is staying with Fan and helping her with her wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the housekeeping and how Rebecca is taking care of the house while she is away; discusses the health of family members; tells how they are altering last year's dresses; says \"Mother\" is quite weak and \"Father\" is very dependent on her; gives news of Brother Nelson and Jeanie (sister?); gives travel plans of family; says Mr. Powell has gotten six teeth put in and looks much younger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their arrival home with her brother Nelson; gives news of \"little Nan\"?; asks about Rebecca and Minna's trip; tells her to be happy and to follow God; says Charlie is doing well in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; mentions Laura's? wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what she did during her visit to Locust Hill; tells what is going on in town; gives news of family and friends. Including news from letter from \"Mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell telling of her many activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Jesus and how one must search for and do things that please Him; asks that she watch her sister, Minna, closely so that she will not overexert herself; Ariana? had a baby boy; describes son Charlie's and daughter Nina's reactions to reading school and learning; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of John's? carriage and velocipede that once was Minna Lloyd's, describing how she rode the vehicle; describes what a Holly tree is; (has genealogical information about Minna Powell, Lloyd Powell, and Charlie Powell in a different hand, which appears to have been added later.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloucester Court House,Va. Speaks of her \"companion in Matilda Lee?; received visit from Nannie Guy and Maria Harrison; describes celebration in honour of General Taylor's election; describes Mrs. Janney's travels; town gossip and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; speaks of going to Locust Hill; inquires and tells about adventures of many townspeople; obliged to Mrs. Tabb for taking care of her and other daughter, Minna.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of Cousin Lucy's? party; describes Christmas scene around her house and gifts that the children received; describes Cousin Elizabeth Janney and compares to Cousin Harriet; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses who has come to visit her; describes Cousin Lee's wife, Maria, and their wedding; asks about her Christmas; describes the book marks she made for Christmas presents; asks how Minna is doing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of snow and bad weather; notes that daughters, Rebecca and Minna, have been gone for almost three months; Fanny (Powell) Gordon is going to visit Fredericksburg; mentions a letter from Jeannie? who found General Jones, in Washington, quite \"agreeable and handsome\"; Cuthbert Powell is much better, and he speaks of going to Gloucester to join a Mr. Hale; Nina is afraid of everything; family news; mentions hiring of a slave, Margaret.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRebecca's description of her Uncle Tabb's Dr. John Prosser Tabb house seems far in advance of Old-Virginian architectural styles; speaks of death of Mrs. Douglas Gordon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of dancing as a family as a \"social amusement,\" but says that it does offend some \"in the religious world;\" says that one must respect the public opinion of the community where one lives; had severe weather; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Hatty Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Minna Powell, Gloucester Court House, for letter and \"glove-knots\" and sending love to Aunt Rebeccaand Uncle John Prosser.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer brother Charlie and sister Nina have sore throats, and her father has a bad cold; snowy weather; Hatty went with Aunt Ellen to Selma and Raspberry Plain; Mr. Armistead Rust is to be married before March 4; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports on the snow storms they have had; mentions the coming wedding of Armistead Rust and Lilly Lawrence; tells how he likes working at the store; describes one of their customers; describes the house they may rent next spring. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia Says she is glad to hear Minna's health is improving; gives news of family; says her brother Nelson soon sails for California to dig gold, and may not be back for five years; reports on how he expects to live; says that there are measles and mumps in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaris's? father announced as candidate for re-election; General Rust's family going to New York to attend a wedding; father is renting Carper's house; bad weather and snow causing many colds and illnesses; Mrs. Eskridge's father died; father may go to the Inauguration; family news. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSaw Representative John S. Pendleton at the House of Representativesin Washington, D.C.; Pendleton wants a senate appointment; he will not go to Leesburg because he does not want to \"meddle with party movements\"; mentions \"County Repeal of the dog law.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mother and Father are both sick; \"brother\" has gone to inauguration; describes how to make eggnog, and gives her opinion of it; describes riding horses to the cliff and tells of adventures. 1 page. letter signed. Including letter from Harriet Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 February 27, incomplete letter concerning outbreak of the mumps and family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather suffering from piles; mumps are still prevailing; do not have parties during Lent; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of gossip saying that Mr. Benedict is having an affair with Mrs. Henderson; describes procession in Washington, D.C. and the inauguration; family news. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 March 26, concerning family news and the time of year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses joy that Minna's health is till improving; says she is recovering from her cold; says Lloyd and Hattie have been ill as well; discusses the issue of Rebecca upsetting her aunt Rebecca by being late for a meal; says her aunt is easily vexed in \"her condition\"; gives news of friends and family; describes their new servant Robert. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Charles S. Powell, to Rebecca Powell, , undated, concerning Uncle Prosser's desire to put Minna on \"short allowance,\" and Minna's consumption of beef.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their move to another house which she says is comfortable but small; hopes that the Gloucester air is getting rid of her cold; says their father is busy with court dealings; says many in the area have mumps including Hattie; says that Hattie is getting a tooth plugged; says she does not want Lloyd to leave to live so far away; discusses mesmerism (hypnotism).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of her bad health; her husband is busy preparing for court; mentions a party at Exeter; Mrs. Fontleroy had a girl so Mrs. Knox is a grandmother; much more family news and information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rebecca Powell will be coming home within a week or so; Fanny? is at Locust Hill with the mumps; family news; Uncle William Graypersuaded Father to go to Gum Springs, Va., until after the election; election day events seemed to be going against Father. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Sister Minna\" Powell, Gloucester Court House, Virginia, 1849 April 26, concerning family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Minna's cough and how they are treating it; tells her what clothes Lloyd and Charlie should wear if it gets colder; says she has been doing little except taking care of Minna; discusses new dresses for the winter and corsets; gives news of friends and relatives; discusses travel plans, to come home for the winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dresses, materials and costs; discusses bonnets; gives news of family; thanks her and Hattie for taking care of the household duties while she is away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Minna is now well and that they are anxious to come home; gives news of Jeanie (her sister?), and Rebecca; gives news of \"Mother\" and \"Father\"; discusses books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Mr. Powell had his \"likeness taken\" at the Daguerreotype rooms; says Minna's health continues to improve but that she may have one tonsil taken out; discusses the remedies she is taking; says she feels stronger also; gives news of friends; gives news of Rebecca, Jeanie, and \"sister\" Ann; discusses walking shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on her health and over-exertion; describes the illumination that took place in the neighborhood; tells of visits she has made; tells stories about Minna's sister, Nina; gives news of family and friends; says Hattie has lost her \"excess of fat\" and is walking three times a day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what each family member is doing; discusses bonnets; discusses appearance versus reality as concerning materialism; discusses the opportunities for her in Alexandria; discusses the role of children in the family; gives news of friends and family; mentions that \"brother\" John may move and that if they move to Illinois, they will be closer to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays they got there a few days ago and that Mr. Powell, Mr. Grey(?), and \"brother Llew\" have gone to the sale of slaves (\"the sale of the negroes\"); discusses her visit in Alexandria with her grandparents; Discusses the bad weather in Leesburg and the bad condition of the roads; says their family must economize rigidly; says Mr. Powell found the law business in Alexandria too small, so they will not be moving there; expresses her disappointment at the outcome; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reviews Christmas gifts received by everyone; describes a \"reading party\"; describes Christmas decorations of the Church; family news. Including note signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, 1849 December 29, concerning when daughter, Rebecca, is to return home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of the recent social events of the area; describes the format of a reading party; says her mother-in-law could not make it to their home because of the snow; asks her how her mother is doing; says there are still small pox in the area; discusses how many servants she has and what each does; says that Rebecca's Uncle George took Cuthbert to an asylum in Baltimore and hopes he will be happier there then when he was \"out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Rebecca's Uncle Richard and Aunt Elizabeth who live in Illinois; says she plans to get a description of the Illinois life from them; gives news of Ellen? who is unwell and is going to a doctor in New York; discusses how Rebecca can get home; describes family activities; says they have been able to do little because of the rain and mud; says she lies on her back all day sewing while her children read to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reading parties are the only way she can socialize; reports Maria Grady's death; reports about a big baptist meeting going on there headed by Mrs. Lucket; much town news. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 26, 1850, concerning Rebecca Powell's trip home and Maria Grady's \"triumphant death.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of terrible weather; boasts of learning to spin rolls of cotton on a spinning wheel; reports death of Rebecca Gray, Robert Gray's daughter; describes her daily routine; discusses Mary Grady. Including letter signed from \"devoted mother,\" Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Bec,\" Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 1850, concerning bad weather, family news, and attendance to the convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays many in the family have been very sick for a couple of days and that she has had to nurse them; says Minna is now sick; and never had fully recovered from the chicken pox she had before; gives advice of how to be a good guest; advises her on her studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she has a toothache but must wait until May to get them pulled; describes a humorous reading party; says there was a case of small pox in the area and that many are being revaccinated. Including letter signed from \"mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell. Discusses her travel plans home; tells her to follow her grandparents' advice; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that her younger siblings are recovering from the measles so well; reports on health of \"Grandma\" and \"Grandpa\" Lloyd; gives news of Aunt Rebecca, Jeanie, and Minnie; Tells what she had done each day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about many weddings in Leesburg and about who will need new dresses; speaks of ball thrown by Maria Washington; other city news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives general description of Henry and discusses the family's move there; discusses the house they will build; advises what they should bring; reports on the emigrants in the area; discusses their travel plans in detail; asks Charlie to bring Newfoundland puppies; gives news of family there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes presents sent to grandchildren; tells of Christmas scene in Alexandria; wants granddaughters to meet a polite gentleman that impressed her. Including poem, 1852, by R. C. Powell, beginning \"'Ours the cross.' Yes it is ours,\" giving a religious viewpoint.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of how she makes embroidery patterns and what colors are preferred; inquires about some of her friends; John Leven Powell says that Brooke? looks badly; aunt Fanny trying to match Brooks with Lucy Gordon; speaks of a Mr. Beverley breaking out around his face and \"bleeding profusely\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mr. Gordon? will be a delegate to the democratic convention in Richmond, Virginia; much use of her eyes results in inflammation of her eyelids; \"Llangollen\" property is deteriorating; much town news and family news; mentions her dower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of helping Frank and Lucy ? with their new baby; describes female servants and her experiences with them; describes health of her daughters, Harriet, Rebecca, and Minna; reports of a few cases of \"cholera\"; reports of a good garden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a detailed report of Minna's health, expressing hope that her headaches are definitely getting better; tells about people who have visited the family; mentions a desegregated school in \"abolition ground\"; tells what her sisters have been doing since she left; discusses Rebecca's journey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Janney's baby died while she was ill; a Mr. Anderson, a Presbyterian Minister, says that his wife, Miss Harper, is a relative of Selina's (her father's Aunt); speaks of Fred's? wedding; tells of episode when she goes to visit a Mrs. Brown?; describes a visit they made to some neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Fanny's ? wedding; family news; possibility that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon ? might be elected to legislature; family does not wish Rebecca Powell to return home this winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a visit they made to some new neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their busy preparations for winter; describes their daily routine; says she is glad to have Lucy and Fred stay with them; describes their Sunday school; reports on Scholastics (a servant) who is now reading well; news of family and friends; discusses dresses and styles; asks about Rebecca's Uncle Nelson; mentions that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon was elected; asks about Fan's? wedding and hopes she and William will be happy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of his daughter's trip, whom she should visit, and money matters; hopes to soon reap the financial benefits of his store; mentions Bishop Whitehouse's determination to give the college broad foundations; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; sleet and bad weather; religious discussion and viewpoints; Lucy and John? have a daughter now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mr. Powell, Charles and Richard Lloyd are busy with new business as \"Land Agents\"; town of Henry, Illinois now has a newspaper and a steam mill; hopes to have a railroad passing through soon; there is not a decent Church and she wishes to see one built; Lloyd Powell, son of Selina, studies German because there are so many Germans in their town to do business with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sarcastically teases her sister about differences between lifestyles of \"Far West\" and the East; Uncle Fred ? went to Springfield to see that railroad went from Peoria through Henry, Illinois; mentions problems with scarlet fever; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of liquor laws and problems with drinking; describes lectures; such family and town news; mentions other religious lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses desire for daughter Rebecca to return home; Minna Powell still having problems with headaches; family news; Fred? went to Chicago to see stockholders of the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad; asks for Rebecca to send asparagus seed and large lima beans; mentions Thackery's lectures, and gives her opinion about his books and religious teachings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; \"land business\" will provide many opportunities for travel; Rebecca planning to go to Leesburg soon. Including note from Charles L. Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"darling,\" Rebecca Powell, , 1853 March 11, sending his daughter ten dollars and writing her as to how to handle her expenses and requesting her to bring home her Grandfather's papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that even though he just left yesterday, she wanted to put a letter in the books to be sent to him; comments on their inability to see each other even though he is only seven miles away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions his job as a traveling salesman and how he hopes to soon be Uncle Richard's Lloyd administration; resolved in town meeting to build the Railroad Peoria and Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses her disappointment that she cannot see Rebecca before Rebecca returns to Henry, Illinois; describes the friendship between them; news of friends in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of carriage accident involving Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dulaney, where their horses were scared by the Clifton Mill and threw Mrs. Dulaney; she and father attended Dr. Rutherford's lectures; emphasizes that ladies got to vote, as well as gentlemen, on whether they were satisfied with the lectures; new wharf boat has arrived.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the towns of Rushville and Pittsfield; said he enjoyed Pittfield more, but that Uncle Richard Lloyd sent him an assignment for Rushville; says he will be there about a month; asks about friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rebecca has come home; Minna joined the church with her family; gives religious views; family news. Including letter from Minna Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"Brother\" , 1853 May 11, referring to Rushville, as location of brother; tells of beautiful spring weather and describes scenery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill soon be coming home; complains of sore throat and headaches; has had scarlet fever; family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGossips about \"Miss Jane,\" a mutual friend; says he and Dr. Winslow found her in her parlor with a man; says the servant did not want to let them in and that it was an uncomfortable situation. Including letter written in margins from \"Cousin\" Jane to Rebecca Powell concerning religious publication, an Episcopal convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses how much she misses him; discusses reading material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Aunt Ellen's Powell Gray recovery from an illness; much family news; describes wedding that she went to; expresses romantic interest in a Dr. Claggett; includes printed poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes physical appearance of \"Llangollen\" as well as her feelings towards the place; reminisces about when family lived in Virginia. Talks about old friends; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Tells her little sister Nina about old friends and family; gives details of things she has been doing. Including letter from \"Hatty\" Harriet Powell, \"Llangollen,\" Virginia, to \"Mother,\" Selina Powell, 1853 October 10. Concerning warmer clothes; advantages of \"flannel draws\" over a \"wadded petticoat.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Says she has been extremely ill and so have many in the area; says she has been traveling in order to improve her health; tells of her problems with Custis and his lessons; says Robert is still holding his office in Washington but wishes to leave; asks how she likes \"the West\" and if her husband is finding success; news of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports Lucy's? death and grief everyone feels; Nelly? is to be baptized; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of their Christmas and New Years celebrations. Also includes \"Mother\" Selina Powell, to Rebecca Powell. Expresses hope that Rebecca can be with her relatives in Baltimore; discusses the nature of receiving advice and making her own decisions concerning her travel plans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of attending a party; mentions \"matching up\" procedures at party; family news; details Christmas gifts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions religious feelings; speaks of a railroad being built nearby; Virginia? had her annual get-together on December 26; of family members; mentions a friend's visit to the Crystal Palace; Mrs. Augustine Washington had the first male child born at Mt. Vernon recently; family news; mentions Rear Admiral Leven Minn Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Brooks'? wedding; describes details of the wedding; much family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her day spent with Lizzie King and Jane Norris; describes a dinner given for a couple about to get married; news of other friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions sicknesses of Nelson Lloyd and John Lloyd; speaks of a Douglas Forrest who attends Yale College; has to take a boat to Washington D.C.; gives price rates per acre of land at that time; gives prices for a lot of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news about cousins Nannie and Fanny?; mentions Uncle Nelson's Lloyd recovery; travels by omnibus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; describes her garden and its contents; Regina? was married; Mr. Livingston? requests influence of Charles L. Powell to obtain the consulship of London through General Baercel?; mentions Mr. McFaddin as being the mayor of Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; describes the scenery at Locust Hill; some of Uncle George's ? children have chicken pox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified as much of note added in unknown handwriting, possibly that of Selina Lloyd Hepburn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Minna's gravesite; tells what he's doing to improve its appearance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes trip to Niagara Falls; describes places visited in New York and where he lives; describes his studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes courses he is studying at school; describes the first time he saw a man dive under water and the suit he wore below water; staying at a boarding house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Lloyd who died in 1854; estimated price value are given.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes study habits and classes; mentions prices of a ring and a clock; describes his financial situation. .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes in detail her Quaker wedding to Frank? on 1854 December 14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNina's Christmas gift from Charles arrived safely; mentions wedding of a fellow student; serenaded the couple with a \"horse fiddle\"; describes his activities in his spelling class; mentions plans to return home in the spring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses religious beliefs; lists prices for renting his room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Charter Oak, an attraction in Hartford; describes his visit to an armory; staying with a Mr. Parsons and describes his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses financial settlements he is making for his father concerning the house, lands, furniture; says Uncle Fred and Uncle Neb are leaving Henry and they are all \"disgusted\" with Henry and that he thinks his (father's) decision not to come back was wise; mentions the family move to Winchester, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items, 1856. 16 items, 1857\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their Christmas which was spent at Uncle Fred's and Aunt Lute's; describes a Christmas ball and a New Year's ball in detail; says he has had some problems with dyspepsia; asks about cousin Kate's wedding to a senator.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on Aunt Lib and Uncle R?'s new son, Richard; says he rented out their house in Henry; says he has been away from \"home\" now for three months; and will not go to New Orleans, Mobile, and Augusta; describes how he decorated Minna's grave, and expresses hope that her resting place will soon be Virginia; asks about their school; sends money from a large profit he made selling land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his visit to Louisville where he saw his cousins and went to many social events; says that the train ride from Kentucky was very rough; says he will be in Vicksburg in a week and then will go to Wilmington, North Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; and Memphis, Tennessee; asks about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his stay in Vicksburg, and his visit with Mr. And Mrs. Eilbeck Mason and Miss Louisa Fox; says that he did not see Cousin John Russell while in New Orleans; discusses his travel plans; asks about Hatty's teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that she is well from the influenza; says he has recently traveled to Portsmouth, Va,, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; says he will now go to Texas; discusses travel plans; asks her to pick out one of her friends for him; discusses Charlie's new job in St. Louis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes St. Louis and the Virginia House Hotel; inquires about the new scholars the family has taken on; harasses Nina for not writing. Including note from Charles L. Powell, St. Louis, Missouri, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1856 May 4, concerning his happiness about Nina joining the Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes hard times in Illinois; intent to move back to Virginia when business picks up; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of influenza and other illnesses prominent in the town; reports the death of Mr. Adies ?; Ellen Powell is in Washington Infirmary; house is being renovated; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he just returned from Henry; says Charlie is on his way to Henry to start his new job in Uncle Fred's store; describes Henry and the house they used to live in; reports that Uncle Fred is building a house; gives new of Scholastics and Monsieur Carlo; says he will go to Pennsylvania next and then visit them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Lloyd Powell is on his way to Virginia; describes their yard and home in Henry; yellow fever is not a problem this year in Illinois; he went to a concert given by the Baleis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about the \"weddings fair\"; discusses his travels and the loneliness involved in his job; mentions his relief that the campaigns and elections are over; sends messages to friends at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNina has begun studying Latin and learning how to draw; mentions the extension of the Chicago and Pern canal down to Henry; much family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what each family member is doing; discusses religion and the duties of a Christian; gives news of friends who have joined the church; discusses Minna's grave; discusses letter writing; tells of recent marriages and engagements; gives her philosophy on why he should not begin to chew tobacco; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Makes reference to Valentine's Day and Washington's Birthday; mentions last year's parade and the marching continentals; reports of bad rain storm that tore up the railroad track and caused problems with mud and flooding; family news. Includes note signed from Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1857 February 22, telling her to turn to their 'one friend' for strength and advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes a storm which kept him in Henry, Illinois, unable to travel; gives recent travel plans, including a trip to Philadelphia by boat; gives news of friends and family in Henry; says many river towns are flooded.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports his knowledge of Lloyd's Powell return to Winchester; relatives are going to the Episicpal Church for Easter; reports Dr. Hoagland ? as being a bad tenant in their house in Illinois; mentions happiness that Nina Powell is joining the church today.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of relatives in Alexandria; tells his travel plans; says he finds the women of Virginia far more appealing than those of South Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUncle Fred? and Aunt Lucy? are leaving for Virginia; sending his mother his daguerreotype, a photograph; reports that Lloyd is in St. Louis; Bridget, a past boarder, had a little girl; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the family vacation and adventures; describes the baths; mentions the parties they have attended; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily is on vacation; describes activities and scenery at Capon Springs; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks about taking inventory at the store; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays they just got back from Capon; asks her not to take silver nitrate for her headaches; says they have all improved their health by the visit to Capon; says \"brother\" Nelson is now there hoping the springs will help him; says they did not get the house that they wanted to rent; gives news of friends; says Rebecca, Hatty, and Lloyd are there. Including letter from Charles L. Powell to Nina Powell. Says that he misses her and wishes she could have been at Capon; asks about her headaches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his travels from Baltimore to Henry; mentions shortage of money due to bank failures; gives detailed news of the town, including improvements being made; news of Henry relatives; mentions that the bank failures will result in fewer land dealings and therefore, less work for him; asks about the young ladies of Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about Mr. Waler's? lectures; attends the Methodist Church now; reports of the adventures during hunting season; mentions the new idea of pavement sidewalks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a severe snowstorm and its effects on Henry; tells how he spent Thanksgiving day; describes their new cook with whom he is infatuated; mentions the death of Robert Conrad?; gives messages of friends in Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of Nina getting her teeth straightened; describes method; reports that the number of scarlet fever cases is greatly reduced; she is very busy with the boarding school; tells of a fight between Charlie McCormick and a police officer; mentions Hunter Holmes McGuire; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the death of Robert ? and the reaction of the town; gives news of friends; sends her love to her mother and relatives; wants to know what Dr. Chase said about her teeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites about Nina's plans to go home; says she is concerned about her traveling when her teeth are in such a condition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to the \"hard times\" everyone is experiencing; describes farm activities; family news; describes how to make a mousetrap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes midwest weather and the usual fall-like temperatures; says that they are all much healthier because of the mild weather; says ties are hard and the bank in Henry just closed, but that the town is continuing to improve; asks about Mrs. Powell's occupation, teaching; mentions the death of Robert Conrad and describes his character; messages to family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of freezing temperatures of -15 F and snow in Henry; mentions sleighing in the snow; reports story of a bank robbery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of Lloyd's Powell trip to St. Louis to try and find Charles a job; family news; mentions a Mr. Lombard who plans to return to Henry and open a bank of issue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses who owes him letters from home; says he could not find a job for Charley Charles L. Powell, Jr.? in St. Louis because of the poor economy; gives news of Randolph Powell, of St. Louis, and John Webb Powell, of Utah; says he will be home during the summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions that she missed his birthday with a card but thought of him that day; expresses religious feelings and beliefs; family news; lists people recently confirmed in the Church; outbreak of typhus fever at the University ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of his travels; describes Memphis, Tenn.; gives news of \"cousin\" William Powell who resides in Memphis; gives news of Mr. And Mrs. Mason, residing in Vicksburg; describes Leake County where he sold some of his Uncle Nelson's land; gives news of \"cousin\" John Wilson of New Orleans and of \"cousin\" John Chilton, who may send his daughter Sarah to school in Virginia; tells his travel plans, stating he will be in Virginia in a month; gives news to family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes scenery where he is; tells of a May party that some school girls had; describes his boat riding trip; family news; mentions arrival of Mr. Winn, the new Presbyterian minister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports having been sick with a bad cold; family news; Nina has problems with other schoolgirls because her parents operate the school; trying to plan Charlie's return home for the summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about fourth of July entertainment; Mr. Winn gave an exceptional sermon; Uncle Richard? bought a piano and a side-saddle; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about boarding students; inquires about vacations at Capon Springs, West Virginia; tells of his success at duck hunting; family news; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Uncle Richard's and Uncle Fred's families; says that Frank's baby is still ill; gives news of Hammond and Minna; comments that he will not see his family for another year; gives news of Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. and his employment possibilities; asks about Uncle Neb of Clark, Va?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her opinion about chewing tobacco, smoking, and other bad habits; incorporates religious duty into her opinion; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his habit of chewing tobacco and how he should discipline himself to quit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the weather; reports on Hammond; reports that Mr. Chandler of Henry is getting married in Boston; says they will stay at Mrs. Taber's for the winter; gives news of Charlie (Charles) L. Powell, Jr.; comments on the involvement of women in politics in Henry; news of friends; comments on the decreased enrollment at the family school, saying they will at least have a lighter workload; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her disappointment in Charlie's having tasted tobacco; tells him that he is doing wrong to continue this habit; voices many religious views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that river is flooding the town; talks of Christmas holidays; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA birthday letter for Nina's sixteenth birthday; describes the weather; family news; Min? is the \"editress\" of the \"Minnehaha\"; tells of the affairs of a Miss Amanda?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives account of how he spends his days with emphasis on his Sunday activities; tried to quit chewing tobacco but couldn't; tells of episode where Uncle Richard? lost his saddle bags in the town of Bradford; river was frozen and people are ice skating; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells where the girls boarding with them are going for Christmas; describes their Christmas plans; recollects their last Christmas with Minna; gives religious advice; sends her love to Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould love for her to stay with him; mentions a sister Hannah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Lloyd Powelland Uncle Richard ? have gone to Memphis, Tenn.; tells of the building of a road for $10,000; describes a surprise party he attended; mentions Valentine's Day and how many he has received; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Uncle Richard and Frank are with him in Memphis, to see if they want to move there; says that he does not believe Uncle Richard will leave Illinois, but that Frank probably will; says that they tried to look up William Powell but he had moved to Arkansas; discusses the possibilities of his parents establishing a school in the area, and the risks involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Uncle Richard and Uncle Fred; says Uncle Fred and Frank will close their business and leave Henry; tells of a conversation with Bishop Otey of Memphis on the subject of establishing a girls school there; gives details of the proposal in case his father is interested; gives news of the private school situation in Arkansas; reports on his business dealings in Arkansas; discusses financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Uncle Fred who has been ill; says that the women of the town are all inspecting the new spring goods brought in from Saint Louis; discusses his daily schedule; says Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. is in singing school; asks about Nina's walks and lectures on the benefits of exercise to health and appearance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes spring in Illinois; inquires about relatives in Alexandria; comments on Uncle Nelson's helpless state; discusses the chances of recovering Uncle Nelson's lands in Arkansas; describes the area of Henry where the family used to live; comments that she now weights 108 lbs., which is more than her daughters weigh; sends his love to Grand Ma Powell, Aunt Ann, and Uncle Neb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA baby girl was born who is Nina's cousin Uncle Richard's daughter?; describes a fishing trip; mentions finding several Indian graves with skeletons and other items; tells story of a \"mad\" dog who bit many people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Illinois relatives; describes a trip that he and Uncle Richard took through Stark County, emphasizing the changes that have taken place in the last five years; comments on Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. development into a young man; reports that Uncle Richard will leave the land business on September 1st; discusses his involvement in the business and his desire to visit Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses his relief that his brother Charles arrived safely in Va.; comments on how scattered the family is at present; mentions Cousin Fanny Cochran's wedding in Middleburg, Virginia; discusses Mr. Hyde's trip in the \"aerial vessel\" Atlantic from St. Louis to New York, as reported in the \"Republican\"; reports that Frank has another son, Horatio Nelson; news of other Illinois relatives; describes the July 4 festivities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses an unprofitable year for his business; discusses a business proposition made to his brother Charles and Harry and Benton Janney by Uncle Richard, concerning the opening of the store; gives news of Illinois relatives; comments that his Uncle Richard, who just turned 43, may begin to use his middle name again and become Richard H. Lloyd; comments on how, in the past twenty years, the Powell family has spread from \"New York to Salt Lake City, and from the 'Lakes' to the Gulf of Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Uncle Richard, Minna will stop at Fulton County to visit relatives; gives his opinion about Minna not returning to Winchester Va. for school, stating that she has become too undisciplined and used to complete freedom in Illinois to be effectively taught in a school; describes Frank's son Horatio Nelson; comments on the family's health, saying that his father Charles L. Powell weights twenty pounds more than he does and his mother Selina L. Powell weighs only six pounds less, and also weighs more than any of her three brothers in Illinois; asks her if she is finished school and will make her debut.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Charley (Charles) L. Powell, Jr., Harry and Benton Janney have begun their business named \"H and TB Janney and Co.\" Asks about the boarding school and discusses the difficulties of running one; reports that Frank's family and Mrs. Hammond? are on their way to Memphis to live; reports that Uncle Fred is planning an extended visit to Virginia, and then will probably move to Memphis; says he and Uncle Richard dissolved their partnership and that Uncle Richard plans to move to Memphis as well; reports that crops are poor, so his business will be slow; plans to see them for Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that there is a County Fair next week; describes in detail an incident of a burning well; expresses sorrow that the family school will be so small this year; reports that the 'W. S. Fair' in Chicago is now over.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discussing fall and winter goods being stocked at \"Lloyd's Big Brick\" in Henry, Illinois\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efamily news; mentions marriage of Miss Hutchins, and deaths of 2 children of Mrs. Clara Ferguson; received invitation to wedding of \"Miss Mittie;\" gives his opinion of marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA French teacher at the boarding school died; mentions excitement due to 'John' Browne's execution and that there are 26 companies of soldiers at Charlestown, West Virginia; mentions growing discontent of slaves; describes how men have loaded pistols ready in their homes; tells how many people are being imprisoned; tells of other strains between North and South; some family news; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Uncle Richard's baby has been christened Elizabeth Jenkins Lloyd; comments that this is the day that John Brown is to be executed; comments on the number of arrests in Virginia of strangers traveling through the state. Including newspaper clipping, n.d., of a poem about infants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Professors Wise and LaMountain's attempt to establish daily balloon transportation from the \"Western\" states to the East Coast; family news; says he is anxious for the family in Illinois to move south; mentions the execution of \"Cook and his Confederates\" involved in John Brown's attempted insurrection on December 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to a \"Leap Year\" party.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions and encloses invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party; describes events at the party; describes weather and reports of a sleighing party; reports marriage of Mary Ann Hoyt, friend of the family. Including note from Maggie J. Richmond, Henry, Illinois, to Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, 1860 February, inviting him to a \"Leap Year\" party.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks about Uncle Richard's? baby girl; gives report of Charles L. Powell and some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses \"spring fever\" concerning work; describes weather; speaks of Uncle Nelson's Lloyd death and how it should be a happy time; thanks his father for \"Alexandria Gazettes\" containing articles about the Whig convention; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites about her feelings during the time following her brother Nelson's death; recounts the last days she spent with Nelson Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks about assessed value of some land or property and makes reference to Lloyd Brothers and Co.; speaks of crops and the effects of the weather; mentions how road being finished would provide trade with those on the other side of the river; township will vote on how to acquire additional funds to complete the road; mentions the whig convention and how they now represent such a small minority of people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks of spring dresses and bonnets; mentions hearing address by William McDonald; discusses opening of a shoe and book manufactory; speaks of beating \"the 'Yankees' with their own men;\" family news; religious advice; mentions use of telegraph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses agriculture and effects of weather on crops; talks of visiting New England and of dislike of their attitudes; expresses extreme negative opinion of 'Yankees.'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; mentions work at the store; discusses events around town. Including poem? written in Latin on both sides of envelope. Locks of hair also enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses crops and agriculture; describes Illinois scenery; family news; inquires about trip to Capron Springs; mentions \"Uncle Richard's\" card selling tour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Congressional race; mentions Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky and his visit to Illinois; talks about rise in crime; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses confusion about having joined the church; religious discussion; some family and neighborhood news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about trip to New England; mentions \"Alexandria Sentinel;\" family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses climate and busy season of Christmas; debates issue of Civil War and effects; gives religious advice; family news; Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses problems due to political and financial situation of the country; talks about boils on his hand; family news; mentions kindness of Mayor Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNina's eighteenth birthday; discusses the weather; talks about sleighing and skating; mentions \"Pickwick Papers\" and describes hunting interest; makes reference to several literary works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks of trade being slow; election of a Mr. McFadden as \"Justice of the Peace\"; mentions sleighing and the weather; describes hayride in snow and people he went with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his indebtedness to his father and his financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses political situation and \"imminent danger of Civil War\"; comments on government involvement and troops in a war; mentions social life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses the imminent war and that it will be the third one in her lifetime; talks about effects of a war from past experience; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from \"grandmother\" Catharine Powell, Bellevue, Va.?, to Rebecca Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 January 20, inquiring about being able to paint for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his dog and its habits and actions; talks about a fight at a warehouse; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses pros, cons, and possibilities of a war; talks about being able to cross North/South Line if he comes to Virginia; describes weather; mentions indoor winter activities; refers to marriage and courting habits; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBriefly discusses the Navy; describes wedding of Nellie Hall and a Mr. Kellogg; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation concerning troop movements around Harper's Ferry; mentions a Col. Bowen, superintendent Barbour, and a Col. Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses explosion of armory at Harper's Ferry; speaks of united Southern forces; mentions involvement of friends including Powell Grady; Powell and Holmes Conrad; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuffering from inflammation of eyes; discusses possibility of Illinois and Virginia residents being separated during the war; Virginia's succession from the Union; Democrats opposition to the war with the South; talks about surrender of Fort Sumter; confusion about whether to leave or stay in Henry; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Colonel Robert Lee and movement of troops; mentions Georgetown Heights, Alexandria Heights, and the Valley counties; some family news; mentions Rockingham Rifles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlockade established at the mouth of the Ohio; Southern trade suspended; some family news; inquires about situation in Virginia concerning the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a proclamation of Lincoln; politics and effects of the Civil War; dominance of Lincoln's party in Louisville, Kentucky; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders to stop mail from Virginia.; Alexandria occupied by North; Fairfax cavalry taken prisoner; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar's effects on postal service; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for package of food and lists contents; speaks of newspaper Richmond Dispatch as a rare luxury; describes camp life; enemy is at Williamsport, Md.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses camp life and its required adjustment; mentions accidental shooting of two men as their only pessimistic experience so far; gives account of battles reported in the Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun; majority of men in army are under 21; describes how soldiers try to get food from surrounding farmers and their families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses uniforms, saying that they are everywhere, and that a \"John Brown\" has increased the \"military spirit\" in Virginia; asks about Lloyd; discusses books he has read and that she recommends; describes their daily schedule and when she has time to read; discusses food in season; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepares for battle; states that he is ready to do his duty for his country; mentions that the Continentals lost two men in the engagement the day before.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he cannot keep their date for the afternoon due to Army business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions her husband's attack of dysentery; family news; gives news of friends and family; hopes war will soon be over so that the family can all be together; expresses religious feelings; wishes that they could write more freely; tells him to send his letters to E. J. Lee in Maryland who will forward them South to them. Including note, from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Winchester, Virginia, to \"Charlie,\" Charles L. Powell, Jr., , relating more family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for specific items of clothing to be sent because he does not know when he can return home; refers to Haresack? and asks that she make him a smaller one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes description of L. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of how Lloyd Powell was shot in battle of Manassas; details of his personal characteristics and attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses sympathy in regard to Lloyd Powell's death; offers comforting words from the Bible. Including letter, from Sue P. Lee, Lexington, Va. to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 29, offering condolences on the death of her brother, Lloyd Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Nina for her letter of sympathy concerning the death of her mother; gives news of her brothers and sisters; says that she has terminated her relations with cousin R.? because she could not marry a first cousin; discusses their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains of poor postal service; tells him of Lloyd Powell's death; remembers about Lloyd's characteristics and qualities; says that typhoid fever is spreading in the town; talks about her servants; family news; reports of Willie Lee Chilton's death, a second cousin; expresses religious view.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letter to her; proposes marriage to her and her guardian and asks for a reply.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned also by J. R. Bowen, Justice of the Peace, stating that Charles L. Powell, Jr. has taken necessary oaths to become Deputy Marshal. . Including on verso, document, from Brigadier General James H. Carson, 1861 October 24, Charles L. Powell, Jr. permission to cross back and forth over enemy lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for package she sent him; describes his situation and effects of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for cap she sent him; his company is located at the \"Big Spring\" near Mr. Gray's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that 'Yankees' were in Shepherdstown, WVa. a few nights ago; family news; sends condolences on loss of her brother Lloyd Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSympathizes upon loss of Nina's brother, Lloyd Powell; relates her story of when her father died; expresses indebtedness to Nina's mother Selina (Lloyd) Powell; mentions sickness prevalent in Winchester, Va.; discusses her brother's Bob Lucas experiences as a soldier; Charles L. Powell, Sr., has accepted position in Richmond; news of spending summer at Col. LaRue's in Clarke to escape the Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for a cap she made and sent to him; expecting to go to camp soon; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of explosion that a Mr. Hubard caused trying to perfect something like \"Greek fire\" to sell to the government, similar to a powder to use in shells; describes condition of Mr. Hubard, his subsequent operations and death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wanted to give her news from Winchester, Virginia, but \"the spy\" had to burn his information for fear it would fall into enemy hands; tells stories of houses being searched by soldiers; news of friends and relatives; decorated with \"Confederate States of America\" seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrying to catch up with Stonewall Jackson's troops; describes camp life and strategy concerning the Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePossibility of 'Yankees' taking Richmond; discusses importance of trust in God during battles; inquires about Robert Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral information on troop movements; mentions Battle of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes being a member of Jackson's Army; mentions \"Rockbridge Artillery\" being full; family news. Decorated with \"Liberty and Union\" seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStonewall Jackson captured two entire enemy regiments; enemy took part of Central Railroad; troop movements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; disappointment about not being able to be with Stonewall Jackson in his last fight.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the family's living arrangements; thanks her for finding a home for her to stay in, but feels it would be less imposing if she stayed where Nina is teaching in Prince Edward County; hopes that they can all live together soon; rejoices over Jackson's victory in retaking the \"old town\"; says that the Garlands have been very kind during her stay with them; discusses her traveling plans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of friends, Willie Gray and Marshall Barton; death of various others in war including Turner Asby; talks of having made herself a sun-bonnet; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of getting a job as a clerk in Major Vaun's office; information about Stonewall Jackson's victories; reports Colonel Ashby's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReviews routine activities; much family and friend news; discusses Stonewall Jackson's troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Everyone feeling ill and weighing less; family news; possible fighting in Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson is at Hanover Junction, Va.; problem with fleas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot get into the Rockbridge Artillery; she is staying with a Col. and Mrs. Tucker; battle of Richmond has begun; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fighting around Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson's Army arrived to help; describes strategies and events of war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails about progress of the war; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Personal experience in Army. Including newspaper clipping of a poem by John. R. Thompson, entitled \"Ashby\" from a Richmond, Virginia newspaper dated 1862 June 13 , about the war.Verso is Rebecca Powell to Selina (Lloyd) Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Makes reference to Stonewall Jackson's army and his efforts in Richmond, Virginia; relates events of war and involvement of friends and relatives; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses people she knows who have been wounded or killed in the war; refers to battles at Richmond and Chickahominy, Va.; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses disappointment that her parents didn't get to visit her; complains of \"M's\" temper; gives list of supplies that she has purchased or ordered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreparing to go to Gordonsville to join Braxton's Battery; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas joined Braxton's artillery; give details of battles and accounts of those wounded and killed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes battle between his battery and the 'Yankees;' describes Captain Braxton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has jaundice; personal account of stay in Richmond; discusses salary; accounts of the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles L. Powell, Jr. was killed; added to letter later her husband is still yellow with jaundice; saw the President Davis and his wife; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplains events of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death near Warrenton Springs, Va.; includes sketch of battlegrounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTown gossip; tells story of a Dr. Conrad's arrest and ordeal; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks of our troops making it into Maryland; family news; prevalence of typhoid fever; discusses Southern attitudes about the Civil War, and Northerners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious account and explanation of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms her of \"Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. death; encloses a copy of Capt. Carter M. Braxton's report of the events leading to Charles L. Powell's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers sympathy for the loss of his son, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes the death of their sister Ellen Powell Gray; reports on the welfare of Ellen's family - Mr. William Gray, Kate and Arthur; news of family. Including letter from \"Mother\" Selina L. Powell, to Hattie Powell. Discusses the state of their belongings in their former house in Winchester and what will be sold through cousin Sarah Powell Conrad; says if they do not intend to return, then it should all be sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for her sympathy upon death of Rebecca's brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; expresses religious views; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResponds to news of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death; family news; reports on her own health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes description of Charles L. Powell and the battle. (Newspaper clipping.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lots of family and town news; mentions that army is located near her in Winchester, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her daily routine schedule; involved in knitting for the soldiers; doesn't seem to think 'Yankees' will approach Richmond, Va.; remembers her son \"Charley\" Charles L. Powell, Jr. often.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their friendship and situation of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sympathy for the death of her brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes in detail the death of her mother, Ellen Powell Gray and reveals her feelings concerning it; gives news of their Powell relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses daily routine; problem with typhoid fever; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on incidents of typhoid fever; family news; discusses her minister and baptism of a baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes circumstances of her daughter Annie's sickness and death; offers sympathy for death of Charles L. Powell, Jr.; family news; including recital of Fenella's funeral rites; \"Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust...\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses business matters in Winchester that she is taking care of for Charles L. Powell; discusses the ear and the situation in Winchester; sends him some books, stating that the 'Yankees' carried off the rest of them; reports of a proposed armistice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes sickness causing a delirious state for a few days; family news; knitting as a popular pastime; discusses weather; 'Yankees' still have Gloucester Point as a fort; soldiers suffering from \"rot\" that kills them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses John Milton's works; family news; Longstreet's Corps has occupied many points near Culpeper Court House. 2 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va. to \"sister\" either Hattie or Rebecca Powell, , 1862 November 5, reporting family news. Also including note from Selina Powell,Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va.. Expresses grief over Annie Lee's death; asks about Robert E. Lee; prevalence of typhoid fever; describes weather and landscape; 'Yankees' did not disturb Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s grave; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this letter with a letter from Hunter, her brother; comments that Hattie has now been gone from Winchester eight months; says life is fine when Confederate soldiers are in Winchester, but that it is miserable when the 'Yankees' come; says General Jackson has visited them and has his headquarters on the road to Front Royal; says he gave her his photograph and he will send a copy; writes that they are working very hard because the few servants in town are cooking for the soldiers; lists people who will leave town if the 'Yankees' return; says Cousin Betty looks unwell because she works so hard in the hospitals ; writes that they only have 500 sick beds in the hospitals; mentions the destruction by 'Yankees' in other counties; fears they will soon suffer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends thanks for present he received because it will be useful during the winter; expresses desire for peace in the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses concern that the Southern army is suffering from a lack of clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her feelings of loneliness, as she lives among strangers; expresses other worries of disease and of the war; discusses problems with diphtheria in the neighborhood; comments on the shortage of men in the neighborhood, in particular healthy, attractive ones; discusses the hardships of Uncle Prosser and Aunt ReBecca whose former servants burnt much of their property; news of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the condition of Charles L. Powell's estate and what business has been transacted; lists what articles from their home have been sold, commenting that most people in Winchester are not buying things because they are leaving to journey \"up the Valley\"; reports that 4000 men are guarding Winchester, that some tobacco has been burned, and that preparation for evacuation is underway; describes 'Yankee' attacks in Charlestown; comments on the effect of the fear of attack on everyone in the town; gives news of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on problems with influenza; refers to a Capt. Duff and his defense of Leesburg, Virginia; gives news of town since troops have arrived; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes references to the Clarke Cavalry and a Capt. Carter; possessions have been pillaged and towns have been ruined; has to quit farming because of war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Nina a Happy Birthday; refers to God and asks to enter his Kingdom; mentions a friend who died from diphtheria; discusses Stonewall Jackson's opposition to the enemy at Port Royal, Va.; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses everyone's fear of diphtheria; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes references to Gen. Robert E. Lee's victories; lots of family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses the difficulty of losing so many brave men in the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReminisces about their last Christmas together; discusses the slaves and their ability to be dangerous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses desire for peace and to return to Winchester, Virginia; much town and family news; sorry they can't spend Christmas together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe has been ill with a cough and cold; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a John Tabb; tells activities of Kate Gordon who is staying with them; mentions a bombazine fine twilled silk fabric; people looking for teaching positions; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems with smallpox; family news; mentions Judge Lee's ? suicide. .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer husband, Charles L. Powell, Sr., is still looking for a teaching job; recommends reading as a worthwhile hobby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how her family spent Christmas; thanks her for the cap she made for her brother Rob; discusses the sadness of Hattie's Christmas; discusses friendship; reports that she heard from Mary ? who is living behind Union lines in King George.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a Col. Tucker?; talks about her personal health; refers to the \"conscript act\"; gives impressions of deaths resulting from the Civil War and ideas of a forthcoming peace; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; refers to robbery of all servants; tells stories of confrontations with the enemy and experiences while at war; discusses food he has to eat; mentions has heard news of Grandma's death; mentions William Edmonson Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efamily news; discusses her pay for tutoring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions their father's new employment in Greenville; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; describes some of daily activities.Including N. C. E.?, to Nina Powell, , post 1863 March 13 giving neighborhood news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on Cavalry's victory in Culpeper, Va.; describes poverty situation in Winchester, Virginia, as result of Civil War; discusses situations in Romney, West Virginia; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives information on job prospects; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFound a teaching job in Powhatan; describes location and plans to build a house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on his activities in the Army; refers to \"the Picketts;\" tells of damage and destruction in Winchester, Va., as a result of 'Yankee' invasion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on experiences in Army; expresses sadness that young men can't receive education during the war; family news; states that Tip? Powell and Frank Grady were captured in Loudoun, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses clothes; family news; says they will visit Shirley Plantation soon; says Mary? must remain within the Union lines because the only way to leave is to walk eighteen miles at night, carrying baggage; mentions Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Custis Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions interest in soldiers, especially the South Carolina gentlemen; talks about sources of entertainment; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his house and surroundings; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions \"taking bitters (a tea) made of sarsaparilla root\" for strength and to purify her blood; expresses hopes for war to soon be over; 'Yankees' now have Fauquier under their control; family news; refers to receiving news through the Enquirer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses when the family members will see each other; gives news of Powell relatives at Locust Hill; says that goods cannot be sent to them from Locust Hill Leesburg, Virginia because of a blockade; inquires about the fighting in Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks about General Stuart's decision to review his Division; refers to great loss at Battle of Chancellorsville in the death of General \"Stonewall\" Jackson; describes events of war near Rowlesburg, WVa.; comments on his troops various attacks on different Railroads; gives details about other battles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; comments on how quickly her chickens are dying.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses fighting in the Civil War and loss of servants; family news and sick and wounded from Battle of Gettysburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on war, pestilence and famine; discusses the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that Nina Powell has been recommended to him to take care of his children as well as tutoring them; requests response to his offer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses pillaging by the Union troops; comments on men who have given their lives for the southern cause; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on scarcity of various staples; offers her $300 to come and teach his children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses \"keeping house\" and how much it costs to do so; family news; comments on the Battle of Manassas.Including note from ?, , to Hatty sic Powell, , undated, discussing delivery of enclosed note to Custis Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttempts to appease Nina's apprehensions about coming to Hanover County if the enemy is there; wants her to begin working the first of October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffer to substitute himself for William Henry Fitzhugh Lee as a Northern prisoner of War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; questions Nina about her \"beaux\" and his courting ways; discusses education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to burning her previous letter in case of a fight whence it could become public; relates news of troops; family news; discusses fight from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan Rivers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; states that a man named Taylor Johns has fallen in love with Nina Powell; discusses situation at the Stringfellow's, where Nina now lives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses in detail his new teaching position; family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives cotton prices as $3.75 a yard; discusses Battle at Manassas; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on her husband's new position in Albemarle; family news; mentions some events in reference to the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she saw her father Charles L. Powell, Sr. on his way to move into Cousin R's?; describes her trip to Charlottesville; expresses satisfaction that her mother is able to stay with Uncle Fred and Lute; reports she has eleven scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses her job as a teacher; discusses \"preserving with molasses\"; expresses anger and confusion about Nina's beaux David ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his teaching position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives opinion on attitudes of young people; family news; expresses interest in religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses plans for Christmas, including costs involved and where they can stay; discusses death of Cousin? Temple Grady and its effect on other relatives; discusses teaching and their role in the war effort.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee; and General Longstreet; discusses cotton and its discount price of $18 a bale; comments on young gentlemen who have come to visit her; other town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Hattie for her kind gift of a Bible; gives details of present experience as a soldier in the Civil War; expresses sadness for those who died in the battle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a Carrie Hobson's death resulting from a \"perforation of the bowels\" (typhoid fever); family and town news; mentions Temple Grady's brother of C. Powell Grady? death; refers to having some corsets made.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses concern about \"national affairs;\" discusses religious point of view.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses General Bragg and his great ability as a leader.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; states that he met Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War and they discussed Judah Benjamin; gives some views of what is happening with the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions General Longstreet's retreat from Knoxville, Tenn.; comments on giving Nina some linen for \"sleeves or sleeve bands;\" family news; discusses harvesting of crops; comments on threats that \"Yanks\" are making.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses insufficiency of cotton crops; mentions that her son is on a war vessel, in the ocean, \"larger than the Florida and the Alabama.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to travel by carriage; discusses mailing \"bleached cotton;\" family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions story where 'Yankees' come into towns and arrest Southerners; refers to daguerreotypes; writes a poem/prayer to God about grief he and others have experienced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Nina a Merry Christmas since she (Nina) will be together with her parents; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the inclement weather; states that she had butter and tea for celebration on Christmas morning; gives price of calico as $ 6 per yard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on her friends spending New Year's Eve at the President's; mentions walking to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; family news; refers to cotton vs. bleached cotton; discusses typhoid fever; comments on subject of religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses hopes for an end to the Civil War; mentions a book, \"Home Influency\" that deals with raising children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions losing her heart to a Lieutenant Blackford; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions having forgotten Nina's birthday and becoming more absent minded; states that demonstrating affection in public is not good practice; gives advice and opinion on men and courting; has put \"vie dollars in gold and $25 in Virginia. Bank notes\"; and discusses school teaching; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been suffering from sickness similar to typhoid fever; mentions that many servants have the measles; states that the key to her watch is worn out and she cannot wind it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers advice about teaching; has seen John C. Pemberton; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her illness typhoid fever?; describes her Christmas diversions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on how he misses having the women in his family at home; family news; discuses some aspects of the Civil War; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses hope that the Civil War will soon end; expresses grief of her Mother's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses concern about Hattie Powell's sickness; family news and town gossip; mentions some of the types of food they've been eating; talks about \"yanks\" and their disruptiveness; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Nina advice on how to terminate her engagement with John Dupuy; writes of the death of Hunter McGuire's sister, May; says she now has twelve scholars; news of family and friends; discusses books and mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she has been busy knitting gloves, sewing, teaching, nursing, and being sick; says she is nearly \"well and fat\" again; says that her hair has not started to come back yet, but that when it does, she has been told to shave it; asks who Nina's friend Lizzie is; describes people she has met; reports where troops are; discusses ways she is trying to get cotton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises Minnie not to be grieved about their mother's death; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle in which Jefferson Davis praises the Confederate soldiers for their \"devotion and self-sacrifice,\" and assures them of their capabilities against the declining enemy; also includes a commentary about Davis' speech, stating that the present spirit of the South has never been paralleled in history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates Nina on her engagement to John J. Dupuy; discusses their friendship; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a girl's death from diphtheria; refers to traveling by train; discusses blockade of the Potomac River; comments on greenbacks and their value; refers to the 'Yankee Congress;' general Civil War news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives consent for him to marry Nina after listing the pros and cons of the situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTown news and family news; refers to knitting as a past time; states that her hair has not begun to \"come out yet\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her new beau; much family and town news; refers to events of the Civil War and the Powhatan troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that her employer, Mrs. Stringfellow, has offered to allow her two weeks for Easter; asks permission to come home; gives detailed plans on how she could get there cheaply; says the \"troops\" will return before Easter; asks if her father is coming home for the holiday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses selection of a minister; comments on her knitting for the soldiers; town gossip and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses sale of a draft on New York for $625.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for gloves she knitted and set to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on her sister's problem with inflammatory rheumatism; much town and family news; tells stories of soldiers who have returned home; comments on lack of patriotism in the country; mentions readying.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of a shopping trip she took to Charlottesville, and the people she saw; describes a visit to see their father at Cousin R. Nowland's; discusses the new tax law, the \"panic,\" and the new monetary issue; news of friends and family; mentions reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes reference to needing a straw-splitter; discusses financial situation; comments on Nina's engagement to \"Brother John\" Dupuy?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions interruption of communications due to Yankee Raid; states that he sat near Gen. Robert E. Lee and Mr. Edmund Lee on a train car and talked with them; describes conversation; discusses the events of the Civil Warincluding Lee's near capture by Custis' divisionary raid through Albemarle County, during the Kilpatrick - Dahlgren Raid on Richmond; mentions Holmes Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch town news; discusses 'Yankees' and their progression; comments on her attempts to hide her silver on her body in order to keep it from the Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses religious views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses events of the Civil War; including raid by Custis on Albemarle; mentions Holmes Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the weather; much town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays her Easter plans have been cancelled because of the snow storm; mentions how close she (Nina) has been to the Union troops; says she feels much better and now weights 114 pounds; reports on fatal measles in the area; reports on how she has spent her time with Captain Morgan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends her a letter from Kate?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses buying and selling cotton; comments on college opportunities; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news and town gossip; comments on gold lace on the coats of those who make rank of Captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; refers to Nina's grandmother's Anne Harriotte (Lee) Lloyd death; discusses 'Yankees' and their progress; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on reading as a pastime and mentions ? Cooper's novels; family news; refers to 'Yankees' taking hostages; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her daily schedule; reports how their Aunt Jeanie Lloyd and Aunt ReBecca are doing in relation to the war; describes social visits; mentions an Aunt Nannie; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses weather and its effects on gardens and crops; comments on 'Yankees' and news about the Civil War; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; comments on news of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives detailed description of fighting near Beaver Dam, Va., as told to her by some of the soldiers; mentions visit by Gen. Stuart; describes other events of the war from personal point of view.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses struggle on the Rapidan River; tells of other Civil War news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses general battle news; expresses concern about struggle in Hanover County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses events of the war; comments on actions of Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on armies being at Hanover Junction and expresses her concern and fears; refers to burning of Powhatan depot by Union troops. Including note from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Charlotte County, Va., to Nina Powell, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 May 24, correcting some spelling errors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses relief that the 'Yankees' did not come through the area where Nina is; says that her father wants her Nina to leave soon because of the danger; says things are so scarce in Charlotte that there would not be enough to feed her; expresses relief that Nina is not living between the two railroads; says the news they get about the war is encouraging, but she thinks the conflict will be a long one; discusses plans to get the family together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to battle of Vicksburg; tells of other developments of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a cousin, Mrs. Randolph Tucker whose house is at the corner of Grace and Adams street in Richmond; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about Nina's daily schedule and when she says prayers; expresses sorrow that Hattie's teaching position near Nina did not work out; tells her she must be self-reliant; says she is waiting to find out if she can join Mr. Powell; discusses the fashions of hats; sends her respects to Mr. Stringfellow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her social schedule; encourages her to pursue a relationship with Willie Booker; news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecounts all he has been doing for the past two years (has been in charge of a prison).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Nina to change her mind and work for them another year; claims they are safe from the 'Yankees' and that the war will soon be over; praises her teaching of their three girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Union troops' burning of houses in Richmond; gives views on death; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on typhoid fever; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. Mentions not being able to find a nail-brush in the city and forgot India ribbon; comments on 'Yankees' treating people badly; refers to buying lip-glue at Randolph's Book Store; discusses her (Nina's), new house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Mr. Powell's teaching position with the Scott family; says he is trying to find a place near him for her to stay; says there was a Yankee raid near where he is staying; discusses where friends who are soldiers are stationed; mentions families who are looking for wounded soldiers to employ as teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on symptoms of the \"fever\"; expresses religious beliefs concerning deaths resulting from battles; family news and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses teacher's pay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch family and town news; inquires about her new home in Richmond, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses one of Nina's pupils and how Nina should act towards the family that is employing her; mentions arrangements to exchange a pair of shoes; reports on friends and family; reports on \"her Willie,\" and where he is stationed; mentions soldiers for whom she has knitted gloves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the suitability of Mr. Starke's teaching offer for her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChides Nina for not writing her; asks if she is spending all her time with Willie Dupuy, who has a wounded shoulder; reports on what she has done socially; asks her to get some cartridges for her pistol when she buys some for her own gun; says Minna Booker is to be married November fourth; discusses sewing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscription of cross hatch letter by Alison Herring:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBlenheim  October 24th\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSunday morning [1864]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWell my lady-love do you know\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethat it has been almost three weeks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esince the arrival of your last letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto me, and two weeks since I answered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eit, and not a line have I had from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou since, no nor a word from either\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePa or Sis since the 9th of the month.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou all must think I am dead, buried,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand forgotten, at least you quite forget\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethat I get the blues horribly shut up here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein the country when none of you write\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto me. I got a letter from Ma on Friday\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elast the very first letter I had had from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eanyone for 10 days, or from anybody\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebut her for 16.  I have no correspondents this\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyear at all except you all \u0026amp; you ought to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewrite to me often.  And pray miss what are\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou so occupied with that you can't find\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etime to write, friend Markoe or your\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003epoor dear wounded Willie.  I hear through\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ea letter from Aunt Bec to Ma that you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehave spent the day with her, \u0026amp; thro' Mrs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStewart that John Tabb was at church\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewith you and [?] Powell. I suppose\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou have not been so quiet that you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Page 2]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehad nothing to write about and I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eam just disposed to be charitable\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etowards you at all, so if you want to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eget into my good graces you had better\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eset yourself right down \u0026amp; write me\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etwo or three good long letters.  Mother\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewrites me that Willie Dupuy is at\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehome wounded in the shoulder \u0026amp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt Watkins in the hand but neither\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eof them dangerously, however.  I suppose\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou have heard all about them, tis not\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eworth while for me to tell you, and\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI reckon Willie will manage to see\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiss Nina before he returns to the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave you ever heard anything from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Markoe since you went down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein the cars with him, Sis seemed to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethink you are decidedly smitten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWell I suppose as you are so long writing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto me you hardly care to hear what I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehave been doing, so I have a great mind\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003enot to tell you, and in fact I hardly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003equite know where to begin it has been\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eso long but just for my own gratification\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI will try.  Mr. Willis Hobson has three\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouth Carolinians at his house, sent from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethe hospital, they have been there a long\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etime very sick \u0026amp; are just now getting\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewell enough to visit about. One of them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eis a Col Dogan, without exception\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n[Page 3]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nthe rudest, most boisterous, vulgar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eman I ever saw, well yesterday week\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI heard his voice down stairs \u0026amp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eknew he had come to stay all day\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eso I dressed myself, slipped out the\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eback way and went over to old\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Hurt's to spend the day.  I had a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every pleasant day indeed, I found\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eher [?] an exceedingly intelligent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eagreeable girl, I took to her very much\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eindeed \u0026amp; I think she did to me, but\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eshe has just lost her father so the vis-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eiting will have to be all on my side\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efor a while.  When I get back in the even-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eing here was Col D still \u0026amp; he staid until\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWednesday.  Sunday I went down to Eman-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eual and saw Fannie, she was as sweet \u0026amp; Cordi-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eal as ever, she seemed so glad to see me \u0026amp; says\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eshe is coming up for me soon some Fri-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday evening.  Monday night Mr. [Reich?] a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarylander belonging to the 3rd Cavalry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003estaid here all night.  I found him a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every agreeable gentleman I forgot to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esay that Sunday while we were at din-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ener Mrs. W. Hobson came over \u0026amp; brought\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eher Cousin young Bolling, son of Mr. Robert\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBolling of Fauquier, and brother of Hunter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Page 4]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuires old friend of Philadelphia Dr. B\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand Mr. Venning one of the S.C. especial-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ely to see me and I enjoyed their visit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every much indeed.  Mr. Bolling is only\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 but he is six feet tall very handsome\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand very agreeable.  Mr. V sings very well\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand is a quiet gentlemanly widower but\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003enothing remarkable.  Tuesday evening Mrs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH sent a horse for me \u0026amp; I went over there \u0026amp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003estaid all night, and then saw the third\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.C. a Dr. Waring a married man, and\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eone of the most accomplished elegant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003egentlemen I have ever met with. I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecame home on horseback Wednesday morning\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein time for school \u0026amp; when I came out of school\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efound Cousin John here.  He says if it is good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eweather next Friday he is coming up to take\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eme down to his house to stay until Sun-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday where I will come home with the Dr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efrom church.  Thursday all the gentlemen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efrom Mr. H's spent the day here, and Fri-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday Mr. B left this county, but he is a paroled\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eprisoner and if he is not exchanged soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewill come back.  Friday evening Mrs. H \u0026amp; my-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eself walked over to Mrs. Goodmans one of \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eour nearest neighbors \u0026amp; I paid my first\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003evisit there, and her son who went down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein the cars the day you did with Bell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStewart, walked home with me.  He is a plain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehonest, good, solider, but not over burdened\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[sideways on page 1]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewith intellect.  He says he is coming over to see me this week\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand going to bring his pistol for me to practice shooting with\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebut I doubt whether he does. By the way have you ever been able\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto get cartridges for your pistol, if you have I wish you would\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eget some for me, \u0026amp; if you haven't get John Tabb to look for some\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efor you \u0026amp; me too, I have only two \u0026amp; I want some very much.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnd now, I come to the very purpose for which my let-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eter is written which is to tell you that Dr. Hobson is going\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto Richmond this week, probably on Tuesday, the same day\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethis letter will go, but I shall send this by mail, as there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewill be a chance of your getting it sooner, \u0026amp; I shall send\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou by him the handkerchief, collar, \u0026amp; [shirt sleeves?] for your\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esilk dress \u0026amp; a little of my perfume but it did not turn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eout well, it will I think do to put in hair oil but that is all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n[sideways across page 2]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Dr. will stay at Mr. Stewart for about two days I reckon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eso if you have gotten cartridges \u0026amp; have a chance I wish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou would send me some by him.  Have you made your\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ealpaca dress yet \u0026amp; how did you make it particularly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethe sleeves. I have not picked mine yet nor considered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewhat to do with it, but Minna Booker is to be married the\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4th of next month \u0026amp; I think I must make it by that\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etime. I had a present sent me the other day of 3 yds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eof unbleached cotton to make a chemise.  I have done\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003enothing lately except patch a few old clothes \u0026amp; knit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eon my [opra?] stockings for next summer in fact\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have nothing to do.  Well I believe I have exhaust-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eed myself of my subjects too so I will stop, but\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003emind I expect two letters in answer to this. I am\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every anxious to know what Mother will do, and\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003erather hope she will go to Albemarle, tho' I should\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elike her to be near you, or I think we could go to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esee her there.  Write soon to your own loving\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSister Hattie\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMonday.  Dr. H's is so unwell today he thinks he will not\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebe able to go to Richmond this week and don't know when\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehe will go so I shall not be able to send your things yet. I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003egot an invitation yesterday to Minna's wedding next Thurs-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday week.  I am much inclined to go, if the Dr. Don't for-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebid which he seems to be inclined to do. Mrs. H is very anx-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n[Sideways on page 3]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nious that I should go.  If I go I shall want my new\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003edress \u0026amp; shall have to set to work immediately to make\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eit, so if you have a new dress pattern, send it to me by\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003email at once, I can get a pattern of the yoke come-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eing [waist?], Mag Harris has it.  Yours truly,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH.L.P.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains about difficulties in the teaching profession; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her situation at the Garrett's, teaching Lizzie and others; emphasizes the importance of letter writing now that they are apart; discusses Mr. Irving's? failing health; says Lizzie has diphtheria; describes social events; discusses Nina's problems with teaching Blanche; reports on friends who have been wounded or killed in the war; asks bout Cousin Mary Lee and Cousin Emily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that her brother Rob has been wounded and may have to have his leg amputated; says her brother Jimmie is in Charleston where there is much yellow fever; says they work all day without rest; more family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on how Nina should manage one of her pupils; reports on what she is doing; discusses clothes; mentions Minna's wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives reasons why she hasn't written of late; describes her brother's episode of being shot in the hand and its effects; comments on number of men that are off at war and says that those who remain are \"quaking\"; family news; expresses hope that God will get them through \"these difficulties.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her social activities; discusses balancing work and pleasure; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about her \"new home\" in Richmond and her \"new occupation\" with Mrs. Paleski; describes Minna's wedding; says the weather was so bad that no one could go home, so the reception lasted all night; reports what she has done socially; describes in detail a dress she just made.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that Nina and their mother can live close to each other; reports on her social activities; discusses plans for Christmas; mentions how well the Confederate Cavalry is doing; discusses friends that are soldiers, and which of them she has knitted gloves for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a preacher, Mr. McGill, who is visiting; describes social events; discusses clothes she is making; questions Junius Powell's decision to go to Bermuda instead of joining the army; mentions Harry Harrison Mrs. Huge's brother who came home after a prisoner at Fort Delaware. .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how her home was destroyed; details experiences with the Yankees; comments on incarceration of many Southerners in northern prisons and their suffering; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip to Charlottesville and the people she visited, including cousin Gert; mentions Sally's? death; says she must soon accept an offer for teaching from Mr. Frank Cabell; discusses depreciation of money; mentions a cousin Ann and a cousin Laura; reports that Tip Powell was taken prisoner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the bad weather and muddy roads, says she has not heard from Custis Lee, for whom she made gloves; discusses clothes and Christmas plans; tells Nina to \"change her dress\" whenever she desires, since she will always mourn inside; says she and Rebecca will change theirs in the spring; discusses the problems Winchester is having with the Yankees; mentions Minna's wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a prospective teaching job for her and his plan for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; begs her to spend Christmas with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses happiness that her mother and father will finally be able to live together again; comments on Nina Powell's loss of hair; refers to suffering Loudoun County, due to Yankees; family news; describes how a friend spends time trying to find hiding places for her possessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a \"homespun\" dress that she has; family news; describes weather; tells her to go to a Christmas get-together where she can met many people, including Robert E. Lee, Custis Lee, and perhaps \"our beloved President\" Jefferson Davis; later mentions rumors that President Davis may be dead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions pastime crocheting a cap; comments on delay of mail; discusses ordering some supplies from her sister; refers to troop movement on \"the Danville road\"; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes social activities; urges Nina to spend Christmas in Richmond with Cousin Emily; discusses cotton and where to buy it. Including fragment of letter from \"cousin\" Laurence B. Taylor, to ?, , undated, stating that he hopes they will see much of each other in Albemarle County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the difficulties of sending mail; inquires about their mother's health; news of friends and the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the gauntlets, testament, and book of psalms that she sent him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what she did during Christmas holidays; discusses her job as a teacher as well as who and what subjects she teaches; family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on Robert E. Lee's thoughts that the South is in danger; discusses her knitting and whom she has made gloves for; states how she doesn't understand men; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the possibility of Nina being engaged to Willie Dupuy; says she would like to know him better before she can consent; would like for her to make the final decision herself; says their engagement would last indefinitely because they are both poor and Willie was \"disabled\" from the war; asks her to consider these issues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Responds to her requesting permission to be engaged to Mr. William Dupuy?; gives feelings about entire situation; refers to evacuation of Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; asks her to send her stamps and black glazed cotton and to look for strawsplitters; describes episode of being thrown from horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how busy she is making gloves; mentions Nina's engagement/involvement with a \"brave, Christian soldier.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses possibility of Nina moving to Norwood if Richmond is given up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efamily news; discusses the bond between two who love each other.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses happiness about Nina's now official engagement to Mr. William Dupuy; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHattie Powell, Blenheim, Albemarle County, Va., to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on how to express feelings of love to her fiance, in her correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her advice about her situation with Mr. Dupuy; tells her to make up her own mind and to be sure of his character and their love; advises that if she is certain that she wants to be engaged to him, then not to hold back her feelings and to show her trust; gives more advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; expresses her approval of William Dupuy as Nina's fiance. 4 pages. letter signed. Includes copy of letter, 1865 February 10 from William Dupuy to \"Sir\" Charles L. Powell, Sr., , discussing his and Nina's relationship and betrothal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advise on Nina's relationship with a young man Willie Dupuy; says that if they ever get married they would always be poor; discusses what he will want in a wife; discusses Nina's fear that her ways are not elegant enough for him because he was brought up in higher society; reveals her philosophy on how to act in society, how to view oneself, and how to act towards men to keep them interested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on attempts to regain some of their family possessions; discusses the break-up of Nina Powell's engagement; mentions Hattie Powell's arrival in Goochland, Va., family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Nina's problem with an employer, Mrs. Powell, and suggests other families she could work for; says she can spend $ 350 on material for summer clothing; discusses the plight of the South; reveals her feelings about Nina's engagement; describes a visit to Norwood where her parents are working for Mr. Cabell; reports that cousin Lizzie Powell, fourth daughter of Uncle Llew, is to be married; news of family and friends; mentions teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses materials for sewing dresses; expresses her anger at how Mrs. Powell (an employer) treated Nina; discusses her neighbors where she is teaching, saying none are suitable for Nina to live with and teach for; gives news of friends and family; says they have a soldier staying there; mentions teaching. Including newspaper clipping advertising for teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for presents she sent him; expresses hope of seeing her again soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; discusses Union troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Mr. Philip Cabell is stopping by \"Bremo\" on his way to Richmond, so she is taking this opportunity to send a letter; discusses opportunities for her to work with other families and how she should set this up; wishes she could come to see them but says it is impossible because the canal is \"broken up,\" the roads are bad, and the 'Yankees' destroyed the carriage; hopes that she is comfortable at General Cocke's; hopes that he doesn't mind her being there since he is a wealthy man. Letter is continued on a small slip of paper - advises on the different uses of \"shall\" and \"will\" in writing letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses relief that she is safe after traveling through dangerous area; says that their parents had some trouble when traveling, and that they lost some clothes; discusses an offer to teach in Keysville, Charlotte County; reports battle action in the area; asks what she thinks about her giving her silver cup to \"the government;\" mentions the death of their aunt Ann's baby, Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions sending carpet bags to her parents filled with necessary items she could spare; comments on 'Yankees' being on southside of the James River, Va. and dreading a raid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend the key to her bonnet box; mentions a cousin Kate Noland and an Aunt Bettie Conrad; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses surrender of Confederates in detail; expresses religious beliefs about result of the Civil War; describes battle in Richmond, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on prohibition from traveling North; mentions recognition by France and the French position; gives religious opinions; describes some of the remnants left by 'Yankees.'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports news of post-war events since Hattie receives no news in the country; expresses the sentiments and anxieties of those in an occupied city, discusses Robert E. Lee and his sons; reports rumors about Booth, Jefferson Davis, and the surrender of the army of Joseph E. Johnston to William T. Sherman; discusses the sacrifices of the last four years and where it has led.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the people with whom she is staying; expresses joy that she feels comfortable in Richmond; says she hears rumors about whether Richmond will be given up or not; tells her to come to them if there is any danger; news about friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a battle at Fort Jackson that she was able to witness from her cousin's house; says Hunter ? is the medical doctor of Ewell's Corps; mentions lack of provisions; says she had to work very hard last winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to \"free negroes\" and the fall of Richmond; tells stories of robbers in various neighborhoods; discusses difficulty to have faith in God where there is so much suffering; also refers to bands of \"negro robbers\" and describes their actions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; expresses sorrow and grief about living through these times.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; comments on problems with servants; refers to death of Lincoln and memorial service for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Mr. Cabell bought a horse from a Mississippi soldier; reports that a Yankee soldier came to the house asking for brandy; says that she and Fan ? are closing school for the summer; says she will soon come to Norwood to visit them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses health, says she has rheumatism; says they will stay in Richmond until July; tells their options of where to go; considers the cost of the Civil War; discusses the condition of President Davis, prisoner at Fort Monroe; says the \"Yankee officers\" are being kinder to Richmonders; says Pierrepont has just arrived in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports she is staying with relatives but that it is so crowded, she will leave soon; says the house has been burned down, so they are living in log cabins; tells that she will soon go to Canada to visit her brother Horace; discusses where Nina could set up a school in that neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her religious belief about the Civil War and how she prays daily; discusses subject of white vs. black labor; family news; comments on cruel treatment of \"our\" President Jefferson Davis; refers to a Dr. Hoge who denies trying to begin a colony in Brazil.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses difficulty in accepting downfall of Confederacy; family news; discusses Nina's engagement to Willie Dupuy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem entitled \"The Bachelor's Consolation\" written by \"Goodman A. Bachelor.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; comments on Nina's engagement; discusses situation with Black persons; comments on elections and how soldiers were put into many of the civil offices; plans for jousting tournament.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the family's moving to a new house and how they all can be reunited once again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses where they may move; says the 'Yankees' have possession of her home in Arlington; says the situation in Richmond is better since Pierrepont Pierpont arrived; gives news about family; mentions Robert E. Lee (1843-1914) and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Nannie's ? wedding; says their father will need her Nina home for the opening of school; tells how she has been spending her time; discusses the school; reports that Mary ? is there; expresses fear for her Aunt Mary because of the threats of a Black uprisings in southern Virginia; asks if everything is going well between Nannie and Willie Booker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the continuing uncertainties of where their family will live; says she will return to work at Mr. Cabell's because she cannot depend on family plans; describes her visit to Greenwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a horse riding jousting tournament and social event that followed; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports travel plans; lists social events; news of friends; says she will begin at Mr. Cabell's in two weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that she just realized that it is her 56th birthday; discusses some issues on etiquette; says that she is glad that she is pleased with her new house; has heard that the 'Yankees' are advancing on Charlottesville; says Gloucester is having problems with the Yankees, so she will not return there; expresses disappointment that Mr. Powell did not secure a certain job that would have allowed them all to live together; says that the Redds and the Bookers have been very kind to her and do not want her to leave; writes that the Dupuy's son Willie? has bullet wounds in both thighs and in the foot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a boat trip she took with Sallie ? to Norwood; gives news of Mr. William Cabell; discusses literature; news of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Hunter has a small (medical) practice; gives news about what her other brothers? are doing; says Willie is doing well despite the time he spent in prison; tells how he was marched by their home last winter by the 'Yankees' and taken to prison; tells how their house was used as a hospital, her family was put under arrest, and they were forced to live with the 'Yankees' for six months; expresses her hatred of the 'Yankees;' discusses how the last four years have changed her; tells how Gert ? was working in the hospitals and on the battle field, caught a disease and has been bedridden for the last thirteen months; says she was very weak last winter because of the hard work and anxiety; says she could no longer work in the hospitals because of how the sights of war affected her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; comments on the meeting of Congress and its result on the restoration of southern property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites about Presbyterian Conference she is attending; gives town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives history of a family, telling which troop each son is in; comments on the scarcity of paper, which is why she is writing on the back of a letter written to her by her mother. Letter Including on back: Selina Powell, Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to \"daughter\" Hattie Powell. Asks her about her fever and if it is interfering with her teaching; says Mr. Powell visited her for a week; says she will stay in Charlotte all winter; mentions death of Carry Hobson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends her a pair of slippers which she made the best she could with the materials available; says she wanted to do something for her during \"these war times\"; says her father is not home yet; gives list of things Rebecca needs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the importance of having nice handwriting; describes Kate's ? studies; grieves over how many have lost their homes and hopes that her daughter could have a couple of years off from teaching; says those who must have employment are happiest; writes of family and friends; discusses her Uncle G's ? method of teaching. Including attached insert saying that Mr. H. ? declined her father's services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the scene when the 'Yankees' came into the home of Dr. Robert Baldwin; says Dr. Baldwin was kicked out of town because he refused to pay a servant; describes how the town has changed since the Union troops have taken over; mentions a man named Milroy who seems to be their leader; gives news of family members many of whom have been sick; describes a puppy he has gotten; describes a battle in which many 'Yankees' were taken as prisoners; says Milroy has escaped and has gone to Washington; says all of her furniture is not sold and that they cannot try to sell it while the 'Yankees' are here; discusses Dr. Daniel Conrad's practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks what Jeanie ? will do all summer; says she has heard that all the carriage horses in Gloucester have been carried off; says she will go to Powhatan to join her husband who is working for Mr. Michaux; says the 'Yankees' are in Shepherdstown but that the Confederates have Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of the last four years, the excitement and the trials; discusses \"the college\" that Robert is involving with; discusses the difficulty of finding good help; describes their house, saying it is handsome to \"confederate eyes;\" expresses sadness that her home is still used by Union troops; discusses Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on the postal problems and hopes she has been receiving her letters; gives news of the Bookers; writes of her anxiety over how she Nina is and discusses her travel plans to Prince Edward; discusses where the 'Yankees' are stationed; writes of the family's plans for the summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends her cotton for stockings; comments on postal problems; discusses the safety of Richmond; discusses sewing and fashions; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the dilemma of Southerns taking the \"oath\" with the Northerners so that they can protect their property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Captain Watkins and Willie Dupuy have been wounded; says she does not know which battle they were in; news of friends; says she has heard from Mr. Powell recently; discusses dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that she sent socks to Willie ? who is in the army; mentions the death of James Mcoughty?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how to make Mrs. Sharpe's ? hat; describes Lute's hat; says she will get two or three hundred dollars in Northern money from an Uncle William.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses teaching; describes trip to Charlottesville and adventurous train ride; mentions Sandy Pendleton's ? wedding; discusses Trip's ? health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends Rebecca a picture of Robert E. Lee, taken during the war (picture is dated 1866 January 20 ); writes of Lexington where they have just moved; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her social activities; gives teaching position that Hattie is considering; reports that 'Yankees' are being strict in their town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses poor mail service; describes Alexandria as dull town with spirit of despondency, town may be forced into the District of Columbia; describes visit of Henry Hallowell ?; much family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses crocheting, books they have read; family news and gossip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses family news; speaks of financial situation of buying a house in Baltimore; discusses problems of retrieving household items (portraits, furniture, etc.) and where to put them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses details of retrieving family possessions from the Office of Confiscation; includes list of objects missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip and her stay with Cousin Lee; tells of relatives and other people she has seen; will continue traveling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses daily life and schedule; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip to Dr. Wights' and tells of the people she met there; discusses dresses; asks about the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of the political happenings in Washington, D.C.: the disputes between President Johnson and the \"Radicals,\" Mr. Johnson's veto message, the South's need to have representation in Congress; tells his view of these happenings; discusses attempts to retrieve articles from the confiscation office; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of difficulty she has dealing with current hardships, \"Yankee\" rule, and free Black persons; news about friends in the neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes dinner at New Market and the people she saw there; describes conditions of roads, outlawing carriage rides; much news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of people she has seen or heard from.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses family news and news of friends; talks of sewing projects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives an account of her \"Easter excursion,\" reporting what she did and whom she met; says Mrs. Atkins has no servants, so she will have to clean her own room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes events of neighborhood; tells news of friends; tells of religious happenings, Mr. Wharey's ? reform in the church, and her religious sentiments; writes of her gloomy feelings about the South, her distrust of the Yankees, and her rebellious feels toward them; congratulates Nina on having her own \"home.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of stay in Cumberland with her \"sister and brother\"; tells of problems in retrieving household items lost in war; Douglas' Forrest?her husband? law practice is improving.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Nina to welcome her friend, Mr. Henry Theodore Wight, who brings the letter, and make his stay in Alexandria pleasant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTries to convince Nina to take a trip next summer; describes new bonnet styles; describes her friend Henry Theodore Wright who will be taking a trip to Alexandria; discusses clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her view on the family taking in boarders, saying children would be easier for their mother to handle; asks about the \"Council;\" reports on what she has done socially; discusses the dresses she has made; says that yesterday the people of Richmond decorated the Confederate soldiers' graves; says she wishes she had gone; says Mrs. Adkins did not go, but sent flowers to Richmond. Written on letter from J. Walker, Dover ?, to Hattie Powell, Rolling Views, undated. Sends her flowers and asks her to come to visit him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her visit to Richmond, people she visited, and how many commented on how well she looked compared to last winter; describes clothes she is making.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to send ribbon for a dress she will wear to a day-long affair at Norwood; news of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their plans to go to Prince Edward County; discusses what clothes she has and what she may need; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplains why she cannot attend the gathering at Mr. Redd's that night; says she must listen to her head and not her heart so that she may get well; says she is tired of feeling ill and weak.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvites Nina and Hattie Powell to come stay with them; says she feels better and is very excited to see them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her joy that she arrived home safely, and her regret that her mother Selina Powell has taken ill; describes a jousting tournament among young boys or \"knights,\" in which the girls were honored as Queens and Maids of Honor; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her condolences for her uncle's death and her mother's illness; tells her of Nancy's Lettie's sister engagement and tells Nina not to leave her to marry a man; much news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Nina for her letter congratulating her and Willie Booker on their engagement; news about her fiance; tells her adventures of keeping the house while her mother was gone; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites that her father is looking for board for her Selina and until then she will stay in Charlotte; recommends that Nina not write to a man unless she is engaged to him or unless he is an old family friend; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how far they are apart but thinks it is best that she (her mother) stay at Uncle Fred's; says she will stay at school for Christmas; writes of family and friends; tells that her health is very good and that she weights 106 pounds; discusses her school duties and her sewing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the parties she has had at her home recently; speaks of the engagement between Willie Booker and Nancy her sister, and Lou Edmunds and Captain Hill; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells how she and her friends have been together for three weeks now, staying at different homes; wishes Nina could be there; news of courting, engagements and weddings; tells Nina that she will not become an old maid; much news about family and friends; discusses reading societies and books read.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of courtings, engagements and weddings; tells of Christmas plans; discusses the struggle in the Christian life to be pure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Christmas holidays; discusses the Christian struggle for purity; says she is having more headaches; discusses poor financial situation with no patrons paying for her teachings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the changes taking place: their Uncle Joe has died and she, Lavalette and her mother have moved to Falkland to take care of his children; she and Lavalette will teach the children; Lavalette is feeling worse; her brother and sister May will take care of Linden; news of engagements, weddings, family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her new home and her new schedule; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells about her fiance Willie Booker's work in Medical School; describes reactions to the Territorial Bill and to General Scofields; wonders if Lavalette will keep her promise to become an old maid; says the weather is so bad that they will not be able to go to Church for a month because of the roads; says she is trying to guess when weddings will be by who is making their wedding clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her teaching job with her sister Nancy; describes her students; tells how spirits have been low since the passage of the Territorial Bill, says their district is commanded by General Schofield; describes the \"demoralizing\" incident of one of the county men running off with a 'Negro' girl and marrying her; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this letter through a friend and asks Rebecca to mail a package to Washington, D.C. for her; may have some frames sent to her, which could then be sent to them by steamboat to Richmond and canal boat to Lexington; says Mildred is in Richmond; Rob and Fitzhugh may go to Jennie's? wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the commencement exercises that she and Lavalette attended at Hampden Sydney; describes the fashions she saw there; says the scrub worm is seriously damaging the tobacco crop; describes their summer bonnets bought in Richmond. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that Nancy her sister has been ill; says that she, Nancy and their mother will take a trip North for their health; says she dreads to be among the 'Yankees;' tells that Lou Booker has typhoid fever and so her wedding must be postponed; discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being an old maid and whether they will be one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of gentlemen who are courting her; says that John Smith has been visiting her every other night; tells Nina that it is becoming serious and that she better come home soon or she will be gone; gives advice on the gentlemen that Nina is seeing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their stay in Danville; tells that her engagement with Willie Booker has been terminated; discusses their plans of where to live next year; news of family and friends; discusses fair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Hattie for her announcement of her \"change of condition\" marriage or engagement?; gives her best wishes for her health and happiness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses which furniture and portraits she would like to have sent to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses details of sending furniture from Alexandria to Lexington and of having portraits framed and sent. Includes notes to Selina and Nina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her transactions to acquire more furnishings for their home; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about her interactions with Mr. D?; says Nina's happiness is the only bright spot in their lives; says she hasn't been to church much; says she has seen a lot of Willie S.?; regrets that she can't say everything she would like to, because the letter must go through so many hands; writes of the broken Southern spirit; asks if there are any \"situations\" near them that she could take; says that she cannot write much because it works her \"into such a state\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of their new life at Linden, helping to take care of \"Sis\" May's children; comments on Nina's sister Hattie's marriage; discusses religion; describes a trip to Richmond; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends that she or Rebecca go with her to visit friends in Prince Edward County; tells her that since Mrs. Booker'shouse was used as headquarters for them during the war, they must make a pleasure visit to her since the war is over.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Nina for sending her the objects repossessed from the war; comments on their sentimental value; gives news about Baltimore's social events and her husband Douglas' work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what family has done since she left for her trip; says everyone is feeling remarkably well on account of the warm weather; tells her to enjoy her visit with Lizza and Aggie ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what each person in household is doing that evening: Mamma, Papa, Lute?, Lewis?, Fan?; says she visited Hattie who is feeling well \"under the circumstances;\" news about neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the health of each family member; says Mr. Powell had dyspepsia for which she gives him a raw onion; says Hattie is the same and cannot leave her room; gives news of friends; discusses a fire at Lee's ? house; hopes she is enjoying her visit with Lizzie and Aggie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about family and neighborhood; says that Cousin Lee's house burned; writes that Bob Robert Powell is now a doctor; news about her school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses news of neighborhood and people who have come to visit her; tells Nina to enjoy her stay with Lizzie and Agnes ?; says she is still flat on her back but hopes to be better in a few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he could not make the picnic that Nina planned; says that he had to pick up Josie ? that day, who traveled flat on her back; says that he saw \"Cousin Rebecca\" in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells how she had been preserving many foods last summer because of the possible food shortage during the coming winter; describes her stay with \"Sis\" May in Farmville; describes the situation of the churches and Sunday school in her area; news about family and friends; one of Nina's students, Emma Henry, is getting married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes to Nina for not calling on her while she was in Baltimore; expresses her job in their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of their sorrow at the death of Hugh Holmes McGuire (brother of cousin); whose wife just had a child; asks Rebecca to come visit, since the war is over; gives news about who owns the Powell's old home; tells what each of her relatives are doing; gives news about friends; discusses the death of her aunt who never recovered after the 'Yankees' burnt her house down; mentions how many soldiers cannot find employment. Hugh Holmes McGuire MW battle of High Bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Maggie's wedding her niece; says she has been alone in the evenings since Nina left her; describes her friends who have called during the day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for not writing; describes her schedule to taking care of a family of ten people; gives news about her gentlemen friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExtends sympathies to Nina and her family in the death of her sister, Hattie Powell Smoot, who died in childbirth; offers comfort through religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers her sympathy for the death of her daughter Hattie; discusses Hattie's character; mentions how Hattie has been looking forward to the time of childbirth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her sympathy for the death of Selina's daughter Hattie; speaks of her husband Robert, saying she thinks he may never be entirely well again; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her mourning for her cousin Hattie; offers sympathies; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffer her sympathies for Hattie's death; describes her stay in her Uncle Phil's home in the mountains; says she will return home to Alexandria in the Fall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the mountain inn and how they spend their time; says the mountain air is helping their mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her joy that Nina is engaged; discusses Nina's mother's health; says she is confined to bed and in much pain; says the treatment causes much suffering and that she is anxious to leave for home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she is glad Nina gets a chance to enjoy herself, and visit with her cousin Lizzie, without worrying about daily duties; says her Aunt Lute is taking good care of her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a report on everyone's health; says she is feeling better; gives news of friends and family; hopes that she is enjoying her stay with \"cousin\" Lizzie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses grief and religion; teases Nina about her engagement to Sewell Hepburn; tells her to enjoy her stay and to get well soon; news about Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends and family; describes the trouble of giving a party for a couple to be married, and wonders why people have marriages in such poor times.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleads with her to visit them for Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that they have been trying both the \"Alleghany Springs\" and the \"Yellow Sulfur\" springs; says the water has helped her health; describes the social life at the springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about her friends in Alexandria; asks if Mrs. Cassius Lee has information on household goods stolen from her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her and Nancy's stay in Danville; discusses Nina's wedding; says her brother Abner will be in the Legislature until it adjourns; news about family and friends. Envelope included with list of bridal attendants on the back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her daily schedule; describes a sewing machine that she bought; discusses Nina's wedding; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her job in hearing Nina is engaged; reports that she has heard Mr. Hepburn described as \"intellectual\" and \"pious\"; says Captain. Grady sends his love; sends her a gift.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that she cannot come to Nina's wedding; hopes that Nina will be happy living in the parsonage; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes that she cannot be there for the wedding; sends her money to buy a wedding present; tells that she had to refuse a gentleman who revealed his feelings for her; wishes her happiness in her new life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote accompanying a wedding present, wishing Nina happiness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a report on her health, saying she is much stronger; tells what remedies she is taking; says they have given most of her wedding cake away; says that everyone thinks her wedding was beautiful; gives her philosophy on marriage and its importance; tells her how lucky she is to have found such a \"good man.\" Including letter from Rebecca C. Powell to Nina giving a report on their mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how she spent her Easter vacation; describes the events that took place after Nina's wedding; describes a visit to Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports she is feeling better but that Rebecca has neuralgia from a bad tooth; tells Nina that she should call her husband \"Mr. Hepburn\"; says it is Nellie's wedding day; advises her to obey her husband now that she is no longer there to control her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about home and tells Nina that they miss her greatly; says the relationship between herself and John ? is growing stronger; hopes that she is enjoying her stay in the country with her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their mother's health, noting improvements; expresses eagerness to visit her in her own home; asks about Sewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her arrangements to come see them; says she is feeling better but she is still weak; tells her to ask for what she needs just like when she lived at home; gives news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to tell her that her health has improved since she left home; gives a report on her health and what she has done there at a resort?; says her father will be home soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes description of S. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the letter of sympathy concerning his wife, Selina Powell; gives a detailed description of her death and a tribute to her life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers her sympathy in the loss of her mother; says that her mother Selina Powell was one of her earliest friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEntreats them to warn his wife Lizzie against a woman named Mrs. Hubard who he is convinced is seeking their ruin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of friends' illnesses and other afflictions; discusses preachers; says she will wait to buy cotton until the price goes down. Including letter (written on top of) of 1864 January 8 from ? Danville, Va., to \"sister.\" Says she would like to visit her and also to see her whole family, but that she cannot leave because of her duties; says she can only leave on \"official business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their summer in the North; describes the Grand Jubilee held in Boston; describes Newport, Maine and the historical sites there; discusses Nina's life in the parsonage; gives news about family and friends back home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she is very happy to return from the North, though she was treated kindly there and it did improve her health; says many people at home are ill with an influenza that follows the Horse Disease; much news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Nina how her little boy is; reveals that she thought she would be getting married this fall, but that the gentleman, Dr. Cole, has been suffering from an illness; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses hope that she will visit them in Maryland soon, and bring her child; comments on Nina's settling in Waterford, Loudon County; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the baby Sewell's features; tells how the family is adjusting to new baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses tuition for Mildred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports news of her school; discusses the bonds that their father sold, and his financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that they are taking of Uncle Leven, including paying for his board with Sallie Withers, and giving him clothes; expresses disappointment that other relatives are not helping him; says Uncle Lev had a drinking problem at one time and his wife will not see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells Nina their plans to visit her; says they will travel through Baltimore and then by boat across the Chesapeake Bay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a check for Mildred's tuition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes that Mr. Hepburn has recovered from his fall and hopes he will stick to taming men's spirits rather than taming men's horses; much news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about family and friends; says that they will visit her in a few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends Nina a fur cape and muff; congratulates Nina on her pregnancy and hopes she feels well; sends a present for the coming baby; asks Nina for her preferred style of dress so that she can make her some.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of the death of her father-in-law and the effects it has had on the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of birth of another boy and that Nina is doing fine; says they have not named him because he wanted a girl; tells story of how his errand boy spilled into the well some fish he was cleaning and how he Sewell had to go down and fish them out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on how to take care of oneself after childbirth; thinks that she should have more than one servant; says that she is having some dresses made for her; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives news of friends in Alexandria; mentions centennial celebrations; says her school is doing well, with 21 scholars; mentions that Robert Powell has a new daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about Powell and Lee cousins in Philadelphia; says that a few neighbors have scarlet fever; discusses politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of his stay at Selma in Leesburg where he visited relatives; tells of weddings in Leesburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she is glad the children are recovering from their illness; says Nina must take tonic and Lager Beer herself to say well; recommends ways to rid the house of the illness; describes a visit to Baltimore to see an art exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes he had a mountain house where his grandchildren could go, especially to recuperate; discusses controversy between two churches, St. Stephens and Grace Church, in the neighborhood where he is; says they both want Mr. Jackson from Charleston, South Carolina, to be their minister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a long description of her boarders and her school; gives news about neighborhood, friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTeases him about his \"destitute condition,\" having to take care of himself while Nina is in Baltimore; scolds him for not taking good care of himself and says she does not want Nina to become a widow; tells of a surprise visit by Mrs. Beck of his parish to visit one of her students, Hallie; discusses past election and Hancock's defeat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs happy that she is enjoying her travels in the North so much; thanks her for her detailed descriptions which allow him to see the places through his \"mental vision\"; discusses his routes home; says he will be home soon with two boys grandsons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her travels in the North; tells of his grandsons' (Charles and Sewell) visit to Alexandria; discusses news at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the town of Bethlehem; says her Uncle William is visiting him; discusses his health; tells news of neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that her \"Scotts Nephew\" has arrived and has settled in a room; says he may go to Orange County, Va.? soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a visit by her cousins Kate Powell and Carrie; gives a long and detailed description of Carrie, her immediate family and her experiences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Ellen's tuition; says they are pleased with her education; says that their move to Richmond means that they will have to find another teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his journey to Nina's; describes an encounter between Bishop Randolph and Meta Stuart on the train concerning Amelie Rives; gives a description of each of his grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes that she and Mrs. Wailes are steadily improving their health while at the springs; tells her of the death of Mrs. Braxton and the prospects of Ingleside; gives news of grandchildren and neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that her health is improving; tells of the death of General Wickham and how it affected the area; gives news of family and neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the school; says he may join the Blackford Society; tells about a grammar exam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the taking of an arithmetic exam which exempted him from taking any more; says he got some demerits; tells about football and how he is playing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells about his schedule and about his exams; says he had tea with Mr. Hooffs; discusses demerits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he cannot teach this week because his nose is going to be operated on; says his mother and Sewell will occupy the children until then; says Sewell will go back to school soon; discusses the structure of his classes and asks her advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the nature of geometry and gives advice on how to learn it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he has been ill; discusses activities at school and grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the invitation to come visit while they are in Yorktown; says his two boys will come by sailing a canoe to Yorktown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays they are all home for a week holiday; describes how they all got home; says Richard Cook came home with Selina; describes a real old timey Virginia country dance; says Selina likes Alexandria and the new home; describes what each person in the family has been doing; gives a description of the College of William and Mary; says he has overloaded himself with schoolwork this year; tells how the Alumni are reorganizing the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; gives a description of the fraternity; mentions the burning of St. Paul's Church in Hanover; thanks her for the presents she sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses examination schedule and work load; questions validity of mid-term examinations; praises the College for its level of academia; praises Dr. Hall, a professor of English; says that main event at the College now is the contest between societies for the society medals; says he is in the Phoenix society and may debate for it; says he took a trip to New Kent to see his \"girl\" and to visit friends; discusses the Daughters of the Revolution and the Organization of the Descendants of the Cincinnati; says he saw Cousin Laura and her husband Mr. Roberts, a preacher, who are in Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the new house which he is anxious to get home to see; says he and Charles will not finish exams until the end of June; discusses the social events of the \"final week\"; discusses his exams; discusses Selina's academic progress; says one must experience College life to understand the strength of its temptations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he has spent much time with Nanna Powell McCormick, a cousin; describes her and what they have done together; says he is in love with her; discusses love and cupid; describes a card club he belongs to, and a German club.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes that she doesn't feel isolated from his immediate family; says that their \"great mutual loss\" has brought them all closer together; asks about her plans for the future; says he went to York to see Charles; discusses his housing at College; talks of recent fires in Richmond and Baltimore; speaks of his cousins and some girls that he has met.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their family's genealogy; mentions Nicholas Lloyd, John Lloyd, and Sarah Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the Presbyterian drive in Alexandria to save the old church; discusses church events; expresses joy to hear of Nina's marriage; mentions the fact that her Selina's father is over eighty years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes a house nearby; writes about her relatives that are staying there; asks her to come visit. Including Selina Powell to Nina Powell. Asks Nina to write Lizzie about the house, if it can be rented, and who they should talk to.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes her a Merry Christmas; tells what family members are making for presents; asks about her trip to Alexandria and the people she has seen; discusses the propriety of accepting a book for a gentleman; tells her to be happy and not to think too much.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses offers she has had for teaching, saying she will take the offer closest to where Mr. Powell teaches; advises her to get her teeth fixed; discusses styles; gives advice on how to motivate one of her students; says he will not go to Gloucester because of the recent \"outrages\" there; says she has a \"horror of drunken negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises her to come home after her visit with Lizzie Watkins; gives a report on the health of family and friends; says almost \"all black and white\" went to the \"procession\" in Washington the day before; says her cousin Jinny Taylor's family is ill; sends her money. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her poor health, saying she has been diagnosed as having a diseased heart; says she is staying with her sister Aggie who just got married; news of family. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Nina's visit with her friends and her trip to the \"Bear's Den\"; writes of the many parties there have been since Nina left; says she has not seen Nina's sisters since they got back from Capon; discusses their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays her father still has not come home; describes a trip Nina and Rebecca made and the people they visited; writes of young men and friends who have come to visit Nina; news of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dresses; writes of a \"Mr. C.,\" assuring her mother that they are not romantically involved; says Mr. and Mrs. Stringfellow left them to the care of the housekeeper; gives news about friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that Uncle J. Powell does not think Lexington is a good place to open a school and Lynchburg would be better; discusses prices for boarding; says that her Father may have to look for a tutoring job for a family and then she will have to find work as close to him as possible; discusses sewing she has done; gives news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the remedies \"Mother\" has tried for her sore throat; describes Mrs. Wildman's receipt for asparagus; says \"Ma\" is experimenting on her throat and then will tell Minna how to treat hers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her daily schedule, including teaching for \"the girls;\" says the \"Captain\" and the girls included her in a visit to Mrs. Cooke's; describes the people she met there and the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he spent Christmas at Uncle Frank's and Aunt Jane's; reports on what he has been doing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses whether Emily ? will move to Fairlee as a servant?; asks if she will take someone from the \"Home for Fallen Women,\" if Emily declines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she went shopping for her and is sending her some articles; discusses fashions; says her Aunt Ann is still unwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells her to take of herself while she is sick; discusses whether she should come home; tells of people there that are sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses Mary's furniture and which of it she can use; discusses Frank ?'s health; says Mrs. Hammond has died after being very ill; discusses health of friends and family; gives news of what her family is doing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of safe arrival of Maud's baby daughter and her appearance; sends greetings to Becca, Nina, and herself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on letter writing and spelling. 1 page. letter. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Advises her not to work too hard; discusses board prices in Albemarle, where Mr. Powell is teaching; discusses hair styles; encloses a sample of material of Rebecca's berage ?; writes of the crowded conditions in Mrs. Sharpe's ? home; mentions reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this note with a letter she is forwarding; hopes she is enjoying her visit; says she is feeling better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dresses and asks what else she will need for the summer; sends her a poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Consoles her in her time of \"troubles\"; says she has heard from their mother that she \"bears them bravely\"; urges her to take an interest in life and to try to be happy again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a dress that Minnie is making; discusses other dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a walk he took from North Hampton to East Hampton; discusses Thanksgiving vacation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to send socks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells about her dolls; mentions some Powell relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the donation for the restoration of a church on Fairfax St., near Selina's Aunt Rebecca's home; mentions a celebration for the laying of the corner stone of the District; describes a light hose that the government gave the Mount Vernon Chapter D.A.R.; mentions more historic work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses religious matters; lists social events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes duties and responsibilities of husband and wife; describes the state of marriage; pronounces the couple as husband and wife; states Benediction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed as written by Laura ?; added note in different handwriting states \"written by Minna when eight years of age.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of his appointment as Commander of the Continental Army, and his reluctance to accept the position due to hopes of a more peaceful solution and reluctance in leaving his family; gives information as to other Congressional decisions, such as the striking of 2 million dollars in Continental currency to pay troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In answer to a previous letter, he feels that the only principle that will affect them the British? is fear, and that treating them cavalierly will make them despair of their undertaking. Statement on verso: Copy is in handwriting of Rebecca C. Powell of Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wishes to spend remainder of his life in \"rural amusements;\" prediction of what a great city Washington, D.C. will become, \"though not as large as London,\" and description of how Alexandria, Virginia has grown; feels that if the United States can steer clear of European politics, it could become \"one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses how he saved the papers of the Revolutionary Government by taking them to Leesburg, Virginia before the British burned the District of Columbia in the War of 1812. These papers included the Declaration of Independence, the journals of Congress, letter of General George Washington, Letters of General Greene and papers of the State Department. 2 pages. copy of letter signed, first part missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMainly letters written from Illinois to Charles L. Powell dealing with land transactions. Also includes land certificates and letters to Lloyd Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Physical Location: See Oversize file. Concerning the transfer of 100 acres of land in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: See medium oversize file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed on front by R. E. Lee and on verso by Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed on front and back by Mary Custis Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes detailed descriptions of battles and movements of armies. 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Prominent correspondents include Johns Hopkins, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Anna Randolph (Custis) Lee, Hunter Holmes McGuire and James Monroe.","Letters concern Robert Young Conrad, Hunter Holmes McGuire, civilian affairs during the Civil War, the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, freedmen, Reconstruction, and the education of women. Many letters are written by women.","In addition, there are a number of letters from and concerning members of the Dupuy family of Prince Edward County, Winchester, Virginia including Robert Young Conrad (president of the Virginia Secession Convention) and his son Holmes Conrad (U. S. Congressman).","Included with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988).","See also  Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Including a statement, 1786 April 8 by J. Nicholson that the witnesses Joshua Lamb and John Lamb (both Quakers) and Joseph Greenwood affirmed and swore that this was the last will and testament of Thomas Hepborn.","Reports on the status of the ship The Rising Sun; says she will dispose of her cargo as soon as possible; says the ship was detained by the British (War of 1812), but given up.","Signed by William Hodgson and Thomas Van Le, Jr.","Her daughter ? Nancy, had a healthy baby boy who is nursing well; Nancy is staying with her now, and her husband Mr. Wallach, spends almost every night there also; is concerned that Nancy will live a hard life because of her husband's financial situation; on the other hand, her daughter Catherine ? will be \"free from the trials attended on a state of poverty,\" being married to Cuthbert Powell, who owns a large farm in Loudoun County; much Simms family news; mentions Mrs. Trist's grandson, Nicholas Trist.","Signed by B. Cottinger.","Fatherly letter giving his opinion of a certain young lady and marriage, as well as general advice.","Discussion of his engagement to this daughter Selina, and the seriousness of the matter, especially in concerning finances; tells of his poor financial state as related to a dowry, or the lack thereof, for his daughter; gives his approval of the \"alliance,\" but hopes they will delay the marriage for some time.","Has given great consideration to his claim against the French government and has turned the case over to Stephen Pleasonton, who is the auditor for the Dept. of State and who is now handling all claims; since Mr. Pleasonton is a personal friend and he (James Monroe) is greatly interested in his Burr Powell case, he knows he will get an answer soon; will also be returning the agriculture pamphlet.","Sends extract of Mr. Pleasonton's reply concerning the claim against the French government and asks that he reply with the necessary information; will also do anything he can to help.","Further discussion of his claim against the French government and dealings with Stephen Pleasanton and Isaac Coxe Barnett.","More instructions about the claim being made against the French government.","Further discussion and explanation of the case involving Burr Powell and his claim against the French government.","Continued information concerning Powell's claim against the French government.","The new court system has kept him extremely busy; social life has slowed down; the fashion these days to relieve boredom is to ride horseback; expresses concern for his own colt in the country; inquires after Dr. Nelson and his medical career; also asks about a large, gay party at South River; recommends books for good reading including Schlegel's History of Literature.","Has received the results of his claim from Mr. Pleasonton and regrets the outcome, which he disagrees with; does not feel anyone is to blame.","Asks her to come visit over Christmas; describes the social events in Arlington; mentions her cousin George Calvert; says the big event is the fair for the benefit of orphans.","Describes a walk she took and the surrounding countryside, including the wildflowers and startling a herd of deer; had many visitors, including a very graceful lady who is said to have been \"addressed\" by Mr. Van Buren, a \"jolly goodnatured ... commodore and some of the ugliest officers,\" and Mrs. Porter and her scholars; tells of books she has read, including Tales of a Grandfather, The Sorcerer, and The Talisman; loving memories and looking forward to their next meeting.","Have just returned from a visit to her grandmother's and her cousin, Ann Marshall; they all are saddened by the death of Mr. Fitzhugh; describes the country from South to West River, where she had visited, and comments on meeting a lovely girl, Bella Carter; mentions the jealousy of another male suitor?, Seldon Page; mentions Mary Custis. 3 pages. letter signed.","Sends his best wishes for her new life with Charles L. Powell; will be able to attend the wedding as well as \"Brother Nelson\"; is uncommonly warm; is sending a bonnet for her and a small diamond breast-pin for Father by the steamboat Franklin, commanded by Admiral Nevitt; describes the long ribbons attached to the bonnet, which are for going once all the way around the bonnet before knotting them by the ear, not for tying a bow under the chin; also includes a diagram of how to tie them in the current fashion; admits to having been helped in choosing the bonnet by Miss Olivia Donaldson.","Discusses events in Washington D.C.; says she went to \"the President's\" on New Year's day; discusses Mr. Marshall's sermons; mentions books she is reading; asks Selina to come visit her.","Says her health is improving; encourages her to ask her for help when she needs it; discusses the articles she is sending her including a lemon tree, curtains, a mattress; discusses how these things will get to her; gives news about the children; Bec, Nanny, Frank, and Fred.","His mother-in-law has told him of the wonderful news of the birth of another daughter Hattie, and that both mother and baby are safe; will be up to visit in about a week; comments on balancing the sexes in the family, and that he has \"no notion of supplying my brother's and sister's children with wives\"...\"we shall hate to transport them his daughters to the wilds of the west\"; all is well at home, a new hen house is being built, but the garden is too wet to work; is lonely but is visiting neighbors; family news; religious sentiments expressed about her, their new daughter, and their family.","Gives account of his trip to Wheeling, including a sweet good-bye from daughter Rebecca; was not able to locate Robert Gray or ? Throckmorton at Harper's Ferry, but later met them at Point of Rocks; detailed description of a railroad and train cars; tells poignant story of a dog on the train searching for his master.","Has had many family visitors since his departure and family news; there is a measle outbreak at \"Llangollen,\" and all of the \"negroes\" have it; she had her teeth filed by Dr. Overfield?; a fire in Upperville destroyed Robert Armistead's new store and the adjoining saddle shop; they have had a beautiful snowfall, covering all of the blossom-filled trees, which melted quickly, doing no harm to the fruit; had a letter from brother John, who advises that he Charles L. Powell \"go directly to Texas\"; loving stories about their daughter's activities.","Had a bad thunderstorm the day she left; inquires about her trip and her relatives; details of children's activities; has let Becca sleep with him.","Their father will be taking a trip West this spring, accompanied by cousin William; family information; social life in Leesburg very quiet; misses her and her family.","Details of his trip from Alexandria; spent the night with relatives; warns her about catching a cold on a windy day; tells of conversations with their young son.","Private financial matters; tells of his busy schedule as a representative from Virginia to the U.S. legislature; gives his negative opinion concerning a bank? bill introduced by Henry Clay,which he feels the President would veto; Daniel Webster shares his opinion; life insurance inquiry.","Will not be home when expected because the House of Representatives is not going to adjourn until Monday; the Congress received their second veto from President Tyler regarding the Bank Bill; describes an assault made by Sen. 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Edward Stanlyin Congress.","Asking about her visit to Washington and the Chamber of National Institute; speaks of floods, bad weather, but comfortable where he is, because of Margaret's? kindness; describes lifestyle and \"humorous remarks of Charles Lamb,\" sexual relationship with her.","Wishing thumb to heal; speaks of cattle and other animals at \"Llangollen\" that he misses; asks about children; saw Ann? mentions Virginia Taylor's visit; will visit wife before harvest; reference to brother, Leven, and his wife, and Sarah?","Hustle and excitement of the House of Representatives; hoping to adjourn on Monday the twenty-second, but difficulties cause many night meetings; political discussion about Tariff question and Tuck bill.","Discusses her story at \"the Springs;\" tells about the politics the company there discussed; gives her own view of these issues; gives news about family and friends; hopes that Congress will soon adjourn so that he can come home.","Compares episode of thief robbing hen house to thieves in Washington trying to rob \"public treasures\"; wants to buy books for her; tells how he wishes to be with her and the rest of his family.","Writes of the bad weather and that they are able to get out very little; says Mr. Powell went to the Inauguration on horseback; tells what books the family members are reading; mentions the issue of white servants; discusses Rebecca's feelings of becoming a young lady; says that they could not get the house they wanted for next year; mentions Mr. Powell's feelings of frustration for not being able to better provide for them; gives more news about the Inauguration; news of family and friends.","Daughter, Harriet, left with Uncle William to spend holidays with them; daughter Minna had a birthday party, inviting Aunt Mary's children and Eskridges; family news; death of Maria Lee.","Discusses her religious feelings; discusses her traveling plans; describes her relationship with each of her relatives where she is staying; says she is staying with Fan and helping her with her wedding.","Discusses the housekeeping and how Rebecca is taking care of the house while she is away; discusses the health of family members; tells how they are altering last year's dresses; says \"Mother\" is quite weak and \"Father\" is very dependent on her; gives news of Brother Nelson and Jeanie (sister?); gives travel plans of family; says Mr. Powell has gotten six teeth put in and looks much younger.","Describes their arrival home with her brother Nelson; gives news of \"little Nan\"?; asks about Rebecca and Minna's trip; tells her to be happy and to follow God; says Charlie is doing well in school.","Family news; mentions Laura's? wedding.","Tells what she did during her visit to Locust Hill; tells what is going on in town; gives news of family and friends. Including news from letter from \"Mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell telling of her many activities.","Discusses Jesus and how one must search for and do things that please Him; asks that she watch her sister, Minna, closely so that she will not overexert herself; Ariana? had a baby boy; describes son Charlie's and daughter Nina's reactions to reading school and learning; family news.","Speaks of John's? carriage and velocipede that once was Minna Lloyd's, describing how she rode the vehicle; describes what a Holly tree is; (has genealogical information about Minna Powell, Lloyd Powell, and Charlie Powell in a different hand, which appears to have been added later.)","Gloucester Court House,Va. Speaks of her \"companion in Matilda Lee?; received visit from Nannie Guy and Maria Harrison; describes celebration in honour of General Taylor's election; describes Mrs. Janney's travels; town gossip and family news.","Family news; speaks of going to Locust Hill; inquires and tells about adventures of many townspeople; obliged to Mrs. Tabb for taking care of her and other daughter, Minna.","Speaks of Cousin Lucy's? party; describes Christmas scene around her house and gifts that the children received; describes Cousin Elizabeth Janney and compares to Cousin Harriet; family news.","Discusses who has come to visit her; describes Cousin Lee's wife, Maria, and their wedding; asks about her Christmas; describes the book marks she made for Christmas presents; asks how Minna is doing.","Speaks of snow and bad weather; notes that daughters, Rebecca and Minna, have been gone for almost three months; Fanny (Powell) Gordon is going to visit Fredericksburg; mentions a letter from Jeannie? who found General Jones, in Washington, quite \"agreeable and handsome\"; Cuthbert Powell is much better, and he speaks of going to Gloucester to join a Mr. Hale; Nina is afraid of everything; family news; mentions hiring of a slave, Margaret.","Rebecca's description of her Uncle Tabb's Dr. John Prosser Tabb house seems far in advance of Old-Virginian architectural styles; speaks of death of Mrs. Douglas Gordon.","Speaks of dancing as a family as a \"social amusement,\" but says that it does offend some \"in the religious world;\" says that one must respect the public opinion of the community where one lives; had severe weather; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Hatty Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Minna Powell, Gloucester Court House, for letter and \"glove-knots\" and sending love to Aunt Rebeccaand Uncle John Prosser.","Her brother Charlie and sister Nina have sore throats, and her father has a bad cold; snowy weather; Hatty went with Aunt Ellen to Selma and Raspberry Plain; Mr. Armistead Rust is to be married before March 4; family news.","Scope and Contents Reports on the snow storms they have had; mentions the coming wedding of Armistead Rust and Lilly Lawrence; tells how he likes working at the store; describes one of their customers; describes the house they may rent next spring. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia Says she is glad to hear Minna's health is improving; gives news of family; says her brother Nelson soon sails for California to dig gold, and may not be back for five years; reports on how he expects to live; says that there are measles and mumps in town.","Maris's? father announced as candidate for re-election; General Rust's family going to New York to attend a wedding; father is renting Carper's house; bad weather and snow causing many colds and illnesses; Mrs. Eskridge's father died; father may go to the Inauguration; family news. 4 pages. letter signed.","Saw Representative John S. Pendleton at the House of Representativesin Washington, D.C.; Pendleton wants a senate appointment; he will not go to Leesburg because he does not want to \"meddle with party movements\"; mentions \"County Repeal of the dog law.\"","Scope and Contents Mother and Father are both sick; \"brother\" has gone to inauguration; describes how to make eggnog, and gives her opinion of it; describes riding horses to the cliff and tells of adventures. 1 page. letter signed. Including letter from Harriet Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 February 27, incomplete letter concerning outbreak of the mumps and family and town news.","Father suffering from piles; mumps are still prevailing; do not have parties during Lent; family news.","Scope and Contents Speaks of gossip saying that Mr. Benedict is having an affair with Mrs. Henderson; describes procession in Washington, D.C. and the inauguration; family news. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 March 26, concerning family news and the time of year.","Scope and Contents Expresses joy that Minna's health is till improving; says she is recovering from her cold; says Lloyd and Hattie have been ill as well; discusses the issue of Rebecca upsetting her aunt Rebecca by being late for a meal; says her aunt is easily vexed in \"her condition\"; gives news of friends and family; describes their new servant Robert. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Charles S. Powell, to Rebecca Powell, , undated, concerning Uncle Prosser's desire to put Minna on \"short allowance,\" and Minna's consumption of beef.","Describes their move to another house which she says is comfortable but small; hopes that the Gloucester air is getting rid of her cold; says their father is busy with court dealings; says many in the area have mumps including Hattie; says that Hattie is getting a tooth plugged; says she does not want Lloyd to leave to live so far away; discusses mesmerism (hypnotism).","Speaks of her bad health; her husband is busy preparing for court; mentions a party at Exeter; Mrs. Fontleroy had a girl so Mrs. Knox is a grandmother; much more family news and information.","Scope and Contents Rebecca Powell will be coming home within a week or so; Fanny? is at Locust Hill with the mumps; family news; Uncle William Graypersuaded Father to go to Gum Springs, Va., until after the election; election day events seemed to be going against Father. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Sister Minna\" Powell, Gloucester Court House, Virginia, 1849 April 26, concerning family news.","Describes Minna's cough and how they are treating it; tells her what clothes Lloyd and Charlie should wear if it gets colder; says she has been doing little except taking care of Minna; discusses new dresses for the winter and corsets; gives news of friends and relatives; discusses travel plans, to come home for the winter.","Discusses dresses, materials and costs; discusses bonnets; gives news of family; thanks her and Hattie for taking care of the household duties while she is away.","Says Minna is now well and that they are anxious to come home; gives news of Jeanie (her sister?), and Rebecca; gives news of \"Mother\" and \"Father\"; discusses books.","Says Mr. Powell had his \"likeness taken\" at the Daguerreotype rooms; says Minna's health continues to improve but that she may have one tonsil taken out; discusses the remedies she is taking; says she feels stronger also; gives news of friends; gives news of Rebecca, Jeanie, and \"sister\" Ann; discusses walking shoes.","Gives advice on her health and over-exertion; describes the illumination that took place in the neighborhood; tells of visits she has made; tells stories about Minna's sister, Nina; gives news of family and friends; says Hattie has lost her \"excess of fat\" and is walking three times a day.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses bonnets; discusses appearance versus reality as concerning materialism; discusses the opportunities for her in Alexandria; discusses the role of children in the family; gives news of friends and family; mentions that \"brother\" John may move and that if they move to Illinois, they will be closer to him.","Says they got there a few days ago and that Mr. Powell, Mr. Grey(?), and \"brother Llew\" have gone to the sale of slaves (\"the sale of the negroes\"); discusses her visit in Alexandria with her grandparents; Discusses the bad weather in Leesburg and the bad condition of the roads; says their family must economize rigidly; says Mr. Powell found the law business in Alexandria too small, so they will not be moving there; expresses her disappointment at the outcome; gives news of family.","Scope and Contents Reviews Christmas gifts received by everyone; describes a \"reading party\"; describes Christmas decorations of the Church; family news. Including note signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, 1849 December 29, concerning when daughter, Rebecca, is to return home.","Tells of the recent social events of the area; describes the format of a reading party; says her mother-in-law could not make it to their home because of the snow; asks her how her mother is doing; says there are still small pox in the area; discusses how many servants she has and what each does; says that Rebecca's Uncle George took Cuthbert to an asylum in Baltimore and hopes he will be happier there then when he was \"out.\"","Gives news of Rebecca's Uncle Richard and Aunt Elizabeth who live in Illinois; says she plans to get a description of the Illinois life from them; gives news of Ellen? who is unwell and is going to a doctor in New York; discusses how Rebecca can get home; describes family activities; says they have been able to do little because of the rain and mud; says she lies on her back all day sewing while her children read to her.","Scope and Contents Reading parties are the only way she can socialize; reports Maria Grady's death; reports about a big baptist meeting going on there headed by Mrs. Lucket; much town news. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 26, 1850, concerning Rebecca Powell's trip home and Maria Grady's \"triumphant death.\"","Scope and Contents Speaks of terrible weather; boasts of learning to spin rolls of cotton on a spinning wheel; reports death of Rebecca Gray, Robert Gray's daughter; describes her daily routine; discusses Mary Grady. Including letter signed from \"devoted mother,\" Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Bec,\" Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 1850, concerning bad weather, family news, and attendance to the convention.","Says many in the family have been very sick for a couple of days and that she has had to nurse them; says Minna is now sick; and never had fully recovered from the chicken pox she had before; gives advice of how to be a good guest; advises her on her studies.","Says she has a toothache but must wait until May to get them pulled; describes a humorous reading party; says there was a case of small pox in the area and that many are being revaccinated. Including letter signed from \"mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell. Discusses her travel plans home; tells her to follow her grandparents' advice; gives news of family.","Expresses joy that her younger siblings are recovering from the measles so well; reports on health of \"Grandma\" and \"Grandpa\" Lloyd; gives news of Aunt Rebecca, Jeanie, and Minnie; Tells what she had done each day.","Inquires about many weddings in Leesburg and about who will need new dresses; speaks of ball thrown by Maria Washington; other city news.","Gives general description of Henry and discusses the family's move there; discusses the house they will build; advises what they should bring; reports on the emigrants in the area; discusses their travel plans in detail; asks Charlie to bring Newfoundland puppies; gives news of family there.","Describes presents sent to grandchildren; tells of Christmas scene in Alexandria; wants granddaughters to meet a polite gentleman that impressed her. Including poem, 1852, by R. C. Powell, beginning \"'Ours the cross.' Yes it is ours,\" giving a religious viewpoint.","Speaks of how she makes embroidery patterns and what colors are preferred; inquires about some of her friends; John Leven Powell says that Brooke? looks badly; aunt Fanny trying to match Brooks with Lucy Gordon; speaks of a Mr. Beverley breaking out around his face and \"bleeding profusely\".","Scope and Contents Mr. Gordon? will be a delegate to the democratic convention in Richmond, Virginia; much use of her eyes results in inflammation of her eyelids; \"Llangollen\" property is deteriorating; much town news and family news; mentions her dower right.","Speaks of helping Frank and Lucy ? with their new baby; describes female servants and her experiences with them; describes health of her daughters, Harriet, Rebecca, and Minna; reports of a few cases of \"cholera\"; reports of a good garden.","Gives a detailed report of Minna's health, expressing hope that her headaches are definitely getting better; tells about people who have visited the family; mentions a desegregated school in \"abolition ground\"; tells what her sisters have been doing since she left; discusses Rebecca's journey.","Mrs. Janney's baby died while she was ill; a Mr. Anderson, a Presbyterian Minister, says that his wife, Miss Harper, is a relative of Selina's (her father's Aunt); speaks of Fred's? wedding; tells of episode when she goes to visit a Mrs. Brown?; describes a visit they made to some neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Mentions Fanny's ? wedding; family news; possibility that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon ? might be elected to legislature; family does not wish Rebecca Powell to return home this winter.","Describes a visit they made to some new neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Describes their busy preparations for winter; describes their daily routine; says she is glad to have Lucy and Fred stay with them; describes their Sunday school; reports on Scholastics (a servant) who is now reading well; news of family and friends; discusses dresses and styles; asks about Rebecca's Uncle Nelson; mentions that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon was elected; asks about Fan's? wedding and hopes she and William will be happy.","Speaks of his daughter's trip, whom she should visit, and money matters; hopes to soon reap the financial benefits of his store; mentions Bishop Whitehouse's determination to give the college broad foundations; family news.","Family news; sleet and bad weather; religious discussion and viewpoints; Lucy and John? have a daughter now.","Scope and Contents Mr. Powell, Charles and Richard Lloyd are busy with new business as \"Land Agents\"; town of Henry, Illinois now has a newspaper and a steam mill; hopes to have a railroad passing through soon; there is not a decent Church and she wishes to see one built; Lloyd Powell, son of Selina, studies German because there are so many Germans in their town to do business with.","Scope and Contents Sarcastically teases her sister about differences between lifestyles of \"Far West\" and the East; Uncle Fred ? went to Springfield to see that railroad went from Peoria through Henry, Illinois; mentions problems with scarlet fever; family news.","Speaks of liquor laws and problems with drinking; describes lectures; such family and town news; mentions other religious lectures.","Expresses desire for daughter Rebecca to return home; Minna Powell still having problems with headaches; family news; Fred? went to Chicago to see stockholders of the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad; asks for Rebecca to send asparagus seed and large lima beans; mentions Thackery's lectures, and gives her opinion about his books and religious teachings.","Scope and Contents Family news; \"land business\" will provide many opportunities for travel; Rebecca planning to go to Leesburg soon. Including note from Charles L. Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"darling,\" Rebecca Powell, , 1853 March 11, sending his daughter ten dollars and writing her as to how to handle her expenses and requesting her to bring home her Grandfather's papers.","States that even though he just left yesterday, she wanted to put a letter in the books to be sent to him; comments on their inability to see each other even though he is only seven miles away.","Mentions his job as a traveling salesman and how he hopes to soon be Uncle Richard's Lloyd administration; resolved in town meeting to build the Railroad Peoria and Chicago.","Scope and Contents Expresses her disappointment that she cannot see Rebecca before Rebecca returns to Henry, Illinois; describes the friendship between them; news of friends in Baltimore.","Tells of carriage accident involving Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dulaney, where their horses were scared by the Clifton Mill and threw Mrs. Dulaney; she and father attended Dr. Rutherford's lectures; emphasizes that ladies got to vote, as well as gentlemen, on whether they were satisfied with the lectures; new wharf boat has arrived.","Describes the towns of Rushville and Pittsfield; said he enjoyed Pittfield more, but that Uncle Richard Lloyd sent him an assignment for Rushville; says he will be there about a month; asks about friends and family.","Scope and Contents Rebecca has come home; Minna joined the church with her family; gives religious views; family news. Including letter from Minna Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"Brother\" , 1853 May 11, referring to Rushville, as location of brother; tells of beautiful spring weather and describes scenery.","Will soon be coming home; complains of sore throat and headaches; has had scarlet fever; family information.","Gossips about \"Miss Jane,\" a mutual friend; says he and Dr. Winslow found her in her parlor with a man; says the servant did not want to let them in and that it was an uncomfortable situation. Including letter written in margins from \"Cousin\" Jane to Rebecca Powell concerning religious publication, an Episcopal convention.","Expresses how much she misses him; discusses reading material.","Describes Aunt Ellen's Powell Gray recovery from an illness; much family news; describes wedding that she went to; expresses romantic interest in a Dr. Claggett; includes printed poems.","Describes physical appearance of \"Llangollen\" as well as her feelings towards the place; reminisces about when family lived in Virginia. Talks about old friends; family news.","Scope and Contents Tells her little sister Nina about old friends and family; gives details of things she has been doing. Including letter from \"Hatty\" Harriet Powell, \"Llangollen,\" Virginia, to \"Mother,\" Selina Powell, 1853 October 10. Concerning warmer clothes; advantages of \"flannel draws\" over a \"wadded petticoat.\"","Scope and Contents Says she has been extremely ill and so have many in the area; says she has been traveling in order to improve her health; tells of her problems with Custis and his lessons; says Robert is still holding his office in Washington but wishes to leave; asks how she likes \"the West\" and if her husband is finding success; news of friends.","Reports Lucy's? death and grief everyone feels; Nelly? is to be baptized; other family news.","21 items.","Tells of their Christmas and New Years celebrations. Also includes \"Mother\" Selina Powell, to Rebecca Powell. Expresses hope that Rebecca can be with her relatives in Baltimore; discusses the nature of receiving advice and making her own decisions concerning her travel plans.","Speaks of attending a party; mentions \"matching up\" procedures at party; family news; details Christmas gifts.","Mentions religious feelings; speaks of a railroad being built nearby; Virginia? had her annual get-together on December 26; of family members; mentions a friend's visit to the Crystal Palace; Mrs. Augustine Washington had the first male child born at Mt. Vernon recently; family news; mentions Rear Admiral Leven Minn Powell.","Mentions Brooks'? wedding; describes details of the wedding; much family news.","Tells of her day spent with Lizzie King and Jane Norris; describes a dinner given for a couple about to get married; news of other friends.","Mentions sicknesses of Nelson Lloyd and John Lloyd; speaks of a Douglas Forrest who attends Yale College; has to take a boat to Washington D.C.; gives price rates per acre of land at that time; gives prices for a lot of land.","Family news about cousins Nannie and Fanny?; mentions Uncle Nelson's Lloyd recovery; travels by omnibus.","Family news; describes her garden and its contents; Regina? was married; Mr. Livingston? requests influence of Charles L. Powell to obtain the consulship of London through General Baercel?; mentions Mr. McFaddin as being the mayor of Henry.","Family news; describes the scenery at Locust Hill; some of Uncle George's ? children have chicken pox.","Identified as much of note added in unknown handwriting, possibly that of Selina Lloyd Hepburn.","Description of Minna's gravesite; tells what he's doing to improve its appearance.","Describes trip to Niagara Falls; describes places visited in New York and where he lives; describes his studies.","Describes courses he is studying at school; describes the first time he saw a man dive under water and the suit he wore below water; staying at a boarding house.","John Lloyd who died in 1854; estimated price value are given.","Describes study habits and classes; mentions prices of a ring and a clock; describes his financial situation. .","Describes in detail her Quaker wedding to Frank? on 1854 December 14.","Nina's Christmas gift from Charles arrived safely; mentions wedding of a fellow student; serenaded the couple with a \"horse fiddle\"; describes his activities in his spelling class; mentions plans to return home in the spring.","Expresses religious beliefs; lists prices for renting his room.","Describes Charter Oak, an attraction in Hartford; describes his visit to an armory; staying with a Mr. Parsons and describes his family.","Scope and Contents Discusses financial settlements he is making for his father concerning the house, lands, furniture; says Uncle Fred and Uncle Neb are leaving Henry and they are all \"disgusted\" with Henry and that he thinks his (father's) decision not to come back was wise; mentions the family move to Winchester, Virginia","12 items, 1856. 16 items, 1857","Describes their Christmas which was spent at Uncle Fred's and Aunt Lute's; describes a Christmas ball and a New Year's ball in detail; says he has had some problems with dyspepsia; asks about cousin Kate's wedding to a senator.","Reports on Aunt Lib and Uncle R?'s new son, Richard; says he rented out their house in Henry; says he has been away from \"home\" now for three months; and will not go to New Orleans, Mobile, and Augusta; describes how he decorated Minna's grave, and expresses hope that her resting place will soon be Virginia; asks about their school; sends money from a large profit he made selling land.","Describes his visit to Louisville where he saw his cousins and went to many social events; says that the train ride from Kentucky was very rough; says he will be in Vicksburg in a week and then will go to Wilmington, North Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; and Memphis, Tennessee; asks about family and friends.","Describes his stay in Vicksburg, and his visit with Mr. And Mrs. Eilbeck Mason and Miss Louisa Fox; says that he did not see Cousin John Russell while in New Orleans; discusses his travel plans; asks about Hatty's teaching.","Expresses joy that she is well from the influenza; says he has recently traveled to Portsmouth, Va,, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; says he will now go to Texas; discusses travel plans; asks her to pick out one of her friends for him; discusses Charlie's new job in St. Louis.","Scope and Contents Describes St. Louis and the Virginia House Hotel; inquires about the new scholars the family has taken on; harasses Nina for not writing. Including note from Charles L. Powell, St. Louis, Missouri, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1856 May 4, concerning his happiness about Nina joining the Church.","Describes hard times in Illinois; intent to move back to Virginia when business picks up; family news.","Speaks of influenza and other illnesses prominent in the town; reports the death of Mr. Adies ?; Ellen Powell is in Washington Infirmary; house is being renovated; family news.","Says he just returned from Henry; says Charlie is on his way to Henry to start his new job in Uncle Fred's store; describes Henry and the house they used to live in; reports that Uncle Fred is building a house; gives new of Scholastics and Monsieur Carlo; says he will go to Pennsylvania next and then visit them.","Reports that Lloyd Powell is on his way to Virginia; describes their yard and home in Henry; yellow fever is not a problem this year in Illinois; he went to a concert given by the Baleis.","Inquires about the \"weddings fair\"; discusses his travels and the loneliness involved in his job; mentions his relief that the campaigns and elections are over; sends messages to friends at home.","Nina has begun studying Latin and learning how to draw; mentions the extension of the Chicago and Pern canal down to Henry; much family news.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses religion and the duties of a Christian; gives news of friends who have joined the church; discusses Minna's grave; discusses letter writing; tells of recent marriages and engagements; gives her philosophy on why he should not begin to chew tobacco; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Valentine's Day and Washington's Birthday; mentions last year's parade and the marching continentals; reports of bad rain storm that tore up the railroad track and caused problems with mud and flooding; family news. Includes note signed from Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1857 February 22, telling her to turn to their 'one friend' for strength and advice.","Scope and Contents Describes a storm which kept him in Henry, Illinois, unable to travel; gives recent travel plans, including a trip to Philadelphia by boat; gives news of friends and family in Henry; says many river towns are flooded.","Reports his knowledge of Lloyd's Powell return to Winchester; relatives are going to the Episicpal Church for Easter; reports Dr. Hoagland ? as being a bad tenant in their house in Illinois; mentions happiness that Nina Powell is joining the church today.","Gives news of relatives in Alexandria; tells his travel plans; says he finds the women of Virginia far more appealing than those of South Carolina.","Uncle Fred? and Aunt Lucy? are leaving for Virginia; sending his mother his daguerreotype, a photograph; reports that Lloyd is in St. Louis; Bridget, a past boarder, had a little girl; family news.","Describes the family vacation and adventures; describes the baths; mentions the parties they have attended; family news.","Family is on vacation; describes activities and scenery at Capon Springs; family news.","Speaks about taking inventory at the store; family news.","Says they just got back from Capon; asks her not to take silver nitrate for her headaches; says they have all improved their health by the visit to Capon; says \"brother\" Nelson is now there hoping the springs will help him; says they did not get the house that they wanted to rent; gives news of friends; says Rebecca, Hatty, and Lloyd are there. Including letter from Charles L. Powell to Nina Powell. Says that he misses her and wishes she could have been at Capon; asks about her headaches.","Describes his travels from Baltimore to Henry; mentions shortage of money due to bank failures; gives detailed news of the town, including improvements being made; news of Henry relatives; mentions that the bank failures will result in fewer land dealings and therefore, less work for him; asks about the young ladies of Winchester.","Inquires about Mr. Waler's? lectures; attends the Methodist Church now; reports of the adventures during hunting season; mentions the new idea of pavement sidewalks.","Describes a severe snowstorm and its effects on Henry; tells how he spent Thanksgiving day; describes their new cook with whom he is infatuated; mentions the death of Robert Conrad?; gives messages of friends in Winchester.","Reports of Nina getting her teeth straightened; describes method; reports that the number of scarlet fever cases is greatly reduced; she is very busy with the boarding school; tells of a fight between Charlie McCormick and a police officer; mentions Hunter Holmes McGuire; family news.","Discusses the death of Robert ? and the reaction of the town; gives news of friends; sends her love to her mother and relatives; wants to know what Dr. Chase said about her teeth.","Writes about Nina's plans to go home; says she is concerned about her traveling when her teeth are in such a condition.","20 items.","Refers to the \"hard times\" everyone is experiencing; describes farm activities; family news; describes how to make a mousetrap.","Describes midwest weather and the usual fall-like temperatures; says that they are all much healthier because of the mild weather; says ties are hard and the bank in Henry just closed, but that the town is continuing to improve; asks about Mrs. Powell's occupation, teaching; mentions the death of Robert Conrad and describes his character; messages to family members.","Reports of freezing temperatures of -15 F and snow in Henry; mentions sleighing in the snow; reports story of a bank robbery.","Reports of Lloyd's Powell trip to St. Louis to try and find Charles a job; family news; mentions a Mr. Lombard who plans to return to Henry and open a bank of issue.","Discusses who owes him letters from home; says he could not find a job for Charley Charles L. Powell, Jr.? in St. Louis because of the poor economy; gives news of Randolph Powell, of St. Louis, and John Webb Powell, of Utah; says he will be home during the summer.","Mentions that she missed his birthday with a card but thought of him that day; expresses religious feelings and beliefs; family news; lists people recently confirmed in the Church; outbreak of typhus fever at the University ?","Tells of his travels; describes Memphis, Tenn.; gives news of \"cousin\" William Powell who resides in Memphis; gives news of Mr. And Mrs. Mason, residing in Vicksburg; describes Leake County where he sold some of his Uncle Nelson's land; gives news of \"cousin\" John Wilson of New Orleans and of \"cousin\" John Chilton, who may send his daughter Sarah to school in Virginia; tells his travel plans, stating he will be in Virginia in a month; gives news to family and friends.","Describes scenery where he is; tells of a May party that some school girls had; describes his boat riding trip; family news; mentions arrival of Mr. Winn, the new Presbyterian minister.","Reports having been sick with a bad cold; family news; Nina has problems with other schoolgirls because her parents operate the school; trying to plan Charlie's return home for the summer.","Asks about fourth of July entertainment; Mr. Winn gave an exceptional sermon; Uncle Richard? bought a piano and a side-saddle; family news.","Inquires about boarding students; inquires about vacations at Capon Springs, West Virginia; tells of his success at duck hunting; family news; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Gives news of Uncle Richard's and Uncle Fred's families; says that Frank's baby is still ill; gives news of Hammond and Minna; comments that he will not see his family for another year; gives news of Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. and his employment possibilities; asks about Uncle Neb of Clark, Va?.","Gives her opinion about chewing tobacco, smoking, and other bad habits; incorporates religious duty into her opinion; some family news.","Discusses his habit of chewing tobacco and how he should discipline himself to quit.","Discusses the weather; reports on Hammond; reports that Mr. Chandler of Henry is getting married in Boston; says they will stay at Mrs. Taber's for the winter; gives news of Charlie (Charles) L. Powell, Jr.; comments on the involvement of women in politics in Henry; news of friends; comments on the decreased enrollment at the family school, saying they will at least have a lighter workload; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Expresses her disappointment in Charlie's having tasted tobacco; tells him that he is doing wrong to continue this habit; voices many religious views.","Reports that river is flooding the town; talks of Christmas holidays; family news.","A birthday letter for Nina's sixteenth birthday; describes the weather; family news; Min? is the \"editress\" of the \"Minnehaha\"; tells of the affairs of a Miss Amanda?.","Gives account of how he spends his days with emphasis on his Sunday activities; tried to quit chewing tobacco but couldn't; tells of episode where Uncle Richard? lost his saddle bags in the town of Bradford; river was frozen and people are ice skating; family news.","Tells where the girls boarding with them are going for Christmas; describes their Christmas plans; recollects their last Christmas with Minna; gives religious advice; sends her love to Lloyd.","18 items.","Would love for her to stay with him; mentions a sister Hannah.","Reports that Lloyd Powelland Uncle Richard ? have gone to Memphis, Tenn.; tells of the building of a road for $10,000; describes a surprise party he attended; mentions Valentine's Day and how many he has received; family news.","Reports that Uncle Richard and Frank are with him in Memphis, to see if they want to move there; says that he does not believe Uncle Richard will leave Illinois, but that Frank probably will; says that they tried to look up William Powell but he had moved to Arkansas; discusses the possibilities of his parents establishing a school in the area, and the risks involved.","Gives news of Uncle Richard and Uncle Fred; says Uncle Fred and Frank will close their business and leave Henry; tells of a conversation with Bishop Otey of Memphis on the subject of establishing a girls school there; gives details of the proposal in case his father is interested; gives news of the private school situation in Arkansas; reports on his business dealings in Arkansas; discusses financial matters.","Gives news of Uncle Fred who has been ill; says that the women of the town are all inspecting the new spring goods brought in from Saint Louis; discusses his daily schedule; says Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. is in singing school; asks about Nina's walks and lectures on the benefits of exercise to health and appearance.","Describes spring in Illinois; inquires about relatives in Alexandria; comments on Uncle Nelson's helpless state; discusses the chances of recovering Uncle Nelson's lands in Arkansas; describes the area of Henry where the family used to live; comments that she now weights 108 lbs., which is more than her daughters weigh; sends his love to Grand Ma Powell, Aunt Ann, and Uncle Neb.","A baby girl was born who is Nina's cousin Uncle Richard's daughter?; describes a fishing trip; mentions finding several Indian graves with skeletons and other items; tells story of a \"mad\" dog who bit many people.","Gives news of Illinois relatives; describes a trip that he and Uncle Richard took through Stark County, emphasizing the changes that have taken place in the last five years; comments on Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. development into a young man; reports that Uncle Richard will leave the land business on September 1st; discusses his involvement in the business and his desire to visit Virginia.","Scope and Contents Expresses his relief that his brother Charles arrived safely in Va.; comments on how scattered the family is at present; mentions Cousin Fanny Cochran's wedding in Middleburg, Virginia; discusses Mr. Hyde's trip in the \"aerial vessel\" Atlantic from St. Louis to New York, as reported in the \"Republican\"; reports that Frank has another son, Horatio Nelson; news of other Illinois relatives; describes the July 4 festivities.","Discusses an unprofitable year for his business; discusses a business proposition made to his brother Charles and Harry and Benton Janney by Uncle Richard, concerning the opening of the store; gives news of Illinois relatives; comments that his Uncle Richard, who just turned 43, may begin to use his middle name again and become Richard H. Lloyd; comments on how, in the past twenty years, the Powell family has spread from \"New York to Salt Lake City, and from the 'Lakes' to the Gulf of Mexico.\"","Reports that Uncle Richard, Minna will stop at Fulton County to visit relatives; gives his opinion about Minna not returning to Winchester Va. for school, stating that she has become too undisciplined and used to complete freedom in Illinois to be effectively taught in a school; describes Frank's son Horatio Nelson; comments on the family's health, saying that his father Charles L. Powell weights twenty pounds more than he does and his mother Selina L. Powell weighs only six pounds less, and also weighs more than any of her three brothers in Illinois; asks her if she is finished school and will make her debut.","Reports that Charley (Charles) L. Powell, Jr., Harry and Benton Janney have begun their business named \"H and TB Janney and Co.\" Asks about the boarding school and discusses the difficulties of running one; reports that Frank's family and Mrs. Hammond? are on their way to Memphis to live; reports that Uncle Fred is planning an extended visit to Virginia, and then will probably move to Memphis; says he and Uncle Richard dissolved their partnership and that Uncle Richard plans to move to Memphis as well; reports that crops are poor, so his business will be slow; plans to see them for Christmas.","Reports that there is a County Fair next week; describes in detail an incident of a burning well; expresses sorrow that the family school will be so small this year; reports that the 'W. S. Fair' in Chicago is now over.","Scope and Contents Discussing fall and winter goods being stocked at \"Lloyd's Big Brick\" in Henry, Illinois","family news; mentions marriage of Miss Hutchins, and deaths of 2 children of Mrs. Clara Ferguson; received invitation to wedding of \"Miss Mittie;\" gives his opinion of marriage.","A French teacher at the boarding school died; mentions excitement due to 'John' Browne's execution and that there are 26 companies of soldiers at Charlestown, West Virginia; mentions growing discontent of slaves; describes how men have loaded pistols ready in their homes; tells how many people are being imprisoned; tells of other strains between North and South; some family news; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Reports that Uncle Richard's baby has been christened Elizabeth Jenkins Lloyd; comments that this is the day that John Brown is to be executed; comments on the number of arrests in Virginia of strangers traveling through the state. Including newspaper clipping, n.d., of a poem about infants.","Discusses Professors Wise and LaMountain's attempt to establish daily balloon transportation from the \"Western\" states to the East Coast; family news; says he is anxious for the family in Illinois to move south; mentions the execution of \"Cook and his Confederates\" involved in John Brown's attempted insurrection on December 16.","Invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Scope and Contents Mentions and encloses invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party; describes events at the party; describes weather and reports of a sleighing party; reports marriage of Mary Ann Hoyt, friend of the family. Including note from Maggie J. Richmond, Henry, Illinois, to Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, 1860 February, inviting him to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Talks about Uncle Richard's? baby girl; gives report of Charles L. Powell and some family news.","Discusses \"spring fever\" concerning work; describes weather; speaks of Uncle Nelson's Lloyd death and how it should be a happy time; thanks his father for \"Alexandria Gazettes\" containing articles about the Whig convention; family news.","Writes about her feelings during the time following her brother Nelson's death; recounts the last days she spent with Nelson Lloyd.","Talks about assessed value of some land or property and makes reference to Lloyd Brothers and Co.; speaks of crops and the effects of the weather; mentions how road being finished would provide trade with those on the other side of the river; township will vote on how to acquire additional funds to complete the road; mentions the whig convention and how they now represent such a small minority of people.","Talks of spring dresses and bonnets; mentions hearing address by William McDonald; discusses opening of a shoe and book manufactory; speaks of beating \"the 'Yankees' with their own men;\" family news; religious advice; mentions use of telegraph.","Discusses agriculture and effects of weather on crops; talks of visiting New England and of dislike of their attitudes; expresses extreme negative opinion of 'Yankees.'","Family news; mentions work at the store; discusses events around town. Including poem? written in Latin on both sides of envelope. Locks of hair also enclosed.","Discusses crops and agriculture; describes Illinois scenery; family news; inquires about trip to Capron Springs; mentions \"Uncle Richard's\" card selling tour.","Discusses Congressional race; mentions Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky and his visit to Illinois; talks about rise in crime; family news.","Discusses confusion about having joined the church; religious discussion; some family and neighborhood news.","Inquires about trip to New England; mentions \"Alexandria Sentinel;\" family news.","Discusses climate and busy season of Christmas; debates issue of Civil War and effects; gives religious advice; family news; Robert Young Conrad.","Discusses problems due to political and financial situation of the country; talks about boils on his hand; family news; mentions kindness of Mayor Turner.","Nina's eighteenth birthday; discusses the weather; talks about sleighing and skating; mentions \"Pickwick Papers\" and describes hunting interest; makes reference to several literary works.","Talks of trade being slow; election of a Mr. McFadden as \"Justice of the Peace\"; mentions sleighing and the weather; describes hayride in snow and people he went with.","Discusses his indebtedness to his father and his financial situation.","Discusses political situation and \"imminent danger of Civil War\"; comments on government involvement and troops in a war; mentions social life.","Scope and Contents Discusses the imminent war and that it will be the third one in her lifetime; talks about effects of a war from past experience; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from \"grandmother\" Catharine Powell, Bellevue, Va.?, to Rebecca Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 January 20, inquiring about being able to paint for her.","Describes his dog and its habits and actions; talks about a fight at a warehouse; family news.","Discusses pros, cons, and possibilities of a war; talks about being able to cross North/South Line if he comes to Virginia; describes weather; mentions indoor winter activities; refers to marriage and courting habits; family news.","Briefly discusses the Navy; describes wedding of Nellie Hall and a Mr. Kellogg; family news.","Information concerning troop movements around Harper's Ferry; mentions a Col. Bowen, superintendent Barbour, and a Col. Moore.","Discusses explosion of armory at Harper's Ferry; speaks of united Southern forces; mentions involvement of friends including Powell Grady; Powell and Holmes Conrad; family news.","Suffering from inflammation of eyes; discusses possibility of Illinois and Virginia residents being separated during the war; Virginia's succession from the Union; Democrats opposition to the war with the South; talks about surrender of Fort Sumter; confusion about whether to leave or stay in Henry; some family news.","Discusses Colonel Robert Lee and movement of troops; mentions Georgetown Heights, Alexandria Heights, and the Valley counties; some family news; mentions Rockingham Rifles.","Blockade established at the mouth of the Ohio; Southern trade suspended; some family news; inquires about situation in Virginia concerning the war.","Discusses a proclamation of Lincoln; politics and effects of the Civil War; dominance of Lincoln's party in Louisville, Kentucky; some family news.","Orders to stop mail from Virginia.; Alexandria occupied by North; Fairfax cavalry taken prisoner; family news.","War's effects on postal service; family news.","Thanks her for package of food and lists contents; speaks of newspaper Richmond Dispatch as a rare luxury; describes camp life; enemy is at Williamsport, Md.","Discusses camp life and its required adjustment; mentions accidental shooting of two men as their only pessimistic experience so far; gives account of battles reported in the Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun; majority of men in army are under 21; describes how soldiers try to get food from surrounding farmers and their families.","Scope and Contents Discusses uniforms, saying that they are everywhere, and that a \"John Brown\" has increased the \"military spirit\" in Virginia; asks about Lloyd; discusses books he has read and that she recommends; describes their daily schedule and when she has time to read; discusses food in season; news of family and friends.","Prepares for battle; states that he is ready to do his duty for his country; mentions that the Continentals lost two men in the engagement the day before.","Regrets that he cannot keep their date for the afternoon due to Army business.","Scope and Contents Mentions her husband's attack of dysentery; family news; gives news of friends and family; hopes war will soon be over so that the family can all be together; expresses religious feelings; wishes that they could write more freely; tells him to send his letters to E. J. Lee in Maryland who will forward them South to them. Including note, from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Winchester, Virginia, to \"Charlie,\" Charles L. Powell, Jr., , relating more family news.","Asks for specific items of clothing to be sent because he does not know when he can return home; refers to Haresack? and asks that she make him a smaller one.","Includes description of L. Powell.","Description of how Lloyd Powell was shot in battle of Manassas; details of his personal characteristics and attitudes.","Scope and Contents Expresses sympathy in regard to Lloyd Powell's death; offers comforting words from the Bible. Including letter, from Sue P. Lee, Lexington, Va. to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 29, offering condolences on the death of her brother, Lloyd Powell.","Thanks Nina for her letter of sympathy concerning the death of her mother; gives news of her brothers and sisters; says that she has terminated her relations with cousin R.? because she could not marry a first cousin; discusses their friendship.","Complains of poor postal service; tells him of Lloyd Powell's death; remembers about Lloyd's characteristics and qualities; says that typhoid fever is spreading in the town; talks about her servants; family news; reports of Willie Lee Chilton's death, a second cousin; expresses religious view.","Love letter to her; proposes marriage to her and her guardian and asks for a reply.","Signed also by J. R. Bowen, Justice of the Peace, stating that Charles L. Powell, Jr. has taken necessary oaths to become Deputy Marshal. . Including on verso, document, from Brigadier General James H. Carson, 1861 October 24, Charles L. Powell, Jr. permission to cross back and forth over enemy lines.","Thanks her for package she sent him; describes his situation and effects of the Civil War.","Thanks her for cap she sent him; his company is located at the \"Big Spring\" near Mr. Gray's.","States that 'Yankees' were in Shepherdstown, WVa. a few nights ago; family news; sends condolences on loss of her brother Lloyd Powell.","Sympathizes upon loss of Nina's brother, Lloyd Powell; relates her story of when her father died; expresses indebtedness to Nina's mother Selina (Lloyd) Powell; mentions sickness prevalent in Winchester, Va.; discusses her brother's Bob Lucas experiences as a soldier; Charles L. Powell, Sr., has accepted position in Richmond; news of spending summer at Col. LaRue's in Clarke to escape the Yankees.","Thanks her for a cap she made and sent to him; expecting to go to camp soon; some family news.","Tells of explosion that a Mr. Hubard caused trying to perfect something like \"Greek fire\" to sell to the government, similar to a powder to use in shells; describes condition of Mr. Hubard, his subsequent operations and death.","Scope and Contents Wanted to give her news from Winchester, Virginia, but \"the spy\" had to burn his information for fear it would fall into enemy hands; tells stories of houses being searched by soldiers; news of friends and relatives; decorated with \"Confederate States of America\" seal.","Trying to catch up with Stonewall Jackson's troops; describes camp life and strategy concerning the Yankees.","Possibility of 'Yankees' taking Richmond; discusses importance of trust in God during battles; inquires about Robert Lee.","General information on troop movements; mentions Battle of Williamsburg.","Describes being a member of Jackson's Army; mentions \"Rockbridge Artillery\" being full; family news. Decorated with \"Liberty and Union\" seal.","Stonewall Jackson captured two entire enemy regiments; enemy took part of Central Railroad; troop movements.","Family news; disappointment about not being able to be with Stonewall Jackson in his last fight.","Discusses the family's living arrangements; thanks her for finding a home for her to stay in, but feels it would be less imposing if she stayed where Nina is teaching in Prince Edward County; hopes that they can all live together soon; rejoices over Jackson's victory in retaking the \"old town\"; says that the Garlands have been very kind during her stay with them; discusses her traveling plans.","Death of friends, Willie Gray and Marshall Barton; death of various others in war including Turner Asby; talks of having made herself a sun-bonnet; news of family and friends.","Speaks of getting a job as a clerk in Major Vaun's office; information about Stonewall Jackson's victories; reports Colonel Ashby's death.","Reviews routine activities; much family and friend news; discusses Stonewall Jackson's troops.","Scope and Contents Everyone feeling ill and weighing less; family news; possible fighting in Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson is at Hanover Junction, Va.; problem with fleas.","He cannot get into the Rockbridge Artillery; she is staying with a Col. and Mrs. Tucker; battle of Richmond has begun; family news.","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Fighting around Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson's Army arrived to help; describes strategies and events of war.","Details about progress of the war; family news.","Scope and Contents Personal experience in Army. Including newspaper clipping of a poem by John. R. Thompson, entitled \"Ashby\" from a Richmond, Virginia newspaper dated 1862 June 13 , about the war.Verso is Rebecca Powell to Selina (Lloyd) Powell.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Stonewall Jackson's army and his efforts in Richmond, Virginia; relates events of war and involvement of friends and relatives; family news.","Discusses people she knows who have been wounded or killed in the war; refers to battles at Richmond and Chickahominy, Va.; family news.","Expresses disappointment that her parents didn't get to visit her; complains of \"M's\" temper; gives list of supplies that she has purchased or ordered.","Preparing to go to Gordonsville to join Braxton's Battery; family news.","Has joined Braxton's artillery; give details of battles and accounts of those wounded and killed.","Describes battle between his battery and the 'Yankees;' describes Captain Braxton.","He has jaundice; personal account of stay in Richmond; discusses salary; accounts of the war.","Charles L. Powell, Jr. was killed; added to letter later her husband is still yellow with jaundice; saw the President Davis and his wife; family news.","Explains events of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death near Warrenton Springs, Va.; includes sketch of battlegrounds.","Town gossip; tells story of a Dr. Conrad's arrest and ordeal; family news.","Talks of our troops making it into Maryland; family news; prevalence of typhoid fever; discusses Southern attitudes about the Civil War, and Northerners.","Religious account and explanation of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death.","Informs her of \"Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. death; encloses a copy of Capt. Carter M. Braxton's report of the events leading to Charles L. Powell's death.","Offers sympathy for the loss of his son, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes the death of their sister Ellen Powell Gray; reports on the welfare of Ellen's family - Mr. William Gray, Kate and Arthur; news of family. Including letter from \"Mother\" Selina L. Powell, to Hattie Powell. Discusses the state of their belongings in their former house in Winchester and what will be sold through cousin Sarah Powell Conrad; says if they do not intend to return, then it should all be sold.","Thanks her for her sympathy upon death of Rebecca's brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; expresses religious views; family news.","Responds to news of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death; family news; reports on her own health.","Includes description of Charles L. Powell and the battle. (Newspaper clipping.)","Scope and Contents Lots of family and town news; mentions that army is located near her in Winchester, Virginia","Gives her daily routine schedule; involved in knitting for the soldiers; doesn't seem to think 'Yankees' will approach Richmond, Va.; remembers her son \"Charley\" Charles L. Powell, Jr. often.","Discusses their friendship and situation of the Civil War.","Expresses sympathy for the death of her brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes in detail the death of her mother, Ellen Powell Gray and reveals her feelings concerning it; gives news of their Powell relatives.","Discusses daily routine; problem with typhoid fever; family news.","Family news.","Comments on incidents of typhoid fever; family news; discusses her minister and baptism of a baby.","Describes circumstances of her daughter Annie's sickness and death; offers sympathy for death of Charles L. Powell, Jr.; family news; including recital of Fenella's funeral rites; \"Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust...\".","Discusses business matters in Winchester that she is taking care of for Charles L. Powell; discusses the ear and the situation in Winchester; sends him some books, stating that the 'Yankees' carried off the rest of them; reports of a proposed armistice.","Describes sickness causing a delirious state for a few days; family news; knitting as a popular pastime; discusses weather; 'Yankees' still have Gloucester Point as a fort; soldiers suffering from \"rot\" that kills them.","Scope and Contents Discusses John Milton's works; family news; Longstreet's Corps has occupied many points near Culpeper Court House. 2 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va. to \"sister\" either Hattie or Rebecca Powell, , 1862 November 5, reporting family news. Also including note from Selina Powell,Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va.. Expresses grief over Annie Lee's death; asks about Robert E. Lee; prevalence of typhoid fever; describes weather and landscape; 'Yankees' did not disturb Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s grave; family news.","Sends this letter with a letter from Hunter, her brother; comments that Hattie has now been gone from Winchester eight months; says life is fine when Confederate soldiers are in Winchester, but that it is miserable when the 'Yankees' come; says General Jackson has visited them and has his headquarters on the road to Front Royal; says he gave her his photograph and he will send a copy; writes that they are working very hard because the few servants in town are cooking for the soldiers; lists people who will leave town if the 'Yankees' return; says Cousin Betty looks unwell because she works so hard in the hospitals ; writes that they only have 500 sick beds in the hospitals; mentions the destruction by 'Yankees' in other counties; fears they will soon suffer.","Sends thanks for present he received because it will be useful during the winter; expresses desire for peace in the country.","Family news; expresses concern that the Southern army is suffering from a lack of clothes.","Expresses her feelings of loneliness, as she lives among strangers; expresses other worries of disease and of the war; discusses problems with diphtheria in the neighborhood; comments on the shortage of men in the neighborhood, in particular healthy, attractive ones; discusses the hardships of Uncle Prosser and Aunt ReBecca whose former servants burnt much of their property; news of friends and family.","Discusses the condition of Charles L. Powell's estate and what business has been transacted; lists what articles from their home have been sold, commenting that most people in Winchester are not buying things because they are leaving to journey \"up the Valley\"; reports that 4000 men are guarding Winchester, that some tobacco has been burned, and that preparation for evacuation is underway; describes 'Yankee' attacks in Charlestown; comments on the effect of the fear of attack on everyone in the town; gives news of friends.","Scope and Contents Comments on problems with influenza; refers to a Capt. Duff and his defense of Leesburg, Virginia; gives news of town since troops have arrived; family news.","Makes references to the Clarke Cavalry and a Capt. Carter; possessions have been pillaged and towns have been ruined; has to quit farming because of war.","Wishes Nina a Happy Birthday; refers to God and asks to enter his Kingdom; mentions a friend who died from diphtheria; discusses Stonewall Jackson's opposition to the enemy at Port Royal, Va.; family news.","Discusses everyone's fear of diphtheria; family news.","Makes references to Gen. Robert E. Lee's victories; lots of family news.","Expresses the difficulty of losing so many brave men in the war.","Reminisces about their last Christmas together; discusses the slaves and their ability to be dangerous.","Scope and Contents Expresses desire for peace and to return to Winchester, Virginia; much town and family news; sorry they can't spend Christmas together.","She has been ill with a cough and cold; family news.","Inquires about a John Tabb; tells activities of Kate Gordon who is staying with them; mentions a bombazine fine twilled silk fabric; people looking for teaching positions; family news.","Lots of town and family news.","Problems with smallpox; family news; mentions Judge Lee's ? suicide. .","Her husband, Charles L. Powell, Sr., is still looking for a teaching job; recommends reading as a worthwhile hobby.","Describes how her family spent Christmas; thanks her for the cap she made for her brother Rob; discusses the sadness of Hattie's Christmas; discusses friendship; reports that she heard from Mary ? who is living behind Union lines in King George.","Mentions a Col. Tucker?; talks about her personal health; refers to the \"conscript act\"; gives impressions of deaths resulting from the Civil War and ideas of a forthcoming peace; family news.","Family news; refers to robbery of all servants; tells stories of confrontations with the enemy and experiences while at war; discusses food he has to eat; mentions has heard news of Grandma's death; mentions William Edmonson Jones.","family news; discusses her pay for tutoring.","Mentions their father's new employment in Greenville; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Family news; describes some of daily activities.Including N. C. E.?, to Nina Powell, , post 1863 March 13 giving neighborhood news.","Scope and Contents Comments on Cavalry's victory in Culpeper, Va.; describes poverty situation in Winchester, Virginia, as result of Civil War; discusses situations in Romney, West Virginia; family news.","Gives information on job prospects; family news.","Found a teaching job in Powhatan; describes location and plans to build a house.","Comments on his activities in the Army; refers to \"the Picketts;\" tells of damage and destruction in Winchester, Va., as a result of 'Yankee' invasion.","Comments on experiences in Army; expresses sadness that young men can't receive education during the war; family news; states that Tip? Powell and Frank Grady were captured in Loudoun, Va.","Discusses clothes; family news; says they will visit Shirley Plantation soon; says Mary? must remain within the Union lines because the only way to leave is to walk eighteen miles at night, carrying baggage; mentions Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Custis Lee.","Mentions interest in soldiers, especially the South Carolina gentlemen; talks about sources of entertainment; family news.","Describes his house and surroundings; family news.","Mentions \"taking bitters (a tea) made of sarsaparilla root\" for strength and to purify her blood; expresses hopes for war to soon be over; 'Yankees' now have Fauquier under their control; family news; refers to receiving news through the Enquirer.","Scope and Contents Discusses when the family members will see each other; gives news of Powell relatives at Locust Hill; says that goods cannot be sent to them from Locust Hill Leesburg, Virginia because of a blockade; inquires about the fighting in Fredericksburg.","Talks about General Stuart's decision to review his Division; refers to great loss at Battle of Chancellorsville in the death of General \"Stonewall\" Jackson; describes events of war near Rowlesburg, WVa.; comments on his troops various attacks on different Railroads; gives details about other battles.","Family news; comments on how quickly her chickens are dying.","Discusses fighting in the Civil War and loss of servants; family news and sick and wounded from Battle of Gettysburg.","Comments on war, pestilence and famine; discusses the Civil War.","States that Nina Powell has been recommended to him to take care of his children as well as tutoring them; requests response to his offer.","Discusses pillaging by the Union troops; comments on men who have given their lives for the southern cause; family news.","Comments on scarcity of various staples; offers her $300 to come and teach his children.","Scope and Contents Discusses \"keeping house\" and how much it costs to do so; family news; comments on the Battle of Manassas.Including note from ?, , to Hatty sic Powell, , undated, discussing delivery of enclosed note to Custis Lee.","Attempts to appease Nina's apprehensions about coming to Hanover County if the enemy is there; wants her to begin working the first of October.","Offer to substitute himself for William Henry Fitzhugh Lee as a Northern prisoner of War.","Family news; questions Nina about her \"beaux\" and his courting ways; discusses education.","Refers to burning her previous letter in case of a fight whence it could become public; relates news of troops; family news; discusses fight from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan Rivers.","Scope and Contents Family news.","Lots of family news; states that a man named Taylor Johns has fallen in love with Nina Powell; discusses situation at the Stringfellow's, where Nina now lives.","Discusses in detail his new teaching position; family information.","Gives cotton prices as $3.75 a yard; discusses Battle at Manassas; family news.","Comments on her husband's new position in Albemarle; family news; mentions some events in reference to the Civil War.","Says she saw her father Charles L. Powell, Sr. on his way to move into Cousin R's?; describes her trip to Charlottesville; expresses satisfaction that her mother is able to stay with Uncle Fred and Lute; reports she has eleven scholars.","Family news; discusses her job as a teacher; discusses \"preserving with molasses\"; expresses anger and confusion about Nina's beaux David ?","Discusses his teaching position.","Family news.","Gives opinion on attitudes of young people; family news; expresses interest in religion.","Discusses plans for Christmas, including costs involved and where they can stay; discusses death of Cousin? Temple Grady and its effect on other relatives; discusses teaching and their role in the war effort.","Refers to a battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee; and General Longstreet; discusses cotton and its discount price of $18 a bale; comments on young gentlemen who have come to visit her; other town and family news.","Thanks Hattie for her kind gift of a Bible; gives details of present experience as a soldier in the Civil War; expresses sadness for those who died in the battle.","Mentions a Carrie Hobson's death resulting from a \"perforation of the bowels\" (typhoid fever); family and town news; mentions Temple Grady's brother of C. Powell Grady? death; refers to having some corsets made.","Family news.","Family news; expresses concern about \"national affairs;\" discusses religious point of view.","Family news; discusses General Bragg and his great ability as a leader.","Family news; states that he met Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War and they discussed Judah Benjamin; gives some views of what is happening with the Civil War.","Mentions General Longstreet's retreat from Knoxville, Tenn.; comments on giving Nina some linen for \"sleeves or sleeve bands;\" family news; discusses harvesting of crops; comments on threats that \"Yanks\" are making.","Discusses insufficiency of cotton crops; mentions that her son is on a war vessel, in the ocean, \"larger than the Florida and the Alabama.\"","Family news.","Refers to travel by carriage; discusses mailing \"bleached cotton;\" family news.","Mentions story where 'Yankees' come into towns and arrest Southerners; refers to daguerreotypes; writes a poem/prayer to God about grief he and others have experienced.","Wishes Nina a Merry Christmas since she (Nina) will be together with her parents; family news.","Discusses the inclement weather; states that she had butter and tea for celebration on Christmas morning; gives price of calico as $ 6 per yard.","Comments on her friends spending New Year's Eve at the President's; mentions walking to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; family news; refers to cotton vs. bleached cotton; discusses typhoid fever; comments on subject of religion.","Family news; expresses hopes for an end to the Civil War; mentions a book, \"Home Influency\" that deals with raising children.","Mentions losing her heart to a Lieutenant Blackford; family news.","Mentions having forgotten Nina's birthday and becoming more absent minded; states that demonstrating affection in public is not good practice; gives advice and opinion on men and courting; has put \"vie dollars in gold and $25 in Virginia. Bank notes\"; and discusses school teaching; family news.","Has been suffering from sickness similar to typhoid fever; mentions that many servants have the measles; states that the key to her watch is worn out and she cannot wind it.","Offers advice about teaching; has seen John C. Pemberton; family news.","Discusses her illness typhoid fever?; describes her Christmas diversions.","Comments on how he misses having the women in his family at home; family news; discuses some aspects of the Civil War; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Family news; expresses hope that the Civil War will soon end; expresses grief of her Mother's death.","Expresses concern about Hattie Powell's sickness; family news and town gossip; mentions some of the types of food they've been eating; talks about \"yanks\" and their disruptiveness; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Gives Nina advice on how to terminate her engagement with John Dupuy; writes of the death of Hunter McGuire's sister, May; says she now has twelve scholars; news of family and friends; discusses books and mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Says she has been busy knitting gloves, sewing, teaching, nursing, and being sick; says she is nearly \"well and fat\" again; says that her hair has not started to come back yet, but that when it does, she has been told to shave it; asks who Nina's friend Lizzie is; describes people she has met; reports where troops are; discusses ways she is trying to get cotton.","Advises Minnie not to be grieved about their mother's death; some family news.","Article in which Jefferson Davis praises the Confederate soldiers for their \"devotion and self-sacrifice,\" and assures them of their capabilities against the declining enemy; also includes a commentary about Davis' speech, stating that the present spirit of the South has never been paralleled in history.","Congratulates Nina on her engagement to John J. Dupuy; discusses their friendship; news of family and friends.","Family news.","Mentions a girl's death from diphtheria; refers to traveling by train; discusses blockade of the Potomac River; comments on greenbacks and their value; refers to the 'Yankee Congress;' general Civil War news.","Gives consent for him to marry Nina after listing the pros and cons of the situation.","Town news and family news; refers to knitting as a past time; states that her hair has not begun to \"come out yet\".","Discusses her new beau; much family and town news; refers to events of the Civil War and the Powhatan troops.","Says that her employer, Mrs. Stringfellow, has offered to allow her two weeks for Easter; asks permission to come home; gives detailed plans on how she could get there cheaply; says the \"troops\" will return before Easter; asks if her father is coming home for the holiday.","Discusses selection of a minister; comments on her knitting for the soldiers; town gossip and family news.","Discusses sale of a draft on New York for $625.","Thanks her for gloves she knitted and set to him.","Comments on her sister's problem with inflammatory rheumatism; much town and family news; tells stories of soldiers who have returned home; comments on lack of patriotism in the country; mentions readying.","Tells of a shopping trip she took to Charlottesville, and the people she saw; describes a visit to see their father at Cousin R. Nowland's; discusses the new tax law, the \"panic,\" and the new monetary issue; news of friends and family; mentions reading.","Makes reference to needing a straw-splitter; discusses financial situation; comments on Nina's engagement to \"Brother John\" Dupuy?","Mentions interruption of communications due to Yankee Raid; states that he sat near Gen. Robert E. Lee and Mr. Edmund Lee on a train car and talked with them; describes conversation; discusses the events of the Civil Warincluding Lee's near capture by Custis' divisionary raid through Albemarle County, during the Kilpatrick - Dahlgren Raid on Richmond; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Much town news; discusses 'Yankees' and their progression; comments on her attempts to hide her silver on her body in order to keep it from the Yankees.","Family news; expresses religious views.","Family news; discusses events of the Civil War; including raid by Custis on Albemarle; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Family news.","Discusses the weather; much town and family news.","Says her Easter plans have been cancelled because of the snow storm; mentions how close she (Nina) has been to the Union troops; says she feels much better and now weights 114 pounds; reports on fatal measles in the area; reports on how she has spent her time with Captain Morgan.","Sends her a letter from Kate?","Discusses buying and selling cotton; comments on college opportunities; family news.","Family news and town gossip; comments on gold lace on the coats of those who make rank of Captain.","Family news; refers to Nina's grandmother's Anne Harriotte (Lee) Lloyd death; discusses 'Yankees' and their progress; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Comments on reading as a pastime and mentions ? Cooper's novels; family news; refers to 'Yankees' taking hostages; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Describes her daily schedule; reports how their Aunt Jeanie Lloyd and Aunt ReBecca are doing in relation to the war; describes social visits; mentions an Aunt Nannie; news of family and friends.","Discusses weather and its effects on gardens and crops; comments on 'Yankees' and news about the Civil War; family news.","Family news; comments on news of the Civil War.","Gives detailed description of fighting near Beaver Dam, Va., as told to her by some of the soldiers; mentions visit by Gen. Stuart; describes other events of the war from personal point of view.","Family news; discusses struggle on the Rapidan River; tells of other Civil War news.","Scope and Contents Discusses general battle news; expresses concern about struggle in Hanover County, Virginia.","Discusses events of the war; comments on actions of Yankees.","Scope and Contents Comments on armies being at Hanover Junction and expresses her concern and fears; refers to burning of Powhatan depot by Union troops. Including note from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Charlotte County, Va., to Nina Powell, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 May 24, correcting some spelling errors.","Expresses relief that the 'Yankees' did not come through the area where Nina is; says that her father wants her Nina to leave soon because of the danger; says things are so scarce in Charlotte that there would not be enough to feed her; expresses relief that Nina is not living between the two railroads; says the news they get about the war is encouraging, but she thinks the conflict will be a long one; discusses plans to get the family together.","Refers to battle of Vicksburg; tells of other developments of the Civil War.","Refers to a cousin, Mrs. Randolph Tucker whose house is at the corner of Grace and Adams street in Richmond; family news.","Asks about Nina's daily schedule and when she says prayers; expresses sorrow that Hattie's teaching position near Nina did not work out; tells her she must be self-reliant; says she is waiting to find out if she can join Mr. Powell; discusses the fashions of hats; sends her respects to Mr. Stringfellow.","Much town and family news.","Describes her social schedule; encourages her to pursue a relationship with Willie Booker; news of family.","Recounts all he has been doing for the past two years (has been in charge of a prison).","Asks Nina to change her mind and work for them another year; claims they are safe from the 'Yankees' and that the war will soon be over; praises her teaching of their three girls.","Discusses Union troops' burning of houses in Richmond; gives views on death; family news.","Comments on typhoid fever; family news.","Family news. Mentions not being able to find a nail-brush in the city and forgot India ribbon; comments on 'Yankees' treating people badly; refers to buying lip-glue at Randolph's Book Store; discusses her (Nina's), new house.","Describes Mr. Powell's teaching position with the Scott family; says he is trying to find a place near him for her to stay; says there was a Yankee raid near where he is staying; discusses where friends who are soldiers are stationed; mentions families who are looking for wounded soldiers to employ as teachers.","Much family and town news.","Comments on symptoms of the \"fever\"; expresses religious beliefs concerning deaths resulting from battles; family news and town news.","Family news; discusses teacher's pay.","Much family and town news; inquires about her new home in Richmond, Va..","Discusses one of Nina's pupils and how Nina should act towards the family that is employing her; mentions arrangements to exchange a pair of shoes; reports on friends and family; reports on \"her Willie,\" and where he is stationed; mentions soldiers for whom she has knitted gloves.","Discusses the suitability of Mr. Starke's teaching offer for her mother.","Chides Nina for not writing her; asks if she is spending all her time with Willie Dupuy, who has a wounded shoulder; reports on what she has done socially; asks her to get some cartridges for her pistol when she buys some for her own gun; says Minna Booker is to be married November fourth; discusses sewing.","Transcription of cross hatch letter by Alison Herring:","Blenheim  October 24th","Sunday morning [1864]","Well my lady-love do you know","that it has been almost three weeks","since the arrival of your last letter","to me, and two weeks since I answered","it, and not a line have I had from","you since, no nor a word from either","Pa or Sis since the 9th of the month.","you all must think I am dead, buried,","and forgotten, at least you quite forget","that I get the blues horribly shut up here","in the country when none of you write","to me. I got a letter from Ma on Friday","last the very first letter I had had from","anyone for 10 days, or from anybody","but her for 16.  I have no correspondents this","year at all except you all \u0026 you ought to","write to me often.  And pray miss what are","you so occupied with that you can't find","time to write, friend Markoe or your","poor dear wounded Willie.  I hear through","a letter from Aunt Bec to Ma that you","have spent the day with her, \u0026 thro' Mrs","Stewart that John Tabb was at church","with you and [?] Powell. I suppose","you have not been so quiet that you","[Page 2]","had nothing to write about and I","am just disposed to be charitable","towards you at all, so if you want to","get into my good graces you had better","set yourself right down \u0026 write me","two or three good long letters.  Mother","writes me that Willie Dupuy is at","home wounded in the shoulder \u0026","Capt Watkins in the hand but neither","of them dangerously, however.  I suppose","you have heard all about them, tis not","worth while for me to tell you, and","I reckon Willie will manage to see","Miss Nina before he returns to the army.","Have you ever heard anything from","Mr. Markoe since you went down","in the cars with him, Sis seemed to","think you are decidedly smitten.","Well I suppose as you are so long writing","to me you hardly care to hear what I","have been doing, so I have a great mind","not to tell you, and in fact I hardly","quite know where to begin it has been","so long but just for my own gratification","I will try.  Mr. Willis Hobson has three","South Carolinians at his house, sent from","the hospital, they have been there a long","time very sick \u0026 are just now getting","well enough to visit about. One of them","is a Col Dogan, without exception","[Page 3]","the rudest, most boisterous, vulgar","man I ever saw, well yesterday week","I heard his voice down stairs \u0026","knew he had come to stay all day","so I dressed myself, slipped out the","back way and went over to old","Mrs. Hurt's to spend the day.  I had a","very pleasant day indeed, I found","her [?] an exceedingly intelligent","agreeable girl, I took to her very much","indeed \u0026 I think she did to me, but","she has just lost her father so the vis-","iting will have to be all on my side","for a while.  When I get back in the even-","ing here was Col D still \u0026 he staid until","Wednesday.  Sunday I went down to Eman-","ual and saw Fannie, she was as sweet \u0026 Cordi-","al as ever, she seemed so glad to see me \u0026 says","she is coming up for me soon some Fri-","day evening.  Monday night Mr. [Reich?] a","Marylander belonging to the 3rd Cavalry","staid here all night.  I found him a","very agreeable gentleman I forgot to","say that Sunday while we were at din-","ner Mrs. W. Hobson came over \u0026 brought","her Cousin young Bolling, son of Mr. Robert","Bolling of Fauquier, and brother of Hunter","[Page 4]","McGuires old friend of Philadelphia Dr. B","and Mr. Venning one of the S.C. especial-","ly to see me and I enjoyed their visit","very much indeed.  Mr. Bolling is only","18 but he is six feet tall very handsome","and very agreeable.  Mr. V sings very well","and is a quiet gentlemanly widower but","nothing remarkable.  Tuesday evening Mrs.","H sent a horse for me \u0026 I went over there \u0026","staid all night, and then saw the third","S.C. a Dr. Waring a married man, and","one of the most accomplished elegant","gentlemen I have ever met with. I","came home on horseback Wednesday morning","in time for school \u0026 when I came out of school","found Cousin John here.  He says if it is good","weather next Friday he is coming up to take","me down to his house to stay until Sun-","day where I will come home with the Dr.","from church.  Thursday all the gentlemen","from Mr. H's spent the day here, and Fri-","day Mr. B left this county, but he is a paroled","prisoner and if he is not exchanged soon","will come back.  Friday evening Mrs. H \u0026 my-","self walked over to Mrs. Goodmans one of","our nearest neighbors \u0026 I paid my first","visit there, and her son who went down","in the cars the day you did with Bell","Stewart, walked home with me.  He is a plain","honest, good, solider, but not over burdened","[sideways on page 1]","with intellect.  He says he is coming over to see me this week","and going to bring his pistol for me to practice shooting with","but I doubt whether he does. By the way have you ever been able","to get cartridges for your pistol, if you have I wish you would","get some for me, \u0026 if you haven't get John Tabb to look for some","for you \u0026 me too, I have only two \u0026 I want some very much.","And now, I come to the very purpose for which my let-","ter is written which is to tell you that Dr. Hobson is going","to Richmond this week, probably on Tuesday, the same day","this letter will go, but I shall send this by mail, as there","will be a chance of your getting it sooner, \u0026 I shall send","you by him the handkerchief, collar, \u0026 [shirt sleeves?] for your","silk dress \u0026 a little of my perfume but it did not turn","out well, it will I think do to put in hair oil but that is all.","[sideways across page 2]","The Dr. will stay at Mr. Stewart for about two days I reckon","so if you have gotten cartridges \u0026 have a chance I wish","you would send me some by him.  Have you made your","alpaca dress yet \u0026 how did you make it particularly","the sleeves. I have not picked mine yet nor considered","what to do with it, but Minna Booker is to be married the","4th of next month \u0026 I think I must make it by that","time. I had a present sent me the other day of 3 yds","of unbleached cotton to make a chemise.  I have done","nothing lately except patch a few old clothes \u0026 knit","on my [opra?] stockings for next summer in fact","I have nothing to do.  Well I believe I have exhaust-","ed myself of my subjects too so I will stop, but","mind I expect two letters in answer to this. I am","very anxious to know what Mother will do, and","rather hope she will go to Albemarle, tho' I should","like her to be near you, or I think we could go to","see her there.  Write soon to your own loving","Sister Hattie","Monday.  Dr. H's is so unwell today he thinks he will not","be able to go to Richmond this week and don't know when","he will go so I shall not be able to send your things yet. I","got an invitation yesterday to Minna's wedding next Thurs-","day week.  I am much inclined to go, if the Dr. Don't for-","bid which he seems to be inclined to do. Mrs. H is very anx-","[Sideways on page 3]","ious that I should go.  If I go I shall want my new","dress \u0026 shall have to set to work immediately to make","it, so if you have a new dress pattern, send it to me by","mail at once, I can get a pattern of the yoke come-","ing [waist?], Mag Harris has it.  Yours truly,","H.L.P.","Complains about difficulties in the teaching profession; family news.","Describes her situation at the Garrett's, teaching Lizzie and others; emphasizes the importance of letter writing now that they are apart; discusses Mr. Irving's? failing health; says Lizzie has diphtheria; describes social events; discusses Nina's problems with teaching Blanche; reports on friends who have been wounded or killed in the war; asks bout Cousin Mary Lee and Cousin Emily.","Reports that her brother Rob has been wounded and may have to have his leg amputated; says her brother Jimmie is in Charleston where there is much yellow fever; says they work all day without rest; more family news.","Gives advice on how Nina should manage one of her pupils; reports on what she is doing; discusses clothes; mentions Minna's wedding.","Gives reasons why she hasn't written of late; describes her brother's episode of being shot in the hand and its effects; comments on number of men that are off at war and says that those who remain are \"quaking\"; family news; expresses hope that God will get them through \"these difficulties.\"","Describes her social activities; discusses balancing work and pleasure; news of family and friends.","Asks about her \"new home\" in Richmond and her \"new occupation\" with Mrs. Paleski; describes Minna's wedding; says the weather was so bad that no one could go home, so the reception lasted all night; reports what she has done socially; describes in detail a dress she just made.","Expresses joy that Nina and their mother can live close to each other; reports on her social activities; discusses plans for Christmas; mentions how well the Confederate Cavalry is doing; discusses friends that are soldiers, and which of them she has knitted gloves for.","Describes a preacher, Mr. McGill, who is visiting; describes social events; discusses clothes she is making; questions Junius Powell's decision to go to Bermuda instead of joining the army; mentions Harry Harrison Mrs. Huge's brother who came home after a prisoner at Fort Delaware. .","Discusses how her home was destroyed; details experiences with the Yankees; comments on incarceration of many Southerners in northern prisons and their suffering; family news.","Describes her trip to Charlottesville and the people she visited, including cousin Gert; mentions Sally's? death; says she must soon accept an offer for teaching from Mr. Frank Cabell; discusses depreciation of money; mentions a cousin Ann and a cousin Laura; reports that Tip Powell was taken prisoner.","Discusses the bad weather and muddy roads, says she has not heard from Custis Lee, for whom she made gloves; discusses clothes and Christmas plans; tells Nina to \"change her dress\" whenever she desires, since she will always mourn inside; says she and Rebecca will change theirs in the spring; discusses the problems Winchester is having with the Yankees; mentions Minna's wedding.","Discusses a prospective teaching job for her and his plan for her.","Family news; begs her to spend Christmas with them.","Expresses happiness that her mother and father will finally be able to live together again; comments on Nina Powell's loss of hair; refers to suffering Loudoun County, due to Yankees; family news; describes how a friend spends time trying to find hiding places for her possessions.","Describes a \"homespun\" dress that she has; family news; describes weather; tells her to go to a Christmas get-together where she can met many people, including Robert E. Lee, Custis Lee, and perhaps \"our beloved President\" Jefferson Davis; later mentions rumors that President Davis may be dead.","Mentions pastime crocheting a cap; comments on delay of mail; discusses ordering some supplies from her sister; refers to troop movement on \"the Danville road\"; family news.","Scope and Contents Describes social activities; urges Nina to spend Christmas in Richmond with Cousin Emily; discusses cotton and where to buy it. Including fragment of letter from \"cousin\" Laurence B. Taylor, to ?, , undated, stating that he hopes they will see much of each other in Albemarle County.","Discusses the difficulties of sending mail; inquires about their mother's health; news of friends and the war.","Thanks her for the gauntlets, testament, and book of psalms that she sent him.","Tells what she did during Christmas holidays; discusses her job as a teacher as well as who and what subjects she teaches; family and town news.","Comments on Robert E. Lee's thoughts that the South is in danger; discusses her knitting and whom she has made gloves for; states how she doesn't understand men; family news.","Discusses the possibility of Nina being engaged to Willie Dupuy; says she would like to know him better before she can consent; would like for her to make the final decision herself; says their engagement would last indefinitely because they are both poor and Willie was \"disabled\" from the war; asks her to consider these issues.","Scope and Contents Responds to her requesting permission to be engaged to Mr. William Dupuy?; gives feelings about entire situation; refers to evacuation of Richmond, Virginia.","Family news; asks her to send her stamps and black glazed cotton and to look for strawsplitters; describes episode of being thrown from horse.","Discusses how busy she is making gloves; mentions Nina's engagement/involvement with a \"brave, Christian soldier.\"","Discusses possibility of Nina moving to Norwood if Richmond is given up.","family news; discusses the bond between two who love each other.","Expresses happiness about Nina's now official engagement to Mr. William Dupuy; other family news.","Hattie Powell, Blenheim, Albemarle County, Va., to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell.","Gives advice on how to express feelings of love to her fiance, in her correspondence.","Gives her advice about her situation with Mr. Dupuy; tells her to make up her own mind and to be sure of his character and their love; advises that if she is certain that she wants to be engaged to him, then not to hold back her feelings and to show her trust; gives more advice.","Scope and Contents Family news; expresses her approval of William Dupuy as Nina's fiance. 4 pages. letter signed. Includes copy of letter, 1865 February 10 from William Dupuy to \"Sir\" Charles L. Powell, Sr., , discussing his and Nina's relationship and betrothal.","Gives advise on Nina's relationship with a young man Willie Dupuy; says that if they ever get married they would always be poor; discusses what he will want in a wife; discusses Nina's fear that her ways are not elegant enough for him because he was brought up in higher society; reveals her philosophy on how to act in society, how to view oneself, and how to act towards men to keep them interested.","Comments on attempts to regain some of their family possessions; discusses the break-up of Nina Powell's engagement; mentions Hattie Powell's arrival in Goochland, Va., family news.","Discusses Nina's problem with an employer, Mrs. Powell, and suggests other families she could work for; says she can spend $ 350 on material for summer clothing; discusses the plight of the South; reveals her feelings about Nina's engagement; describes a visit to Norwood where her parents are working for Mr. Cabell; reports that cousin Lizzie Powell, fourth daughter of Uncle Llew, is to be married; news of family and friends; mentions teaching.","Discusses materials for sewing dresses; expresses her anger at how Mrs. Powell (an employer) treated Nina; discusses her neighbors where she is teaching, saying none are suitable for Nina to live with and teach for; gives news of friends and family; says they have a soldier staying there; mentions teaching. Including newspaper clipping advertising for teachers.","Thanks her for presents she sent him; expresses hope of seeing her again soon.","Lots of family news; discusses Union troops.","Says Mr. Philip Cabell is stopping by \"Bremo\" on his way to Richmond, so she is taking this opportunity to send a letter; discusses opportunities for her to work with other families and how she should set this up; wishes she could come to see them but says it is impossible because the canal is \"broken up,\" the roads are bad, and the 'Yankees' destroyed the carriage; hopes that she is comfortable at General Cocke's; hopes that he doesn't mind her being there since he is a wealthy man. Letter is continued on a small slip of paper - advises on the different uses of \"shall\" and \"will\" in writing letters.","Expresses relief that she is safe after traveling through dangerous area; says that their parents had some trouble when traveling, and that they lost some clothes; discusses an offer to teach in Keysville, Charlotte County; reports battle action in the area; asks what she thinks about her giving her silver cup to \"the government;\" mentions the death of their aunt Ann's baby, Fannie.","Mentions sending carpet bags to her parents filled with necessary items she could spare; comments on 'Yankees' being on southside of the James River, Va. and dreading a raid.","Send the key to her bonnet box; mentions a cousin Kate Noland and an Aunt Bettie Conrad; news of family and friends.","Discusses surrender of Confederates in detail; expresses religious beliefs about result of the Civil War; describes battle in Richmond, Va..","Comments on prohibition from traveling North; mentions recognition by France and the French position; gives religious opinions; describes some of the remnants left by 'Yankees.'","Reports news of post-war events since Hattie receives no news in the country; expresses the sentiments and anxieties of those in an occupied city, discusses Robert E. Lee and his sons; reports rumors about Booth, Jefferson Davis, and the surrender of the army of Joseph E. Johnston to William T. Sherman; discusses the sacrifices of the last four years and where it has led.","Describes the people with whom she is staying; expresses joy that she feels comfortable in Richmond; says she hears rumors about whether Richmond will be given up or not; tells her to come to them if there is any danger; news about friends.","Describes a battle at Fort Jackson that she was able to witness from her cousin's house; says Hunter ? is the medical doctor of Ewell's Corps; mentions lack of provisions; says she had to work very hard last winter.","Refers to \"free negroes\" and the fall of Richmond; tells stories of robbers in various neighborhoods; discusses difficulty to have faith in God where there is so much suffering; also refers to bands of \"negro robbers\" and describes their actions.","Lots of family news; expresses sorrow and grief about living through these times.","Lots of family news; comments on problems with servants; refers to death of Lincoln and memorial service for him.","Reports that Mr. Cabell bought a horse from a Mississippi soldier; reports that a Yankee soldier came to the house asking for brandy; says that she and Fan ? are closing school for the summer; says she will soon come to Norwood to visit them.","Discusses health, says she has rheumatism; says they will stay in Richmond until July; tells their options of where to go; considers the cost of the Civil War; discusses the condition of President Davis, prisoner at Fort Monroe; says the \"Yankee officers\" are being kinder to Richmonders; says Pierrepont has just arrived in Richmond.","Reports she is staying with relatives but that it is so crowded, she will leave soon; says the house has been burned down, so they are living in log cabins; tells that she will soon go to Canada to visit her brother Horace; discusses where Nina could set up a school in that neighborhood.","Tells of her religious belief about the Civil War and how she prays daily; discusses subject of white vs. black labor; family news; comments on cruel treatment of \"our\" President Jefferson Davis; refers to a Dr. Hoge who denies trying to begin a colony in Brazil.","Expresses difficulty in accepting downfall of Confederacy; family news; discusses Nina's engagement to Willie Dupuy.","Family news.","Poem entitled \"The Bachelor's Consolation\" written by \"Goodman A. Bachelor.\"","Family news; comments on Nina's engagement; discusses situation with Black persons; comments on elections and how soldiers were put into many of the civil offices; plans for jousting tournament.","Discusses the family's moving to a new house and how they all can be reunited once again.","Discusses where they may move; says the 'Yankees' have possession of her home in Arlington; says the situation in Richmond is better since Pierrepont Pierpont arrived; gives news about family; mentions Robert E. Lee (1843-1914) and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Discusses Nannie's ? wedding; says their father will need her Nina home for the opening of school; tells how she has been spending her time; discusses the school; reports that Mary ? is there; expresses fear for her Aunt Mary because of the threats of a Black uprisings in southern Virginia; asks if everything is going well between Nannie and Willie Booker.","Discusses the continuing uncertainties of where their family will live; says she will return to work at Mr. Cabell's because she cannot depend on family plans; describes her visit to Greenwood.","Discusses a horse riding jousting tournament and social event that followed; family news.","Reports travel plans; lists social events; news of friends; says she will begin at Mr. Cabell's in two weeks.","Says that she just realized that it is her 56th birthday; discusses some issues on etiquette; says that she is glad that she is pleased with her new house; has heard that the 'Yankees' are advancing on Charlottesville; says Gloucester is having problems with the Yankees, so she will not return there; expresses disappointment that Mr. Powell did not secure a certain job that would have allowed them all to live together; says that the Redds and the Bookers have been very kind to her and do not want her to leave; writes that the Dupuy's son Willie? has bullet wounds in both thighs and in the foot.","Family news.","Describes a boat trip she took with Sallie ? to Norwood; gives news of Mr. William Cabell; discusses literature; news of friends and family.","Says Hunter has a small (medical) practice; gives news about what her other brothers? are doing; says Willie is doing well despite the time he spent in prison; tells how he was marched by their home last winter by the 'Yankees' and taken to prison; tells how their house was used as a hospital, her family was put under arrest, and they were forced to live with the 'Yankees' for six months; expresses her hatred of the 'Yankees;' discusses how the last four years have changed her; tells how Gert ? was working in the hospitals and on the battle field, caught a disease and has been bedridden for the last thirteen months; says she was very weak last winter because of the hard work and anxiety; says she could no longer work in the hospitals because of how the sights of war affected her.","Scope and Contents Family news; comments on the meeting of Congress and its result on the restoration of southern property.","Writes about Presbyterian Conference she is attending; gives town and family news.","Scope and Contents Gives history of a family, telling which troop each son is in; comments on the scarcity of paper, which is why she is writing on the back of a letter written to her by her mother. Letter Including on back: Selina Powell, Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to \"daughter\" Hattie Powell. Asks her about her fever and if it is interfering with her teaching; says Mr. Powell visited her for a week; says she will stay in Charlotte all winter; mentions death of Carry Hobson.","Scope and Contents Sends her a pair of slippers which she made the best she could with the materials available; says she wanted to do something for her during \"these war times\"; says her father is not home yet; gives list of things Rebecca needs.","Discusses the importance of having nice handwriting; describes Kate's ? studies; grieves over how many have lost their homes and hopes that her daughter could have a couple of years off from teaching; says those who must have employment are happiest; writes of family and friends; discusses her Uncle G's ? method of teaching. Including attached insert saying that Mr. H. ? declined her father's services.","Describes the scene when the 'Yankees' came into the home of Dr. Robert Baldwin; says Dr. Baldwin was kicked out of town because he refused to pay a servant; describes how the town has changed since the Union troops have taken over; mentions a man named Milroy who seems to be their leader; gives news of family members many of whom have been sick; describes a puppy he has gotten; describes a battle in which many 'Yankees' were taken as prisoners; says Milroy has escaped and has gone to Washington; says all of her furniture is not sold and that they cannot try to sell it while the 'Yankees' are here; discusses Dr. Daniel Conrad's practice.","Asks what Jeanie ? will do all summer; says she has heard that all the carriage horses in Gloucester have been carried off; says she will go to Powhatan to join her husband who is working for Mr. Michaux; says the 'Yankees' are in Shepherdstown but that the Confederates have Winchester.","Speaks of the last four years, the excitement and the trials; discusses \"the college\" that Robert is involving with; discusses the difficulty of finding good help; describes their house, saying it is handsome to \"confederate eyes;\" expresses sadness that her home is still used by Union troops; discusses Alexandria.","Comments on the postal problems and hopes she has been receiving her letters; gives news of the Bookers; writes of her anxiety over how she Nina is and discusses her travel plans to Prince Edward; discusses where the 'Yankees' are stationed; writes of the family's plans for the summer.","Sends her cotton for stockings; comments on postal problems; discusses the safety of Richmond; discusses sewing and fashions; news of family and friends.","Discusses the dilemma of Southerns taking the \"oath\" with the Northerners so that they can protect their property.","Reports that Captain Watkins and Willie Dupuy have been wounded; says she does not know which battle they were in; news of friends; says she has heard from Mr. Powell recently; discusses dresses.","Says that she sent socks to Willie ? who is in the army; mentions the death of James Mcoughty?","Describes how to make Mrs. Sharpe's ? hat; describes Lute's hat; says she will get two or three hundred dollars in Northern money from an Uncle William.","34 items.","Discusses teaching; describes trip to Charlottesville and adventurous train ride; mentions Sandy Pendleton's ? wedding; discusses Trip's ? health.","Sends Rebecca a picture of Robert E. Lee, taken during the war (picture is dated 1866 January 20 ); writes of Lexington where they have just moved; gives news of family.","Describes her social activities; gives teaching position that Hattie is considering; reports that 'Yankees' are being strict in their town.","Discusses poor mail service; describes Alexandria as dull town with spirit of despondency, town may be forced into the District of Columbia; describes visit of Henry Hallowell ?; much family and town news.","Discusses crocheting, books they have read; family news and gossip.","Discusses family news; speaks of financial situation of buying a house in Baltimore; discusses problems of retrieving household items (portraits, furniture, etc.) and where to put them.","Discusses details of retrieving family possessions from the Office of Confiscation; includes list of objects missing.","Describes her trip and her stay with Cousin Lee; tells of relatives and other people she has seen; will continue traveling.","Discusses daily life and schedule; family news.","Describes her trip to Dr. Wights' and tells of the people she met there; discusses dresses; asks about the family.","Description of the political happenings in Washington, D.C.: the disputes between President Johnson and the \"Radicals,\" Mr. Johnson's veto message, the South's need to have representation in Congress; tells his view of these happenings; discusses attempts to retrieve articles from the confiscation office; family news.","Tells of difficulty she has dealing with current hardships, \"Yankee\" rule, and free Black persons; news about friends in the neighborhood.","Describes dinner at New Market and the people she saw there; describes conditions of roads, outlawing carriage rides; much news of family and friends.","Tells of people she has seen or heard from.","Discusses family news and news of friends; talks of sewing projects.","Gives an account of her \"Easter excursion,\" reporting what she did and whom she met; says Mrs. Atkins has no servants, so she will have to clean her own room.","Describes events of neighborhood; tells news of friends; tells of religious happenings, Mr. Wharey's ? reform in the church, and her religious sentiments; writes of her gloomy feelings about the South, her distrust of the Yankees, and her rebellious feels toward them; congratulates Nina on having her own \"home.\"","Tells of stay in Cumberland with her \"sister and brother\"; tells of problems in retrieving household items lost in war; Douglas' Forrest?her husband? law practice is improving.","Asks Nina to welcome her friend, Mr. Henry Theodore Wight, who brings the letter, and make his stay in Alexandria pleasant.","Tries to convince Nina to take a trip next summer; describes new bonnet styles; describes her friend Henry Theodore Wright who will be taking a trip to Alexandria; discusses clothes.","Gives her view on the family taking in boarders, saying children would be easier for their mother to handle; asks about the \"Council;\" reports on what she has done socially; discusses the dresses she has made; says that yesterday the people of Richmond decorated the Confederate soldiers' graves; says she wishes she had gone; says Mrs. Adkins did not go, but sent flowers to Richmond. Written on letter from J. Walker, Dover ?, to Hattie Powell, Rolling Views, undated. Sends her flowers and asks her to come to visit him.","Describes her visit to Richmond, people she visited, and how many commented on how well she looked compared to last winter; describes clothes she is making.","Asks her to send ribbon for a dress she will wear to a day-long affair at Norwood; news of friends.","Discusses their plans to go to Prince Edward County; discusses what clothes she has and what she may need; news of family and friends.","Explains why she cannot attend the gathering at Mr. Redd's that night; says she must listen to her head and not her heart so that she may get well; says she is tired of feeling ill and weak.","Invites Nina and Hattie Powell to come stay with them; says she feels better and is very excited to see them.","Expresses her joy that she arrived home safely, and her regret that her mother Selina Powell has taken ill; describes a jousting tournament among young boys or \"knights,\" in which the girls were honored as Queens and Maids of Honor; news about family and friends.","Gives her condolences for her uncle's death and her mother's illness; tells her of Nancy's Lettie's sister engagement and tells Nina not to leave her to marry a man; much news of family and friends.","Thanks Nina for her letter congratulating her and Willie Booker on their engagement; news about her fiance; tells her adventures of keeping the house while her mother was gone; news of family and friends.","Writes that her father is looking for board for her Selina and until then she will stay in Charlotte; recommends that Nina not write to a man unless she is engaged to him or unless he is an old family friend; news of family and friends.","Discusses how far they are apart but thinks it is best that she (her mother) stay at Uncle Fred's; says she will stay at school for Christmas; writes of family and friends; tells that her health is very good and that she weights 106 pounds; discusses her school duties and her sewing.","Describes the parties she has had at her home recently; speaks of the engagement between Willie Booker and Nancy her sister, and Lou Edmunds and Captain Hill; news of family and friends.","Tells how she and her friends have been together for three weeks now, staying at different homes; wishes Nina could be there; news of courting, engagements and weddings; tells Nina that she will not become an old maid; much news about family and friends; discusses reading societies and books read.","Tells of courtings, engagements and weddings; tells of Christmas plans; discusses the struggle in the Christian life to be pure.","Describes Christmas holidays; discusses the Christian struggle for purity; says she is having more headaches; discusses poor financial situation with no patrons paying for her teachings.","Describes the changes taking place: their Uncle Joe has died and she, Lavalette and her mother have moved to Falkland to take care of his children; she and Lavalette will teach the children; Lavalette is feeling worse; her brother and sister May will take care of Linden; news of engagements, weddings, family and friends.","Describes her new home and her new schedule; news about family and friends.","Tells about her fiance Willie Booker's work in Medical School; describes reactions to the Territorial Bill and to General Scofields; wonders if Lavalette will keep her promise to become an old maid; says the weather is so bad that they will not be able to go to Church for a month because of the roads; says she is trying to guess when weddings will be by who is making their wedding clothes.","Describes her teaching job with her sister Nancy; describes her students; tells how spirits have been low since the passage of the Territorial Bill, says their district is commanded by General Schofield; describes the \"demoralizing\" incident of one of the county men running off with a 'Negro' girl and marrying her; news of family and friends.","Sends this letter through a friend and asks Rebecca to mail a package to Washington, D.C. for her; may have some frames sent to her, which could then be sent to them by steamboat to Richmond and canal boat to Lexington; says Mildred is in Richmond; Rob and Fitzhugh may go to Jennie's? wedding.","Describes the commencement exercises that she and Lavalette attended at Hampden Sydney; describes the fashions she saw there; says the scrub worm is seriously damaging the tobacco crop; describes their summer bonnets bought in Richmond. 4 pages. letter signed.","Says that Nancy her sister has been ill; says that she, Nancy and their mother will take a trip North for their health; says she dreads to be among the 'Yankees;' tells that Lou Booker has typhoid fever and so her wedding must be postponed; discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being an old maid and whether they will be one.","Gives news of gentlemen who are courting her; says that John Smith has been visiting her every other night; tells Nina that it is becoming serious and that she better come home soon or she will be gone; gives advice on the gentlemen that Nina is seeing.","Describes their stay in Danville; tells that her engagement with Willie Booker has been terminated; discusses their plans of where to live next year; news of family and friends; discusses fair.","Thanks Hattie for her announcement of her \"change of condition\" marriage or engagement?; gives her best wishes for her health and happiness.","Discusses which furniture and portraits she would like to have sent to her.","Discusses details of sending furniture from Alexandria to Lexington and of having portraits framed and sent. Includes notes to Selina and Nina.","Discusses her transactions to acquire more furnishings for their home; news about family and friends.","Asks about her interactions with Mr. D?; says Nina's happiness is the only bright spot in their lives; says she hasn't been to church much; says she has seen a lot of Willie S.?; regrets that she can't say everything she would like to, because the letter must go through so many hands; writes of the broken Southern spirit; asks if there are any \"situations\" near them that she could take; says that she cannot write much because it works her \"into such a state\".","Tells of their new life at Linden, helping to take care of \"Sis\" May's children; comments on Nina's sister Hattie's marriage; discusses religion; describes a trip to Richmond; news about family and friends.","Recommends that she or Rebecca go with her to visit friends in Prince Edward County; tells her that since Mrs. Booker'shouse was used as headquarters for them during the war, they must make a pleasure visit to her since the war is over.","Thanks Nina for sending her the objects repossessed from the war; comments on their sentimental value; gives news about Baltimore's social events and her husband Douglas' work.","Tells what family has done since she left for her trip; says everyone is feeling remarkably well on account of the warm weather; tells her to enjoy her visit with Lizza and Aggie ?","Tells what each person in household is doing that evening: Mamma, Papa, Lute?, Lewis?, Fan?; says she visited Hattie who is feeling well \"under the circumstances;\" news about neighborhood.","Describes the health of each family member; says Mr. Powell had dyspepsia for which she gives him a raw onion; says Hattie is the same and cannot leave her room; gives news of friends; discusses a fire at Lee's ? house; hopes she is enjoying her visit with Lizzie and Aggie.","Gives news about family and neighborhood; says that Cousin Lee's house burned; writes that Bob Robert Powell is now a doctor; news about her school.","Discusses news of neighborhood and people who have come to visit her; tells Nina to enjoy her stay with Lizzie and Agnes ?; says she is still flat on her back but hopes to be better in a few weeks.","Regrets that he could not make the picnic that Nina planned; says that he had to pick up Josie ? that day, who traveled flat on her back; says that he saw \"Cousin Rebecca\" in town.","Tells how she had been preserving many foods last summer because of the possible food shortage during the coming winter; describes her stay with \"Sis\" May in Farmville; describes the situation of the churches and Sunday school in her area; news about family and friends; one of Nina's students, Emma Henry, is getting married.","Apologizes to Nina for not calling on her while she was in Baltimore; expresses her job in their friendship.","Writes of their sorrow at the death of Hugh Holmes McGuire (brother of cousin); whose wife just had a child; asks Rebecca to come visit, since the war is over; gives news about who owns the Powell's old home; tells what each of her relatives are doing; gives news about friends; discusses the death of her aunt who never recovered after the 'Yankees' burnt her house down; mentions how many soldiers cannot find employment. Hugh Holmes McGuire MW battle of High Bridge.","Discusses Maggie's wedding her niece; says she has been alone in the evenings since Nina left her; describes her friends who have called during the day.","Apologizes for not writing; describes her schedule to taking care of a family of ten people; gives news about her gentlemen friends.","Extends sympathies to Nina and her family in the death of her sister, Hattie Powell Smoot, who died in childbirth; offers comfort through religion.","Offers her sympathy for the death of her daughter Hattie; discusses Hattie's character; mentions how Hattie has been looking forward to the time of childbirth.","Gives her sympathy for the death of Selina's daughter Hattie; speaks of her husband Robert, saying she thinks he may never be entirely well again; gives news of family.","Tells of her mourning for her cousin Hattie; offers sympathies; gives news of family.","Offer her sympathies for Hattie's death; describes her stay in her Uncle Phil's home in the mountains; says she will return home to Alexandria in the Fall.","Describes the mountain inn and how they spend their time; says the mountain air is helping their mother's health.","Expresses her joy that Nina is engaged; discusses Nina's mother's health; says she is confined to bed and in much pain; says the treatment causes much suffering and that she is anxious to leave for home.","Says she is glad Nina gets a chance to enjoy herself, and visit with her cousin Lizzie, without worrying about daily duties; says her Aunt Lute is taking good care of her.","Gives a report on everyone's health; says she is feeling better; gives news of friends and family; hopes that she is enjoying her stay with \"cousin\" Lizzie.","Discusses grief and religion; teases Nina about her engagement to Sewell Hepburn; tells her to enjoy her stay and to get well soon; news about Alexandria.","News of friends and family; describes the trouble of giving a party for a couple to be married, and wonders why people have marriages in such poor times.","Pleads with her to visit them for Christmas.","Reports that they have been trying both the \"Alleghany Springs\" and the \"Yellow Sulfur\" springs; says the water has helped her health; describes the social life at the springs.","Inquires about her friends in Alexandria; asks if Mrs. Cassius Lee has information on household goods stolen from her.","Tells of her and Nancy's stay in Danville; discusses Nina's wedding; says her brother Abner will be in the Legislature until it adjourns; news about family and friends. Envelope included with list of bridal attendants on the back.","Discusses her daily schedule; describes a sewing machine that she bought; discusses Nina's wedding; news about family and friends.","Expresses her job in hearing Nina is engaged; reports that she has heard Mr. Hepburn described as \"intellectual\" and \"pious\"; says Captain. Grady sends his love; sends her a gift.","Regrets that she cannot come to Nina's wedding; hopes that Nina will be happy living in the parsonage; news about family and friends.","Apologizes that she cannot be there for the wedding; sends her money to buy a wedding present; tells that she had to refuse a gentleman who revealed his feelings for her; wishes her happiness in her new life.","Note accompanying a wedding present, wishing Nina happiness.","Gives a report on her health, saying she is much stronger; tells what remedies she is taking; says they have given most of her wedding cake away; says that everyone thinks her wedding was beautiful; gives her philosophy on marriage and its importance; tells her how lucky she is to have found such a \"good man.\" Including letter from Rebecca C. Powell to Nina giving a report on their mother's health.","Describes how she spent her Easter vacation; describes the events that took place after Nina's wedding; describes a visit to Georgetown.","Reports she is feeling better but that Rebecca has neuralgia from a bad tooth; tells Nina that she should call her husband \"Mr. Hepburn\"; says it is Nellie's wedding day; advises her to obey her husband now that she is no longer there to control her.","Gives news about home and tells Nina that they miss her greatly; says the relationship between herself and John ? is growing stronger; hopes that she is enjoying her stay in the country with her husband.","Discusses their mother's health, noting improvements; expresses eagerness to visit her in her own home; asks about Sewell.","Discusses her arrangements to come see them; says she is feeling better but she is still weak; tells her to ask for what she needs just like when she lived at home; gives news of family and friends.","Writes to tell her that her health has improved since she left home; gives a report on her health and what she has done there at a resort?; says her father will be home soon.","Includes description of S. Powell.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy concerning his wife, Selina Powell; gives a detailed description of her death and a tribute to her life.","Offers her sympathy in the loss of her mother; says that her mother Selina Powell was one of her earliest friends.","Entreats them to warn his wife Lizzie against a woman named Mrs. Hubard who he is convinced is seeking their ruin.","Tells of friends' illnesses and other afflictions; discusses preachers; says she will wait to buy cotton until the price goes down. Including letter (written on top of) of 1864 January 8 from ? Danville, Va., to \"sister.\" Says she would like to visit her and also to see her whole family, but that she cannot leave because of her duties; says she can only leave on \"official business.\"","Describes their summer in the North; describes the Grand Jubilee held in Boston; describes Newport, Maine and the historical sites there; discusses Nina's life in the parsonage; gives news about family and friends back home.","Says she is very happy to return from the North, though she was treated kindly there and it did improve her health; says many people at home are ill with an influenza that follows the Horse Disease; much news about family and friends.","Asks Nina how her little boy is; reveals that she thought she would be getting married this fall, but that the gentleman, Dr. Cole, has been suffering from an illness; news about family and friends.","Expresses hope that she will visit them in Maryland soon, and bring her child; comments on Nina's settling in Waterford, Loudon County; news of family and friends.","Describes the baby Sewell's features; tells how the family is adjusting to new baby.","Discusses tuition for Mildred.","Reports news of her school; discusses the bonds that their father sold, and his financial situation.","Reports that they are taking of Uncle Leven, including paying for his board with Sallie Withers, and giving him clothes; expresses disappointment that other relatives are not helping him; says Uncle Lev had a drinking problem at one time and his wife will not see him.","Tells Nina their plans to visit her; says they will travel through Baltimore and then by boat across the Chesapeake Bay.","Sends a check for Mildred's tuition.","Hopes that Mr. Hepburn has recovered from his fall and hopes he will stick to taming men's spirits rather than taming men's horses; much news about family and friends.","Gives news about family and friends; says that they will visit her in a few weeks.","Sends Nina a fur cape and muff; congratulates Nina on her pregnancy and hopes she feels well; sends a present for the coming baby; asks Nina for her preferred style of dress so that she can make her some.","Tells of the death of her father-in-law and the effects it has had on the family.","Tells of birth of another boy and that Nina is doing fine; says they have not named him because he wanted a girl; tells story of how his errand boy spilled into the well some fish he was cleaning and how he Sewell had to go down and fish them out.","Gives advice on how to take care of oneself after childbirth; thinks that she should have more than one servant; says that she is having some dresses made for her; news about family and friends.","Scope and Contents Gives news of friends in Alexandria; mentions centennial celebrations; says her school is doing well, with 21 scholars; mentions that Robert Powell has a new daughter.","Gives news about Powell and Lee cousins in Philadelphia; says that a few neighbors have scarlet fever; discusses politics.","Tells of his stay at Selma in Leesburg where he visited relatives; tells of weddings in Leesburg.","Says she is glad the children are recovering from their illness; says Nina must take tonic and Lager Beer herself to say well; recommends ways to rid the house of the illness; describes a visit to Baltimore to see an art exhibit.","Wishes he had a mountain house where his grandchildren could go, especially to recuperate; discusses controversy between two churches, St. Stephens and Grace Church, in the neighborhood where he is; says they both want Mr. Jackson from Charleston, South Carolina, to be their minister.","Gives a long description of her boarders and her school; gives news about neighborhood, friends and family.","Teases him about his \"destitute condition,\" having to take care of himself while Nina is in Baltimore; scolds him for not taking good care of himself and says she does not want Nina to become a widow; tells of a surprise visit by Mrs. Beck of his parish to visit one of her students, Hallie; discusses past election and Hancock's defeat.","Is happy that she is enjoying her travels in the North so much; thanks her for her detailed descriptions which allow him to see the places through his \"mental vision\"; discusses his routes home; says he will be home soon with two boys grandsons.","Discusses her travels in the North; tells of his grandsons' (Charles and Sewell) visit to Alexandria; discusses news at home.","Discusses the town of Bethlehem; says her Uncle William is visiting him; discusses his health; tells news of neighborhood.","Says that her \"Scotts Nephew\" has arrived and has settled in a room; says he may go to Orange County, Va.? soon.","Describes a visit by her cousins Kate Powell and Carrie; gives a long and detailed description of Carrie, her immediate family and her experiences.","Discusses Ellen's tuition; says they are pleased with her education; says that their move to Richmond means that they will have to find another teacher.","Describes his journey to Nina's; describes an encounter between Bishop Randolph and Meta Stuart on the train concerning Amelie Rives; gives a description of each of his grandchildren.","Hopes that she and Mrs. Wailes are steadily improving their health while at the springs; tells her of the death of Mrs. Braxton and the prospects of Ingleside; gives news of grandchildren and neighborhood.","Expresses joy that her health is improving; tells of the death of General Wickham and how it affected the area; gives news of family and neighborhood.","Describes the school; says he may join the Blackford Society; tells about a grammar exam.","Describes the taking of an arithmetic exam which exempted him from taking any more; says he got some demerits; tells about football and how he is playing well.","Tells about his schedule and about his exams; says he had tea with Mr. Hooffs; discusses demerits.","Says he cannot teach this week because his nose is going to be operated on; says his mother and Sewell will occupy the children until then; says Sewell will go back to school soon; discusses the structure of his classes and asks her advice.","Discusses the nature of geometry and gives advice on how to learn it.","Says he has been ill; discusses activities at school and grades.","Thanks her for the invitation to come visit while they are in Yorktown; says his two boys will come by sailing a canoe to Yorktown.","Says they are all home for a week holiday; describes how they all got home; says Richard Cook came home with Selina; describes a real old timey Virginia country dance; says Selina likes Alexandria and the new home; describes what each person in the family has been doing; gives a description of the College of William and Mary; says he has overloaded himself with schoolwork this year; tells how the Alumni are reorganizing the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; gives a description of the fraternity; mentions the burning of St. Paul's Church in Hanover; thanks her for the presents she sent.","Discusses examination schedule and work load; questions validity of mid-term examinations; praises the College for its level of academia; praises Dr. Hall, a professor of English; says that main event at the College now is the contest between societies for the society medals; says he is in the Phoenix society and may debate for it; says he took a trip to New Kent to see his \"girl\" and to visit friends; discusses the Daughters of the Revolution and the Organization of the Descendants of the Cincinnati; says he saw Cousin Laura and her husband Mr. Roberts, a preacher, who are in Williamsburg.","Discusses the new house which he is anxious to get home to see; says he and Charles will not finish exams until the end of June; discusses the social events of the \"final week\"; discusses his exams; discusses Selina's academic progress; says one must experience College life to understand the strength of its temptations.","Says he has spent much time with Nanna Powell McCormick, a cousin; describes her and what they have done together; says he is in love with her; discusses love and cupid; describes a card club he belongs to, and a German club.","Hopes that she doesn't feel isolated from his immediate family; says that their \"great mutual loss\" has brought them all closer together; asks about her plans for the future; says he went to York to see Charles; discusses his housing at College; talks of recent fires in Richmond and Baltimore; speaks of his cousins and some girls that he has met.","Discusses their family's genealogy; mentions Nicholas Lloyd, John Lloyd, and Sarah Lloyd.","Discusses the Presbyterian drive in Alexandria to save the old church; discusses church events; expresses joy to hear of Nina's marriage; mentions the fact that her Selina's father is over eighty years old.","Scope and Contents Describes a house nearby; writes about her relatives that are staying there; asks her to come visit. Including Selina Powell to Nina Powell. Asks Nina to write Lizzie about the house, if it can be rented, and who they should talk to.","Wishes her a Merry Christmas; tells what family members are making for presents; asks about her trip to Alexandria and the people she has seen; discusses the propriety of accepting a book for a gentleman; tells her to be happy and not to think too much.","Discusses offers she has had for teaching, saying she will take the offer closest to where Mr. Powell teaches; advises her to get her teeth fixed; discusses styles; gives advice on how to motivate one of her students; says he will not go to Gloucester because of the recent \"outrages\" there; says she has a \"horror of drunken negroes.\"","Advises her to come home after her visit with Lizzie Watkins; gives a report on the health of family and friends; says almost \"all black and white\" went to the \"procession\" in Washington the day before; says her cousin Jinny Taylor's family is ill; sends her money. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses her poor health, saying she has been diagnosed as having a diseased heart; says she is staying with her sister Aggie who just got married; news of family. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses Nina's visit with her friends and her trip to the \"Bear's Den\"; writes of the many parties there have been since Nina left; says she has not seen Nina's sisters since they got back from Capon; discusses their friendship.","Says her father still has not come home; describes a trip Nina and Rebecca made and the people they visited; writes of young men and friends who have come to visit Nina; news of friends and family.","Discusses dresses; writes of a \"Mr. C.,\" assuring her mother that they are not romantically involved; says Mr. and Mrs. Stringfellow left them to the care of the housekeeper; gives news about friends.","Says that Uncle J. Powell does not think Lexington is a good place to open a school and Lynchburg would be better; discusses prices for boarding; says that her Father may have to look for a tutoring job for a family and then she will have to find work as close to him as possible; discusses sewing she has done; gives news about family and friends.","Discusses the remedies \"Mother\" has tried for her sore throat; describes Mrs. Wildman's receipt for asparagus; says \"Ma\" is experimenting on her throat and then will tell Minna how to treat hers.","Describes her daily schedule, including teaching for \"the girls;\" says the \"Captain\" and the girls included her in a visit to Mrs. Cooke's; describes the people she met there and the house.","Says he spent Christmas at Uncle Frank's and Aunt Jane's; reports on what he has been doing.","Scope and Contents Discusses whether Emily ? will move to Fairlee as a servant?; asks if she will take someone from the \"Home for Fallen Women,\" if Emily declines.","Says she went shopping for her and is sending her some articles; discusses fashions; says her Aunt Ann is still unwell.","Tells her to take of herself while she is sick; discusses whether she should come home; tells of people there that are sick.","Scope and Contents Discusses Mary's furniture and which of it she can use; discusses Frank ?'s health; says Mrs. Hammond has died after being very ill; discusses health of friends and family; gives news of what her family is doing.","Tells of safe arrival of Maud's baby daughter and her appearance; sends greetings to Becca, Nina, and herself.","Gives advice on letter writing and spelling. 1 page. letter. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Advises her not to work too hard; discusses board prices in Albemarle, where Mr. Powell is teaching; discusses hair styles; encloses a sample of material of Rebecca's berage ?; writes of the crowded conditions in Mrs. Sharpe's ? home; mentions reading.","Sends this note with a letter she is forwarding; hopes she is enjoying her visit; says she is feeling better.","Discusses dresses and asks what else she will need for the summer; sends her a poem.","Scope and Contents Consoles her in her time of \"troubles\"; says she has heard from their mother that she \"bears them bravely\"; urges her to take an interest in life and to try to be happy again.","Describes a dress that Minnie is making; discusses other dresses.","News of family and friends.","Describes a walk he took from North Hampton to East Hampton; discusses Thanksgiving vacation.","Asks her to send socks.","Tells about her dolls; mentions some Powell relatives.","Thanks her for the donation for the restoration of a church on Fairfax St., near Selina's Aunt Rebecca's home; mentions a celebration for the laying of the corner stone of the District; describes a light hose that the government gave the Mount Vernon Chapter D.A.R.; mentions more historic work.","Discusses religious matters; lists social events.","Describes duties and responsibilities of husband and wife; describes the state of marriage; pronounces the couple as husband and wife; states Benediction.","Scope and Contents Signed as written by Laura ?; added note in different handwriting states \"written by Minna when eight years of age.\"","Scope and Contents 4 items.","Tells of his appointment as Commander of the Continental Army, and his reluctance to accept the position due to hopes of a more peaceful solution and reluctance in leaving his family; gives information as to other Congressional decisions, such as the striking of 2 million dollars in Continental currency to pay troops.","Scope and Contents In answer to a previous letter, he feels that the only principle that will affect them the British? is fear, and that treating them cavalierly will make them despair of their undertaking. Statement on verso: Copy is in handwriting of Rebecca C. Powell of Alexandria.","Scope and Contents Wishes to spend remainder of his life in \"rural amusements;\" prediction of what a great city Washington, D.C. will become, \"though not as large as London,\" and description of how Alexandria, Virginia has grown; feels that if the United States can steer clear of European politics, it could become \"one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Discusses how he saved the papers of the Revolutionary Government by taking them to Leesburg, Virginia before the British burned the District of Columbia in the War of 1812. These papers included the Declaration of Independence, the journals of Congress, letter of General George Washington, Letters of General Greene and papers of the State Department. 2 pages. copy of letter signed, first part missing.","Mainly letters written from Illinois to Charles L. Powell dealing with land transactions. Also includes land certificates and letters to Lloyd Powell.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: See Oversize file. Concerning the transfer of 100 acres of land in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Va..","Physical Location: See medium oversize file.","Scope and Contents Signed on front by R. E. Lee and on verso by Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va..","Scope and Contents Signed on front and back by Mary Custis Lee.","Includes detailed descriptions of battles and movements of armies. Manuscript Volume 1.","Scope and Contents Book includes a biographical sketch of Col. Leven Powell by Major Burr Powell son: a description of the battle at Manassas Junction on 1861 July 21in a letter from Dr. Hunter McGuire, Surgeon of Jackson's Brigade, to his Mother (Copy); Civil War Journal (May 1 - May 27); list of names: dead? under Civil War battles; Civil War Journal 1862 December 18 -1863 March 28; Leven Powell, Hampton to Sally Sarah Powell,1776 January 27, (Copy). Manuscript Volume 2.","Also includes recipes and how to dye cloth. Manuscript Volume 3.","Includes visiting, baptismal and confirmation lists, and marriages performed, accounts and prayers. included of pages concerning members of Powell Family. Manuscript Volume 4."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"persname_ssim":["Powell, Cuthbert (1775-1849)","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Powell, Cuthbert (1775-1849)","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":751,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:47:41.769Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8863","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8863","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8863","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_8863","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_8863.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Powell Family papers","title_ssm":["Powell Family papers"],"title_tesim":["Powell Family papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1775-1929"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1775-1929"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1775/1929"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Powell Family papers, 1775/1929"],"text":["Powell Family papers, 1775/1929","01/Mss. 65 P875","/repositories/2/resources/8863","African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Va., 1864","Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Virginia","United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865","Women--United States--History--19th century","Correspondence","684.00 items","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series. Series 1 contains papers of the Powell Family; Series 2 contains copies of historical letters; Series 3 contains legal papers; Series 4 contains cartes de visites; and Series 5 contains diaries, record books, and other miscellaneous volumes. Arrangement: This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by date.","Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849) was born in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia to parents Leven Powell (1737-1810) and Sarah (Harrison) Powell. He was one of eleven children. Cuthbert made his fortune alongside his brother, Leven Powell, Jr. (1772-1807), as a merchant and ship owner. He retired to \"Llangollen,\" Loudoun County, Virginia in 1812 after a decline in business. Later he was elected to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly; the Virginia State Senate in 1829 and the Virginia House of Delegates in 1840. In 1788, Cuthbert married Catherine Simms, daughter of Col. Charles Simms. The couple had ten children including; Anne Maria Powell (1800-1885), who married 1st cousin Dr. William Levin Powell; Dr. Llewellen Powell (1802-1870), who married cousin Sarah Elizabeth Harrison; Charles Leven Powell (1804-1896), who married Selina Lloyd; Mary Emily Powell (b.1807), who married cousin Cuthbert Powell and later Rev. George Adie; Ellen Douglas Powell (1813- 1862) who married Judge William H. Gray; Cuthbert Harrison Powell (1814-1897); and Jane Simms (Fanny) Powell, who married Wellington Gordon. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00085.frame","Included with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988),","When available, microfilm, photocopies, digital surrogates, or other reproductions must be used in place of original documents.","See:  Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Leven Powell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; include the correspondence of Leven Powell (1737-1810), who was the father of Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849). Leven Powell served in the American Revolution, Virginia House of Delegates and U. S. House of Representatives. Leven Powell Papers, 1774-1806. 93 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 P87","Tabb-Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tabb-Powell Papers, 1797-1894.1,847 items. Collection Number: Mss. 65 T14Geographic interest includes; Alexandria, Leesburg, Winchester, and central Virginia; and Henry [Marshall County] Illinois.","Letters and papers of Charles Leven Powell, his wife Selina (Lloyd) Powell and children of Loudoun County, Virginia; Henry, Illinois; Winchester, Virginia; and Alexandria, Virginia.","There are also included papers of Charles Leven Powell's father, Cuthbert Powell. Prominent correspondents include Johns Hopkins, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Anna Randolph (Custis) Lee, Hunter Holmes McGuire and James Monroe.","Letters concern Robert Young Conrad, Hunter Holmes McGuire, civilian affairs during the Civil War, the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, freedmen, Reconstruction, and the education of women. Many letters are written by women.","In addition, there are a number of letters from and concerning members of the Dupuy family of Prince Edward County, Winchester, Virginia including Robert Young Conrad (president of the Virginia Secession Convention) and his son Holmes Conrad (U. S. Congressman).","Included with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988).","See also  Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Including a statement, 1786 April 8 by J. Nicholson that the witnesses Joshua Lamb and John Lamb (both Quakers) and Joseph Greenwood affirmed and swore that this was the last will and testament of Thomas Hepborn.","Reports on the status of the ship The Rising Sun; says she will dispose of her cargo as soon as possible; says the ship was detained by the British (War of 1812), but given up.","Signed by William Hodgson and Thomas Van Le, Jr.","Her daughter ? Nancy, had a healthy baby boy who is nursing well; Nancy is staying with her now, and her husband Mr. Wallach, spends almost every night there also; is concerned that Nancy will live a hard life because of her husband's financial situation; on the other hand, her daughter Catherine ? will be \"free from the trials attended on a state of poverty,\" being married to Cuthbert Powell, who owns a large farm in Loudoun County; much Simms family news; mentions Mrs. Trist's grandson, Nicholas Trist.","Signed by B. Cottinger.","Fatherly letter giving his opinion of a certain young lady and marriage, as well as general advice.","Discussion of his engagement to this daughter Selina, and the seriousness of the matter, especially in concerning finances; tells of his poor financial state as related to a dowry, or the lack thereof, for his daughter; gives his approval of the \"alliance,\" but hopes they will delay the marriage for some time.","Has given great consideration to his claim against the French government and has turned the case over to Stephen Pleasonton, who is the auditor for the Dept. of State and who is now handling all claims; since Mr. Pleasonton is a personal friend and he (James Monroe) is greatly interested in his Burr Powell case, he knows he will get an answer soon; will also be returning the agriculture pamphlet.","Sends extract of Mr. Pleasonton's reply concerning the claim against the French government and asks that he reply with the necessary information; will also do anything he can to help.","Further discussion of his claim against the French government and dealings with Stephen Pleasanton and Isaac Coxe Barnett.","More instructions about the claim being made against the French government.","Further discussion and explanation of the case involving Burr Powell and his claim against the French government.","Continued information concerning Powell's claim against the French government.","The new court system has kept him extremely busy; social life has slowed down; the fashion these days to relieve boredom is to ride horseback; expresses concern for his own colt in the country; inquires after Dr. Nelson and his medical career; also asks about a large, gay party at South River; recommends books for good reading including Schlegel's History of Literature.","Has received the results of his claim from Mr. Pleasonton and regrets the outcome, which he disagrees with; does not feel anyone is to blame.","Asks her to come visit over Christmas; describes the social events in Arlington; mentions her cousin George Calvert; says the big event is the fair for the benefit of orphans.","Describes a walk she took and the surrounding countryside, including the wildflowers and startling a herd of deer; had many visitors, including a very graceful lady who is said to have been \"addressed\" by Mr. Van Buren, a \"jolly goodnatured ... commodore and some of the ugliest officers,\" and Mrs. Porter and her scholars; tells of books she has read, including Tales of a Grandfather, The Sorcerer, and The Talisman; loving memories and looking forward to their next meeting.","Have just returned from a visit to her grandmother's and her cousin, Ann Marshall; they all are saddened by the death of Mr. Fitzhugh; describes the country from South to West River, where she had visited, and comments on meeting a lovely girl, Bella Carter; mentions the jealousy of another male suitor?, Seldon Page; mentions Mary Custis. 3 pages. letter signed.","Sends his best wishes for her new life with Charles L. Powell; will be able to attend the wedding as well as \"Brother Nelson\"; is uncommonly warm; is sending a bonnet for her and a small diamond breast-pin for Father by the steamboat Franklin, commanded by Admiral Nevitt; describes the long ribbons attached to the bonnet, which are for going once all the way around the bonnet before knotting them by the ear, not for tying a bow under the chin; also includes a diagram of how to tie them in the current fashion; admits to having been helped in choosing the bonnet by Miss Olivia Donaldson.","Discusses events in Washington D.C.; says she went to \"the President's\" on New Year's day; discusses Mr. Marshall's sermons; mentions books she is reading; asks Selina to come visit her.","Says her health is improving; encourages her to ask her for help when she needs it; discusses the articles she is sending her including a lemon tree, curtains, a mattress; discusses how these things will get to her; gives news about the children; Bec, Nanny, Frank, and Fred.","His mother-in-law has told him of the wonderful news of the birth of another daughter Hattie, and that both mother and baby are safe; will be up to visit in about a week; comments on balancing the sexes in the family, and that he has \"no notion of supplying my brother's and sister's children with wives\"...\"we shall hate to transport them his daughters to the wilds of the west\"; all is well at home, a new hen house is being built, but the garden is too wet to work; is lonely but is visiting neighbors; family news; religious sentiments expressed about her, their new daughter, and their family.","Gives account of his trip to Wheeling, including a sweet good-bye from daughter Rebecca; was not able to locate Robert Gray or ? Throckmorton at Harper's Ferry, but later met them at Point of Rocks; detailed description of a railroad and train cars; tells poignant story of a dog on the train searching for his master.","Has had many family visitors since his departure and family news; there is a measle outbreak at \"Llangollen,\" and all of the \"negroes\" have it; she had her teeth filed by Dr. Overfield?; a fire in Upperville destroyed Robert Armistead's new store and the adjoining saddle shop; they have had a beautiful snowfall, covering all of the blossom-filled trees, which melted quickly, doing no harm to the fruit; had a letter from brother John, who advises that he Charles L. Powell \"go directly to Texas\"; loving stories about their daughter's activities.","Had a bad thunderstorm the day she left; inquires about her trip and her relatives; details of children's activities; has let Becca sleep with him.","Their father will be taking a trip West this spring, accompanied by cousin William; family information; social life in Leesburg very quiet; misses her and her family.","Details of his trip from Alexandria; spent the night with relatives; warns her about catching a cold on a windy day; tells of conversations with their young son.","Private financial matters; tells of his busy schedule as a representative from Virginia to the U.S. legislature; gives his negative opinion concerning a bank? bill introduced by Henry Clay,which he feels the President would veto; Daniel Webster shares his opinion; life insurance inquiry.","Will not be home when expected because the House of Representatives is not going to adjourn until Monday; the Congress received their second veto from President Tyler regarding the Bank Bill; describes an assault made by Sen. Henry A. Wise upon Sen. Edward Stanlyin Congress.","Asking about her visit to Washington and the Chamber of National Institute; speaks of floods, bad weather, but comfortable where he is, because of Margaret's? kindness; describes lifestyle and \"humorous remarks of Charles Lamb,\" sexual relationship with her.","Wishing thumb to heal; speaks of cattle and other animals at \"Llangollen\" that he misses; asks about children; saw Ann? mentions Virginia Taylor's visit; will visit wife before harvest; reference to brother, Leven, and his wife, and Sarah?","Hustle and excitement of the House of Representatives; hoping to adjourn on Monday the twenty-second, but difficulties cause many night meetings; political discussion about Tariff question and Tuck bill.","Discusses her story at \"the Springs;\" tells about the politics the company there discussed; gives her own view of these issues; gives news about family and friends; hopes that Congress will soon adjourn so that he can come home.","Compares episode of thief robbing hen house to thieves in Washington trying to rob \"public treasures\"; wants to buy books for her; tells how he wishes to be with her and the rest of his family.","Writes of the bad weather and that they are able to get out very little; says Mr. Powell went to the Inauguration on horseback; tells what books the family members are reading; mentions the issue of white servants; discusses Rebecca's feelings of becoming a young lady; says that they could not get the house they wanted for next year; mentions Mr. Powell's feelings of frustration for not being able to better provide for them; gives more news about the Inauguration; news of family and friends.","Daughter, Harriet, left with Uncle William to spend holidays with them; daughter Minna had a birthday party, inviting Aunt Mary's children and Eskridges; family news; death of Maria Lee.","Discusses her religious feelings; discusses her traveling plans; describes her relationship with each of her relatives where she is staying; says she is staying with Fan and helping her with her wedding.","Discusses the housekeeping and how Rebecca is taking care of the house while she is away; discusses the health of family members; tells how they are altering last year's dresses; says \"Mother\" is quite weak and \"Father\" is very dependent on her; gives news of Brother Nelson and Jeanie (sister?); gives travel plans of family; says Mr. Powell has gotten six teeth put in and looks much younger.","Describes their arrival home with her brother Nelson; gives news of \"little Nan\"?; asks about Rebecca and Minna's trip; tells her to be happy and to follow God; says Charlie is doing well in school.","Family news; mentions Laura's? wedding.","Tells what she did during her visit to Locust Hill; tells what is going on in town; gives news of family and friends. Including news from letter from \"Mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell telling of her many activities.","Discusses Jesus and how one must search for and do things that please Him; asks that she watch her sister, Minna, closely so that she will not overexert herself; Ariana? had a baby boy; describes son Charlie's and daughter Nina's reactions to reading school and learning; family news.","Speaks of John's? carriage and velocipede that once was Minna Lloyd's, describing how she rode the vehicle; describes what a Holly tree is; (has genealogical information about Minna Powell, Lloyd Powell, and Charlie Powell in a different hand, which appears to have been added later.)","Gloucester Court House,Va. Speaks of her \"companion in Matilda Lee?; received visit from Nannie Guy and Maria Harrison; describes celebration in honour of General Taylor's election; describes Mrs. Janney's travels; town gossip and family news.","Family news; speaks of going to Locust Hill; inquires and tells about adventures of many townspeople; obliged to Mrs. Tabb for taking care of her and other daughter, Minna.","Speaks of Cousin Lucy's? party; describes Christmas scene around her house and gifts that the children received; describes Cousin Elizabeth Janney and compares to Cousin Harriet; family news.","Discusses who has come to visit her; describes Cousin Lee's wife, Maria, and their wedding; asks about her Christmas; describes the book marks she made for Christmas presents; asks how Minna is doing.","Speaks of snow and bad weather; notes that daughters, Rebecca and Minna, have been gone for almost three months; Fanny (Powell) Gordon is going to visit Fredericksburg; mentions a letter from Jeannie? who found General Jones, in Washington, quite \"agreeable and handsome\"; Cuthbert Powell is much better, and he speaks of going to Gloucester to join a Mr. Hale; Nina is afraid of everything; family news; mentions hiring of a slave, Margaret.","Rebecca's description of her Uncle Tabb's Dr. John Prosser Tabb house seems far in advance of Old-Virginian architectural styles; speaks of death of Mrs. Douglas Gordon.","Speaks of dancing as a family as a \"social amusement,\" but says that it does offend some \"in the religious world;\" says that one must respect the public opinion of the community where one lives; had severe weather; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Hatty Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Minna Powell, Gloucester Court House, for letter and \"glove-knots\" and sending love to Aunt Rebeccaand Uncle John Prosser.","Her brother Charlie and sister Nina have sore throats, and her father has a bad cold; snowy weather; Hatty went with Aunt Ellen to Selma and Raspberry Plain; Mr. Armistead Rust is to be married before March 4; family news.","Scope and Contents Reports on the snow storms they have had; mentions the coming wedding of Armistead Rust and Lilly Lawrence; tells how he likes working at the store; describes one of their customers; describes the house they may rent next spring. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia Says she is glad to hear Minna's health is improving; gives news of family; says her brother Nelson soon sails for California to dig gold, and may not be back for five years; reports on how he expects to live; says that there are measles and mumps in town.","Maris's? father announced as candidate for re-election; General Rust's family going to New York to attend a wedding; father is renting Carper's house; bad weather and snow causing many colds and illnesses; Mrs. Eskridge's father died; father may go to the Inauguration; family news. 4 pages. letter signed.","Saw Representative John S. Pendleton at the House of Representativesin Washington, D.C.; Pendleton wants a senate appointment; he will not go to Leesburg because he does not want to \"meddle with party movements\"; mentions \"County Repeal of the dog law.\"","Scope and Contents Mother and Father are both sick; \"brother\" has gone to inauguration; describes how to make eggnog, and gives her opinion of it; describes riding horses to the cliff and tells of adventures. 1 page. letter signed. Including letter from Harriet Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 February 27, incomplete letter concerning outbreak of the mumps and family and town news.","Father suffering from piles; mumps are still prevailing; do not have parties during Lent; family news.","Scope and Contents Speaks of gossip saying that Mr. Benedict is having an affair with Mrs. Henderson; describes procession in Washington, D.C. and the inauguration; family news. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 March 26, concerning family news and the time of year.","Scope and Contents Expresses joy that Minna's health is till improving; says she is recovering from her cold; says Lloyd and Hattie have been ill as well; discusses the issue of Rebecca upsetting her aunt Rebecca by being late for a meal; says her aunt is easily vexed in \"her condition\"; gives news of friends and family; describes their new servant Robert. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Charles S. Powell, to Rebecca Powell, , undated, concerning Uncle Prosser's desire to put Minna on \"short allowance,\" and Minna's consumption of beef.","Describes their move to another house which she says is comfortable but small; hopes that the Gloucester air is getting rid of her cold; says their father is busy with court dealings; says many in the area have mumps including Hattie; says that Hattie is getting a tooth plugged; says she does not want Lloyd to leave to live so far away; discusses mesmerism (hypnotism).","Speaks of her bad health; her husband is busy preparing for court; mentions a party at Exeter; Mrs. Fontleroy had a girl so Mrs. Knox is a grandmother; much more family news and information.","Scope and Contents Rebecca Powell will be coming home within a week or so; Fanny? is at Locust Hill with the mumps; family news; Uncle William Graypersuaded Father to go to Gum Springs, Va., until after the election; election day events seemed to be going against Father. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Sister Minna\" Powell, Gloucester Court House, Virginia, 1849 April 26, concerning family news.","Describes Minna's cough and how they are treating it; tells her what clothes Lloyd and Charlie should wear if it gets colder; says she has been doing little except taking care of Minna; discusses new dresses for the winter and corsets; gives news of friends and relatives; discusses travel plans, to come home for the winter.","Discusses dresses, materials and costs; discusses bonnets; gives news of family; thanks her and Hattie for taking care of the household duties while she is away.","Says Minna is now well and that they are anxious to come home; gives news of Jeanie (her sister?), and Rebecca; gives news of \"Mother\" and \"Father\"; discusses books.","Says Mr. Powell had his \"likeness taken\" at the Daguerreotype rooms; says Minna's health continues to improve but that she may have one tonsil taken out; discusses the remedies she is taking; says she feels stronger also; gives news of friends; gives news of Rebecca, Jeanie, and \"sister\" Ann; discusses walking shoes.","Gives advice on her health and over-exertion; describes the illumination that took place in the neighborhood; tells of visits she has made; tells stories about Minna's sister, Nina; gives news of family and friends; says Hattie has lost her \"excess of fat\" and is walking three times a day.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses bonnets; discusses appearance versus reality as concerning materialism; discusses the opportunities for her in Alexandria; discusses the role of children in the family; gives news of friends and family; mentions that \"brother\" John may move and that if they move to Illinois, they will be closer to him.","Says they got there a few days ago and that Mr. Powell, Mr. Grey(?), and \"brother Llew\" have gone to the sale of slaves (\"the sale of the negroes\"); discusses her visit in Alexandria with her grandparents; Discusses the bad weather in Leesburg and the bad condition of the roads; says their family must economize rigidly; says Mr. Powell found the law business in Alexandria too small, so they will not be moving there; expresses her disappointment at the outcome; gives news of family.","Scope and Contents Reviews Christmas gifts received by everyone; describes a \"reading party\"; describes Christmas decorations of the Church; family news. Including note signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, 1849 December 29, concerning when daughter, Rebecca, is to return home.","Tells of the recent social events of the area; describes the format of a reading party; says her mother-in-law could not make it to their home because of the snow; asks her how her mother is doing; says there are still small pox in the area; discusses how many servants she has and what each does; says that Rebecca's Uncle George took Cuthbert to an asylum in Baltimore and hopes he will be happier there then when he was \"out.\"","Gives news of Rebecca's Uncle Richard and Aunt Elizabeth who live in Illinois; says she plans to get a description of the Illinois life from them; gives news of Ellen? who is unwell and is going to a doctor in New York; discusses how Rebecca can get home; describes family activities; says they have been able to do little because of the rain and mud; says she lies on her back all day sewing while her children read to her.","Scope and Contents Reading parties are the only way she can socialize; reports Maria Grady's death; reports about a big baptist meeting going on there headed by Mrs. Lucket; much town news. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 26, 1850, concerning Rebecca Powell's trip home and Maria Grady's \"triumphant death.\"","Scope and Contents Speaks of terrible weather; boasts of learning to spin rolls of cotton on a spinning wheel; reports death of Rebecca Gray, Robert Gray's daughter; describes her daily routine; discusses Mary Grady. Including letter signed from \"devoted mother,\" Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Bec,\" Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 1850, concerning bad weather, family news, and attendance to the convention.","Says many in the family have been very sick for a couple of days and that she has had to nurse them; says Minna is now sick; and never had fully recovered from the chicken pox she had before; gives advice of how to be a good guest; advises her on her studies.","Says she has a toothache but must wait until May to get them pulled; describes a humorous reading party; says there was a case of small pox in the area and that many are being revaccinated. Including letter signed from \"mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell. Discusses her travel plans home; tells her to follow her grandparents' advice; gives news of family.","Expresses joy that her younger siblings are recovering from the measles so well; reports on health of \"Grandma\" and \"Grandpa\" Lloyd; gives news of Aunt Rebecca, Jeanie, and Minnie; Tells what she had done each day.","Inquires about many weddings in Leesburg and about who will need new dresses; speaks of ball thrown by Maria Washington; other city news.","Gives general description of Henry and discusses the family's move there; discusses the house they will build; advises what they should bring; reports on the emigrants in the area; discusses their travel plans in detail; asks Charlie to bring Newfoundland puppies; gives news of family there.","Describes presents sent to grandchildren; tells of Christmas scene in Alexandria; wants granddaughters to meet a polite gentleman that impressed her. Including poem, 1852, by R. C. Powell, beginning \"'Ours the cross.' Yes it is ours,\" giving a religious viewpoint.","Speaks of how she makes embroidery patterns and what colors are preferred; inquires about some of her friends; John Leven Powell says that Brooke? looks badly; aunt Fanny trying to match Brooks with Lucy Gordon; speaks of a Mr. Beverley breaking out around his face and \"bleeding profusely\".","Scope and Contents Mr. Gordon? will be a delegate to the democratic convention in Richmond, Virginia; much use of her eyes results in inflammation of her eyelids; \"Llangollen\" property is deteriorating; much town news and family news; mentions her dower right.","Speaks of helping Frank and Lucy ? with their new baby; describes female servants and her experiences with them; describes health of her daughters, Harriet, Rebecca, and Minna; reports of a few cases of \"cholera\"; reports of a good garden.","Gives a detailed report of Minna's health, expressing hope that her headaches are definitely getting better; tells about people who have visited the family; mentions a desegregated school in \"abolition ground\"; tells what her sisters have been doing since she left; discusses Rebecca's journey.","Mrs. Janney's baby died while she was ill; a Mr. Anderson, a Presbyterian Minister, says that his wife, Miss Harper, is a relative of Selina's (her father's Aunt); speaks of Fred's? wedding; tells of episode when she goes to visit a Mrs. Brown?; describes a visit they made to some neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Mentions Fanny's ? wedding; family news; possibility that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon ? might be elected to legislature; family does not wish Rebecca Powell to return home this winter.","Describes a visit they made to some new neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Describes their busy preparations for winter; describes their daily routine; says she is glad to have Lucy and Fred stay with them; describes their Sunday school; reports on Scholastics (a servant) who is now reading well; news of family and friends; discusses dresses and styles; asks about Rebecca's Uncle Nelson; mentions that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon was elected; asks about Fan's? wedding and hopes she and William will be happy.","Speaks of his daughter's trip, whom she should visit, and money matters; hopes to soon reap the financial benefits of his store; mentions Bishop Whitehouse's determination to give the college broad foundations; family news.","Family news; sleet and bad weather; religious discussion and viewpoints; Lucy and John? have a daughter now.","Scope and Contents Mr. Powell, Charles and Richard Lloyd are busy with new business as \"Land Agents\"; town of Henry, Illinois now has a newspaper and a steam mill; hopes to have a railroad passing through soon; there is not a decent Church and she wishes to see one built; Lloyd Powell, son of Selina, studies German because there are so many Germans in their town to do business with.","Scope and Contents Sarcastically teases her sister about differences between lifestyles of \"Far West\" and the East; Uncle Fred ? went to Springfield to see that railroad went from Peoria through Henry, Illinois; mentions problems with scarlet fever; family news.","Speaks of liquor laws and problems with drinking; describes lectures; such family and town news; mentions other religious lectures.","Expresses desire for daughter Rebecca to return home; Minna Powell still having problems with headaches; family news; Fred? went to Chicago to see stockholders of the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad; asks for Rebecca to send asparagus seed and large lima beans; mentions Thackery's lectures, and gives her opinion about his books and religious teachings.","Scope and Contents Family news; \"land business\" will provide many opportunities for travel; Rebecca planning to go to Leesburg soon. Including note from Charles L. Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"darling,\" Rebecca Powell, , 1853 March 11, sending his daughter ten dollars and writing her as to how to handle her expenses and requesting her to bring home her Grandfather's papers.","States that even though he just left yesterday, she wanted to put a letter in the books to be sent to him; comments on their inability to see each other even though he is only seven miles away.","Mentions his job as a traveling salesman and how he hopes to soon be Uncle Richard's Lloyd administration; resolved in town meeting to build the Railroad Peoria and Chicago.","Scope and Contents Expresses her disappointment that she cannot see Rebecca before Rebecca returns to Henry, Illinois; describes the friendship between them; news of friends in Baltimore.","Tells of carriage accident involving Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dulaney, where their horses were scared by the Clifton Mill and threw Mrs. Dulaney; she and father attended Dr. Rutherford's lectures; emphasizes that ladies got to vote, as well as gentlemen, on whether they were satisfied with the lectures; new wharf boat has arrived.","Describes the towns of Rushville and Pittsfield; said he enjoyed Pittfield more, but that Uncle Richard Lloyd sent him an assignment for Rushville; says he will be there about a month; asks about friends and family.","Scope and Contents Rebecca has come home; Minna joined the church with her family; gives religious views; family news. Including letter from Minna Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"Brother\" , 1853 May 11, referring to Rushville, as location of brother; tells of beautiful spring weather and describes scenery.","Will soon be coming home; complains of sore throat and headaches; has had scarlet fever; family information.","Gossips about \"Miss Jane,\" a mutual friend; says he and Dr. Winslow found her in her parlor with a man; says the servant did not want to let them in and that it was an uncomfortable situation. Including letter written in margins from \"Cousin\" Jane to Rebecca Powell concerning religious publication, an Episcopal convention.","Expresses how much she misses him; discusses reading material.","Describes Aunt Ellen's Powell Gray recovery from an illness; much family news; describes wedding that she went to; expresses romantic interest in a Dr. Claggett; includes printed poems.","Describes physical appearance of \"Llangollen\" as well as her feelings towards the place; reminisces about when family lived in Virginia. Talks about old friends; family news.","Scope and Contents Tells her little sister Nina about old friends and family; gives details of things she has been doing. Including letter from \"Hatty\" Harriet Powell, \"Llangollen,\" Virginia, to \"Mother,\" Selina Powell, 1853 October 10. Concerning warmer clothes; advantages of \"flannel draws\" over a \"wadded petticoat.\"","Scope and Contents Says she has been extremely ill and so have many in the area; says she has been traveling in order to improve her health; tells of her problems with Custis and his lessons; says Robert is still holding his office in Washington but wishes to leave; asks how she likes \"the West\" and if her husband is finding success; news of friends.","Reports Lucy's? death and grief everyone feels; Nelly? is to be baptized; other family news.","21 items.","Tells of their Christmas and New Years celebrations. Also includes \"Mother\" Selina Powell, to Rebecca Powell. Expresses hope that Rebecca can be with her relatives in Baltimore; discusses the nature of receiving advice and making her own decisions concerning her travel plans.","Speaks of attending a party; mentions \"matching up\" procedures at party; family news; details Christmas gifts.","Mentions religious feelings; speaks of a railroad being built nearby; Virginia? had her annual get-together on December 26; of family members; mentions a friend's visit to the Crystal Palace; Mrs. Augustine Washington had the first male child born at Mt. Vernon recently; family news; mentions Rear Admiral Leven Minn Powell.","Mentions Brooks'? wedding; describes details of the wedding; much family news.","Tells of her day spent with Lizzie King and Jane Norris; describes a dinner given for a couple about to get married; news of other friends.","Mentions sicknesses of Nelson Lloyd and John Lloyd; speaks of a Douglas Forrest who attends Yale College; has to take a boat to Washington D.C.; gives price rates per acre of land at that time; gives prices for a lot of land.","Family news about cousins Nannie and Fanny?; mentions Uncle Nelson's Lloyd recovery; travels by omnibus.","Family news; describes her garden and its contents; Regina? was married; Mr. Livingston? requests influence of Charles L. Powell to obtain the consulship of London through General Baercel?; mentions Mr. McFaddin as being the mayor of Henry.","Family news; describes the scenery at Locust Hill; some of Uncle George's ? children have chicken pox.","Identified as much of note added in unknown handwriting, possibly that of Selina Lloyd Hepburn.","Description of Minna's gravesite; tells what he's doing to improve its appearance.","Describes trip to Niagara Falls; describes places visited in New York and where he lives; describes his studies.","Describes courses he is studying at school; describes the first time he saw a man dive under water and the suit he wore below water; staying at a boarding house.","John Lloyd who died in 1854; estimated price value are given.","Describes study habits and classes; mentions prices of a ring and a clock; describes his financial situation. .","Describes in detail her Quaker wedding to Frank? on 1854 December 14.","Nina's Christmas gift from Charles arrived safely; mentions wedding of a fellow student; serenaded the couple with a \"horse fiddle\"; describes his activities in his spelling class; mentions plans to return home in the spring.","Expresses religious beliefs; lists prices for renting his room.","Describes Charter Oak, an attraction in Hartford; describes his visit to an armory; staying with a Mr. Parsons and describes his family.","Scope and Contents Discusses financial settlements he is making for his father concerning the house, lands, furniture; says Uncle Fred and Uncle Neb are leaving Henry and they are all \"disgusted\" with Henry and that he thinks his (father's) decision not to come back was wise; mentions the family move to Winchester, Virginia","12 items, 1856. 16 items, 1857","Describes their Christmas which was spent at Uncle Fred's and Aunt Lute's; describes a Christmas ball and a New Year's ball in detail; says he has had some problems with dyspepsia; asks about cousin Kate's wedding to a senator.","Reports on Aunt Lib and Uncle R?'s new son, Richard; says he rented out their house in Henry; says he has been away from \"home\" now for three months; and will not go to New Orleans, Mobile, and Augusta; describes how he decorated Minna's grave, and expresses hope that her resting place will soon be Virginia; asks about their school; sends money from a large profit he made selling land.","Describes his visit to Louisville where he saw his cousins and went to many social events; says that the train ride from Kentucky was very rough; says he will be in Vicksburg in a week and then will go to Wilmington, North Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; and Memphis, Tennessee; asks about family and friends.","Describes his stay in Vicksburg, and his visit with Mr. And Mrs. Eilbeck Mason and Miss Louisa Fox; says that he did not see Cousin John Russell while in New Orleans; discusses his travel plans; asks about Hatty's teaching.","Expresses joy that she is well from the influenza; says he has recently traveled to Portsmouth, Va,, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; says he will now go to Texas; discusses travel plans; asks her to pick out one of her friends for him; discusses Charlie's new job in St. Louis.","Scope and Contents Describes St. Louis and the Virginia House Hotel; inquires about the new scholars the family has taken on; harasses Nina for not writing. Including note from Charles L. Powell, St. Louis, Missouri, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1856 May 4, concerning his happiness about Nina joining the Church.","Describes hard times in Illinois; intent to move back to Virginia when business picks up; family news.","Speaks of influenza and other illnesses prominent in the town; reports the death of Mr. Adies ?; Ellen Powell is in Washington Infirmary; house is being renovated; family news.","Says he just returned from Henry; says Charlie is on his way to Henry to start his new job in Uncle Fred's store; describes Henry and the house they used to live in; reports that Uncle Fred is building a house; gives new of Scholastics and Monsieur Carlo; says he will go to Pennsylvania next and then visit them.","Reports that Lloyd Powell is on his way to Virginia; describes their yard and home in Henry; yellow fever is not a problem this year in Illinois; he went to a concert given by the Baleis.","Inquires about the \"weddings fair\"; discusses his travels and the loneliness involved in his job; mentions his relief that the campaigns and elections are over; sends messages to friends at home.","Nina has begun studying Latin and learning how to draw; mentions the extension of the Chicago and Pern canal down to Henry; much family news.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses religion and the duties of a Christian; gives news of friends who have joined the church; discusses Minna's grave; discusses letter writing; tells of recent marriages and engagements; gives her philosophy on why he should not begin to chew tobacco; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Valentine's Day and Washington's Birthday; mentions last year's parade and the marching continentals; reports of bad rain storm that tore up the railroad track and caused problems with mud and flooding; family news. Includes note signed from Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1857 February 22, telling her to turn to their 'one friend' for strength and advice.","Scope and Contents Describes a storm which kept him in Henry, Illinois, unable to travel; gives recent travel plans, including a trip to Philadelphia by boat; gives news of friends and family in Henry; says many river towns are flooded.","Reports his knowledge of Lloyd's Powell return to Winchester; relatives are going to the Episicpal Church for Easter; reports Dr. Hoagland ? as being a bad tenant in their house in Illinois; mentions happiness that Nina Powell is joining the church today.","Gives news of relatives in Alexandria; tells his travel plans; says he finds the women of Virginia far more appealing than those of South Carolina.","Uncle Fred? and Aunt Lucy? are leaving for Virginia; sending his mother his daguerreotype, a photograph; reports that Lloyd is in St. Louis; Bridget, a past boarder, had a little girl; family news.","Describes the family vacation and adventures; describes the baths; mentions the parties they have attended; family news.","Family is on vacation; describes activities and scenery at Capon Springs; family news.","Speaks about taking inventory at the store; family news.","Says they just got back from Capon; asks her not to take silver nitrate for her headaches; says they have all improved their health by the visit to Capon; says \"brother\" Nelson is now there hoping the springs will help him; says they did not get the house that they wanted to rent; gives news of friends; says Rebecca, Hatty, and Lloyd are there. Including letter from Charles L. Powell to Nina Powell. Says that he misses her and wishes she could have been at Capon; asks about her headaches.","Describes his travels from Baltimore to Henry; mentions shortage of money due to bank failures; gives detailed news of the town, including improvements being made; news of Henry relatives; mentions that the bank failures will result in fewer land dealings and therefore, less work for him; asks about the young ladies of Winchester.","Inquires about Mr. Waler's? lectures; attends the Methodist Church now; reports of the adventures during hunting season; mentions the new idea of pavement sidewalks.","Describes a severe snowstorm and its effects on Henry; tells how he spent Thanksgiving day; describes their new cook with whom he is infatuated; mentions the death of Robert Conrad?; gives messages of friends in Winchester.","Reports of Nina getting her teeth straightened; describes method; reports that the number of scarlet fever cases is greatly reduced; she is very busy with the boarding school; tells of a fight between Charlie McCormick and a police officer; mentions Hunter Holmes McGuire; family news.","Discusses the death of Robert ? and the reaction of the town; gives news of friends; sends her love to her mother and relatives; wants to know what Dr. Chase said about her teeth.","Writes about Nina's plans to go home; says she is concerned about her traveling when her teeth are in such a condition.","20 items.","Refers to the \"hard times\" everyone is experiencing; describes farm activities; family news; describes how to make a mousetrap.","Describes midwest weather and the usual fall-like temperatures; says that they are all much healthier because of the mild weather; says ties are hard and the bank in Henry just closed, but that the town is continuing to improve; asks about Mrs. Powell's occupation, teaching; mentions the death of Robert Conrad and describes his character; messages to family members.","Reports of freezing temperatures of -15 F and snow in Henry; mentions sleighing in the snow; reports story of a bank robbery.","Reports of Lloyd's Powell trip to St. Louis to try and find Charles a job; family news; mentions a Mr. Lombard who plans to return to Henry and open a bank of issue.","Discusses who owes him letters from home; says he could not find a job for Charley Charles L. Powell, Jr.? in St. Louis because of the poor economy; gives news of Randolph Powell, of St. Louis, and John Webb Powell, of Utah; says he will be home during the summer.","Mentions that she missed his birthday with a card but thought of him that day; expresses religious feelings and beliefs; family news; lists people recently confirmed in the Church; outbreak of typhus fever at the University ?","Tells of his travels; describes Memphis, Tenn.; gives news of \"cousin\" William Powell who resides in Memphis; gives news of Mr. And Mrs. Mason, residing in Vicksburg; describes Leake County where he sold some of his Uncle Nelson's land; gives news of \"cousin\" John Wilson of New Orleans and of \"cousin\" John Chilton, who may send his daughter Sarah to school in Virginia; tells his travel plans, stating he will be in Virginia in a month; gives news to family and friends.","Describes scenery where he is; tells of a May party that some school girls had; describes his boat riding trip; family news; mentions arrival of Mr. Winn, the new Presbyterian minister.","Reports having been sick with a bad cold; family news; Nina has problems with other schoolgirls because her parents operate the school; trying to plan Charlie's return home for the summer.","Asks about fourth of July entertainment; Mr. Winn gave an exceptional sermon; Uncle Richard? bought a piano and a side-saddle; family news.","Inquires about boarding students; inquires about vacations at Capon Springs, West Virginia; tells of his success at duck hunting; family news; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Gives news of Uncle Richard's and Uncle Fred's families; says that Frank's baby is still ill; gives news of Hammond and Minna; comments that he will not see his family for another year; gives news of Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. and his employment possibilities; asks about Uncle Neb of Clark, Va?.","Gives her opinion about chewing tobacco, smoking, and other bad habits; incorporates religious duty into her opinion; some family news.","Discusses his habit of chewing tobacco and how he should discipline himself to quit.","Discusses the weather; reports on Hammond; reports that Mr. Chandler of Henry is getting married in Boston; says they will stay at Mrs. Taber's for the winter; gives news of Charlie (Charles) L. Powell, Jr.; comments on the involvement of women in politics in Henry; news of friends; comments on the decreased enrollment at the family school, saying they will at least have a lighter workload; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Expresses her disappointment in Charlie's having tasted tobacco; tells him that he is doing wrong to continue this habit; voices many religious views.","Reports that river is flooding the town; talks of Christmas holidays; family news.","A birthday letter for Nina's sixteenth birthday; describes the weather; family news; Min? is the \"editress\" of the \"Minnehaha\"; tells of the affairs of a Miss Amanda?.","Gives account of how he spends his days with emphasis on his Sunday activities; tried to quit chewing tobacco but couldn't; tells of episode where Uncle Richard? lost his saddle bags in the town of Bradford; river was frozen and people are ice skating; family news.","Tells where the girls boarding with them are going for Christmas; describes their Christmas plans; recollects their last Christmas with Minna; gives religious advice; sends her love to Lloyd.","18 items.","Would love for her to stay with him; mentions a sister Hannah.","Reports that Lloyd Powelland Uncle Richard ? have gone to Memphis, Tenn.; tells of the building of a road for $10,000; describes a surprise party he attended; mentions Valentine's Day and how many he has received; family news.","Reports that Uncle Richard and Frank are with him in Memphis, to see if they want to move there; says that he does not believe Uncle Richard will leave Illinois, but that Frank probably will; says that they tried to look up William Powell but he had moved to Arkansas; discusses the possibilities of his parents establishing a school in the area, and the risks involved.","Gives news of Uncle Richard and Uncle Fred; says Uncle Fred and Frank will close their business and leave Henry; tells of a conversation with Bishop Otey of Memphis on the subject of establishing a girls school there; gives details of the proposal in case his father is interested; gives news of the private school situation in Arkansas; reports on his business dealings in Arkansas; discusses financial matters.","Gives news of Uncle Fred who has been ill; says that the women of the town are all inspecting the new spring goods brought in from Saint Louis; discusses his daily schedule; says Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. is in singing school; asks about Nina's walks and lectures on the benefits of exercise to health and appearance.","Describes spring in Illinois; inquires about relatives in Alexandria; comments on Uncle Nelson's helpless state; discusses the chances of recovering Uncle Nelson's lands in Arkansas; describes the area of Henry where the family used to live; comments that she now weights 108 lbs., which is more than her daughters weigh; sends his love to Grand Ma Powell, Aunt Ann, and Uncle Neb.","A baby girl was born who is Nina's cousin Uncle Richard's daughter?; describes a fishing trip; mentions finding several Indian graves with skeletons and other items; tells story of a \"mad\" dog who bit many people.","Gives news of Illinois relatives; describes a trip that he and Uncle Richard took through Stark County, emphasizing the changes that have taken place in the last five years; comments on Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. development into a young man; reports that Uncle Richard will leave the land business on September 1st; discusses his involvement in the business and his desire to visit Virginia.","Scope and Contents Expresses his relief that his brother Charles arrived safely in Va.; comments on how scattered the family is at present; mentions Cousin Fanny Cochran's wedding in Middleburg, Virginia; discusses Mr. Hyde's trip in the \"aerial vessel\" Atlantic from St. Louis to New York, as reported in the \"Republican\"; reports that Frank has another son, Horatio Nelson; news of other Illinois relatives; describes the July 4 festivities.","Discusses an unprofitable year for his business; discusses a business proposition made to his brother Charles and Harry and Benton Janney by Uncle Richard, concerning the opening of the store; gives news of Illinois relatives; comments that his Uncle Richard, who just turned 43, may begin to use his middle name again and become Richard H. Lloyd; comments on how, in the past twenty years, the Powell family has spread from \"New York to Salt Lake City, and from the 'Lakes' to the Gulf of Mexico.\"","Reports that Uncle Richard, Minna will stop at Fulton County to visit relatives; gives his opinion about Minna not returning to Winchester Va. for school, stating that she has become too undisciplined and used to complete freedom in Illinois to be effectively taught in a school; describes Frank's son Horatio Nelson; comments on the family's health, saying that his father Charles L. Powell weights twenty pounds more than he does and his mother Selina L. Powell weighs only six pounds less, and also weighs more than any of her three brothers in Illinois; asks her if she is finished school and will make her debut.","Reports that Charley (Charles) L. Powell, Jr., Harry and Benton Janney have begun their business named \"H and TB Janney and Co.\" Asks about the boarding school and discusses the difficulties of running one; reports that Frank's family and Mrs. Hammond? are on their way to Memphis to live; reports that Uncle Fred is planning an extended visit to Virginia, and then will probably move to Memphis; says he and Uncle Richard dissolved their partnership and that Uncle Richard plans to move to Memphis as well; reports that crops are poor, so his business will be slow; plans to see them for Christmas.","Reports that there is a County Fair next week; describes in detail an incident of a burning well; expresses sorrow that the family school will be so small this year; reports that the 'W. S. Fair' in Chicago is now over.","Scope and Contents Discussing fall and winter goods being stocked at \"Lloyd's Big Brick\" in Henry, Illinois","family news; mentions marriage of Miss Hutchins, and deaths of 2 children of Mrs. Clara Ferguson; received invitation to wedding of \"Miss Mittie;\" gives his opinion of marriage.","A French teacher at the boarding school died; mentions excitement due to 'John' Browne's execution and that there are 26 companies of soldiers at Charlestown, West Virginia; mentions growing discontent of slaves; describes how men have loaded pistols ready in their homes; tells how many people are being imprisoned; tells of other strains between North and South; some family news; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Reports that Uncle Richard's baby has been christened Elizabeth Jenkins Lloyd; comments that this is the day that John Brown is to be executed; comments on the number of arrests in Virginia of strangers traveling through the state. Including newspaper clipping, n.d., of a poem about infants.","Discusses Professors Wise and LaMountain's attempt to establish daily balloon transportation from the \"Western\" states to the East Coast; family news; says he is anxious for the family in Illinois to move south; mentions the execution of \"Cook and his Confederates\" involved in John Brown's attempted insurrection on December 16.","Invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Scope and Contents Mentions and encloses invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party; describes events at the party; describes weather and reports of a sleighing party; reports marriage of Mary Ann Hoyt, friend of the family. Including note from Maggie J. Richmond, Henry, Illinois, to Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, 1860 February, inviting him to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Talks about Uncle Richard's? baby girl; gives report of Charles L. Powell and some family news.","Discusses \"spring fever\" concerning work; describes weather; speaks of Uncle Nelson's Lloyd death and how it should be a happy time; thanks his father for \"Alexandria Gazettes\" containing articles about the Whig convention; family news.","Writes about her feelings during the time following her brother Nelson's death; recounts the last days she spent with Nelson Lloyd.","Talks about assessed value of some land or property and makes reference to Lloyd Brothers and Co.; speaks of crops and the effects of the weather; mentions how road being finished would provide trade with those on the other side of the river; township will vote on how to acquire additional funds to complete the road; mentions the whig convention and how they now represent such a small minority of people.","Talks of spring dresses and bonnets; mentions hearing address by William McDonald; discusses opening of a shoe and book manufactory; speaks of beating \"the 'Yankees' with their own men;\" family news; religious advice; mentions use of telegraph.","Discusses agriculture and effects of weather on crops; talks of visiting New England and of dislike of their attitudes; expresses extreme negative opinion of 'Yankees.'","Family news; mentions work at the store; discusses events around town. Including poem? written in Latin on both sides of envelope. Locks of hair also enclosed.","Discusses crops and agriculture; describes Illinois scenery; family news; inquires about trip to Capron Springs; mentions \"Uncle Richard's\" card selling tour.","Discusses Congressional race; mentions Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky and his visit to Illinois; talks about rise in crime; family news.","Discusses confusion about having joined the church; religious discussion; some family and neighborhood news.","Inquires about trip to New England; mentions \"Alexandria Sentinel;\" family news.","Discusses climate and busy season of Christmas; debates issue of Civil War and effects; gives religious advice; family news; Robert Young Conrad.","Discusses problems due to political and financial situation of the country; talks about boils on his hand; family news; mentions kindness of Mayor Turner.","Nina's eighteenth birthday; discusses the weather; talks about sleighing and skating; mentions \"Pickwick Papers\" and describes hunting interest; makes reference to several literary works.","Talks of trade being slow; election of a Mr. McFadden as \"Justice of the Peace\"; mentions sleighing and the weather; describes hayride in snow and people he went with.","Discusses his indebtedness to his father and his financial situation.","Discusses political situation and \"imminent danger of Civil War\"; comments on government involvement and troops in a war; mentions social life.","Scope and Contents Discusses the imminent war and that it will be the third one in her lifetime; talks about effects of a war from past experience; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from \"grandmother\" Catharine Powell, Bellevue, Va.?, to Rebecca Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 January 20, inquiring about being able to paint for her.","Describes his dog and its habits and actions; talks about a fight at a warehouse; family news.","Discusses pros, cons, and possibilities of a war; talks about being able to cross North/South Line if he comes to Virginia; describes weather; mentions indoor winter activities; refers to marriage and courting habits; family news.","Briefly discusses the Navy; describes wedding of Nellie Hall and a Mr. Kellogg; family news.","Information concerning troop movements around Harper's Ferry; mentions a Col. Bowen, superintendent Barbour, and a Col. Moore.","Discusses explosion of armory at Harper's Ferry; speaks of united Southern forces; mentions involvement of friends including Powell Grady; Powell and Holmes Conrad; family news.","Suffering from inflammation of eyes; discusses possibility of Illinois and Virginia residents being separated during the war; Virginia's succession from the Union; Democrats opposition to the war with the South; talks about surrender of Fort Sumter; confusion about whether to leave or stay in Henry; some family news.","Discusses Colonel Robert Lee and movement of troops; mentions Georgetown Heights, Alexandria Heights, and the Valley counties; some family news; mentions Rockingham Rifles.","Blockade established at the mouth of the Ohio; Southern trade suspended; some family news; inquires about situation in Virginia concerning the war.","Discusses a proclamation of Lincoln; politics and effects of the Civil War; dominance of Lincoln's party in Louisville, Kentucky; some family news.","Orders to stop mail from Virginia.; Alexandria occupied by North; Fairfax cavalry taken prisoner; family news.","War's effects on postal service; family news.","Thanks her for package of food and lists contents; speaks of newspaper Richmond Dispatch as a rare luxury; describes camp life; enemy is at Williamsport, Md.","Discusses camp life and its required adjustment; mentions accidental shooting of two men as their only pessimistic experience so far; gives account of battles reported in the Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun; majority of men in army are under 21; describes how soldiers try to get food from surrounding farmers and their families.","Scope and Contents Discusses uniforms, saying that they are everywhere, and that a \"John Brown\" has increased the \"military spirit\" in Virginia; asks about Lloyd; discusses books he has read and that she recommends; describes their daily schedule and when she has time to read; discusses food in season; news of family and friends.","Prepares for battle; states that he is ready to do his duty for his country; mentions that the Continentals lost two men in the engagement the day before.","Regrets that he cannot keep their date for the afternoon due to Army business.","Scope and Contents Mentions her husband's attack of dysentery; family news; gives news of friends and family; hopes war will soon be over so that the family can all be together; expresses religious feelings; wishes that they could write more freely; tells him to send his letters to E. J. Lee in Maryland who will forward them South to them. Including note, from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Winchester, Virginia, to \"Charlie,\" Charles L. Powell, Jr., , relating more family news.","Asks for specific items of clothing to be sent because he does not know when he can return home; refers to Haresack? and asks that she make him a smaller one.","Includes description of L. Powell.","Description of how Lloyd Powell was shot in battle of Manassas; details of his personal characteristics and attitudes.","Scope and Contents Expresses sympathy in regard to Lloyd Powell's death; offers comforting words from the Bible. Including letter, from Sue P. Lee, Lexington, Va. to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 29, offering condolences on the death of her brother, Lloyd Powell.","Thanks Nina for her letter of sympathy concerning the death of her mother; gives news of her brothers and sisters; says that she has terminated her relations with cousin R.? because she could not marry a first cousin; discusses their friendship.","Complains of poor postal service; tells him of Lloyd Powell's death; remembers about Lloyd's characteristics and qualities; says that typhoid fever is spreading in the town; talks about her servants; family news; reports of Willie Lee Chilton's death, a second cousin; expresses religious view.","Love letter to her; proposes marriage to her and her guardian and asks for a reply.","Signed also by J. R. Bowen, Justice of the Peace, stating that Charles L. Powell, Jr. has taken necessary oaths to become Deputy Marshal. . Including on verso, document, from Brigadier General James H. Carson, 1861 October 24, Charles L. Powell, Jr. permission to cross back and forth over enemy lines.","Thanks her for package she sent him; describes his situation and effects of the Civil War.","Thanks her for cap she sent him; his company is located at the \"Big Spring\" near Mr. Gray's.","States that 'Yankees' were in Shepherdstown, WVa. a few nights ago; family news; sends condolences on loss of her brother Lloyd Powell.","Sympathizes upon loss of Nina's brother, Lloyd Powell; relates her story of when her father died; expresses indebtedness to Nina's mother Selina (Lloyd) Powell; mentions sickness prevalent in Winchester, Va.; discusses her brother's Bob Lucas experiences as a soldier; Charles L. Powell, Sr., has accepted position in Richmond; news of spending summer at Col. LaRue's in Clarke to escape the Yankees.","Thanks her for a cap she made and sent to him; expecting to go to camp soon; some family news.","Tells of explosion that a Mr. Hubard caused trying to perfect something like \"Greek fire\" to sell to the government, similar to a powder to use in shells; describes condition of Mr. Hubard, his subsequent operations and death.","Scope and Contents Wanted to give her news from Winchester, Virginia, but \"the spy\" had to burn his information for fear it would fall into enemy hands; tells stories of houses being searched by soldiers; news of friends and relatives; decorated with \"Confederate States of America\" seal.","Trying to catch up with Stonewall Jackson's troops; describes camp life and strategy concerning the Yankees.","Possibility of 'Yankees' taking Richmond; discusses importance of trust in God during battles; inquires about Robert Lee.","General information on troop movements; mentions Battle of Williamsburg.","Describes being a member of Jackson's Army; mentions \"Rockbridge Artillery\" being full; family news. Decorated with \"Liberty and Union\" seal.","Stonewall Jackson captured two entire enemy regiments; enemy took part of Central Railroad; troop movements.","Family news; disappointment about not being able to be with Stonewall Jackson in his last fight.","Discusses the family's living arrangements; thanks her for finding a home for her to stay in, but feels it would be less imposing if she stayed where Nina is teaching in Prince Edward County; hopes that they can all live together soon; rejoices over Jackson's victory in retaking the \"old town\"; says that the Garlands have been very kind during her stay with them; discusses her traveling plans.","Death of friends, Willie Gray and Marshall Barton; death of various others in war including Turner Asby; talks of having made herself a sun-bonnet; news of family and friends.","Speaks of getting a job as a clerk in Major Vaun's office; information about Stonewall Jackson's victories; reports Colonel Ashby's death.","Reviews routine activities; much family and friend news; discusses Stonewall Jackson's troops.","Scope and Contents Everyone feeling ill and weighing less; family news; possible fighting in Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson is at Hanover Junction, Va.; problem with fleas.","He cannot get into the Rockbridge Artillery; she is staying with a Col. and Mrs. Tucker; battle of Richmond has begun; family news.","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Fighting around Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson's Army arrived to help; describes strategies and events of war.","Details about progress of the war; family news.","Scope and Contents Personal experience in Army. Including newspaper clipping of a poem by John. R. Thompson, entitled \"Ashby\" from a Richmond, Virginia newspaper dated 1862 June 13 , about the war.Verso is Rebecca Powell to Selina (Lloyd) Powell.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Stonewall Jackson's army and his efforts in Richmond, Virginia; relates events of war and involvement of friends and relatives; family news.","Discusses people she knows who have been wounded or killed in the war; refers to battles at Richmond and Chickahominy, Va.; family news.","Expresses disappointment that her parents didn't get to visit her; complains of \"M's\" temper; gives list of supplies that she has purchased or ordered.","Preparing to go to Gordonsville to join Braxton's Battery; family news.","Has joined Braxton's artillery; give details of battles and accounts of those wounded and killed.","Describes battle between his battery and the 'Yankees;' describes Captain Braxton.","He has jaundice; personal account of stay in Richmond; discusses salary; accounts of the war.","Charles L. Powell, Jr. was killed; added to letter later her husband is still yellow with jaundice; saw the President Davis and his wife; family news.","Explains events of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death near Warrenton Springs, Va.; includes sketch of battlegrounds.","Town gossip; tells story of a Dr. Conrad's arrest and ordeal; family news.","Talks of our troops making it into Maryland; family news; prevalence of typhoid fever; discusses Southern attitudes about the Civil War, and Northerners.","Religious account and explanation of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death.","Informs her of \"Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. death; encloses a copy of Capt. Carter M. Braxton's report of the events leading to Charles L. Powell's death.","Offers sympathy for the loss of his son, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes the death of their sister Ellen Powell Gray; reports on the welfare of Ellen's family - Mr. William Gray, Kate and Arthur; news of family. Including letter from \"Mother\" Selina L. Powell, to Hattie Powell. Discusses the state of their belongings in their former house in Winchester and what will be sold through cousin Sarah Powell Conrad; says if they do not intend to return, then it should all be sold.","Thanks her for her sympathy upon death of Rebecca's brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; expresses religious views; family news.","Responds to news of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death; family news; reports on her own health.","Includes description of Charles L. Powell and the battle. (Newspaper clipping.)","Scope and Contents Lots of family and town news; mentions that army is located near her in Winchester, Virginia","Gives her daily routine schedule; involved in knitting for the soldiers; doesn't seem to think 'Yankees' will approach Richmond, Va.; remembers her son \"Charley\" Charles L. Powell, Jr. often.","Discusses their friendship and situation of the Civil War.","Expresses sympathy for the death of her brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes in detail the death of her mother, Ellen Powell Gray and reveals her feelings concerning it; gives news of their Powell relatives.","Discusses daily routine; problem with typhoid fever; family news.","Family news.","Comments on incidents of typhoid fever; family news; discusses her minister and baptism of a baby.","Describes circumstances of her daughter Annie's sickness and death; offers sympathy for death of Charles L. Powell, Jr.; family news; including recital of Fenella's funeral rites; \"Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust...\".","Discusses business matters in Winchester that she is taking care of for Charles L. Powell; discusses the ear and the situation in Winchester; sends him some books, stating that the 'Yankees' carried off the rest of them; reports of a proposed armistice.","Describes sickness causing a delirious state for a few days; family news; knitting as a popular pastime; discusses weather; 'Yankees' still have Gloucester Point as a fort; soldiers suffering from \"rot\" that kills them.","Scope and Contents Discusses John Milton's works; family news; Longstreet's Corps has occupied many points near Culpeper Court House. 2 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va. to \"sister\" either Hattie or Rebecca Powell, , 1862 November 5, reporting family news. Also including note from Selina Powell,Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va.. Expresses grief over Annie Lee's death; asks about Robert E. Lee; prevalence of typhoid fever; describes weather and landscape; 'Yankees' did not disturb Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s grave; family news.","Sends this letter with a letter from Hunter, her brother; comments that Hattie has now been gone from Winchester eight months; says life is fine when Confederate soldiers are in Winchester, but that it is miserable when the 'Yankees' come; says General Jackson has visited them and has his headquarters on the road to Front Royal; says he gave her his photograph and he will send a copy; writes that they are working very hard because the few servants in town are cooking for the soldiers; lists people who will leave town if the 'Yankees' return; says Cousin Betty looks unwell because she works so hard in the hospitals ; writes that they only have 500 sick beds in the hospitals; mentions the destruction by 'Yankees' in other counties; fears they will soon suffer.","Sends thanks for present he received because it will be useful during the winter; expresses desire for peace in the country.","Family news; expresses concern that the Southern army is suffering from a lack of clothes.","Expresses her feelings of loneliness, as she lives among strangers; expresses other worries of disease and of the war; discusses problems with diphtheria in the neighborhood; comments on the shortage of men in the neighborhood, in particular healthy, attractive ones; discusses the hardships of Uncle Prosser and Aunt ReBecca whose former servants burnt much of their property; news of friends and family.","Discusses the condition of Charles L. Powell's estate and what business has been transacted; lists what articles from their home have been sold, commenting that most people in Winchester are not buying things because they are leaving to journey \"up the Valley\"; reports that 4000 men are guarding Winchester, that some tobacco has been burned, and that preparation for evacuation is underway; describes 'Yankee' attacks in Charlestown; comments on the effect of the fear of attack on everyone in the town; gives news of friends.","Scope and Contents Comments on problems with influenza; refers to a Capt. Duff and his defense of Leesburg, Virginia; gives news of town since troops have arrived; family news.","Makes references to the Clarke Cavalry and a Capt. Carter; possessions have been pillaged and towns have been ruined; has to quit farming because of war.","Wishes Nina a Happy Birthday; refers to God and asks to enter his Kingdom; mentions a friend who died from diphtheria; discusses Stonewall Jackson's opposition to the enemy at Port Royal, Va.; family news.","Discusses everyone's fear of diphtheria; family news.","Makes references to Gen. Robert E. Lee's victories; lots of family news.","Expresses the difficulty of losing so many brave men in the war.","Reminisces about their last Christmas together; discusses the slaves and their ability to be dangerous.","Scope and Contents Expresses desire for peace and to return to Winchester, Virginia; much town and family news; sorry they can't spend Christmas together.","She has been ill with a cough and cold; family news.","Inquires about a John Tabb; tells activities of Kate Gordon who is staying with them; mentions a bombazine fine twilled silk fabric; people looking for teaching positions; family news.","Lots of town and family news.","Problems with smallpox; family news; mentions Judge Lee's ? suicide. .","Her husband, Charles L. Powell, Sr., is still looking for a teaching job; recommends reading as a worthwhile hobby.","Describes how her family spent Christmas; thanks her for the cap she made for her brother Rob; discusses the sadness of Hattie's Christmas; discusses friendship; reports that she heard from Mary ? who is living behind Union lines in King George.","Mentions a Col. Tucker?; talks about her personal health; refers to the \"conscript act\"; gives impressions of deaths resulting from the Civil War and ideas of a forthcoming peace; family news.","Family news; refers to robbery of all servants; tells stories of confrontations with the enemy and experiences while at war; discusses food he has to eat; mentions has heard news of Grandma's death; mentions William Edmonson Jones.","family news; discusses her pay for tutoring.","Mentions their father's new employment in Greenville; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Family news; describes some of daily activities.Including N. C. E.?, to Nina Powell, , post 1863 March 13 giving neighborhood news.","Scope and Contents Comments on Cavalry's victory in Culpeper, Va.; describes poverty situation in Winchester, Virginia, as result of Civil War; discusses situations in Romney, West Virginia; family news.","Gives information on job prospects; family news.","Found a teaching job in Powhatan; describes location and plans to build a house.","Comments on his activities in the Army; refers to \"the Picketts;\" tells of damage and destruction in Winchester, Va., as a result of 'Yankee' invasion.","Comments on experiences in Army; expresses sadness that young men can't receive education during the war; family news; states that Tip? Powell and Frank Grady were captured in Loudoun, Va.","Discusses clothes; family news; says they will visit Shirley Plantation soon; says Mary? must remain within the Union lines because the only way to leave is to walk eighteen miles at night, carrying baggage; mentions Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Custis Lee.","Mentions interest in soldiers, especially the South Carolina gentlemen; talks about sources of entertainment; family news.","Describes his house and surroundings; family news.","Mentions \"taking bitters (a tea) made of sarsaparilla root\" for strength and to purify her blood; expresses hopes for war to soon be over; 'Yankees' now have Fauquier under their control; family news; refers to receiving news through the Enquirer.","Scope and Contents Discusses when the family members will see each other; gives news of Powell relatives at Locust Hill; says that goods cannot be sent to them from Locust Hill Leesburg, Virginia because of a blockade; inquires about the fighting in Fredericksburg.","Talks about General Stuart's decision to review his Division; refers to great loss at Battle of Chancellorsville in the death of General \"Stonewall\" Jackson; describes events of war near Rowlesburg, WVa.; comments on his troops various attacks on different Railroads; gives details about other battles.","Family news; comments on how quickly her chickens are dying.","Discusses fighting in the Civil War and loss of servants; family news and sick and wounded from Battle of Gettysburg.","Comments on war, pestilence and famine; discusses the Civil War.","States that Nina Powell has been recommended to him to take care of his children as well as tutoring them; requests response to his offer.","Discusses pillaging by the Union troops; comments on men who have given their lives for the southern cause; family news.","Comments on scarcity of various staples; offers her $300 to come and teach his children.","Scope and Contents Discusses \"keeping house\" and how much it costs to do so; family news; comments on the Battle of Manassas.Including note from ?, , to Hatty sic Powell, , undated, discussing delivery of enclosed note to Custis Lee.","Attempts to appease Nina's apprehensions about coming to Hanover County if the enemy is there; wants her to begin working the first of October.","Offer to substitute himself for William Henry Fitzhugh Lee as a Northern prisoner of War.","Family news; questions Nina about her \"beaux\" and his courting ways; discusses education.","Refers to burning her previous letter in case of a fight whence it could become public; relates news of troops; family news; discusses fight from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan Rivers.","Scope and Contents Family news.","Lots of family news; states that a man named Taylor Johns has fallen in love with Nina Powell; discusses situation at the Stringfellow's, where Nina now lives.","Discusses in detail his new teaching position; family information.","Gives cotton prices as $3.75 a yard; discusses Battle at Manassas; family news.","Comments on her husband's new position in Albemarle; family news; mentions some events in reference to the Civil War.","Says she saw her father Charles L. Powell, Sr. on his way to move into Cousin R's?; describes her trip to Charlottesville; expresses satisfaction that her mother is able to stay with Uncle Fred and Lute; reports she has eleven scholars.","Family news; discusses her job as a teacher; discusses \"preserving with molasses\"; expresses anger and confusion about Nina's beaux David ?","Discusses his teaching position.","Family news.","Gives opinion on attitudes of young people; family news; expresses interest in religion.","Discusses plans for Christmas, including costs involved and where they can stay; discusses death of Cousin? Temple Grady and its effect on other relatives; discusses teaching and their role in the war effort.","Refers to a battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee; and General Longstreet; discusses cotton and its discount price of $18 a bale; comments on young gentlemen who have come to visit her; other town and family news.","Thanks Hattie for her kind gift of a Bible; gives details of present experience as a soldier in the Civil War; expresses sadness for those who died in the battle.","Mentions a Carrie Hobson's death resulting from a \"perforation of the bowels\" (typhoid fever); family and town news; mentions Temple Grady's brother of C. Powell Grady? death; refers to having some corsets made.","Family news.","Family news; expresses concern about \"national affairs;\" discusses religious point of view.","Family news; discusses General Bragg and his great ability as a leader.","Family news; states that he met Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War and they discussed Judah Benjamin; gives some views of what is happening with the Civil War.","Mentions General Longstreet's retreat from Knoxville, Tenn.; comments on giving Nina some linen for \"sleeves or sleeve bands;\" family news; discusses harvesting of crops; comments on threats that \"Yanks\" are making.","Discusses insufficiency of cotton crops; mentions that her son is on a war vessel, in the ocean, \"larger than the Florida and the Alabama.\"","Family news.","Refers to travel by carriage; discusses mailing \"bleached cotton;\" family news.","Mentions story where 'Yankees' come into towns and arrest Southerners; refers to daguerreotypes; writes a poem/prayer to God about grief he and others have experienced.","Wishes Nina a Merry Christmas since she (Nina) will be together with her parents; family news.","Discusses the inclement weather; states that she had butter and tea for celebration on Christmas morning; gives price of calico as $ 6 per yard.","Comments on her friends spending New Year's Eve at the President's; mentions walking to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; family news; refers to cotton vs. bleached cotton; discusses typhoid fever; comments on subject of religion.","Family news; expresses hopes for an end to the Civil War; mentions a book, \"Home Influency\" that deals with raising children.","Mentions losing her heart to a Lieutenant Blackford; family news.","Mentions having forgotten Nina's birthday and becoming more absent minded; states that demonstrating affection in public is not good practice; gives advice and opinion on men and courting; has put \"vie dollars in gold and $25 in Virginia. Bank notes\"; and discusses school teaching; family news.","Has been suffering from sickness similar to typhoid fever; mentions that many servants have the measles; states that the key to her watch is worn out and she cannot wind it.","Offers advice about teaching; has seen John C. Pemberton; family news.","Discusses her illness typhoid fever?; describes her Christmas diversions.","Comments on how he misses having the women in his family at home; family news; discuses some aspects of the Civil War; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Family news; expresses hope that the Civil War will soon end; expresses grief of her Mother's death.","Expresses concern about Hattie Powell's sickness; family news and town gossip; mentions some of the types of food they've been eating; talks about \"yanks\" and their disruptiveness; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Gives Nina advice on how to terminate her engagement with John Dupuy; writes of the death of Hunter McGuire's sister, May; says she now has twelve scholars; news of family and friends; discusses books and mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Says she has been busy knitting gloves, sewing, teaching, nursing, and being sick; says she is nearly \"well and fat\" again; says that her hair has not started to come back yet, but that when it does, she has been told to shave it; asks who Nina's friend Lizzie is; describes people she has met; reports where troops are; discusses ways she is trying to get cotton.","Advises Minnie not to be grieved about their mother's death; some family news.","Article in which Jefferson Davis praises the Confederate soldiers for their \"devotion and self-sacrifice,\" and assures them of their capabilities against the declining enemy; also includes a commentary about Davis' speech, stating that the present spirit of the South has never been paralleled in history.","Congratulates Nina on her engagement to John J. Dupuy; discusses their friendship; news of family and friends.","Family news.","Mentions a girl's death from diphtheria; refers to traveling by train; discusses blockade of the Potomac River; comments on greenbacks and their value; refers to the 'Yankee Congress;' general Civil War news.","Gives consent for him to marry Nina after listing the pros and cons of the situation.","Town news and family news; refers to knitting as a past time; states that her hair has not begun to \"come out yet\".","Discusses her new beau; much family and town news; refers to events of the Civil War and the Powhatan troops.","Says that her employer, Mrs. Stringfellow, has offered to allow her two weeks for Easter; asks permission to come home; gives detailed plans on how she could get there cheaply; says the \"troops\" will return before Easter; asks if her father is coming home for the holiday.","Discusses selection of a minister; comments on her knitting for the soldiers; town gossip and family news.","Discusses sale of a draft on New York for $625.","Thanks her for gloves she knitted and set to him.","Comments on her sister's problem with inflammatory rheumatism; much town and family news; tells stories of soldiers who have returned home; comments on lack of patriotism in the country; mentions readying.","Tells of a shopping trip she took to Charlottesville, and the people she saw; describes a visit to see their father at Cousin R. Nowland's; discusses the new tax law, the \"panic,\" and the new monetary issue; news of friends and family; mentions reading.","Makes reference to needing a straw-splitter; discusses financial situation; comments on Nina's engagement to \"Brother John\" Dupuy?","Mentions interruption of communications due to Yankee Raid; states that he sat near Gen. Robert E. Lee and Mr. Edmund Lee on a train car and talked with them; describes conversation; discusses the events of the Civil Warincluding Lee's near capture by Custis' divisionary raid through Albemarle County, during the Kilpatrick - Dahlgren Raid on Richmond; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Much town news; discusses 'Yankees' and their progression; comments on her attempts to hide her silver on her body in order to keep it from the Yankees.","Family news; expresses religious views.","Family news; discusses events of the Civil War; including raid by Custis on Albemarle; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Family news.","Discusses the weather; much town and family news.","Says her Easter plans have been cancelled because of the snow storm; mentions how close she (Nina) has been to the Union troops; says she feels much better and now weights 114 pounds; reports on fatal measles in the area; reports on how she has spent her time with Captain Morgan.","Sends her a letter from Kate?","Discusses buying and selling cotton; comments on college opportunities; family news.","Family news and town gossip; comments on gold lace on the coats of those who make rank of Captain.","Family news; refers to Nina's grandmother's Anne Harriotte (Lee) Lloyd death; discusses 'Yankees' and their progress; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Comments on reading as a pastime and mentions ? Cooper's novels; family news; refers to 'Yankees' taking hostages; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Describes her daily schedule; reports how their Aunt Jeanie Lloyd and Aunt ReBecca are doing in relation to the war; describes social visits; mentions an Aunt Nannie; news of family and friends.","Discusses weather and its effects on gardens and crops; comments on 'Yankees' and news about the Civil War; family news.","Family news; comments on news of the Civil War.","Gives detailed description of fighting near Beaver Dam, Va., as told to her by some of the soldiers; mentions visit by Gen. Stuart; describes other events of the war from personal point of view.","Family news; discusses struggle on the Rapidan River; tells of other Civil War news.","Scope and Contents Discusses general battle news; expresses concern about struggle in Hanover County, Virginia.","Discusses events of the war; comments on actions of Yankees.","Scope and Contents Comments on armies being at Hanover Junction and expresses her concern and fears; refers to burning of Powhatan depot by Union troops. Including note from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Charlotte County, Va., to Nina Powell, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 May 24, correcting some spelling errors.","Expresses relief that the 'Yankees' did not come through the area where Nina is; says that her father wants her Nina to leave soon because of the danger; says things are so scarce in Charlotte that there would not be enough to feed her; expresses relief that Nina is not living between the two railroads; says the news they get about the war is encouraging, but she thinks the conflict will be a long one; discusses plans to get the family together.","Refers to battle of Vicksburg; tells of other developments of the Civil War.","Refers to a cousin, Mrs. Randolph Tucker whose house is at the corner of Grace and Adams street in Richmond; family news.","Asks about Nina's daily schedule and when she says prayers; expresses sorrow that Hattie's teaching position near Nina did not work out; tells her she must be self-reliant; says she is waiting to find out if she can join Mr. Powell; discusses the fashions of hats; sends her respects to Mr. Stringfellow.","Much town and family news.","Describes her social schedule; encourages her to pursue a relationship with Willie Booker; news of family.","Recounts all he has been doing for the past two years (has been in charge of a prison).","Asks Nina to change her mind and work for them another year; claims they are safe from the 'Yankees' and that the war will soon be over; praises her teaching of their three girls.","Discusses Union troops' burning of houses in Richmond; gives views on death; family news.","Comments on typhoid fever; family news.","Family news. Mentions not being able to find a nail-brush in the city and forgot India ribbon; comments on 'Yankees' treating people badly; refers to buying lip-glue at Randolph's Book Store; discusses her (Nina's), new house.","Describes Mr. Powell's teaching position with the Scott family; says he is trying to find a place near him for her to stay; says there was a Yankee raid near where he is staying; discusses where friends who are soldiers are stationed; mentions families who are looking for wounded soldiers to employ as teachers.","Much family and town news.","Comments on symptoms of the \"fever\"; expresses religious beliefs concerning deaths resulting from battles; family news and town news.","Family news; discusses teacher's pay.","Much family and town news; inquires about her new home in Richmond, Va..","Discusses one of Nina's pupils and how Nina should act towards the family that is employing her; mentions arrangements to exchange a pair of shoes; reports on friends and family; reports on \"her Willie,\" and where he is stationed; mentions soldiers for whom she has knitted gloves.","Discusses the suitability of Mr. Starke's teaching offer for her mother.","Chides Nina for not writing her; asks if she is spending all her time with Willie Dupuy, who has a wounded shoulder; reports on what she has done socially; asks her to get some cartridges for her pistol when she buys some for her own gun; says Minna Booker is to be married November fourth; discusses sewing.","Transcription of cross hatch letter by Alison Herring:","Blenheim  October 24th","Sunday morning [1864]","Well my lady-love do you know","that it has been almost three weeks","since the arrival of your last letter","to me, and two weeks since I answered","it, and not a line have I had from","you since, no nor a word from either","Pa or Sis since the 9th of the month.","you all must think I am dead, buried,","and forgotten, at least you quite forget","that I get the blues horribly shut up here","in the country when none of you write","to me. I got a letter from Ma on Friday","last the very first letter I had had from","anyone for 10 days, or from anybody","but her for 16.  I have no correspondents this","year at all except you all \u0026 you ought to","write to me often.  And pray miss what are","you so occupied with that you can't find","time to write, friend Markoe or your","poor dear wounded Willie.  I hear through","a letter from Aunt Bec to Ma that you","have spent the day with her, \u0026 thro' Mrs","Stewart that John Tabb was at church","with you and [?] Powell. I suppose","you have not been so quiet that you","[Page 2]","had nothing to write about and I","am just disposed to be charitable","towards you at all, so if you want to","get into my good graces you had better","set yourself right down \u0026 write me","two or three good long letters.  Mother","writes me that Willie Dupuy is at","home wounded in the shoulder \u0026","Capt Watkins in the hand but neither","of them dangerously, however.  I suppose","you have heard all about them, tis not","worth while for me to tell you, and","I reckon Willie will manage to see","Miss Nina before he returns to the army.","Have you ever heard anything from","Mr. Markoe since you went down","in the cars with him, Sis seemed to","think you are decidedly smitten.","Well I suppose as you are so long writing","to me you hardly care to hear what I","have been doing, so I have a great mind","not to tell you, and in fact I hardly","quite know where to begin it has been","so long but just for my own gratification","I will try.  Mr. Willis Hobson has three","South Carolinians at his house, sent from","the hospital, they have been there a long","time very sick \u0026 are just now getting","well enough to visit about. One of them","is a Col Dogan, without exception","[Page 3]","the rudest, most boisterous, vulgar","man I ever saw, well yesterday week","I heard his voice down stairs \u0026","knew he had come to stay all day","so I dressed myself, slipped out the","back way and went over to old","Mrs. Hurt's to spend the day.  I had a","very pleasant day indeed, I found","her [?] an exceedingly intelligent","agreeable girl, I took to her very much","indeed \u0026 I think she did to me, but","she has just lost her father so the vis-","iting will have to be all on my side","for a while.  When I get back in the even-","ing here was Col D still \u0026 he staid until","Wednesday.  Sunday I went down to Eman-","ual and saw Fannie, she was as sweet \u0026 Cordi-","al as ever, she seemed so glad to see me \u0026 says","she is coming up for me soon some Fri-","day evening.  Monday night Mr. [Reich?] a","Marylander belonging to the 3rd Cavalry","staid here all night.  I found him a","very agreeable gentleman I forgot to","say that Sunday while we were at din-","ner Mrs. W. Hobson came over \u0026 brought","her Cousin young Bolling, son of Mr. Robert","Bolling of Fauquier, and brother of Hunter","[Page 4]","McGuires old friend of Philadelphia Dr. B","and Mr. Venning one of the S.C. especial-","ly to see me and I enjoyed their visit","very much indeed.  Mr. Bolling is only","18 but he is six feet tall very handsome","and very agreeable.  Mr. V sings very well","and is a quiet gentlemanly widower but","nothing remarkable.  Tuesday evening Mrs.","H sent a horse for me \u0026 I went over there \u0026","staid all night, and then saw the third","S.C. a Dr. Waring a married man, and","one of the most accomplished elegant","gentlemen I have ever met with. I","came home on horseback Wednesday morning","in time for school \u0026 when I came out of school","found Cousin John here.  He says if it is good","weather next Friday he is coming up to take","me down to his house to stay until Sun-","day where I will come home with the Dr.","from church.  Thursday all the gentlemen","from Mr. H's spent the day here, and Fri-","day Mr. B left this county, but he is a paroled","prisoner and if he is not exchanged soon","will come back.  Friday evening Mrs. H \u0026 my-","self walked over to Mrs. Goodmans one of","our nearest neighbors \u0026 I paid my first","visit there, and her son who went down","in the cars the day you did with Bell","Stewart, walked home with me.  He is a plain","honest, good, solider, but not over burdened","[sideways on page 1]","with intellect.  He says he is coming over to see me this week","and going to bring his pistol for me to practice shooting with","but I doubt whether he does. By the way have you ever been able","to get cartridges for your pistol, if you have I wish you would","get some for me, \u0026 if you haven't get John Tabb to look for some","for you \u0026 me too, I have only two \u0026 I want some very much.","And now, I come to the very purpose for which my let-","ter is written which is to tell you that Dr. Hobson is going","to Richmond this week, probably on Tuesday, the same day","this letter will go, but I shall send this by mail, as there","will be a chance of your getting it sooner, \u0026 I shall send","you by him the handkerchief, collar, \u0026 [shirt sleeves?] for your","silk dress \u0026 a little of my perfume but it did not turn","out well, it will I think do to put in hair oil but that is all.","[sideways across page 2]","The Dr. will stay at Mr. Stewart for about two days I reckon","so if you have gotten cartridges \u0026 have a chance I wish","you would send me some by him.  Have you made your","alpaca dress yet \u0026 how did you make it particularly","the sleeves. I have not picked mine yet nor considered","what to do with it, but Minna Booker is to be married the","4th of next month \u0026 I think I must make it by that","time. I had a present sent me the other day of 3 yds","of unbleached cotton to make a chemise.  I have done","nothing lately except patch a few old clothes \u0026 knit","on my [opra?] stockings for next summer in fact","I have nothing to do.  Well I believe I have exhaust-","ed myself of my subjects too so I will stop, but","mind I expect two letters in answer to this. I am","very anxious to know what Mother will do, and","rather hope she will go to Albemarle, tho' I should","like her to be near you, or I think we could go to","see her there.  Write soon to your own loving","Sister Hattie","Monday.  Dr. H's is so unwell today he thinks he will not","be able to go to Richmond this week and don't know when","he will go so I shall not be able to send your things yet. I","got an invitation yesterday to Minna's wedding next Thurs-","day week.  I am much inclined to go, if the Dr. Don't for-","bid which he seems to be inclined to do. Mrs. H is very anx-","[Sideways on page 3]","ious that I should go.  If I go I shall want my new","dress \u0026 shall have to set to work immediately to make","it, so if you have a new dress pattern, send it to me by","mail at once, I can get a pattern of the yoke come-","ing [waist?], Mag Harris has it.  Yours truly,","H.L.P.","Complains about difficulties in the teaching profession; family news.","Describes her situation at the Garrett's, teaching Lizzie and others; emphasizes the importance of letter writing now that they are apart; discusses Mr. Irving's? failing health; says Lizzie has diphtheria; describes social events; discusses Nina's problems with teaching Blanche; reports on friends who have been wounded or killed in the war; asks bout Cousin Mary Lee and Cousin Emily.","Reports that her brother Rob has been wounded and may have to have his leg amputated; says her brother Jimmie is in Charleston where there is much yellow fever; says they work all day without rest; more family news.","Gives advice on how Nina should manage one of her pupils; reports on what she is doing; discusses clothes; mentions Minna's wedding.","Gives reasons why she hasn't written of late; describes her brother's episode of being shot in the hand and its effects; comments on number of men that are off at war and says that those who remain are \"quaking\"; family news; expresses hope that God will get them through \"these difficulties.\"","Describes her social activities; discusses balancing work and pleasure; news of family and friends.","Asks about her \"new home\" in Richmond and her \"new occupation\" with Mrs. Paleski; describes Minna's wedding; says the weather was so bad that no one could go home, so the reception lasted all night; reports what she has done socially; describes in detail a dress she just made.","Expresses joy that Nina and their mother can live close to each other; reports on her social activities; discusses plans for Christmas; mentions how well the Confederate Cavalry is doing; discusses friends that are soldiers, and which of them she has knitted gloves for.","Describes a preacher, Mr. McGill, who is visiting; describes social events; discusses clothes she is making; questions Junius Powell's decision to go to Bermuda instead of joining the army; mentions Harry Harrison Mrs. Huge's brother who came home after a prisoner at Fort Delaware. .","Discusses how her home was destroyed; details experiences with the Yankees; comments on incarceration of many Southerners in northern prisons and their suffering; family news.","Describes her trip to Charlottesville and the people she visited, including cousin Gert; mentions Sally's? death; says she must soon accept an offer for teaching from Mr. Frank Cabell; discusses depreciation of money; mentions a cousin Ann and a cousin Laura; reports that Tip Powell was taken prisoner.","Discusses the bad weather and muddy roads, says she has not heard from Custis Lee, for whom she made gloves; discusses clothes and Christmas plans; tells Nina to \"change her dress\" whenever she desires, since she will always mourn inside; says she and Rebecca will change theirs in the spring; discusses the problems Winchester is having with the Yankees; mentions Minna's wedding.","Discusses a prospective teaching job for her and his plan for her.","Family news; begs her to spend Christmas with them.","Expresses happiness that her mother and father will finally be able to live together again; comments on Nina Powell's loss of hair; refers to suffering Loudoun County, due to Yankees; family news; describes how a friend spends time trying to find hiding places for her possessions.","Describes a \"homespun\" dress that she has; family news; describes weather; tells her to go to a Christmas get-together where she can met many people, including Robert E. Lee, Custis Lee, and perhaps \"our beloved President\" Jefferson Davis; later mentions rumors that President Davis may be dead.","Mentions pastime crocheting a cap; comments on delay of mail; discusses ordering some supplies from her sister; refers to troop movement on \"the Danville road\"; family news.","Scope and Contents Describes social activities; urges Nina to spend Christmas in Richmond with Cousin Emily; discusses cotton and where to buy it. Including fragment of letter from \"cousin\" Laurence B. Taylor, to ?, , undated, stating that he hopes they will see much of each other in Albemarle County.","Discusses the difficulties of sending mail; inquires about their mother's health; news of friends and the war.","Thanks her for the gauntlets, testament, and book of psalms that she sent him.","Tells what she did during Christmas holidays; discusses her job as a teacher as well as who and what subjects she teaches; family and town news.","Comments on Robert E. Lee's thoughts that the South is in danger; discusses her knitting and whom she has made gloves for; states how she doesn't understand men; family news.","Discusses the possibility of Nina being engaged to Willie Dupuy; says she would like to know him better before she can consent; would like for her to make the final decision herself; says their engagement would last indefinitely because they are both poor and Willie was \"disabled\" from the war; asks her to consider these issues.","Scope and Contents Responds to her requesting permission to be engaged to Mr. William Dupuy?; gives feelings about entire situation; refers to evacuation of Richmond, Virginia.","Family news; asks her to send her stamps and black glazed cotton and to look for strawsplitters; describes episode of being thrown from horse.","Discusses how busy she is making gloves; mentions Nina's engagement/involvement with a \"brave, Christian soldier.\"","Discusses possibility of Nina moving to Norwood if Richmond is given up.","family news; discusses the bond between two who love each other.","Expresses happiness about Nina's now official engagement to Mr. William Dupuy; other family news.","Hattie Powell, Blenheim, Albemarle County, Va., to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell.","Gives advice on how to express feelings of love to her fiance, in her correspondence.","Gives her advice about her situation with Mr. Dupuy; tells her to make up her own mind and to be sure of his character and their love; advises that if she is certain that she wants to be engaged to him, then not to hold back her feelings and to show her trust; gives more advice.","Scope and Contents Family news; expresses her approval of William Dupuy as Nina's fiance. 4 pages. letter signed. Includes copy of letter, 1865 February 10 from William Dupuy to \"Sir\" Charles L. Powell, Sr., , discussing his and Nina's relationship and betrothal.","Gives advise on Nina's relationship with a young man Willie Dupuy; says that if they ever get married they would always be poor; discusses what he will want in a wife; discusses Nina's fear that her ways are not elegant enough for him because he was brought up in higher society; reveals her philosophy on how to act in society, how to view oneself, and how to act towards men to keep them interested.","Comments on attempts to regain some of their family possessions; discusses the break-up of Nina Powell's engagement; mentions Hattie Powell's arrival in Goochland, Va., family news.","Discusses Nina's problem with an employer, Mrs. Powell, and suggests other families she could work for; says she can spend $ 350 on material for summer clothing; discusses the plight of the South; reveals her feelings about Nina's engagement; describes a visit to Norwood where her parents are working for Mr. Cabell; reports that cousin Lizzie Powell, fourth daughter of Uncle Llew, is to be married; news of family and friends; mentions teaching.","Discusses materials for sewing dresses; expresses her anger at how Mrs. Powell (an employer) treated Nina; discusses her neighbors where she is teaching, saying none are suitable for Nina to live with and teach for; gives news of friends and family; says they have a soldier staying there; mentions teaching. Including newspaper clipping advertising for teachers.","Thanks her for presents she sent him; expresses hope of seeing her again soon.","Lots of family news; discusses Union troops.","Says Mr. Philip Cabell is stopping by \"Bremo\" on his way to Richmond, so she is taking this opportunity to send a letter; discusses opportunities for her to work with other families and how she should set this up; wishes she could come to see them but says it is impossible because the canal is \"broken up,\" the roads are bad, and the 'Yankees' destroyed the carriage; hopes that she is comfortable at General Cocke's; hopes that he doesn't mind her being there since he is a wealthy man. Letter is continued on a small slip of paper - advises on the different uses of \"shall\" and \"will\" in writing letters.","Expresses relief that she is safe after traveling through dangerous area; says that their parents had some trouble when traveling, and that they lost some clothes; discusses an offer to teach in Keysville, Charlotte County; reports battle action in the area; asks what she thinks about her giving her silver cup to \"the government;\" mentions the death of their aunt Ann's baby, Fannie.","Mentions sending carpet bags to her parents filled with necessary items she could spare; comments on 'Yankees' being on southside of the James River, Va. and dreading a raid.","Send the key to her bonnet box; mentions a cousin Kate Noland and an Aunt Bettie Conrad; news of family and friends.","Discusses surrender of Confederates in detail; expresses religious beliefs about result of the Civil War; describes battle in Richmond, Va..","Comments on prohibition from traveling North; mentions recognition by France and the French position; gives religious opinions; describes some of the remnants left by 'Yankees.'","Reports news of post-war events since Hattie receives no news in the country; expresses the sentiments and anxieties of those in an occupied city, discusses Robert E. Lee and his sons; reports rumors about Booth, Jefferson Davis, and the surrender of the army of Joseph E. Johnston to William T. Sherman; discusses the sacrifices of the last four years and where it has led.","Describes the people with whom she is staying; expresses joy that she feels comfortable in Richmond; says she hears rumors about whether Richmond will be given up or not; tells her to come to them if there is any danger; news about friends.","Describes a battle at Fort Jackson that she was able to witness from her cousin's house; says Hunter ? is the medical doctor of Ewell's Corps; mentions lack of provisions; says she had to work very hard last winter.","Refers to \"free negroes\" and the fall of Richmond; tells stories of robbers in various neighborhoods; discusses difficulty to have faith in God where there is so much suffering; also refers to bands of \"negro robbers\" and describes their actions.","Lots of family news; expresses sorrow and grief about living through these times.","Lots of family news; comments on problems with servants; refers to death of Lincoln and memorial service for him.","Reports that Mr. Cabell bought a horse from a Mississippi soldier; reports that a Yankee soldier came to the house asking for brandy; says that she and Fan ? are closing school for the summer; says she will soon come to Norwood to visit them.","Discusses health, says she has rheumatism; says they will stay in Richmond until July; tells their options of where to go; considers the cost of the Civil War; discusses the condition of President Davis, prisoner at Fort Monroe; says the \"Yankee officers\" are being kinder to Richmonders; says Pierrepont has just arrived in Richmond.","Reports she is staying with relatives but that it is so crowded, she will leave soon; says the house has been burned down, so they are living in log cabins; tells that she will soon go to Canada to visit her brother Horace; discusses where Nina could set up a school in that neighborhood.","Tells of her religious belief about the Civil War and how she prays daily; discusses subject of white vs. black labor; family news; comments on cruel treatment of \"our\" President Jefferson Davis; refers to a Dr. Hoge who denies trying to begin a colony in Brazil.","Expresses difficulty in accepting downfall of Confederacy; family news; discusses Nina's engagement to Willie Dupuy.","Family news.","Poem entitled \"The Bachelor's Consolation\" written by \"Goodman A. Bachelor.\"","Family news; comments on Nina's engagement; discusses situation with Black persons; comments on elections and how soldiers were put into many of the civil offices; plans for jousting tournament.","Discusses the family's moving to a new house and how they all can be reunited once again.","Discusses where they may move; says the 'Yankees' have possession of her home in Arlington; says the situation in Richmond is better since Pierrepont Pierpont arrived; gives news about family; mentions Robert E. Lee (1843-1914) and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Discusses Nannie's ? wedding; says their father will need her Nina home for the opening of school; tells how she has been spending her time; discusses the school; reports that Mary ? is there; expresses fear for her Aunt Mary because of the threats of a Black uprisings in southern Virginia; asks if everything is going well between Nannie and Willie Booker.","Discusses the continuing uncertainties of where their family will live; says she will return to work at Mr. Cabell's because she cannot depend on family plans; describes her visit to Greenwood.","Discusses a horse riding jousting tournament and social event that followed; family news.","Reports travel plans; lists social events; news of friends; says she will begin at Mr. Cabell's in two weeks.","Says that she just realized that it is her 56th birthday; discusses some issues on etiquette; says that she is glad that she is pleased with her new house; has heard that the 'Yankees' are advancing on Charlottesville; says Gloucester is having problems with the Yankees, so she will not return there; expresses disappointment that Mr. Powell did not secure a certain job that would have allowed them all to live together; says that the Redds and the Bookers have been very kind to her and do not want her to leave; writes that the Dupuy's son Willie? has bullet wounds in both thighs and in the foot.","Family news.","Describes a boat trip she took with Sallie ? to Norwood; gives news of Mr. William Cabell; discusses literature; news of friends and family.","Says Hunter has a small (medical) practice; gives news about what her other brothers? are doing; says Willie is doing well despite the time he spent in prison; tells how he was marched by their home last winter by the 'Yankees' and taken to prison; tells how their house was used as a hospital, her family was put under arrest, and they were forced to live with the 'Yankees' for six months; expresses her hatred of the 'Yankees;' discusses how the last four years have changed her; tells how Gert ? was working in the hospitals and on the battle field, caught a disease and has been bedridden for the last thirteen months; says she was very weak last winter because of the hard work and anxiety; says she could no longer work in the hospitals because of how the sights of war affected her.","Scope and Contents Family news; comments on the meeting of Congress and its result on the restoration of southern property.","Writes about Presbyterian Conference she is attending; gives town and family news.","Scope and Contents Gives history of a family, telling which troop each son is in; comments on the scarcity of paper, which is why she is writing on the back of a letter written to her by her mother. Letter Including on back: Selina Powell, Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to \"daughter\" Hattie Powell. Asks her about her fever and if it is interfering with her teaching; says Mr. Powell visited her for a week; says she will stay in Charlotte all winter; mentions death of Carry Hobson.","Scope and Contents Sends her a pair of slippers which she made the best she could with the materials available; says she wanted to do something for her during \"these war times\"; says her father is not home yet; gives list of things Rebecca needs.","Discusses the importance of having nice handwriting; describes Kate's ? studies; grieves over how many have lost their homes and hopes that her daughter could have a couple of years off from teaching; says those who must have employment are happiest; writes of family and friends; discusses her Uncle G's ? method of teaching. Including attached insert saying that Mr. H. ? declined her father's services.","Describes the scene when the 'Yankees' came into the home of Dr. Robert Baldwin; says Dr. Baldwin was kicked out of town because he refused to pay a servant; describes how the town has changed since the Union troops have taken over; mentions a man named Milroy who seems to be their leader; gives news of family members many of whom have been sick; describes a puppy he has gotten; describes a battle in which many 'Yankees' were taken as prisoners; says Milroy has escaped and has gone to Washington; says all of her furniture is not sold and that they cannot try to sell it while the 'Yankees' are here; discusses Dr. Daniel Conrad's practice.","Asks what Jeanie ? will do all summer; says she has heard that all the carriage horses in Gloucester have been carried off; says she will go to Powhatan to join her husband who is working for Mr. Michaux; says the 'Yankees' are in Shepherdstown but that the Confederates have Winchester.","Speaks of the last four years, the excitement and the trials; discusses \"the college\" that Robert is involving with; discusses the difficulty of finding good help; describes their house, saying it is handsome to \"confederate eyes;\" expresses sadness that her home is still used by Union troops; discusses Alexandria.","Comments on the postal problems and hopes she has been receiving her letters; gives news of the Bookers; writes of her anxiety over how she Nina is and discusses her travel plans to Prince Edward; discusses where the 'Yankees' are stationed; writes of the family's plans for the summer.","Sends her cotton for stockings; comments on postal problems; discusses the safety of Richmond; discusses sewing and fashions; news of family and friends.","Discusses the dilemma of Southerns taking the \"oath\" with the Northerners so that they can protect their property.","Reports that Captain Watkins and Willie Dupuy have been wounded; says she does not know which battle they were in; news of friends; says she has heard from Mr. Powell recently; discusses dresses.","Says that she sent socks to Willie ? who is in the army; mentions the death of James Mcoughty?","Describes how to make Mrs. Sharpe's ? hat; describes Lute's hat; says she will get two or three hundred dollars in Northern money from an Uncle William.","34 items.","Discusses teaching; describes trip to Charlottesville and adventurous train ride; mentions Sandy Pendleton's ? wedding; discusses Trip's ? health.","Sends Rebecca a picture of Robert E. Lee, taken during the war (picture is dated 1866 January 20 ); writes of Lexington where they have just moved; gives news of family.","Describes her social activities; gives teaching position that Hattie is considering; reports that 'Yankees' are being strict in their town.","Discusses poor mail service; describes Alexandria as dull town with spirit of despondency, town may be forced into the District of Columbia; describes visit of Henry Hallowell ?; much family and town news.","Discusses crocheting, books they have read; family news and gossip.","Discusses family news; speaks of financial situation of buying a house in Baltimore; discusses problems of retrieving household items (portraits, furniture, etc.) and where to put them.","Discusses details of retrieving family possessions from the Office of Confiscation; includes list of objects missing.","Describes her trip and her stay with Cousin Lee; tells of relatives and other people she has seen; will continue traveling.","Discusses daily life and schedule; family news.","Describes her trip to Dr. Wights' and tells of the people she met there; discusses dresses; asks about the family.","Description of the political happenings in Washington, D.C.: the disputes between President Johnson and the \"Radicals,\" Mr. Johnson's veto message, the South's need to have representation in Congress; tells his view of these happenings; discusses attempts to retrieve articles from the confiscation office; family news.","Tells of difficulty she has dealing with current hardships, \"Yankee\" rule, and free Black persons; news about friends in the neighborhood.","Describes dinner at New Market and the people she saw there; describes conditions of roads, outlawing carriage rides; much news of family and friends.","Tells of people she has seen or heard from.","Discusses family news and news of friends; talks of sewing projects.","Gives an account of her \"Easter excursion,\" reporting what she did and whom she met; says Mrs. Atkins has no servants, so she will have to clean her own room.","Describes events of neighborhood; tells news of friends; tells of religious happenings, Mr. Wharey's ? reform in the church, and her religious sentiments; writes of her gloomy feelings about the South, her distrust of the Yankees, and her rebellious feels toward them; congratulates Nina on having her own \"home.\"","Tells of stay in Cumberland with her \"sister and brother\"; tells of problems in retrieving household items lost in war; Douglas' Forrest?her husband? law practice is improving.","Asks Nina to welcome her friend, Mr. Henry Theodore Wight, who brings the letter, and make his stay in Alexandria pleasant.","Tries to convince Nina to take a trip next summer; describes new bonnet styles; describes her friend Henry Theodore Wright who will be taking a trip to Alexandria; discusses clothes.","Gives her view on the family taking in boarders, saying children would be easier for their mother to handle; asks about the \"Council;\" reports on what she has done socially; discusses the dresses she has made; says that yesterday the people of Richmond decorated the Confederate soldiers' graves; says she wishes she had gone; says Mrs. Adkins did not go, but sent flowers to Richmond. Written on letter from J. Walker, Dover ?, to Hattie Powell, Rolling Views, undated. Sends her flowers and asks her to come to visit him.","Describes her visit to Richmond, people she visited, and how many commented on how well she looked compared to last winter; describes clothes she is making.","Asks her to send ribbon for a dress she will wear to a day-long affair at Norwood; news of friends.","Discusses their plans to go to Prince Edward County; discusses what clothes she has and what she may need; news of family and friends.","Explains why she cannot attend the gathering at Mr. Redd's that night; says she must listen to her head and not her heart so that she may get well; says she is tired of feeling ill and weak.","Invites Nina and Hattie Powell to come stay with them; says she feels better and is very excited to see them.","Expresses her joy that she arrived home safely, and her regret that her mother Selina Powell has taken ill; describes a jousting tournament among young boys or \"knights,\" in which the girls were honored as Queens and Maids of Honor; news about family and friends.","Gives her condolences for her uncle's death and her mother's illness; tells her of Nancy's Lettie's sister engagement and tells Nina not to leave her to marry a man; much news of family and friends.","Thanks Nina for her letter congratulating her and Willie Booker on their engagement; news about her fiance; tells her adventures of keeping the house while her mother was gone; news of family and friends.","Writes that her father is looking for board for her Selina and until then she will stay in Charlotte; recommends that Nina not write to a man unless she is engaged to him or unless he is an old family friend; news of family and friends.","Discusses how far they are apart but thinks it is best that she (her mother) stay at Uncle Fred's; says she will stay at school for Christmas; writes of family and friends; tells that her health is very good and that she weights 106 pounds; discusses her school duties and her sewing.","Describes the parties she has had at her home recently; speaks of the engagement between Willie Booker and Nancy her sister, and Lou Edmunds and Captain Hill; news of family and friends.","Tells how she and her friends have been together for three weeks now, staying at different homes; wishes Nina could be there; news of courting, engagements and weddings; tells Nina that she will not become an old maid; much news about family and friends; discusses reading societies and books read.","Tells of courtings, engagements and weddings; tells of Christmas plans; discusses the struggle in the Christian life to be pure.","Describes Christmas holidays; discusses the Christian struggle for purity; says she is having more headaches; discusses poor financial situation with no patrons paying for her teachings.","Describes the changes taking place: their Uncle Joe has died and she, Lavalette and her mother have moved to Falkland to take care of his children; she and Lavalette will teach the children; Lavalette is feeling worse; her brother and sister May will take care of Linden; news of engagements, weddings, family and friends.","Describes her new home and her new schedule; news about family and friends.","Tells about her fiance Willie Booker's work in Medical School; describes reactions to the Territorial Bill and to General Scofields; wonders if Lavalette will keep her promise to become an old maid; says the weather is so bad that they will not be able to go to Church for a month because of the roads; says she is trying to guess when weddings will be by who is making their wedding clothes.","Describes her teaching job with her sister Nancy; describes her students; tells how spirits have been low since the passage of the Territorial Bill, says their district is commanded by General Schofield; describes the \"demoralizing\" incident of one of the county men running off with a 'Negro' girl and marrying her; news of family and friends.","Sends this letter through a friend and asks Rebecca to mail a package to Washington, D.C. for her; may have some frames sent to her, which could then be sent to them by steamboat to Richmond and canal boat to Lexington; says Mildred is in Richmond; Rob and Fitzhugh may go to Jennie's? wedding.","Describes the commencement exercises that she and Lavalette attended at Hampden Sydney; describes the fashions she saw there; says the scrub worm is seriously damaging the tobacco crop; describes their summer bonnets bought in Richmond. 4 pages. letter signed.","Says that Nancy her sister has been ill; says that she, Nancy and their mother will take a trip North for their health; says she dreads to be among the 'Yankees;' tells that Lou Booker has typhoid fever and so her wedding must be postponed; discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being an old maid and whether they will be one.","Gives news of gentlemen who are courting her; says that John Smith has been visiting her every other night; tells Nina that it is becoming serious and that she better come home soon or she will be gone; gives advice on the gentlemen that Nina is seeing.","Describes their stay in Danville; tells that her engagement with Willie Booker has been terminated; discusses their plans of where to live next year; news of family and friends; discusses fair.","Thanks Hattie for her announcement of her \"change of condition\" marriage or engagement?; gives her best wishes for her health and happiness.","Discusses which furniture and portraits she would like to have sent to her.","Discusses details of sending furniture from Alexandria to Lexington and of having portraits framed and sent. Includes notes to Selina and Nina.","Discusses her transactions to acquire more furnishings for their home; news about family and friends.","Asks about her interactions with Mr. D?; says Nina's happiness is the only bright spot in their lives; says she hasn't been to church much; says she has seen a lot of Willie S.?; regrets that she can't say everything she would like to, because the letter must go through so many hands; writes of the broken Southern spirit; asks if there are any \"situations\" near them that she could take; says that she cannot write much because it works her \"into such a state\".","Tells of their new life at Linden, helping to take care of \"Sis\" May's children; comments on Nina's sister Hattie's marriage; discusses religion; describes a trip to Richmond; news about family and friends.","Recommends that she or Rebecca go with her to visit friends in Prince Edward County; tells her that since Mrs. Booker'shouse was used as headquarters for them during the war, they must make a pleasure visit to her since the war is over.","Thanks Nina for sending her the objects repossessed from the war; comments on their sentimental value; gives news about Baltimore's social events and her husband Douglas' work.","Tells what family has done since she left for her trip; says everyone is feeling remarkably well on account of the warm weather; tells her to enjoy her visit with Lizza and Aggie ?","Tells what each person in household is doing that evening: Mamma, Papa, Lute?, Lewis?, Fan?; says she visited Hattie who is feeling well \"under the circumstances;\" news about neighborhood.","Describes the health of each family member; says Mr. Powell had dyspepsia for which she gives him a raw onion; says Hattie is the same and cannot leave her room; gives news of friends; discusses a fire at Lee's ? house; hopes she is enjoying her visit with Lizzie and Aggie.","Gives news about family and neighborhood; says that Cousin Lee's house burned; writes that Bob Robert Powell is now a doctor; news about her school.","Discusses news of neighborhood and people who have come to visit her; tells Nina to enjoy her stay with Lizzie and Agnes ?; says she is still flat on her back but hopes to be better in a few weeks.","Regrets that he could not make the picnic that Nina planned; says that he had to pick up Josie ? that day, who traveled flat on her back; says that he saw \"Cousin Rebecca\" in town.","Tells how she had been preserving many foods last summer because of the possible food shortage during the coming winter; describes her stay with \"Sis\" May in Farmville; describes the situation of the churches and Sunday school in her area; news about family and friends; one of Nina's students, Emma Henry, is getting married.","Apologizes to Nina for not calling on her while she was in Baltimore; expresses her job in their friendship.","Writes of their sorrow at the death of Hugh Holmes McGuire (brother of cousin); whose wife just had a child; asks Rebecca to come visit, since the war is over; gives news about who owns the Powell's old home; tells what each of her relatives are doing; gives news about friends; discusses the death of her aunt who never recovered after the 'Yankees' burnt her house down; mentions how many soldiers cannot find employment. Hugh Holmes McGuire MW battle of High Bridge.","Discusses Maggie's wedding her niece; says she has been alone in the evenings since Nina left her; describes her friends who have called during the day.","Apologizes for not writing; describes her schedule to taking care of a family of ten people; gives news about her gentlemen friends.","Extends sympathies to Nina and her family in the death of her sister, Hattie Powell Smoot, who died in childbirth; offers comfort through religion.","Offers her sympathy for the death of her daughter Hattie; discusses Hattie's character; mentions how Hattie has been looking forward to the time of childbirth.","Gives her sympathy for the death of Selina's daughter Hattie; speaks of her husband Robert, saying she thinks he may never be entirely well again; gives news of family.","Tells of her mourning for her cousin Hattie; offers sympathies; gives news of family.","Offer her sympathies for Hattie's death; describes her stay in her Uncle Phil's home in the mountains; says she will return home to Alexandria in the Fall.","Describes the mountain inn and how they spend their time; says the mountain air is helping their mother's health.","Expresses her joy that Nina is engaged; discusses Nina's mother's health; says she is confined to bed and in much pain; says the treatment causes much suffering and that she is anxious to leave for home.","Says she is glad Nina gets a chance to enjoy herself, and visit with her cousin Lizzie, without worrying about daily duties; says her Aunt Lute is taking good care of her.","Gives a report on everyone's health; says she is feeling better; gives news of friends and family; hopes that she is enjoying her stay with \"cousin\" Lizzie.","Discusses grief and religion; teases Nina about her engagement to Sewell Hepburn; tells her to enjoy her stay and to get well soon; news about Alexandria.","News of friends and family; describes the trouble of giving a party for a couple to be married, and wonders why people have marriages in such poor times.","Pleads with her to visit them for Christmas.","Reports that they have been trying both the \"Alleghany Springs\" and the \"Yellow Sulfur\" springs; says the water has helped her health; describes the social life at the springs.","Inquires about her friends in Alexandria; asks if Mrs. Cassius Lee has information on household goods stolen from her.","Tells of her and Nancy's stay in Danville; discusses Nina's wedding; says her brother Abner will be in the Legislature until it adjourns; news about family and friends. Envelope included with list of bridal attendants on the back.","Discusses her daily schedule; describes a sewing machine that she bought; discusses Nina's wedding; news about family and friends.","Expresses her job in hearing Nina is engaged; reports that she has heard Mr. Hepburn described as \"intellectual\" and \"pious\"; says Captain. Grady sends his love; sends her a gift.","Regrets that she cannot come to Nina's wedding; hopes that Nina will be happy living in the parsonage; news about family and friends.","Apologizes that she cannot be there for the wedding; sends her money to buy a wedding present; tells that she had to refuse a gentleman who revealed his feelings for her; wishes her happiness in her new life.","Note accompanying a wedding present, wishing Nina happiness.","Gives a report on her health, saying she is much stronger; tells what remedies she is taking; says they have given most of her wedding cake away; says that everyone thinks her wedding was beautiful; gives her philosophy on marriage and its importance; tells her how lucky she is to have found such a \"good man.\" Including letter from Rebecca C. Powell to Nina giving a report on their mother's health.","Describes how she spent her Easter vacation; describes the events that took place after Nina's wedding; describes a visit to Georgetown.","Reports she is feeling better but that Rebecca has neuralgia from a bad tooth; tells Nina that she should call her husband \"Mr. Hepburn\"; says it is Nellie's wedding day; advises her to obey her husband now that she is no longer there to control her.","Gives news about home and tells Nina that they miss her greatly; says the relationship between herself and John ? is growing stronger; hopes that she is enjoying her stay in the country with her husband.","Discusses their mother's health, noting improvements; expresses eagerness to visit her in her own home; asks about Sewell.","Discusses her arrangements to come see them; says she is feeling better but she is still weak; tells her to ask for what she needs just like when she lived at home; gives news of family and friends.","Writes to tell her that her health has improved since she left home; gives a report on her health and what she has done there at a resort?; says her father will be home soon.","Includes description of S. Powell.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy concerning his wife, Selina Powell; gives a detailed description of her death and a tribute to her life.","Offers her sympathy in the loss of her mother; says that her mother Selina Powell was one of her earliest friends.","Entreats them to warn his wife Lizzie against a woman named Mrs. Hubard who he is convinced is seeking their ruin.","Tells of friends' illnesses and other afflictions; discusses preachers; says she will wait to buy cotton until the price goes down. Including letter (written on top of) of 1864 January 8 from ? Danville, Va., to \"sister.\" Says she would like to visit her and also to see her whole family, but that she cannot leave because of her duties; says she can only leave on \"official business.\"","Describes their summer in the North; describes the Grand Jubilee held in Boston; describes Newport, Maine and the historical sites there; discusses Nina's life in the parsonage; gives news about family and friends back home.","Says she is very happy to return from the North, though she was treated kindly there and it did improve her health; says many people at home are ill with an influenza that follows the Horse Disease; much news about family and friends.","Asks Nina how her little boy is; reveals that she thought she would be getting married this fall, but that the gentleman, Dr. Cole, has been suffering from an illness; news about family and friends.","Expresses hope that she will visit them in Maryland soon, and bring her child; comments on Nina's settling in Waterford, Loudon County; news of family and friends.","Describes the baby Sewell's features; tells how the family is adjusting to new baby.","Discusses tuition for Mildred.","Reports news of her school; discusses the bonds that their father sold, and his financial situation.","Reports that they are taking of Uncle Leven, including paying for his board with Sallie Withers, and giving him clothes; expresses disappointment that other relatives are not helping him; says Uncle Lev had a drinking problem at one time and his wife will not see him.","Tells Nina their plans to visit her; says they will travel through Baltimore and then by boat across the Chesapeake Bay.","Sends a check for Mildred's tuition.","Hopes that Mr. Hepburn has recovered from his fall and hopes he will stick to taming men's spirits rather than taming men's horses; much news about family and friends.","Gives news about family and friends; says that they will visit her in a few weeks.","Sends Nina a fur cape and muff; congratulates Nina on her pregnancy and hopes she feels well; sends a present for the coming baby; asks Nina for her preferred style of dress so that she can make her some.","Tells of the death of her father-in-law and the effects it has had on the family.","Tells of birth of another boy and that Nina is doing fine; says they have not named him because he wanted a girl; tells story of how his errand boy spilled into the well some fish he was cleaning and how he Sewell had to go down and fish them out.","Gives advice on how to take care of oneself after childbirth; thinks that she should have more than one servant; says that she is having some dresses made for her; news about family and friends.","Scope and Contents Gives news of friends in Alexandria; mentions centennial celebrations; says her school is doing well, with 21 scholars; mentions that Robert Powell has a new daughter.","Gives news about Powell and Lee cousins in Philadelphia; says that a few neighbors have scarlet fever; discusses politics.","Tells of his stay at Selma in Leesburg where he visited relatives; tells of weddings in Leesburg.","Says she is glad the children are recovering from their illness; says Nina must take tonic and Lager Beer herself to say well; recommends ways to rid the house of the illness; describes a visit to Baltimore to see an art exhibit.","Wishes he had a mountain house where his grandchildren could go, especially to recuperate; discusses controversy between two churches, St. Stephens and Grace Church, in the neighborhood where he is; says they both want Mr. Jackson from Charleston, South Carolina, to be their minister.","Gives a long description of her boarders and her school; gives news about neighborhood, friends and family.","Teases him about his \"destitute condition,\" having to take care of himself while Nina is in Baltimore; scolds him for not taking good care of himself and says she does not want Nina to become a widow; tells of a surprise visit by Mrs. Beck of his parish to visit one of her students, Hallie; discusses past election and Hancock's defeat.","Is happy that she is enjoying her travels in the North so much; thanks her for her detailed descriptions which allow him to see the places through his \"mental vision\"; discusses his routes home; says he will be home soon with two boys grandsons.","Discusses her travels in the North; tells of his grandsons' (Charles and Sewell) visit to Alexandria; discusses news at home.","Discusses the town of Bethlehem; says her Uncle William is visiting him; discusses his health; tells news of neighborhood.","Says that her \"Scotts Nephew\" has arrived and has settled in a room; says he may go to Orange County, Va.? soon.","Describes a visit by her cousins Kate Powell and Carrie; gives a long and detailed description of Carrie, her immediate family and her experiences.","Discusses Ellen's tuition; says they are pleased with her education; says that their move to Richmond means that they will have to find another teacher.","Describes his journey to Nina's; describes an encounter between Bishop Randolph and Meta Stuart on the train concerning Amelie Rives; gives a description of each of his grandchildren.","Hopes that she and Mrs. Wailes are steadily improving their health while at the springs; tells her of the death of Mrs. Braxton and the prospects of Ingleside; gives news of grandchildren and neighborhood.","Expresses joy that her health is improving; tells of the death of General Wickham and how it affected the area; gives news of family and neighborhood.","Describes the school; says he may join the Blackford Society; tells about a grammar exam.","Describes the taking of an arithmetic exam which exempted him from taking any more; says he got some demerits; tells about football and how he is playing well.","Tells about his schedule and about his exams; says he had tea with Mr. Hooffs; discusses demerits.","Says he cannot teach this week because his nose is going to be operated on; says his mother and Sewell will occupy the children until then; says Sewell will go back to school soon; discusses the structure of his classes and asks her advice.","Discusses the nature of geometry and gives advice on how to learn it.","Says he has been ill; discusses activities at school and grades.","Thanks her for the invitation to come visit while they are in Yorktown; says his two boys will come by sailing a canoe to Yorktown.","Says they are all home for a week holiday; describes how they all got home; says Richard Cook came home with Selina; describes a real old timey Virginia country dance; says Selina likes Alexandria and the new home; describes what each person in the family has been doing; gives a description of the College of William and Mary; says he has overloaded himself with schoolwork this year; tells how the Alumni are reorganizing the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; gives a description of the fraternity; mentions the burning of St. Paul's Church in Hanover; thanks her for the presents she sent.","Discusses examination schedule and work load; questions validity of mid-term examinations; praises the College for its level of academia; praises Dr. Hall, a professor of English; says that main event at the College now is the contest between societies for the society medals; says he is in the Phoenix society and may debate for it; says he took a trip to New Kent to see his \"girl\" and to visit friends; discusses the Daughters of the Revolution and the Organization of the Descendants of the Cincinnati; says he saw Cousin Laura and her husband Mr. Roberts, a preacher, who are in Williamsburg.","Discusses the new house which he is anxious to get home to see; says he and Charles will not finish exams until the end of June; discusses the social events of the \"final week\"; discusses his exams; discusses Selina's academic progress; says one must experience College life to understand the strength of its temptations.","Says he has spent much time with Nanna Powell McCormick, a cousin; describes her and what they have done together; says he is in love with her; discusses love and cupid; describes a card club he belongs to, and a German club.","Hopes that she doesn't feel isolated from his immediate family; says that their \"great mutual loss\" has brought them all closer together; asks about her plans for the future; says he went to York to see Charles; discusses his housing at College; talks of recent fires in Richmond and Baltimore; speaks of his cousins and some girls that he has met.","Discusses their family's genealogy; mentions Nicholas Lloyd, John Lloyd, and Sarah Lloyd.","Discusses the Presbyterian drive in Alexandria to save the old church; discusses church events; expresses joy to hear of Nina's marriage; mentions the fact that her Selina's father is over eighty years old.","Scope and Contents Describes a house nearby; writes about her relatives that are staying there; asks her to come visit. Including Selina Powell to Nina Powell. Asks Nina to write Lizzie about the house, if it can be rented, and who they should talk to.","Wishes her a Merry Christmas; tells what family members are making for presents; asks about her trip to Alexandria and the people she has seen; discusses the propriety of accepting a book for a gentleman; tells her to be happy and not to think too much.","Discusses offers she has had for teaching, saying she will take the offer closest to where Mr. Powell teaches; advises her to get her teeth fixed; discusses styles; gives advice on how to motivate one of her students; says he will not go to Gloucester because of the recent \"outrages\" there; says she has a \"horror of drunken negroes.\"","Advises her to come home after her visit with Lizzie Watkins; gives a report on the health of family and friends; says almost \"all black and white\" went to the \"procession\" in Washington the day before; says her cousin Jinny Taylor's family is ill; sends her money. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses her poor health, saying she has been diagnosed as having a diseased heart; says she is staying with her sister Aggie who just got married; news of family. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses Nina's visit with her friends and her trip to the \"Bear's Den\"; writes of the many parties there have been since Nina left; says she has not seen Nina's sisters since they got back from Capon; discusses their friendship.","Says her father still has not come home; describes a trip Nina and Rebecca made and the people they visited; writes of young men and friends who have come to visit Nina; news of friends and family.","Discusses dresses; writes of a \"Mr. C.,\" assuring her mother that they are not romantically involved; says Mr. and Mrs. Stringfellow left them to the care of the housekeeper; gives news about friends.","Says that Uncle J. Powell does not think Lexington is a good place to open a school and Lynchburg would be better; discusses prices for boarding; says that her Father may have to look for a tutoring job for a family and then she will have to find work as close to him as possible; discusses sewing she has done; gives news about family and friends.","Discusses the remedies \"Mother\" has tried for her sore throat; describes Mrs. Wildman's receipt for asparagus; says \"Ma\" is experimenting on her throat and then will tell Minna how to treat hers.","Describes her daily schedule, including teaching for \"the girls;\" says the \"Captain\" and the girls included her in a visit to Mrs. Cooke's; describes the people she met there and the house.","Says he spent Christmas at Uncle Frank's and Aunt Jane's; reports on what he has been doing.","Scope and Contents Discusses whether Emily ? will move to Fairlee as a servant?; asks if she will take someone from the \"Home for Fallen Women,\" if Emily declines.","Says she went shopping for her and is sending her some articles; discusses fashions; says her Aunt Ann is still unwell.","Tells her to take of herself while she is sick; discusses whether she should come home; tells of people there that are sick.","Scope and Contents Discusses Mary's furniture and which of it she can use; discusses Frank ?'s health; says Mrs. Hammond has died after being very ill; discusses health of friends and family; gives news of what her family is doing.","Tells of safe arrival of Maud's baby daughter and her appearance; sends greetings to Becca, Nina, and herself.","Gives advice on letter writing and spelling. 1 page. letter. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Advises her not to work too hard; discusses board prices in Albemarle, where Mr. Powell is teaching; discusses hair styles; encloses a sample of material of Rebecca's berage ?; writes of the crowded conditions in Mrs. Sharpe's ? home; mentions reading.","Sends this note with a letter she is forwarding; hopes she is enjoying her visit; says she is feeling better.","Discusses dresses and asks what else she will need for the summer; sends her a poem.","Scope and Contents Consoles her in her time of \"troubles\"; says she has heard from their mother that she \"bears them bravely\"; urges her to take an interest in life and to try to be happy again.","Describes a dress that Minnie is making; discusses other dresses.","News of family and friends.","Describes a walk he took from North Hampton to East Hampton; discusses Thanksgiving vacation.","Asks her to send socks.","Tells about her dolls; mentions some Powell relatives.","Thanks her for the donation for the restoration of a church on Fairfax St., near Selina's Aunt Rebecca's home; mentions a celebration for the laying of the corner stone of the District; describes a light hose that the government gave the Mount Vernon Chapter D.A.R.; mentions more historic work.","Discusses religious matters; lists social events.","Describes duties and responsibilities of husband and wife; describes the state of marriage; pronounces the couple as husband and wife; states Benediction.","Scope and Contents Signed as written by Laura ?; added note in different handwriting states \"written by Minna when eight years of age.\"","Scope and Contents 4 items.","Tells of his appointment as Commander of the Continental Army, and his reluctance to accept the position due to hopes of a more peaceful solution and reluctance in leaving his family; gives information as to other Congressional decisions, such as the striking of 2 million dollars in Continental currency to pay troops.","Scope and Contents In answer to a previous letter, he feels that the only principle that will affect them the British? is fear, and that treating them cavalierly will make them despair of their undertaking. Statement on verso: Copy is in handwriting of Rebecca C. Powell of Alexandria.","Scope and Contents Wishes to spend remainder of his life in \"rural amusements;\" prediction of what a great city Washington, D.C. will become, \"though not as large as London,\" and description of how Alexandria, Virginia has grown; feels that if the United States can steer clear of European politics, it could become \"one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Discusses how he saved the papers of the Revolutionary Government by taking them to Leesburg, Virginia before the British burned the District of Columbia in the War of 1812. These papers included the Declaration of Independence, the journals of Congress, letter of General George Washington, Letters of General Greene and papers of the State Department. 2 pages. copy of letter signed, first part missing.","Mainly letters written from Illinois to Charles L. Powell dealing with land transactions. Also includes land certificates and letters to Lloyd Powell.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: See Oversize file. Concerning the transfer of 100 acres of land in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Va..","Physical Location: See medium oversize file.","Scope and Contents Signed on front by R. E. Lee and on verso by Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va..","Scope and Contents Signed on front and back by Mary Custis Lee.","Includes detailed descriptions of battles and movements of armies. Manuscript Volume 1.","Scope and Contents Book includes a biographical sketch of Col. Leven Powell by Major Burr Powell son: a description of the battle at Manassas Junction on 1861 July 21in a letter from Dr. Hunter McGuire, Surgeon of Jackson's Brigade, to his Mother (Copy); Civil War Journal (May 1 - May 27); list of names: dead? under Civil War battles; Civil War Journal 1862 December 18 -1863 March 28; Leven Powell, Hampton to Sally Sarah Powell,1776 January 27, (Copy). Manuscript Volume 2.","Also includes recipes and how to dye cloth. Manuscript Volume 3.","Includes visiting, baptismal and confirmation lists, and marriages performed, accounts and prayers. included of pages concerning members of Powell Family. 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Series 1 contains papers of the Powell Family; Series 2 contains copies of historical letters; Series 3 contains legal papers; Series 4 contains cartes de visites; and Series 5 contains diaries, record books, and other miscellaneous volumes. Arrangement: This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by date.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement of Materials:"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization: This collection is organized into 5 series. Series 1 contains papers of the Powell Family; Series 2 contains copies of historical letters; Series 3 contains legal papers; Series 4 contains cartes de visites; and Series 5 contains diaries, record books, and other miscellaneous volumes. Arrangement: This collection is primarily arranged chronologically by date."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCuthbert Powell (1775-1849) was born in Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia to parents Leven Powell (1737-1810) and Sarah (Harrison) Powell. He was one of eleven children. Cuthbert made his fortune alongside his brother, Leven Powell, Jr. (1772-1807), as a merchant and ship owner. He retired to \"Llangollen,\" Loudoun County, Virginia in 1812 after a decline in business. Later he was elected to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly; the Virginia State Senate in 1829 and the Virginia House of Delegates in 1840. In 1788, Cuthbert married Catherine Simms, daughter of Col. Charles Simms. The couple had ten children including; Anne Maria Powell (1800-1885), who married 1st cousin Dr. William Levin Powell; Dr. Llewellen Powell (1802-1870), who married cousin Sarah Elizabeth Harrison; Charles Leven Powell (1804-1896), who married Selina Lloyd; Mary Emily Powell (b.1807), who married cousin Cuthbert Powell and later Rev. George Adie; Ellen Douglas Powell (1813- 1862) who married Judge William H. Gray; Cuthbert Harrison Powell (1814-1897); and Jane Simms (Fanny) Powell, who married Wellington Gordon. 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The couple had ten children including; Anne Maria Powell (1800-1885), who married 1st cousin Dr. William Levin Powell; Dr. Llewellen Powell (1802-1870), who married cousin Sarah Elizabeth Harrison; Charles Leven Powell (1804-1896), who married Selina Lloyd; Mary Emily Powell (b.1807), who married cousin Cuthbert Powell and later Rev. George Adie; Ellen Douglas Powell (1813- 1862) who married Judge William H. Gray; Cuthbert Harrison Powell (1814-1897); and Jane Simms (Fanny) Powell, who married Wellington Gordon. 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Leven Powell served in the American Revolution, Virginia House of Delegates and U. S. House of Representatives. Leven Powell Papers, 1774-1806. 93 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 P87\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Tabb-Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tabb-Powell Papers, 1797-1894.1,847 items. Collection Number: Mss. 65 T14Geographic interest includes; Alexandria, Leesburg, Winchester, and central Virginia; and Henry [Marshall County] Illinois.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Leven Powell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; include the correspondence of Leven Powell (1737-1810), who was the father of Cuthbert Powell (1775-1849). Leven Powell served in the American Revolution, Virginia House of Delegates and U. S. House of Representatives. Leven Powell Papers, 1774-1806. 93 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 P87","Tabb-Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tabb-Powell Papers, 1797-1894.1,847 items. Collection Number: Mss. 65 T14Geographic interest includes; Alexandria, Leesburg, Winchester, and central Virginia; and Henry [Marshall County] Illinois."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eLetters and papers of Charles Leven Powell, his wife Selina (Lloyd) Powell and children of Loudoun County, Virginia; Henry, Illinois; Winchester, Virginia; and Alexandria, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also included papers of Charles Leven Powell's father, Cuthbert Powell. Prominent correspondents include Johns Hopkins, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Anna Randolph (Custis) Lee, Hunter Holmes McGuire and James Monroe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters concern Robert Young Conrad, Hunter Holmes McGuire, civilian affairs during the Civil War, the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, freedmen, Reconstruction, and the education of women. Many letters are written by women.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition, there are a number of letters from and concerning members of the Dupuy family of Prince Edward County, Winchester, Virginia including Robert Young Conrad (president of the Virginia Secession Convention) and his son Holmes Conrad (U. S. Congressman).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \nIncluded with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e \nSee also  Southern Women and their Families in the 19\u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003eth\u003c/emph\u003e Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eIncluding a statement, 1786 April 8 by J. Nicholson that the witnesses Joshua Lamb and John Lamb (both Quakers) and Joseph Greenwood affirmed and swore that this was the last will and testament of Thomas Hepborn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on the status of the ship The Rising Sun; says she will dispose of her cargo as soon as possible; says the ship was detained by the British (War of 1812), but given up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by William Hodgson and Thomas Van Le, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer daughter ? Nancy, had a healthy baby boy who is nursing well; Nancy is staying with her now, and her husband Mr. Wallach, spends almost every night there also; is concerned that Nancy will live a hard life because of her husband's financial situation; on the other hand, her daughter Catherine ? will be \"free from the trials attended on a state of poverty,\" being married to Cuthbert Powell, who owns a large farm in Loudoun County; much Simms family news; mentions Mrs. Trist's grandson, Nicholas Trist.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by B. Cottinger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFatherly letter giving his opinion of a certain young lady and marriage, as well as general advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of his engagement to this daughter Selina, and the seriousness of the matter, especially in concerning finances; tells of his poor financial state as related to a dowry, or the lack thereof, for his daughter; gives his approval of the \"alliance,\" but hopes they will delay the marriage for some time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas given great consideration to his claim against the French government and has turned the case over to Stephen Pleasonton, who is the auditor for the Dept. of State and who is now handling all claims; since Mr. Pleasonton is a personal friend and he (James Monroe) is greatly interested in his Burr Powell case, he knows he will get an answer soon; will also be returning the agriculture pamphlet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends extract of Mr. Pleasonton's reply concerning the claim against the French government and asks that he reply with the necessary information; will also do anything he can to help.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFurther discussion of his claim against the French government and dealings with Stephen Pleasanton and Isaac Coxe Barnett.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMore instructions about the claim being made against the French government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFurther discussion and explanation of the case involving Burr Powell and his claim against the French government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinued information concerning Powell's claim against the French government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe new court system has kept him extremely busy; social life has slowed down; the fashion these days to relieve boredom is to ride horseback; expresses concern for his own colt in the country; inquires after Dr. Nelson and his medical career; also asks about a large, gay party at South River; recommends books for good reading including Schlegel's History of Literature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received the results of his claim from Mr. Pleasonton and regrets the outcome, which he disagrees with; does not feel anyone is to blame.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to come visit over Christmas; describes the social events in Arlington; mentions her cousin George Calvert; says the big event is the fair for the benefit of orphans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a walk she took and the surrounding countryside, including the wildflowers and startling a herd of deer; had many visitors, including a very graceful lady who is said to have been \"addressed\" by Mr. Van Buren, a \"jolly goodnatured ... commodore and some of the ugliest officers,\" and Mrs. Porter and her scholars; tells of books she has read, including Tales of a Grandfather, The Sorcerer, and The Talisman; loving memories and looking forward to their next meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave just returned from a visit to her grandmother's and her cousin, Ann Marshall; they all are saddened by the death of Mr. Fitzhugh; describes the country from South to West River, where she had visited, and comments on meeting a lovely girl, Bella Carter; mentions the jealousy of another male suitor?, Seldon Page; mentions Mary Custis. 3 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends his best wishes for her new life with Charles L. Powell; will be able to attend the wedding as well as \"Brother Nelson\"; is uncommonly warm; is sending a bonnet for her and a small diamond breast-pin for Father by the steamboat Franklin, commanded by Admiral Nevitt; describes the long ribbons attached to the bonnet, which are for going once all the way around the bonnet before knotting them by the ear, not for tying a bow under the chin; also includes a diagram of how to tie them in the current fashion; admits to having been helped in choosing the bonnet by Miss Olivia Donaldson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses events in Washington D.C.; says she went to \"the President's\" on New Year's day; discusses Mr. Marshall's sermons; mentions books she is reading; asks Selina to come visit her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays her health is improving; encourages her to ask her for help when she needs it; discusses the articles she is sending her including a lemon tree, curtains, a mattress; discusses how these things will get to her; gives news about the children; Bec, Nanny, Frank, and Fred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis mother-in-law has told him of the wonderful news of the birth of another daughter Hattie, and that both mother and baby are safe; will be up to visit in about a week; comments on balancing the sexes in the family, and that he has \"no notion of supplying my brother's and sister's children with wives\"...\"we shall hate to transport them his daughters to the wilds of the west\"; all is well at home, a new hen house is being built, but the garden is too wet to work; is lonely but is visiting neighbors; family news; religious sentiments expressed about her, their new daughter, and their family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives account of his trip to Wheeling, including a sweet good-bye from daughter Rebecca; was not able to locate Robert Gray or ? Throckmorton at Harper's Ferry, but later met them at Point of Rocks; detailed description of a railroad and train cars; tells poignant story of a dog on the train searching for his master.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas had many family visitors since his departure and family news; there is a measle outbreak at \"Llangollen,\" and all of the \"negroes\" have it; she had her teeth filed by Dr. Overfield?; a fire in Upperville destroyed Robert Armistead's new store and the adjoining saddle shop; they have had a beautiful snowfall, covering all of the blossom-filled trees, which melted quickly, doing no harm to the fruit; had a letter from brother John, who advises that he Charles L. Powell \"go directly to Texas\"; loving stories about their daughter's activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad a bad thunderstorm the day she left; inquires about her trip and her relatives; details of children's activities; has let Becca sleep with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir father will be taking a trip West this spring, accompanied by cousin William; family information; social life in Leesburg very quiet; misses her and her family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails of his trip from Alexandria; spent the night with relatives; warns her about catching a cold on a windy day; tells of conversations with their young son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrivate financial matters; tells of his busy schedule as a representative from Virginia to the U.S. legislature; gives his negative opinion concerning a bank? bill introduced by Henry Clay,which he feels the President would veto; Daniel Webster shares his opinion; life insurance inquiry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not be home when expected because the House of Representatives is not going to adjourn until Monday; the Congress received their second veto from President Tyler regarding the Bank Bill; describes an assault made by Sen. Henry A. Wise upon Sen. Edward Stanlyin Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking about her visit to Washington and the Chamber of National Institute; speaks of floods, bad weather, but comfortable where he is, because of Margaret's? kindness; describes lifestyle and \"humorous remarks of Charles Lamb,\" sexual relationship with her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishing thumb to heal; speaks of cattle and other animals at \"Llangollen\" that he misses; asks about children; saw Ann? mentions Virginia Taylor's visit; will visit wife before harvest; reference to brother, Leven, and his wife, and Sarah?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHustle and excitement of the House of Representatives; hoping to adjourn on Monday the twenty-second, but difficulties cause many night meetings; political discussion about Tariff question and Tuck bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her story at \"the Springs;\" tells about the politics the company there discussed; gives her own view of these issues; gives news about family and friends; hopes that Congress will soon adjourn so that he can come home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompares episode of thief robbing hen house to thieves in Washington trying to rob \"public treasures\"; wants to buy books for her; tells how he wishes to be with her and the rest of his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of the bad weather and that they are able to get out very little; says Mr. Powell went to the Inauguration on horseback; tells what books the family members are reading; mentions the issue of white servants; discusses Rebecca's feelings of becoming a young lady; says that they could not get the house they wanted for next year; mentions Mr. Powell's feelings of frustration for not being able to better provide for them; gives more news about the Inauguration; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDaughter, Harriet, left with Uncle William to spend holidays with them; daughter Minna had a birthday party, inviting Aunt Mary's children and Eskridges; family news; death of Maria Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her religious feelings; discusses her traveling plans; describes her relationship with each of her relatives where she is staying; says she is staying with Fan and helping her with her wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the housekeeping and how Rebecca is taking care of the house while she is away; discusses the health of family members; tells how they are altering last year's dresses; says \"Mother\" is quite weak and \"Father\" is very dependent on her; gives news of Brother Nelson and Jeanie (sister?); gives travel plans of family; says Mr. Powell has gotten six teeth put in and looks much younger.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their arrival home with her brother Nelson; gives news of \"little Nan\"?; asks about Rebecca and Minna's trip; tells her to be happy and to follow God; says Charlie is doing well in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; mentions Laura's? wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what she did during her visit to Locust Hill; tells what is going on in town; gives news of family and friends. Including news from letter from \"Mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell telling of her many activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Jesus and how one must search for and do things that please Him; asks that she watch her sister, Minna, closely so that she will not overexert herself; Ariana? had a baby boy; describes son Charlie's and daughter Nina's reactions to reading school and learning; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of John's? carriage and velocipede that once was Minna Lloyd's, describing how she rode the vehicle; describes what a Holly tree is; (has genealogical information about Minna Powell, Lloyd Powell, and Charlie Powell in a different hand, which appears to have been added later.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloucester Court House,Va. Speaks of her \"companion in Matilda Lee?; received visit from Nannie Guy and Maria Harrison; describes celebration in honour of General Taylor's election; describes Mrs. Janney's travels; town gossip and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; speaks of going to Locust Hill; inquires and tells about adventures of many townspeople; obliged to Mrs. Tabb for taking care of her and other daughter, Minna.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of Cousin Lucy's? party; describes Christmas scene around her house and gifts that the children received; describes Cousin Elizabeth Janney and compares to Cousin Harriet; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses who has come to visit her; describes Cousin Lee's wife, Maria, and their wedding; asks about her Christmas; describes the book marks she made for Christmas presents; asks how Minna is doing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of snow and bad weather; notes that daughters, Rebecca and Minna, have been gone for almost three months; Fanny (Powell) Gordon is going to visit Fredericksburg; mentions a letter from Jeannie? who found General Jones, in Washington, quite \"agreeable and handsome\"; Cuthbert Powell is much better, and he speaks of going to Gloucester to join a Mr. Hale; Nina is afraid of everything; family news; mentions hiring of a slave, Margaret.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRebecca's description of her Uncle Tabb's Dr. John Prosser Tabb house seems far in advance of Old-Virginian architectural styles; speaks of death of Mrs. Douglas Gordon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of dancing as a family as a \"social amusement,\" but says that it does offend some \"in the religious world;\" says that one must respect the public opinion of the community where one lives; had severe weather; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Hatty Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Minna Powell, Gloucester Court House, for letter and \"glove-knots\" and sending love to Aunt Rebeccaand Uncle John Prosser.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer brother Charlie and sister Nina have sore throats, and her father has a bad cold; snowy weather; Hatty went with Aunt Ellen to Selma and Raspberry Plain; Mr. Armistead Rust is to be married before March 4; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reports on the snow storms they have had; mentions the coming wedding of Armistead Rust and Lilly Lawrence; tells how he likes working at the store; describes one of their customers; describes the house they may rent next spring. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia Says she is glad to hear Minna's health is improving; gives news of family; says her brother Nelson soon sails for California to dig gold, and may not be back for five years; reports on how he expects to live; says that there are measles and mumps in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaris's? father announced as candidate for re-election; General Rust's family going to New York to attend a wedding; father is renting Carper's house; bad weather and snow causing many colds and illnesses; Mrs. Eskridge's father died; father may go to the Inauguration; family news. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSaw Representative John S. Pendleton at the House of Representativesin Washington, D.C.; Pendleton wants a senate appointment; he will not go to Leesburg because he does not want to \"meddle with party movements\"; mentions \"County Repeal of the dog law.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mother and Father are both sick; \"brother\" has gone to inauguration; describes how to make eggnog, and gives her opinion of it; describes riding horses to the cliff and tells of adventures. 1 page. letter signed. Including letter from Harriet Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 February 27, incomplete letter concerning outbreak of the mumps and family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather suffering from piles; mumps are still prevailing; do not have parties during Lent; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of gossip saying that Mr. Benedict is having an affair with Mrs. Henderson; describes procession in Washington, D.C. and the inauguration; family news. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 March 26, concerning family news and the time of year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses joy that Minna's health is till improving; says she is recovering from her cold; says Lloyd and Hattie have been ill as well; discusses the issue of Rebecca upsetting her aunt Rebecca by being late for a meal; says her aunt is easily vexed in \"her condition\"; gives news of friends and family; describes their new servant Robert. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Charles S. Powell, to Rebecca Powell, , undated, concerning Uncle Prosser's desire to put Minna on \"short allowance,\" and Minna's consumption of beef.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their move to another house which she says is comfortable but small; hopes that the Gloucester air is getting rid of her cold; says their father is busy with court dealings; says many in the area have mumps including Hattie; says that Hattie is getting a tooth plugged; says she does not want Lloyd to leave to live so far away; discusses mesmerism (hypnotism).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of her bad health; her husband is busy preparing for court; mentions a party at Exeter; Mrs. Fontleroy had a girl so Mrs. Knox is a grandmother; much more family news and information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rebecca Powell will be coming home within a week or so; Fanny? is at Locust Hill with the mumps; family news; Uncle William Graypersuaded Father to go to Gum Springs, Va., until after the election; election day events seemed to be going against Father. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Sister Minna\" Powell, Gloucester Court House, Virginia, 1849 April 26, concerning family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Minna's cough and how they are treating it; tells her what clothes Lloyd and Charlie should wear if it gets colder; says she has been doing little except taking care of Minna; discusses new dresses for the winter and corsets; gives news of friends and relatives; discusses travel plans, to come home for the winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dresses, materials and costs; discusses bonnets; gives news of family; thanks her and Hattie for taking care of the household duties while she is away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Minna is now well and that they are anxious to come home; gives news of Jeanie (her sister?), and Rebecca; gives news of \"Mother\" and \"Father\"; discusses books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Mr. Powell had his \"likeness taken\" at the Daguerreotype rooms; says Minna's health continues to improve but that she may have one tonsil taken out; discusses the remedies she is taking; says she feels stronger also; gives news of friends; gives news of Rebecca, Jeanie, and \"sister\" Ann; discusses walking shoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on her health and over-exertion; describes the illumination that took place in the neighborhood; tells of visits she has made; tells stories about Minna's sister, Nina; gives news of family and friends; says Hattie has lost her \"excess of fat\" and is walking three times a day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what each family member is doing; discusses bonnets; discusses appearance versus reality as concerning materialism; discusses the opportunities for her in Alexandria; discusses the role of children in the family; gives news of friends and family; mentions that \"brother\" John may move and that if they move to Illinois, they will be closer to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays they got there a few days ago and that Mr. Powell, Mr. Grey(?), and \"brother Llew\" have gone to the sale of slaves (\"the sale of the negroes\"); discusses her visit in Alexandria with her grandparents; Discusses the bad weather in Leesburg and the bad condition of the roads; says their family must economize rigidly; says Mr. Powell found the law business in Alexandria too small, so they will not be moving there; expresses her disappointment at the outcome; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reviews Christmas gifts received by everyone; describes a \"reading party\"; describes Christmas decorations of the Church; family news. Including note signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, 1849 December 29, concerning when daughter, Rebecca, is to return home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of the recent social events of the area; describes the format of a reading party; says her mother-in-law could not make it to their home because of the snow; asks her how her mother is doing; says there are still small pox in the area; discusses how many servants she has and what each does; says that Rebecca's Uncle George took Cuthbert to an asylum in Baltimore and hopes he will be happier there then when he was \"out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Rebecca's Uncle Richard and Aunt Elizabeth who live in Illinois; says she plans to get a description of the Illinois life from them; gives news of Ellen? who is unwell and is going to a doctor in New York; discusses how Rebecca can get home; describes family activities; says they have been able to do little because of the rain and mud; says she lies on her back all day sewing while her children read to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Reading parties are the only way she can socialize; reports Maria Grady's death; reports about a big baptist meeting going on there headed by Mrs. Lucket; much town news. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 26, 1850, concerning Rebecca Powell's trip home and Maria Grady's \"triumphant death.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Speaks of terrible weather; boasts of learning to spin rolls of cotton on a spinning wheel; reports death of Rebecca Gray, Robert Gray's daughter; describes her daily routine; discusses Mary Grady. Including letter signed from \"devoted mother,\" Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Bec,\" Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 1850, concerning bad weather, family news, and attendance to the convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays many in the family have been very sick for a couple of days and that she has had to nurse them; says Minna is now sick; and never had fully recovered from the chicken pox she had before; gives advice of how to be a good guest; advises her on her studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she has a toothache but must wait until May to get them pulled; describes a humorous reading party; says there was a case of small pox in the area and that many are being revaccinated. Including letter signed from \"mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell. Discusses her travel plans home; tells her to follow her grandparents' advice; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that her younger siblings are recovering from the measles so well; reports on health of \"Grandma\" and \"Grandpa\" Lloyd; gives news of Aunt Rebecca, Jeanie, and Minnie; Tells what she had done each day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about many weddings in Leesburg and about who will need new dresses; speaks of ball thrown by Maria Washington; other city news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives general description of Henry and discusses the family's move there; discusses the house they will build; advises what they should bring; reports on the emigrants in the area; discusses their travel plans in detail; asks Charlie to bring Newfoundland puppies; gives news of family there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes presents sent to grandchildren; tells of Christmas scene in Alexandria; wants granddaughters to meet a polite gentleman that impressed her. Including poem, 1852, by R. C. Powell, beginning \"'Ours the cross.' Yes it is ours,\" giving a religious viewpoint.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of how she makes embroidery patterns and what colors are preferred; inquires about some of her friends; John Leven Powell says that Brooke? looks badly; aunt Fanny trying to match Brooks with Lucy Gordon; speaks of a Mr. Beverley breaking out around his face and \"bleeding profusely\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mr. Gordon? will be a delegate to the democratic convention in Richmond, Virginia; much use of her eyes results in inflammation of her eyelids; \"Llangollen\" property is deteriorating; much town news and family news; mentions her dower right.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of helping Frank and Lucy ? with their new baby; describes female servants and her experiences with them; describes health of her daughters, Harriet, Rebecca, and Minna; reports of a few cases of \"cholera\"; reports of a good garden.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a detailed report of Minna's health, expressing hope that her headaches are definitely getting better; tells about people who have visited the family; mentions a desegregated school in \"abolition ground\"; tells what her sisters have been doing since she left; discusses Rebecca's journey.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Janney's baby died while she was ill; a Mr. Anderson, a Presbyterian Minister, says that his wife, Miss Harper, is a relative of Selina's (her father's Aunt); speaks of Fred's? wedding; tells of episode when she goes to visit a Mrs. Brown?; describes a visit they made to some neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Fanny's ? wedding; family news; possibility that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon ? might be elected to legislature; family does not wish Rebecca Powell to return home this winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a visit they made to some new neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their busy preparations for winter; describes their daily routine; says she is glad to have Lucy and Fred stay with them; describes their Sunday school; reports on Scholastics (a servant) who is now reading well; news of family and friends; discusses dresses and styles; asks about Rebecca's Uncle Nelson; mentions that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon was elected; asks about Fan's? wedding and hopes she and William will be happy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of his daughter's trip, whom she should visit, and money matters; hopes to soon reap the financial benefits of his store; mentions Bishop Whitehouse's determination to give the college broad foundations; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; sleet and bad weather; religious discussion and viewpoints; Lucy and John? have a daughter now.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mr. Powell, Charles and Richard Lloyd are busy with new business as \"Land Agents\"; town of Henry, Illinois now has a newspaper and a steam mill; hopes to have a railroad passing through soon; there is not a decent Church and she wishes to see one built; Lloyd Powell, son of Selina, studies German because there are so many Germans in their town to do business with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sarcastically teases her sister about differences between lifestyles of \"Far West\" and the East; Uncle Fred ? went to Springfield to see that railroad went from Peoria through Henry, Illinois; mentions problems with scarlet fever; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of liquor laws and problems with drinking; describes lectures; such family and town news; mentions other religious lectures.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses desire for daughter Rebecca to return home; Minna Powell still having problems with headaches; family news; Fred? went to Chicago to see stockholders of the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad; asks for Rebecca to send asparagus seed and large lima beans; mentions Thackery's lectures, and gives her opinion about his books and religious teachings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; \"land business\" will provide many opportunities for travel; Rebecca planning to go to Leesburg soon. Including note from Charles L. Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"darling,\" Rebecca Powell, , 1853 March 11, sending his daughter ten dollars and writing her as to how to handle her expenses and requesting her to bring home her Grandfather's papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that even though he just left yesterday, she wanted to put a letter in the books to be sent to him; comments on their inability to see each other even though he is only seven miles away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions his job as a traveling salesman and how he hopes to soon be Uncle Richard's Lloyd administration; resolved in town meeting to build the Railroad Peoria and Chicago.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses her disappointment that she cannot see Rebecca before Rebecca returns to Henry, Illinois; describes the friendship between them; news of friends in Baltimore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of carriage accident involving Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dulaney, where their horses were scared by the Clifton Mill and threw Mrs. Dulaney; she and father attended Dr. Rutherford's lectures; emphasizes that ladies got to vote, as well as gentlemen, on whether they were satisfied with the lectures; new wharf boat has arrived.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the towns of Rushville and Pittsfield; said he enjoyed Pittfield more, but that Uncle Richard Lloyd sent him an assignment for Rushville; says he will be there about a month; asks about friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Rebecca has come home; Minna joined the church with her family; gives religious views; family news. Including letter from Minna Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"Brother\" , 1853 May 11, referring to Rushville, as location of brother; tells of beautiful spring weather and describes scenery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill soon be coming home; complains of sore throat and headaches; has had scarlet fever; family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGossips about \"Miss Jane,\" a mutual friend; says he and Dr. Winslow found her in her parlor with a man; says the servant did not want to let them in and that it was an uncomfortable situation. Including letter written in margins from \"Cousin\" Jane to Rebecca Powell concerning religious publication, an Episcopal convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses how much she misses him; discusses reading material.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Aunt Ellen's Powell Gray recovery from an illness; much family news; describes wedding that she went to; expresses romantic interest in a Dr. Claggett; includes printed poems.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes physical appearance of \"Llangollen\" as well as her feelings towards the place; reminisces about when family lived in Virginia. Talks about old friends; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Tells her little sister Nina about old friends and family; gives details of things she has been doing. Including letter from \"Hatty\" Harriet Powell, \"Llangollen,\" Virginia, to \"Mother,\" Selina Powell, 1853 October 10. Concerning warmer clothes; advantages of \"flannel draws\" over a \"wadded petticoat.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Says she has been extremely ill and so have many in the area; says she has been traveling in order to improve her health; tells of her problems with Custis and his lessons; says Robert is still holding his office in Washington but wishes to leave; asks how she likes \"the West\" and if her husband is finding success; news of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports Lucy's? death and grief everyone feels; Nelly? is to be baptized; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of their Christmas and New Years celebrations. Also includes \"Mother\" Selina Powell, to Rebecca Powell. Expresses hope that Rebecca can be with her relatives in Baltimore; discusses the nature of receiving advice and making her own decisions concerning her travel plans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of attending a party; mentions \"matching up\" procedures at party; family news; details Christmas gifts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions religious feelings; speaks of a railroad being built nearby; Virginia? had her annual get-together on December 26; of family members; mentions a friend's visit to the Crystal Palace; Mrs. Augustine Washington had the first male child born at Mt. Vernon recently; family news; mentions Rear Admiral Leven Minn Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions Brooks'? wedding; describes details of the wedding; much family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her day spent with Lizzie King and Jane Norris; describes a dinner given for a couple about to get married; news of other friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions sicknesses of Nelson Lloyd and John Lloyd; speaks of a Douglas Forrest who attends Yale College; has to take a boat to Washington D.C.; gives price rates per acre of land at that time; gives prices for a lot of land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news about cousins Nannie and Fanny?; mentions Uncle Nelson's Lloyd recovery; travels by omnibus.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; describes her garden and its contents; Regina? was married; Mr. Livingston? requests influence of Charles L. Powell to obtain the consulship of London through General Baercel?; mentions Mr. McFaddin as being the mayor of Henry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; describes the scenery at Locust Hill; some of Uncle George's ? children have chicken pox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIdentified as much of note added in unknown handwriting, possibly that of Selina Lloyd Hepburn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of Minna's gravesite; tells what he's doing to improve its appearance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes trip to Niagara Falls; describes places visited in New York and where he lives; describes his studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes courses he is studying at school; describes the first time he saw a man dive under water and the suit he wore below water; staying at a boarding house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Lloyd who died in 1854; estimated price value are given.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes study habits and classes; mentions prices of a ring and a clock; describes his financial situation. .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes in detail her Quaker wedding to Frank? on 1854 December 14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNina's Christmas gift from Charles arrived safely; mentions wedding of a fellow student; serenaded the couple with a \"horse fiddle\"; describes his activities in his spelling class; mentions plans to return home in the spring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses religious beliefs; lists prices for renting his room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Charter Oak, an attraction in Hartford; describes his visit to an armory; staying with a Mr. Parsons and describes his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses financial settlements he is making for his father concerning the house, lands, furniture; says Uncle Fred and Uncle Neb are leaving Henry and they are all \"disgusted\" with Henry and that he thinks his (father's) decision not to come back was wise; mentions the family move to Winchester, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items, 1856. 16 items, 1857\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their Christmas which was spent at Uncle Fred's and Aunt Lute's; describes a Christmas ball and a New Year's ball in detail; says he has had some problems with dyspepsia; asks about cousin Kate's wedding to a senator.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on Aunt Lib and Uncle R?'s new son, Richard; says he rented out their house in Henry; says he has been away from \"home\" now for three months; and will not go to New Orleans, Mobile, and Augusta; describes how he decorated Minna's grave, and expresses hope that her resting place will soon be Virginia; asks about their school; sends money from a large profit he made selling land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his visit to Louisville where he saw his cousins and went to many social events; says that the train ride from Kentucky was very rough; says he will be in Vicksburg in a week and then will go to Wilmington, North Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; and Memphis, Tennessee; asks about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his stay in Vicksburg, and his visit with Mr. And Mrs. Eilbeck Mason and Miss Louisa Fox; says that he did not see Cousin John Russell while in New Orleans; discusses his travel plans; asks about Hatty's teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that she is well from the influenza; says he has recently traveled to Portsmouth, Va,, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; says he will now go to Texas; discusses travel plans; asks her to pick out one of her friends for him; discusses Charlie's new job in St. Louis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes St. Louis and the Virginia House Hotel; inquires about the new scholars the family has taken on; harasses Nina for not writing. Including note from Charles L. Powell, St. Louis, Missouri, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1856 May 4, concerning his happiness about Nina joining the Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes hard times in Illinois; intent to move back to Virginia when business picks up; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of influenza and other illnesses prominent in the town; reports the death of Mr. Adies ?; Ellen Powell is in Washington Infirmary; house is being renovated; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he just returned from Henry; says Charlie is on his way to Henry to start his new job in Uncle Fred's store; describes Henry and the house they used to live in; reports that Uncle Fred is building a house; gives new of Scholastics and Monsieur Carlo; says he will go to Pennsylvania next and then visit them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Lloyd Powell is on his way to Virginia; describes their yard and home in Henry; yellow fever is not a problem this year in Illinois; he went to a concert given by the Baleis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about the \"weddings fair\"; discusses his travels and the loneliness involved in his job; mentions his relief that the campaigns and elections are over; sends messages to friends at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNina has begun studying Latin and learning how to draw; mentions the extension of the Chicago and Pern canal down to Henry; much family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what each family member is doing; discusses religion and the duties of a Christian; gives news of friends who have joined the church; discusses Minna's grave; discusses letter writing; tells of recent marriages and engagements; gives her philosophy on why he should not begin to chew tobacco; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Makes reference to Valentine's Day and Washington's Birthday; mentions last year's parade and the marching continentals; reports of bad rain storm that tore up the railroad track and caused problems with mud and flooding; family news. Includes note signed from Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1857 February 22, telling her to turn to their 'one friend' for strength and advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes a storm which kept him in Henry, Illinois, unable to travel; gives recent travel plans, including a trip to Philadelphia by boat; gives news of friends and family in Henry; says many river towns are flooded.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports his knowledge of Lloyd's Powell return to Winchester; relatives are going to the Episicpal Church for Easter; reports Dr. Hoagland ? as being a bad tenant in their house in Illinois; mentions happiness that Nina Powell is joining the church today.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of relatives in Alexandria; tells his travel plans; says he finds the women of Virginia far more appealing than those of South Carolina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUncle Fred? and Aunt Lucy? are leaving for Virginia; sending his mother his daguerreotype, a photograph; reports that Lloyd is in St. Louis; Bridget, a past boarder, had a little girl; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the family vacation and adventures; describes the baths; mentions the parties they have attended; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily is on vacation; describes activities and scenery at Capon Springs; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks about taking inventory at the store; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays they just got back from Capon; asks her not to take silver nitrate for her headaches; says they have all improved their health by the visit to Capon; says \"brother\" Nelson is now there hoping the springs will help him; says they did not get the house that they wanted to rent; gives news of friends; says Rebecca, Hatty, and Lloyd are there. Including letter from Charles L. Powell to Nina Powell. Says that he misses her and wishes she could have been at Capon; asks about her headaches.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his travels from Baltimore to Henry; mentions shortage of money due to bank failures; gives detailed news of the town, including improvements being made; news of Henry relatives; mentions that the bank failures will result in fewer land dealings and therefore, less work for him; asks about the young ladies of Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about Mr. Waler's? lectures; attends the Methodist Church now; reports of the adventures during hunting season; mentions the new idea of pavement sidewalks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a severe snowstorm and its effects on Henry; tells how he spent Thanksgiving day; describes their new cook with whom he is infatuated; mentions the death of Robert Conrad?; gives messages of friends in Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of Nina getting her teeth straightened; describes method; reports that the number of scarlet fever cases is greatly reduced; she is very busy with the boarding school; tells of a fight between Charlie McCormick and a police officer; mentions Hunter Holmes McGuire; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the death of Robert ? and the reaction of the town; gives news of friends; sends her love to her mother and relatives; wants to know what Dr. Chase said about her teeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites about Nina's plans to go home; says she is concerned about her traveling when her teeth are in such a condition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to the \"hard times\" everyone is experiencing; describes farm activities; family news; describes how to make a mousetrap.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes midwest weather and the usual fall-like temperatures; says that they are all much healthier because of the mild weather; says ties are hard and the bank in Henry just closed, but that the town is continuing to improve; asks about Mrs. Powell's occupation, teaching; mentions the death of Robert Conrad and describes his character; messages to family members.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of freezing temperatures of -15 F and snow in Henry; mentions sleighing in the snow; reports story of a bank robbery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of Lloyd's Powell trip to St. Louis to try and find Charles a job; family news; mentions a Mr. Lombard who plans to return to Henry and open a bank of issue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses who owes him letters from home; says he could not find a job for Charley Charles L. Powell, Jr.? in St. Louis because of the poor economy; gives news of Randolph Powell, of St. Louis, and John Webb Powell, of Utah; says he will be home during the summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions that she missed his birthday with a card but thought of him that day; expresses religious feelings and beliefs; family news; lists people recently confirmed in the Church; outbreak of typhus fever at the University ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of his travels; describes Memphis, Tenn.; gives news of \"cousin\" William Powell who resides in Memphis; gives news of Mr. And Mrs. Mason, residing in Vicksburg; describes Leake County where he sold some of his Uncle Nelson's land; gives news of \"cousin\" John Wilson of New Orleans and of \"cousin\" John Chilton, who may send his daughter Sarah to school in Virginia; tells his travel plans, stating he will be in Virginia in a month; gives news to family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes scenery where he is; tells of a May party that some school girls had; describes his boat riding trip; family news; mentions arrival of Mr. Winn, the new Presbyterian minister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports having been sick with a bad cold; family news; Nina has problems with other schoolgirls because her parents operate the school; trying to plan Charlie's return home for the summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about fourth of July entertainment; Mr. Winn gave an exceptional sermon; Uncle Richard? bought a piano and a side-saddle; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about boarding students; inquires about vacations at Capon Springs, West Virginia; tells of his success at duck hunting; family news; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Uncle Richard's and Uncle Fred's families; says that Frank's baby is still ill; gives news of Hammond and Minna; comments that he will not see his family for another year; gives news of Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. and his employment possibilities; asks about Uncle Neb of Clark, Va?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her opinion about chewing tobacco, smoking, and other bad habits; incorporates religious duty into her opinion; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his habit of chewing tobacco and how he should discipline himself to quit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the weather; reports on Hammond; reports that Mr. Chandler of Henry is getting married in Boston; says they will stay at Mrs. Taber's for the winter; gives news of Charlie (Charles) L. Powell, Jr.; comments on the involvement of women in politics in Henry; news of friends; comments on the decreased enrollment at the family school, saying they will at least have a lighter workload; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her disappointment in Charlie's having tasted tobacco; tells him that he is doing wrong to continue this habit; voices many religious views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that river is flooding the town; talks of Christmas holidays; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA birthday letter for Nina's sixteenth birthday; describes the weather; family news; Min? is the \"editress\" of the \"Minnehaha\"; tells of the affairs of a Miss Amanda?.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives account of how he spends his days with emphasis on his Sunday activities; tried to quit chewing tobacco but couldn't; tells of episode where Uncle Richard? lost his saddle bags in the town of Bradford; river was frozen and people are ice skating; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells where the girls boarding with them are going for Christmas; describes their Christmas plans; recollects their last Christmas with Minna; gives religious advice; sends her love to Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould love for her to stay with him; mentions a sister Hannah.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Lloyd Powelland Uncle Richard ? have gone to Memphis, Tenn.; tells of the building of a road for $10,000; describes a surprise party he attended; mentions Valentine's Day and how many he has received; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Uncle Richard and Frank are with him in Memphis, to see if they want to move there; says that he does not believe Uncle Richard will leave Illinois, but that Frank probably will; says that they tried to look up William Powell but he had moved to Arkansas; discusses the possibilities of his parents establishing a school in the area, and the risks involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Uncle Richard and Uncle Fred; says Uncle Fred and Frank will close their business and leave Henry; tells of a conversation with Bishop Otey of Memphis on the subject of establishing a girls school there; gives details of the proposal in case his father is interested; gives news of the private school situation in Arkansas; reports on his business dealings in Arkansas; discusses financial matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Uncle Fred who has been ill; says that the women of the town are all inspecting the new spring goods brought in from Saint Louis; discusses his daily schedule; says Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. is in singing school; asks about Nina's walks and lectures on the benefits of exercise to health and appearance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes spring in Illinois; inquires about relatives in Alexandria; comments on Uncle Nelson's helpless state; discusses the chances of recovering Uncle Nelson's lands in Arkansas; describes the area of Henry where the family used to live; comments that she now weights 108 lbs., which is more than her daughters weigh; sends his love to Grand Ma Powell, Aunt Ann, and Uncle Neb.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA baby girl was born who is Nina's cousin Uncle Richard's daughter?; describes a fishing trip; mentions finding several Indian graves with skeletons and other items; tells story of a \"mad\" dog who bit many people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of Illinois relatives; describes a trip that he and Uncle Richard took through Stark County, emphasizing the changes that have taken place in the last five years; comments on Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. development into a young man; reports that Uncle Richard will leave the land business on September 1st; discusses his involvement in the business and his desire to visit Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses his relief that his brother Charles arrived safely in Va.; comments on how scattered the family is at present; mentions Cousin Fanny Cochran's wedding in Middleburg, Virginia; discusses Mr. Hyde's trip in the \"aerial vessel\" Atlantic from St. Louis to New York, as reported in the \"Republican\"; reports that Frank has another son, Horatio Nelson; news of other Illinois relatives; describes the July 4 festivities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses an unprofitable year for his business; discusses a business proposition made to his brother Charles and Harry and Benton Janney by Uncle Richard, concerning the opening of the store; gives news of Illinois relatives; comments that his Uncle Richard, who just turned 43, may begin to use his middle name again and become Richard H. Lloyd; comments on how, in the past twenty years, the Powell family has spread from \"New York to Salt Lake City, and from the 'Lakes' to the Gulf of Mexico.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Uncle Richard, Minna will stop at Fulton County to visit relatives; gives his opinion about Minna not returning to Winchester Va. for school, stating that she has become too undisciplined and used to complete freedom in Illinois to be effectively taught in a school; describes Frank's son Horatio Nelson; comments on the family's health, saying that his father Charles L. Powell weights twenty pounds more than he does and his mother Selina L. Powell weighs only six pounds less, and also weighs more than any of her three brothers in Illinois; asks her if she is finished school and will make her debut.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Charley (Charles) L. Powell, Jr., Harry and Benton Janney have begun their business named \"H and TB Janney and Co.\" Asks about the boarding school and discusses the difficulties of running one; reports that Frank's family and Mrs. Hammond? are on their way to Memphis to live; reports that Uncle Fred is planning an extended visit to Virginia, and then will probably move to Memphis; says he and Uncle Richard dissolved their partnership and that Uncle Richard plans to move to Memphis as well; reports that crops are poor, so his business will be slow; plans to see them for Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that there is a County Fair next week; describes in detail an incident of a burning well; expresses sorrow that the family school will be so small this year; reports that the 'W. S. Fair' in Chicago is now over.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discussing fall and winter goods being stocked at \"Lloyd's Big Brick\" in Henry, Illinois\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efamily news; mentions marriage of Miss Hutchins, and deaths of 2 children of Mrs. Clara Ferguson; received invitation to wedding of \"Miss Mittie;\" gives his opinion of marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA French teacher at the boarding school died; mentions excitement due to 'John' Browne's execution and that there are 26 companies of soldiers at Charlestown, West Virginia; mentions growing discontent of slaves; describes how men have loaded pistols ready in their homes; tells how many people are being imprisoned; tells of other strains between North and South; some family news; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Uncle Richard's baby has been christened Elizabeth Jenkins Lloyd; comments that this is the day that John Brown is to be executed; comments on the number of arrests in Virginia of strangers traveling through the state. Including newspaper clipping, n.d., of a poem about infants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Professors Wise and LaMountain's attempt to establish daily balloon transportation from the \"Western\" states to the East Coast; family news; says he is anxious for the family in Illinois to move south; mentions the execution of \"Cook and his Confederates\" involved in John Brown's attempted insurrection on December 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to a \"Leap Year\" party.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions and encloses invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party; describes events at the party; describes weather and reports of a sleighing party; reports marriage of Mary Ann Hoyt, friend of the family. Including note from Maggie J. Richmond, Henry, Illinois, to Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, 1860 February, inviting him to a \"Leap Year\" party.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks about Uncle Richard's? baby girl; gives report of Charles L. Powell and some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses \"spring fever\" concerning work; describes weather; speaks of Uncle Nelson's Lloyd death and how it should be a happy time; thanks his father for \"Alexandria Gazettes\" containing articles about the Whig convention; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites about her feelings during the time following her brother Nelson's death; recounts the last days she spent with Nelson Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks about assessed value of some land or property and makes reference to Lloyd Brothers and Co.; speaks of crops and the effects of the weather; mentions how road being finished would provide trade with those on the other side of the river; township will vote on how to acquire additional funds to complete the road; mentions the whig convention and how they now represent such a small minority of people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks of spring dresses and bonnets; mentions hearing address by William McDonald; discusses opening of a shoe and book manufactory; speaks of beating \"the 'Yankees' with their own men;\" family news; religious advice; mentions use of telegraph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses agriculture and effects of weather on crops; talks of visiting New England and of dislike of their attitudes; expresses extreme negative opinion of 'Yankees.'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; mentions work at the store; discusses events around town. Including poem? written in Latin on both sides of envelope. Locks of hair also enclosed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses crops and agriculture; describes Illinois scenery; family news; inquires about trip to Capron Springs; mentions \"Uncle Richard's\" card selling tour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Congressional race; mentions Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky and his visit to Illinois; talks about rise in crime; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses confusion about having joined the church; religious discussion; some family and neighborhood news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about trip to New England; mentions \"Alexandria Sentinel;\" family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses climate and busy season of Christmas; debates issue of Civil War and effects; gives religious advice; family news; Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses problems due to political and financial situation of the country; talks about boils on his hand; family news; mentions kindness of Mayor Turner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNina's eighteenth birthday; discusses the weather; talks about sleighing and skating; mentions \"Pickwick Papers\" and describes hunting interest; makes reference to several literary works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks of trade being slow; election of a Mr. McFadden as \"Justice of the Peace\"; mentions sleighing and the weather; describes hayride in snow and people he went with.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his indebtedness to his father and his financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses political situation and \"imminent danger of Civil War\"; comments on government involvement and troops in a war; mentions social life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses the imminent war and that it will be the third one in her lifetime; talks about effects of a war from past experience; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from \"grandmother\" Catharine Powell, Bellevue, Va.?, to Rebecca Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 January 20, inquiring about being able to paint for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his dog and its habits and actions; talks about a fight at a warehouse; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses pros, cons, and possibilities of a war; talks about being able to cross North/South Line if he comes to Virginia; describes weather; mentions indoor winter activities; refers to marriage and courting habits; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBriefly discusses the Navy; describes wedding of Nellie Hall and a Mr. Kellogg; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation concerning troop movements around Harper's Ferry; mentions a Col. Bowen, superintendent Barbour, and a Col. Moore.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses explosion of armory at Harper's Ferry; speaks of united Southern forces; mentions involvement of friends including Powell Grady; Powell and Holmes Conrad; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuffering from inflammation of eyes; discusses possibility of Illinois and Virginia residents being separated during the war; Virginia's succession from the Union; Democrats opposition to the war with the South; talks about surrender of Fort Sumter; confusion about whether to leave or stay in Henry; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Colonel Robert Lee and movement of troops; mentions Georgetown Heights, Alexandria Heights, and the Valley counties; some family news; mentions Rockingham Rifles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlockade established at the mouth of the Ohio; Southern trade suspended; some family news; inquires about situation in Virginia concerning the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a proclamation of Lincoln; politics and effects of the Civil War; dominance of Lincoln's party in Louisville, Kentucky; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders to stop mail from Virginia.; Alexandria occupied by North; Fairfax cavalry taken prisoner; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar's effects on postal service; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for package of food and lists contents; speaks of newspaper Richmond Dispatch as a rare luxury; describes camp life; enemy is at Williamsport, Md.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses camp life and its required adjustment; mentions accidental shooting of two men as their only pessimistic experience so far; gives account of battles reported in the Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun; majority of men in army are under 21; describes how soldiers try to get food from surrounding farmers and their families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses uniforms, saying that they are everywhere, and that a \"John Brown\" has increased the \"military spirit\" in Virginia; asks about Lloyd; discusses books he has read and that she recommends; describes their daily schedule and when she has time to read; discusses food in season; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepares for battle; states that he is ready to do his duty for his country; mentions that the Continentals lost two men in the engagement the day before.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he cannot keep their date for the afternoon due to Army business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Mentions her husband's attack of dysentery; family news; gives news of friends and family; hopes war will soon be over so that the family can all be together; expresses religious feelings; wishes that they could write more freely; tells him to send his letters to E. J. Lee in Maryland who will forward them South to them. Including note, from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Winchester, Virginia, to \"Charlie,\" Charles L. Powell, Jr., , relating more family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for specific items of clothing to be sent because he does not know when he can return home; refers to Haresack? and asks that she make him a smaller one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes description of L. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of how Lloyd Powell was shot in battle of Manassas; details of his personal characteristics and attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses sympathy in regard to Lloyd Powell's death; offers comforting words from the Bible. Including letter, from Sue P. Lee, Lexington, Va. to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 29, offering condolences on the death of her brother, Lloyd Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Nina for her letter of sympathy concerning the death of her mother; gives news of her brothers and sisters; says that she has terminated her relations with cousin R.? because she could not marry a first cousin; discusses their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains of poor postal service; tells him of Lloyd Powell's death; remembers about Lloyd's characteristics and qualities; says that typhoid fever is spreading in the town; talks about her servants; family news; reports of Willie Lee Chilton's death, a second cousin; expresses religious view.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLove letter to her; proposes marriage to her and her guardian and asks for a reply.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned also by J. R. Bowen, Justice of the Peace, stating that Charles L. Powell, Jr. has taken necessary oaths to become Deputy Marshal. . Including on verso, document, from Brigadier General James H. Carson, 1861 October 24, Charles L. Powell, Jr. permission to cross back and forth over enemy lines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for package she sent him; describes his situation and effects of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for cap she sent him; his company is located at the \"Big Spring\" near Mr. Gray's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that 'Yankees' were in Shepherdstown, WVa. a few nights ago; family news; sends condolences on loss of her brother Lloyd Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSympathizes upon loss of Nina's brother, Lloyd Powell; relates her story of when her father died; expresses indebtedness to Nina's mother Selina (Lloyd) Powell; mentions sickness prevalent in Winchester, Va.; discusses her brother's Bob Lucas experiences as a soldier; Charles L. Powell, Sr., has accepted position in Richmond; news of spending summer at Col. LaRue's in Clarke to escape the Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for a cap she made and sent to him; expecting to go to camp soon; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of explosion that a Mr. Hubard caused trying to perfect something like \"Greek fire\" to sell to the government, similar to a powder to use in shells; describes condition of Mr. Hubard, his subsequent operations and death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wanted to give her news from Winchester, Virginia, but \"the spy\" had to burn his information for fear it would fall into enemy hands; tells stories of houses being searched by soldiers; news of friends and relatives; decorated with \"Confederate States of America\" seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrying to catch up with Stonewall Jackson's troops; describes camp life and strategy concerning the Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePossibility of 'Yankees' taking Richmond; discusses importance of trust in God during battles; inquires about Robert Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral information on troop movements; mentions Battle of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes being a member of Jackson's Army; mentions \"Rockbridge Artillery\" being full; family news. Decorated with \"Liberty and Union\" seal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStonewall Jackson captured two entire enemy regiments; enemy took part of Central Railroad; troop movements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; disappointment about not being able to be with Stonewall Jackson in his last fight.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the family's living arrangements; thanks her for finding a home for her to stay in, but feels it would be less imposing if she stayed where Nina is teaching in Prince Edward County; hopes that they can all live together soon; rejoices over Jackson's victory in retaking the \"old town\"; says that the Garlands have been very kind during her stay with them; discusses her traveling plans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of friends, Willie Gray and Marshall Barton; death of various others in war including Turner Asby; talks of having made herself a sun-bonnet; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of getting a job as a clerk in Major Vaun's office; information about Stonewall Jackson's victories; reports Colonel Ashby's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReviews routine activities; much family and friend news; discusses Stonewall Jackson's troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Everyone feeling ill and weighing less; family news; possible fighting in Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson is at Hanover Junction, Va.; problem with fleas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot get into the Rockbridge Artillery; she is staying with a Col. and Mrs. Tucker; battle of Richmond has begun; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Fighting around Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson's Army arrived to help; describes strategies and events of war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails about progress of the war; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Personal experience in Army. Including newspaper clipping of a poem by John. R. Thompson, entitled \"Ashby\" from a Richmond, Virginia newspaper dated 1862 June 13 , about the war.Verso is Rebecca Powell to Selina (Lloyd) Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Makes reference to Stonewall Jackson's army and his efforts in Richmond, Virginia; relates events of war and involvement of friends and relatives; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses people she knows who have been wounded or killed in the war; refers to battles at Richmond and Chickahominy, Va.; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses disappointment that her parents didn't get to visit her; complains of \"M's\" temper; gives list of supplies that she has purchased or ordered.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreparing to go to Gordonsville to join Braxton's Battery; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas joined Braxton's artillery; give details of battles and accounts of those wounded and killed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes battle between his battery and the 'Yankees;' describes Captain Braxton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has jaundice; personal account of stay in Richmond; discusses salary; accounts of the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles L. Powell, Jr. was killed; added to letter later her husband is still yellow with jaundice; saw the President Davis and his wife; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplains events of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death near Warrenton Springs, Va.; includes sketch of battlegrounds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTown gossip; tells story of a Dr. Conrad's arrest and ordeal; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks of our troops making it into Maryland; family news; prevalence of typhoid fever; discusses Southern attitudes about the Civil War, and Northerners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReligious account and explanation of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInforms her of \"Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. death; encloses a copy of Capt. Carter M. Braxton's report of the events leading to Charles L. Powell's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers sympathy for the loss of his son, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes the death of their sister Ellen Powell Gray; reports on the welfare of Ellen's family - Mr. William Gray, Kate and Arthur; news of family. Including letter from \"Mother\" Selina L. Powell, to Hattie Powell. Discusses the state of their belongings in their former house in Winchester and what will be sold through cousin Sarah Powell Conrad; says if they do not intend to return, then it should all be sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for her sympathy upon death of Rebecca's brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; expresses religious views; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResponds to news of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death; family news; reports on her own health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes description of Charles L. Powell and the battle. (Newspaper clipping.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Lots of family and town news; mentions that army is located near her in Winchester, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her daily routine schedule; involved in knitting for the soldiers; doesn't seem to think 'Yankees' will approach Richmond, Va.; remembers her son \"Charley\" Charles L. Powell, Jr. often.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their friendship and situation of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses sympathy for the death of her brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes in detail the death of her mother, Ellen Powell Gray and reveals her feelings concerning it; gives news of their Powell relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses daily routine; problem with typhoid fever; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on incidents of typhoid fever; family news; discusses her minister and baptism of a baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes circumstances of her daughter Annie's sickness and death; offers sympathy for death of Charles L. Powell, Jr.; family news; including recital of Fenella's funeral rites; \"Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust...\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses business matters in Winchester that she is taking care of for Charles L. Powell; discusses the ear and the situation in Winchester; sends him some books, stating that the 'Yankees' carried off the rest of them; reports of a proposed armistice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes sickness causing a delirious state for a few days; family news; knitting as a popular pastime; discusses weather; 'Yankees' still have Gloucester Point as a fort; soldiers suffering from \"rot\" that kills them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses John Milton's works; family news; Longstreet's Corps has occupied many points near Culpeper Court House. 2 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va. to \"sister\" either Hattie or Rebecca Powell, , 1862 November 5, reporting family news. Also including note from Selina Powell,Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va.. Expresses grief over Annie Lee's death; asks about Robert E. Lee; prevalence of typhoid fever; describes weather and landscape; 'Yankees' did not disturb Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s grave; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this letter with a letter from Hunter, her brother; comments that Hattie has now been gone from Winchester eight months; says life is fine when Confederate soldiers are in Winchester, but that it is miserable when the 'Yankees' come; says General Jackson has visited them and has his headquarters on the road to Front Royal; says he gave her his photograph and he will send a copy; writes that they are working very hard because the few servants in town are cooking for the soldiers; lists people who will leave town if the 'Yankees' return; says Cousin Betty looks unwell because she works so hard in the hospitals ; writes that they only have 500 sick beds in the hospitals; mentions the destruction by 'Yankees' in other counties; fears they will soon suffer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends thanks for present he received because it will be useful during the winter; expresses desire for peace in the country.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses concern that the Southern army is suffering from a lack of clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her feelings of loneliness, as she lives among strangers; expresses other worries of disease and of the war; discusses problems with diphtheria in the neighborhood; comments on the shortage of men in the neighborhood, in particular healthy, attractive ones; discusses the hardships of Uncle Prosser and Aunt ReBecca whose former servants burnt much of their property; news of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the condition of Charles L. Powell's estate and what business has been transacted; lists what articles from their home have been sold, commenting that most people in Winchester are not buying things because they are leaving to journey \"up the Valley\"; reports that 4000 men are guarding Winchester, that some tobacco has been burned, and that preparation for evacuation is underway; describes 'Yankee' attacks in Charlestown; comments on the effect of the fear of attack on everyone in the town; gives news of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on problems with influenza; refers to a Capt. Duff and his defense of Leesburg, Virginia; gives news of town since troops have arrived; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes references to the Clarke Cavalry and a Capt. Carter; possessions have been pillaged and towns have been ruined; has to quit farming because of war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Nina a Happy Birthday; refers to God and asks to enter his Kingdom; mentions a friend who died from diphtheria; discusses Stonewall Jackson's opposition to the enemy at Port Royal, Va.; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses everyone's fear of diphtheria; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes references to Gen. Robert E. Lee's victories; lots of family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses the difficulty of losing so many brave men in the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReminisces about their last Christmas together; discusses the slaves and their ability to be dangerous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Expresses desire for peace and to return to Winchester, Virginia; much town and family news; sorry they can't spend Christmas together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe has been ill with a cough and cold; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about a John Tabb; tells activities of Kate Gordon who is staying with them; mentions a bombazine fine twilled silk fabric; people looking for teaching positions; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems with smallpox; family news; mentions Judge Lee's ? suicide. .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer husband, Charles L. Powell, Sr., is still looking for a teaching job; recommends reading as a worthwhile hobby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how her family spent Christmas; thanks her for the cap she made for her brother Rob; discusses the sadness of Hattie's Christmas; discusses friendship; reports that she heard from Mary ? who is living behind Union lines in King George.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a Col. Tucker?; talks about her personal health; refers to the \"conscript act\"; gives impressions of deaths resulting from the Civil War and ideas of a forthcoming peace; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; refers to robbery of all servants; tells stories of confrontations with the enemy and experiences while at war; discusses food he has to eat; mentions has heard news of Grandma's death; mentions William Edmonson Jones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efamily news; discusses her pay for tutoring.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions their father's new employment in Greenville; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; describes some of daily activities.Including N. C. E.?, to Nina Powell, , post 1863 March 13 giving neighborhood news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on Cavalry's victory in Culpeper, Va.; describes poverty situation in Winchester, Virginia, as result of Civil War; discusses situations in Romney, West Virginia; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives information on job prospects; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFound a teaching job in Powhatan; describes location and plans to build a house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on his activities in the Army; refers to \"the Picketts;\" tells of damage and destruction in Winchester, Va., as a result of 'Yankee' invasion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on experiences in Army; expresses sadness that young men can't receive education during the war; family news; states that Tip? Powell and Frank Grady were captured in Loudoun, Va.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses clothes; family news; says they will visit Shirley Plantation soon; says Mary? must remain within the Union lines because the only way to leave is to walk eighteen miles at night, carrying baggage; mentions Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Custis Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions interest in soldiers, especially the South Carolina gentlemen; talks about sources of entertainment; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his house and surroundings; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions \"taking bitters (a tea) made of sarsaparilla root\" for strength and to purify her blood; expresses hopes for war to soon be over; 'Yankees' now have Fauquier under their control; family news; refers to receiving news through the Enquirer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses when the family members will see each other; gives news of Powell relatives at Locust Hill; says that goods cannot be sent to them from Locust Hill Leesburg, Virginia because of a blockade; inquires about the fighting in Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTalks about General Stuart's decision to review his Division; refers to great loss at Battle of Chancellorsville in the death of General \"Stonewall\" Jackson; describes events of war near Rowlesburg, WVa.; comments on his troops various attacks on different Railroads; gives details about other battles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; comments on how quickly her chickens are dying.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses fighting in the Civil War and loss of servants; family news and sick and wounded from Battle of Gettysburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on war, pestilence and famine; discusses the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that Nina Powell has been recommended to him to take care of his children as well as tutoring them; requests response to his offer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses pillaging by the Union troops; comments on men who have given their lives for the southern cause; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on scarcity of various staples; offers her $300 to come and teach his children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses \"keeping house\" and how much it costs to do so; family news; comments on the Battle of Manassas.Including note from ?, , to Hatty sic Powell, , undated, discussing delivery of enclosed note to Custis Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttempts to appease Nina's apprehensions about coming to Hanover County if the enemy is there; wants her to begin working the first of October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffer to substitute himself for William Henry Fitzhugh Lee as a Northern prisoner of War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; questions Nina about her \"beaux\" and his courting ways; discusses education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to burning her previous letter in case of a fight whence it could become public; relates news of troops; family news; discusses fight from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan Rivers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; states that a man named Taylor Johns has fallen in love with Nina Powell; discusses situation at the Stringfellow's, where Nina now lives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses in detail his new teaching position; family information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives cotton prices as $3.75 a yard; discusses Battle at Manassas; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on her husband's new position in Albemarle; family news; mentions some events in reference to the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she saw her father Charles L. Powell, Sr. on his way to move into Cousin R's?; describes her trip to Charlottesville; expresses satisfaction that her mother is able to stay with Uncle Fred and Lute; reports she has eleven scholars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses her job as a teacher; discusses \"preserving with molasses\"; expresses anger and confusion about Nina's beaux David ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his teaching position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives opinion on attitudes of young people; family news; expresses interest in religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses plans for Christmas, including costs involved and where they can stay; discusses death of Cousin? Temple Grady and its effect on other relatives; discusses teaching and their role in the war effort.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee; and General Longstreet; discusses cotton and its discount price of $18 a bale; comments on young gentlemen who have come to visit her; other town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Hattie for her kind gift of a Bible; gives details of present experience as a soldier in the Civil War; expresses sadness for those who died in the battle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a Carrie Hobson's death resulting from a \"perforation of the bowels\" (typhoid fever); family and town news; mentions Temple Grady's brother of C. Powell Grady? death; refers to having some corsets made.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses concern about \"national affairs;\" discusses religious point of view.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses General Bragg and his great ability as a leader.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; states that he met Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War and they discussed Judah Benjamin; gives some views of what is happening with the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions General Longstreet's retreat from Knoxville, Tenn.; comments on giving Nina some linen for \"sleeves or sleeve bands;\" family news; discusses harvesting of crops; comments on threats that \"Yanks\" are making.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses insufficiency of cotton crops; mentions that her son is on a war vessel, in the ocean, \"larger than the Florida and the Alabama.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to travel by carriage; discusses mailing \"bleached cotton;\" family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions story where 'Yankees' come into towns and arrest Southerners; refers to daguerreotypes; writes a poem/prayer to God about grief he and others have experienced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Nina a Merry Christmas since she (Nina) will be together with her parents; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the inclement weather; states that she had butter and tea for celebration on Christmas morning; gives price of calico as $ 6 per yard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on her friends spending New Year's Eve at the President's; mentions walking to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; family news; refers to cotton vs. bleached cotton; discusses typhoid fever; comments on subject of religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses hopes for an end to the Civil War; mentions a book, \"Home Influency\" that deals with raising children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions losing her heart to a Lieutenant Blackford; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions having forgotten Nina's birthday and becoming more absent minded; states that demonstrating affection in public is not good practice; gives advice and opinion on men and courting; has put \"vie dollars in gold and $25 in Virginia. Bank notes\"; and discusses school teaching; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been suffering from sickness similar to typhoid fever; mentions that many servants have the measles; states that the key to her watch is worn out and she cannot wind it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers advice about teaching; has seen John C. Pemberton; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her illness typhoid fever?; describes her Christmas diversions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on how he misses having the women in his family at home; family news; discuses some aspects of the Civil War; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses hope that the Civil War will soon end; expresses grief of her Mother's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses concern about Hattie Powell's sickness; family news and town gossip; mentions some of the types of food they've been eating; talks about \"yanks\" and their disruptiveness; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Nina advice on how to terminate her engagement with John Dupuy; writes of the death of Hunter McGuire's sister, May; says she now has twelve scholars; news of family and friends; discusses books and mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she has been busy knitting gloves, sewing, teaching, nursing, and being sick; says she is nearly \"well and fat\" again; says that her hair has not started to come back yet, but that when it does, she has been told to shave it; asks who Nina's friend Lizzie is; describes people she has met; reports where troops are; discusses ways she is trying to get cotton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises Minnie not to be grieved about their mother's death; some family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle in which Jefferson Davis praises the Confederate soldiers for their \"devotion and self-sacrifice,\" and assures them of their capabilities against the declining enemy; also includes a commentary about Davis' speech, stating that the present spirit of the South has never been paralleled in history.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates Nina on her engagement to John J. Dupuy; discusses their friendship; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a girl's death from diphtheria; refers to traveling by train; discusses blockade of the Potomac River; comments on greenbacks and their value; refers to the 'Yankee Congress;' general Civil War news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives consent for him to marry Nina after listing the pros and cons of the situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTown news and family news; refers to knitting as a past time; states that her hair has not begun to \"come out yet\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her new beau; much family and town news; refers to events of the Civil War and the Powhatan troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that her employer, Mrs. Stringfellow, has offered to allow her two weeks for Easter; asks permission to come home; gives detailed plans on how she could get there cheaply; says the \"troops\" will return before Easter; asks if her father is coming home for the holiday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses selection of a minister; comments on her knitting for the soldiers; town gossip and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses sale of a draft on New York for $625.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for gloves she knitted and set to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on her sister's problem with inflammatory rheumatism; much town and family news; tells stories of soldiers who have returned home; comments on lack of patriotism in the country; mentions readying.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of a shopping trip she took to Charlottesville, and the people she saw; describes a visit to see their father at Cousin R. Nowland's; discusses the new tax law, the \"panic,\" and the new monetary issue; news of friends and family; mentions reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMakes reference to needing a straw-splitter; discusses financial situation; comments on Nina's engagement to \"Brother John\" Dupuy?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions interruption of communications due to Yankee Raid; states that he sat near Gen. Robert E. Lee and Mr. Edmund Lee on a train car and talked with them; describes conversation; discusses the events of the Civil Warincluding Lee's near capture by Custis' divisionary raid through Albemarle County, during the Kilpatrick - Dahlgren Raid on Richmond; mentions Holmes Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch town news; discusses 'Yankees' and their progression; comments on her attempts to hide her silver on her body in order to keep it from the Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; expresses religious views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses events of the Civil War; including raid by Custis on Albemarle; mentions Holmes Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the weather; much town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays her Easter plans have been cancelled because of the snow storm; mentions how close she (Nina) has been to the Union troops; says she feels much better and now weights 114 pounds; reports on fatal measles in the area; reports on how she has spent her time with Captain Morgan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends her a letter from Kate?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses buying and selling cotton; comments on college opportunities; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news and town gossip; comments on gold lace on the coats of those who make rank of Captain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; refers to Nina's grandmother's Anne Harriotte (Lee) Lloyd death; discusses 'Yankees' and their progress; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on reading as a pastime and mentions ? Cooper's novels; family news; refers to 'Yankees' taking hostages; mentions Robert Young Conrad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her daily schedule; reports how their Aunt Jeanie Lloyd and Aunt ReBecca are doing in relation to the war; describes social visits; mentions an Aunt Nannie; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses weather and its effects on gardens and crops; comments on 'Yankees' and news about the Civil War; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; comments on news of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives detailed description of fighting near Beaver Dam, Va., as told to her by some of the soldiers; mentions visit by Gen. Stuart; describes other events of the war from personal point of view.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses struggle on the Rapidan River; tells of other Civil War news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses general battle news; expresses concern about struggle in Hanover County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses events of the war; comments on actions of Yankees.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Comments on armies being at Hanover Junction and expresses her concern and fears; refers to burning of Powhatan depot by Union troops. Including note from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Charlotte County, Va., to Nina Powell, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 May 24, correcting some spelling errors.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses relief that the 'Yankees' did not come through the area where Nina is; says that her father wants her Nina to leave soon because of the danger; says things are so scarce in Charlotte that there would not be enough to feed her; expresses relief that Nina is not living between the two railroads; says the news they get about the war is encouraging, but she thinks the conflict will be a long one; discusses plans to get the family together.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to battle of Vicksburg; tells of other developments of the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to a cousin, Mrs. Randolph Tucker whose house is at the corner of Grace and Adams street in Richmond; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about Nina's daily schedule and when she says prayers; expresses sorrow that Hattie's teaching position near Nina did not work out; tells her she must be self-reliant; says she is waiting to find out if she can join Mr. Powell; discusses the fashions of hats; sends her respects to Mr. Stringfellow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her social schedule; encourages her to pursue a relationship with Willie Booker; news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecounts all he has been doing for the past two years (has been in charge of a prison).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Nina to change her mind and work for them another year; claims they are safe from the 'Yankees' and that the war will soon be over; praises her teaching of their three girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Union troops' burning of houses in Richmond; gives views on death; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on typhoid fever; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news. Mentions not being able to find a nail-brush in the city and forgot India ribbon; comments on 'Yankees' treating people badly; refers to buying lip-glue at Randolph's Book Store; discusses her (Nina's), new house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Mr. Powell's teaching position with the Scott family; says he is trying to find a place near him for her to stay; says there was a Yankee raid near where he is staying; discusses where friends who are soldiers are stationed; mentions families who are looking for wounded soldiers to employ as teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on symptoms of the \"fever\"; expresses religious beliefs concerning deaths resulting from battles; family news and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; discusses teacher's pay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMuch family and town news; inquires about her new home in Richmond, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses one of Nina's pupils and how Nina should act towards the family that is employing her; mentions arrangements to exchange a pair of shoes; reports on friends and family; reports on \"her Willie,\" and where he is stationed; mentions soldiers for whom she has knitted gloves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the suitability of Mr. Starke's teaching offer for her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChides Nina for not writing her; asks if she is spending all her time with Willie Dupuy, who has a wounded shoulder; reports on what she has done socially; asks her to get some cartridges for her pistol when she buys some for her own gun; says Minna Booker is to be married November fourth; discusses sewing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTranscription of cross hatch letter by Alison Herring:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nBlenheim  October 24th\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSunday morning [1864]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nWell my lady-love do you know\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethat it has been almost three weeks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esince the arrival of your last letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto me, and two weeks since I answered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eit, and not a line have I had from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou since, no nor a word from either\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePa or Sis since the 9th of the month.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou all must think I am dead, buried,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand forgotten, at least you quite forget\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethat I get the blues horribly shut up here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein the country when none of you write\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto me. I got a letter from Ma on Friday\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elast the very first letter I had had from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eanyone for 10 days, or from anybody\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebut her for 16.  I have no correspondents this\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyear at all except you all \u0026amp; you ought to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewrite to me often.  And pray miss what are\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou so occupied with that you can't find\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etime to write, friend Markoe or your\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003epoor dear wounded Willie.  I hear through\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ea letter from Aunt Bec to Ma that you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehave spent the day with her, \u0026amp; thro' Mrs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStewart that John Tabb was at church\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewith you and [?] Powell. I suppose\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou have not been so quiet that you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Page 2]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehad nothing to write about and I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eam just disposed to be charitable\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etowards you at all, so if you want to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eget into my good graces you had better\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eset yourself right down \u0026amp; write me\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etwo or three good long letters.  Mother\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewrites me that Willie Dupuy is at\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehome wounded in the shoulder \u0026amp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt Watkins in the hand but neither\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eof them dangerously, however.  I suppose\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou have heard all about them, tis not\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eworth while for me to tell you, and\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI reckon Willie will manage to see\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiss Nina before he returns to the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave you ever heard anything from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Markoe since you went down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein the cars with him, Sis seemed to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethink you are decidedly smitten.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWell I suppose as you are so long writing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto me you hardly care to hear what I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehave been doing, so I have a great mind\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003enot to tell you, and in fact I hardly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003equite know where to begin it has been\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eso long but just for my own gratification\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI will try.  Mr. Willis Hobson has three\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouth Carolinians at his house, sent from\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethe hospital, they have been there a long\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etime very sick \u0026amp; are just now getting\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewell enough to visit about. One of them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eis a Col Dogan, without exception\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n[Page 3]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nthe rudest, most boisterous, vulgar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eman I ever saw, well yesterday week\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI heard his voice down stairs \u0026amp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eknew he had come to stay all day\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eso I dressed myself, slipped out the\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eback way and went over to old\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Hurt's to spend the day.  I had a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every pleasant day indeed, I found\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eher [?] an exceedingly intelligent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eagreeable girl, I took to her very much\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eindeed \u0026amp; I think she did to me, but\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eshe has just lost her father so the vis-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eiting will have to be all on my side\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efor a while.  When I get back in the even-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eing here was Col D still \u0026amp; he staid until\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWednesday.  Sunday I went down to Eman-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eual and saw Fannie, she was as sweet \u0026amp; Cordi-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eal as ever, she seemed so glad to see me \u0026amp; says\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eshe is coming up for me soon some Fri-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday evening.  Monday night Mr. [Reich?] a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarylander belonging to the 3rd Cavalry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003estaid here all night.  I found him a\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every agreeable gentleman I forgot to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esay that Sunday while we were at din-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ener Mrs. W. Hobson came over \u0026amp; brought\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eher Cousin young Bolling, son of Mr. Robert\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBolling of Fauquier, and brother of Hunter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Page 4]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuires old friend of Philadelphia Dr. B\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand Mr. Venning one of the S.C. especial-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ely to see me and I enjoyed their visit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every much indeed.  Mr. Bolling is only\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 but he is six feet tall very handsome\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand very agreeable.  Mr. V sings very well\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand is a quiet gentlemanly widower but\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003enothing remarkable.  Tuesday evening Mrs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH sent a horse for me \u0026amp; I went over there \u0026amp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003estaid all night, and then saw the third\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS.C. a Dr. Waring a married man, and\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eone of the most accomplished elegant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003egentlemen I have ever met with. I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecame home on horseback Wednesday morning\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein time for school \u0026amp; when I came out of school\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efound Cousin John here.  He says if it is good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eweather next Friday he is coming up to take\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eme down to his house to stay until Sun-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday where I will come home with the Dr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efrom church.  Thursday all the gentlemen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efrom Mr. H's spent the day here, and Fri-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday Mr. B left this county, but he is a paroled\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eprisoner and if he is not exchanged soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewill come back.  Friday evening Mrs. H \u0026amp; my-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eself walked over to Mrs. Goodmans one of \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eour nearest neighbors \u0026amp; I paid my first\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003evisit there, and her son who went down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ein the cars the day you did with Bell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStewart, walked home with me.  He is a plain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehonest, good, solider, but not over burdened\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[sideways on page 1]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewith intellect.  He says he is coming over to see me this week\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eand going to bring his pistol for me to practice shooting with\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebut I doubt whether he does. By the way have you ever been able\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto get cartridges for your pistol, if you have I wish you would\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eget some for me, \u0026amp; if you haven't get John Tabb to look for some\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efor you \u0026amp; me too, I have only two \u0026amp; I want some very much.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnd now, I come to the very purpose for which my let-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eter is written which is to tell you that Dr. Hobson is going\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eto Richmond this week, probably on Tuesday, the same day\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethis letter will go, but I shall send this by mail, as there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewill be a chance of your getting it sooner, \u0026amp; I shall send\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou by him the handkerchief, collar, \u0026amp; [shirt sleeves?] for your\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esilk dress \u0026amp; a little of my perfume but it did not turn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eout well, it will I think do to put in hair oil but that is all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n[sideways across page 2]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nThe Dr. will stay at Mr. Stewart for about two days I reckon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eso if you have gotten cartridges \u0026amp; have a chance I wish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eyou would send me some by him.  Have you made your\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ealpaca dress yet \u0026amp; how did you make it particularly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ethe sleeves. I have not picked mine yet nor considered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ewhat to do with it, but Minna Booker is to be married the\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4th of next month \u0026amp; I think I must make it by that\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etime. I had a present sent me the other day of 3 yds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eof unbleached cotton to make a chemise.  I have done\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003enothing lately except patch a few old clothes \u0026amp; knit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eon my [opra?] stockings for next summer in fact\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eI have nothing to do.  Well I believe I have exhaust-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eed myself of my subjects too so I will stop, but\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003emind I expect two letters in answer to this. I am\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003every anxious to know what Mother will do, and\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003erather hope she will go to Albemarle, tho' I should\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003elike her to be near you, or I think we could go to\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esee her there.  Write soon to your own loving\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSister Hattie\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nMonday.  Dr. H's is so unwell today he thinks he will not\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebe able to go to Richmond this week and don't know when\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ehe will go so I shall not be able to send your things yet. I\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003egot an invitation yesterday to Minna's wedding next Thurs-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eday week.  I am much inclined to go, if the Dr. Don't for-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ebid which he seems to be inclined to do. Mrs. H is very anx-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n[Sideways on page 3]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\nious that I should go.  If I go I shall want my new\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003edress \u0026amp; shall have to set to work immediately to make\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eit, so if you have a new dress pattern, send it to me by\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003email at once, I can get a pattern of the yoke come-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eing [waist?], Mag Harris has it.  Yours truly,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eH.L.P.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains about difficulties in the teaching profession; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her situation at the Garrett's, teaching Lizzie and others; emphasizes the importance of letter writing now that they are apart; discusses Mr. Irving's? failing health; says Lizzie has diphtheria; describes social events; discusses Nina's problems with teaching Blanche; reports on friends who have been wounded or killed in the war; asks bout Cousin Mary Lee and Cousin Emily.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that her brother Rob has been wounded and may have to have his leg amputated; says her brother Jimmie is in Charleston where there is much yellow fever; says they work all day without rest; more family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on how Nina should manage one of her pupils; reports on what she is doing; discusses clothes; mentions Minna's wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives reasons why she hasn't written of late; describes her brother's episode of being shot in the hand and its effects; comments on number of men that are off at war and says that those who remain are \"quaking\"; family news; expresses hope that God will get them through \"these difficulties.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her social activities; discusses balancing work and pleasure; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about her \"new home\" in Richmond and her \"new occupation\" with Mrs. Paleski; describes Minna's wedding; says the weather was so bad that no one could go home, so the reception lasted all night; reports what she has done socially; describes in detail a dress she just made.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that Nina and their mother can live close to each other; reports on her social activities; discusses plans for Christmas; mentions how well the Confederate Cavalry is doing; discusses friends that are soldiers, and which of them she has knitted gloves for.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a preacher, Mr. McGill, who is visiting; describes social events; discusses clothes she is making; questions Junius Powell's decision to go to Bermuda instead of joining the army; mentions Harry Harrison Mrs. Huge's brother who came home after a prisoner at Fort Delaware. .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how her home was destroyed; details experiences with the Yankees; comments on incarceration of many Southerners in northern prisons and their suffering; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip to Charlottesville and the people she visited, including cousin Gert; mentions Sally's? death; says she must soon accept an offer for teaching from Mr. Frank Cabell; discusses depreciation of money; mentions a cousin Ann and a cousin Laura; reports that Tip Powell was taken prisoner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the bad weather and muddy roads, says she has not heard from Custis Lee, for whom she made gloves; discusses clothes and Christmas plans; tells Nina to \"change her dress\" whenever she desires, since she will always mourn inside; says she and Rebecca will change theirs in the spring; discusses the problems Winchester is having with the Yankees; mentions Minna's wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a prospective teaching job for her and his plan for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; begs her to spend Christmas with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses happiness that her mother and father will finally be able to live together again; comments on Nina Powell's loss of hair; refers to suffering Loudoun County, due to Yankees; family news; describes how a friend spends time trying to find hiding places for her possessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a \"homespun\" dress that she has; family news; describes weather; tells her to go to a Christmas get-together where she can met many people, including Robert E. Lee, Custis Lee, and perhaps \"our beloved President\" Jefferson Davis; later mentions rumors that President Davis may be dead.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions pastime crocheting a cap; comments on delay of mail; discusses ordering some supplies from her sister; refers to troop movement on \"the Danville road\"; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes social activities; urges Nina to spend Christmas in Richmond with Cousin Emily; discusses cotton and where to buy it. Including fragment of letter from \"cousin\" Laurence B. Taylor, to ?, , undated, stating that he hopes they will see much of each other in Albemarle County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the difficulties of sending mail; inquires about their mother's health; news of friends and the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the gauntlets, testament, and book of psalms that she sent him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what she did during Christmas holidays; discusses her job as a teacher as well as who and what subjects she teaches; family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on Robert E. Lee's thoughts that the South is in danger; discusses her knitting and whom she has made gloves for; states how she doesn't understand men; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the possibility of Nina being engaged to Willie Dupuy; says she would like to know him better before she can consent; would like for her to make the final decision herself; says their engagement would last indefinitely because they are both poor and Willie was \"disabled\" from the war; asks her to consider these issues.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Responds to her requesting permission to be engaged to Mr. William Dupuy?; gives feelings about entire situation; refers to evacuation of Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; asks her to send her stamps and black glazed cotton and to look for strawsplitters; describes episode of being thrown from horse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how busy she is making gloves; mentions Nina's engagement/involvement with a \"brave, Christian soldier.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses possibility of Nina moving to Norwood if Richmond is given up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efamily news; discusses the bond between two who love each other.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses happiness about Nina's now official engagement to Mr. William Dupuy; other family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHattie Powell, Blenheim, Albemarle County, Va., to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on how to express feelings of love to her fiance, in her correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her advice about her situation with Mr. Dupuy; tells her to make up her own mind and to be sure of his character and their love; advises that if she is certain that she wants to be engaged to him, then not to hold back her feelings and to show her trust; gives more advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; expresses her approval of William Dupuy as Nina's fiance. 4 pages. letter signed. Includes copy of letter, 1865 February 10 from William Dupuy to \"Sir\" Charles L. Powell, Sr., , discussing his and Nina's relationship and betrothal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advise on Nina's relationship with a young man Willie Dupuy; says that if they ever get married they would always be poor; discusses what he will want in a wife; discusses Nina's fear that her ways are not elegant enough for him because he was brought up in higher society; reveals her philosophy on how to act in society, how to view oneself, and how to act towards men to keep them interested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on attempts to regain some of their family possessions; discusses the break-up of Nina Powell's engagement; mentions Hattie Powell's arrival in Goochland, Va., family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Nina's problem with an employer, Mrs. Powell, and suggests other families she could work for; says she can spend $ 350 on material for summer clothing; discusses the plight of the South; reveals her feelings about Nina's engagement; describes a visit to Norwood where her parents are working for Mr. Cabell; reports that cousin Lizzie Powell, fourth daughter of Uncle Llew, is to be married; news of family and friends; mentions teaching.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses materials for sewing dresses; expresses her anger at how Mrs. Powell (an employer) treated Nina; discusses her neighbors where she is teaching, saying none are suitable for Nina to live with and teach for; gives news of friends and family; says they have a soldier staying there; mentions teaching. Including newspaper clipping advertising for teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for presents she sent him; expresses hope of seeing her again soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; discusses Union troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Mr. Philip Cabell is stopping by \"Bremo\" on his way to Richmond, so she is taking this opportunity to send a letter; discusses opportunities for her to work with other families and how she should set this up; wishes she could come to see them but says it is impossible because the canal is \"broken up,\" the roads are bad, and the 'Yankees' destroyed the carriage; hopes that she is comfortable at General Cocke's; hopes that he doesn't mind her being there since he is a wealthy man. Letter is continued on a small slip of paper - advises on the different uses of \"shall\" and \"will\" in writing letters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses relief that she is safe after traveling through dangerous area; says that their parents had some trouble when traveling, and that they lost some clothes; discusses an offer to teach in Keysville, Charlotte County; reports battle action in the area; asks what she thinks about her giving her silver cup to \"the government;\" mentions the death of their aunt Ann's baby, Fannie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions sending carpet bags to her parents filled with necessary items she could spare; comments on 'Yankees' being on southside of the James River, Va. and dreading a raid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend the key to her bonnet box; mentions a cousin Kate Noland and an Aunt Bettie Conrad; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses surrender of Confederates in detail; expresses religious beliefs about result of the Civil War; describes battle in Richmond, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on prohibition from traveling North; mentions recognition by France and the French position; gives religious opinions; describes some of the remnants left by 'Yankees.'\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports news of post-war events since Hattie receives no news in the country; expresses the sentiments and anxieties of those in an occupied city, discusses Robert E. Lee and his sons; reports rumors about Booth, Jefferson Davis, and the surrender of the army of Joseph E. Johnston to William T. Sherman; discusses the sacrifices of the last four years and where it has led.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the people with whom she is staying; expresses joy that she feels comfortable in Richmond; says she hears rumors about whether Richmond will be given up or not; tells her to come to them if there is any danger; news about friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a battle at Fort Jackson that she was able to witness from her cousin's house; says Hunter ? is the medical doctor of Ewell's Corps; mentions lack of provisions; says she had to work very hard last winter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to \"free negroes\" and the fall of Richmond; tells stories of robbers in various neighborhoods; discusses difficulty to have faith in God where there is so much suffering; also refers to bands of \"negro robbers\" and describes their actions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; expresses sorrow and grief about living through these times.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLots of family news; comments on problems with servants; refers to death of Lincoln and memorial service for him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Mr. Cabell bought a horse from a Mississippi soldier; reports that a Yankee soldier came to the house asking for brandy; says that she and Fan ? are closing school for the summer; says she will soon come to Norwood to visit them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses health, says she has rheumatism; says they will stay in Richmond until July; tells their options of where to go; considers the cost of the Civil War; discusses the condition of President Davis, prisoner at Fort Monroe; says the \"Yankee officers\" are being kinder to Richmonders; says Pierrepont has just arrived in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports she is staying with relatives but that it is so crowded, she will leave soon; says the house has been burned down, so they are living in log cabins; tells that she will soon go to Canada to visit her brother Horace; discusses where Nina could set up a school in that neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her religious belief about the Civil War and how she prays daily; discusses subject of white vs. black labor; family news; comments on cruel treatment of \"our\" President Jefferson Davis; refers to a Dr. Hoge who denies trying to begin a colony in Brazil.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses difficulty in accepting downfall of Confederacy; family news; discusses Nina's engagement to Willie Dupuy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoem entitled \"The Bachelor's Consolation\" written by \"Goodman A. Bachelor.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news; comments on Nina's engagement; discusses situation with Black persons; comments on elections and how soldiers were put into many of the civil offices; plans for jousting tournament.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the family's moving to a new house and how they all can be reunited once again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses where they may move; says the 'Yankees' have possession of her home in Arlington; says the situation in Richmond is better since Pierrepont Pierpont arrived; gives news about family; mentions Robert E. Lee (1843-1914) and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Nannie's ? wedding; says their father will need her Nina home for the opening of school; tells how she has been spending her time; discusses the school; reports that Mary ? is there; expresses fear for her Aunt Mary because of the threats of a Black uprisings in southern Virginia; asks if everything is going well between Nannie and Willie Booker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the continuing uncertainties of where their family will live; says she will return to work at Mr. Cabell's because she cannot depend on family plans; describes her visit to Greenwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses a horse riding jousting tournament and social event that followed; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports travel plans; lists social events; news of friends; says she will begin at Mr. Cabell's in two weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that she just realized that it is her 56th birthday; discusses some issues on etiquette; says that she is glad that she is pleased with her new house; has heard that the 'Yankees' are advancing on Charlottesville; says Gloucester is having problems with the Yankees, so she will not return there; expresses disappointment that Mr. Powell did not secure a certain job that would have allowed them all to live together; says that the Redds and the Bookers have been very kind to her and do not want her to leave; writes that the Dupuy's son Willie? has bullet wounds in both thighs and in the foot.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a boat trip she took with Sallie ? to Norwood; gives news of Mr. William Cabell; discusses literature; news of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays Hunter has a small (medical) practice; gives news about what her other brothers? are doing; says Willie is doing well despite the time he spent in prison; tells how he was marched by their home last winter by the 'Yankees' and taken to prison; tells how their house was used as a hospital, her family was put under arrest, and they were forced to live with the 'Yankees' for six months; expresses her hatred of the 'Yankees;' discusses how the last four years have changed her; tells how Gert ? was working in the hospitals and on the battle field, caught a disease and has been bedridden for the last thirteen months; says she was very weak last winter because of the hard work and anxiety; says she could no longer work in the hospitals because of how the sights of war affected her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Family news; comments on the meeting of Congress and its result on the restoration of southern property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites about Presbyterian Conference she is attending; gives town and family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives history of a family, telling which troop each son is in; comments on the scarcity of paper, which is why she is writing on the back of a letter written to her by her mother. Letter Including on back: Selina Powell, Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to \"daughter\" Hattie Powell. Asks her about her fever and if it is interfering with her teaching; says Mr. Powell visited her for a week; says she will stay in Charlotte all winter; mentions death of Carry Hobson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Sends her a pair of slippers which she made the best she could with the materials available; says she wanted to do something for her during \"these war times\"; says her father is not home yet; gives list of things Rebecca needs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the importance of having nice handwriting; describes Kate's ? studies; grieves over how many have lost their homes and hopes that her daughter could have a couple of years off from teaching; says those who must have employment are happiest; writes of family and friends; discusses her Uncle G's ? method of teaching. Including attached insert saying that Mr. H. ? declined her father's services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the scene when the 'Yankees' came into the home of Dr. Robert Baldwin; says Dr. Baldwin was kicked out of town because he refused to pay a servant; describes how the town has changed since the Union troops have taken over; mentions a man named Milroy who seems to be their leader; gives news of family members many of whom have been sick; describes a puppy he has gotten; describes a battle in which many 'Yankees' were taken as prisoners; says Milroy has escaped and has gone to Washington; says all of her furniture is not sold and that they cannot try to sell it while the 'Yankees' are here; discusses Dr. Daniel Conrad's practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks what Jeanie ? will do all summer; says she has heard that all the carriage horses in Gloucester have been carried off; says she will go to Powhatan to join her husband who is working for Mr. Michaux; says the 'Yankees' are in Shepherdstown but that the Confederates have Winchester.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaks of the last four years, the excitement and the trials; discusses \"the college\" that Robert is involving with; discusses the difficulty of finding good help; describes their house, saying it is handsome to \"confederate eyes;\" expresses sadness that her home is still used by Union troops; discusses Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments on the postal problems and hopes she has been receiving her letters; gives news of the Bookers; writes of her anxiety over how she Nina is and discusses her travel plans to Prince Edward; discusses where the 'Yankees' are stationed; writes of the family's plans for the summer.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends her cotton for stockings; comments on postal problems; discusses the safety of Richmond; discusses sewing and fashions; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the dilemma of Southerns taking the \"oath\" with the Northerners so that they can protect their property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Captain Watkins and Willie Dupuy have been wounded; says she does not know which battle they were in; news of friends; says she has heard from Mr. Powell recently; discusses dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that she sent socks to Willie ? who is in the army; mentions the death of James Mcoughty?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how to make Mrs. Sharpe's ? hat; describes Lute's hat; says she will get two or three hundred dollars in Northern money from an Uncle William.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e34 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses teaching; describes trip to Charlottesville and adventurous train ride; mentions Sandy Pendleton's ? wedding; discusses Trip's ? health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends Rebecca a picture of Robert E. Lee, taken during the war (picture is dated 1866 January 20 ); writes of Lexington where they have just moved; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her social activities; gives teaching position that Hattie is considering; reports that 'Yankees' are being strict in their town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses poor mail service; describes Alexandria as dull town with spirit of despondency, town may be forced into the District of Columbia; describes visit of Henry Hallowell ?; much family and town news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses crocheting, books they have read; family news and gossip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses family news; speaks of financial situation of buying a house in Baltimore; discusses problems of retrieving household items (portraits, furniture, etc.) and where to put them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses details of retrieving family possessions from the Office of Confiscation; includes list of objects missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip and her stay with Cousin Lee; tells of relatives and other people she has seen; will continue traveling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses daily life and schedule; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her trip to Dr. Wights' and tells of the people she met there; discusses dresses; asks about the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of the political happenings in Washington, D.C.: the disputes between President Johnson and the \"Radicals,\" Mr. Johnson's veto message, the South's need to have representation in Congress; tells his view of these happenings; discusses attempts to retrieve articles from the confiscation office; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of difficulty she has dealing with current hardships, \"Yankee\" rule, and free Black persons; news about friends in the neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes dinner at New Market and the people she saw there; describes conditions of roads, outlawing carriage rides; much news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of people she has seen or heard from.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses family news and news of friends; talks of sewing projects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives an account of her \"Easter excursion,\" reporting what she did and whom she met; says Mrs. Atkins has no servants, so she will have to clean her own room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes events of neighborhood; tells news of friends; tells of religious happenings, Mr. Wharey's ? reform in the church, and her religious sentiments; writes of her gloomy feelings about the South, her distrust of the Yankees, and her rebellious feels toward them; congratulates Nina on having her own \"home.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of stay in Cumberland with her \"sister and brother\"; tells of problems in retrieving household items lost in war; Douglas' Forrest?her husband? law practice is improving.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Nina to welcome her friend, Mr. Henry Theodore Wight, who brings the letter, and make his stay in Alexandria pleasant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTries to convince Nina to take a trip next summer; describes new bonnet styles; describes her friend Henry Theodore Wright who will be taking a trip to Alexandria; discusses clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her view on the family taking in boarders, saying children would be easier for their mother to handle; asks about the \"Council;\" reports on what she has done socially; discusses the dresses she has made; says that yesterday the people of Richmond decorated the Confederate soldiers' graves; says she wishes she had gone; says Mrs. Adkins did not go, but sent flowers to Richmond. Written on letter from J. Walker, Dover ?, to Hattie Powell, Rolling Views, undated. Sends her flowers and asks her to come to visit him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her visit to Richmond, people she visited, and how many commented on how well she looked compared to last winter; describes clothes she is making.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to send ribbon for a dress she will wear to a day-long affair at Norwood; news of friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their plans to go to Prince Edward County; discusses what clothes she has and what she may need; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplains why she cannot attend the gathering at Mr. Redd's that night; says she must listen to her head and not her heart so that she may get well; says she is tired of feeling ill and weak.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvites Nina and Hattie Powell to come stay with them; says she feels better and is very excited to see them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her joy that she arrived home safely, and her regret that her mother Selina Powell has taken ill; describes a jousting tournament among young boys or \"knights,\" in which the girls were honored as Queens and Maids of Honor; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her condolences for her uncle's death and her mother's illness; tells her of Nancy's Lettie's sister engagement and tells Nina not to leave her to marry a man; much news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Nina for her letter congratulating her and Willie Booker on their engagement; news about her fiance; tells her adventures of keeping the house while her mother was gone; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites that her father is looking for board for her Selina and until then she will stay in Charlotte; recommends that Nina not write to a man unless she is engaged to him or unless he is an old family friend; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how far they are apart but thinks it is best that she (her mother) stay at Uncle Fred's; says she will stay at school for Christmas; writes of family and friends; tells that her health is very good and that she weights 106 pounds; discusses her school duties and her sewing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the parties she has had at her home recently; speaks of the engagement between Willie Booker and Nancy her sister, and Lou Edmunds and Captain Hill; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells how she and her friends have been together for three weeks now, staying at different homes; wishes Nina could be there; news of courting, engagements and weddings; tells Nina that she will not become an old maid; much news about family and friends; discusses reading societies and books read.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of courtings, engagements and weddings; tells of Christmas plans; discusses the struggle in the Christian life to be pure.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes Christmas holidays; discusses the Christian struggle for purity; says she is having more headaches; discusses poor financial situation with no patrons paying for her teachings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the changes taking place: their Uncle Joe has died and she, Lavalette and her mother have moved to Falkland to take care of his children; she and Lavalette will teach the children; Lavalette is feeling worse; her brother and sister May will take care of Linden; news of engagements, weddings, family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her new home and her new schedule; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells about her fiance Willie Booker's work in Medical School; describes reactions to the Territorial Bill and to General Scofields; wonders if Lavalette will keep her promise to become an old maid; says the weather is so bad that they will not be able to go to Church for a month because of the roads; says she is trying to guess when weddings will be by who is making their wedding clothes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her teaching job with her sister Nancy; describes her students; tells how spirits have been low since the passage of the Territorial Bill, says their district is commanded by General Schofield; describes the \"demoralizing\" incident of one of the county men running off with a 'Negro' girl and marrying her; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this letter through a friend and asks Rebecca to mail a package to Washington, D.C. for her; may have some frames sent to her, which could then be sent to them by steamboat to Richmond and canal boat to Lexington; says Mildred is in Richmond; Rob and Fitzhugh may go to Jennie's? wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the commencement exercises that she and Lavalette attended at Hampden Sydney; describes the fashions she saw there; says the scrub worm is seriously damaging the tobacco crop; describes their summer bonnets bought in Richmond. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that Nancy her sister has been ill; says that she, Nancy and their mother will take a trip North for their health; says she dreads to be among the 'Yankees;' tells that Lou Booker has typhoid fever and so her wedding must be postponed; discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being an old maid and whether they will be one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news of gentlemen who are courting her; says that John Smith has been visiting her every other night; tells Nina that it is becoming serious and that she better come home soon or she will be gone; gives advice on the gentlemen that Nina is seeing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their stay in Danville; tells that her engagement with Willie Booker has been terminated; discusses their plans of where to live next year; news of family and friends; discusses fair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Hattie for her announcement of her \"change of condition\" marriage or engagement?; gives her best wishes for her health and happiness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses which furniture and portraits she would like to have sent to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses details of sending furniture from Alexandria to Lexington and of having portraits framed and sent. Includes notes to Selina and Nina.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her transactions to acquire more furnishings for their home; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about her interactions with Mr. D?; says Nina's happiness is the only bright spot in their lives; says she hasn't been to church much; says she has seen a lot of Willie S.?; regrets that she can't say everything she would like to, because the letter must go through so many hands; writes of the broken Southern spirit; asks if there are any \"situations\" near them that she could take; says that she cannot write much because it works her \"into such a state\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of their new life at Linden, helping to take care of \"Sis\" May's children; comments on Nina's sister Hattie's marriage; discusses religion; describes a trip to Richmond; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends that she or Rebecca go with her to visit friends in Prince Edward County; tells her that since Mrs. Booker'shouse was used as headquarters for them during the war, they must make a pleasure visit to her since the war is over.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Nina for sending her the objects repossessed from the war; comments on their sentimental value; gives news about Baltimore's social events and her husband Douglas' work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what family has done since she left for her trip; says everyone is feeling remarkably well on account of the warm weather; tells her to enjoy her visit with Lizza and Aggie ?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells what each person in household is doing that evening: Mamma, Papa, Lute?, Lewis?, Fan?; says she visited Hattie who is feeling well \"under the circumstances;\" news about neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the health of each family member; says Mr. Powell had dyspepsia for which she gives him a raw onion; says Hattie is the same and cannot leave her room; gives news of friends; discusses a fire at Lee's ? house; hopes she is enjoying her visit with Lizzie and Aggie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about family and neighborhood; says that Cousin Lee's house burned; writes that Bob Robert Powell is now a doctor; news about her school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses news of neighborhood and people who have come to visit her; tells Nina to enjoy her stay with Lizzie and Agnes ?; says she is still flat on her back but hopes to be better in a few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he could not make the picnic that Nina planned; says that he had to pick up Josie ? that day, who traveled flat on her back; says that he saw \"Cousin Rebecca\" in town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells how she had been preserving many foods last summer because of the possible food shortage during the coming winter; describes her stay with \"Sis\" May in Farmville; describes the situation of the churches and Sunday school in her area; news about family and friends; one of Nina's students, Emma Henry, is getting married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes to Nina for not calling on her while she was in Baltimore; expresses her job in their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of their sorrow at the death of Hugh Holmes McGuire (brother of cousin); whose wife just had a child; asks Rebecca to come visit, since the war is over; gives news about who owns the Powell's old home; tells what each of her relatives are doing; gives news about friends; discusses the death of her aunt who never recovered after the 'Yankees' burnt her house down; mentions how many soldiers cannot find employment. Hugh Holmes McGuire MW battle of High Bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Maggie's wedding her niece; says she has been alone in the evenings since Nina left her; describes her friends who have called during the day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes for not writing; describes her schedule to taking care of a family of ten people; gives news about her gentlemen friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExtends sympathies to Nina and her family in the death of her sister, Hattie Powell Smoot, who died in childbirth; offers comfort through religion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers her sympathy for the death of her daughter Hattie; discusses Hattie's character; mentions how Hattie has been looking forward to the time of childbirth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives her sympathy for the death of Selina's daughter Hattie; speaks of her husband Robert, saying she thinks he may never be entirely well again; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her mourning for her cousin Hattie; offers sympathies; gives news of family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffer her sympathies for Hattie's death; describes her stay in her Uncle Phil's home in the mountains; says she will return home to Alexandria in the Fall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the mountain inn and how they spend their time; says the mountain air is helping their mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her joy that Nina is engaged; discusses Nina's mother's health; says she is confined to bed and in much pain; says the treatment causes much suffering and that she is anxious to leave for home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she is glad Nina gets a chance to enjoy herself, and visit with her cousin Lizzie, without worrying about daily duties; says her Aunt Lute is taking good care of her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a report on everyone's health; says she is feeling better; gives news of friends and family; hopes that she is enjoying her stay with \"cousin\" Lizzie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses grief and religion; teases Nina about her engagement to Sewell Hepburn; tells her to enjoy her stay and to get well soon; news about Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of friends and family; describes the trouble of giving a party for a couple to be married, and wonders why people have marriages in such poor times.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleads with her to visit them for Christmas.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that they have been trying both the \"Alleghany Springs\" and the \"Yellow Sulfur\" springs; says the water has helped her health; describes the social life at the springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about her friends in Alexandria; asks if Mrs. Cassius Lee has information on household goods stolen from her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of her and Nancy's stay in Danville; discusses Nina's wedding; says her brother Abner will be in the Legislature until it adjourns; news about family and friends. Envelope included with list of bridal attendants on the back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her daily schedule; describes a sewing machine that she bought; discusses Nina's wedding; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses her job in hearing Nina is engaged; reports that she has heard Mr. Hepburn described as \"intellectual\" and \"pious\"; says Captain. Grady sends his love; sends her a gift.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that she cannot come to Nina's wedding; hopes that Nina will be happy living in the parsonage; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApologizes that she cannot be there for the wedding; sends her money to buy a wedding present; tells that she had to refuse a gentleman who revealed his feelings for her; wishes her happiness in her new life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote accompanying a wedding present, wishing Nina happiness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a report on her health, saying she is much stronger; tells what remedies she is taking; says they have given most of her wedding cake away; says that everyone thinks her wedding was beautiful; gives her philosophy on marriage and its importance; tells her how lucky she is to have found such a \"good man.\" Including letter from Rebecca C. Powell to Nina giving a report on their mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes how she spent her Easter vacation; describes the events that took place after Nina's wedding; describes a visit to Georgetown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports she is feeling better but that Rebecca has neuralgia from a bad tooth; tells Nina that she should call her husband \"Mr. Hepburn\"; says it is Nellie's wedding day; advises her to obey her husband now that she is no longer there to control her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about home and tells Nina that they miss her greatly; says the relationship between herself and John ? is growing stronger; hopes that she is enjoying her stay in the country with her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their mother's health, noting improvements; expresses eagerness to visit her in her own home; asks about Sewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her arrangements to come see them; says she is feeling better but she is still weak; tells her to ask for what she needs just like when she lived at home; gives news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to tell her that her health has improved since she left home; gives a report on her health and what she has done there at a resort?; says her father will be home soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes description of S. Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for the letter of sympathy concerning his wife, Selina Powell; gives a detailed description of her death and a tribute to her life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers her sympathy in the loss of her mother; says that her mother Selina Powell was one of her earliest friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEntreats them to warn his wife Lizzie against a woman named Mrs. Hubard who he is convinced is seeking their ruin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of friends' illnesses and other afflictions; discusses preachers; says she will wait to buy cotton until the price goes down. Including letter (written on top of) of 1864 January 8 from ? Danville, Va., to \"sister.\" Says she would like to visit her and also to see her whole family, but that she cannot leave because of her duties; says she can only leave on \"official business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes their summer in the North; describes the Grand Jubilee held in Boston; describes Newport, Maine and the historical sites there; discusses Nina's life in the parsonage; gives news about family and friends back home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she is very happy to return from the North, though she was treated kindly there and it did improve her health; says many people at home are ill with an influenza that follows the Horse Disease; much news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Nina how her little boy is; reveals that she thought she would be getting married this fall, but that the gentleman, Dr. Cole, has been suffering from an illness; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses hope that she will visit them in Maryland soon, and bring her child; comments on Nina's settling in Waterford, Loudon County; news of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the baby Sewell's features; tells how the family is adjusting to new baby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses tuition for Mildred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports news of her school; discusses the bonds that their father sold, and his financial situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that they are taking of Uncle Leven, including paying for his board with Sallie Withers, and giving him clothes; expresses disappointment that other relatives are not helping him; says Uncle Lev had a drinking problem at one time and his wife will not see him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells Nina their plans to visit her; says they will travel through Baltimore and then by boat across the Chesapeake Bay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends a check for Mildred's tuition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes that Mr. Hepburn has recovered from his fall and hopes he will stick to taming men's spirits rather than taming men's horses; much news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about family and friends; says that they will visit her in a few weeks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends Nina a fur cape and muff; congratulates Nina on her pregnancy and hopes she feels well; sends a present for the coming baby; asks Nina for her preferred style of dress so that she can make her some.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of the death of her father-in-law and the effects it has had on the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of birth of another boy and that Nina is doing fine; says they have not named him because he wanted a girl; tells story of how his errand boy spilled into the well some fish he was cleaning and how he Sewell had to go down and fish them out.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on how to take care of oneself after childbirth; thinks that she should have more than one servant; says that she is having some dresses made for her; news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Gives news of friends in Alexandria; mentions centennial celebrations; says her school is doing well, with 21 scholars; mentions that Robert Powell has a new daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news about Powell and Lee cousins in Philadelphia; says that a few neighbors have scarlet fever; discusses politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of his stay at Selma in Leesburg where he visited relatives; tells of weddings in Leesburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she is glad the children are recovering from their illness; says Nina must take tonic and Lager Beer herself to say well; recommends ways to rid the house of the illness; describes a visit to Baltimore to see an art exhibit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes he had a mountain house where his grandchildren could go, especially to recuperate; discusses controversy between two churches, St. Stephens and Grace Church, in the neighborhood where he is; says they both want Mr. Jackson from Charleston, South Carolina, to be their minister.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives a long description of her boarders and her school; gives news about neighborhood, friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTeases him about his \"destitute condition,\" having to take care of himself while Nina is in Baltimore; scolds him for not taking good care of himself and says she does not want Nina to become a widow; tells of a surprise visit by Mrs. Beck of his parish to visit one of her students, Hallie; discusses past election and Hancock's defeat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs happy that she is enjoying her travels in the North so much; thanks her for her detailed descriptions which allow him to see the places through his \"mental vision\"; discusses his routes home; says he will be home soon with two boys grandsons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her travels in the North; tells of his grandsons' (Charles and Sewell) visit to Alexandria; discusses news at home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the town of Bethlehem; says her Uncle William is visiting him; discusses his health; tells news of neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that her \"Scotts Nephew\" has arrived and has settled in a room; says he may go to Orange County, Va.? soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a visit by her cousins Kate Powell and Carrie; gives a long and detailed description of Carrie, her immediate family and her experiences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Ellen's tuition; says they are pleased with her education; says that their move to Richmond means that they will have to find another teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his journey to Nina's; describes an encounter between Bishop Randolph and Meta Stuart on the train concerning Amelie Rives; gives a description of each of his grandchildren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes that she and Mrs. Wailes are steadily improving their health while at the springs; tells her of the death of Mrs. Braxton and the prospects of Ingleside; gives news of grandchildren and neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses joy that her health is improving; tells of the death of General Wickham and how it affected the area; gives news of family and neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the school; says he may join the Blackford Society; tells about a grammar exam.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the taking of an arithmetic exam which exempted him from taking any more; says he got some demerits; tells about football and how he is playing well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells about his schedule and about his exams; says he had tea with Mr. Hooffs; discusses demerits.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he cannot teach this week because his nose is going to be operated on; says his mother and Sewell will occupy the children until then; says Sewell will go back to school soon; discusses the structure of his classes and asks her advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the nature of geometry and gives advice on how to learn it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he has been ill; discusses activities at school and grades.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the invitation to come visit while they are in Yorktown; says his two boys will come by sailing a canoe to Yorktown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays they are all home for a week holiday; describes how they all got home; says Richard Cook came home with Selina; describes a real old timey Virginia country dance; says Selina likes Alexandria and the new home; describes what each person in the family has been doing; gives a description of the College of William and Mary; says he has overloaded himself with schoolwork this year; tells how the Alumni are reorganizing the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; gives a description of the fraternity; mentions the burning of St. Paul's Church in Hanover; thanks her for the presents she sent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses examination schedule and work load; questions validity of mid-term examinations; praises the College for its level of academia; praises Dr. Hall, a professor of English; says that main event at the College now is the contest between societies for the society medals; says he is in the Phoenix society and may debate for it; says he took a trip to New Kent to see his \"girl\" and to visit friends; discusses the Daughters of the Revolution and the Organization of the Descendants of the Cincinnati; says he saw Cousin Laura and her husband Mr. Roberts, a preacher, who are in Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the new house which he is anxious to get home to see; says he and Charles will not finish exams until the end of June; discusses the social events of the \"final week\"; discusses his exams; discusses Selina's academic progress; says one must experience College life to understand the strength of its temptations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he has spent much time with Nanna Powell McCormick, a cousin; describes her and what they have done together; says he is in love with her; discusses love and cupid; describes a card club he belongs to, and a German club.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes that she doesn't feel isolated from his immediate family; says that their \"great mutual loss\" has brought them all closer together; asks about her plans for the future; says he went to York to see Charles; discusses his housing at College; talks of recent fires in Richmond and Baltimore; speaks of his cousins and some girls that he has met.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses their family's genealogy; mentions Nicholas Lloyd, John Lloyd, and Sarah Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the Presbyterian drive in Alexandria to save the old church; discusses church events; expresses joy to hear of Nina's marriage; mentions the fact that her Selina's father is over eighty years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Describes a house nearby; writes about her relatives that are staying there; asks her to come visit. Including Selina Powell to Nina Powell. Asks Nina to write Lizzie about the house, if it can be rented, and who they should talk to.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes her a Merry Christmas; tells what family members are making for presents; asks about her trip to Alexandria and the people she has seen; discusses the propriety of accepting a book for a gentleman; tells her to be happy and not to think too much.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses offers she has had for teaching, saying she will take the offer closest to where Mr. Powell teaches; advises her to get her teeth fixed; discusses styles; gives advice on how to motivate one of her students; says he will not go to Gloucester because of the recent \"outrages\" there; says she has a \"horror of drunken negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises her to come home after her visit with Lizzie Watkins; gives a report on the health of family and friends; says almost \"all black and white\" went to the \"procession\" in Washington the day before; says her cousin Jinny Taylor's family is ill; sends her money. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses her poor health, saying she has been diagnosed as having a diseased heart; says she is staying with her sister Aggie who just got married; news of family. 4 pages. letter signed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Nina's visit with her friends and her trip to the \"Bear's Den\"; writes of the many parties there have been since Nina left; says she has not seen Nina's sisters since they got back from Capon; discusses their friendship.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays her father still has not come home; describes a trip Nina and Rebecca made and the people they visited; writes of young men and friends who have come to visit Nina; news of friends and family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dresses; writes of a \"Mr. C.,\" assuring her mother that they are not romantically involved; says Mr. and Mrs. Stringfellow left them to the care of the housekeeper; gives news about friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays that Uncle J. Powell does not think Lexington is a good place to open a school and Lynchburg would be better; discusses prices for boarding; says that her Father may have to look for a tutoring job for a family and then she will have to find work as close to him as possible; discusses sewing she has done; gives news about family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the remedies \"Mother\" has tried for her sore throat; describes Mrs. Wildman's receipt for asparagus; says \"Ma\" is experimenting on her throat and then will tell Minna how to treat hers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her daily schedule, including teaching for \"the girls;\" says the \"Captain\" and the girls included her in a visit to Mrs. Cooke's; describes the people she met there and the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays he spent Christmas at Uncle Frank's and Aunt Jane's; reports on what he has been doing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses whether Emily ? will move to Fairlee as a servant?; asks if she will take someone from the \"Home for Fallen Women,\" if Emily declines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays she went shopping for her and is sending her some articles; discusses fashions; says her Aunt Ann is still unwell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells her to take of herself while she is sick; discusses whether she should come home; tells of people there that are sick.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses Mary's furniture and which of it she can use; discusses Frank ?'s health; says Mrs. Hammond has died after being very ill; discusses health of friends and family; gives news of what her family is doing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of safe arrival of Maud's baby daughter and her appearance; sends greetings to Becca, Nina, and herself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives advice on letter writing and spelling. 1 page. letter. Incomplete.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Advises her not to work too hard; discusses board prices in Albemarle, where Mr. Powell is teaching; discusses hair styles; encloses a sample of material of Rebecca's berage ?; writes of the crowded conditions in Mrs. Sharpe's ? home; mentions reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends this note with a letter she is forwarding; hopes she is enjoying her visit; says she is feeling better.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dresses and asks what else she will need for the summer; sends her a poem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Consoles her in her time of \"troubles\"; says she has heard from their mother that she \"bears them bravely\"; urges her to take an interest in life and to try to be happy again.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a dress that Minnie is making; discusses other dresses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of family and friends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes a walk he took from North Hampton to East Hampton; discusses Thanksgiving vacation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to send socks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells about her dolls; mentions some Powell relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks her for the donation for the restoration of a church on Fairfax St., near Selina's Aunt Rebecca's home; mentions a celebration for the laying of the corner stone of the District; describes a light hose that the government gave the Mount Vernon Chapter D.A.R.; mentions more historic work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses religious matters; lists social events.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes duties and responsibilities of husband and wife; describes the state of marriage; pronounces the couple as husband and wife; states Benediction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed as written by Laura ?; added note in different handwriting states \"written by Minna when eight years of age.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents 4 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTells of his appointment as Commander of the Continental Army, and his reluctance to accept the position due to hopes of a more peaceful solution and reluctance in leaving his family; gives information as to other Congressional decisions, such as the striking of 2 million dollars in Continental currency to pay troops.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents In answer to a previous letter, he feels that the only principle that will affect them the British? is fear, and that treating them cavalierly will make them despair of their undertaking. Statement on verso: Copy is in handwriting of Rebecca C. Powell of Alexandria.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Wishes to spend remainder of his life in \"rural amusements;\" prediction of what a great city Washington, D.C. will become, \"though not as large as London,\" and description of how Alexandria, Virginia has grown; feels that if the United States can steer clear of European politics, it could become \"one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Discusses how he saved the papers of the Revolutionary Government by taking them to Leesburg, Virginia before the British burned the District of Columbia in the War of 1812. These papers included the Declaration of Independence, the journals of Congress, letter of General George Washington, Letters of General Greene and papers of the State Department. 2 pages. copy of letter signed, first part missing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMainly letters written from Illinois to Charles L. Powell dealing with land transactions. Also includes land certificates and letters to Lloyd Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Physical Location: See Oversize file. Concerning the transfer of 100 acres of land in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: See medium oversize file.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed on front by R. E. Lee and on verso by Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScope and Contents Signed on front and back by Mary Custis Lee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes detailed descriptions of battles and movements of armies. 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Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Letters and papers of Charles Leven Powell, his wife Selina (Lloyd) Powell and children of Loudoun County, Virginia; Henry, Illinois; Winchester, Virginia; and Alexandria, Virginia.","There are also included papers of Charles Leven Powell's father, Cuthbert Powell. Prominent correspondents include Johns Hopkins, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, George Washington Custis Lee, Mary Anna Randolph (Custis) Lee, Hunter Holmes McGuire and James Monroe.","Letters concern Robert Young Conrad, Hunter Holmes McGuire, civilian affairs during the Civil War, the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, freedmen, Reconstruction, and the education of women. Many letters are written by women.","In addition, there are a number of letters from and concerning members of the Dupuy family of Prince Edward County, Winchester, Virginia including Robert Young Conrad (president of the Virginia Secession Convention) and his son Holmes Conrad (U. S. Congressman).","Included with the finding aid is \"The Powell and Lloyd Families of Alexandria, Virginia\" by Frank Snowden Hopkins (1988).","See also  Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century Papers and Diaries Series C Reel # 04,05,06,07 in Swem Library's microforms area, call number HQ1438 .V5 S68","Including a statement, 1786 April 8 by J. Nicholson that the witnesses Joshua Lamb and John Lamb (both Quakers) and Joseph Greenwood affirmed and swore that this was the last will and testament of Thomas Hepborn.","Reports on the status of the ship The Rising Sun; says she will dispose of her cargo as soon as possible; says the ship was detained by the British (War of 1812), but given up.","Signed by William Hodgson and Thomas Van Le, Jr.","Her daughter ? Nancy, had a healthy baby boy who is nursing well; Nancy is staying with her now, and her husband Mr. Wallach, spends almost every night there also; is concerned that Nancy will live a hard life because of her husband's financial situation; on the other hand, her daughter Catherine ? will be \"free from the trials attended on a state of poverty,\" being married to Cuthbert Powell, who owns a large farm in Loudoun County; much Simms family news; mentions Mrs. Trist's grandson, Nicholas Trist.","Signed by B. Cottinger.","Fatherly letter giving his opinion of a certain young lady and marriage, as well as general advice.","Discussion of his engagement to this daughter Selina, and the seriousness of the matter, especially in concerning finances; tells of his poor financial state as related to a dowry, or the lack thereof, for his daughter; gives his approval of the \"alliance,\" but hopes they will delay the marriage for some time.","Has given great consideration to his claim against the French government and has turned the case over to Stephen Pleasonton, who is the auditor for the Dept. of State and who is now handling all claims; since Mr. Pleasonton is a personal friend and he (James Monroe) is greatly interested in his Burr Powell case, he knows he will get an answer soon; will also be returning the agriculture pamphlet.","Sends extract of Mr. Pleasonton's reply concerning the claim against the French government and asks that he reply with the necessary information; will also do anything he can to help.","Further discussion of his claim against the French government and dealings with Stephen Pleasanton and Isaac Coxe Barnett.","More instructions about the claim being made against the French government.","Further discussion and explanation of the case involving Burr Powell and his claim against the French government.","Continued information concerning Powell's claim against the French government.","The new court system has kept him extremely busy; social life has slowed down; the fashion these days to relieve boredom is to ride horseback; expresses concern for his own colt in the country; inquires after Dr. Nelson and his medical career; also asks about a large, gay party at South River; recommends books for good reading including Schlegel's History of Literature.","Has received the results of his claim from Mr. Pleasonton and regrets the outcome, which he disagrees with; does not feel anyone is to blame.","Asks her to come visit over Christmas; describes the social events in Arlington; mentions her cousin George Calvert; says the big event is the fair for the benefit of orphans.","Describes a walk she took and the surrounding countryside, including the wildflowers and startling a herd of deer; had many visitors, including a very graceful lady who is said to have been \"addressed\" by Mr. Van Buren, a \"jolly goodnatured ... commodore and some of the ugliest officers,\" and Mrs. Porter and her scholars; tells of books she has read, including Tales of a Grandfather, The Sorcerer, and The Talisman; loving memories and looking forward to their next meeting.","Have just returned from a visit to her grandmother's and her cousin, Ann Marshall; they all are saddened by the death of Mr. Fitzhugh; describes the country from South to West River, where she had visited, and comments on meeting a lovely girl, Bella Carter; mentions the jealousy of another male suitor?, Seldon Page; mentions Mary Custis. 3 pages. letter signed.","Sends his best wishes for her new life with Charles L. Powell; will be able to attend the wedding as well as \"Brother Nelson\"; is uncommonly warm; is sending a bonnet for her and a small diamond breast-pin for Father by the steamboat Franklin, commanded by Admiral Nevitt; describes the long ribbons attached to the bonnet, which are for going once all the way around the bonnet before knotting them by the ear, not for tying a bow under the chin; also includes a diagram of how to tie them in the current fashion; admits to having been helped in choosing the bonnet by Miss Olivia Donaldson.","Discusses events in Washington D.C.; says she went to \"the President's\" on New Year's day; discusses Mr. Marshall's sermons; mentions books she is reading; asks Selina to come visit her.","Says her health is improving; encourages her to ask her for help when she needs it; discusses the articles she is sending her including a lemon tree, curtains, a mattress; discusses how these things will get to her; gives news about the children; Bec, Nanny, Frank, and Fred.","His mother-in-law has told him of the wonderful news of the birth of another daughter Hattie, and that both mother and baby are safe; will be up to visit in about a week; comments on balancing the sexes in the family, and that he has \"no notion of supplying my brother's and sister's children with wives\"...\"we shall hate to transport them his daughters to the wilds of the west\"; all is well at home, a new hen house is being built, but the garden is too wet to work; is lonely but is visiting neighbors; family news; religious sentiments expressed about her, their new daughter, and their family.","Gives account of his trip to Wheeling, including a sweet good-bye from daughter Rebecca; was not able to locate Robert Gray or ? Throckmorton at Harper's Ferry, but later met them at Point of Rocks; detailed description of a railroad and train cars; tells poignant story of a dog on the train searching for his master.","Has had many family visitors since his departure and family news; there is a measle outbreak at \"Llangollen,\" and all of the \"negroes\" have it; she had her teeth filed by Dr. Overfield?; a fire in Upperville destroyed Robert Armistead's new store and the adjoining saddle shop; they have had a beautiful snowfall, covering all of the blossom-filled trees, which melted quickly, doing no harm to the fruit; had a letter from brother John, who advises that he Charles L. Powell \"go directly to Texas\"; loving stories about their daughter's activities.","Had a bad thunderstorm the day she left; inquires about her trip and her relatives; details of children's activities; has let Becca sleep with him.","Their father will be taking a trip West this spring, accompanied by cousin William; family information; social life in Leesburg very quiet; misses her and her family.","Details of his trip from Alexandria; spent the night with relatives; warns her about catching a cold on a windy day; tells of conversations with their young son.","Private financial matters; tells of his busy schedule as a representative from Virginia to the U.S. legislature; gives his negative opinion concerning a bank? bill introduced by Henry Clay,which he feels the President would veto; Daniel Webster shares his opinion; life insurance inquiry.","Will not be home when expected because the House of Representatives is not going to adjourn until Monday; the Congress received their second veto from President Tyler regarding the Bank Bill; describes an assault made by Sen. Henry A. Wise upon Sen. Edward Stanlyin Congress.","Asking about her visit to Washington and the Chamber of National Institute; speaks of floods, bad weather, but comfortable where he is, because of Margaret's? kindness; describes lifestyle and \"humorous remarks of Charles Lamb,\" sexual relationship with her.","Wishing thumb to heal; speaks of cattle and other animals at \"Llangollen\" that he misses; asks about children; saw Ann? mentions Virginia Taylor's visit; will visit wife before harvest; reference to brother, Leven, and his wife, and Sarah?","Hustle and excitement of the House of Representatives; hoping to adjourn on Monday the twenty-second, but difficulties cause many night meetings; political discussion about Tariff question and Tuck bill.","Discusses her story at \"the Springs;\" tells about the politics the company there discussed; gives her own view of these issues; gives news about family and friends; hopes that Congress will soon adjourn so that he can come home.","Compares episode of thief robbing hen house to thieves in Washington trying to rob \"public treasures\"; wants to buy books for her; tells how he wishes to be with her and the rest of his family.","Writes of the bad weather and that they are able to get out very little; says Mr. Powell went to the Inauguration on horseback; tells what books the family members are reading; mentions the issue of white servants; discusses Rebecca's feelings of becoming a young lady; says that they could not get the house they wanted for next year; mentions Mr. Powell's feelings of frustration for not being able to better provide for them; gives more news about the Inauguration; news of family and friends.","Daughter, Harriet, left with Uncle William to spend holidays with them; daughter Minna had a birthday party, inviting Aunt Mary's children and Eskridges; family news; death of Maria Lee.","Discusses her religious feelings; discusses her traveling plans; describes her relationship with each of her relatives where she is staying; says she is staying with Fan and helping her with her wedding.","Discusses the housekeeping and how Rebecca is taking care of the house while she is away; discusses the health of family members; tells how they are altering last year's dresses; says \"Mother\" is quite weak and \"Father\" is very dependent on her; gives news of Brother Nelson and Jeanie (sister?); gives travel plans of family; says Mr. Powell has gotten six teeth put in and looks much younger.","Describes their arrival home with her brother Nelson; gives news of \"little Nan\"?; asks about Rebecca and Minna's trip; tells her to be happy and to follow God; says Charlie is doing well in school.","Family news; mentions Laura's? wedding.","Tells what she did during her visit to Locust Hill; tells what is going on in town; gives news of family and friends. Including news from letter from \"Mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell telling of her many activities.","Discusses Jesus and how one must search for and do things that please Him; asks that she watch her sister, Minna, closely so that she will not overexert herself; Ariana? had a baby boy; describes son Charlie's and daughter Nina's reactions to reading school and learning; family news.","Speaks of John's? carriage and velocipede that once was Minna Lloyd's, describing how she rode the vehicle; describes what a Holly tree is; (has genealogical information about Minna Powell, Lloyd Powell, and Charlie Powell in a different hand, which appears to have been added later.)","Gloucester Court House,Va. Speaks of her \"companion in Matilda Lee?; received visit from Nannie Guy and Maria Harrison; describes celebration in honour of General Taylor's election; describes Mrs. Janney's travels; town gossip and family news.","Family news; speaks of going to Locust Hill; inquires and tells about adventures of many townspeople; obliged to Mrs. Tabb for taking care of her and other daughter, Minna.","Speaks of Cousin Lucy's? party; describes Christmas scene around her house and gifts that the children received; describes Cousin Elizabeth Janney and compares to Cousin Harriet; family news.","Discusses who has come to visit her; describes Cousin Lee's wife, Maria, and their wedding; asks about her Christmas; describes the book marks she made for Christmas presents; asks how Minna is doing.","Speaks of snow and bad weather; notes that daughters, Rebecca and Minna, have been gone for almost three months; Fanny (Powell) Gordon is going to visit Fredericksburg; mentions a letter from Jeannie? who found General Jones, in Washington, quite \"agreeable and handsome\"; Cuthbert Powell is much better, and he speaks of going to Gloucester to join a Mr. Hale; Nina is afraid of everything; family news; mentions hiring of a slave, Margaret.","Rebecca's description of her Uncle Tabb's Dr. John Prosser Tabb house seems far in advance of Old-Virginian architectural styles; speaks of death of Mrs. Douglas Gordon.","Speaks of dancing as a family as a \"social amusement,\" but says that it does offend some \"in the religious world;\" says that one must respect the public opinion of the community where one lives; had severe weather; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Hatty Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Minna Powell, Gloucester Court House, for letter and \"glove-knots\" and sending love to Aunt Rebeccaand Uncle John Prosser.","Her brother Charlie and sister Nina have sore throats, and her father has a bad cold; snowy weather; Hatty went with Aunt Ellen to Selma and Raspberry Plain; Mr. Armistead Rust is to be married before March 4; family news.","Scope and Contents Reports on the snow storms they have had; mentions the coming wedding of Armistead Rust and Lilly Lawrence; tells how he likes working at the store; describes one of their customers; describes the house they may rent next spring. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia Says she is glad to hear Minna's health is improving; gives news of family; says her brother Nelson soon sails for California to dig gold, and may not be back for five years; reports on how he expects to live; says that there are measles and mumps in town.","Maris's? father announced as candidate for re-election; General Rust's family going to New York to attend a wedding; father is renting Carper's house; bad weather and snow causing many colds and illnesses; Mrs. Eskridge's father died; father may go to the Inauguration; family news. 4 pages. letter signed.","Saw Representative John S. Pendleton at the House of Representativesin Washington, D.C.; Pendleton wants a senate appointment; he will not go to Leesburg because he does not want to \"meddle with party movements\"; mentions \"County Repeal of the dog law.\"","Scope and Contents Mother and Father are both sick; \"brother\" has gone to inauguration; describes how to make eggnog, and gives her opinion of it; describes riding horses to the cliff and tells of adventures. 1 page. letter signed. Including letter from Harriet Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 February 27, incomplete letter concerning outbreak of the mumps and family and town news.","Father suffering from piles; mumps are still prevailing; do not have parties during Lent; family news.","Scope and Contents Speaks of gossip saying that Mr. Benedict is having an affair with Mrs. Henderson; describes procession in Washington, D.C. and the inauguration; family news. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Va., to Rebecca Powell, Gloucester, Virginia, 1849 March 26, concerning family news and the time of year.","Scope and Contents Expresses joy that Minna's health is till improving; says she is recovering from her cold; says Lloyd and Hattie have been ill as well; discusses the issue of Rebecca upsetting her aunt Rebecca by being late for a meal; says her aunt is easily vexed in \"her condition\"; gives news of friends and family; describes their new servant Robert. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Charles S. Powell, to Rebecca Powell, , undated, concerning Uncle Prosser's desire to put Minna on \"short allowance,\" and Minna's consumption of beef.","Describes their move to another house which she says is comfortable but small; hopes that the Gloucester air is getting rid of her cold; says their father is busy with court dealings; says many in the area have mumps including Hattie; says that Hattie is getting a tooth plugged; says she does not want Lloyd to leave to live so far away; discusses mesmerism (hypnotism).","Speaks of her bad health; her husband is busy preparing for court; mentions a party at Exeter; Mrs. Fontleroy had a girl so Mrs. Knox is a grandmother; much more family news and information.","Scope and Contents Rebecca Powell will be coming home within a week or so; Fanny? is at Locust Hill with the mumps; family news; Uncle William Graypersuaded Father to go to Gum Springs, Va., until after the election; election day events seemed to be going against Father. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Sister Minna\" Powell, Gloucester Court House, Virginia, 1849 April 26, concerning family news.","Describes Minna's cough and how they are treating it; tells her what clothes Lloyd and Charlie should wear if it gets colder; says she has been doing little except taking care of Minna; discusses new dresses for the winter and corsets; gives news of friends and relatives; discusses travel plans, to come home for the winter.","Discusses dresses, materials and costs; discusses bonnets; gives news of family; thanks her and Hattie for taking care of the household duties while she is away.","Says Minna is now well and that they are anxious to come home; gives news of Jeanie (her sister?), and Rebecca; gives news of \"Mother\" and \"Father\"; discusses books.","Says Mr. Powell had his \"likeness taken\" at the Daguerreotype rooms; says Minna's health continues to improve but that she may have one tonsil taken out; discusses the remedies she is taking; says she feels stronger also; gives news of friends; gives news of Rebecca, Jeanie, and \"sister\" Ann; discusses walking shoes.","Gives advice on her health and over-exertion; describes the illumination that took place in the neighborhood; tells of visits she has made; tells stories about Minna's sister, Nina; gives news of family and friends; says Hattie has lost her \"excess of fat\" and is walking three times a day.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses bonnets; discusses appearance versus reality as concerning materialism; discusses the opportunities for her in Alexandria; discusses the role of children in the family; gives news of friends and family; mentions that \"brother\" John may move and that if they move to Illinois, they will be closer to him.","Says they got there a few days ago and that Mr. Powell, Mr. Grey(?), and \"brother Llew\" have gone to the sale of slaves (\"the sale of the negroes\"); discusses her visit in Alexandria with her grandparents; Discusses the bad weather in Leesburg and the bad condition of the roads; says their family must economize rigidly; says Mr. Powell found the law business in Alexandria too small, so they will not be moving there; expresses her disappointment at the outcome; gives news of family.","Scope and Contents Reviews Christmas gifts received by everyone; describes a \"reading party\"; describes Christmas decorations of the Church; family news. Including note signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, 1849 December 29, concerning when daughter, Rebecca, is to return home.","Tells of the recent social events of the area; describes the format of a reading party; says her mother-in-law could not make it to their home because of the snow; asks her how her mother is doing; says there are still small pox in the area; discusses how many servants she has and what each does; says that Rebecca's Uncle George took Cuthbert to an asylum in Baltimore and hopes he will be happier there then when he was \"out.\"","Gives news of Rebecca's Uncle Richard and Aunt Elizabeth who live in Illinois; says she plans to get a description of the Illinois life from them; gives news of Ellen? who is unwell and is going to a doctor in New York; discusses how Rebecca can get home; describes family activities; says they have been able to do little because of the rain and mud; says she lies on her back all day sewing while her children read to her.","Scope and Contents Reading parties are the only way she can socialize; reports Maria Grady's death; reports about a big baptist meeting going on there headed by Mrs. Lucket; much town news. 4 pages. letter signed. Including letter signed from Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 26, 1850, concerning Rebecca Powell's trip home and Maria Grady's \"triumphant death.\"","Scope and Contents Speaks of terrible weather; boasts of learning to spin rolls of cotton on a spinning wheel; reports death of Rebecca Gray, Robert Gray's daughter; describes her daily routine; discusses Mary Grady. Including letter signed from \"devoted mother,\" Selina Powell, Leesburg, Virginia, to \"Bec,\" Rebecca Powell, Alexandria, Virginia, January 1850, concerning bad weather, family news, and attendance to the convention.","Says many in the family have been very sick for a couple of days and that she has had to nurse them; says Minna is now sick; and never had fully recovered from the chicken pox she had before; gives advice of how to be a good guest; advises her on her studies.","Says she has a toothache but must wait until May to get them pulled; describes a humorous reading party; says there was a case of small pox in the area and that many are being revaccinated. Including letter signed from \"mother\" Selina Powell to Rebecca Powell. Discusses her travel plans home; tells her to follow her grandparents' advice; gives news of family.","Expresses joy that her younger siblings are recovering from the measles so well; reports on health of \"Grandma\" and \"Grandpa\" Lloyd; gives news of Aunt Rebecca, Jeanie, and Minnie; Tells what she had done each day.","Inquires about many weddings in Leesburg and about who will need new dresses; speaks of ball thrown by Maria Washington; other city news.","Gives general description of Henry and discusses the family's move there; discusses the house they will build; advises what they should bring; reports on the emigrants in the area; discusses their travel plans in detail; asks Charlie to bring Newfoundland puppies; gives news of family there.","Describes presents sent to grandchildren; tells of Christmas scene in Alexandria; wants granddaughters to meet a polite gentleman that impressed her. Including poem, 1852, by R. C. Powell, beginning \"'Ours the cross.' Yes it is ours,\" giving a religious viewpoint.","Speaks of how she makes embroidery patterns and what colors are preferred; inquires about some of her friends; John Leven Powell says that Brooke? looks badly; aunt Fanny trying to match Brooks with Lucy Gordon; speaks of a Mr. Beverley breaking out around his face and \"bleeding profusely\".","Scope and Contents Mr. Gordon? will be a delegate to the democratic convention in Richmond, Virginia; much use of her eyes results in inflammation of her eyelids; \"Llangollen\" property is deteriorating; much town news and family news; mentions her dower right.","Speaks of helping Frank and Lucy ? with their new baby; describes female servants and her experiences with them; describes health of her daughters, Harriet, Rebecca, and Minna; reports of a few cases of \"cholera\"; reports of a good garden.","Gives a detailed report of Minna's health, expressing hope that her headaches are definitely getting better; tells about people who have visited the family; mentions a desegregated school in \"abolition ground\"; tells what her sisters have been doing since she left; discusses Rebecca's journey.","Mrs. Janney's baby died while she was ill; a Mr. Anderson, a Presbyterian Minister, says that his wife, Miss Harper, is a relative of Selina's (her father's Aunt); speaks of Fred's? wedding; tells of episode when she goes to visit a Mrs. Brown?; describes a visit they made to some neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Mentions Fanny's ? wedding; family news; possibility that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon ? might be elected to legislature; family does not wish Rebecca Powell to return home this winter.","Describes a visit they made to some new neighbors; describes Mr. Lombard's house that is being built; reports on the food they are preparing and what is available to them; says the winter goods have still not come in; mentions sewing that her daughters are doing; news of family and friends.","Describes their busy preparations for winter; describes their daily routine; says she is glad to have Lucy and Fred stay with them; describes their Sunday school; reports on Scholastics (a servant) who is now reading well; news of family and friends; discusses dresses and styles; asks about Rebecca's Uncle Nelson; mentions that Rebecca's Uncle Gordon was elected; asks about Fan's? wedding and hopes she and William will be happy.","Speaks of his daughter's trip, whom she should visit, and money matters; hopes to soon reap the financial benefits of his store; mentions Bishop Whitehouse's determination to give the college broad foundations; family news.","Family news; sleet and bad weather; religious discussion and viewpoints; Lucy and John? have a daughter now.","Scope and Contents Mr. Powell, Charles and Richard Lloyd are busy with new business as \"Land Agents\"; town of Henry, Illinois now has a newspaper and a steam mill; hopes to have a railroad passing through soon; there is not a decent Church and she wishes to see one built; Lloyd Powell, son of Selina, studies German because there are so many Germans in their town to do business with.","Scope and Contents Sarcastically teases her sister about differences between lifestyles of \"Far West\" and the East; Uncle Fred ? went to Springfield to see that railroad went from Peoria through Henry, Illinois; mentions problems with scarlet fever; family news.","Speaks of liquor laws and problems with drinking; describes lectures; such family and town news; mentions other religious lectures.","Expresses desire for daughter Rebecca to return home; Minna Powell still having problems with headaches; family news; Fred? went to Chicago to see stockholders of the Peoria and Rock Island Railroad; asks for Rebecca to send asparagus seed and large lima beans; mentions Thackery's lectures, and gives her opinion about his books and religious teachings.","Scope and Contents Family news; \"land business\" will provide many opportunities for travel; Rebecca planning to go to Leesburg soon. Including note from Charles L. Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"darling,\" Rebecca Powell, , 1853 March 11, sending his daughter ten dollars and writing her as to how to handle her expenses and requesting her to bring home her Grandfather's papers.","States that even though he just left yesterday, she wanted to put a letter in the books to be sent to him; comments on their inability to see each other even though he is only seven miles away.","Mentions his job as a traveling salesman and how he hopes to soon be Uncle Richard's Lloyd administration; resolved in town meeting to build the Railroad Peoria and Chicago.","Scope and Contents Expresses her disappointment that she cannot see Rebecca before Rebecca returns to Henry, Illinois; describes the friendship between them; news of friends in Baltimore.","Tells of carriage accident involving Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dulaney, where their horses were scared by the Clifton Mill and threw Mrs. Dulaney; she and father attended Dr. Rutherford's lectures; emphasizes that ladies got to vote, as well as gentlemen, on whether they were satisfied with the lectures; new wharf boat has arrived.","Describes the towns of Rushville and Pittsfield; said he enjoyed Pittfield more, but that Uncle Richard Lloyd sent him an assignment for Rushville; says he will be there about a month; asks about friends and family.","Scope and Contents Rebecca has come home; Minna joined the church with her family; gives religious views; family news. Including letter from Minna Powell, Henry, Illinois, to \"Brother\" , 1853 May 11, referring to Rushville, as location of brother; tells of beautiful spring weather and describes scenery.","Will soon be coming home; complains of sore throat and headaches; has had scarlet fever; family information.","Gossips about \"Miss Jane,\" a mutual friend; says he and Dr. Winslow found her in her parlor with a man; says the servant did not want to let them in and that it was an uncomfortable situation. Including letter written in margins from \"Cousin\" Jane to Rebecca Powell concerning religious publication, an Episcopal convention.","Expresses how much she misses him; discusses reading material.","Describes Aunt Ellen's Powell Gray recovery from an illness; much family news; describes wedding that she went to; expresses romantic interest in a Dr. Claggett; includes printed poems.","Describes physical appearance of \"Llangollen\" as well as her feelings towards the place; reminisces about when family lived in Virginia. Talks about old friends; family news.","Scope and Contents Tells her little sister Nina about old friends and family; gives details of things she has been doing. Including letter from \"Hatty\" Harriet Powell, \"Llangollen,\" Virginia, to \"Mother,\" Selina Powell, 1853 October 10. Concerning warmer clothes; advantages of \"flannel draws\" over a \"wadded petticoat.\"","Scope and Contents Says she has been extremely ill and so have many in the area; says she has been traveling in order to improve her health; tells of her problems with Custis and his lessons; says Robert is still holding his office in Washington but wishes to leave; asks how she likes \"the West\" and if her husband is finding success; news of friends.","Reports Lucy's? death and grief everyone feels; Nelly? is to be baptized; other family news.","21 items.","Tells of their Christmas and New Years celebrations. Also includes \"Mother\" Selina Powell, to Rebecca Powell. Expresses hope that Rebecca can be with her relatives in Baltimore; discusses the nature of receiving advice and making her own decisions concerning her travel plans.","Speaks of attending a party; mentions \"matching up\" procedures at party; family news; details Christmas gifts.","Mentions religious feelings; speaks of a railroad being built nearby; Virginia? had her annual get-together on December 26; of family members; mentions a friend's visit to the Crystal Palace; Mrs. Augustine Washington had the first male child born at Mt. Vernon recently; family news; mentions Rear Admiral Leven Minn Powell.","Mentions Brooks'? wedding; describes details of the wedding; much family news.","Tells of her day spent with Lizzie King and Jane Norris; describes a dinner given for a couple about to get married; news of other friends.","Mentions sicknesses of Nelson Lloyd and John Lloyd; speaks of a Douglas Forrest who attends Yale College; has to take a boat to Washington D.C.; gives price rates per acre of land at that time; gives prices for a lot of land.","Family news about cousins Nannie and Fanny?; mentions Uncle Nelson's Lloyd recovery; travels by omnibus.","Family news; describes her garden and its contents; Regina? was married; Mr. Livingston? requests influence of Charles L. Powell to obtain the consulship of London through General Baercel?; mentions Mr. McFaddin as being the mayor of Henry.","Family news; describes the scenery at Locust Hill; some of Uncle George's ? children have chicken pox.","Identified as much of note added in unknown handwriting, possibly that of Selina Lloyd Hepburn.","Description of Minna's gravesite; tells what he's doing to improve its appearance.","Describes trip to Niagara Falls; describes places visited in New York and where he lives; describes his studies.","Describes courses he is studying at school; describes the first time he saw a man dive under water and the suit he wore below water; staying at a boarding house.","John Lloyd who died in 1854; estimated price value are given.","Describes study habits and classes; mentions prices of a ring and a clock; describes his financial situation. .","Describes in detail her Quaker wedding to Frank? on 1854 December 14.","Nina's Christmas gift from Charles arrived safely; mentions wedding of a fellow student; serenaded the couple with a \"horse fiddle\"; describes his activities in his spelling class; mentions plans to return home in the spring.","Expresses religious beliefs; lists prices for renting his room.","Describes Charter Oak, an attraction in Hartford; describes his visit to an armory; staying with a Mr. Parsons and describes his family.","Scope and Contents Discusses financial settlements he is making for his father concerning the house, lands, furniture; says Uncle Fred and Uncle Neb are leaving Henry and they are all \"disgusted\" with Henry and that he thinks his (father's) decision not to come back was wise; mentions the family move to Winchester, Virginia","12 items, 1856. 16 items, 1857","Describes their Christmas which was spent at Uncle Fred's and Aunt Lute's; describes a Christmas ball and a New Year's ball in detail; says he has had some problems with dyspepsia; asks about cousin Kate's wedding to a senator.","Reports on Aunt Lib and Uncle R?'s new son, Richard; says he rented out their house in Henry; says he has been away from \"home\" now for three months; and will not go to New Orleans, Mobile, and Augusta; describes how he decorated Minna's grave, and expresses hope that her resting place will soon be Virginia; asks about their school; sends money from a large profit he made selling land.","Describes his visit to Louisville where he saw his cousins and went to many social events; says that the train ride from Kentucky was very rough; says he will be in Vicksburg in a week and then will go to Wilmington, North Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; and Memphis, Tennessee; asks about family and friends.","Describes his stay in Vicksburg, and his visit with Mr. And Mrs. Eilbeck Mason and Miss Louisa Fox; says that he did not see Cousin John Russell while in New Orleans; discusses his travel plans; asks about Hatty's teaching.","Expresses joy that she is well from the influenza; says he has recently traveled to Portsmouth, Va,, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; says he will now go to Texas; discusses travel plans; asks her to pick out one of her friends for him; discusses Charlie's new job in St. Louis.","Scope and Contents Describes St. Louis and the Virginia House Hotel; inquires about the new scholars the family has taken on; harasses Nina for not writing. Including note from Charles L. Powell, St. Louis, Missouri, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1856 May 4, concerning his happiness about Nina joining the Church.","Describes hard times in Illinois; intent to move back to Virginia when business picks up; family news.","Speaks of influenza and other illnesses prominent in the town; reports the death of Mr. Adies ?; Ellen Powell is in Washington Infirmary; house is being renovated; family news.","Says he just returned from Henry; says Charlie is on his way to Henry to start his new job in Uncle Fred's store; describes Henry and the house they used to live in; reports that Uncle Fred is building a house; gives new of Scholastics and Monsieur Carlo; says he will go to Pennsylvania next and then visit them.","Reports that Lloyd Powell is on his way to Virginia; describes their yard and home in Henry; yellow fever is not a problem this year in Illinois; he went to a concert given by the Baleis.","Inquires about the \"weddings fair\"; discusses his travels and the loneliness involved in his job; mentions his relief that the campaigns and elections are over; sends messages to friends at home.","Nina has begun studying Latin and learning how to draw; mentions the extension of the Chicago and Pern canal down to Henry; much family news.","Tells what each family member is doing; discusses religion and the duties of a Christian; gives news of friends who have joined the church; discusses Minna's grave; discusses letter writing; tells of recent marriages and engagements; gives her philosophy on why he should not begin to chew tobacco; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Valentine's Day and Washington's Birthday; mentions last year's parade and the marching continentals; reports of bad rain storm that tore up the railroad track and caused problems with mud and flooding; family news. Includes note signed from Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1857 February 22, telling her to turn to their 'one friend' for strength and advice.","Scope and Contents Describes a storm which kept him in Henry, Illinois, unable to travel; gives recent travel plans, including a trip to Philadelphia by boat; gives news of friends and family in Henry; says many river towns are flooded.","Reports his knowledge of Lloyd's Powell return to Winchester; relatives are going to the Episicpal Church for Easter; reports Dr. Hoagland ? as being a bad tenant in their house in Illinois; mentions happiness that Nina Powell is joining the church today.","Gives news of relatives in Alexandria; tells his travel plans; says he finds the women of Virginia far more appealing than those of South Carolina.","Uncle Fred? and Aunt Lucy? are leaving for Virginia; sending his mother his daguerreotype, a photograph; reports that Lloyd is in St. Louis; Bridget, a past boarder, had a little girl; family news.","Describes the family vacation and adventures; describes the baths; mentions the parties they have attended; family news.","Family is on vacation; describes activities and scenery at Capon Springs; family news.","Speaks about taking inventory at the store; family news.","Says they just got back from Capon; asks her not to take silver nitrate for her headaches; says they have all improved their health by the visit to Capon; says \"brother\" Nelson is now there hoping the springs will help him; says they did not get the house that they wanted to rent; gives news of friends; says Rebecca, Hatty, and Lloyd are there. Including letter from Charles L. Powell to Nina Powell. Says that he misses her and wishes she could have been at Capon; asks about her headaches.","Describes his travels from Baltimore to Henry; mentions shortage of money due to bank failures; gives detailed news of the town, including improvements being made; news of Henry relatives; mentions that the bank failures will result in fewer land dealings and therefore, less work for him; asks about the young ladies of Winchester.","Inquires about Mr. Waler's? lectures; attends the Methodist Church now; reports of the adventures during hunting season; mentions the new idea of pavement sidewalks.","Describes a severe snowstorm and its effects on Henry; tells how he spent Thanksgiving day; describes their new cook with whom he is infatuated; mentions the death of Robert Conrad?; gives messages of friends in Winchester.","Reports of Nina getting her teeth straightened; describes method; reports that the number of scarlet fever cases is greatly reduced; she is very busy with the boarding school; tells of a fight between Charlie McCormick and a police officer; mentions Hunter Holmes McGuire; family news.","Discusses the death of Robert ? and the reaction of the town; gives news of friends; sends her love to her mother and relatives; wants to know what Dr. Chase said about her teeth.","Writes about Nina's plans to go home; says she is concerned about her traveling when her teeth are in such a condition.","20 items.","Refers to the \"hard times\" everyone is experiencing; describes farm activities; family news; describes how to make a mousetrap.","Describes midwest weather and the usual fall-like temperatures; says that they are all much healthier because of the mild weather; says ties are hard and the bank in Henry just closed, but that the town is continuing to improve; asks about Mrs. Powell's occupation, teaching; mentions the death of Robert Conrad and describes his character; messages to family members.","Reports of freezing temperatures of -15 F and snow in Henry; mentions sleighing in the snow; reports story of a bank robbery.","Reports of Lloyd's Powell trip to St. Louis to try and find Charles a job; family news; mentions a Mr. Lombard who plans to return to Henry and open a bank of issue.","Discusses who owes him letters from home; says he could not find a job for Charley Charles L. Powell, Jr.? in St. Louis because of the poor economy; gives news of Randolph Powell, of St. Louis, and John Webb Powell, of Utah; says he will be home during the summer.","Mentions that she missed his birthday with a card but thought of him that day; expresses religious feelings and beliefs; family news; lists people recently confirmed in the Church; outbreak of typhus fever at the University ?","Tells of his travels; describes Memphis, Tenn.; gives news of \"cousin\" William Powell who resides in Memphis; gives news of Mr. And Mrs. Mason, residing in Vicksburg; describes Leake County where he sold some of his Uncle Nelson's land; gives news of \"cousin\" John Wilson of New Orleans and of \"cousin\" John Chilton, who may send his daughter Sarah to school in Virginia; tells his travel plans, stating he will be in Virginia in a month; gives news to family and friends.","Describes scenery where he is; tells of a May party that some school girls had; describes his boat riding trip; family news; mentions arrival of Mr. Winn, the new Presbyterian minister.","Reports having been sick with a bad cold; family news; Nina has problems with other schoolgirls because her parents operate the school; trying to plan Charlie's return home for the summer.","Asks about fourth of July entertainment; Mr. Winn gave an exceptional sermon; Uncle Richard? bought a piano and a side-saddle; family news.","Inquires about boarding students; inquires about vacations at Capon Springs, West Virginia; tells of his success at duck hunting; family news; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Gives news of Uncle Richard's and Uncle Fred's families; says that Frank's baby is still ill; gives news of Hammond and Minna; comments that he will not see his family for another year; gives news of Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. and his employment possibilities; asks about Uncle Neb of Clark, Va?.","Gives her opinion about chewing tobacco, smoking, and other bad habits; incorporates religious duty into her opinion; some family news.","Discusses his habit of chewing tobacco and how he should discipline himself to quit.","Discusses the weather; reports on Hammond; reports that Mr. Chandler of Henry is getting married in Boston; says they will stay at Mrs. Taber's for the winter; gives news of Charlie (Charles) L. Powell, Jr.; comments on the involvement of women in politics in Henry; news of friends; comments on the decreased enrollment at the family school, saying they will at least have a lighter workload; mentions Stephen A. Douglas.","Expresses her disappointment in Charlie's having tasted tobacco; tells him that he is doing wrong to continue this habit; voices many religious views.","Reports that river is flooding the town; talks of Christmas holidays; family news.","A birthday letter for Nina's sixteenth birthday; describes the weather; family news; Min? is the \"editress\" of the \"Minnehaha\"; tells of the affairs of a Miss Amanda?.","Gives account of how he spends his days with emphasis on his Sunday activities; tried to quit chewing tobacco but couldn't; tells of episode where Uncle Richard? lost his saddle bags in the town of Bradford; river was frozen and people are ice skating; family news.","Tells where the girls boarding with them are going for Christmas; describes their Christmas plans; recollects their last Christmas with Minna; gives religious advice; sends her love to Lloyd.","18 items.","Would love for her to stay with him; mentions a sister Hannah.","Reports that Lloyd Powelland Uncle Richard ? have gone to Memphis, Tenn.; tells of the building of a road for $10,000; describes a surprise party he attended; mentions Valentine's Day and how many he has received; family news.","Reports that Uncle Richard and Frank are with him in Memphis, to see if they want to move there; says that he does not believe Uncle Richard will leave Illinois, but that Frank probably will; says that they tried to look up William Powell but he had moved to Arkansas; discusses the possibilities of his parents establishing a school in the area, and the risks involved.","Gives news of Uncle Richard and Uncle Fred; says Uncle Fred and Frank will close their business and leave Henry; tells of a conversation with Bishop Otey of Memphis on the subject of establishing a girls school there; gives details of the proposal in case his father is interested; gives news of the private school situation in Arkansas; reports on his business dealings in Arkansas; discusses financial matters.","Gives news of Uncle Fred who has been ill; says that the women of the town are all inspecting the new spring goods brought in from Saint Louis; discusses his daily schedule; says Charlie Charles L. Powell, Jr. is in singing school; asks about Nina's walks and lectures on the benefits of exercise to health and appearance.","Describes spring in Illinois; inquires about relatives in Alexandria; comments on Uncle Nelson's helpless state; discusses the chances of recovering Uncle Nelson's lands in Arkansas; describes the area of Henry where the family used to live; comments that she now weights 108 lbs., which is more than her daughters weigh; sends his love to Grand Ma Powell, Aunt Ann, and Uncle Neb.","A baby girl was born who is Nina's cousin Uncle Richard's daughter?; describes a fishing trip; mentions finding several Indian graves with skeletons and other items; tells story of a \"mad\" dog who bit many people.","Gives news of Illinois relatives; describes a trip that he and Uncle Richard took through Stark County, emphasizing the changes that have taken place in the last five years; comments on Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. development into a young man; reports that Uncle Richard will leave the land business on September 1st; discusses his involvement in the business and his desire to visit Virginia.","Scope and Contents Expresses his relief that his brother Charles arrived safely in Va.; comments on how scattered the family is at present; mentions Cousin Fanny Cochran's wedding in Middleburg, Virginia; discusses Mr. Hyde's trip in the \"aerial vessel\" Atlantic from St. Louis to New York, as reported in the \"Republican\"; reports that Frank has another son, Horatio Nelson; news of other Illinois relatives; describes the July 4 festivities.","Discusses an unprofitable year for his business; discusses a business proposition made to his brother Charles and Harry and Benton Janney by Uncle Richard, concerning the opening of the store; gives news of Illinois relatives; comments that his Uncle Richard, who just turned 43, may begin to use his middle name again and become Richard H. Lloyd; comments on how, in the past twenty years, the Powell family has spread from \"New York to Salt Lake City, and from the 'Lakes' to the Gulf of Mexico.\"","Reports that Uncle Richard, Minna will stop at Fulton County to visit relatives; gives his opinion about Minna not returning to Winchester Va. for school, stating that she has become too undisciplined and used to complete freedom in Illinois to be effectively taught in a school; describes Frank's son Horatio Nelson; comments on the family's health, saying that his father Charles L. Powell weights twenty pounds more than he does and his mother Selina L. Powell weighs only six pounds less, and also weighs more than any of her three brothers in Illinois; asks her if she is finished school and will make her debut.","Reports that Charley (Charles) L. Powell, Jr., Harry and Benton Janney have begun their business named \"H and TB Janney and Co.\" Asks about the boarding school and discusses the difficulties of running one; reports that Frank's family and Mrs. Hammond? are on their way to Memphis to live; reports that Uncle Fred is planning an extended visit to Virginia, and then will probably move to Memphis; says he and Uncle Richard dissolved their partnership and that Uncle Richard plans to move to Memphis as well; reports that crops are poor, so his business will be slow; plans to see them for Christmas.","Reports that there is a County Fair next week; describes in detail an incident of a burning well; expresses sorrow that the family school will be so small this year; reports that the 'W. S. Fair' in Chicago is now over.","Scope and Contents Discussing fall and winter goods being stocked at \"Lloyd's Big Brick\" in Henry, Illinois","family news; mentions marriage of Miss Hutchins, and deaths of 2 children of Mrs. Clara Ferguson; received invitation to wedding of \"Miss Mittie;\" gives his opinion of marriage.","A French teacher at the boarding school died; mentions excitement due to 'John' Browne's execution and that there are 26 companies of soldiers at Charlestown, West Virginia; mentions growing discontent of slaves; describes how men have loaded pistols ready in their homes; tells how many people are being imprisoned; tells of other strains between North and South; some family news; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Reports that Uncle Richard's baby has been christened Elizabeth Jenkins Lloyd; comments that this is the day that John Brown is to be executed; comments on the number of arrests in Virginia of strangers traveling through the state. Including newspaper clipping, n.d., of a poem about infants.","Discusses Professors Wise and LaMountain's attempt to establish daily balloon transportation from the \"Western\" states to the East Coast; family news; says he is anxious for the family in Illinois to move south; mentions the execution of \"Cook and his Confederates\" involved in John Brown's attempted insurrection on December 16.","Invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Scope and Contents Mentions and encloses invitation to a \"Leap Year\" party; describes events at the party; describes weather and reports of a sleighing party; reports marriage of Mary Ann Hoyt, friend of the family. Including note from Maggie J. Richmond, Henry, Illinois, to Charles L. Powell, Jr., Henry, Illinois, 1860 February, inviting him to a \"Leap Year\" party.","Talks about Uncle Richard's? baby girl; gives report of Charles L. Powell and some family news.","Discusses \"spring fever\" concerning work; describes weather; speaks of Uncle Nelson's Lloyd death and how it should be a happy time; thanks his father for \"Alexandria Gazettes\" containing articles about the Whig convention; family news.","Writes about her feelings during the time following her brother Nelson's death; recounts the last days she spent with Nelson Lloyd.","Talks about assessed value of some land or property and makes reference to Lloyd Brothers and Co.; speaks of crops and the effects of the weather; mentions how road being finished would provide trade with those on the other side of the river; township will vote on how to acquire additional funds to complete the road; mentions the whig convention and how they now represent such a small minority of people.","Talks of spring dresses and bonnets; mentions hearing address by William McDonald; discusses opening of a shoe and book manufactory; speaks of beating \"the 'Yankees' with their own men;\" family news; religious advice; mentions use of telegraph.","Discusses agriculture and effects of weather on crops; talks of visiting New England and of dislike of their attitudes; expresses extreme negative opinion of 'Yankees.'","Family news; mentions work at the store; discusses events around town. Including poem? written in Latin on both sides of envelope. Locks of hair also enclosed.","Discusses crops and agriculture; describes Illinois scenery; family news; inquires about trip to Capron Springs; mentions \"Uncle Richard's\" card selling tour.","Discusses Congressional race; mentions Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky and his visit to Illinois; talks about rise in crime; family news.","Discusses confusion about having joined the church; religious discussion; some family and neighborhood news.","Inquires about trip to New England; mentions \"Alexandria Sentinel;\" family news.","Discusses climate and busy season of Christmas; debates issue of Civil War and effects; gives religious advice; family news; Robert Young Conrad.","Discusses problems due to political and financial situation of the country; talks about boils on his hand; family news; mentions kindness of Mayor Turner.","Nina's eighteenth birthday; discusses the weather; talks about sleighing and skating; mentions \"Pickwick Papers\" and describes hunting interest; makes reference to several literary works.","Talks of trade being slow; election of a Mr. McFadden as \"Justice of the Peace\"; mentions sleighing and the weather; describes hayride in snow and people he went with.","Discusses his indebtedness to his father and his financial situation.","Discusses political situation and \"imminent danger of Civil War\"; comments on government involvement and troops in a war; mentions social life.","Scope and Contents Discusses the imminent war and that it will be the third one in her lifetime; talks about effects of a war from past experience; family news. 3 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from \"grandmother\" Catharine Powell, Bellevue, Va.?, to Rebecca Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 January 20, inquiring about being able to paint for her.","Describes his dog and its habits and actions; talks about a fight at a warehouse; family news.","Discusses pros, cons, and possibilities of a war; talks about being able to cross North/South Line if he comes to Virginia; describes weather; mentions indoor winter activities; refers to marriage and courting habits; family news.","Briefly discusses the Navy; describes wedding of Nellie Hall and a Mr. Kellogg; family news.","Information concerning troop movements around Harper's Ferry; mentions a Col. Bowen, superintendent Barbour, and a Col. Moore.","Discusses explosion of armory at Harper's Ferry; speaks of united Southern forces; mentions involvement of friends including Powell Grady; Powell and Holmes Conrad; family news.","Suffering from inflammation of eyes; discusses possibility of Illinois and Virginia residents being separated during the war; Virginia's succession from the Union; Democrats opposition to the war with the South; talks about surrender of Fort Sumter; confusion about whether to leave or stay in Henry; some family news.","Discusses Colonel Robert Lee and movement of troops; mentions Georgetown Heights, Alexandria Heights, and the Valley counties; some family news; mentions Rockingham Rifles.","Blockade established at the mouth of the Ohio; Southern trade suspended; some family news; inquires about situation in Virginia concerning the war.","Discusses a proclamation of Lincoln; politics and effects of the Civil War; dominance of Lincoln's party in Louisville, Kentucky; some family news.","Orders to stop mail from Virginia.; Alexandria occupied by North; Fairfax cavalry taken prisoner; family news.","War's effects on postal service; family news.","Thanks her for package of food and lists contents; speaks of newspaper Richmond Dispatch as a rare luxury; describes camp life; enemy is at Williamsport, Md.","Discusses camp life and its required adjustment; mentions accidental shooting of two men as their only pessimistic experience so far; gives account of battles reported in the Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun; majority of men in army are under 21; describes how soldiers try to get food from surrounding farmers and their families.","Scope and Contents Discusses uniforms, saying that they are everywhere, and that a \"John Brown\" has increased the \"military spirit\" in Virginia; asks about Lloyd; discusses books he has read and that she recommends; describes their daily schedule and when she has time to read; discusses food in season; news of family and friends.","Prepares for battle; states that he is ready to do his duty for his country; mentions that the Continentals lost two men in the engagement the day before.","Regrets that he cannot keep their date for the afternoon due to Army business.","Scope and Contents Mentions her husband's attack of dysentery; family news; gives news of friends and family; hopes war will soon be over so that the family can all be together; expresses religious feelings; wishes that they could write more freely; tells him to send his letters to E. J. Lee in Maryland who will forward them South to them. Including note, from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Winchester, Virginia, to \"Charlie,\" Charles L. Powell, Jr., , relating more family news.","Asks for specific items of clothing to be sent because he does not know when he can return home; refers to Haresack? and asks that she make him a smaller one.","Includes description of L. Powell.","Description of how Lloyd Powell was shot in battle of Manassas; details of his personal characteristics and attitudes.","Scope and Contents Expresses sympathy in regard to Lloyd Powell's death; offers comforting words from the Bible. Including letter, from Sue P. Lee, Lexington, Va. to Nina Powell, Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 29, offering condolences on the death of her brother, Lloyd Powell.","Thanks Nina for her letter of sympathy concerning the death of her mother; gives news of her brothers and sisters; says that she has terminated her relations with cousin R.? because she could not marry a first cousin; discusses their friendship.","Complains of poor postal service; tells him of Lloyd Powell's death; remembers about Lloyd's characteristics and qualities; says that typhoid fever is spreading in the town; talks about her servants; family news; reports of Willie Lee Chilton's death, a second cousin; expresses religious view.","Love letter to her; proposes marriage to her and her guardian and asks for a reply.","Signed also by J. R. Bowen, Justice of the Peace, stating that Charles L. Powell, Jr. has taken necessary oaths to become Deputy Marshal. . Including on verso, document, from Brigadier General James H. Carson, 1861 October 24, Charles L. Powell, Jr. permission to cross back and forth over enemy lines.","Thanks her for package she sent him; describes his situation and effects of the Civil War.","Thanks her for cap she sent him; his company is located at the \"Big Spring\" near Mr. Gray's.","States that 'Yankees' were in Shepherdstown, WVa. a few nights ago; family news; sends condolences on loss of her brother Lloyd Powell.","Sympathizes upon loss of Nina's brother, Lloyd Powell; relates her story of when her father died; expresses indebtedness to Nina's mother Selina (Lloyd) Powell; mentions sickness prevalent in Winchester, Va.; discusses her brother's Bob Lucas experiences as a soldier; Charles L. Powell, Sr., has accepted position in Richmond; news of spending summer at Col. LaRue's in Clarke to escape the Yankees.","Thanks her for a cap she made and sent to him; expecting to go to camp soon; some family news.","Tells of explosion that a Mr. Hubard caused trying to perfect something like \"Greek fire\" to sell to the government, similar to a powder to use in shells; describes condition of Mr. Hubard, his subsequent operations and death.","Scope and Contents Wanted to give her news from Winchester, Virginia, but \"the spy\" had to burn his information for fear it would fall into enemy hands; tells stories of houses being searched by soldiers; news of friends and relatives; decorated with \"Confederate States of America\" seal.","Trying to catch up with Stonewall Jackson's troops; describes camp life and strategy concerning the Yankees.","Possibility of 'Yankees' taking Richmond; discusses importance of trust in God during battles; inquires about Robert Lee.","General information on troop movements; mentions Battle of Williamsburg.","Describes being a member of Jackson's Army; mentions \"Rockbridge Artillery\" being full; family news. Decorated with \"Liberty and Union\" seal.","Stonewall Jackson captured two entire enemy regiments; enemy took part of Central Railroad; troop movements.","Family news; disappointment about not being able to be with Stonewall Jackson in his last fight.","Discusses the family's living arrangements; thanks her for finding a home for her to stay in, but feels it would be less imposing if she stayed where Nina is teaching in Prince Edward County; hopes that they can all live together soon; rejoices over Jackson's victory in retaking the \"old town\"; says that the Garlands have been very kind during her stay with them; discusses her traveling plans.","Death of friends, Willie Gray and Marshall Barton; death of various others in war including Turner Asby; talks of having made herself a sun-bonnet; news of family and friends.","Speaks of getting a job as a clerk in Major Vaun's office; information about Stonewall Jackson's victories; reports Colonel Ashby's death.","Reviews routine activities; much family and friend news; discusses Stonewall Jackson's troops.","Scope and Contents Everyone feeling ill and weighing less; family news; possible fighting in Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson is at Hanover Junction, Va.; problem with fleas.","He cannot get into the Rockbridge Artillery; she is staying with a Col. and Mrs. Tucker; battle of Richmond has begun; family news.","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Got position as a clerk in the Quarter Master's Office under Capt. Irwin, first cousin of Selina (Lloyd) Powell; Stonewall Jackson's army passed through Gordonsville about a week ago; talks of deserters from both sides wandering in mountains west of Winchester, Va.; South won battle in Richmond, Virginia","Scope and Contents Fighting around Richmond, Virginia; Stonewall Jackson's Army arrived to help; describes strategies and events of war.","Details about progress of the war; family news.","Scope and Contents Personal experience in Army. Including newspaper clipping of a poem by John. R. Thompson, entitled \"Ashby\" from a Richmond, Virginia newspaper dated 1862 June 13 , about the war.Verso is Rebecca Powell to Selina (Lloyd) Powell.","Scope and Contents Makes reference to Stonewall Jackson's army and his efforts in Richmond, Virginia; relates events of war and involvement of friends and relatives; family news.","Discusses people she knows who have been wounded or killed in the war; refers to battles at Richmond and Chickahominy, Va.; family news.","Expresses disappointment that her parents didn't get to visit her; complains of \"M's\" temper; gives list of supplies that she has purchased or ordered.","Preparing to go to Gordonsville to join Braxton's Battery; family news.","Has joined Braxton's artillery; give details of battles and accounts of those wounded and killed.","Describes battle between his battery and the 'Yankees;' describes Captain Braxton.","He has jaundice; personal account of stay in Richmond; discusses salary; accounts of the war.","Charles L. Powell, Jr. was killed; added to letter later her husband is still yellow with jaundice; saw the President Davis and his wife; family news.","Explains events of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death near Warrenton Springs, Va.; includes sketch of battlegrounds.","Town gossip; tells story of a Dr. Conrad's arrest and ordeal; family news.","Talks of our troops making it into Maryland; family news; prevalence of typhoid fever; discusses Southern attitudes about the Civil War, and Northerners.","Religious account and explanation of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death.","Informs her of \"Charley's Charles L. Powell, Jr. death; encloses a copy of Capt. Carter M. Braxton's report of the events leading to Charles L. Powell's death.","Offers sympathy for the loss of his son, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes the death of their sister Ellen Powell Gray; reports on the welfare of Ellen's family - Mr. William Gray, Kate and Arthur; news of family. Including letter from \"Mother\" Selina L. Powell, to Hattie Powell. Discusses the state of their belongings in their former house in Winchester and what will be sold through cousin Sarah Powell Conrad; says if they do not intend to return, then it should all be sold.","Thanks her for her sympathy upon death of Rebecca's brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; expresses religious views; family news.","Responds to news of Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s death; family news; reports on her own health.","Includes description of Charles L. Powell and the battle. (Newspaper clipping.)","Scope and Contents Lots of family and town news; mentions that army is located near her in Winchester, Virginia","Gives her daily routine schedule; involved in knitting for the soldiers; doesn't seem to think 'Yankees' will approach Richmond, Va.; remembers her son \"Charley\" Charles L. Powell, Jr. often.","Discusses their friendship and situation of the Civil War.","Expresses sympathy for the death of her brother, Charles L. Powell, Jr.; describes in detail the death of her mother, Ellen Powell Gray and reveals her feelings concerning it; gives news of their Powell relatives.","Discusses daily routine; problem with typhoid fever; family news.","Family news.","Comments on incidents of typhoid fever; family news; discusses her minister and baptism of a baby.","Describes circumstances of her daughter Annie's sickness and death; offers sympathy for death of Charles L. Powell, Jr.; family news; including recital of Fenella's funeral rites; \"Earth to Earth, Dust to Dust...\".","Discusses business matters in Winchester that she is taking care of for Charles L. Powell; discusses the ear and the situation in Winchester; sends him some books, stating that the 'Yankees' carried off the rest of them; reports of a proposed armistice.","Describes sickness causing a delirious state for a few days; family news; knitting as a popular pastime; discusses weather; 'Yankees' still have Gloucester Point as a fort; soldiers suffering from \"rot\" that kills them.","Scope and Contents Discusses John Milton's works; family news; Longstreet's Corps has occupied many points near Culpeper Court House. 2 pages. letter signed. Including note signed from Nina Powell, Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va. to \"sister\" either Hattie or Rebecca Powell, , 1862 November 5, reporting family news. Also including note from Selina Powell,Kenmuir, Louisa County, Va.. Expresses grief over Annie Lee's death; asks about Robert E. Lee; prevalence of typhoid fever; describes weather and landscape; 'Yankees' did not disturb Charles L. Powell, Jr.'s grave; family news.","Sends this letter with a letter from Hunter, her brother; comments that Hattie has now been gone from Winchester eight months; says life is fine when Confederate soldiers are in Winchester, but that it is miserable when the 'Yankees' come; says General Jackson has visited them and has his headquarters on the road to Front Royal; says he gave her his photograph and he will send a copy; writes that they are working very hard because the few servants in town are cooking for the soldiers; lists people who will leave town if the 'Yankees' return; says Cousin Betty looks unwell because she works so hard in the hospitals ; writes that they only have 500 sick beds in the hospitals; mentions the destruction by 'Yankees' in other counties; fears they will soon suffer.","Sends thanks for present he received because it will be useful during the winter; expresses desire for peace in the country.","Family news; expresses concern that the Southern army is suffering from a lack of clothes.","Expresses her feelings of loneliness, as she lives among strangers; expresses other worries of disease and of the war; discusses problems with diphtheria in the neighborhood; comments on the shortage of men in the neighborhood, in particular healthy, attractive ones; discusses the hardships of Uncle Prosser and Aunt ReBecca whose former servants burnt much of their property; news of friends and family.","Discusses the condition of Charles L. Powell's estate and what business has been transacted; lists what articles from their home have been sold, commenting that most people in Winchester are not buying things because they are leaving to journey \"up the Valley\"; reports that 4000 men are guarding Winchester, that some tobacco has been burned, and that preparation for evacuation is underway; describes 'Yankee' attacks in Charlestown; comments on the effect of the fear of attack on everyone in the town; gives news of friends.","Scope and Contents Comments on problems with influenza; refers to a Capt. Duff and his defense of Leesburg, Virginia; gives news of town since troops have arrived; family news.","Makes references to the Clarke Cavalry and a Capt. Carter; possessions have been pillaged and towns have been ruined; has to quit farming because of war.","Wishes Nina a Happy Birthday; refers to God and asks to enter his Kingdom; mentions a friend who died from diphtheria; discusses Stonewall Jackson's opposition to the enemy at Port Royal, Va.; family news.","Discusses everyone's fear of diphtheria; family news.","Makes references to Gen. Robert E. Lee's victories; lots of family news.","Expresses the difficulty of losing so many brave men in the war.","Reminisces about their last Christmas together; discusses the slaves and their ability to be dangerous.","Scope and Contents Expresses desire for peace and to return to Winchester, Virginia; much town and family news; sorry they can't spend Christmas together.","She has been ill with a cough and cold; family news.","Inquires about a John Tabb; tells activities of Kate Gordon who is staying with them; mentions a bombazine fine twilled silk fabric; people looking for teaching positions; family news.","Lots of town and family news.","Problems with smallpox; family news; mentions Judge Lee's ? suicide. .","Her husband, Charles L. Powell, Sr., is still looking for a teaching job; recommends reading as a worthwhile hobby.","Describes how her family spent Christmas; thanks her for the cap she made for her brother Rob; discusses the sadness of Hattie's Christmas; discusses friendship; reports that she heard from Mary ? who is living behind Union lines in King George.","Mentions a Col. Tucker?; talks about her personal health; refers to the \"conscript act\"; gives impressions of deaths resulting from the Civil War and ideas of a forthcoming peace; family news.","Family news; refers to robbery of all servants; tells stories of confrontations with the enemy and experiences while at war; discusses food he has to eat; mentions has heard news of Grandma's death; mentions William Edmonson Jones.","family news; discusses her pay for tutoring.","Mentions their father's new employment in Greenville; news of family and friends.","Scope and Contents Family news; describes some of daily activities.Including N. C. E.?, to Nina Powell, , post 1863 March 13 giving neighborhood news.","Scope and Contents Comments on Cavalry's victory in Culpeper, Va.; describes poverty situation in Winchester, Virginia, as result of Civil War; discusses situations in Romney, West Virginia; family news.","Gives information on job prospects; family news.","Found a teaching job in Powhatan; describes location and plans to build a house.","Comments on his activities in the Army; refers to \"the Picketts;\" tells of damage and destruction in Winchester, Va., as a result of 'Yankee' invasion.","Comments on experiences in Army; expresses sadness that young men can't receive education during the war; family news; states that Tip? Powell and Frank Grady were captured in Loudoun, Va.","Discusses clothes; family news; says they will visit Shirley Plantation soon; says Mary? must remain within the Union lines because the only way to leave is to walk eighteen miles at night, carrying baggage; mentions Robert E. Lee, George Washington, and Custis Lee.","Mentions interest in soldiers, especially the South Carolina gentlemen; talks about sources of entertainment; family news.","Describes his house and surroundings; family news.","Mentions \"taking bitters (a tea) made of sarsaparilla root\" for strength and to purify her blood; expresses hopes for war to soon be over; 'Yankees' now have Fauquier under their control; family news; refers to receiving news through the Enquirer.","Scope and Contents Discusses when the family members will see each other; gives news of Powell relatives at Locust Hill; says that goods cannot be sent to them from Locust Hill Leesburg, Virginia because of a blockade; inquires about the fighting in Fredericksburg.","Talks about General Stuart's decision to review his Division; refers to great loss at Battle of Chancellorsville in the death of General \"Stonewall\" Jackson; describes events of war near Rowlesburg, WVa.; comments on his troops various attacks on different Railroads; gives details about other battles.","Family news; comments on how quickly her chickens are dying.","Discusses fighting in the Civil War and loss of servants; family news and sick and wounded from Battle of Gettysburg.","Comments on war, pestilence and famine; discusses the Civil War.","States that Nina Powell has been recommended to him to take care of his children as well as tutoring them; requests response to his offer.","Discusses pillaging by the Union troops; comments on men who have given their lives for the southern cause; family news.","Comments on scarcity of various staples; offers her $300 to come and teach his children.","Scope and Contents Discusses \"keeping house\" and how much it costs to do so; family news; comments on the Battle of Manassas.Including note from ?, , to Hatty sic Powell, , undated, discussing delivery of enclosed note to Custis Lee.","Attempts to appease Nina's apprehensions about coming to Hanover County if the enemy is there; wants her to begin working the first of October.","Offer to substitute himself for William Henry Fitzhugh Lee as a Northern prisoner of War.","Family news; questions Nina about her \"beaux\" and his courting ways; discusses education.","Refers to burning her previous letter in case of a fight whence it could become public; relates news of troops; family news; discusses fight from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan Rivers.","Scope and Contents Family news.","Lots of family news; states that a man named Taylor Johns has fallen in love with Nina Powell; discusses situation at the Stringfellow's, where Nina now lives.","Discusses in detail his new teaching position; family information.","Gives cotton prices as $3.75 a yard; discusses Battle at Manassas; family news.","Comments on her husband's new position in Albemarle; family news; mentions some events in reference to the Civil War.","Says she saw her father Charles L. Powell, Sr. on his way to move into Cousin R's?; describes her trip to Charlottesville; expresses satisfaction that her mother is able to stay with Uncle Fred and Lute; reports she has eleven scholars.","Family news; discusses her job as a teacher; discusses \"preserving with molasses\"; expresses anger and confusion about Nina's beaux David ?","Discusses his teaching position.","Family news.","Gives opinion on attitudes of young people; family news; expresses interest in religion.","Discusses plans for Christmas, including costs involved and where they can stay; discusses death of Cousin? Temple Grady and its effect on other relatives; discusses teaching and their role in the war effort.","Refers to a battle at Chattanooga, Tennessee; and General Longstreet; discusses cotton and its discount price of $18 a bale; comments on young gentlemen who have come to visit her; other town and family news.","Thanks Hattie for her kind gift of a Bible; gives details of present experience as a soldier in the Civil War; expresses sadness for those who died in the battle.","Mentions a Carrie Hobson's death resulting from a \"perforation of the bowels\" (typhoid fever); family and town news; mentions Temple Grady's brother of C. Powell Grady? death; refers to having some corsets made.","Family news.","Family news; expresses concern about \"national affairs;\" discusses religious point of view.","Family news; discusses General Bragg and his great ability as a leader.","Family news; states that he met Mr. Seddon, Secretary of War and they discussed Judah Benjamin; gives some views of what is happening with the Civil War.","Mentions General Longstreet's retreat from Knoxville, Tenn.; comments on giving Nina some linen for \"sleeves or sleeve bands;\" family news; discusses harvesting of crops; comments on threats that \"Yanks\" are making.","Discusses insufficiency of cotton crops; mentions that her son is on a war vessel, in the ocean, \"larger than the Florida and the Alabama.\"","Family news.","Refers to travel by carriage; discusses mailing \"bleached cotton;\" family news.","Mentions story where 'Yankees' come into towns and arrest Southerners; refers to daguerreotypes; writes a poem/prayer to God about grief he and others have experienced.","Wishes Nina a Merry Christmas since she (Nina) will be together with her parents; family news.","Discusses the inclement weather; states that she had butter and tea for celebration on Christmas morning; gives price of calico as $ 6 per yard.","Comments on her friends spending New Year's Eve at the President's; mentions walking to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia; family news; refers to cotton vs. bleached cotton; discusses typhoid fever; comments on subject of religion.","Family news; expresses hopes for an end to the Civil War; mentions a book, \"Home Influency\" that deals with raising children.","Mentions losing her heart to a Lieutenant Blackford; family news.","Mentions having forgotten Nina's birthday and becoming more absent minded; states that demonstrating affection in public is not good practice; gives advice and opinion on men and courting; has put \"vie dollars in gold and $25 in Virginia. Bank notes\"; and discusses school teaching; family news.","Has been suffering from sickness similar to typhoid fever; mentions that many servants have the measles; states that the key to her watch is worn out and she cannot wind it.","Offers advice about teaching; has seen John C. Pemberton; family news.","Discusses her illness typhoid fever?; describes her Christmas diversions.","Comments on how he misses having the women in his family at home; family news; discuses some aspects of the Civil War; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Family news; expresses hope that the Civil War will soon end; expresses grief of her Mother's death.","Expresses concern about Hattie Powell's sickness; family news and town gossip; mentions some of the types of food they've been eating; talks about \"yanks\" and their disruptiveness; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Gives Nina advice on how to terminate her engagement with John Dupuy; writes of the death of Hunter McGuire's sister, May; says she now has twelve scholars; news of family and friends; discusses books and mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Says she has been busy knitting gloves, sewing, teaching, nursing, and being sick; says she is nearly \"well and fat\" again; says that her hair has not started to come back yet, but that when it does, she has been told to shave it; asks who Nina's friend Lizzie is; describes people she has met; reports where troops are; discusses ways she is trying to get cotton.","Advises Minnie not to be grieved about their mother's death; some family news.","Article in which Jefferson Davis praises the Confederate soldiers for their \"devotion and self-sacrifice,\" and assures them of their capabilities against the declining enemy; also includes a commentary about Davis' speech, stating that the present spirit of the South has never been paralleled in history.","Congratulates Nina on her engagement to John J. Dupuy; discusses their friendship; news of family and friends.","Family news.","Mentions a girl's death from diphtheria; refers to traveling by train; discusses blockade of the Potomac River; comments on greenbacks and their value; refers to the 'Yankee Congress;' general Civil War news.","Gives consent for him to marry Nina after listing the pros and cons of the situation.","Town news and family news; refers to knitting as a past time; states that her hair has not begun to \"come out yet\".","Discusses her new beau; much family and town news; refers to events of the Civil War and the Powhatan troops.","Says that her employer, Mrs. Stringfellow, has offered to allow her two weeks for Easter; asks permission to come home; gives detailed plans on how she could get there cheaply; says the \"troops\" will return before Easter; asks if her father is coming home for the holiday.","Discusses selection of a minister; comments on her knitting for the soldiers; town gossip and family news.","Discusses sale of a draft on New York for $625.","Thanks her for gloves she knitted and set to him.","Comments on her sister's problem with inflammatory rheumatism; much town and family news; tells stories of soldiers who have returned home; comments on lack of patriotism in the country; mentions readying.","Tells of a shopping trip she took to Charlottesville, and the people she saw; describes a visit to see their father at Cousin R. Nowland's; discusses the new tax law, the \"panic,\" and the new monetary issue; news of friends and family; mentions reading.","Makes reference to needing a straw-splitter; discusses financial situation; comments on Nina's engagement to \"Brother John\" Dupuy?","Mentions interruption of communications due to Yankee Raid; states that he sat near Gen. Robert E. Lee and Mr. Edmund Lee on a train car and talked with them; describes conversation; discusses the events of the Civil Warincluding Lee's near capture by Custis' divisionary raid through Albemarle County, during the Kilpatrick - Dahlgren Raid on Richmond; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Much town news; discusses 'Yankees' and their progression; comments on her attempts to hide her silver on her body in order to keep it from the Yankees.","Family news; expresses religious views.","Family news; discusses events of the Civil War; including raid by Custis on Albemarle; mentions Holmes Conrad.","Family news.","Discusses the weather; much town and family news.","Says her Easter plans have been cancelled because of the snow storm; mentions how close she (Nina) has been to the Union troops; says she feels much better and now weights 114 pounds; reports on fatal measles in the area; reports on how she has spent her time with Captain Morgan.","Sends her a letter from Kate?","Discusses buying and selling cotton; comments on college opportunities; family news.","Family news and town gossip; comments on gold lace on the coats of those who make rank of Captain.","Family news; refers to Nina's grandmother's Anne Harriotte (Lee) Lloyd death; discusses 'Yankees' and their progress; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Comments on reading as a pastime and mentions ? Cooper's novels; family news; refers to 'Yankees' taking hostages; mentions Robert Young Conrad.","Describes her daily schedule; reports how their Aunt Jeanie Lloyd and Aunt ReBecca are doing in relation to the war; describes social visits; mentions an Aunt Nannie; news of family and friends.","Discusses weather and its effects on gardens and crops; comments on 'Yankees' and news about the Civil War; family news.","Family news; comments on news of the Civil War.","Gives detailed description of fighting near Beaver Dam, Va., as told to her by some of the soldiers; mentions visit by Gen. Stuart; describes other events of the war from personal point of view.","Family news; discusses struggle on the Rapidan River; tells of other Civil War news.","Scope and Contents Discusses general battle news; expresses concern about struggle in Hanover County, Virginia.","Discusses events of the war; comments on actions of Yankees.","Scope and Contents Comments on armies being at Hanover Junction and expresses her concern and fears; refers to burning of Powhatan depot by Union troops. Including note from Selina (Lloyd) Powell, Charlotte County, Va., to Nina Powell, Verdon, Hanover County, Virginia, 1864 May 24, correcting some spelling errors.","Expresses relief that the 'Yankees' did not come through the area where Nina is; says that her father wants her Nina to leave soon because of the danger; says things are so scarce in Charlotte that there would not be enough to feed her; expresses relief that Nina is not living between the two railroads; says the news they get about the war is encouraging, but she thinks the conflict will be a long one; discusses plans to get the family together.","Refers to battle of Vicksburg; tells of other developments of the Civil War.","Refers to a cousin, Mrs. Randolph Tucker whose house is at the corner of Grace and Adams street in Richmond; family news.","Asks about Nina's daily schedule and when she says prayers; expresses sorrow that Hattie's teaching position near Nina did not work out; tells her she must be self-reliant; says she is waiting to find out if she can join Mr. Powell; discusses the fashions of hats; sends her respects to Mr. Stringfellow.","Much town and family news.","Describes her social schedule; encourages her to pursue a relationship with Willie Booker; news of family.","Recounts all he has been doing for the past two years (has been in charge of a prison).","Asks Nina to change her mind and work for them another year; claims they are safe from the 'Yankees' and that the war will soon be over; praises her teaching of their three girls.","Discusses Union troops' burning of houses in Richmond; gives views on death; family news.","Comments on typhoid fever; family news.","Family news. Mentions not being able to find a nail-brush in the city and forgot India ribbon; comments on 'Yankees' treating people badly; refers to buying lip-glue at Randolph's Book Store; discusses her (Nina's), new house.","Describes Mr. Powell's teaching position with the Scott family; says he is trying to find a place near him for her to stay; says there was a Yankee raid near where he is staying; discusses where friends who are soldiers are stationed; mentions families who are looking for wounded soldiers to employ as teachers.","Much family and town news.","Comments on symptoms of the \"fever\"; expresses religious beliefs concerning deaths resulting from battles; family news and town news.","Family news; discusses teacher's pay.","Much family and town news; inquires about her new home in Richmond, Va..","Discusses one of Nina's pupils and how Nina should act towards the family that is employing her; mentions arrangements to exchange a pair of shoes; reports on friends and family; reports on \"her Willie,\" and where he is stationed; mentions soldiers for whom she has knitted gloves.","Discusses the suitability of Mr. Starke's teaching offer for her mother.","Chides Nina for not writing her; asks if she is spending all her time with Willie Dupuy, who has a wounded shoulder; reports on what she has done socially; asks her to get some cartridges for her pistol when she buys some for her own gun; says Minna Booker is to be married November fourth; discusses sewing.","Transcription of cross hatch letter by Alison Herring:","Blenheim  October 24th","Sunday morning [1864]","Well my lady-love do you know","that it has been almost three weeks","since the arrival of your last letter","to me, and two weeks since I answered","it, and not a line have I had from","you since, no nor a word from either","Pa or Sis since the 9th of the month.","you all must think I am dead, buried,","and forgotten, at least you quite forget","that I get the blues horribly shut up here","in the country when none of you write","to me. I got a letter from Ma on Friday","last the very first letter I had had from","anyone for 10 days, or from anybody","but her for 16.  I have no correspondents this","year at all except you all \u0026 you ought to","write to me often.  And pray miss what are","you so occupied with that you can't find","time to write, friend Markoe or your","poor dear wounded Willie.  I hear through","a letter from Aunt Bec to Ma that you","have spent the day with her, \u0026 thro' Mrs","Stewart that John Tabb was at church","with you and [?] Powell. I suppose","you have not been so quiet that you","[Page 2]","had nothing to write about and I","am just disposed to be charitable","towards you at all, so if you want to","get into my good graces you had better","set yourself right down \u0026 write me","two or three good long letters.  Mother","writes me that Willie Dupuy is at","home wounded in the shoulder \u0026","Capt Watkins in the hand but neither","of them dangerously, however.  I suppose","you have heard all about them, tis not","worth while for me to tell you, and","I reckon Willie will manage to see","Miss Nina before he returns to the army.","Have you ever heard anything from","Mr. Markoe since you went down","in the cars with him, Sis seemed to","think you are decidedly smitten.","Well I suppose as you are so long writing","to me you hardly care to hear what I","have been doing, so I have a great mind","not to tell you, and in fact I hardly","quite know where to begin it has been","so long but just for my own gratification","I will try.  Mr. Willis Hobson has three","South Carolinians at his house, sent from","the hospital, they have been there a long","time very sick \u0026 are just now getting","well enough to visit about. One of them","is a Col Dogan, without exception","[Page 3]","the rudest, most boisterous, vulgar","man I ever saw, well yesterday week","I heard his voice down stairs \u0026","knew he had come to stay all day","so I dressed myself, slipped out the","back way and went over to old","Mrs. Hurt's to spend the day.  I had a","very pleasant day indeed, I found","her [?] an exceedingly intelligent","agreeable girl, I took to her very much","indeed \u0026 I think she did to me, but","she has just lost her father so the vis-","iting will have to be all on my side","for a while.  When I get back in the even-","ing here was Col D still \u0026 he staid until","Wednesday.  Sunday I went down to Eman-","ual and saw Fannie, she was as sweet \u0026 Cordi-","al as ever, she seemed so glad to see me \u0026 says","she is coming up for me soon some Fri-","day evening.  Monday night Mr. [Reich?] a","Marylander belonging to the 3rd Cavalry","staid here all night.  I found him a","very agreeable gentleman I forgot to","say that Sunday while we were at din-","ner Mrs. W. Hobson came over \u0026 brought","her Cousin young Bolling, son of Mr. Robert","Bolling of Fauquier, and brother of Hunter","[Page 4]","McGuires old friend of Philadelphia Dr. B","and Mr. Venning one of the S.C. especial-","ly to see me and I enjoyed their visit","very much indeed.  Mr. Bolling is only","18 but he is six feet tall very handsome","and very agreeable.  Mr. V sings very well","and is a quiet gentlemanly widower but","nothing remarkable.  Tuesday evening Mrs.","H sent a horse for me \u0026 I went over there \u0026","staid all night, and then saw the third","S.C. a Dr. Waring a married man, and","one of the most accomplished elegant","gentlemen I have ever met with. I","came home on horseback Wednesday morning","in time for school \u0026 when I came out of school","found Cousin John here.  He says if it is good","weather next Friday he is coming up to take","me down to his house to stay until Sun-","day where I will come home with the Dr.","from church.  Thursday all the gentlemen","from Mr. H's spent the day here, and Fri-","day Mr. B left this county, but he is a paroled","prisoner and if he is not exchanged soon","will come back.  Friday evening Mrs. H \u0026 my-","self walked over to Mrs. Goodmans one of","our nearest neighbors \u0026 I paid my first","visit there, and her son who went down","in the cars the day you did with Bell","Stewart, walked home with me.  He is a plain","honest, good, solider, but not over burdened","[sideways on page 1]","with intellect.  He says he is coming over to see me this week","and going to bring his pistol for me to practice shooting with","but I doubt whether he does. By the way have you ever been able","to get cartridges for your pistol, if you have I wish you would","get some for me, \u0026 if you haven't get John Tabb to look for some","for you \u0026 me too, I have only two \u0026 I want some very much.","And now, I come to the very purpose for which my let-","ter is written which is to tell you that Dr. Hobson is going","to Richmond this week, probably on Tuesday, the same day","this letter will go, but I shall send this by mail, as there","will be a chance of your getting it sooner, \u0026 I shall send","you by him the handkerchief, collar, \u0026 [shirt sleeves?] for your","silk dress \u0026 a little of my perfume but it did not turn","out well, it will I think do to put in hair oil but that is all.","[sideways across page 2]","The Dr. will stay at Mr. Stewart for about two days I reckon","so if you have gotten cartridges \u0026 have a chance I wish","you would send me some by him.  Have you made your","alpaca dress yet \u0026 how did you make it particularly","the sleeves. I have not picked mine yet nor considered","what to do with it, but Minna Booker is to be married the","4th of next month \u0026 I think I must make it by that","time. I had a present sent me the other day of 3 yds","of unbleached cotton to make a chemise.  I have done","nothing lately except patch a few old clothes \u0026 knit","on my [opra?] stockings for next summer in fact","I have nothing to do.  Well I believe I have exhaust-","ed myself of my subjects too so I will stop, but","mind I expect two letters in answer to this. I am","very anxious to know what Mother will do, and","rather hope she will go to Albemarle, tho' I should","like her to be near you, or I think we could go to","see her there.  Write soon to your own loving","Sister Hattie","Monday.  Dr. H's is so unwell today he thinks he will not","be able to go to Richmond this week and don't know when","he will go so I shall not be able to send your things yet. I","got an invitation yesterday to Minna's wedding next Thurs-","day week.  I am much inclined to go, if the Dr. Don't for-","bid which he seems to be inclined to do. Mrs. H is very anx-","[Sideways on page 3]","ious that I should go.  If I go I shall want my new","dress \u0026 shall have to set to work immediately to make","it, so if you have a new dress pattern, send it to me by","mail at once, I can get a pattern of the yoke come-","ing [waist?], Mag Harris has it.  Yours truly,","H.L.P.","Complains about difficulties in the teaching profession; family news.","Describes her situation at the Garrett's, teaching Lizzie and others; emphasizes the importance of letter writing now that they are apart; discusses Mr. Irving's? failing health; says Lizzie has diphtheria; describes social events; discusses Nina's problems with teaching Blanche; reports on friends who have been wounded or killed in the war; asks bout Cousin Mary Lee and Cousin Emily.","Reports that her brother Rob has been wounded and may have to have his leg amputated; says her brother Jimmie is in Charleston where there is much yellow fever; says they work all day without rest; more family news.","Gives advice on how Nina should manage one of her pupils; reports on what she is doing; discusses clothes; mentions Minna's wedding.","Gives reasons why she hasn't written of late; describes her brother's episode of being shot in the hand and its effects; comments on number of men that are off at war and says that those who remain are \"quaking\"; family news; expresses hope that God will get them through \"these difficulties.\"","Describes her social activities; discusses balancing work and pleasure; news of family and friends.","Asks about her \"new home\" in Richmond and her \"new occupation\" with Mrs. Paleski; describes Minna's wedding; says the weather was so bad that no one could go home, so the reception lasted all night; reports what she has done socially; describes in detail a dress she just made.","Expresses joy that Nina and their mother can live close to each other; reports on her social activities; discusses plans for Christmas; mentions how well the Confederate Cavalry is doing; discusses friends that are soldiers, and which of them she has knitted gloves for.","Describes a preacher, Mr. McGill, who is visiting; describes social events; discusses clothes she is making; questions Junius Powell's decision to go to Bermuda instead of joining the army; mentions Harry Harrison Mrs. Huge's brother who came home after a prisoner at Fort Delaware. .","Discusses how her home was destroyed; details experiences with the Yankees; comments on incarceration of many Southerners in northern prisons and their suffering; family news.","Describes her trip to Charlottesville and the people she visited, including cousin Gert; mentions Sally's? death; says she must soon accept an offer for teaching from Mr. Frank Cabell; discusses depreciation of money; mentions a cousin Ann and a cousin Laura; reports that Tip Powell was taken prisoner.","Discusses the bad weather and muddy roads, says she has not heard from Custis Lee, for whom she made gloves; discusses clothes and Christmas plans; tells Nina to \"change her dress\" whenever she desires, since she will always mourn inside; says she and Rebecca will change theirs in the spring; discusses the problems Winchester is having with the Yankees; mentions Minna's wedding.","Discusses a prospective teaching job for her and his plan for her.","Family news; begs her to spend Christmas with them.","Expresses happiness that her mother and father will finally be able to live together again; comments on Nina Powell's loss of hair; refers to suffering Loudoun County, due to Yankees; family news; describes how a friend spends time trying to find hiding places for her possessions.","Describes a \"homespun\" dress that she has; family news; describes weather; tells her to go to a Christmas get-together where she can met many people, including Robert E. Lee, Custis Lee, and perhaps \"our beloved President\" Jefferson Davis; later mentions rumors that President Davis may be dead.","Mentions pastime crocheting a cap; comments on delay of mail; discusses ordering some supplies from her sister; refers to troop movement on \"the Danville road\"; family news.","Scope and Contents Describes social activities; urges Nina to spend Christmas in Richmond with Cousin Emily; discusses cotton and where to buy it. Including fragment of letter from \"cousin\" Laurence B. Taylor, to ?, , undated, stating that he hopes they will see much of each other in Albemarle County.","Discusses the difficulties of sending mail; inquires about their mother's health; news of friends and the war.","Thanks her for the gauntlets, testament, and book of psalms that she sent him.","Tells what she did during Christmas holidays; discusses her job as a teacher as well as who and what subjects she teaches; family and town news.","Comments on Robert E. Lee's thoughts that the South is in danger; discusses her knitting and whom she has made gloves for; states how she doesn't understand men; family news.","Discusses the possibility of Nina being engaged to Willie Dupuy; says she would like to know him better before she can consent; would like for her to make the final decision herself; says their engagement would last indefinitely because they are both poor and Willie was \"disabled\" from the war; asks her to consider these issues.","Scope and Contents Responds to her requesting permission to be engaged to Mr. William Dupuy?; gives feelings about entire situation; refers to evacuation of Richmond, Virginia.","Family news; asks her to send her stamps and black glazed cotton and to look for strawsplitters; describes episode of being thrown from horse.","Discusses how busy she is making gloves; mentions Nina's engagement/involvement with a \"brave, Christian soldier.\"","Discusses possibility of Nina moving to Norwood if Richmond is given up.","family news; discusses the bond between two who love each other.","Expresses happiness about Nina's now official engagement to Mr. William Dupuy; other family news.","Hattie Powell, Blenheim, Albemarle County, Va., to \"sister\" Rebecca Powell.","Gives advice on how to express feelings of love to her fiance, in her correspondence.","Gives her advice about her situation with Mr. Dupuy; tells her to make up her own mind and to be sure of his character and their love; advises that if she is certain that she wants to be engaged to him, then not to hold back her feelings and to show her trust; gives more advice.","Scope and Contents Family news; expresses her approval of William Dupuy as Nina's fiance. 4 pages. letter signed. Includes copy of letter, 1865 February 10 from William Dupuy to \"Sir\" Charles L. Powell, Sr., , discussing his and Nina's relationship and betrothal.","Gives advise on Nina's relationship with a young man Willie Dupuy; says that if they ever get married they would always be poor; discusses what he will want in a wife; discusses Nina's fear that her ways are not elegant enough for him because he was brought up in higher society; reveals her philosophy on how to act in society, how to view oneself, and how to act towards men to keep them interested.","Comments on attempts to regain some of their family possessions; discusses the break-up of Nina Powell's engagement; mentions Hattie Powell's arrival in Goochland, Va., family news.","Discusses Nina's problem with an employer, Mrs. Powell, and suggests other families she could work for; says she can spend $ 350 on material for summer clothing; discusses the plight of the South; reveals her feelings about Nina's engagement; describes a visit to Norwood where her parents are working for Mr. Cabell; reports that cousin Lizzie Powell, fourth daughter of Uncle Llew, is to be married; news of family and friends; mentions teaching.","Discusses materials for sewing dresses; expresses her anger at how Mrs. Powell (an employer) treated Nina; discusses her neighbors where she is teaching, saying none are suitable for Nina to live with and teach for; gives news of friends and family; says they have a soldier staying there; mentions teaching. Including newspaper clipping advertising for teachers.","Thanks her for presents she sent him; expresses hope of seeing her again soon.","Lots of family news; discusses Union troops.","Says Mr. Philip Cabell is stopping by \"Bremo\" on his way to Richmond, so she is taking this opportunity to send a letter; discusses opportunities for her to work with other families and how she should set this up; wishes she could come to see them but says it is impossible because the canal is \"broken up,\" the roads are bad, and the 'Yankees' destroyed the carriage; hopes that she is comfortable at General Cocke's; hopes that he doesn't mind her being there since he is a wealthy man. Letter is continued on a small slip of paper - advises on the different uses of \"shall\" and \"will\" in writing letters.","Expresses relief that she is safe after traveling through dangerous area; says that their parents had some trouble when traveling, and that they lost some clothes; discusses an offer to teach in Keysville, Charlotte County; reports battle action in the area; asks what she thinks about her giving her silver cup to \"the government;\" mentions the death of their aunt Ann's baby, Fannie.","Mentions sending carpet bags to her parents filled with necessary items she could spare; comments on 'Yankees' being on southside of the James River, Va. and dreading a raid.","Send the key to her bonnet box; mentions a cousin Kate Noland and an Aunt Bettie Conrad; news of family and friends.","Discusses surrender of Confederates in detail; expresses religious beliefs about result of the Civil War; describes battle in Richmond, Va..","Comments on prohibition from traveling North; mentions recognition by France and the French position; gives religious opinions; describes some of the remnants left by 'Yankees.'","Reports news of post-war events since Hattie receives no news in the country; expresses the sentiments and anxieties of those in an occupied city, discusses Robert E. Lee and his sons; reports rumors about Booth, Jefferson Davis, and the surrender of the army of Joseph E. Johnston to William T. Sherman; discusses the sacrifices of the last four years and where it has led.","Describes the people with whom she is staying; expresses joy that she feels comfortable in Richmond; says she hears rumors about whether Richmond will be given up or not; tells her to come to them if there is any danger; news about friends.","Describes a battle at Fort Jackson that she was able to witness from her cousin's house; says Hunter ? is the medical doctor of Ewell's Corps; mentions lack of provisions; says she had to work very hard last winter.","Refers to \"free negroes\" and the fall of Richmond; tells stories of robbers in various neighborhoods; discusses difficulty to have faith in God where there is so much suffering; also refers to bands of \"negro robbers\" and describes their actions.","Lots of family news; expresses sorrow and grief about living through these times.","Lots of family news; comments on problems with servants; refers to death of Lincoln and memorial service for him.","Reports that Mr. Cabell bought a horse from a Mississippi soldier; reports that a Yankee soldier came to the house asking for brandy; says that she and Fan ? are closing school for the summer; says she will soon come to Norwood to visit them.","Discusses health, says she has rheumatism; says they will stay in Richmond until July; tells their options of where to go; considers the cost of the Civil War; discusses the condition of President Davis, prisoner at Fort Monroe; says the \"Yankee officers\" are being kinder to Richmonders; says Pierrepont has just arrived in Richmond.","Reports she is staying with relatives but that it is so crowded, she will leave soon; says the house has been burned down, so they are living in log cabins; tells that she will soon go to Canada to visit her brother Horace; discusses where Nina could set up a school in that neighborhood.","Tells of her religious belief about the Civil War and how she prays daily; discusses subject of white vs. black labor; family news; comments on cruel treatment of \"our\" President Jefferson Davis; refers to a Dr. Hoge who denies trying to begin a colony in Brazil.","Expresses difficulty in accepting downfall of Confederacy; family news; discusses Nina's engagement to Willie Dupuy.","Family news.","Poem entitled \"The Bachelor's Consolation\" written by \"Goodman A. Bachelor.\"","Family news; comments on Nina's engagement; discusses situation with Black persons; comments on elections and how soldiers were put into many of the civil offices; plans for jousting tournament.","Discusses the family's moving to a new house and how they all can be reunited once again.","Discusses where they may move; says the 'Yankees' have possession of her home in Arlington; says the situation in Richmond is better since Pierrepont Pierpont arrived; gives news about family; mentions Robert E. Lee (1843-1914) and William Henry Fitzhugh Lee.","Discusses Nannie's ? wedding; says their father will need her Nina home for the opening of school; tells how she has been spending her time; discusses the school; reports that Mary ? is there; expresses fear for her Aunt Mary because of the threats of a Black uprisings in southern Virginia; asks if everything is going well between Nannie and Willie Booker.","Discusses the continuing uncertainties of where their family will live; says she will return to work at Mr. Cabell's because she cannot depend on family plans; describes her visit to Greenwood.","Discusses a horse riding jousting tournament and social event that followed; family news.","Reports travel plans; lists social events; news of friends; says she will begin at Mr. Cabell's in two weeks.","Says that she just realized that it is her 56th birthday; discusses some issues on etiquette; says that she is glad that she is pleased with her new house; has heard that the 'Yankees' are advancing on Charlottesville; says Gloucester is having problems with the Yankees, so she will not return there; expresses disappointment that Mr. Powell did not secure a certain job that would have allowed them all to live together; says that the Redds and the Bookers have been very kind to her and do not want her to leave; writes that the Dupuy's son Willie? has bullet wounds in both thighs and in the foot.","Family news.","Describes a boat trip she took with Sallie ? to Norwood; gives news of Mr. William Cabell; discusses literature; news of friends and family.","Says Hunter has a small (medical) practice; gives news about what her other brothers? are doing; says Willie is doing well despite the time he spent in prison; tells how he was marched by their home last winter by the 'Yankees' and taken to prison; tells how their house was used as a hospital, her family was put under arrest, and they were forced to live with the 'Yankees' for six months; expresses her hatred of the 'Yankees;' discusses how the last four years have changed her; tells how Gert ? was working in the hospitals and on the battle field, caught a disease and has been bedridden for the last thirteen months; says she was very weak last winter because of the hard work and anxiety; says she could no longer work in the hospitals because of how the sights of war affected her.","Scope and Contents Family news; comments on the meeting of Congress and its result on the restoration of southern property.","Writes about Presbyterian Conference she is attending; gives town and family news.","Scope and Contents Gives history of a family, telling which troop each son is in; comments on the scarcity of paper, which is why she is writing on the back of a letter written to her by her mother. Letter Including on back: Selina Powell, Charlotte Court House, Virginia, to \"daughter\" Hattie Powell. Asks her about her fever and if it is interfering with her teaching; says Mr. Powell visited her for a week; says she will stay in Charlotte all winter; mentions death of Carry Hobson.","Scope and Contents Sends her a pair of slippers which she made the best she could with the materials available; says she wanted to do something for her during \"these war times\"; says her father is not home yet; gives list of things Rebecca needs.","Discusses the importance of having nice handwriting; describes Kate's ? studies; grieves over how many have lost their homes and hopes that her daughter could have a couple of years off from teaching; says those who must have employment are happiest; writes of family and friends; discusses her Uncle G's ? method of teaching. Including attached insert saying that Mr. H. ? declined her father's services.","Describes the scene when the 'Yankees' came into the home of Dr. Robert Baldwin; says Dr. Baldwin was kicked out of town because he refused to pay a servant; describes how the town has changed since the Union troops have taken over; mentions a man named Milroy who seems to be their leader; gives news of family members many of whom have been sick; describes a puppy he has gotten; describes a battle in which many 'Yankees' were taken as prisoners; says Milroy has escaped and has gone to Washington; says all of her furniture is not sold and that they cannot try to sell it while the 'Yankees' are here; discusses Dr. Daniel Conrad's practice.","Asks what Jeanie ? will do all summer; says she has heard that all the carriage horses in Gloucester have been carried off; says she will go to Powhatan to join her husband who is working for Mr. Michaux; says the 'Yankees' are in Shepherdstown but that the Confederates have Winchester.","Speaks of the last four years, the excitement and the trials; discusses \"the college\" that Robert is involving with; discusses the difficulty of finding good help; describes their house, saying it is handsome to \"confederate eyes;\" expresses sadness that her home is still used by Union troops; discusses Alexandria.","Comments on the postal problems and hopes she has been receiving her letters; gives news of the Bookers; writes of her anxiety over how she Nina is and discusses her travel plans to Prince Edward; discusses where the 'Yankees' are stationed; writes of the family's plans for the summer.","Sends her cotton for stockings; comments on postal problems; discusses the safety of Richmond; discusses sewing and fashions; news of family and friends.","Discusses the dilemma of Southerns taking the \"oath\" with the Northerners so that they can protect their property.","Reports that Captain Watkins and Willie Dupuy have been wounded; says she does not know which battle they were in; news of friends; says she has heard from Mr. Powell recently; discusses dresses.","Says that she sent socks to Willie ? who is in the army; mentions the death of James Mcoughty?","Describes how to make Mrs. Sharpe's ? hat; describes Lute's hat; says she will get two or three hundred dollars in Northern money from an Uncle William.","34 items.","Discusses teaching; describes trip to Charlottesville and adventurous train ride; mentions Sandy Pendleton's ? wedding; discusses Trip's ? health.","Sends Rebecca a picture of Robert E. Lee, taken during the war (picture is dated 1866 January 20 ); writes of Lexington where they have just moved; gives news of family.","Describes her social activities; gives teaching position that Hattie is considering; reports that 'Yankees' are being strict in their town.","Discusses poor mail service; describes Alexandria as dull town with spirit of despondency, town may be forced into the District of Columbia; describes visit of Henry Hallowell ?; much family and town news.","Discusses crocheting, books they have read; family news and gossip.","Discusses family news; speaks of financial situation of buying a house in Baltimore; discusses problems of retrieving household items (portraits, furniture, etc.) and where to put them.","Discusses details of retrieving family possessions from the Office of Confiscation; includes list of objects missing.","Describes her trip and her stay with Cousin Lee; tells of relatives and other people she has seen; will continue traveling.","Discusses daily life and schedule; family news.","Describes her trip to Dr. Wights' and tells of the people she met there; discusses dresses; asks about the family.","Description of the political happenings in Washington, D.C.: the disputes between President Johnson and the \"Radicals,\" Mr. Johnson's veto message, the South's need to have representation in Congress; tells his view of these happenings; discusses attempts to retrieve articles from the confiscation office; family news.","Tells of difficulty she has dealing with current hardships, \"Yankee\" rule, and free Black persons; news about friends in the neighborhood.","Describes dinner at New Market and the people she saw there; describes conditions of roads, outlawing carriage rides; much news of family and friends.","Tells of people she has seen or heard from.","Discusses family news and news of friends; talks of sewing projects.","Gives an account of her \"Easter excursion,\" reporting what she did and whom she met; says Mrs. Atkins has no servants, so she will have to clean her own room.","Describes events of neighborhood; tells news of friends; tells of religious happenings, Mr. Wharey's ? reform in the church, and her religious sentiments; writes of her gloomy feelings about the South, her distrust of the Yankees, and her rebellious feels toward them; congratulates Nina on having her own \"home.\"","Tells of stay in Cumberland with her \"sister and brother\"; tells of problems in retrieving household items lost in war; Douglas' Forrest?her husband? law practice is improving.","Asks Nina to welcome her friend, Mr. Henry Theodore Wight, who brings the letter, and make his stay in Alexandria pleasant.","Tries to convince Nina to take a trip next summer; describes new bonnet styles; describes her friend Henry Theodore Wright who will be taking a trip to Alexandria; discusses clothes.","Gives her view on the family taking in boarders, saying children would be easier for their mother to handle; asks about the \"Council;\" reports on what she has done socially; discusses the dresses she has made; says that yesterday the people of Richmond decorated the Confederate soldiers' graves; says she wishes she had gone; says Mrs. Adkins did not go, but sent flowers to Richmond. Written on letter from J. Walker, Dover ?, to Hattie Powell, Rolling Views, undated. Sends her flowers and asks her to come to visit him.","Describes her visit to Richmond, people she visited, and how many commented on how well she looked compared to last winter; describes clothes she is making.","Asks her to send ribbon for a dress she will wear to a day-long affair at Norwood; news of friends.","Discusses their plans to go to Prince Edward County; discusses what clothes she has and what she may need; news of family and friends.","Explains why she cannot attend the gathering at Mr. Redd's that night; says she must listen to her head and not her heart so that she may get well; says she is tired of feeling ill and weak.","Invites Nina and Hattie Powell to come stay with them; says she feels better and is very excited to see them.","Expresses her joy that she arrived home safely, and her regret that her mother Selina Powell has taken ill; describes a jousting tournament among young boys or \"knights,\" in which the girls were honored as Queens and Maids of Honor; news about family and friends.","Gives her condolences for her uncle's death and her mother's illness; tells her of Nancy's Lettie's sister engagement and tells Nina not to leave her to marry a man; much news of family and friends.","Thanks Nina for her letter congratulating her and Willie Booker on their engagement; news about her fiance; tells her adventures of keeping the house while her mother was gone; news of family and friends.","Writes that her father is looking for board for her Selina and until then she will stay in Charlotte; recommends that Nina not write to a man unless she is engaged to him or unless he is an old family friend; news of family and friends.","Discusses how far they are apart but thinks it is best that she (her mother) stay at Uncle Fred's; says she will stay at school for Christmas; writes of family and friends; tells that her health is very good and that she weights 106 pounds; discusses her school duties and her sewing.","Describes the parties she has had at her home recently; speaks of the engagement between Willie Booker and Nancy her sister, and Lou Edmunds and Captain Hill; news of family and friends.","Tells how she and her friends have been together for three weeks now, staying at different homes; wishes Nina could be there; news of courting, engagements and weddings; tells Nina that she will not become an old maid; much news about family and friends; discusses reading societies and books read.","Tells of courtings, engagements and weddings; tells of Christmas plans; discusses the struggle in the Christian life to be pure.","Describes Christmas holidays; discusses the Christian struggle for purity; says she is having more headaches; discusses poor financial situation with no patrons paying for her teachings.","Describes the changes taking place: their Uncle Joe has died and she, Lavalette and her mother have moved to Falkland to take care of his children; she and Lavalette will teach the children; Lavalette is feeling worse; her brother and sister May will take care of Linden; news of engagements, weddings, family and friends.","Describes her new home and her new schedule; news about family and friends.","Tells about her fiance Willie Booker's work in Medical School; describes reactions to the Territorial Bill and to General Scofields; wonders if Lavalette will keep her promise to become an old maid; says the weather is so bad that they will not be able to go to Church for a month because of the roads; says she is trying to guess when weddings will be by who is making their wedding clothes.","Describes her teaching job with her sister Nancy; describes her students; tells how spirits have been low since the passage of the Territorial Bill, says their district is commanded by General Schofield; describes the \"demoralizing\" incident of one of the county men running off with a 'Negro' girl and marrying her; news of family and friends.","Sends this letter through a friend and asks Rebecca to mail a package to Washington, D.C. for her; may have some frames sent to her, which could then be sent to them by steamboat to Richmond and canal boat to Lexington; says Mildred is in Richmond; Rob and Fitzhugh may go to Jennie's? wedding.","Describes the commencement exercises that she and Lavalette attended at Hampden Sydney; describes the fashions she saw there; says the scrub worm is seriously damaging the tobacco crop; describes their summer bonnets bought in Richmond. 4 pages. letter signed.","Says that Nancy her sister has been ill; says that she, Nancy and their mother will take a trip North for their health; says she dreads to be among the 'Yankees;' tells that Lou Booker has typhoid fever and so her wedding must be postponed; discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being an old maid and whether they will be one.","Gives news of gentlemen who are courting her; says that John Smith has been visiting her every other night; tells Nina that it is becoming serious and that she better come home soon or she will be gone; gives advice on the gentlemen that Nina is seeing.","Describes their stay in Danville; tells that her engagement with Willie Booker has been terminated; discusses their plans of where to live next year; news of family and friends; discusses fair.","Thanks Hattie for her announcement of her \"change of condition\" marriage or engagement?; gives her best wishes for her health and happiness.","Discusses which furniture and portraits she would like to have sent to her.","Discusses details of sending furniture from Alexandria to Lexington and of having portraits framed and sent. Includes notes to Selina and Nina.","Discusses her transactions to acquire more furnishings for their home; news about family and friends.","Asks about her interactions with Mr. D?; says Nina's happiness is the only bright spot in their lives; says she hasn't been to church much; says she has seen a lot of Willie S.?; regrets that she can't say everything she would like to, because the letter must go through so many hands; writes of the broken Southern spirit; asks if there are any \"situations\" near them that she could take; says that she cannot write much because it works her \"into such a state\".","Tells of their new life at Linden, helping to take care of \"Sis\" May's children; comments on Nina's sister Hattie's marriage; discusses religion; describes a trip to Richmond; news about family and friends.","Recommends that she or Rebecca go with her to visit friends in Prince Edward County; tells her that since Mrs. Booker'shouse was used as headquarters for them during the war, they must make a pleasure visit to her since the war is over.","Thanks Nina for sending her the objects repossessed from the war; comments on their sentimental value; gives news about Baltimore's social events and her husband Douglas' work.","Tells what family has done since she left for her trip; says everyone is feeling remarkably well on account of the warm weather; tells her to enjoy her visit with Lizza and Aggie ?","Tells what each person in household is doing that evening: Mamma, Papa, Lute?, Lewis?, Fan?; says she visited Hattie who is feeling well \"under the circumstances;\" news about neighborhood.","Describes the health of each family member; says Mr. Powell had dyspepsia for which she gives him a raw onion; says Hattie is the same and cannot leave her room; gives news of friends; discusses a fire at Lee's ? house; hopes she is enjoying her visit with Lizzie and Aggie.","Gives news about family and neighborhood; says that Cousin Lee's house burned; writes that Bob Robert Powell is now a doctor; news about her school.","Discusses news of neighborhood and people who have come to visit her; tells Nina to enjoy her stay with Lizzie and Agnes ?; says she is still flat on her back but hopes to be better in a few weeks.","Regrets that he could not make the picnic that Nina planned; says that he had to pick up Josie ? that day, who traveled flat on her back; says that he saw \"Cousin Rebecca\" in town.","Tells how she had been preserving many foods last summer because of the possible food shortage during the coming winter; describes her stay with \"Sis\" May in Farmville; describes the situation of the churches and Sunday school in her area; news about family and friends; one of Nina's students, Emma Henry, is getting married.","Apologizes to Nina for not calling on her while she was in Baltimore; expresses her job in their friendship.","Writes of their sorrow at the death of Hugh Holmes McGuire (brother of cousin); whose wife just had a child; asks Rebecca to come visit, since the war is over; gives news about who owns the Powell's old home; tells what each of her relatives are doing; gives news about friends; discusses the death of her aunt who never recovered after the 'Yankees' burnt her house down; mentions how many soldiers cannot find employment. Hugh Holmes McGuire MW battle of High Bridge.","Discusses Maggie's wedding her niece; says she has been alone in the evenings since Nina left her; describes her friends who have called during the day.","Apologizes for not writing; describes her schedule to taking care of a family of ten people; gives news about her gentlemen friends.","Extends sympathies to Nina and her family in the death of her sister, Hattie Powell Smoot, who died in childbirth; offers comfort through religion.","Offers her sympathy for the death of her daughter Hattie; discusses Hattie's character; mentions how Hattie has been looking forward to the time of childbirth.","Gives her sympathy for the death of Selina's daughter Hattie; speaks of her husband Robert, saying she thinks he may never be entirely well again; gives news of family.","Tells of her mourning for her cousin Hattie; offers sympathies; gives news of family.","Offer her sympathies for Hattie's death; describes her stay in her Uncle Phil's home in the mountains; says she will return home to Alexandria in the Fall.","Describes the mountain inn and how they spend their time; says the mountain air is helping their mother's health.","Expresses her joy that Nina is engaged; discusses Nina's mother's health; says she is confined to bed and in much pain; says the treatment causes much suffering and that she is anxious to leave for home.","Says she is glad Nina gets a chance to enjoy herself, and visit with her cousin Lizzie, without worrying about daily duties; says her Aunt Lute is taking good care of her.","Gives a report on everyone's health; says she is feeling better; gives news of friends and family; hopes that she is enjoying her stay with \"cousin\" Lizzie.","Discusses grief and religion; teases Nina about her engagement to Sewell Hepburn; tells her to enjoy her stay and to get well soon; news about Alexandria.","News of friends and family; describes the trouble of giving a party for a couple to be married, and wonders why people have marriages in such poor times.","Pleads with her to visit them for Christmas.","Reports that they have been trying both the \"Alleghany Springs\" and the \"Yellow Sulfur\" springs; says the water has helped her health; describes the social life at the springs.","Inquires about her friends in Alexandria; asks if Mrs. Cassius Lee has information on household goods stolen from her.","Tells of her and Nancy's stay in Danville; discusses Nina's wedding; says her brother Abner will be in the Legislature until it adjourns; news about family and friends. Envelope included with list of bridal attendants on the back.","Discusses her daily schedule; describes a sewing machine that she bought; discusses Nina's wedding; news about family and friends.","Expresses her job in hearing Nina is engaged; reports that she has heard Mr. Hepburn described as \"intellectual\" and \"pious\"; says Captain. Grady sends his love; sends her a gift.","Regrets that she cannot come to Nina's wedding; hopes that Nina will be happy living in the parsonage; news about family and friends.","Apologizes that she cannot be there for the wedding; sends her money to buy a wedding present; tells that she had to refuse a gentleman who revealed his feelings for her; wishes her happiness in her new life.","Note accompanying a wedding present, wishing Nina happiness.","Gives a report on her health, saying she is much stronger; tells what remedies she is taking; says they have given most of her wedding cake away; says that everyone thinks her wedding was beautiful; gives her philosophy on marriage and its importance; tells her how lucky she is to have found such a \"good man.\" Including letter from Rebecca C. Powell to Nina giving a report on their mother's health.","Describes how she spent her Easter vacation; describes the events that took place after Nina's wedding; describes a visit to Georgetown.","Reports she is feeling better but that Rebecca has neuralgia from a bad tooth; tells Nina that she should call her husband \"Mr. Hepburn\"; says it is Nellie's wedding day; advises her to obey her husband now that she is no longer there to control her.","Gives news about home and tells Nina that they miss her greatly; says the relationship between herself and John ? is growing stronger; hopes that she is enjoying her stay in the country with her husband.","Discusses their mother's health, noting improvements; expresses eagerness to visit her in her own home; asks about Sewell.","Discusses her arrangements to come see them; says she is feeling better but she is still weak; tells her to ask for what she needs just like when she lived at home; gives news of family and friends.","Writes to tell her that her health has improved since she left home; gives a report on her health and what she has done there at a resort?; says her father will be home soon.","Includes description of S. Powell.","Thanks him for the letter of sympathy concerning his wife, Selina Powell; gives a detailed description of her death and a tribute to her life.","Offers her sympathy in the loss of her mother; says that her mother Selina Powell was one of her earliest friends.","Entreats them to warn his wife Lizzie against a woman named Mrs. Hubard who he is convinced is seeking their ruin.","Tells of friends' illnesses and other afflictions; discusses preachers; says she will wait to buy cotton until the price goes down. Including letter (written on top of) of 1864 January 8 from ? Danville, Va., to \"sister.\" Says she would like to visit her and also to see her whole family, but that she cannot leave because of her duties; says she can only leave on \"official business.\"","Describes their summer in the North; describes the Grand Jubilee held in Boston; describes Newport, Maine and the historical sites there; discusses Nina's life in the parsonage; gives news about family and friends back home.","Says she is very happy to return from the North, though she was treated kindly there and it did improve her health; says many people at home are ill with an influenza that follows the Horse Disease; much news about family and friends.","Asks Nina how her little boy is; reveals that she thought she would be getting married this fall, but that the gentleman, Dr. Cole, has been suffering from an illness; news about family and friends.","Expresses hope that she will visit them in Maryland soon, and bring her child; comments on Nina's settling in Waterford, Loudon County; news of family and friends.","Describes the baby Sewell's features; tells how the family is adjusting to new baby.","Discusses tuition for Mildred.","Reports news of her school; discusses the bonds that their father sold, and his financial situation.","Reports that they are taking of Uncle Leven, including paying for his board with Sallie Withers, and giving him clothes; expresses disappointment that other relatives are not helping him; says Uncle Lev had a drinking problem at one time and his wife will not see him.","Tells Nina their plans to visit her; says they will travel through Baltimore and then by boat across the Chesapeake Bay.","Sends a check for Mildred's tuition.","Hopes that Mr. Hepburn has recovered from his fall and hopes he will stick to taming men's spirits rather than taming men's horses; much news about family and friends.","Gives news about family and friends; says that they will visit her in a few weeks.","Sends Nina a fur cape and muff; congratulates Nina on her pregnancy and hopes she feels well; sends a present for the coming baby; asks Nina for her preferred style of dress so that she can make her some.","Tells of the death of her father-in-law and the effects it has had on the family.","Tells of birth of another boy and that Nina is doing fine; says they have not named him because he wanted a girl; tells story of how his errand boy spilled into the well some fish he was cleaning and how he Sewell had to go down and fish them out.","Gives advice on how to take care of oneself after childbirth; thinks that she should have more than one servant; says that she is having some dresses made for her; news about family and friends.","Scope and Contents Gives news of friends in Alexandria; mentions centennial celebrations; says her school is doing well, with 21 scholars; mentions that Robert Powell has a new daughter.","Gives news about Powell and Lee cousins in Philadelphia; says that a few neighbors have scarlet fever; discusses politics.","Tells of his stay at Selma in Leesburg where he visited relatives; tells of weddings in Leesburg.","Says she is glad the children are recovering from their illness; says Nina must take tonic and Lager Beer herself to say well; recommends ways to rid the house of the illness; describes a visit to Baltimore to see an art exhibit.","Wishes he had a mountain house where his grandchildren could go, especially to recuperate; discusses controversy between two churches, St. Stephens and Grace Church, in the neighborhood where he is; says they both want Mr. Jackson from Charleston, South Carolina, to be their minister.","Gives a long description of her boarders and her school; gives news about neighborhood, friends and family.","Teases him about his \"destitute condition,\" having to take care of himself while Nina is in Baltimore; scolds him for not taking good care of himself and says she does not want Nina to become a widow; tells of a surprise visit by Mrs. Beck of his parish to visit one of her students, Hallie; discusses past election and Hancock's defeat.","Is happy that she is enjoying her travels in the North so much; thanks her for her detailed descriptions which allow him to see the places through his \"mental vision\"; discusses his routes home; says he will be home soon with two boys grandsons.","Discusses her travels in the North; tells of his grandsons' (Charles and Sewell) visit to Alexandria; discusses news at home.","Discusses the town of Bethlehem; says her Uncle William is visiting him; discusses his health; tells news of neighborhood.","Says that her \"Scotts Nephew\" has arrived and has settled in a room; says he may go to Orange County, Va.? soon.","Describes a visit by her cousins Kate Powell and Carrie; gives a long and detailed description of Carrie, her immediate family and her experiences.","Discusses Ellen's tuition; says they are pleased with her education; says that their move to Richmond means that they will have to find another teacher.","Describes his journey to Nina's; describes an encounter between Bishop Randolph and Meta Stuart on the train concerning Amelie Rives; gives a description of each of his grandchildren.","Hopes that she and Mrs. Wailes are steadily improving their health while at the springs; tells her of the death of Mrs. Braxton and the prospects of Ingleside; gives news of grandchildren and neighborhood.","Expresses joy that her health is improving; tells of the death of General Wickham and how it affected the area; gives news of family and neighborhood.","Describes the school; says he may join the Blackford Society; tells about a grammar exam.","Describes the taking of an arithmetic exam which exempted him from taking any more; says he got some demerits; tells about football and how he is playing well.","Tells about his schedule and about his exams; says he had tea with Mr. Hooffs; discusses demerits.","Says he cannot teach this week because his nose is going to be operated on; says his mother and Sewell will occupy the children until then; says Sewell will go back to school soon; discusses the structure of his classes and asks her advice.","Discusses the nature of geometry and gives advice on how to learn it.","Says he has been ill; discusses activities at school and grades.","Thanks her for the invitation to come visit while they are in Yorktown; says his two boys will come by sailing a canoe to Yorktown.","Says they are all home for a week holiday; describes how they all got home; says Richard Cook came home with Selina; describes a real old timey Virginia country dance; says Selina likes Alexandria and the new home; describes what each person in the family has been doing; gives a description of the College of William and Mary; says he has overloaded himself with schoolwork this year; tells how the Alumni are reorganizing the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity; gives a description of the fraternity; mentions the burning of St. Paul's Church in Hanover; thanks her for the presents she sent.","Discusses examination schedule and work load; questions validity of mid-term examinations; praises the College for its level of academia; praises Dr. Hall, a professor of English; says that main event at the College now is the contest between societies for the society medals; says he is in the Phoenix society and may debate for it; says he took a trip to New Kent to see his \"girl\" and to visit friends; discusses the Daughters of the Revolution and the Organization of the Descendants of the Cincinnati; says he saw Cousin Laura and her husband Mr. Roberts, a preacher, who are in Williamsburg.","Discusses the new house which he is anxious to get home to see; says he and Charles will not finish exams until the end of June; discusses the social events of the \"final week\"; discusses his exams; discusses Selina's academic progress; says one must experience College life to understand the strength of its temptations.","Says he has spent much time with Nanna Powell McCormick, a cousin; describes her and what they have done together; says he is in love with her; discusses love and cupid; describes a card club he belongs to, and a German club.","Hopes that she doesn't feel isolated from his immediate family; says that their \"great mutual loss\" has brought them all closer together; asks about her plans for the future; says he went to York to see Charles; discusses his housing at College; talks of recent fires in Richmond and Baltimore; speaks of his cousins and some girls that he has met.","Discusses their family's genealogy; mentions Nicholas Lloyd, John Lloyd, and Sarah Lloyd.","Discusses the Presbyterian drive in Alexandria to save the old church; discusses church events; expresses joy to hear of Nina's marriage; mentions the fact that her Selina's father is over eighty years old.","Scope and Contents Describes a house nearby; writes about her relatives that are staying there; asks her to come visit. Including Selina Powell to Nina Powell. Asks Nina to write Lizzie about the house, if it can be rented, and who they should talk to.","Wishes her a Merry Christmas; tells what family members are making for presents; asks about her trip to Alexandria and the people she has seen; discusses the propriety of accepting a book for a gentleman; tells her to be happy and not to think too much.","Discusses offers she has had for teaching, saying she will take the offer closest to where Mr. Powell teaches; advises her to get her teeth fixed; discusses styles; gives advice on how to motivate one of her students; says he will not go to Gloucester because of the recent \"outrages\" there; says she has a \"horror of drunken negroes.\"","Advises her to come home after her visit with Lizzie Watkins; gives a report on the health of family and friends; says almost \"all black and white\" went to the \"procession\" in Washington the day before; says her cousin Jinny Taylor's family is ill; sends her money. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses her poor health, saying she has been diagnosed as having a diseased heart; says she is staying with her sister Aggie who just got married; news of family. 4 pages. letter signed.","Discusses Nina's visit with her friends and her trip to the \"Bear's Den\"; writes of the many parties there have been since Nina left; says she has not seen Nina's sisters since they got back from Capon; discusses their friendship.","Says her father still has not come home; describes a trip Nina and Rebecca made and the people they visited; writes of young men and friends who have come to visit Nina; news of friends and family.","Discusses dresses; writes of a \"Mr. C.,\" assuring her mother that they are not romantically involved; says Mr. and Mrs. Stringfellow left them to the care of the housekeeper; gives news about friends.","Says that Uncle J. Powell does not think Lexington is a good place to open a school and Lynchburg would be better; discusses prices for boarding; says that her Father may have to look for a tutoring job for a family and then she will have to find work as close to him as possible; discusses sewing she has done; gives news about family and friends.","Discusses the remedies \"Mother\" has tried for her sore throat; describes Mrs. Wildman's receipt for asparagus; says \"Ma\" is experimenting on her throat and then will tell Minna how to treat hers.","Describes her daily schedule, including teaching for \"the girls;\" says the \"Captain\" and the girls included her in a visit to Mrs. Cooke's; describes the people she met there and the house.","Says he spent Christmas at Uncle Frank's and Aunt Jane's; reports on what he has been doing.","Scope and Contents Discusses whether Emily ? will move to Fairlee as a servant?; asks if she will take someone from the \"Home for Fallen Women,\" if Emily declines.","Says she went shopping for her and is sending her some articles; discusses fashions; says her Aunt Ann is still unwell.","Tells her to take of herself while she is sick; discusses whether she should come home; tells of people there that are sick.","Scope and Contents Discusses Mary's furniture and which of it she can use; discusses Frank ?'s health; says Mrs. Hammond has died after being very ill; discusses health of friends and family; gives news of what her family is doing.","Tells of safe arrival of Maud's baby daughter and her appearance; sends greetings to Becca, Nina, and herself.","Gives advice on letter writing and spelling. 1 page. letter. Incomplete.","Scope and Contents Advises her not to work too hard; discusses board prices in Albemarle, where Mr. Powell is teaching; discusses hair styles; encloses a sample of material of Rebecca's berage ?; writes of the crowded conditions in Mrs. Sharpe's ? home; mentions reading.","Sends this note with a letter she is forwarding; hopes she is enjoying her visit; says she is feeling better.","Discusses dresses and asks what else she will need for the summer; sends her a poem.","Scope and Contents Consoles her in her time of \"troubles\"; says she has heard from their mother that she \"bears them bravely\"; urges her to take an interest in life and to try to be happy again.","Describes a dress that Minnie is making; discusses other dresses.","News of family and friends.","Describes a walk he took from North Hampton to East Hampton; discusses Thanksgiving vacation.","Asks her to send socks.","Tells about her dolls; mentions some Powell relatives.","Thanks her for the donation for the restoration of a church on Fairfax St., near Selina's Aunt Rebecca's home; mentions a celebration for the laying of the corner stone of the District; describes a light hose that the government gave the Mount Vernon Chapter D.A.R.; mentions more historic work.","Discusses religious matters; lists social events.","Describes duties and responsibilities of husband and wife; describes the state of marriage; pronounces the couple as husband and wife; states Benediction.","Scope and Contents Signed as written by Laura ?; added note in different handwriting states \"written by Minna when eight years of age.\"","Scope and Contents 4 items.","Tells of his appointment as Commander of the Continental Army, and his reluctance to accept the position due to hopes of a more peaceful solution and reluctance in leaving his family; gives information as to other Congressional decisions, such as the striking of 2 million dollars in Continental currency to pay troops.","Scope and Contents In answer to a previous letter, he feels that the only principle that will affect them the British? is fear, and that treating them cavalierly will make them despair of their undertaking. Statement on verso: Copy is in handwriting of Rebecca C. Powell of Alexandria.","Scope and Contents Wishes to spend remainder of his life in \"rural amusements;\" prediction of what a great city Washington, D.C. will become, \"though not as large as London,\" and description of how Alexandria, Virginia has grown; feels that if the United States can steer clear of European politics, it could become \"one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.\"","Scope and Contents Discusses how he saved the papers of the Revolutionary Government by taking them to Leesburg, Virginia before the British burned the District of Columbia in the War of 1812. These papers included the Declaration of Independence, the journals of Congress, letter of General George Washington, Letters of General Greene and papers of the State Department. 2 pages. copy of letter signed, first part missing.","Mainly letters written from Illinois to Charles L. Powell dealing with land transactions. Also includes land certificates and letters to Lloyd Powell.","Scope and Contents Physical Location: See Oversize file. Concerning the transfer of 100 acres of land in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Va..","Physical Location: See medium oversize file.","Scope and Contents Signed on front by R. E. Lee and on verso by Mary Custis Lee, Lexington, Va..","Scope and Contents Signed on front and back by Mary Custis Lee.","Includes detailed descriptions of battles and movements of armies. Manuscript Volume 1.","Scope and Contents Book includes a biographical sketch of Col. Leven Powell by Major Burr Powell son: a description of the battle at Manassas Junction on 1861 July 21in a letter from Dr. Hunter McGuire, Surgeon of Jackson's Brigade, to his Mother (Copy); Civil War Journal (May 1 - May 27); list of names: dead? under Civil War battles; Civil War Journal 1862 December 18 -1863 March 28; Leven Powell, Hampton to Sally Sarah Powell,1776 January 27, (Copy). Manuscript Volume 2.","Also includes recipes and how to dye cloth. Manuscript Volume 3.","Includes visiting, baptismal and confirmation lists, and marriages performed, accounts and prayers. included of pages concerning members of Powell Family. 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Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of 1800. After 1810, letters are primarily correspondence between various members of the Powell family, including some letters about the Civil War. 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Includes typed transcription.","There are good conditions at Valley Forge; appointment of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben as Inspector General; Tories leaving Philadelphia; Rhode Island to be evacuated; treaty with France. Includes typed transcription.","Typewritten transcription of Leven Powell's appointment to Lieutenant Colonel. Also notes his retirement the following year.","Requests Powell's support in an upcoming election. Includes typed transcription.","Lawsuit and copy of laws. Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Land arrangement with Hite, Col. Greenup; danger bringing money through the wilderness; Alexandria and 10 mile [District?]; his warrants northwest of Ohio; Kentucky admitted to union. Includes typed transcription.","Describes business agreements for purchasing tobacco. Includes typed transcription.","Reached home to collect sentiment of people on treaty. Includes typed transcription.","Commission to take examination of Mrs. Philips; discusses what to do with an enslaved man who has deliberately injured himself, and the danger of rebellion by the enslaved; international politics. Includes typed transcription.","Talks about William Washington; Mrs. Linton's debt; concerned about attack by France. Includes typed transcription.","Money owed in France.","Discusses selling enslaved individuals to settle debts. Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Asks Burr to obtain two enslaved people for Leven [Jr.?]; Election of 1800. Includes typed transcription.","Finest beef bought in this market; French Treaty; rumor concerning Lafayette; Election of 1800.","Election of 1800; French Treaty; Hooe not happy with Thomas Jefferson or Aaron Burr; also criticizes the Secretary of the Navy.","Money owed by tenants to Leven Powell; compares Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson; in his decision for whom to vote, he will be governed by constituents' wishes.","Private character of Aaron Burr; problem with what Thomas Jefferson might do in regard to the Navy; French treaty; price of corn; Leven wants his horse well fed.","Views of the constituents of Loudoun County about the Election of 1800.","Has problems with both Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson. Includes typed transcription.","Sim is confident that Powell will make the right decision in the Election of 1800; asks for copy of the Congressional report on revenue; Powell's prospects in next election.","Lee would probably prefer Aaron Burr but trusts Powell's judgment.","People of Loudoun will not be happy if Powell votes for Aaron Burr, but people that have seen Powell's letter trust his judgment.","Election of 1800. Clover seed and plaster.","Discusses Aaron Burr versus Thomas Jefferson. Includes typed transcription.","Writes about tobacco and debt; Thomas Jefferson versus Aaron Burr. Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Loss of Sally's child; health of \"Negro Sally\". Includes typed transcription.","Discusses Powell's claim on the French government for losses incurred because they stopped the mail. Includes typed transcription.","Discusses the division of Virginia road; lots of marriages; law concerning landlords and tenants. Includes typed transcription.","List of tuition costs, book prices, and other expenses for the education of Selina Lloyd.","Discusses various personal matters, such as his mathematics studies; his tutor advised playing shuttlecock; the pain in his breast is better; Llewellyn is pleased with college; students inhaling gas and the resulting antics; asks for the Leesburg newspaper; Llewellyn is in need of a loan.","Chancellor Livingston said that Powell had no case, since claims of citizens were surrendered by the Convention with France in 1800; however, if proof can be supplied, it may be worthwhile to bring the claim before the French government.  Also mentions Monroe's fall from horse and sickness.","Pleasonton has received the papers of Major Powell from Monroe and wishes that Isaac Coxe Barnett be the attorney.","Llewellyn thinks that Charles' idea of going to Maryland to practice law is a good one.  Charles' impending marriage to Selina.  Llewellyn's wife and child are well.","Discusses using power of attorney to appoint Mason an agent to collect rents in Loudoun county from Mildred A. B. Lewis and Blackford for himself and as attorney in fact for Mrs. Macfarlane.","Causten is the general agent of the claimants against France.","Regarding the French claims of Leven Powell.","Concerns possible sale of land from the estate of his deceased mother Elizabeth Carter.","The children are away so he will write; talks about the letter from Rebecca Tabb; inflammation of tonsils; he is glad to hear Nelson safely reached California; his mother is upset that Cuthbert would be taken to Baltimore against his will, because he was to have been told he could go to Baltimore voluntarily or to Staunton under compulsion but \"Ma interfered.\"","She had written from Cleveland and has now arrived safely to Henry. Reports on rest of family and thanks her grandparents for the time she had in Virginia. Mentions family there, including Uncle Nelson, Aunt [Anna?] and Uncle John Lloyd's family.","Discusses multiple topics, such as the rainy weather, a comet that is passing nearby, and the state elections.  Mentions that his business is not doing well.  Asks her about their school.  Presbyterian minister Mr. Winn castigated the Episcopalians.  Charles is chewing tobacco.","Asks her to bake bread for his company, which is in position for battle.","[This letter may be a copy made in 1870s or 1880s.] \"I left Jackson's army at Shenandoah Mountain...\" Would not be able to join Rockbridge Artillery now. Sending letter by Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Mr. Gordon persuaded Mr. Powell to come take charge of Chapman's education. Dr. McGuire talked to him about an hour before he fell. Both sons taken in their second battle.","Battle of Trevilian Station and Stuart's cavalry.","Arrest of Robert Conrad. Trying to find a place for her to board.","Describes her love for him. Loss of her sister Hattie.","Various items concerning the Powell and Hepburn families: an engraved portrait of Leven Powell; a photograph of Sewell S. Hepburn; an 1882 obituary of Amory Houghton; several clippings on lineage of Buchan-Hepburn, Hepburn of the Hooke, Hepburn surname, and Hepburn of Colquhalzie, and a clipping from the Southern Churchman on the Sewell \u0026 Hepburn lineages; and a Confederate $10 bill."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"famname_ssim":["Hepburn family"],"names_coll_ssim":["Hepburn family","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826"],"persname_ssim":["Powell, Leven, 1737-1810","Madison, James, Jr., 1751-1836","Mason, Stevens Thomson, 1760-1803","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Hepburn family","Powell, Leven, 1737-1810","Madison, James, Jr., 1751-1836","Mason, Stevens Thomson, 1760-1803","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":71,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:41:50.510Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1464","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1464","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1464","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_1464","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_1464.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Powell Family Papers, Hepburn Addition","title_ssm":["Powell Family Papers, Hepburn Addition"],"title_tesim":["Powell Family Papers, Hepburn Addition"],"unitdate_ssm":["1775-1870"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1775-1870"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1775/1870"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Powell Family Papers, Hepburn Addition, 1775/1870"],"text":["Powell Family Papers, Hepburn Addition, 1775/1870","01/Mss. 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The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","This collection is arranged chronologically.","Leven Powell was born near Manassas, Prince William Co., Va. in 1737. He moved to Loudoun County in 1763 and served as major in the Revolutionary Army. Appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment in Continental Line in 1777. He served in Virginia House of Delegates and as a delegate to Virginia Convention which ratified the U. S. Constitution in 1788. He was elected as a Federalist to Congress. Died in 1810 in Bedford, Pa.","Processed by Benjamin Bromley in 2007.","See also the Leven Powell Papers and the Powell Family Papers.","This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. 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Includes typed transcription.","There are good conditions at Valley Forge; appointment of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben as Inspector General; Tories leaving Philadelphia; Rhode Island to be evacuated; treaty with France. Includes typed transcription.","Typewritten transcription of Leven Powell's appointment to Lieutenant Colonel. Also notes his retirement the following year.","Requests Powell's support in an upcoming election. Includes typed transcription.","Lawsuit and copy of laws. Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Land arrangement with Hite, Col. Greenup; danger bringing money through the wilderness; Alexandria and 10 mile [District?]; his warrants northwest of Ohio; Kentucky admitted to union. Includes typed transcription.","Describes business agreements for purchasing tobacco. Includes typed transcription.","Reached home to collect sentiment of people on treaty. 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Includes typed transcription.","List of tuition costs, book prices, and other expenses for the education of Selina Lloyd.","Discusses various personal matters, such as his mathematics studies; his tutor advised playing shuttlecock; the pain in his breast is better; Llewellyn is pleased with college; students inhaling gas and the resulting antics; asks for the Leesburg newspaper; Llewellyn is in need of a loan.","Chancellor Livingston said that Powell had no case, since claims of citizens were surrendered by the Convention with France in 1800; however, if proof can be supplied, it may be worthwhile to bring the claim before the French government.  Also mentions Monroe's fall from horse and sickness.","Pleasonton has received the papers of Major Powell from Monroe and wishes that Isaac Coxe Barnett be the attorney.","Llewellyn thinks that Charles' idea of going to Maryland to practice law is a good one.  Charles' impending marriage to Selina.  Llewellyn's wife and child are well.","Discusses using power of attorney to appoint Mason an agent to collect rents in Loudoun county from Mildred A. B. Lewis and Blackford for himself and as attorney in fact for Mrs. Macfarlane.","Causten is the general agent of the claimants against France.","Regarding the French claims of Leven Powell.","Concerns possible sale of land from the estate of his deceased mother Elizabeth Carter.","The children are away so he will write; talks about the letter from Rebecca Tabb; inflammation of tonsils; he is glad to hear Nelson safely reached California; his mother is upset that Cuthbert would be taken to Baltimore against his will, because he was to have been told he could go to Baltimore voluntarily or to Staunton under compulsion but \"Ma interfered.\"","She had written from Cleveland and has now arrived safely to Henry. Reports on rest of family and thanks her grandparents for the time she had in Virginia. Mentions family there, including Uncle Nelson, Aunt [Anna?] and Uncle John Lloyd's family.","Discusses multiple topics, such as the rainy weather, a comet that is passing nearby, and the state elections.  Mentions that his business is not doing well.  Asks her about their school.  Presbyterian minister Mr. Winn castigated the Episcopalians.  Charles is chewing tobacco.","Asks her to bake bread for his company, which is in position for battle.","[This letter may be a copy made in 1870s or 1880s.] \"I left Jackson's army at Shenandoah Mountain...\" Would not be able to join Rockbridge Artillery now. Sending letter by Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Mr. Gordon persuaded Mr. Powell to come take charge of Chapman's education. Dr. McGuire talked to him about an hour before he fell. Both sons taken in their second battle.","Battle of Trevilian Station and Stuart's cavalry.","Arrest of Robert Conrad. Trying to find a place for her to board.","Describes her love for him. 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Includes typed transcription.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses Powell's claim on the French government for losses incurred because they stopped the mail. Includes typed transcription.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses the division of Virginia road; lots of marriages; law concerning landlords and tenants. Includes typed transcription.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of tuition costs, book prices, and other expenses for the education of Selina Lloyd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses various personal matters, such as his mathematics studies; his tutor advised playing shuttlecock; the pain in his breast is better; Llewellyn is pleased with college; students inhaling gas and the resulting antics; asks for the Leesburg newspaper; Llewellyn is in need of a loan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eChancellor Livingston said that Powell had no case, since claims of citizens were surrendered by the Convention with France in 1800; however, if proof can be supplied, it may be worthwhile to bring the claim before the French government.  Also mentions Monroe's fall from horse and sickness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePleasonton has received the papers of Major Powell from Monroe and wishes that Isaac Coxe Barnett be the attorney.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLlewellyn thinks that Charles' idea of going to Maryland to practice law is a good one.  Charles' impending marriage to Selina.  Llewellyn's wife and child are well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses using power of attorney to appoint Mason an agent to collect rents in Loudoun county from Mildred A. B. Lewis and Blackford for himself and as attorney in fact for Mrs. Macfarlane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCausten is the general agent of the claimants against France.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the French claims of Leven Powell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns possible sale of land from the estate of his deceased mother Elizabeth Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe children are away so he will write; talks about the letter from Rebecca Tabb; inflammation of tonsils; he is glad to hear Nelson safely reached California; his mother is upset that Cuthbert would be taken to Baltimore against his will, because he was to have been told he could go to Baltimore voluntarily or to Staunton under compulsion but \"Ma interfered.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe had written from Cleveland and has now arrived safely to Henry. Reports on rest of family and thanks her grandparents for the time she had in Virginia. Mentions family there, including Uncle Nelson, Aunt [Anna?] and Uncle John Lloyd's family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses multiple topics, such as the rainy weather, a comet that is passing nearby, and the state elections.  Mentions that his business is not doing well.  Asks her about their school.  Presbyterian minister Mr. Winn castigated the Episcopalians.  Charles is chewing tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks her to bake bread for his company, which is in position for battle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[This letter may be a copy made in 1870s or 1880s.] \"I left Jackson's army at Shenandoah Mountain...\" Would not be able to join Rockbridge Artillery now. Sending letter by Dr. Hunter McGuire.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Gordon persuaded Mr. Powell to come take charge of Chapman's education. Dr. McGuire talked to him about an hour before he fell. Both sons taken in their second battle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle of Trevilian Station and Stuart's cavalry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrest of Robert Conrad. Trying to find a place for her to board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes her love for him. Loss of her sister Hattie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious items concerning the Powell and Hepburn families: an engraved portrait of Leven Powell; a photograph of Sewell S. Hepburn; an 1882 obituary of Amory Houghton; several clippings on lineage of Buchan-Hepburn, Hepburn of the Hooke, Hepburn surname, and Hepburn of Colquhalzie, and a clipping from the Southern Churchman on the Sewell \u0026amp; Hepburn lineages; and a Confederate $10 bill.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of 1800. After 1810, letters are primarily correspondence between various members of the Powell family, including some letters about the Civil War. Includes family tree of the Hepburn Family.","Heard remains of Norfolk to be burnt. Includes typed transcription.","Account of successful attack on Trenton, and pray send this immediately to Major Powell.","Clothes, blankets and smallpox inoculations for the soldiers.","Describes the inoculation cabin and the difficulty of getting soldiers. Includes typed transcription.","There are good conditions at Valley Forge; appointment of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben as Inspector General; Tories leaving Philadelphia; Rhode Island to be evacuated; treaty with France. Includes typed transcription.","Typewritten transcription of Leven Powell's appointment to Lieutenant Colonel. Also notes his retirement the following year.","Requests Powell's support in an upcoming election. Includes typed transcription.","Lawsuit and copy of laws. Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Land arrangement with Hite, Col. Greenup; danger bringing money through the wilderness; Alexandria and 10 mile [District?]; his warrants northwest of Ohio; Kentucky admitted to union. Includes typed transcription.","Describes business agreements for purchasing tobacco. Includes typed transcription.","Reached home to collect sentiment of people on treaty. Includes typed transcription.","Commission to take examination of Mrs. Philips; discusses what to do with an enslaved man who has deliberately injured himself, and the danger of rebellion by the enslaved; international politics. Includes typed transcription.","Talks about William Washington; Mrs. Linton's debt; concerned about attack by France. Includes typed transcription.","Money owed in France.","Discusses selling enslaved individuals to settle debts. Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Asks Burr to obtain two enslaved people for Leven [Jr.?]; Election of 1800. Includes typed transcription.","Finest beef bought in this market; French Treaty; rumor concerning Lafayette; Election of 1800.","Election of 1800; French Treaty; Hooe not happy with Thomas Jefferson or Aaron Burr; also criticizes the Secretary of the Navy.","Money owed by tenants to Leven Powell; compares Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson; in his decision for whom to vote, he will be governed by constituents' wishes.","Private character of Aaron Burr; problem with what Thomas Jefferson might do in regard to the Navy; French treaty; price of corn; Leven wants his horse well fed.","Views of the constituents of Loudoun County about the Election of 1800.","Has problems with both Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson. Includes typed transcription.","Sim is confident that Powell will make the right decision in the Election of 1800; asks for copy of the Congressional report on revenue; Powell's prospects in next election.","Lee would probably prefer Aaron Burr but trusts Powell's judgment.","People of Loudoun will not be happy if Powell votes for Aaron Burr, but people that have seen Powell's letter trust his judgment.","Election of 1800. Clover seed and plaster.","Discusses Aaron Burr versus Thomas Jefferson. Includes typed transcription.","Writes about tobacco and debt; Thomas Jefferson versus Aaron Burr. Includes typed transcription.","Includes typed transcription.","Loss of Sally's child; health of \"Negro Sally\". Includes typed transcription.","Discusses Powell's claim on the French government for losses incurred because they stopped the mail. Includes typed transcription.","Discusses the division of Virginia road; lots of marriages; law concerning landlords and tenants. Includes typed transcription.","List of tuition costs, book prices, and other expenses for the education of Selina Lloyd.","Discusses various personal matters, such as his mathematics studies; his tutor advised playing shuttlecock; the pain in his breast is better; Llewellyn is pleased with college; students inhaling gas and the resulting antics; asks for the Leesburg newspaper; Llewellyn is in need of a loan.","Chancellor Livingston said that Powell had no case, since claims of citizens were surrendered by the Convention with France in 1800; however, if proof can be supplied, it may be worthwhile to bring the claim before the French government.  Also mentions Monroe's fall from horse and sickness.","Pleasonton has received the papers of Major Powell from Monroe and wishes that Isaac Coxe Barnett be the attorney.","Llewellyn thinks that Charles' idea of going to Maryland to practice law is a good one.  Charles' impending marriage to Selina.  Llewellyn's wife and child are well.","Discusses using power of attorney to appoint Mason an agent to collect rents in Loudoun county from Mildred A. B. Lewis and Blackford for himself and as attorney in fact for Mrs. Macfarlane.","Causten is the general agent of the claimants against France.","Regarding the French claims of Leven Powell.","Concerns possible sale of land from the estate of his deceased mother Elizabeth Carter.","The children are away so he will write; talks about the letter from Rebecca Tabb; inflammation of tonsils; he is glad to hear Nelson safely reached California; his mother is upset that Cuthbert would be taken to Baltimore against his will, because he was to have been told he could go to Baltimore voluntarily or to Staunton under compulsion but \"Ma interfered.\"","She had written from Cleveland and has now arrived safely to Henry. Reports on rest of family and thanks her grandparents for the time she had in Virginia. Mentions family there, including Uncle Nelson, Aunt [Anna?] and Uncle John Lloyd's family.","Discusses multiple topics, such as the rainy weather, a comet that is passing nearby, and the state elections.  Mentions that his business is not doing well.  Asks her about their school.  Presbyterian minister Mr. Winn castigated the Episcopalians.  Charles is chewing tobacco.","Asks her to bake bread for his company, which is in position for battle.","[This letter may be a copy made in 1870s or 1880s.] \"I left Jackson's army at Shenandoah Mountain...\" Would not be able to join Rockbridge Artillery now. Sending letter by Dr. Hunter McGuire.","Mr. Gordon persuaded Mr. Powell to come take charge of Chapman's education. Dr. McGuire talked to him about an hour before he fell. Both sons taken in their second battle.","Battle of Trevilian Station and Stuart's cavalry.","Arrest of Robert Conrad. Trying to find a place for her to board.","Describes her love for him. Loss of her sister Hattie.","Various items concerning the Powell and Hepburn families: an engraved portrait of Leven Powell; a photograph of Sewell S. Hepburn; an 1882 obituary of Amory Houghton; several clippings on lineage of Buchan-Hepburn, Hepburn of the Hooke, Hepburn surname, and Hepburn of Colquhalzie, and a clipping from the Southern Churchman on the Sewell \u0026 Hepburn lineages; and a Confederate $10 bill."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"famname_ssim":["Hepburn family"],"names_coll_ssim":["Hepburn family","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826"],"persname_ssim":["Powell, Leven, 1737-1810","Madison, James, Jr., 1751-1836","Mason, Stevens Thomson, 1760-1803","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Hepburn family","Powell, Leven, 1737-1810","Madison, James, Jr., 1751-1836","Mason, Stevens Thomson, 1760-1803","Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896)","Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":71,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:41:50.510Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_1464"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2393","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Preston Family Papers, 1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815","creator":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_2393#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"Preston Family","label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_2393#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThis inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_2393#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2393","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2393","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2393","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_2393","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_2393.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Preston Family Papers","title_ssm":["Preston Family Papers"],"title_tesim":["Preston Family Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1755-1836","1786-1815"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1755-1836"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1786-1815"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Preston Family Papers, 1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815"],"text":["Preston Family Papers, 1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815","Mss. 39.1 P91","/repositories/2/resources/2393","Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century","Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century","Architecture, Domestic--Virginia","Carriage and wagon making","Cherokee Indians","College of William and Mary--History--18th century","Dueling--Virginia","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Indians of North America--History--19th century","Legal documents","Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century","Tariff--United States--History","United States--History--War of 1812","United States--Politics and government--1789-1815","Certificates","Correspondence","Financial records","Petitions","Photostats","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This inventory has been organized into four Series: 1. William Preston Papers; 2. Francis Preston Papers; 3. John Preston Papers; 4. William C. Preston Papers. Arrangement: Each folder contains the papers of their creators/persons, identified by series title. Items are then arranged chronologically by date.","Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00012.frame","Other related material concerning the Preston family can be found in the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Several of the items in this collection have been reprinted. These include the letters written between 1786-1813, by John Preston to Francis Preston printed in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 1, pp. 42-51 and Vol. 2, pp. 188-193. A list of these items is located below. A typed list is located in the first folder of the collection.","18 May 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 42-45. 2 November 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 45-47. 26 December 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 47-49. 17 February 1787. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 1, Vol. 27, pp. 203-205. 31 May 1793. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 188-189 [dated as 3 May]. 25 Nov. 1794. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, p. 187. 14 May 1799. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 49-51. 19 December 1802. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 189-192. 3 March 1813. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 192-193.","Some letters are also available in typescript.","This inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:","Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee Indians and a court martial.","Items, 1785-1819, relating to William's sons, Francis Preston (1765- 1836), lawyer, member of the Virginia Legislature and the U.S. Congress; and his brother John Preston (1764-1827), member of the Virginia Assembly and long-time Treasurer of Virginia, including letters from John Preston to Francis Preston as well as correspondence of the two men with other people. Subjects covered in the letters include politics; the War of 1812; a carriage; the College of William and Mary; duels; the building of a house; and Indians. These papers also contain a certificate, 20 September 1793, of emancipation for a slave signed by Francis Preston; and his appointment of two military aides.","Items relating to the correspondence of William Campbell Preston (1764- 1860), son of Francis Preston, and a member of Congress from South Carolina, including a circular and letter, 1827, concerning protest by citizens of South Carolina of a protective tariff.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers in Augusta County,\" Virginia. Signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers.\" Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as : \"Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquler, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as Escheator for Augusta County, Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia of the County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"one of our Coroners of our County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Sheriff of the County of Fincastle County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Signed by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from William Campbell, Aspen Bottom, to William Preston. Letter concerns Captain Shelby's purchase of the land where Captain Bledsoe lives.","Surveyor's entry of Fincastle County, later Kentucky and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Item mentions William Preston, surveyor of Fincastle. Signed by William Christian.","William Preston was appointed as \"Lieutenant and Commander in chief of the Militia of the County of Fincastle [County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties], Virginia\" Signed by the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.","Letter from Anthony Bledsoe, Fort Patrick Henry, Virginia, to Colonel William Preston. Letter concerns the Cherokee Indians, their need of supplies, and their fear of coming to Williamsburg.","William Preston was appointed as \"County Lieutenant of Militia in the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Patrick Henry, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Surveyor for the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Dudley Digges, Lieutenant Governor, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from Charles Morgan to William Preston. Letter concerns a court martial of two men, Marshall Duncan and Timothy Roark, and the circumstances involved in the case; and men trying, to be struck from the muster roll in order to be relieved of their military duties.","Post bond for Joseph Achillberger before William Preston, Justice of the Peace, Montgomery County, Virginia.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston. Was only able to send 10 pounds because of the \"great difficulty of procuring cash in this country\"; mentions getting cash from \"Uncle Tom\" or tobacco from \"Anderson\" and converting that to cash; tobacco prices; discusses the loss Kentucky will feel at the death of Colonel Christian.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Discusses business dealings with Anderson tobacco, and obtaining the necessary materials and the carpenter recommended by Captain T. Smith to finish their house; wants to compare prices between the Academy at Botetourt Town and William and Mary; gives details of building a new academy at Greenfield and the prices which would be charged.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. More discussion about the constructing of their house; expresses concern about a possible suit against them for a debt unpaid, unless they raise money from Anderson's tobacco; tells of neighbors anxiously awaiting his Francis's return so that they might \"profit from your knowledge,\" referring to Francis Preston's license to practice law, and so that he can be considered an eligible candidate; offers to campaign for him in his absence; relates feelings toward a duel fought between their cousin, James Breckenridge and [?] Younghusband.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. Sends news of large amounts of mail for him, mainly on the subject of friendship; election day has been moved to an earlier date in April, requiring him [FP] to come home earlier; hopes this doesn't interfere with his studies; gives itinerary and details about coming home; discusses the other candidates and the main issue of the campaign--the division of the country; tells rumor that Congress is about to \"raise a great army, for what purpose, we know not.\"","Bill is for fabrics, clothes, and notions for \"Sally B. Campbell,\" later Sarah Buchanan (Campbell) Preston, wife of Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Short note discussing the election and political side effects relating to it.","Letter from John Preston, Mr. McDowell's, to \"Frank,\" Francis Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Discusses land transactions and the upcoming change in the Judicial districts west of the Blue Ridge; mentions the end of the Indian War and the government being settled.","Letter from John Preston, John Breckenridge's, Lexington, Virginia, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Comments on the reformed behavior of B. Smith, a commander at one of the frontier posts, who has \"abandoned both women and wine forever\"; discussion of affairs with the Indians--treaties, not trusting them, and hopes of continuing the war with them; General Wayne, however, has orders only to defend themselves, not attack; mention of land prices connected with investment possibilities.","Letter from John Preston, Lexington, Virginia to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business discussion about an unknown matter.","Emancipation certificate of John Broady, Negro servant of William Campbell, father-in-law of Francis Preston. Signed by Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"sister In-law,\" Sarah B. Preston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mention of her domesticity; gossip of a rich widow, Mrs. Thomas Randolph, who has fallen in love with John Brown.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" probably Francis Preston. Gives election news of senators and governor; details about a duel between General Wood and W. Thomas Madison over the election of Governor Brook which led to defamations of character.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to Francis Preston, Congress, United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concerning attention paid to brother William by General Wayne.","Letter from Bishop James Madison, Botetourt County, Virgina, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses power of attorney between H. Smith and himself; and business matters dealing with land.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses business transactions, including buying some horses; shares feelings of wanting to be married.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion of business transactions with Governor Shelby.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses concern over their brother \"Tommy\" not being able to attend school due to insufficient funds, and asks if Francis might be able to help in this area; mentions William and Mary as a good choice for Tommy to study law.","Letter from John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion about horses and John's son cutting teeth.","Letter from John Preston, Blacksburg, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Family news; grandmother has died; is still looking for the book, EVirginians Millwright, sent by Francis to use as reference for their spring water problem.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks him to help with E. Madison's business affairs; house is half finished; hopes to pay off all debts soon and be as \"independent as a freeman ought to be.\"","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Wagon arrived satisfactorily; sent 5 bushels of hemp seed and will send more if needed; borrowed from him a bundle of \"nail rods\" to lay the plank floor in his home; talk of the birth of \"another fine son \" who is quite handsome.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Business news; cotton and salt arrived; has sent nail rods in a different, lighter wagon.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Political discussion-including the possibility of Congressional redistricting of Botetourt and Montgomery counties, the disagreements between the Federalists and the Republicans, and how redistricting would affect John when elections come again; ironworks are shorthanded and he is willing to hire out seven \"of my best negroe men\"; wife has had the mumps and self has had a bout with rheumatism.","Letter from David Campbell, Campbella, Tennessee, to Sarah B. Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses joy at Mrs. Preston's recovering her health; philosophical statements concerning life; fondness toward Mrs. Preston and family; mention of who will be in school at Abingdon for the next two years, if the school stays open.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Salt was delivered and all was in good order; family news including the birth of a son, William Ballard Preston, to their brother James P. Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Asks if he can send his son, Carlton Radford, to Mr. Whaley's school, since Mr. Birch's school at Fort Chizwell has broken up; has taken care of money matters; more problems with rheumatism.","Letter from John Preston, Montgomery Court House Virginia, to \"brother;\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks for his son, William, to be sent home since the family is free of the whooping cough; a Senate position is open, but heJohn declined since he thought that Francis wanted to run; discussion of war with Britain, and the election of a president; Virginia seems to be favoring Madison, but New York is doubtful; no plans yet for the Virginia militia to be called.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business letter; alludes to wife's death; mother-in-law taking care of domestic business.","Letter from John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, \"In Council Chamber,\" Richmond, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Abingdon Washington County, Virginia. Cover letter for a commission for Samuel Preston, and a duplicate for the magistrates.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Affectionate talk of family; money matters taken care of; carriage maker in Philadelphia has put the \"Family Arms and Crests\" on it, and has only the painting and the spring to take care of.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Happy that he won the election, even though it was with some difficulty; discussion of the ingratitude and jealousy of the community of those who \"serve the public\"; money and construction matters; legal concern over the exchange of properties, the Briar Patch and Horseshoe; wife is quite ill and still grieves over the death of Louisa.","Letter from Peter Randolph, Nottoway County, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Concerning the addition of Mecklenburg into the 5th Circuit, Randolph's firm opposition to the plan requested by Judge Johnston to relieve Johnston of some duties of the 13th Circuit, and Randolph's reasons against the change of duties.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Concern over the Blockading Squadron of Great Britain, and description of naVirginial battles in Lynnhaven Bay; wishes Congress would impose an embargo on Great Britain.","Letter from Francis Preston, Brigadier General, 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, to John Tate. Appointment of Tate as Brigade Inspector of the 17th Brigade in the third division of the militia of the said Commonwealth. Including autograph document signed on verso by Francis Preston appointing Captain Francis Smith as his aide, 16 May 1816.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Virginia. Is still trying to locate the papers of W. P. Preston; more election news; introduces S. P. Sharp.","Letter from Patrick Henry, Richmond, Virginia, to John Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Concerning a serjeanty right granted by Lord Dumore, 10 to 12 years prior, to Henry for 200 acres on the Ohio River.","Receipt of David Price for 3 pounds received from John Preston. Including note on verso by John Preston, 17 April 1785, stating payment of 29 British pounds to William M. Miller.","Letter from James Blair, Abingdon, Virginia, to John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia. Blair's wife, Betsy, a cousin of Preston, is unable to appear at court in Botetourt County in a case involving Mrs. Elizabeth (Preston) Madison, because her son is ill, but has sent a deposition. Hopes that Dr. Humphries has inoculated Preston's sisters for smallpox.","Letter from John Preston, Fort Lee, Bluestone, to Governor Henry Lee. Explanation of Preston's actions taken in defending his posts by dispersing his men; also explanation of monies spent. Including document by John Preston, 13 June 1792, Fort Lee, Bluestone, Virginia, accounting for monies spent by him for his militia men.","Letter from Edmund Randolph, Richmond, Virginia , to General John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom. Concerning legal proceedings at Staunton; and proceedings of the Richmond chancery court concerning the McKin case.","Letter from James Hoge, Buckingham County, Virginia, to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Requests to have orders countermanded and have his troops transferred somewhere where they can recover.","Letter from John Floyd, Washington, D.C , to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. The appropriations bill is before Congress and is expected to pass this week or early next week; the estimate for the ordinance department is $1,037,200.","Land grant certificate of John Preston for 300 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia. Signed by Governor James P. Preston.","Circular letter transmitting memorials of the citizens of Columbia and Richland, South Carolina, to the legislature of South Carolina, and to the Congress of the United States, protesting against the protective tariff. Also includes the text of the memorials. Including letter from William C. Preston, Chairman, to William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 2 Nov. 1827, explaining the attached circular. Also including a newspaper clipping of the proceedings of the committee.","Asks name of a lawyer practicing in section in which General Joseph S. Shelton of South Carolina lives. The estate of Gilmer's grandfather is being sued and General Shelton is the principal debtor.","Letter from Epes Sargent, New York, New York, to William C. Preston. Letter from Thomas W. Gilmer, Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, to William C. Preston, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. Sargent is associated with Park Benjamin in publishing the New World, a New York newspaper, and discusses his efforts to bring about an international copyright agreement.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Preston Family","Preston family","Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William","Preston, Francis, 1765-1836","Preston, William, ca. 1729-1783","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Preston Family Papers, 1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815"],"collection_ssim":["Preston Family Papers, 1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.1 P91","/repositories/2/resources/2393"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 39.1 P91","/repositories/2/resources/2393"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century","Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century","Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century"],"places_ssim":["Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century","Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century"],"creator_ssm":["Preston Family","Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William"],"creator_ssim":["Preston Family","Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William","Preston, Francis, 1765-1836","Preston, William, ca. 1729-1783"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Preston Family","Preston family"],"creators_ssim":["Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William","Preston, Francis, 1765-1836","Preston, William, ca. 1729-1783","Special Collections Research Center","Preston Family","Preston family"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift"],"access_subjects_ssim":["Architecture, Domestic--Virginia","Carriage and wagon making","Cherokee Indians","College of William and Mary--History--18th century","Dueling--Virginia","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Indians of North America--History--19th century","Legal documents","Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century","Tariff--United States--History","United States--History--War of 1812","United States--Politics and government--1789-1815","Certificates","Correspondence","Financial records","Petitions","Photostats"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Architecture, Domestic--Virginia","Carriage and wagon making","Cherokee Indians","College of William and Mary--History--18th century","Dueling--Virginia","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Indians of North America--History--19th century","Legal documents","Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century","Tariff--United States--History","United States--History--War of 1812","United States--Politics and government--1789-1815","Certificates","Correspondence","Financial records","Petitions","Photostats"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["90.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["90.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Certificates","Correspondence","Financial records","Petitions","Photostats"],"date_range_isim":[1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOrganization: This inventory has been organized into four Series: 1. William Preston Papers; 2. Francis Preston Papers; 3. John Preston Papers; 4. William C. Preston Papers. 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Items are then arranged chronologically by date."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eInformation about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Preston_Family\" title=\"Preston Family\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: ."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOther Information:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00012.frame\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00012.frame"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePreston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOther related material concerning the Preston family can be found in the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Several of the items in this collection have been reprinted. These include the letters written between 1786-1813, by John Preston to Francis Preston printed in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 1, pp. 42-51 and Vol. 2, pp. 188-193. A list of these items is located below. A typed list is located in the first folder of the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 18 May 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 42-45. 2 November 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 45-47. 26 December 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 47-49. 17 February 1787. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 1, Vol. 27, pp. 203-205. 31 May 1793. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 188-189 [dated as 3 May]. 25 Nov. 1794. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, p. 187. 14 May 1799. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 49-51. 19 December 1802. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 189-192. 3 March 1813. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 192-193.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Some letters are also available in typescript.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Other related material concerning the Preston family can be found in the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Several of the items in this collection have been reprinted. These include the letters written between 1786-1813, by John Preston to Francis Preston printed in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 1, pp. 42-51 and Vol. 2, pp. 188-193. A list of these items is located below. A typed list is located in the first folder of the collection.","18 May 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 42-45. 2 November 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 45-47. 26 December 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 47-49. 17 February 1787. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 1, Vol. 27, pp. 203-205. 31 May 1793. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 188-189 [dated as 3 May]. 25 Nov. 1794. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, p. 187. 14 May 1799. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 49-51. 19 December 1802. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 189-192. 3 March 1813. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 192-193.","Some letters are also available in typescript."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee Indians and a court martial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Items, 1785-1819, relating to William's sons, Francis Preston (1765- 1836), lawyer, member of the Virginia Legislature and the U.S. Congress; and his brother John Preston (1764-1827), member of the Virginia Assembly and long-time Treasurer of Virginia, including letters from John Preston to Francis Preston as well as correspondence of the two men with other people. Subjects covered in the letters include politics; the War of 1812; a carriage; the College of William and Mary; duels; the building of a house; and Indians. These papers also contain a certificate, 20 September 1793, of emancipation for a slave signed by Francis Preston; and his appointment of two military aides.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Items relating to the correspondence of William Campbell Preston (1764- 1860), son of Francis Preston, and a member of Congress from South Carolina, including a circular and letter, 1827, concerning protest by citizens of South Carolina of a protective tariff.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers in Augusta County,\" Virginia. Signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers.\" Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as : \"Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquler, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as Escheator for Augusta County, Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia of the County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"one of our Coroners of our County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Sheriff of the County of Fincastle County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Signed by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from William Campbell, Aspen Bottom, to William Preston. Letter concerns Captain Shelby's purchase of the land where Captain Bledsoe lives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurveyor's entry of Fincastle County, later Kentucky and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Item mentions William Preston, surveyor of Fincastle. Signed by William Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Lieutenant and Commander in chief of the Militia of the County of Fincastle [County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties], Virginia\" Signed by the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Anthony Bledsoe, Fort Patrick Henry, Virginia, to Colonel William Preston. Letter concerns the Cherokee Indians, their need of supplies, and their fear of coming to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"County Lieutenant of Militia in the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Patrick Henry, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Surveyor for the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Dudley Digges, Lieutenant Governor, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charles Morgan to William Preston. Letter concerns a court martial of two men, Marshall Duncan and Timothy Roark, and the circumstances involved in the case; and men trying, to be struck from the muster roll in order to be relieved of their military duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePost bond for Joseph Achillberger before William Preston, Justice of the Peace, Montgomery County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston. Was only able to send 10 pounds because of the \"great difficulty of procuring cash in this country\"; mentions getting cash from \"Uncle Tom\" or tobacco from \"Anderson\" and converting that to cash; tobacco prices; discusses the loss Kentucky will feel at the death of Colonel Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Discusses business dealings with Anderson tobacco, and obtaining the necessary materials and the carpenter recommended by Captain T. Smith to finish their house; wants to compare prices between the Academy at Botetourt Town and William and Mary; gives details of building a new academy at Greenfield and the prices which would be charged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. More discussion about the constructing of their house; expresses concern about a possible suit against them for a debt unpaid, unless they raise money from Anderson's tobacco; tells of neighbors anxiously awaiting his Francis's return so that they might \"profit from your knowledge,\" referring to Francis Preston's license to practice law, and so that he can be considered an eligible candidate; offers to campaign for him in his absence; relates feelings toward a duel fought between their cousin, James Breckenridge and [?] Younghusband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. Sends news of large amounts of mail for him, mainly on the subject of friendship; election day has been moved to an earlier date in April, requiring him [FP] to come home earlier; hopes this doesn't interfere with his studies; gives itinerary and details about coming home; discusses the other candidates and the main issue of the campaign--the division of the country; tells rumor that Congress is about to \"raise a great army, for what purpose, we know not.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill is for fabrics, clothes, and notions for \"Sally B. Campbell,\" later Sarah Buchanan (Campbell) Preston, wife of Francis Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Short note discussing the election and political side effects relating to it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Mr. McDowell's, to \"Frank,\" Francis Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Discusses land transactions and the upcoming change in the Judicial districts west of the Blue Ridge; mentions the end of the Indian War and the government being settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, John Breckenridge's, Lexington, Virginia, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Comments on the reformed behavior of B. Smith, a commander at one of the frontier posts, who has \"abandoned both women and wine forever\"; discussion of affairs with the Indians--treaties, not trusting them, and hopes of continuing the war with them; General Wayne, however, has orders only to defend themselves, not attack; mention of land prices connected with investment possibilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Lexington, Virginia to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business discussion about an unknown matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmancipation certificate of John Broady, Negro servant of William Campbell, father-in-law of Francis Preston. Signed by Francis Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"sister In-law,\" Sarah B. Preston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mention of her domesticity; gossip of a rich widow, Mrs. Thomas Randolph, who has fallen in love with John Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" probably Francis Preston. Gives election news of senators and governor; details about a duel between General Wood and W. Thomas Madison over the election of Governor Brook which led to defamations of character.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, no place, to Francis Preston, Congress, United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concerning attention paid to brother William by General Wayne.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Bishop James Madison, Botetourt County, Virgina, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses power of attorney between H. Smith and himself; and business matters dealing with land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses business transactions, including buying some horses; shares feelings of wanting to be married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion of business transactions with Governor Shelby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses concern over their brother \"Tommy\" not being able to attend school due to insufficient funds, and asks if Francis might be able to help in this area; mentions William and Mary as a good choice for Tommy to study law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion about horses and John's son cutting teeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Blacksburg, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Family news; grandmother has died; is still looking for the book, EVirginians Millwright, sent by Francis to use as reference for their spring water problem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks him to help with E. Madison's business affairs; house is half finished; hopes to pay off all debts soon and be as \"independent as a freeman ought to be.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Wagon arrived satisfactorily; sent 5 bushels of hemp seed and will send more if needed; borrowed from him a bundle of \"nail rods\" to lay the plank floor in his home; talk of the birth of \"another fine son \" who is quite handsome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Business news; cotton and salt arrived; has sent nail rods in a different, lighter wagon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Political discussion-including the possibility of Congressional redistricting of Botetourt and Montgomery counties, the disagreements between the Federalists and the Republicans, and how redistricting would affect John when elections come again; ironworks are shorthanded and he is willing to hire out seven \"of my best negroe men\"; wife has had the mumps and self has had a bout with rheumatism.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from David Campbell, Campbella, Tennessee, to Sarah B. Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses joy at Mrs. Preston's recovering her health; philosophical statements concerning life; fondness toward Mrs. Preston and family; mention of who will be in school at Abingdon for the next two years, if the school stays open.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Salt was delivered and all was in good order; family news including the birth of a son, William Ballard Preston, to their brother James P. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Asks if he can send his son, Carlton Radford, to Mr. Whaley's school, since Mr. Birch's school at Fort Chizwell has broken up; has taken care of money matters; more problems with rheumatism.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Montgomery Court House Virginia, to \"brother;\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks for his son, William, to be sent home since the family is free of the whooping cough; a Senate position is open, but heJohn declined since he thought that Francis wanted to run; discussion of war with Britain, and the election of a president; Virginia seems to be favoring Madison, but New York is doubtful; no plans yet for the Virginia militia to be called.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business letter; alludes to wife's death; mother-in-law taking care of domestic business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, \"In Council Chamber,\" Richmond, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Abingdon Washington County, Virginia. Cover letter for a commission for Samuel Preston, and a duplicate for the magistrates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Affectionate talk of family; money matters taken care of; carriage maker in Philadelphia has put the \"Family Arms and Crests\" on it, and has only the painting and the spring to take care of.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Happy that he won the election, even though it was with some difficulty; discussion of the ingratitude and jealousy of the community of those who \"serve the public\"; money and construction matters; legal concern over the exchange of properties, the Briar Patch and Horseshoe; wife is quite ill and still grieves over the death of Louisa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Peter Randolph, Nottoway County, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Concerning the addition of Mecklenburg into the 5th Circuit, Randolph's firm opposition to the plan requested by Judge Johnston to relieve Johnston of some duties of the 13th Circuit, and Randolph's reasons against the change of duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Concern over the Blockading Squadron of Great Britain, and description of naVirginial battles in Lynnhaven Bay; wishes Congress would impose an embargo on Great Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Francis Preston, Brigadier General, 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, to John Tate. Appointment of Tate as Brigade Inspector of the 17th Brigade in the third division of the militia of the said Commonwealth. Including autograph document signed on verso by Francis Preston appointing Captain Francis Smith as his aide, 16 May 1816.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Virginia. Is still trying to locate the papers of W. P. Preston; more election news; introduces S. P. Sharp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Patrick Henry, Richmond, Virginia, to John Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Concerning a serjeanty right granted by Lord Dumore, 10 to 12 years prior, to Henry for 200 acres on the Ohio River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of David Price for 3 pounds received from John Preston. Including note on verso by John Preston, 17 April 1785, stating payment of 29 British pounds to William M. Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from James Blair, Abingdon, Virginia, to John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia. Blair's wife, Betsy, a cousin of Preston, is unable to appear at court in Botetourt County in a case involving Mrs. Elizabeth (Preston) Madison, because her son is ill, but has sent a deposition. Hopes that Dr. Humphries has inoculated Preston's sisters for smallpox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Fort Lee, Bluestone, to Governor Henry Lee. Explanation of Preston's actions taken in defending his posts by dispersing his men; also explanation of monies spent. Including document by John Preston, 13 June 1792, Fort Lee, Bluestone, Virginia, accounting for monies spent by him for his militia men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Edmund Randolph, Richmond, Virginia , to General John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom. Concerning legal proceedings at Staunton; and proceedings of the Richmond chancery court concerning the McKin case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from James Hoge, Buckingham County, Virginia, to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Requests to have orders countermanded and have his troops transferred somewhere where they can recover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Floyd, Washington, D.C , to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. The appropriations bill is before Congress and is expected to pass this week or early next week; the estimate for the ordinance department is $1,037,200.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand grant certificate of John Preston for 300 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia. Signed by Governor James P. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircular letter transmitting memorials of the citizens of Columbia and Richland, South Carolina, to the legislature of South Carolina, and to the Congress of the United States, protesting against the protective tariff. Also includes the text of the memorials. Including letter from William C. Preston, Chairman, to William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 2 Nov. 1827, explaining the attached circular. Also including a newspaper clipping of the proceedings of the committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks name of a lawyer practicing in section in which General Joseph S. Shelton of South Carolina lives. The estate of Gilmer's grandfather is being sued and General Shelton is the principal debtor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Epes Sargent, New York, New York, to William C. Preston. Letter from Thomas W. Gilmer, Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, to William C. Preston, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. Sargent is associated with Park Benjamin in publishing the New World, a New York newspaper, and discusses his efforts to bring about an international copyright agreement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:","Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee Indians and a court martial.","Items, 1785-1819, relating to William's sons, Francis Preston (1765- 1836), lawyer, member of the Virginia Legislature and the U.S. Congress; and his brother John Preston (1764-1827), member of the Virginia Assembly and long-time Treasurer of Virginia, including letters from John Preston to Francis Preston as well as correspondence of the two men with other people. Subjects covered in the letters include politics; the War of 1812; a carriage; the College of William and Mary; duels; the building of a house; and Indians. These papers also contain a certificate, 20 September 1793, of emancipation for a slave signed by Francis Preston; and his appointment of two military aides.","Items relating to the correspondence of William Campbell Preston (1764- 1860), son of Francis Preston, and a member of Congress from South Carolina, including a circular and letter, 1827, concerning protest by citizens of South Carolina of a protective tariff.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers in Augusta County,\" Virginia. Signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers.\" Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as : \"Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquler, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as Escheator for Augusta County, Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia of the County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"one of our Coroners of our County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Sheriff of the County of Fincastle County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Signed by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from William Campbell, Aspen Bottom, to William Preston. Letter concerns Captain Shelby's purchase of the land where Captain Bledsoe lives.","Surveyor's entry of Fincastle County, later Kentucky and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Item mentions William Preston, surveyor of Fincastle. Signed by William Christian.","William Preston was appointed as \"Lieutenant and Commander in chief of the Militia of the County of Fincastle [County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties], Virginia\" Signed by the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.","Letter from Anthony Bledsoe, Fort Patrick Henry, Virginia, to Colonel William Preston. Letter concerns the Cherokee Indians, their need of supplies, and their fear of coming to Williamsburg.","William Preston was appointed as \"County Lieutenant of Militia in the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Patrick Henry, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Surveyor for the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Dudley Digges, Lieutenant Governor, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from Charles Morgan to William Preston. Letter concerns a court martial of two men, Marshall Duncan and Timothy Roark, and the circumstances involved in the case; and men trying, to be struck from the muster roll in order to be relieved of their military duties.","Post bond for Joseph Achillberger before William Preston, Justice of the Peace, Montgomery County, Virginia.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston. Was only able to send 10 pounds because of the \"great difficulty of procuring cash in this country\"; mentions getting cash from \"Uncle Tom\" or tobacco from \"Anderson\" and converting that to cash; tobacco prices; discusses the loss Kentucky will feel at the death of Colonel Christian.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Discusses business dealings with Anderson tobacco, and obtaining the necessary materials and the carpenter recommended by Captain T. Smith to finish their house; wants to compare prices between the Academy at Botetourt Town and William and Mary; gives details of building a new academy at Greenfield and the prices which would be charged.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. More discussion about the constructing of their house; expresses concern about a possible suit against them for a debt unpaid, unless they raise money from Anderson's tobacco; tells of neighbors anxiously awaiting his Francis's return so that they might \"profit from your knowledge,\" referring to Francis Preston's license to practice law, and so that he can be considered an eligible candidate; offers to campaign for him in his absence; relates feelings toward a duel fought between their cousin, James Breckenridge and [?] Younghusband.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. Sends news of large amounts of mail for him, mainly on the subject of friendship; election day has been moved to an earlier date in April, requiring him [FP] to come home earlier; hopes this doesn't interfere with his studies; gives itinerary and details about coming home; discusses the other candidates and the main issue of the campaign--the division of the country; tells rumor that Congress is about to \"raise a great army, for what purpose, we know not.\"","Bill is for fabrics, clothes, and notions for \"Sally B. Campbell,\" later Sarah Buchanan (Campbell) Preston, wife of Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Short note discussing the election and political side effects relating to it.","Letter from John Preston, Mr. McDowell's, to \"Frank,\" Francis Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Discusses land transactions and the upcoming change in the Judicial districts west of the Blue Ridge; mentions the end of the Indian War and the government being settled.","Letter from John Preston, John Breckenridge's, Lexington, Virginia, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Comments on the reformed behavior of B. Smith, a commander at one of the frontier posts, who has \"abandoned both women and wine forever\"; discussion of affairs with the Indians--treaties, not trusting them, and hopes of continuing the war with them; General Wayne, however, has orders only to defend themselves, not attack; mention of land prices connected with investment possibilities.","Letter from John Preston, Lexington, Virginia to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business discussion about an unknown matter.","Emancipation certificate of John Broady, Negro servant of William Campbell, father-in-law of Francis Preston. Signed by Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"sister In-law,\" Sarah B. Preston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mention of her domesticity; gossip of a rich widow, Mrs. Thomas Randolph, who has fallen in love with John Brown.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" probably Francis Preston. Gives election news of senators and governor; details about a duel between General Wood and W. Thomas Madison over the election of Governor Brook which led to defamations of character.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to Francis Preston, Congress, United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concerning attention paid to brother William by General Wayne.","Letter from Bishop James Madison, Botetourt County, Virgina, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses power of attorney between H. Smith and himself; and business matters dealing with land.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses business transactions, including buying some horses; shares feelings of wanting to be married.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion of business transactions with Governor Shelby.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses concern over their brother \"Tommy\" not being able to attend school due to insufficient funds, and asks if Francis might be able to help in this area; mentions William and Mary as a good choice for Tommy to study law.","Letter from John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion about horses and John's son cutting teeth.","Letter from John Preston, Blacksburg, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Family news; grandmother has died; is still looking for the book, EVirginians Millwright, sent by Francis to use as reference for their spring water problem.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks him to help with E. Madison's business affairs; house is half finished; hopes to pay off all debts soon and be as \"independent as a freeman ought to be.\"","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Wagon arrived satisfactorily; sent 5 bushels of hemp seed and will send more if needed; borrowed from him a bundle of \"nail rods\" to lay the plank floor in his home; talk of the birth of \"another fine son \" who is quite handsome.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Business news; cotton and salt arrived; has sent nail rods in a different, lighter wagon.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Political discussion-including the possibility of Congressional redistricting of Botetourt and Montgomery counties, the disagreements between the Federalists and the Republicans, and how redistricting would affect John when elections come again; ironworks are shorthanded and he is willing to hire out seven \"of my best negroe men\"; wife has had the mumps and self has had a bout with rheumatism.","Letter from David Campbell, Campbella, Tennessee, to Sarah B. Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses joy at Mrs. Preston's recovering her health; philosophical statements concerning life; fondness toward Mrs. Preston and family; mention of who will be in school at Abingdon for the next two years, if the school stays open.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Salt was delivered and all was in good order; family news including the birth of a son, William Ballard Preston, to their brother James P. Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Asks if he can send his son, Carlton Radford, to Mr. Whaley's school, since Mr. Birch's school at Fort Chizwell has broken up; has taken care of money matters; more problems with rheumatism.","Letter from John Preston, Montgomery Court House Virginia, to \"brother;\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks for his son, William, to be sent home since the family is free of the whooping cough; a Senate position is open, but heJohn declined since he thought that Francis wanted to run; discussion of war with Britain, and the election of a president; Virginia seems to be favoring Madison, but New York is doubtful; no plans yet for the Virginia militia to be called.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business letter; alludes to wife's death; mother-in-law taking care of domestic business.","Letter from John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, \"In Council Chamber,\" Richmond, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Abingdon Washington County, Virginia. Cover letter for a commission for Samuel Preston, and a duplicate for the magistrates.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Affectionate talk of family; money matters taken care of; carriage maker in Philadelphia has put the \"Family Arms and Crests\" on it, and has only the painting and the spring to take care of.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Happy that he won the election, even though it was with some difficulty; discussion of the ingratitude and jealousy of the community of those who \"serve the public\"; money and construction matters; legal concern over the exchange of properties, the Briar Patch and Horseshoe; wife is quite ill and still grieves over the death of Louisa.","Letter from Peter Randolph, Nottoway County, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Concerning the addition of Mecklenburg into the 5th Circuit, Randolph's firm opposition to the plan requested by Judge Johnston to relieve Johnston of some duties of the 13th Circuit, and Randolph's reasons against the change of duties.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Concern over the Blockading Squadron of Great Britain, and description of naVirginial battles in Lynnhaven Bay; wishes Congress would impose an embargo on Great Britain.","Letter from Francis Preston, Brigadier General, 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, to John Tate. Appointment of Tate as Brigade Inspector of the 17th Brigade in the third division of the militia of the said Commonwealth. Including autograph document signed on verso by Francis Preston appointing Captain Francis Smith as his aide, 16 May 1816.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Virginia. Is still trying to locate the papers of W. P. Preston; more election news; introduces S. P. Sharp.","Letter from Patrick Henry, Richmond, Virginia, to John Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Concerning a serjeanty right granted by Lord Dumore, 10 to 12 years prior, to Henry for 200 acres on the Ohio River.","Receipt of David Price for 3 pounds received from John Preston. Including note on verso by John Preston, 17 April 1785, stating payment of 29 British pounds to William M. Miller.","Letter from James Blair, Abingdon, Virginia, to John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia. Blair's wife, Betsy, a cousin of Preston, is unable to appear at court in Botetourt County in a case involving Mrs. Elizabeth (Preston) Madison, because her son is ill, but has sent a deposition. Hopes that Dr. Humphries has inoculated Preston's sisters for smallpox.","Letter from John Preston, Fort Lee, Bluestone, to Governor Henry Lee. Explanation of Preston's actions taken in defending his posts by dispersing his men; also explanation of monies spent. Including document by John Preston, 13 June 1792, Fort Lee, Bluestone, Virginia, accounting for monies spent by him for his militia men.","Letter from Edmund Randolph, Richmond, Virginia , to General John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom. Concerning legal proceedings at Staunton; and proceedings of the Richmond chancery court concerning the McKin case.","Letter from James Hoge, Buckingham County, Virginia, to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Requests to have orders countermanded and have his troops transferred somewhere where they can recover.","Letter from John Floyd, Washington, D.C , to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. The appropriations bill is before Congress and is expected to pass this week or early next week; the estimate for the ordinance department is $1,037,200.","Land grant certificate of John Preston for 300 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia. Signed by Governor James P. Preston.","Circular letter transmitting memorials of the citizens of Columbia and Richland, South Carolina, to the legislature of South Carolina, and to the Congress of the United States, protesting against the protective tariff. Also includes the text of the memorials. Including letter from William C. Preston, Chairman, to William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 2 Nov. 1827, explaining the attached circular. Also including a newspaper clipping of the proceedings of the committee.","Asks name of a lawyer practicing in section in which General Joseph S. Shelton of South Carolina lives. The estate of Gilmer's grandfather is being sued and General Shelton is the principal debtor.","Letter from Epes Sargent, New York, New York, to William C. Preston. Letter from Thomas W. Gilmer, Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, to William C. Preston, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This inventory has been organized into four Series: 1. William Preston Papers; 2. Francis Preston Papers; 3. John Preston Papers; 4. William C. Preston Papers. Arrangement: Each folder contains the papers of their creators/persons, identified by series title. Items are then arranged chronologically by date.","Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00012.frame","Other related material concerning the Preston family can be found in the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Several of the items in this collection have been reprinted. These include the letters written between 1786-1813, by John Preston to Francis Preston printed in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 1, pp. 42-51 and Vol. 2, pp. 188-193. A list of these items is located below. A typed list is located in the first folder of the collection.","18 May 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 42-45. 2 November 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 45-47. 26 December 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 47-49. 17 February 1787. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 1, Vol. 27, pp. 203-205. 31 May 1793. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 188-189 [dated as 3 May]. 25 Nov. 1794. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, p. 187. 14 May 1799. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 49-51. 19 December 1802. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 189-192. 3 March 1813. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 192-193.","Some letters are also available in typescript.","This inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:","Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee Indians and a court martial.","Items, 1785-1819, relating to William's sons, Francis Preston (1765- 1836), lawyer, member of the Virginia Legislature and the U.S. Congress; and his brother John Preston (1764-1827), member of the Virginia Assembly and long-time Treasurer of Virginia, including letters from John Preston to Francis Preston as well as correspondence of the two men with other people. Subjects covered in the letters include politics; the War of 1812; a carriage; the College of William and Mary; duels; the building of a house; and Indians. These papers also contain a certificate, 20 September 1793, of emancipation for a slave signed by Francis Preston; and his appointment of two military aides.","Items relating to the correspondence of William Campbell Preston (1764- 1860), son of Francis Preston, and a member of Congress from South Carolina, including a circular and letter, 1827, concerning protest by citizens of South Carolina of a protective tariff.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers in Augusta County,\" Virginia. Signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers.\" Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as : \"Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquler, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as Escheator for Augusta County, Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia of the County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"one of our Coroners of our County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Sheriff of the County of Fincastle County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Signed by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from William Campbell, Aspen Bottom, to William Preston. Letter concerns Captain Shelby's purchase of the land where Captain Bledsoe lives.","Surveyor's entry of Fincastle County, later Kentucky and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Item mentions William Preston, surveyor of Fincastle. Signed by William Christian.","William Preston was appointed as \"Lieutenant and Commander in chief of the Militia of the County of Fincastle [County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties], Virginia\" Signed by the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.","Letter from Anthony Bledsoe, Fort Patrick Henry, Virginia, to Colonel William Preston. Letter concerns the Cherokee Indians, their need of supplies, and their fear of coming to Williamsburg.","William Preston was appointed as \"County Lieutenant of Militia in the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Patrick Henry, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Surveyor for the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Dudley Digges, Lieutenant Governor, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from Charles Morgan to William Preston. Letter concerns a court martial of two men, Marshall Duncan and Timothy Roark, and the circumstances involved in the case; and men trying, to be struck from the muster roll in order to be relieved of their military duties.","Post bond for Joseph Achillberger before William Preston, Justice of the Peace, Montgomery County, Virginia.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston. Was only able to send 10 pounds because of the \"great difficulty of procuring cash in this country\"; mentions getting cash from \"Uncle Tom\" or tobacco from \"Anderson\" and converting that to cash; tobacco prices; discusses the loss Kentucky will feel at the death of Colonel Christian.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Discusses business dealings with Anderson tobacco, and obtaining the necessary materials and the carpenter recommended by Captain T. Smith to finish their house; wants to compare prices between the Academy at Botetourt Town and William and Mary; gives details of building a new academy at Greenfield and the prices which would be charged.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. More discussion about the constructing of their house; expresses concern about a possible suit against them for a debt unpaid, unless they raise money from Anderson's tobacco; tells of neighbors anxiously awaiting his Francis's return so that they might \"profit from your knowledge,\" referring to Francis Preston's license to practice law, and so that he can be considered an eligible candidate; offers to campaign for him in his absence; relates feelings toward a duel fought between their cousin, James Breckenridge and [?] Younghusband.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. Sends news of large amounts of mail for him, mainly on the subject of friendship; election day has been moved to an earlier date in April, requiring him [FP] to come home earlier; hopes this doesn't interfere with his studies; gives itinerary and details about coming home; discusses the other candidates and the main issue of the campaign--the division of the country; tells rumor that Congress is about to \"raise a great army, for what purpose, we know not.\"","Bill is for fabrics, clothes, and notions for \"Sally B. Campbell,\" later Sarah Buchanan (Campbell) Preston, wife of Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Short note discussing the election and political side effects relating to it.","Letter from John Preston, Mr. McDowell's, to \"Frank,\" Francis Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Discusses land transactions and the upcoming change in the Judicial districts west of the Blue Ridge; mentions the end of the Indian War and the government being settled.","Letter from John Preston, John Breckenridge's, Lexington, Virginia, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Comments on the reformed behavior of B. Smith, a commander at one of the frontier posts, who has \"abandoned both women and wine forever\"; discussion of affairs with the Indians--treaties, not trusting them, and hopes of continuing the war with them; General Wayne, however, has orders only to defend themselves, not attack; mention of land prices connected with investment possibilities.","Letter from John Preston, Lexington, Virginia to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business discussion about an unknown matter.","Emancipation certificate of John Broady, Negro servant of William Campbell, father-in-law of Francis Preston. Signed by Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"sister In-law,\" Sarah B. Preston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mention of her domesticity; gossip of a rich widow, Mrs. Thomas Randolph, who has fallen in love with John Brown.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" probably Francis Preston. Gives election news of senators and governor; details about a duel between General Wood and W. Thomas Madison over the election of Governor Brook which led to defamations of character.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to Francis Preston, Congress, United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concerning attention paid to brother William by General Wayne.","Letter from Bishop James Madison, Botetourt County, Virgina, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses power of attorney between H. Smith and himself; and business matters dealing with land.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses business transactions, including buying some horses; shares feelings of wanting to be married.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion of business transactions with Governor Shelby.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses concern over their brother \"Tommy\" not being able to attend school due to insufficient funds, and asks if Francis might be able to help in this area; mentions William and Mary as a good choice for Tommy to study law.","Letter from John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion about horses and John's son cutting teeth.","Letter from John Preston, Blacksburg, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Family news; grandmother has died; is still looking for the book, EVirginians Millwright, sent by Francis to use as reference for their spring water problem.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks him to help with E. Madison's business affairs; house is half finished; hopes to pay off all debts soon and be as \"independent as a freeman ought to be.\"","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Wagon arrived satisfactorily; sent 5 bushels of hemp seed and will send more if needed; borrowed from him a bundle of \"nail rods\" to lay the plank floor in his home; talk of the birth of \"another fine son \" who is quite handsome.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Business news; cotton and salt arrived; has sent nail rods in a different, lighter wagon.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Political discussion-including the possibility of Congressional redistricting of Botetourt and Montgomery counties, the disagreements between the Federalists and the Republicans, and how redistricting would affect John when elections come again; ironworks are shorthanded and he is willing to hire out seven \"of my best negroe men\"; wife has had the mumps and self has had a bout with rheumatism.","Letter from David Campbell, Campbella, Tennessee, to Sarah B. Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses joy at Mrs. Preston's recovering her health; philosophical statements concerning life; fondness toward Mrs. Preston and family; mention of who will be in school at Abingdon for the next two years, if the school stays open.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Salt was delivered and all was in good order; family news including the birth of a son, William Ballard Preston, to their brother James P. Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Asks if he can send his son, Carlton Radford, to Mr. Whaley's school, since Mr. Birch's school at Fort Chizwell has broken up; has taken care of money matters; more problems with rheumatism.","Letter from John Preston, Montgomery Court House Virginia, to \"brother;\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks for his son, William, to be sent home since the family is free of the whooping cough; a Senate position is open, but heJohn declined since he thought that Francis wanted to run; discussion of war with Britain, and the election of a president; Virginia seems to be favoring Madison, but New York is doubtful; no plans yet for the Virginia militia to be called.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business letter; alludes to wife's death; mother-in-law taking care of domestic business.","Letter from John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, \"In Council Chamber,\" Richmond, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Abingdon Washington County, Virginia. Cover letter for a commission for Samuel Preston, and a duplicate for the magistrates.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Affectionate talk of family; money matters taken care of; carriage maker in Philadelphia has put the \"Family Arms and Crests\" on it, and has only the painting and the spring to take care of.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Happy that he won the election, even though it was with some difficulty; discussion of the ingratitude and jealousy of the community of those who \"serve the public\"; money and construction matters; legal concern over the exchange of properties, the Briar Patch and Horseshoe; wife is quite ill and still grieves over the death of Louisa.","Letter from Peter Randolph, Nottoway County, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Concerning the addition of Mecklenburg into the 5th Circuit, Randolph's firm opposition to the plan requested by Judge Johnston to relieve Johnston of some duties of the 13th Circuit, and Randolph's reasons against the change of duties.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Concern over the Blockading Squadron of Great Britain, and description of naVirginial battles in Lynnhaven Bay; wishes Congress would impose an embargo on Great Britain.","Letter from Francis Preston, Brigadier General, 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, to John Tate. Appointment of Tate as Brigade Inspector of the 17th Brigade in the third division of the militia of the said Commonwealth. Including autograph document signed on verso by Francis Preston appointing Captain Francis Smith as his aide, 16 May 1816.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Virginia. Is still trying to locate the papers of W. P. Preston; more election news; introduces S. P. Sharp.","Letter from Patrick Henry, Richmond, Virginia, to John Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Concerning a serjeanty right granted by Lord Dumore, 10 to 12 years prior, to Henry for 200 acres on the Ohio River.","Receipt of David Price for 3 pounds received from John Preston. Including note on verso by John Preston, 17 April 1785, stating payment of 29 British pounds to William M. Miller.","Letter from James Blair, Abingdon, Virginia, to John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia. Blair's wife, Betsy, a cousin of Preston, is unable to appear at court in Botetourt County in a case involving Mrs. Elizabeth (Preston) Madison, because her son is ill, but has sent a deposition. Hopes that Dr. Humphries has inoculated Preston's sisters for smallpox.","Letter from John Preston, Fort Lee, Bluestone, to Governor Henry Lee. Explanation of Preston's actions taken in defending his posts by dispersing his men; also explanation of monies spent. Including document by John Preston, 13 June 1792, Fort Lee, Bluestone, Virginia, accounting for monies spent by him for his militia men.","Letter from Edmund Randolph, Richmond, Virginia , to General John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom. Concerning legal proceedings at Staunton; and proceedings of the Richmond chancery court concerning the McKin case.","Letter from James Hoge, Buckingham County, Virginia, to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Requests to have orders countermanded and have his troops transferred somewhere where they can recover.","Letter from John Floyd, Washington, D.C , to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. The appropriations bill is before Congress and is expected to pass this week or early next week; the estimate for the ordinance department is $1,037,200.","Land grant certificate of John Preston for 300 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia. Signed by Governor James P. Preston.","Circular letter transmitting memorials of the citizens of Columbia and Richland, South Carolina, to the legislature of South Carolina, and to the Congress of the United States, protesting against the protective tariff. Also includes the text of the memorials. Including letter from William C. Preston, Chairman, to William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 2 Nov. 1827, explaining the attached circular. Also including a newspaper clipping of the proceedings of the committee.","Asks name of a lawyer practicing in section in which General Joseph S. Shelton of South Carolina lives. The estate of Gilmer's grandfather is being sued and General Shelton is the principal debtor.","Letter from Epes Sargent, New York, New York, to William C. Preston. Letter from Thomas W. Gilmer, Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, to William C. Preston, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. Sargent is associated with Park Benjamin in publishing the New World, a New York newspaper, and discusses his efforts to bring about an international copyright agreement.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Preston Family","Preston family","Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William","Preston, Francis, 1765-1836","Preston, William, ca. 1729-1783","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Preston Family Papers, 1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815"],"collection_ssim":["Preston Family Papers, 1755/1836, bulk 1786/1815"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 39.1 P91","/repositories/2/resources/2393"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 39.1 P91","/repositories/2/resources/2393"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century","Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century","Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century"],"places_ssim":["Buckingham County (Va.)--History","Virginia--Militia","Virginia--Politics and Government--18th century","Virginia--Politics and Government--19th century"],"creator_ssm":["Preston Family","Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William"],"creator_ssim":["Preston Family","Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William","Preston, Francis, 1765-1836","Preston, William, ca. 1729-1783"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"creator_famname_ssim":["Preston Family","Preston family"],"creators_ssim":["Preston, Francis","Preston, John, 1764-1827","Preston, William","Preston, Francis, 1765-1836","Preston, William, ca. 1729-1783","Special Collections Research Center","Preston Family","Preston family"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift"],"access_subjects_ssim":["Architecture, Domestic--Virginia","Carriage and wagon making","Cherokee Indians","College of William and Mary--History--18th century","Dueling--Virginia","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Indians of North America--History--19th century","Legal documents","Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century","Tariff--United States--History","United States--History--War of 1812","United States--Politics and government--1789-1815","Certificates","Correspondence","Financial records","Petitions","Photostats"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Architecture, Domestic--Virginia","Carriage and wagon making","Cherokee Indians","College of William and Mary--History--18th century","Dueling--Virginia","Freedmen--Virginia--History","Indians of North America--History--19th century","Legal documents","Slavery--Virginia--History--18th century","Tariff--United States--History","United States--History--War of 1812","United States--Politics and government--1789-1815","Certificates","Correspondence","Financial records","Petitions","Photostats"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["90.00 Linear Feet"],"extent_tesim":["90.00 Linear Feet"],"genreform_ssim":["Certificates","Correspondence","Financial records","Petitions","Photostats"],"date_range_isim":[1755,1756,1757,1758,1759,1760,1761,1762,1763,1764,1765,1766,1767,1768,1769,1770,1771,1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. 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Items are then arranged chronologically by date."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eInformation about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: \u003cextref href=\"http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Preston_Family\" title=\"Preston Family\"\u003e\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Family History:"],"bioghist_tesim":["Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: ."],"odd_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOther Information:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00012.frame\u003c/p\u003e  "],"odd_heading_ssm":["General"],"odd_tesim":["Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00012.frame"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePreston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Preston Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOther related material concerning the Preston family can be found in the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Several of the items in this collection have been reprinted. These include the letters written between 1786-1813, by John Preston to Francis Preston printed in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 1, pp. 42-51 and Vol. 2, pp. 188-193. A list of these items is located below. A typed list is located in the first folder of the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e 18 May 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 42-45. 2 November 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 45-47. 26 December 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 47-49. 17 February 1787. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 1, Vol. 27, pp. 203-205. 31 May 1793. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 188-189 [dated as 3 May]. 25 Nov. 1794. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, p. 187. 14 May 1799. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 49-51. 19 December 1802. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 189-192. 3 March 1813. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 192-193.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Some letters are also available in typescript.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Other related material concerning the Preston family can be found in the Robert Morton Hughes Papers at Old Dominion University.","Several of the items in this collection have been reprinted. These include the letters written between 1786-1813, by John Preston to Francis Preston printed in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 1, pp. 42-51 and Vol. 2, pp. 188-193. A list of these items is located below. A typed list is located in the first folder of the collection.","18 May 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 42-45. 2 November 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 45-47. 26 December 1786. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 47-49. 17 February 1787. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 1, Vol. 27, pp. 203-205. 31 May 1793. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 188-189 [dated as 3 May]. 25 Nov. 1794. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, p. 187. 14 May 1799. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 1, pp. 49-51. 19 December 1802. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 189-192. 3 March 1813. John Preston to Francis Preston. Series 2, Vol. 2, pp. 192-193.","Some letters are also available in typescript."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee Indians and a court martial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Items, 1785-1819, relating to William's sons, Francis Preston (1765- 1836), lawyer, member of the Virginia Legislature and the U.S. Congress; and his brother John Preston (1764-1827), member of the Virginia Assembly and long-time Treasurer of Virginia, including letters from John Preston to Francis Preston as well as correspondence of the two men with other people. Subjects covered in the letters include politics; the War of 1812; a carriage; the College of William and Mary; duels; the building of a house; and Indians. These papers also contain a certificate, 20 September 1793, of emancipation for a slave signed by Francis Preston; and his appointment of two military aides.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Items relating to the correspondence of William Campbell Preston (1764- 1860), son of Francis Preston, and a member of Congress from South Carolina, including a circular and letter, 1827, concerning protest by citizens of South Carolina of a protective tariff.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers in Augusta County,\" Virginia. 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Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"one of our Coroners of our County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Sheriff of the County of Fincastle County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Signed by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from William Campbell, Aspen Bottom, to William Preston. Letter concerns Captain Shelby's purchase of the land where Captain Bledsoe lives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurveyor's entry of Fincastle County, later Kentucky and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Item mentions William Preston, surveyor of Fincastle. Signed by William Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Lieutenant and Commander in chief of the Militia of the County of Fincastle [County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties], Virginia\" Signed by the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Anthony Bledsoe, Fort Patrick Henry, Virginia, to Colonel William Preston. Letter concerns the Cherokee Indians, their need of supplies, and their fear of coming to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"County Lieutenant of Militia in the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Patrick Henry, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Preston was appointed as \"Surveyor for the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Dudley Digges, Lieutenant Governor, Williamsburg, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Charles Morgan to William Preston. Letter concerns a court martial of two men, Marshall Duncan and Timothy Roark, and the circumstances involved in the case; and men trying, to be struck from the muster roll in order to be relieved of their military duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePost bond for Joseph Achillberger before William Preston, Justice of the Peace, Montgomery County, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston. Was only able to send 10 pounds because of the \"great difficulty of procuring cash in this country\"; mentions getting cash from \"Uncle Tom\" or tobacco from \"Anderson\" and converting that to cash; tobacco prices; discusses the loss Kentucky will feel at the death of Colonel Christian.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Discusses business dealings with Anderson tobacco, and obtaining the necessary materials and the carpenter recommended by Captain T. Smith to finish their house; wants to compare prices between the Academy at Botetourt Town and William and Mary; gives details of building a new academy at Greenfield and the prices which would be charged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. More discussion about the constructing of their house; expresses concern about a possible suit against them for a debt unpaid, unless they raise money from Anderson's tobacco; tells of neighbors anxiously awaiting his Francis's return so that they might \"profit from your knowledge,\" referring to Francis Preston's license to practice law, and so that he can be considered an eligible candidate; offers to campaign for him in his absence; relates feelings toward a duel fought between their cousin, James Breckenridge and [?] Younghusband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. Sends news of large amounts of mail for him, mainly on the subject of friendship; election day has been moved to an earlier date in April, requiring him [FP] to come home earlier; hopes this doesn't interfere with his studies; gives itinerary and details about coming home; discusses the other candidates and the main issue of the campaign--the division of the country; tells rumor that Congress is about to \"raise a great army, for what purpose, we know not.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill is for fabrics, clothes, and notions for \"Sally B. Campbell,\" later Sarah Buchanan (Campbell) Preston, wife of Francis Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Short note discussing the election and political side effects relating to it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Mr. McDowell's, to \"Frank,\" Francis Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Discusses land transactions and the upcoming change in the Judicial districts west of the Blue Ridge; mentions the end of the Indian War and the government being settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, John Breckenridge's, Lexington, Virginia, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Comments on the reformed behavior of B. Smith, a commander at one of the frontier posts, who has \"abandoned both women and wine forever\"; discussion of affairs with the Indians--treaties, not trusting them, and hopes of continuing the war with them; General Wayne, however, has orders only to defend themselves, not attack; mention of land prices connected with investment possibilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Lexington, Virginia to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business discussion about an unknown matter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmancipation certificate of John Broady, Negro servant of William Campbell, father-in-law of Francis Preston. Signed by Francis Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"sister In-law,\" Sarah B. Preston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mention of her domesticity; gossip of a rich widow, Mrs. Thomas Randolph, who has fallen in love with John Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" probably Francis Preston. Gives election news of senators and governor; details about a duel between General Wood and W. Thomas Madison over the election of Governor Brook which led to defamations of character.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, no place, to Francis Preston, Congress, United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concerning attention paid to brother William by General Wayne.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Bishop James Madison, Botetourt County, Virgina, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses power of attorney between H. Smith and himself; and business matters dealing with land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses business transactions, including buying some horses; shares feelings of wanting to be married.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion of business transactions with Governor Shelby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses concern over their brother \"Tommy\" not being able to attend school due to insufficient funds, and asks if Francis might be able to help in this area; mentions William and Mary as a good choice for Tommy to study law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion about horses and John's son cutting teeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Blacksburg, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Family news; grandmother has died; is still looking for the book, EVirginians Millwright, sent by Francis to use as reference for their spring water problem.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks him to help with E. Madison's business affairs; house is half finished; hopes to pay off all debts soon and be as \"independent as a freeman ought to be.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Wagon arrived satisfactorily; sent 5 bushels of hemp seed and will send more if needed; borrowed from him a bundle of \"nail rods\" to lay the plank floor in his home; talk of the birth of \"another fine son \" who is quite handsome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Business news; cotton and salt arrived; has sent nail rods in a different, lighter wagon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Political discussion-including the possibility of Congressional redistricting of Botetourt and Montgomery counties, the disagreements between the Federalists and the Republicans, and how redistricting would affect John when elections come again; ironworks are shorthanded and he is willing to hire out seven \"of my best negroe men\"; wife has had the mumps and self has had a bout with rheumatism.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from David Campbell, Campbella, Tennessee, to Sarah B. Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses joy at Mrs. Preston's recovering her health; philosophical statements concerning life; fondness toward Mrs. Preston and family; mention of who will be in school at Abingdon for the next two years, if the school stays open.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Salt was delivered and all was in good order; family news including the birth of a son, William Ballard Preston, to their brother James P. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Asks if he can send his son, Carlton Radford, to Mr. Whaley's school, since Mr. Birch's school at Fort Chizwell has broken up; has taken care of money matters; more problems with rheumatism.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Montgomery Court House Virginia, to \"brother;\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks for his son, William, to be sent home since the family is free of the whooping cough; a Senate position is open, but heJohn declined since he thought that Francis wanted to run; discussion of war with Britain, and the election of a president; Virginia seems to be favoring Madison, but New York is doubtful; no plans yet for the Virginia militia to be called.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business letter; alludes to wife's death; mother-in-law taking care of domestic business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, \"In Council Chamber,\" Richmond, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Abingdon Washington County, Virginia. Cover letter for a commission for Samuel Preston, and a duplicate for the magistrates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Affectionate talk of family; money matters taken care of; carriage maker in Philadelphia has put the \"Family Arms and Crests\" on it, and has only the painting and the spring to take care of.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Happy that he won the election, even though it was with some difficulty; discussion of the ingratitude and jealousy of the community of those who \"serve the public\"; money and construction matters; legal concern over the exchange of properties, the Briar Patch and Horseshoe; wife is quite ill and still grieves over the death of Louisa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Peter Randolph, Nottoway County, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Concerning the addition of Mecklenburg into the 5th Circuit, Randolph's firm opposition to the plan requested by Judge Johnston to relieve Johnston of some duties of the 13th Circuit, and Randolph's reasons against the change of duties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Concern over the Blockading Squadron of Great Britain, and description of naVirginial battles in Lynnhaven Bay; wishes Congress would impose an embargo on Great Britain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Francis Preston, Brigadier General, 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, to John Tate. Appointment of Tate as Brigade Inspector of the 17th Brigade in the third division of the militia of the said Commonwealth. Including autograph document signed on verso by Francis Preston appointing Captain Francis Smith as his aide, 16 May 1816.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Virginia. Is still trying to locate the papers of W. P. Preston; more election news; introduces S. P. Sharp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Patrick Henry, Richmond, Virginia, to John Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Concerning a serjeanty right granted by Lord Dumore, 10 to 12 years prior, to Henry for 200 acres on the Ohio River.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt of David Price for 3 pounds received from John Preston. Including note on verso by John Preston, 17 April 1785, stating payment of 29 British pounds to William M. Miller.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from James Blair, Abingdon, Virginia, to John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia. Blair's wife, Betsy, a cousin of Preston, is unable to appear at court in Botetourt County in a case involving Mrs. Elizabeth (Preston) Madison, because her son is ill, but has sent a deposition. Hopes that Dr. Humphries has inoculated Preston's sisters for smallpox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Preston, Fort Lee, Bluestone, to Governor Henry Lee. Explanation of Preston's actions taken in defending his posts by dispersing his men; also explanation of monies spent. Including document by John Preston, 13 June 1792, Fort Lee, Bluestone, Virginia, accounting for monies spent by him for his militia men.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Edmund Randolph, Richmond, Virginia , to General John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom. Concerning legal proceedings at Staunton; and proceedings of the Richmond chancery court concerning the McKin case.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from James Hoge, Buckingham County, Virginia, to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Requests to have orders countermanded and have his troops transferred somewhere where they can recover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Floyd, Washington, D.C , to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. The appropriations bill is before Congress and is expected to pass this week or early next week; the estimate for the ordinance department is $1,037,200.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand grant certificate of John Preston for 300 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia. Signed by Governor James P. Preston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCircular letter transmitting memorials of the citizens of Columbia and Richland, South Carolina, to the legislature of South Carolina, and to the Congress of the United States, protesting against the protective tariff. Also includes the text of the memorials. Including letter from William C. Preston, Chairman, to William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 2 Nov. 1827, explaining the attached circular. Also including a newspaper clipping of the proceedings of the committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks name of a lawyer practicing in section in which General Joseph S. Shelton of South Carolina lives. The estate of Gilmer's grandfather is being sued and General Shelton is the principal debtor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Epes Sargent, New York, New York, to William C. Preston. Letter from Thomas W. Gilmer, Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, to William C. Preston, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. Sargent is associated with Park Benjamin in publishing the New World, a New York newspaper, and discusses his efforts to bring about an international copyright agreement.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This inventory, chiefly 1786-1815, represents three generations of the Preston family, and likewise can be divided into the following:","Items relating to William Preston (ca. 1729-1783), 1755-1782, primarily photostats of appointments to various county offices (coroner, sheriff and surveyor) and to positions in the Virginia militia; but also including original appointments, 1763 and 1776; a surveyor's entry; 1774; and letters, 1773-1782, to Preston concerning land, the Cherokee Indians and a court martial.","Items, 1785-1819, relating to William's sons, Francis Preston (1765- 1836), lawyer, member of the Virginia Legislature and the U.S. Congress; and his brother John Preston (1764-1827), member of the Virginia Assembly and long-time Treasurer of Virginia, including letters from John Preston to Francis Preston as well as correspondence of the two men with other people. Subjects covered in the letters include politics; the War of 1812; a carriage; the College of William and Mary; duels; the building of a house; and Indians. These papers also contain a certificate, 20 September 1793, of emancipation for a slave signed by Francis Preston; and his appointment of two military aides.","Items relating to the correspondence of William Campbell Preston (1764- 1860), son of Francis Preston, and a member of Congress from South Carolina, including a circular and letter, 1827, concerning protest by citizens of South Carolina of a protective tariff.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers in Augusta County,\" Virginia. Signed by Robert Dinwiddie, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Captain of a Company of Rangers.\" Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as : \"Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquler, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as Escheator for Augusta County, Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia for the County of Augusta,\" Virginia. Signed by Francis Fauquier, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Colonel of the Militia of the County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"one of our Coroners of our County of Botetourt,\" Virginia. Signed by Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt, Williamsburg Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Sheriff of the County of Fincastle County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Signed by John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from William Campbell, Aspen Bottom, to William Preston. Letter concerns Captain Shelby's purchase of the land where Captain Bledsoe lives.","Surveyor's entry of Fincastle County, later Kentucky and Montgomery and Washington Counties, Virginia. Item mentions William Preston, surveyor of Fincastle. Signed by William Christian.","William Preston was appointed as \"Lieutenant and Commander in chief of the Militia of the County of Fincastle [County, later Kentucky, and Montgomery and Washington Counties], Virginia\" Signed by the Committee of Safety for the Colony of Virginia.","Letter from Anthony Bledsoe, Fort Patrick Henry, Virginia, to Colonel William Preston. Letter concerns the Cherokee Indians, their need of supplies, and their fear of coming to Williamsburg.","William Preston was appointed as \"County Lieutenant of Militia in the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Patrick Henry, Williamsburg, Virginia.","William Preston was appointed as \"Surveyor for the County of Montgomery,\" Virginia. Signed by Dudley Digges, Lieutenant Governor, Williamsburg, Virginia.","Letter from Charles Morgan to William Preston. Letter concerns a court martial of two men, Marshall Duncan and Timothy Roark, and the circumstances involved in the case; and men trying, to be struck from the muster roll in order to be relieved of their military duties.","Post bond for Joseph Achillberger before William Preston, Justice of the Peace, Montgomery County, Virginia.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston. Was only able to send 10 pounds because of the \"great difficulty of procuring cash in this country\"; mentions getting cash from \"Uncle Tom\" or tobacco from \"Anderson\" and converting that to cash; tobacco prices; discusses the loss Kentucky will feel at the death of Colonel Christian.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Discusses business dealings with Anderson tobacco, and obtaining the necessary materials and the carpenter recommended by Captain T. Smith to finish their house; wants to compare prices between the Academy at Botetourt Town and William and Mary; gives details of building a new academy at Greenfield and the prices which would be charged.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. More discussion about the constructing of their house; expresses concern about a possible suit against them for a debt unpaid, unless they raise money from Anderson's tobacco; tells of neighbors anxiously awaiting his Francis's return so that they might \"profit from your knowledge,\" referring to Francis Preston's license to practice law, and so that he can be considered an eligible candidate; offers to campaign for him in his absence; relates feelings toward a duel fought between their cousin, James Breckenridge and [?] Younghusband.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Williamsburg, Virginia. Sends news of large amounts of mail for him, mainly on the subject of friendship; election day has been moved to an earlier date in April, requiring him [FP] to come home earlier; hopes this doesn't interfere with his studies; gives itinerary and details about coming home; discusses the other candidates and the main issue of the campaign--the division of the country; tells rumor that Congress is about to \"raise a great army, for what purpose, we know not.\"","Bill is for fabrics, clothes, and notions for \"Sally B. Campbell,\" later Sarah Buchanan (Campbell) Preston, wife of Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Short note discussing the election and political side effects relating to it.","Letter from John Preston, Mr. McDowell's, to \"Frank,\" Francis Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Discusses land transactions and the upcoming change in the Judicial districts west of the Blue Ridge; mentions the end of the Indian War and the government being settled.","Letter from John Preston, John Breckenridge's, Lexington, Virginia, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Comments on the reformed behavior of B. Smith, a commander at one of the frontier posts, who has \"abandoned both women and wine forever\"; discussion of affairs with the Indians--treaties, not trusting them, and hopes of continuing the war with them; General Wayne, however, has orders only to defend themselves, not attack; mention of land prices connected with investment possibilities.","Letter from John Preston, Lexington, Virginia to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business discussion about an unknown matter.","Emancipation certificate of John Broady, Negro servant of William Campbell, father-in-law of Francis Preston. Signed by Francis Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"sister In-law,\" Sarah B. Preston, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mention of her domesticity; gossip of a rich widow, Mrs. Thomas Randolph, who has fallen in love with John Brown.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" probably Francis Preston. Gives election news of senators and governor; details about a duel between General Wood and W. Thomas Madison over the election of Governor Brook which led to defamations of character.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to Francis Preston, Congress, United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Concerning attention paid to brother William by General Wayne.","Letter from Bishop James Madison, Botetourt County, Virgina, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses power of attorney between H. Smith and himself; and business matters dealing with land.","Letter from John Preston, no place, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discusses business transactions, including buying some horses; shares feelings of wanting to be married.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion of business transactions with Governor Shelby.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses concern over their brother \"Tommy\" not being able to attend school due to insufficient funds, and asks if Francis might be able to help in this area; mentions William and Mary as a good choice for Tommy to study law.","Letter from John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Discussion about horses and John's son cutting teeth.","Letter from John Preston, Blacksburg, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Family news; grandmother has died; is still looking for the book, EVirginians Millwright, sent by Francis to use as reference for their spring water problem.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks him to help with E. Madison's business affairs; house is half finished; hopes to pay off all debts soon and be as \"independent as a freeman ought to be.\"","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Wagon arrived satisfactorily; sent 5 bushels of hemp seed and will send more if needed; borrowed from him a bundle of \"nail rods\" to lay the plank floor in his home; talk of the birth of \"another fine son \" who is quite handsome.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Business news; cotton and salt arrived; has sent nail rods in a different, lighter wagon.","Letter from John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia, to \"brother\" Francis Preston. Political discussion-including the possibility of Congressional redistricting of Botetourt and Montgomery counties, the disagreements between the Federalists and the Republicans, and how redistricting would affect John when elections come again; ironworks are shorthanded and he is willing to hire out seven \"of my best negroe men\"; wife has had the mumps and self has had a bout with rheumatism.","Letter from David Campbell, Campbella, Tennessee, to Sarah B. Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Expresses joy at Mrs. Preston's recovering her health; philosophical statements concerning life; fondness toward Mrs. Preston and family; mention of who will be in school at Abingdon for the next two years, if the school stays open.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Salt was delivered and all was in good order; family news including the birth of a son, William Ballard Preston, to their brother James P. Preston.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Asks if he can send his son, Carlton Radford, to Mr. Whaley's school, since Mr. Birch's school at Fort Chizwell has broken up; has taken care of money matters; more problems with rheumatism.","Letter from John Preston, Montgomery Court House Virginia, to \"brother;\" Francis Preston, Saltworks, Washington County, Virginia. Asks for his son, William, to be sent home since the family is free of the whooping cough; a Senate position is open, but heJohn declined since he thought that Francis wanted to run; discussion of war with Britain, and the election of a president; Virginia seems to be favoring Madison, but New York is doubtful; no plans yet for the Virginia militia to be called.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Business letter; alludes to wife's death; mother-in-law taking care of domestic business.","Letter from John Tyler, Governor of Virginia, \"In Council Chamber,\" Richmond, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Abingdon Washington County, Virginia. Cover letter for a commission for Samuel Preston, and a duplicate for the magistrates.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Affectionate talk of family; money matters taken care of; carriage maker in Philadelphia has put the \"Family Arms and Crests\" on it, and has only the painting and the spring to take care of.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Washington County, Virginia. Happy that he won the election, even though it was with some difficulty; discussion of the ingratitude and jealousy of the community of those who \"serve the public\"; money and construction matters; legal concern over the exchange of properties, the Briar Patch and Horseshoe; wife is quite ill and still grieves over the death of Louisa.","Letter from Peter Randolph, Nottoway County, Virginia, to Colonel Francis Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Concerning the addition of Mecklenburg into the 5th Circuit, Randolph's firm opposition to the plan requested by Judge Johnston to relieve Johnston of some duties of the 13th Circuit, and Randolph's reasons against the change of duties.","Letter from John Preston, Richmond, Virginia, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Washington County, Virginia. Concern over the Blockading Squadron of Great Britain, and description of naVirginial battles in Lynnhaven Bay; wishes Congress would impose an embargo on Great Britain.","Letter from Francis Preston, Brigadier General, 17th Brigade, 3rd Division, to John Tate. Appointment of Tate as Brigade Inspector of the 17th Brigade in the third division of the militia of the said Commonwealth. Including autograph document signed on verso by Francis Preston appointing Captain Francis Smith as his aide, 16 May 1816.","Letter from John Preston, Horseshoe Bottom, to \"brother,\" Francis Preston, Abingdon, Virginia. Is still trying to locate the papers of W. P. Preston; more election news; introduces S. P. Sharp.","Letter from Patrick Henry, Richmond, Virginia, to John Preston, Montgomery County, Virginia. Concerning a serjeanty right granted by Lord Dumore, 10 to 12 years prior, to Henry for 200 acres on the Ohio River.","Receipt of David Price for 3 pounds received from John Preston. Including note on verso by John Preston, 17 April 1785, stating payment of 29 British pounds to William M. Miller.","Letter from James Blair, Abingdon, Virginia, to John Preston, \"Smithfield,\" Montgomery County, Virginia. Blair's wife, Betsy, a cousin of Preston, is unable to appear at court in Botetourt County in a case involving Mrs. Elizabeth (Preston) Madison, because her son is ill, but has sent a deposition. Hopes that Dr. Humphries has inoculated Preston's sisters for smallpox.","Letter from John Preston, Fort Lee, Bluestone, to Governor Henry Lee. Explanation of Preston's actions taken in defending his posts by dispersing his men; also explanation of monies spent. Including document by John Preston, 13 June 1792, Fort Lee, Bluestone, Virginia, accounting for monies spent by him for his militia men.","Letter from Edmund Randolph, Richmond, Virginia , to General John Preston, Horse Shoe Bottom. Concerning legal proceedings at Staunton; and proceedings of the Richmond chancery court concerning the McKin case.","Letter from James Hoge, Buckingham County, Virginia, to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. Requests to have orders countermanded and have his troops transferred somewhere where they can recover.","Letter from John Floyd, Washington, D.C , to General John Preston, Richmond, Virginia. The appropriations bill is before Congress and is expected to pass this week or early next week; the estimate for the ordinance department is $1,037,200.","Land grant certificate of John Preston for 300 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia. Signed by Governor James P. Preston.","Circular letter transmitting memorials of the citizens of Columbia and Richland, South Carolina, to the legislature of South Carolina, and to the Congress of the United States, protesting against the protective tariff. Also includes the text of the memorials. Including letter from William C. Preston, Chairman, to William B. Giles, Governor of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 2 Nov. 1827, explaining the attached circular. Also including a newspaper clipping of the proceedings of the committee.","Asks name of a lawyer practicing in section in which General Joseph S. Shelton of South Carolina lives. The estate of Gilmer's grandfather is being sued and General Shelton is the principal debtor.","Letter from Epes Sargent, New York, New York, to William C. Preston. Letter from Thomas W. Gilmer, Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, to William C. Preston, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 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There are also a few later items dealing chiefly with his estate. The bulk of the papers deals with business matters. Documents concern such matters as the James River and Kanawha Company, the North River Navigation Company, Washington College's relationship with the Society of the Cincinnati, slavery, and the financial dealings of John Robinson and the Hare family. Series 2 is comprised of a second set of materials received at a later date. The correspondence supplements that found in Series 1. 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Documents concern such matters as the James River and Kanawha Company, the North River Navigation Company, Washington College's relationship with the Society of the Cincinnati, slavery, and the financial dealings of John Robinson and the Hare family. Series 2 is comprised of a second set of materials received at a later date. The correspondence supplements that found in Series 1. The other materials consist chiefly of court and other legal records during the 74-year period (1778-1852) in which Andrew and his son, Samuel McDowell Reid, were clerks of the court of Rockbridge County: tavern licenses, taxation lists, apprenticeship deeds, voter lists, militia rolls, invoices, etc.  There are also some Washington College papers.","Andrew Reid, Sr. was the father of Samuel McDowell Reid. Andrew's other son, Andrew Reid, Jr., is represented in the collection. All of Samuel McDowell Reid's children are represented in the collection as well: William Hare Reid, Henry Cabell Reid, Mary Louisa Reid, Samuel McDowell Reid, Jr., and Agnes Jane Reid.","Clerk of Court: According to Fairfax County (Va.)'s Historic Records Center, the Clerk of Court provided services such as recording documents, issuing court orders, taking despositions, making inventories, processing estates, and keeping records of births, deaths, and marriages. Clerks would also collect taxes. They collected fees for services rendered which was their initial source of income.","Series 1 of this collection primarily covers the period from 1763 through Samuel McDowell Reid's death in 1869. There are also a few later items dealing chiefly with his estate.The bulk of the papers deals with business matters. 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John Letcher, Executive Department, Richmond, November 27, 1862.","Confederate four percent registered bond.  Loan Act of February 17, 1864.  For R.H. Maury \u0026 Co. for $100.  8.5 x 11, approximately.  March 1, 1865.","'To the Alumni of the College of William and Mary:' From the Faculty of the College of William and Mary. Four pages, only the first is printed on.  Black ink on white paper, etching of the college at the top. 9.75 x 7.75 inches, closed. Williamsburg, July, 1869.","Circular about 'Numerical or Universal Language.'  Ten pages bound with a single brass brad.  13.5 x 8.5 inches.  Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant, Boucher de Bourcherville.  Quebec, Canada. March 7, 1870.","Advertisement soliciting subscriptions to the Southern Law Review, and Southern Law and Collection Union, Nashville, Tenn. Four pages. 11 x 8.5, closed. For 1873.","Advertisement soliciting subscription to Hubbell's Legal Directory of The United States and Canada. Eight pages.  9 x 5.75, closed.  Bound with string. February 10, 1873.","Circular.  'In the Supreme Court of Virginia. Hudson vs. Dismukes, \u0026c. Note of Argument for Appellee, D. S. Marrow.' Seven pages. 9 x 6 inches, closed. 1879.","Circular.  'In the Supreme Court of Appeals of Va. at Richmond. Gill, \u0026c., Trustees, v. Barbour's Adm'r, \u0026c. Statement.' Seven pages. 9 x 6 inches, closed. 1875.","Advertisement for Standard Law Books, namely 'Judge Bouvier's Law Dictionary…' Four pages. 9.5 x 6 inches, closed. Circa 1872.","Advertisement.  'J.B. Lippincott \u0026 Co.'s New Standard Publications.' Four pages. 9 x 6 inches, closed. Circa 1875.","Advertisement. 'The Irish Law List, 94, 95 \u0026 96 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.'  7.75 x 5.25, approximately, closed. Printed on two pages, but folded so that two more are blank. Circa 1875.","Circular. 'Virginia State Bar Association. Officers and Standing Committees.  1888-1889.' Four pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 1888-1889.","September Supplement to Chart No. 17 of the United States Law Association, Containing Corrections to Date. Two pages. 28 x 8.5 inches. September, 1881.","Circular. 'Rules of Practice and Forms to be Observed and Used in Making and Granting Requisitions for Fugitives from Justice.' Eight pages. 8.75 x 5.75, closed. October 1, 1887.","Contains McDowell's South Carolina Militia Records, 1764-1780, and Andrew Reid's legal forms book","Microfilm of McDowell's Rockbridge County account book from 1776-1797","Samuel McDowell Reid's 4 volume New Testament set was separated and cataloged into rare books.","The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  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Bound with string. February 10, 1873.","Circular.  'In the Supreme Court of Virginia. Hudson vs. Dismukes, \u0026c. Note of Argument for Appellee, D. S. Marrow.' Seven pages. 9 x 6 inches, closed. 1879.","Circular.  'In the Supreme Court of Appeals of Va. at Richmond. Gill, \u0026c., Trustees, v. Barbour's Adm'r, \u0026c. Statement.' Seven pages. 9 x 6 inches, closed. 1875.","Advertisement for Standard Law Books, namely 'Judge Bouvier's Law Dictionary…' Four pages. 9.5 x 6 inches, closed. Circa 1872.","Advertisement.  'J.B. Lippincott \u0026 Co.'s New Standard Publications.' Four pages. 9 x 6 inches, closed. Circa 1875.","Advertisement. 'The Irish Law List, 94, 95 \u0026 96 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin.'  7.75 x 5.25, approximately, closed. Printed on two pages, but folded so that two more are blank. Circa 1875.","Circular. 'Virginia State Bar Association. Officers and Standing Committees.  1888-1889.' 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 8 Series: 1. Accounts 2. Account Books 3. Legal Papers 4. Letters 5. Military Papers 6. Society Papers 7. Printed Material 8. Oversized Material Arrangement: This collection is arranged chronologically by date. The names mentioned with each folder are just a few of the many names which appear on the documents included within that folder.","Richard Billups was a merchant; shipbuilder; shipowner; justice of the peace; sheriff of Mathews County, Virginia, 1792-1795; major in the Virginia militia; leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church; and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1807-1817, from Mathews County. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00046.frame","Business, military and legal papers, chiefly 1774-1822, of Richard Billups of Mathews and Gloucester Counties, Virginia. Papers include accounts, land records, and correspondence and some concern shipbuilding. Includes minutes, 1842, of a temperance meeting and Methodist church records.","Box: 1-5. Including plats of land, receipts, etc.","Box 1-2","Robert Whiting, John Billups.","Thos. Flowerdewe, Benjamine Cook.","Taylor, Burton, Dellahaunty, Beatley.","George Hunley, Ziperus Degges.","Jas. Davis, etc.","Stubblefield, Burton, Jarvis, Lyell.","John Billups, John Steer, John Foster, Jr.","John Foster, John Billups, Geo. Foster, Wm. Armistead, etc.","John Billups, L. Smith, Wm. Reynolds, Nelson.","Billups, L. Smith, Nelson, Reynolds, Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster, small account booklet.","Armistead, John Billups, Reynolds, Shackelford.","Thos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper.","John Fowler, Mathias James.","John and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.","Billups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.","Billups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle, Rispess.","Richard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.","Billups, Richard Risby.","Respess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby, Billups.","John Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry Forrest, etc.","John and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups, etc.","R. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.","James Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.","Estate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups, etc.","Respass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.","Respass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton, Jones, Tinsley, etc.","Rispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","Rispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis land plats.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff, Mathews County.","Lilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson, Dudley, Knight, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","More accounts as Folder 3; general account names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey, Dabnet. Etc.","Respass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts, etc.","Respass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley, Reynolds, Callis, etc.","Repspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight, LeRoy Cole, etc.","Respass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley, etc.","Respass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford, Patterson, etc.","Box 3-5.","Parker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest, Respass, Knight, etc.","Smith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley, Saunders, etc.","Lilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges, Hudgin, etc.","Smith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.","Jarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle, Eddins, etc.","Degges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster, etc.","Foster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight, Brounley, etc.","Eddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite, Burniston (?).","Accounts in connection with building of new schooner \"Courtney Norton.\"","Foster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling, Brounley, etc.","Cole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest, White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.","Dawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster, Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.","Cole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane, etc.","Respress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis, Roberts, etc.","Plat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens, Winder, etc. Includes a list of attendees at the May 21, 1814 Quarterly Gloucester Circuit meeting (Mathews, King and Queen, Mathews and possibly others) and their collection amounts.","Foster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.","Cramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster, etc.","Foster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin, Minter, etc.","Bramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes, Eddens, etc.","Bounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall, King, etc.","Minster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster, etc.","March, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.","Callis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.","Tompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.","Forrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins, Edwards, etc.","Morgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.","Hudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.","Diggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.","Dunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.","Stokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill, etc.","Foushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale, etc.","March, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.","Stoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin, etc.","Stoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.","Stoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.","Stoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.","Brounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane, etc.","Roy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James, etc.","Ransome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.","Stoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin, Ransone, etc.","Stoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.","Brounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.","Thomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly, etc","Stoakes, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Lilly, etc.","Hudgins, etc.","Hudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster, etc.","Lilly, Respess, Foster, Deggs, etc.","Appleman, De la Roche, Deggs, etc.","Respess, Hunley, Forrest, Shackelford, etc.","Respess, Armistead, Knight, Foster, etc.","Foster, Rispess, Mathews, Ransome, Callis, Gregory.","Tabb, Lewis, Lilly, Foster, etc.","Plats of land. Eddins, Foster, Elliott, Booker, Ransome.","Account Books, Cash Memo, and Day Books. Box 6-7.","27 pages.","14 pages.","30 pages.","45 pages.","14 pages.","25 pages.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","150 pages.","10 pages.","Box: 8-9","Poor condition. Deed. 300 acres conveyed to Joseph Billups by (?) Smithers on Winter Harbor (located in current Kingston Parish, Mathews County.) 1726.","Rum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.","Will of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.","Survey by Richard Billups for Hughes Family members for property on the east side of the East River, possibly behind the Glebe. 1791.","Respess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.","Ransome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis","Brown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley, Foster.","Gayle, Brown.","Taylor, Richard Billups, etc.","Taylor, Richard Billups, Respess.","Billups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.","Billups, Shackelford","Hudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.","Respess, etc.","Billups.","Gibbons, etc.","Brounley, etc.","Gibbon, etc.","Petition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle, etc.","Smith, Foster, etc.","Minutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810. Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.","Winder, Lilly, etc.","Smith, etc.","Degges, Brounley, etc.","Davis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.","Hudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.","Lyne, etc.","Degge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.","Ransone, Diggs, Whting, etc.","Lilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge, Gayle, etc.","Diggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.","Bohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.","Bohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.","Foster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.","Eddins, etc.","Knight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage licenses)","Tax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license; Hurst-Stewart marriage license.","Diggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.","Miller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.","Hudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams, etc.","Hudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.","Edwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins, etc.","Davis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.","Court docket for May term; Griffin.","Box-folder: 9:18-25","Wilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.","Patterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.","Brown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.","Lilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.","McCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle, etc.","Eddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.","Smith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.","Minter, brig construction, etc.","Box-folder: 9:26-28","Gayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst, etc.","Lists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.","Nicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc. Includes 2 items with no date.","Society Papers, Church Meetings and School Compositions Box-Folder 9:29-30","Quarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.","Total Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes, undated.","Sale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold, work done; and a map, etc.","Literary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812. Clippings, undated.","Box-folder: 10:1-12","2 copies.","Account of William Jarrott, Wilkerson Hunley, George Hunley, Edward Hughes, and 2 maps of Property, one dated October 22, 1712.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates","Billups, Richard","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Richard Billups Papers, 1705/1857, bulk 1774/1822"],"collection_ssim":["Richard Billups Papers, 1705/1857, bulk 1774/1822"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 B49","/repositories/2/resources/8868"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 B49","/repositories/2/resources/8868"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Virginia--Militia"],"geogname_ssim":["Virginia--Militia"],"places_ssim":["Virginia--Militia"],"creator_ssm":["Billups, Richard"],"creator_ssim":["Billups, Richard"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Billups, Richard"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates"],"creators_ssim":["Billups, Richard","Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposit: 4,006 items, 7/18/1941. 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Smith, Nelson, Reynolds, Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster, small account booklet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArmistead, John Billups, Reynolds, Shackelford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Fowler, Mathias James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle, Rispess.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, Richard Risby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby, Billups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry Forrest, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton, Jones, Tinsley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis land plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff, Mathews County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson, Dudley, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMore accounts as Folder 3; general account names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey, Dabnet. Etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley, Reynolds, Callis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight, LeRoy Cole, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford, Patterson, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 3-5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest, Respass, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley, Saunders, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges, Hudgin, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle, Eddins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDegges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight, Brounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite, Burniston (?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts in connection with building of new schooner \"Courtney Norton.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling, Brounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest, White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster, Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis, Roberts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens, Winder, etc. Includes a list of attendees at the May 21, 1814 Quarterly Gloucester Circuit meeting (Mathews, King and Queen, Mathews and possibly others) and their collection amounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin, Minter, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes, Eddens, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall, King, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarch, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCallis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins, Edwards, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMorgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarch, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRansome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Evans, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Lilly, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Respess, Foster, Deggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppleman, De la Roche, Deggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Hunley, Forrest, Shackelford, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Armistead, Knight, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Rispess, Mathews, Ransome, Callis, Gregory.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTabb, Lewis, Lilly, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlats of land. Eddins, Foster, Elliott, Booker, Ransome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount Books, Cash Memo, and Day Books. Box 6-7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e150 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox: 8-9\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoor condition. Deed. 300 acres conveyed to Joseph Billups by (?) Smithers on Winter Harbor (located in current Kingston Parish, Mathews County.) 1726.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey by Richard Billups for Hughes Family members for property on the east side of the East River, possibly behind the Glebe. 1791.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRansome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley, Foster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGayle, Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaylor, Richard Billups, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaylor, Richard Billups, Respess.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, Shackelford\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGibbons, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGibbon, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810. Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWinder, Lilly, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDegges, Brounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyne, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDegge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRansone, Diggs, Whting, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEddins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKnight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage licenses)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license; Hurst-Stewart marriage license.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt docket for May term; Griffin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder: 9:18-25\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter, brig construction, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder: 9:26-28\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc. Includes 2 items with no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSociety Papers, Church Meetings and School Compositions Box-Folder 9:29-30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTotal Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold, work done; and a map, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiterary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812. 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Papers include accounts, land records, and correspondence and some concern shipbuilding. Includes minutes, 1842, of a temperance meeting and Methodist church records.","Box: 1-5. Including plats of land, receipts, etc.","Box 1-2","Robert Whiting, John Billups.","Thos. Flowerdewe, Benjamine Cook.","Taylor, Burton, Dellahaunty, Beatley.","George Hunley, Ziperus Degges.","Jas. Davis, etc.","Stubblefield, Burton, Jarvis, Lyell.","John Billups, John Steer, John Foster, Jr.","John Foster, John Billups, Geo. Foster, Wm. Armistead, etc.","John Billups, L. Smith, Wm. Reynolds, Nelson.","Billups, L. Smith, Nelson, Reynolds, Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster, small account booklet.","Armistead, John Billups, Reynolds, Shackelford.","Thos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper.","John Fowler, Mathias James.","John and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.","Billups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.","Billups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle, Rispess.","Richard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.","Billups, Richard Risby.","Respess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby, Billups.","John Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry Forrest, etc.","John and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups, etc.","R. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.","James Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.","Estate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups, etc.","Respass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.","Respass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton, Jones, Tinsley, etc.","Rispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","Rispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis land plats.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff, Mathews County.","Lilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson, Dudley, Knight, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","More accounts as Folder 3; general account names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey, Dabnet. Etc.","Respass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts, etc.","Respass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley, Reynolds, Callis, etc.","Repspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight, LeRoy Cole, etc.","Respass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley, etc.","Respass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford, Patterson, etc.","Box 3-5.","Parker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest, Respass, Knight, etc.","Smith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley, Saunders, etc.","Lilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges, Hudgin, etc.","Smith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.","Jarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle, Eddins, etc.","Degges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster, etc.","Foster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight, Brounley, etc.","Eddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite, Burniston (?).","Accounts in connection with building of new schooner \"Courtney Norton.\"","Foster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling, Brounley, etc.","Cole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest, White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.","Dawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster, Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.","Cole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane, etc.","Respress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis, Roberts, etc.","Plat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens, Winder, etc. Includes a list of attendees at the May 21, 1814 Quarterly Gloucester Circuit meeting (Mathews, King and Queen, Mathews and possibly others) and their collection amounts.","Foster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.","Cramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster, etc.","Foster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin, Minter, etc.","Bramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes, Eddens, etc.","Bounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall, King, etc.","Minster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster, etc.","March, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.","Callis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.","Tompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.","Forrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins, Edwards, etc.","Morgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.","Hudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.","Diggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.","Dunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.","Stokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill, etc.","Foushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale, etc.","March, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.","Stoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin, etc.","Stoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.","Stoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.","Stoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.","Brounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane, etc.","Roy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James, etc.","Ransome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.","Stoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin, Ransone, etc.","Stoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.","Brounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.","Thomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly, etc","Stoakes, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Lilly, etc.","Hudgins, etc.","Hudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster, etc.","Lilly, Respess, Foster, Deggs, etc.","Appleman, De la Roche, Deggs, etc.","Respess, Hunley, Forrest, Shackelford, etc.","Respess, Armistead, Knight, Foster, etc.","Foster, Rispess, Mathews, Ransome, Callis, Gregory.","Tabb, Lewis, Lilly, Foster, etc.","Plats of land. Eddins, Foster, Elliott, Booker, Ransome.","Account Books, Cash Memo, and Day Books. Box 6-7.","27 pages.","14 pages.","30 pages.","45 pages.","14 pages.","25 pages.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","150 pages.","10 pages.","Box: 8-9","Poor condition. Deed. 300 acres conveyed to Joseph Billups by (?) Smithers on Winter Harbor (located in current Kingston Parish, Mathews County.) 1726.","Rum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.","Will of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.","Survey by Richard Billups for Hughes Family members for property on the east side of the East River, possibly behind the Glebe. 1791.","Respess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.","Ransome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis","Brown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley, Foster.","Gayle, Brown.","Taylor, Richard Billups, etc.","Taylor, Richard Billups, Respess.","Billups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.","Billups, Shackelford","Hudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.","Respess, etc.","Billups.","Gibbons, etc.","Brounley, etc.","Gibbon, etc.","Petition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle, etc.","Smith, Foster, etc.","Minutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810. Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.","Winder, Lilly, etc.","Smith, etc.","Degges, Brounley, etc.","Davis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.","Hudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.","Lyne, etc.","Degge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.","Ransone, Diggs, Whting, etc.","Lilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge, Gayle, etc.","Diggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.","Bohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.","Bohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.","Foster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.","Eddins, etc.","Knight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage licenses)","Tax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license; Hurst-Stewart marriage license.","Diggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.","Miller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.","Hudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams, etc.","Hudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.","Edwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins, etc.","Davis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.","Court docket for May term; Griffin.","Box-folder: 9:18-25","Wilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.","Patterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.","Brown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.","Lilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.","McCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle, etc.","Eddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.","Smith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.","Minter, brig construction, etc.","Box-folder: 9:26-28","Gayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst, etc.","Lists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.","Nicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc. Includes 2 items with no date.","Society Papers, Church Meetings and School Compositions Box-Folder 9:29-30","Quarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.","Total Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes, undated.","Sale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold, work done; and a map, etc.","Literary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812. 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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","Organization: This collection is organized into 8 Series: 1. Accounts 2. Account Books 3. Legal Papers 4. Letters 5. Military Papers 6. Society Papers 7. Printed Material 8. Oversized Material Arrangement: This collection is arranged chronologically by date. The names mentioned with each folder are just a few of the many names which appear on the documents included within that folder.","Richard Billups was a merchant; shipbuilder; shipowner; justice of the peace; sheriff of Mathews County, Virginia, 1792-1795; major in the Virginia militia; leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church; and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1807-1817, from Mathews County. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .","Other Information:","Additional information may be found at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00046.frame","Business, military and legal papers, chiefly 1774-1822, of Richard Billups of Mathews and Gloucester Counties, Virginia. Papers include accounts, land records, and correspondence and some concern shipbuilding. Includes minutes, 1842, of a temperance meeting and Methodist church records.","Box: 1-5. Including plats of land, receipts, etc.","Box 1-2","Robert Whiting, John Billups.","Thos. Flowerdewe, Benjamine Cook.","Taylor, Burton, Dellahaunty, Beatley.","George Hunley, Ziperus Degges.","Jas. Davis, etc.","Stubblefield, Burton, Jarvis, Lyell.","John Billups, John Steer, John Foster, Jr.","John Foster, John Billups, Geo. Foster, Wm. Armistead, etc.","John Billups, L. Smith, Wm. Reynolds, Nelson.","Billups, L. Smith, Nelson, Reynolds, Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster, small account booklet.","Armistead, John Billups, Reynolds, Shackelford.","Thos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper.","John Fowler, Mathias James.","John and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.","Billups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.","Billups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle, Rispess.","Richard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.","Billups, Richard Risby.","Respess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby, Billups.","John Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry Forrest, etc.","John and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups, etc.","R. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.","James Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.","Estate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups, etc.","Respass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.","Respass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton, Jones, Tinsley, etc.","Rispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","Rispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis land plats.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff, Mathews County.","Lilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson, Dudley, Knight, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","More accounts as Folder 3; general account names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey, Dabnet. Etc.","Respass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts, etc.","Respass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley, Reynolds, Callis, etc.","Repspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight, LeRoy Cole, etc.","Respass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley, etc.","Respass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford, Patterson, etc.","Box 3-5.","Parker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest, Respass, Knight, etc.","Smith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley, Saunders, etc.","Lilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges, Hudgin, etc.","Smith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.","Jarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle, Eddins, etc.","Degges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster, etc.","Foster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight, Brounley, etc.","Eddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite, Burniston (?).","Accounts in connection with building of new schooner \"Courtney Norton.\"","Foster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling, Brounley, etc.","Cole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest, White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.","Dawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster, Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.","Cole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane, etc.","Respress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis, Roberts, etc.","Plat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens, Winder, etc. Includes a list of attendees at the May 21, 1814 Quarterly Gloucester Circuit meeting (Mathews, King and Queen, Mathews and possibly others) and their collection amounts.","Foster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.","Cramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster, etc.","Foster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin, Minter, etc.","Bramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes, Eddens, etc.","Bounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall, King, etc.","Minster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster, etc.","March, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.","Callis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.","Tompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.","Forrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins, Edwards, etc.","Morgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.","Hudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.","Diggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.","Dunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.","Stokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill, etc.","Foushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale, etc.","March, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.","Stoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin, etc.","Stoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.","Stoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.","Stoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.","Brounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane, etc.","Roy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James, etc.","Ransome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.","Stoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin, Ransone, etc.","Stoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.","Brounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.","Thomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly, etc","Stoakes, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Lilly, etc.","Hudgins, etc.","Hudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster, etc.","Lilly, Respess, Foster, Deggs, etc.","Appleman, De la Roche, Deggs, etc.","Respess, Hunley, Forrest, Shackelford, etc.","Respess, Armistead, Knight, Foster, etc.","Foster, Rispess, Mathews, Ransome, Callis, Gregory.","Tabb, Lewis, Lilly, Foster, etc.","Plats of land. Eddins, Foster, Elliott, Booker, Ransome.","Account Books, Cash Memo, and Day Books. Box 6-7.","27 pages.","14 pages.","30 pages.","45 pages.","14 pages.","25 pages.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","150 pages.","10 pages.","Box: 8-9","Poor condition. Deed. 300 acres conveyed to Joseph Billups by (?) Smithers on Winter Harbor (located in current Kingston Parish, Mathews County.) 1726.","Rum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.","Will of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.","Survey by Richard Billups for Hughes Family members for property on the east side of the East River, possibly behind the Glebe. 1791.","Respess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.","Ransome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis","Brown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley, Foster.","Gayle, Brown.","Taylor, Richard Billups, etc.","Taylor, Richard Billups, Respess.","Billups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.","Billups, Shackelford","Hudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.","Respess, etc.","Billups.","Gibbons, etc.","Brounley, etc.","Gibbon, etc.","Petition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle, etc.","Smith, Foster, etc.","Minutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810. Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.","Winder, Lilly, etc.","Smith, etc.","Degges, Brounley, etc.","Davis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.","Hudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.","Lyne, etc.","Degge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.","Ransone, Diggs, Whting, etc.","Lilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge, Gayle, etc.","Diggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.","Bohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.","Bohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.","Foster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.","Eddins, etc.","Knight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage licenses)","Tax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license; Hurst-Stewart marriage license.","Diggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.","Miller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.","Hudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams, etc.","Hudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.","Edwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins, etc.","Davis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.","Court docket for May term; Griffin.","Box-folder: 9:18-25","Wilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.","Patterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.","Brown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.","Lilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.","McCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle, etc.","Eddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.","Smith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.","Minter, brig construction, etc.","Box-folder: 9:26-28","Gayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst, etc.","Lists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.","Nicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc. Includes 2 items with no date.","Society Papers, Church Meetings and School Compositions Box-Folder 9:29-30","Quarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.","Total Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes, undated.","Sale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold, work done; and a map, etc.","Literary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812. Clippings, undated.","Box-folder: 10:1-12","2 copies.","Account of William Jarrott, Wilkerson Hunley, George Hunley, Edward Hughes, and 2 maps of Property, one dated October 22, 1712.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates","Billups, Richard","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Richard Billups Papers, 1705/1857, bulk 1774/1822"],"collection_ssim":["Richard Billups Papers, 1705/1857, bulk 1774/1822"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 B49","/repositories/2/resources/8868"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 B49","/repositories/2/resources/8868"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Virginia--Militia"],"geogname_ssim":["Virginia--Militia"],"places_ssim":["Virginia--Militia"],"creator_ssm":["Billups, Richard"],"creator_ssim":["Billups, Richard"],"creator_persname_ssim":["Billups, Richard"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates"],"creators_ssim":["Billups, Richard","Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Deposit: 4,006 items, 7/18/1941. 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Papers include accounts, land records, and correspondence and some concern shipbuilding. Includes minutes, 1842, of a temperance meeting and Methodist church records.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eBox: 1-5. Including plats of land, receipts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 1-2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert Whiting, John Billups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Flowerdewe, Benjamine Cook.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaylor, Burton, Dellahaunty, Beatley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Hunley, Ziperus Degges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJas. Davis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStubblefield, Burton, Jarvis, Lyell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Billups, John Steer, John Foster, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Foster, John Billups, Geo. Foster, Wm. Armistead, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Billups, L. Smith, Wm. Reynolds, Nelson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, L. Smith, Nelson, Reynolds, Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster, small account booklet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArmistead, John Billups, Reynolds, Shackelford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Fowler, Mathias James.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle, Rispess.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, Richard Risby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby, Billups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry Forrest, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eR. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton, Jones, Tinsley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis land plats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff, Mathews County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson, Dudley, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMore accounts as Folder 3; general account names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey, Dabnet. Etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley, Reynolds, Callis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight, LeRoy Cole, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford, Patterson, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 3-5.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest, Respass, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley, Saunders, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges, Hudgin, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle, Eddins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDegges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight, Brounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite, Burniston (?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts in connection with building of new schooner \"Courtney Norton.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling, Brounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest, White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster, Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis, Roberts, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens, Winder, etc. Includes a list of attendees at the May 21, 1814 Quarterly Gloucester Circuit meeting (Mathews, King and Queen, Mathews and possibly others) and their collection amounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin, Minter, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes, Eddens, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall, King, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarch, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCallis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins, Edwards, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMorgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarch, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRansome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Evans, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStoakes, Lilly, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Respess, Foster, Deggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppleman, De la Roche, Deggs, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Hunley, Forrest, Shackelford, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Armistead, Knight, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Rispess, Mathews, Ransome, Callis, Gregory.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTabb, Lewis, Lilly, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlats of land. Eddins, Foster, Elliott, Booker, Ransome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount Books, Cash Memo, and Day Books. Box 6-7.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e27 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e45 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhysical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e150 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox: 8-9\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoor condition. Deed. 300 acres conveyed to Joseph Billups by (?) Smithers on Winter Harbor (located in current Kingston Parish, Mathews County.) 1726.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSurvey by Richard Billups for Hughes Family members for property on the east side of the East River, possibly behind the Glebe. 1791.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRansome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley, Foster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGayle, Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaylor, Richard Billups, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaylor, Richard Billups, Respess.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups, Shackelford\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRespess, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBillups.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGibbons, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGibbon, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810. Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWinder, Lilly, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDegges, Brounley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLyne, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDegge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRansone, Diggs, Whting, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFoster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEddins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eKnight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage licenses)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license; Hurst-Stewart marriage license.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMiller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt docket for May term; Griffin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder: 9:18-25\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePatterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMinter, brig construction, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox-folder: 9:26-28\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc. Includes 2 items with no date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSociety Papers, Church Meetings and School Compositions Box-Folder 9:29-30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eQuarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTotal Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold, work done; and a map, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiterary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812. 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Papers include accounts, land records, and correspondence and some concern shipbuilding. Includes minutes, 1842, of a temperance meeting and Methodist church records.","Box: 1-5. Including plats of land, receipts, etc.","Box 1-2","Robert Whiting, John Billups.","Thos. Flowerdewe, Benjamine Cook.","Taylor, Burton, Dellahaunty, Beatley.","George Hunley, Ziperus Degges.","Jas. Davis, etc.","Stubblefield, Burton, Jarvis, Lyell.","John Billups, John Steer, John Foster, Jr.","John Foster, John Billups, Geo. Foster, Wm. Armistead, etc.","John Billups, L. Smith, Wm. Reynolds, Nelson.","Billups, L. Smith, Nelson, Reynolds, Shackelford, David Jameson, Jr., Issac Foster, small account booklet.","Armistead, John Billups, Reynolds, Shackelford.","Thos. Gibbons, Thos. Flipper.","John Fowler, Mathias James.","John and Richard Billups, Thos. Billups.","Billups, John Weston, Delahaunty, Taylor.","Billups, John Fowler, John Avery, Joshua Gayle, Rispess.","Richard and John Billups, Thos. Lilly.","Billups, Richard Risby.","Respess, Mathews, Foster, Pennock, Risby, Billups.","John Lilly, Billups, John Foster, Henry Forrest, etc.","John and Isaac Foster, Richard Risby, Billups, etc.","R. Risby, Estate of John Foster, Billups.","James Callis, Repass, Billups, Risby.","Estate of Wm. Lilly, Respass, Risby, Billups, etc.","Respass, Lilly, Callis, Knight, etc.","Respass, Foster, Forrest, Knight, Charlton, Jones, Tinsley, etc.","Rispass, Roberts, Foster, Mathews, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","Rispess, Risby, Anderson, Lilly, Gayle, Davis land plats.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or sheriff, Mathews County.","Lilly, Foster, Respass, Jarvis, Anderson, Dudley, Knight, etc.","Many names on accounts with Clerk or Sheriff, Mathews County.","More accounts as Folder 3; general account names as above including Rispess, Gwathmey, Dabnet. Etc.","Respass, Cooke, Tabb, many sheriff's accounts, etc.","Respass, Dixon, Foster, Anderso, Hunley, Reynolds, Callis, etc.","Repspass, Forrest, Degges, Hurst, Knight, LeRoy Cole, etc.","Respass, Eddens, Knight, Van Bibber, Dudley, etc.","Respass, Smith, Foster, Knight Schacelford, Patterson, etc.","Box 3-5.","Parker, Lilly, Smith, Callis, Foster, Forrest, Respass, Knight, etc.","Smith, Knight, Respess, Gayle, David, Brounley, Saunders, etc.","Lilly Smith, Respess, Knight, Foster, Degges, Hudgin, etc.","Smith, Parrott, Mays, Knight, Respass, etc.","Jarvis, Lilly, Knight, Callis, Brown, Gayle, Eddins, etc.","Degges, Eddins, Knight, Lilly, Brown, Foster, etc.","Foster, Forrest, Eddens, Boswell, Knight, Brounley, etc.","Eddens, Lilly, Armistead, Foster, Tabb, Wjite, Burniston (?).","Accounts in connection with building of new schooner \"Courtney Norton.\"","Foster, Forrest, Dudley, Morgan, Burling, Brounley, etc.","Cole, Degges, Timberlake, Williams, Forest, White, Davis, Tyree, Hudgin, Tomkins, etc.","Dawson, Eddens, Bahannon, Forrest, Foster, Burneston, Burling, Mann Page, etc.","Cole, Jarvis, Forrest, Gayle, Widgeon, Lane, etc.","Respress, Foster, Hudgin, Eddens, Callis, Roberts, etc.","Plat of ground; Foster, Smith, Knight, Eddens, Winder, etc. Includes a list of attendees at the May 21, 1814 Quarterly Gloucester Circuit meeting (Mathews, King and Queen, Mathews and possibly others) and their collection amounts.","Foster, Degges, Smith, Morgan, etc.","Cramp, Lewis, Davis, Bohannon, Stevens, Foster, etc.","Foster, Tompkins, Brounley, Hugin, Tomblin, Minter, etc.","Bramhall, Robens, Tompkins, Foster, Hayes, Eddens, etc.","Bounley, Foster, James, Ransone, Bramhall, King, etc.","Minster, Tompkins, Armistead, Diggs, Foster, etc.","March, Tompkins, Armistead, Foster, etc.","Callis, Foster, Davis, Respass, etc.","Tompkins, Winder, Wjite, James, Diggs, etc.","Forrest, Deggs, Knight, Callis, Tompkins, Edwards, etc.","Morgan, Tompkins, Davis, Diggs, etc.","Hudgin, Tompkins, Jarvis, etc.","Diggs, Tabb, Minter, Smith, Tompkins, etc.","Dunston, Stoakes, Tompkins, March, etc.","Stokes, March, Tompkins, Davis, Gambill, etc.","Foushee, Freeman, Tompkins, Crawford, Neale, etc.","March, Stoaks, Tompkins, Davis, etc.","Stoaks, Smith, Moore, Owins, Tompkins, Hudgin, etc.","Stoaks, Edwards, Minter, Kane, Walker, etc.","Stoaks, Silverthorn, Goodrich, Hodges, etc.","Stoaks, White, Diggs, armstrong, Tabb, etc.","Brounly, Richardson, Stoakes, Hall, Lane, etc.","Roy, Jones, Stoakes, Minter, Roberts, James, etc.","Ransome, Stoakes, Lane, Belvin, James, etc.","Stoakes, Evans Roberts, Foster, Lumpkin, Ransone, etc.","Stoakes, Knight, Respess, Jarvis, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Callis, Bonsal, March, etc.","Brounly, Stokes, Foster, etc.","Thomas, Stoakes, Sibley, Lane, Foster, Brounly, etc","Stoakes, Evans, etc.","Stoakes, Lilly, etc.","Hudgins, etc.","Hudgins, Marchant, Hundley, Taylor, Foster, etc.","Lilly, Respess, Foster, Deggs, etc.","Appleman, De la Roche, Deggs, etc.","Respess, Hunley, Forrest, Shackelford, etc.","Respess, Armistead, Knight, Foster, etc.","Foster, Rispess, Mathews, Ransome, Callis, Gregory.","Tabb, Lewis, Lilly, Foster, etc.","Plats of land. Eddins, Foster, Elliott, Booker, Ransome.","Account Books, Cash Memo, and Day Books. Box 6-7.","27 pages.","14 pages.","30 pages.","45 pages.","14 pages.","25 pages.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","Physical Location: Pocket size account books loose in bottom of box, each identified with a slip as to title and date.","150 pages.","10 pages.","Box: 8-9","Poor condition. Deed. 300 acres conveyed to Joseph Billups by (?) Smithers on Winter Harbor (located in current Kingston Parish, Mathews County.) 1726.","Rum import certificate, Baltimore, 1777.","Will of John Billups, July 20, 1785. Import certificate, Fredericksburg 1788.","Survey by Richard Billups for Hughes Family members for property on the east side of the East River, possibly behind the Glebe. 1791.","Respess, Flitchett, Foster, Wjite.","Ransome, Gayle, Callis, Gregory, Davis","Brown, Langley, Respess, White, Hunley, Foster.","Gayle, Brown.","Taylor, Richard Billups, etc.","Taylor, Richard Billups, Respess.","Billups-Patterson, Lewis, etc.","Billups, Shackelford","Hudgins, Blake, Respess, etc.","Respess, etc.","Billups.","Gibbons, etc.","Brounley, etc.","Gibbon, etc.","Petition regards Richard Billups, Eddins, Gayle, etc.","Smith, Foster, etc.","Minutes of the House of Delegates Feb. 5, 1810. Litchfield, Williams, Forrest, White, etc.","Winder, Lilly, etc.","Smith, etc.","Degges, Brounley, etc.","Davis, Lewis, Degges, Callis, etc.","Hudgins, Daniel, Foster, Swann, etc.","Lyne, etc.","Degge, Tompkins, Forest, etc.","Ransone, Diggs, Whting, etc.","Lilly, Hunley, Jarvis, Booker, Smith, Degge, Gayle, etc.","Diggs, Armistead, Winder, Foster, Knight, etc.","Bohannon, Burcher, Ransone, etc.","Bohannon, Foster, Gayle, Ransone, etc.","Foster, Hudgins, Ransone, etc.","Eddins, etc.","Knight, Foster, Winder, Anderson (Marriage licenses)","Tax levy note book; Geo Paul marriage license; Hurst-Stewart marriage license.","Diggs, Hunley, Edwards, Jarvis, Ransone, etc.","Miller, Bayly, White, Foster, etc.","Hudgins, White, Richardson, Thomas, Williams, etc.","Hudgins, White, Pratt, Owens, Bassett, etc.","Edwards, Foster, Davis, Richardson, Hudgins, etc.","Davis, Lane, James, Hurst, Calles, etc.","Court docket for May term; Griffin.","Box-folder: 9:18-25","Wilkins, Respess, Smith, etc.","Patterson, Tabb, Jones, etc.","Brown, Gibbons, Patterson, Tyree, etc.","Lilly, Ransone, Fowler, Muire, Jackson, etc.","McCandlish, Tabb, Stevens, James, Lilly, Gayle, etc.","Eddins, Stoaks, Dudley, etc.","Smith, Stoakes, March, Callis, Gayle, etc.","Minter, brig construction, etc.","Box-folder: 9:26-28","Gayle, Hughes, Hudgins, Van Bibber, Hurst, etc.","Lists of men, Weedon, Gayle, etc.","Nicholas, Gayle, Callis; lists of men, etc. Includes 2 items with no date.","Society Papers, Church Meetings and School Compositions Box-Folder 9:29-30","Quarterly meeting minutes, lists of names.","Total Abstinence Society Minutes, 1842; religious notes; composition on astronomy by Martha E. Stoakes, undated.","Sale of the Glebe lands with regard to logs sold, work done; and a map, etc.","Literary fund broadsides, Richmond 1811-1812. Clippings, undated.","Box-folder: 10:1-12","2 copies.","Account of William Jarrott, Wilkerson Hunley, George Hunley, Edward Hughes, and 2 maps of Property, one dated October 22, 1712."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates"],"names_coll_ssim":["Virginia House of Delegates"],"persname_ssim":["Billups, Richard"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center","Virginia House of Delegates","Billups, Richard"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":202,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:47:41.769Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_8868"}},{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_9297#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and \"Tower Hill,\" Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs \u0026amp; Blow, Baker \u0026amp; Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation owner that operated in part by labor of enslaved persons. He shipped the goods produced by the plantation by sea, often to European markets. His correspondence and papers during this period provide a model source on plantation management, sea trade, trade during the American Revolution, and trade during the War of 1812. Includes correspondence, plantation accounts, ship accounts, and legal papers.\u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viw_repositories_2_resources_9297#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_9297.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Blow, Richard, Papers","title_ssm":["Richard Blow Papers"],"title_tesim":["Richard Blow Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1772-1872"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1772-1872"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1772/1872"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872"],"text":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872","Mss. 65 B625","/repositories/2/resources/9297","Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century","Banks and banking--Virginia--History--19th century","Canals--Southern States","Embargo, 1807-1809","Horses--North Carolina","Horses--Virginia","Legal documents","Merchants--Great Britain","Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century","Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--Nansemond County","Merchants--Virginia--Petersburg","Merchants--Virginia--Sussex County","Merchants--West Indies","Plantation life--Virginia","Plantations","Slavery--Virginia--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Tobacco--Southern States--History--18th century","United States--History--War of 1812","Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794","Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","The collection is arranged chronologically.","Richard Blow (1746-1833) was a native of Southampton County, Va. He was born in 1746, the son of Samuel Blow and Martha (Drew) Blow. He married Frances Wright in 1786. He owned \"Tower Hill,\" plantation in Sussex County, Va. and was a partner in stores operated in Virginia and North Carolina. He furnished ships to trade American goods abroad. He was the first president of the Farmers Bank of Norfolk and was president of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Blow died in Portsmouth, Virginia.","Blow Family Papers (Mss. 65 B63), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; and Richard Blow Papers (PH 28), Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.","Mss. 2008.18 Blow Family Genealogy","Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and \"Tower Hill,\" Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs \u0026 Blow, Baker \u0026 Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow \u0026 Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation owner that operated in part by labor of enslaved persons. He shipped the goods produced by the plantation by sea, often to European markets. His correspondence and papers during this period provide a model source on plantation management, sea trade, trade during the American Revolution, and trade during the War of 1812. Includes correspondence, plantation accounts, ship accounts, and legal papers.","Subjects covered in the collection include trade, tobacco, prices, Whiskey Rebellion, thoroughbred horses, banking (Bank of the United States and Farmers Bank of Norfolk), Dismal Swamp Canal, the Embargo of 1807-1809, and the War of 1812. There are letters from merchants in Great Britain and in the West Indies.","Re: Prices for tobacco, salt, hogs, to be bought in that are area","4 invoices for miscellaneous goods","15 invoices for miscellaneous goods","Re: Goods shipped from London","8 invoices for Miscellaneous goods","Account book kept at Sussex Court and Southampton Court (56 pp.); Cash memo book of Richard Blow (Tobacco accounts, collections, etc.)","7 invoices","Invoice","4 items","3 invoices","2 items","Letter relates to selling salt, tobacco and escaping enemy ships, etc. [Hines was the nephew of Richard Blow and in business with him. See South Quay Store references in Blow Family Papers Index]","Property adjacent Davis, [Welch ?], Cary \u0026 Edards \u0026 [Tynes?]","Property near Cedar Island on Lawn's Creek to Brantley's Landing to Welshe's spring branch","Bought of various people tobacco, cloth, china, etc.","Re: Invoices of goods sent from Glasgow","Re: 6 items","(postage)","Letter and petty account","Re: tobacco","3 items","Deed from from Williamson to Land, and deed from Land to Land","Re: Purchasing vessels at Charlestown, will bring back salt","Re: Shipment of iron","Invoice","As well as other accounts with Blow. Ships mentioned are Ranger, Grapevine, Race Horse","Re: Business dealings","Boston sales after she was wrecked[?]","Anthony Diggs, builder, £ 90.656.19.3","13 pp.","1782-1789 (16 pp)","14 silver buttons at £ 4.5.1. [Waddell was the son of Wm. Waddell of Williamsburg, a jeweller and son-in-law of James Geddy II]","Counting room, lumber house, painting, etc.","Complaints of quality of tobacco shipped to him from South Quay, Pitch Landing and Petersburg, gives problems of trading and selling to Dutch, Danish and English - gives prices current of rum, sugar, coffee, humth, hoops, salt tow, etc. Letter gives details of economy in West Indies.","Says Blow's ships Nonpareil and Jenny left for Port-au-Prince had brush with Angulla[?] privateers; Vessel Defiance, will sail shortly ; Discusses conditions for sale of Virginia Tobacco (Pitch Landing is worst in quality yet sent). Difficulties with Danish Law; difficulty in shipping and risk from English Privateers - sends what goods Baker \u0026 Blow ordered as soon as possible. (8pp)","Tobacco acccounts.","October 3rd, 7th,","re: his ships loading, etc.","Re: payment for weapons sold","Notes arrival of B \u0026 B's schooners, Polly, Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there","Remarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc","South Quay goods shipped on board of schooner Venus for South Quay","8 pp.","\"I can inform you of the surrender of the British Army the night before last\"","News of surrender","shingles and guns","2 letters","Murdock's part ownership in schooner John and goods therein. Directs when sold to give his part to Samuel Beale, Williamsburg on account. Discusses falling prices if Cornwallis should surrender and a general peace ensue","Refers to sailing of Polly and Flying Jenny","Price of tobacco is rising; every kind of good is falling. Refers to sending the sloop to St. Thomas with shingles and staves. Ship Count de Grass expected Wednesday. Will meet her at Ocracock [Ocracoke] on 20th with 100lb cannon powder and all the men. Muskets and powder to be sent from Newbern.","List of merchandise. 12 pp.","2 letters","Refers to surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown","Letter re: his share of a schooner for sale; tobacco on hand to his account, etc","Invoice of goods shipped","Ships Experiment and Adelphi here with tobacco, staves and flour","Invoice and to whom sold","French are now in possession of whole island except Br[?]nton Hill. Capt Stogdale has taken 3 prizes before his arrival at St. Croix and several leaving St. Kitts and sent them to St. Eustatius. Refers to state of the Jenny","Refers to Brig Betty","Refers to Charming Polly","Island of St. Christopher surrendered to France - refers to lumber sales","Request for molasses","Business affairs to be settled","2 letters","Business between the two, conditions for shipping, new markets for goods, etc. (13 letters)","Re: disposal of the store business. Dick Baker, John Redwood interested, and \"major part of the business will be carried on at South Quay being the seaport place\" Baker's proposition as to carrying on business with Blow in the future. (6pp)","10 letters","3 items","4 items","7 items","5 items","Expenses of sloop Industry to Philadelphia","Re: shipping of goods to Blow. Proposes going into business with Blow at Richmond. \"The Revd. Wm. Andrews is now at Chelsea in this neighborhood and without any employment or assistance except £ 80 per annum which is allowed by government as temporary…\" (7pp)","Brig Pricilla disbursements in Cadiz; November 5th: cabin furniture, cabin stores, ship stores…\"; Invoice of Schooner Venus in account, Richard Blow, Merchant, Norfolk (4 items); Portsmouth store account; Petersburg store: invoice of tobacco shipped on Venus; South Quay Store: invoice in account with Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Portsmouth store account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale","Re: voyage to Fredericksburg; repairs; voyage to Cape Charles and back","Charged to Richard Blow","Brig Pricilla: wages, contract to Cadiz; Schooner Nonpareil accounts due to Rey \u0026 Brandenbourg, Cadiz; 4 items","voyage to London; 28 items","Outfitted and cargo","Sales wages, shingles, bamboo, lumbwer, etc. Cargo, invoice to Richard Blow and others; 2 items","Invoices, sales, etc. 24 items","Sales, wages, etc","Accounts of various ships [?] to Richard Blow; Accounts of Richard Blow [?] to others: to Hathorn \u0026 Miller for painting inside of store, glazing, a corner cupboard, table; Portsmouth Store; tavern account of George Briggs [?] to Ann[?] Livingston (dinner, club, wines, and board - £ 3.11.5; 20 items","Sales at auction of the Schooner Brilliant's Cargo, New York; Tobacco shipped on Brig Nelly by Blow \u0026 Barksdale—invoice; Invoice of Richard Blow \u0026 Co. with Oxley \u0026 Hancock on ships Jolly Tar, Marlborough Dancer, Wm. Randall.","Division account of owners of schooner Nonpareil, her cargo in account with Baker \u0026 Blow.","Owners of schooner Brilliant to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Petersburg; Account of sale of cargo of Schooner Richard in account with Baker \u0026 Blow at South Quay.","John Key 1/3 of profits made, Baker and Blow 2/3 of profits","In the amount of £ 7681.18.3; schooner Virginia, schooner St. Thomas; Debts due to following persons….; South Quay Store £ 2240.10.2½","Capt. James Caton, Norfolk: saddlery, shoes, linens, twine, glass, etc…£ 586.3.6½","Letter re: delivery of shingles","Re: change of occupation","Re: sale of cargo of Jolly Tar and sailing hack","Re: sailing of Jolly Tar out of London","Shipping good to firm","Same as above.","Asks about ships Jolly Tar, Tartar and sloop Old from Philadelphia with much needed goods","Sending flour down","Shipping goods to him in the William. Asked for tobacco","re: ships to England","re: goods bought and desired","re: exchange of flour and tobacco for salt and blankets, etc.","re: ordering a few items","Re: goods disbursed from ships to store in Petersburg and Tower Hill; dissatisfied over trade conditions","same as above","Has engaged James Marsh as an assistant for you; salary to be £ 50 per year from time he arrives in Virginia","Letter sent by ship William, 7pp.","Asks for [mourning?] goods to be sent to him","Ship Marlborough is coming up the river to Four Mile Creek; general trade conditions","\"Ship Marlborough has at last got up to 4 Mile Creek an is not discharging her load\"","Re: poor credit of English \u0026 French merchants; refers his uncle Scott going blind; general business affairs","Re: goods to be delivered to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, merchants, Petersburg","His sons, George and Sammy, are in service to Richard Blow in his business. Asks that Blow continue them. He is infirm and keeps his store only to give his sons Charles some insight in business","Jolly Tar is here with your tobacco; will sail back in 3 weeks with your goods; the William left on January 3rd. Has established correspondence and credit on best footing with Birmingham and Manchester (England), Sheffield, Halifax and Leeds houses. Discusses Blow's ability with shipping business. Crew does no think Blow has experience for this in times of peace. Says only 2 trips a year can be made to England and to West Indies. Advises Blow against using [unclear?] ships in this voyage.","Re: Cargo of Jolly Tar","Asks for linens; suggests Blow have a craft or two built to go up and down river","Re: Jolly Tar about to sail, not German goods to be had, no pewter or nails","Ironmongery hard to get; Ship Charlotte Daniel chartered with load for James River. Mentions Mr. Allen of Surry, Mr. Charles Carter of Charles City; discusses prices of American goods and demands abroad. Asks Blow to send tobacco back in the Charlotte.","Re: escaped enslaved person (\"runaway slave\")","Ship to go to City Point, Virginia and load with tobacco and proceed to London.","29 items","Re: Lots in Petersburg and buildings thereon too near Blow's storehouse","£ 63","Goods sent out, etc. Commission merchants problems re payment of tobacco brought over","Ship Marlborough sent to Virginia for tobacco. Probably to West Point; York River tobacco brings better prices than James River; \"my commission for selling a hhd of tobacco shall be 21 shillings; brokerage is 5 shilling\"","£ 350 due","Good shipped out","Announcing firm","Wishes bar iron","Refers to death of George Briggs","Refers to the Charlotte store","Wants canvas and anchor","Articles bound from Norfolk to London, agreement, names of Crew, wages, etc.","Does not want any part of ship Jolly Tar at sea","Itemized","16 pieces","For shingles, etc., shipped by boats to Portsmouth or Norfolk","Pepper, coffee, mill;","Linseed oil, etc.","New sloop of £ 850","General merchandise","Oils, locks, paints","Shot, lead, nails, window glass, glass, hats, axes, linens, copper, hardware, guns: £ 986.60 pounds","Shoes and hats","Ginger","Ginger","Sail duck","Woolens","Spoons, combs","Provisions for sloop dispatch","Invoice, to D[arton?], Petersburg","Goods at £ 256.0.11","£ 3074.10.8","Several invoices","£ 197.15.1 ¼","£ 60.16.7","2 accounts","In ship Thompson, hardware; £ 106.7.8","Oils and lampblack","For store and wharf repairs","£ 1171.15.9½","Richard Blow, Thomas Ogburn, Owners \u0026 Thomas [Angnus?], Master of Schooner Venus: Contract to West Indies; also ship's personnel with wages","3 carts of snakeroot per the Jolly Tar, London","For goods bought at Port Au Prince, Jamaica.","Re: shipping Blow's fall goods and pick up blows tobacco for foreign ports","25 items","23 items","25 items","25 items","Re: accounts","Has hired Benjamin Wythe to live with him at £ 20 instead of Fort at £ 60. Key was the operator of Tower Hill store and plantation.","Re: damage and vandalism to ship Malborough","Re: John [Cohn?] to be apprenticed to Richard Blow for 6 years","Will not keep on Benjamin Wythe (see January 4th above)","Re: bill of laden for ships Marian, Norfolk from Harvre de Grace","Re: store there","Re: they will have new neighbors soon at Sandy Hill: J. Stewart \u0026 Company. (Key operated Tower Hill Store for Richard Blow)","Re: ships for sale","Re: goods for Col. Allen and for Charles Carter","Re: blooded mares owned by Allen Cooke's estate","Re: management of store","re: mercantile business there","Re: sending Marlborough to Glasgow","Re: shipment of stones to Richard Blow","Re: ships Marlborough and Portsmouth and possible cargoes, [unclear] Jasmine","\"…the men who can fight best, lye [sic!] most and swear cleverly are most in repute\" here.","\"back country stores have taken a great deal of the trade from this place…\"","re: ships for cargo in James, York and Rappahannock Rivers - [unclear] and get Malborough full as soon as possible, refers to Blow's trip to England soon","Re: leaving lot by Barton for a lumber house near store","Re: Blow's paying his account with him","Re: death","Re: buying lot from Blow for new store","Re: arrival of ships. Bland, apparently, was manager of Blow's business in his absence","Re: corn delivered","Re: hard money, much of ship George off Smith's Island - losses…","Re: building store; arrival of foreign ships…","Re: debts due Co.","Re: debts of Blow to Company","Re: getting watch springs from London; (Geddy lived in Williamsburg near Palace; see James Geddey House History C.W.; he moved to Petersburg when Capitol left Williamsburg)","Re: sending some paper of Baker to Blow before he sets out for London. May send them to Blow in London, asks about what Blow has decided re land and who is to settle it for him; will give Blow's agent the refusal as he promised; (Zach Rowland owned a lot in Williamsburg on Waller Street (from 1782-1786); see C.W. for location of his lot—[M.A.S])","Re: Blow's trip to Europe soon, wishes some memo or form of a co-partnership, between them before Blow goes","Meal sent down","Torn","Re: Blow's debts to him","Re: Sending tobacco by Marlborough to London next week, sends lists so collections can be made there","Re: Blow's letter dated on board ship Portsmouth in Hampton Roads was received; refers to copartnership in letter of 4th (above). Approves of getting another partner from Britain to go into their firm (Barksdale \u0026 Blow). Suggests as Blow is there and will visit all trading posts in Britain, he can choose one better and will visit \"all the back stores\" before his return to Petersburg. McNeil has Married Youille's daughte - after a feud Youville has disowned them. Barksdale will have to settle McNeil elsewhere in back country and will settle [unclear?] in back country and will need spring goods for these small stores; asks Blow to send goods back to him in the Marlborough.","Re: send cellar window frames to him via Pierce's Sloop","Re: \"trade very dull, collections same, money tight\"","Re: no chances of collecting money at this time, money tight","Re: Blow's finances here while he is abroad no chance of collections until fall; workmen must be paid at all events. Ask Mr. Key or Mr. Barksdale for help if you need funds badly (Hines was Blow's nephew and manager of some of his property).","Re: can furnish stores, planks, etc.","Re: Blow and Baker \u0026 Blow's overdue account with Hazlehurst, Philadelphia","Re: Just back from 6 weeks up the country, per ship Virginia. Been the round of all the stores in the Country that we have an interest in. Collections very small. Insects among tobacco has been very fatal. Business very dull. If ship Portsmouth should arrive early, I can do well this fall in trade; may be able to get Northern goods this fall; Insists upon Blow getting them a partner for Britain, perhaps in Glasgow.","Re: Refers to lots of goods sent to Blow in Virginia in the George. No sale as yet for Blow's tobacco arrived in [unclear?] due to uncertainty as to duty.","Re: demands very pressing at Portsmouth and here; out of his power to give any financial assistance.","Re: sending meal down","Re: sending framing down; get bricks for him","Re: Citron bought, etc","[torn]","Sent Blow naval stores for sale","Alex Donald, Richmond, wishes 1,081,000 barrel stones; (Donald is a partner of Donald \u0026 Burton, London)","Sends goods to Robert Rines \u0026 Co., John Hoomer \u0026 Co. and Robert Craige; asks Blow to clear these at customs and to these people for them","Sends him 2 , [unclear?] of brandy","Invoices of goods shipped in Harrison and Richmond also in your ship Portsmouth re: sales of tobacco there","Drafts on Donald \u0026 Burton, London","\"Give Capt. Diamond a compass…\"","On pleasure trip; business in Virginia very dull. \"I find a good many houses failing in this place as well as in Philadelphia. Northern cities laden with India goods;\" urges Blow to have a separate account for the Portsmouth and Petersburg stores as I have no interest in the Portsmouth store.","[torn]","Re: business conditions there and his interests in Virginia","Re: his goods from abroad have arrived. Can furnish Bland some for Blow's store in Portsmouth if needed","Has received goods by the Richmond, Jasmond, Battleton, and Harrison; Re: their credit with Donald \u0026 Burton, collection of debts owving in Virginia, etc. Thinks Blow was right not to send off goods to his Tower Hill and Portsmouth stores this fall. Reports total loss of the Jasmond off Hatteras, passengers saved, all goods lost, great damage by this storm at Norfolk and Portsmouth as tides were 10 feet higher than ever known before. John Key, the operator of the Tower Hill Store, has come for a few goods for that store.","Re: Blow just returned from four months abroad. Discusses ships and cargo","Re: Mr. Jerdon's horses and groom[?] to be sent to him at Louisa if not, to A. Donald. Directions for putting off goods at Brandon; and to York County customers.","Re: confusion of orders for goods from Barksdale \u0026 Blow; and quality of tobacco shipped to him, prices etc;","Goods not coming to him on schedule. Wishes 500 bushels salt and some rum and sugar. Have no money to purchase tobacco. Dull sales at this place, low prices of tobacco and high prices of goods, keeps off buyers at store .","Order for goods to be sent by Blow to Wilmington by Sloop Speedwell. Thinks there is an excellent opening for a business there. Virginia is overstocked with Country Stores or rather shops. Could accept H.C. produce in payments. Send the goods to Henry Urquahart or Carmical \u0026 Bogle as soon as possible.","Re: goods received","\"Nothing going here in retail line but a demand to country merchants in the wholesale way...\"","Letter of credit for David and Herbert Hines, his brothers. [David Hines married Elizabeth Francis, daughter of Thomas Francis, February 3rd, 1781]","Re: need for molasses and rum, sugar or coffee for his business","Goods by the Speedwell to hand (£ 381.15.10); goods sent him (saddler, corderoys, [unclear?], men's shoes) \"not suitable for my trade here.\" I wish rum, sugar; will try to pay in North Carolina produce but that is as low in your state.","Detailed letter re economic conditions in England and the reaction to follow if Virginia General Assembly lays heavy duties on British shipping and on B[low's] goods imported in them; if this happens, a fatal blow will be given to the credit of Virginia in this country…","Re: Accounts for collection","Out of certain goods, will loose customers if Blow does not send some up.","returns invoices for damaged goods","Re: discusses effect to follow if paper currency is issued to you. It will raise your exchange very much. It is prudent for you to collect your debts before their value is reduced thereby…warns against giving too much credit…","Re: needs cloth for clothes for enslaved persons","Re: difficulty of getting spring goods from abroad","[need to check folder break-down for accuracy]","For goods [unclear?] and to be sent to Richard Blow per ship Portsmouth. Blow had sent stoves over to be sold (8 items)","Received credit for shingles, scantling, garden nails and lumber","14 petty accounts of Richard Blow with craftsmen; Accounts of Donald \u0026 Burton, London for goods; List for Richard Blow, Virginia (6 items)","Lists: \"1 fine Carnelian seal with Coat of Arms crest. Neatly set in gold [unclear?] pattern £ 5.5 \"N.B. the seal, pin and ring were delivered to Mr. Blow\"","Fifteen accounts of Richard Blow for various needs at home and abroad; Tavern account with Mr. A. Livingston; Repairs to ship Portsmouth","Shipped by Blow \u0026 Barksdale on Jesmond for their account with Robt. Crew, Merchant, London, £ 1034.13.5","30 heads[?] of Tobacco; £ 600.17.11;","8 invoices","10 invoices for jewelry;","32 petty accounts","6 receipts Richard Blow","30 receipts","10 items","9 items","...for goods furnished to Captains of ships and other individuals; 24 items","21 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","12 items","\"A Pair of Silver [unclear?] Pistols, Brass Barrels and [unclear?] locks: (£ 8.18.6)\"","dress materials","30 pieces, receipts","30 pieces, receipts","Invoice; wide selection of goods","Wide selection of goods","The Jesmond is now loaded and will sail, Captain Smith is in charge","30 prices","30 prices","20 prices","20 prices","Bills for plank and lumber of all kinds, R. Blow; 12 prices","18 prices (August 1st??)","Re: loading of tobacco in ship Portsmouth at Cabin Point or Petersburg. Times hard; cannot remit now","A continuation of letter of January 1st (above)","Refers to new tax imposed by General Assembly of January 1st on tobacco. Money very hard, being [unclear?] often. Sends invoices for tobacco shipped out","Ship Portsmouth leaving for Portsmouth…","Re: glad to know ship Portsmouth is out of Cape's","Sending tobacco down in the Molly or the Termagant","In distress for cash to get French ships out—has drawn on Blow for £ 50. Gordon \u0026 Kean will send her (ship) out to sea for Grubb if I can furnish funds.","Discusses his personal business affairs—Roberts almost paid now. James River tobacco now in demand here. Refers to George Briggs, nephew of Blow, owing him; also George Nicholson and Richmond Rope Walk","Re: carpenters working on the wharf, etc.","Re: corn sent to Blow from the Plantation","Re: Blows ship in port and difficulties re manifest. Refers to Blow's marriage and send congratulations to him","Re: general news","Refers to Blow's \"happy day\" (wedding day / Richard Blow's Marriage); Tobacco prices looking up. Trade duller than when you were here.","The Grand Duke has brought in £ 2200. Refers to the Portsmouth, the Harrison, safe at Cadiz","Sends manifests of ship's Portsmouth cargo. She [ship]will be in England before the Harrison or the Grand Duke. Needs salt and stoneware","Gives ship's Portsmouth cargo and his needs.","…when he left South Quay he settled with Baker \u0026 Blow. Invoice of Tobacco received.","Buying lighter of Blow","Sends goods out by Grande Duke to Portsmouth and Petersburg stores. Business dealing with the two stores sends tobacco and staves back in Grand Duke.","Invoice of goods for (Richard Blow)","Invoice, harness and saddler","Tobacco shipped in the Hagard to Blow; concerned over how to pay creditors: \"very stagnant times\"","Wishes Blow to go up to the Charlotte store only 85 miles from Petersburg and see Mr. Youville","[Bot.?] of Bax \u0026 Ellill for \"Blow\"","[Bot.?] of Trinbug \u0026 Bell for Blow.","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Introducing Mr. Galloway from Jamaica who would like to be their agent there","For £ 1233.19.14","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Mr. Tyson wishes circa 200 hhds tobacco from lower James River. Recommends shipping tobacco to France","Would like business dealings with Blow; encloses list of goods available for exportation and prices","Begging for goods to be sent to him in ship Portsmouth soon","Sends invoice of goods needed","Unable to send the candlesticks you wanted for the Mason's Lodge. Pattern desired not available, very expensive to be made by silversmith; awaits Blow's decision","Re: tobacco shipments","Bond of 1784 January 1st","Re: shipping of goods to him and tobacco loaded in Portsmouth","Re: his debt to Blow","Re: sends tobacco in ship Portsmouth","Re: goods sent to Blow's store in ship Portsmouth. Barksdale not liable for that store. Settled with Blow before he went to England (in 1785) \"I have no more interest in the Portsmouth Store or the ship Portsmouth than a man unborn nor never had from the beginning of our co-partnership\"","7 invoices for goods for Blow in England","3 items","Various assortments, 10 items","By: Rich Barton, Henry Dickson, Donald \u0026 Burton; Taxes, Sussex County or Richard Blow: 1196 acres land, 203 acres land, 210 acres land, 28 polls, 13 levis, 10 horses, 50 cattle","from Donald \u0026 Burton, John Begg, James Williamson, Portsmouth Store, J. Barrister (10 items)","With carpenters, tailors, butcher, cabinet maker (10 items)","15 items","30 items","30 items","To M. Finkle, Jno. Thomson, [D____unclear?], Eph. Elder, Alex. Smith, E. Youngman, H. Brown, G. Nickols","various goods","Material for dresses","\"London, 3 Voyages;\" \"Virginia, 3 voyages\"","Re: bread, rum, etc","For repairs to ships of Portsmouth","For ship Industry, for store and for wharf; and for ship Dispatch (repairs)","Invoice for misc. goods.","For craftsmen. 23 items","For craftsmen. 30 items","Carpenter and builders account","For Petersburg store, South Quay store, etc.","Goods of Blow","2 items","14 pp.","5 pp.","5 pp.","13 pp.","3 pp.","6 pp.","Ships furnished, Ports listed, foreign merchants traded with, invoices (local and foreign); 200 items","Messrs. Brothers De Bacque, Dunkirk (France)","29 business letters concerning the sale of tobacco and loading on ship Portsmouth and others for foreign ports. Also their business agreements. The dates of the letters are as follows: January 12 11, 15, 26, February 2, 1, 8, March 12 26, April 4, 20, 12 30, May 16, 26, 31, 20, June 6, July 16, 13 August 10, 17, 19, 14 12 29, September 2, December 1, 13","Reports dissolution of the Partnership of Thomas Bland \u0026Co., will continue the business under the firm name of William Edwards \u0026 Co. and settle former co-partnership","To: Wm Pritchard, Wm Corrupter, Gabriel and [Rhilgo?], James Brown, John Cranbury, John Bingham, M. Donald, John Whitley","Re: renting house (Waddell was a silversmith, formerly of Williamsburg)","Re: to James Giddy Jr., Silversmith in Petersburg, formerly of Williamsburg","Re: renting store","70 pieces","Re: about to settle in Amherst Country","Re: cargoes for Portsmouth and Grande Duke and payments","Sales of cargo of Haney reported to your credit. Sends hogshead of London wine via ship. Ship Active soliciting trade","Indian corn cargo sent by Blow to them; Enclosed invoice of prices or articles imported to this island: wheat, grain and flour always command good prices and good profit","Tobacco is a very dull sale at present. Wheat high all over Europe, Turpentine is much demand","Cargo for North Carolina, salt, rum, ship bread and 400 empty hands.","Fort was manager or operator of the Tower Hill Store for Blow, George Andrews is overseer for 1788 for £ 20","Shipments to Donald \u0026 Burton via Bowman; other shipments discussed","(fragment)","2 to 15 ships en route to Portsmouth are frozen up in Appomattox River near the bar; ice is 5 inches thick","Most woolens entirely too high for this market","Re: clothing for Col. Lewis Burwell's enslaved persons is held up for duties at Portsmouth","Re: Suits in General Court","Re: Suits in court there. Blow's debts due; payments","Asking that Blow send 2 packages that came for him from abroad. One may be a spinet.","This detailed letter about the economy discusses prices for canvas, salt, tar; compares French and English prices for same. French minister has written to Jefferson with regard to trade to tobacco. France may become a very important depot for tobacco and particularly this port as it is near to the Dutch and German Ports.","Re: sendingBoxes of James Geddy's by first vessel","Re: James Geddy's invoice of sundry goods in 3 packages misplaed; never arrived here; find they are in Norfolk at Capt. Maxwell's. Please send.","Re: suits in General Court","(care of Joshua Fort, Tower Hill) Re: [unclear?] a lot of his","Re: suits in General Court","Re: bill owed by Blow","Mr. Geddy's 3 packages of goods have arrived at last, send duties due from him","re: coming for final settlement of accounts of Baker and Blow","Re: Blow's lots in Petersburg. Legality of ownership must be cleared up. Will check deeds in Prince George County. Gill will sue you if not cleared up soon.","Re: debts","Re: shipments of tobacco","Tobacco very promising this year, prospects for 1/3 more crop. Wants horseman's trumpet for our Cavalry","General prices and tobacco sales outlook","Sending tobacco down, also bacon, hams for Mr. Gregory in Dunkirk. M. Oldner will look after them.","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Lathian, Sharp, Wardrop \u0026 Co., Weavers","[unclear?] of Hunt \u0026 Clay, Ribbon Weaver","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Henry \u0026 Richard Joseph, Pewterers","[unclear?] of Lancaster, Bax and Ellill and shipment in Bowman for Virginia, bird shot, seeds","[unclear?] of James Davidson, Net, Rope, Twine, Line maker","[unclear?] of Wm \u0026 Rdn Borradaile \u0026 Co.; Hats and felts","[unclear?] of Edward Collinson, Tin Plate, [Warker?]","[unclear?] of [North?] Johnson \u0026 [Frith?], turners and brush makers","Re: prices of naval stores, lumber and staves. Asks for settlement of their business for past year soon","Glad Portsmouth has gone to sea, re: Blow's lands","[unclear?] of John Freeman \"cork cutter to his majesty\"","Looking for Captain Oldner. Stack of Tobacco in France kept up high by late deliveries. Farmers General will buy at liberal prices to encourage commerce between the two countries. When Portsmouth arrives, will write you further.","Sending sturgeon down, wishes nails","Re: coming to Tower Hill soon; We should come to something decisive in our business. Crop up country good.","Re: shipments of staves","Re: [lands?] of Baker \u0026 Blow in western lands.","Re: repairs to shop","Execution against blow for £ 600.5, for debts owed","Needs salt for store; re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] Gov. of Virginia for duties past due £ 80","Shipments in Portsmouth","Ship Captain: business about sailing for Blow","Will sell 1,200 acres of land in order to pay if Blow insists","Re: debt owed to Blow","Sending down tobacco","Re: suit in Southampton Co. Court","Re: Blow's debt to firm for tobacco sent him","Re: sending load of staves down by Mr. Gray","Allowed another ship to have barrel of mead as they were out; Oldner was the Captain of Ship Portsmouth","Farm conditions bad due to inclemency of weather; John Rochelle needs salt","Lawyer for Mr. Baker and Blow, Suit vs. Holland to come up at next court","Has sold Robert Rives remaining stock of goods belonging to Webb, Barksdale \u0026 Co. Accounts enclosed to amount of £ 916.8.4 sterling to go on proper account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale. It is now time to rent out the Courthouse store if no renter applies, we shall have to pay dead rent","Ship Louisa is in from Isle of May with salt. Says prices of barrel staves is too high","Is willing to be Captain of ship to ply between Holland to Portsmouth","Asks that goods come up in ship Bell Cap Bay, lying now at New Point News or in Nansemond River. May send \"my ship Constitution\"","Member of House of Delegates from Sussex County. General Discussion of affairs","Re: Law cases","Sale of schooner and cargo in Rotterdam; Ship Kepple to be sold in West Indies. Mr. Rosser to Fredericksburg with load of salt and dry goods. Ship Meremaid from Glasgow arrived today. Mr. Lightfoot's sloop from Antigua here [Mrs. Blow and little George were staying in Petersburg with Mr. Blow]","Re: changing from employ to Rotterdan [unclear?] to Captain of Portsmouth owned by Blow","Ships Portsmouth and other ships: staves business and red oak hogsheads for sale. Queen of France from London and Captain Blaney from St. Martins here with salt.","News of General Assembly in session. Briggs was representative from Sussex County. John Pride was speaker of Senate, defeated Charles Carter. Briggs thinks Pride better for office as he is \"more of a republican;\" [theater] plays to start here soon, place very gay.","Re: case Baker and Blow versus Applewhaite","Re: package lost","Re: suits and loss of legal papers","13 items","Suits in court","140 items","19 items pertaining to sloop","100 items","50 items","See alsoBox 11A: Financial Records, 1787-1789.","Have sent Blow 12 hogsheads tobacco and 10 [unclear?] pork; no peas to be had.","Sending load of tar","Re: sending navel stores for A. Donald","Re: Wishes to rent Blow's house in Petersburg for Mr. Rose; let him hear your wishes.","Sending load of tar","Re: Blow's judgment against him","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court vs. Blow \u0026 Baker","Prices of staves, shingles, scantling, sugar, molasses, coffee, tobacco, fish","Tar sent to A. Donald, sending 4 [bbls?] of turpentine to you","Re: selling enslaved person; Col. Baker's estate","Ship Powhatan thought lost","Burgess had a school in Southampton. Reference to payments to Blow","Has received Indian corn shipment for the account of James Brown of Richmond, Virginia. American grain is much in favor here, tho' [am?] crops of wheat, rye and barley are good","Sends flour and corn down for foreign trade","Re: Baker estate and suits in Brunswick County Court","Discusses financial conditions, tariff changes and effects on American goods","Sends manifests for 55 hogeheads by Portsmouth;Also, others. Brother (James) is at Bermuda Hundred on business","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court, of Blows","Sends bar iron for sale","Wishes quantity of peas to fill ship to be sent to Madeira before Christmas","Sent 2,800 bushels of wheat in ship Nancy for Philadelphia. Will Blow get bills of lading for it for Manson?","Cannot pay his account to Blow","Sending down 100 [unclear?] of flour and a parcel of back eyes peas (12 to 1,500 bushels) for Madeira","Lists tobacco sent down for Blow, needs Liverpool salt","Repairs, wages, food, ports, etc.","Repairs, bread, rum, cordage, naval stores and general petty accounts for misc. articles","Bills of laden and accounts of sloops Portsmouth, Elizabeth, Betsey, Acorn and others; and petty accounts for ships","12 items","circa 100 items","circa 71 items","Answer of Richard Blow, partner of Baker \u0026 Blow and of Richard Blow \u0026 Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","Answer of Richard Blow partner of Baker and Blow and of Richard Blow and Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","26 items","3 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","10 items","20 items","To ship on board the Portsmouth for Havre De Grass: Smithfield, Low Point, Hoods, Davis's, B. Brooke, Byrds, Lowpoint","\"Richard Blow for the ships\" account of repairs Blacksmith account-ship Gloucester to Richard Blow","20 items","20 items","Work on ship Portsmouth","20 items","20 items","13 items and one item related to freight","1 item","14 items","23 items","4 items","Re: Tobacco saved from wreck of the schooner Nelly in November 1783. Asks for settlement, may enter suit","Has corn and cask of ginger for Mr. Blow, by ship Charlie","Re: shipping tobacco via City Point, 60 [unclear?] corn at 4-Mile-Creek, little wheat","Sending 33 hogsheads of tobacco to Blow, for shipment on Portsmouth for Donald \u0026 Burton, London","Re: rent of Blow's warehouse","Owes blow; he is out of work, can't pay now (ship captain?)","Problems regarding ship and loading","Sending down brandy, nuts, apples by cart. \"people\" (referring to enslaved persons) need shoes","Has been to France, 3 days at Dunkirk at Messrs. De Bacque. They seem agreeable to do business but due to the critical condition of affairs in France, the exchange is above par. Will go to Liverpool to look situation over. \"Expect to get the scheme completed to the fullest extent and the goods shipped…\"","Sends invoice of goods and corn delivered to Capt. Binghame","Has sent 3000 [unclear?] of turpentine for account of Mr. Donald","re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale (2)","Send him rum for corn he sent to Blow","Wishes turpentine","Sends turpentine (600??) would want $3 per (??)","Re: loading corn and sending down","Re: sending corn for shipment","Re: sale of boards, shingles, scantling to merchants here. Will have 600 bushels of salt for Captain Cox and flour and fish. Hope to sail back by August","Demand for Virginia. Coal is very slow due to quantity of British coal on market. Corn prices low, Captain Fineash has employed Willing, Morris \u0026 Co. to buy his bricks. Wheat and flour prices good.","Sends down turpentine","Sailing on Bowman on 20th; dissapointed that Blow has done nothing to fit up his store in Petersburg for the reception of goods","Sloop Peggy left Lyon's Creek with corn","Accounts for sale of cargo and prices received","Re: Capt Fineash's business affairs","Re: Blow's accounts there","Re: sending tobacco and turpentine","Re: Brunswick County Suits","30 items: The dates are as follows: January 13 February 24, March 9, 13 April 14 21, 28, May 14 7, 10, 5, 26, 21, 24, 31, June 7, 23, July 1, August 13 14 September 12 20, 25, October 2, 2, 20, 19, 22, 25","35 items: Brown's loading of tobacco and corn on the Portsmouth, Clermont, Polly, Phoenix, Harrison, Grand Duke to be delivered to Blow for foreign sale. Brown wished Blow to send him turpentine, salt, dry goods , rum, sugar, coffee, etc. Brown was a big merchant in Richmond. The dates are as follows: August 2, 2, 6, 11, 17, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 13 28, 30, September 1, 8, 12 12 13 17, 20, 24, 27, October 6, 4, 4, November 1, 3, 8, 10, 19, 23, December 2, 14 28, 30, 30","General condition of market, shipping, etc. The dates are as follows: March 9, 18, 24, 24, 27, 30; April 1, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 28, 24, 26, 28, 27, 29; May 1, 3, 19, 30, 19, 21, 22, 21, 26, 28; June 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 25, 25, 28, 30; July 2, 5, 9, 19, 19, 22, 29, 29; December 9.","James Brown, Richmond merchant, accounts with Richard Blow; Brown's sale to various foreign merchants and delivered to ship Captains sailing, etc.; flour, corn, tobacco. 25 pieces","20 misc. petty accounts","Cargo sales, voyage #10: wages, repairs, fitting out food, etc.","38 items","41 items","77 items","3 items","75 items regarding repairs, fittings etc.","54 pieces","Expenses of Corn shipped on the Birch, Cleopatra, Mary. Naval stores statement . 20 pieces","Accounts of ships with Richard Blow; ships Bowman, Cleopatra, Portsmouth, Phoenix, Grande Duke, Endeavor. Sales of turpentine, tar, staves, rum, molasses, corn, repair work done, etc.","Has received flour and black-eyed peas from Blow; will send wines to Blow; gives current prices of wheat, corn, rice, flour, beans, beef, pork, bees wax and staves","Thanks Blow for present of 4 red birds sent to him. Three arrived safely. I gave two to female friends and one to Mr. Donald.","Low Point, Milners, Smithfield, Suffolk, G-Creek,Hampton, Petersburg, Tower Hill","Re: Blow's Tobacco sent to him","In French.","Bill for joiners work","Relating to Portsmouth, George, Industry, Nancy, Grand Duke, Bowman, Harriet, Castor, Union, Molly, Harrison","By master shipwrights, Captain John Cox, commander of Portsmouth","As result of damage received on the Bognor Rocks £ 633 [Bognor Rocks, Sussex County","58 pieces: Repairs, wages, food, etc","Over 200 items","Re: debts now due and insaluable; rent for Princeton (house near Sussex County house); about Wm. Bland's inability to pay for horse Aristotle","Thank for red birds sent to him. Sned more","Re: sending oranges and hives","\"France is at war with the Emperor of Prussia; gives effect of current prices\"","Red birds died on voyage; Captain Pollack of ship Grand Duke will bring others for me, I hope","Wishes cargo of staves—has shipped brandy to Blow. Also wishes Oak timbers and cedar boards for whale boats and harpoon. Situation of political affairs will influence the exchange. The success of our war against the Emperor and the King of Prussia has made prices fall already. Our success in several battles has recovered from the Emperor the whole Belgick [Belgique] or Flanders, besides the whole kingdom of Savoy.","In French.","Is establishing a House of Commerce in Bordeaux; asks business of Blow","3 items","Accounts, disbursements, (32 items)","Repairs, bills, after hurricane from St. Eustatias to Virginia","David and George, Grande Duke, Ballie De Sulpier; Captain Timothy Congers was captain of the Ballie de Sulpier. In his account to Richard Blow under July 9, 1792 there is this item: \"Cash paid expenses to Williamsburg to see the judge (2.14.3 ½)\" and on July 29, 1792 \"Cash at Maupin's (5.18.1) on July 11 1792 Captain [Conears?] to Gabriel Maupin..\"[unclear?] for dinner, club, wine, lodging, grog are listed by Maupin as paid on July 12th. Maupin kept an ordinary in Williamsburg; [see: House History at Research department C.W. (M.A. Stephenson, March 1968)]","40 items","21 items","21 items","12 items","55 items","50 items","21 items","12 items","55 items: Foreign agents, local suit, ship captains accounts, invoices of sloop Industry and David and George, Portsmouth, repairs to ships (nail maker, blackmaker, iron work), invoices for lumber, scantling, shingles, food furnished ships (ship bread, rum, beef, etc.)","(Captain John Cox)","Arrival of your ship Portsmouth. Wishes staves, cedar hoards, oak timbers for the whole boats and tarpons. Wishes tobacco; Brandy or gin will not be allowed to go into your country but in casks upward of 90 gallons. Which type of brandy and cognac will Blow like? Will send price current from time to time.","Over 50 items.","\"A committee of the inhabitants of Petersburg assembled on Wednesday to devise some measure to prevent the communication of the Small Pox from Richmond, and they have resolved on planning a smoke house at Pocahontas to have every person from Richmond smoked before they are admitted into town..\" Gives prices current.","Discusses war with Portugal and Spain and consequent fall in prices","Re: tobacco delivered to Port-au-Prince","Re: shipping Blow tobacco at Kemp's Warehouse on the Piankatank","List of 15 hogsheads of tobacco for sloop Experience","Ships Blow hering, shad and tar","Sends 32 hhds tobacco","Gives prices current in list for tobacco and turpentine, deerskins, tar and rice","Re: Buying ship with Blow; son going to Virginia to be in business there, gives current prices of tobacco, turpentine, etc. Tobacco sales down 1/3 in France by National Assembly orders.","States that Donald \u0026 Burton have failed. He and Mr. Lamb, book keeper for Donald \u0026 Burton, will form a joint business. Asks for Blow's business with them. Lamb \u0026 Younger are insurance workers, also.","Bills of laden (12), wages","\"…There never was such distress in this kingdom amongst the commercial people as at this time prevails…I think very few will be able to ship goods the coming fall for their correspondents. Tobacco is very low and hardly any sale. A cargo of (??) Virginia Tobacco has lately been sold at 1¾, wheat 6/6, tar 21/[unclear], turpentine 12/ct\"","Offers to collect debts for Blow","Gives London exhange and needs","Gives prices current in Cadiz and exchange in London, Amsterdam and Paris; gives money valuations also","Discusses prices and general trade conditions","Sends bill for goods desired","Virginia Coffee House","Letter and copy","50 miscellaneous bills.","89 items.","Re: Collections for Blow","Re: Price current for Antigua Rum","Re: cask of chewing tobacco sent him for sale","\"The embargo will cease after the 25th of this month. The resolution to continue it after that time was rejected by a large majority yesterday..\"","Re: Blow \u0026 Baker's judgment vs. Henry Banks","Suits of Baker \u0026 Blow, judgments, etc.","\"…M. Lee has rented your old store house to a M. Dudgin, a baker is building a very large oven in the back yard adjoining the old kitchen on the [run?]. Your carriage is now all ready, it is a nice one and I hope will please Mrs. Blow","Re: Relationship between J. Boyce and T. Thompson Jr., dissolving partnership","Orders 40 lb. of West India Cotton and some salt","Sending corn from Tower Hill, to Blow via Cabin Point and River","87 pieces.","111 pieces.","Re: Lot in Petersburg of Blow's","Gives current prices","Gives current prices","Note the N.B.","Gives current prices","Re: his debts to Blow under firm name of \"Fort \u0026 Nicholson\"","Prices current","Prices current","Prices current","Bill of Laden and earthenware","Re: Merchant, Mr. Smith, who is coming to Virginia to settle","Re: Thomas Thompson has died; Re: Blow's business with Thompson","\"The troop of Cavalry of Petersburg, marched on Saturday and about 160 militia and now going on daily from the different countries that come through here, the result of this business is very much to be feared will end in some thing that will be shocking to human nature…\"","Order for goods (dress materials)","Returning to England","Re: Th. Thompson's estate","Mr. Thompson, Jr., arrived safely; Executors of T. Thompson, Jr. will give up the trade entirely, so partnership between him and you will be closed as early as possible","Re: T. Thompson's estate","Says great Britain will pay for all injustices which Americans have suffered by the West Indies cruisers: make your just claim for loss suffered by the capture of your vessels. Do not doubt but that you'll be reimbursed for loss; discusses his and Blow's business connections and Thompson's son's business affairs in Virginia","Invoices of Richard Blow's. 50 items","Refers to French American difficulties at present; Thompson's estate affairs not favorable; great demand for middle grade tobacco","J. Strange, Manchester to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Price current list","Prices current listed","\"Captain Harrison of the Fort was shot last night by Lt. Willson in a duel\"","Prices current given","Prices current given","British cruisers have orders to bring in every ship of whatever nation loaded with Provisions bound to France;... a great number of Americans are amongst but Commissioners appointed to purchase and to pay for the same instantly…","On sea 38 days, cargo damaged","Gives genealogy of kinship of Drews, Hines and Blows.","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","13 pieces","Invoices and receipts paid by Richard Blow to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, and to local tradesmen in Norfolk (50 pieces) see: Jacob Andrews, Norfolk, silversmith, for ½ dozen, tea spoons and a tea canister","43 pieces.","Benjamin Waller, Williamsburg, agent, for firm Abram Newman of London and John Grayson of Petersburg, Virginia, representing the firm of Davison \u0026 Newman, London, Executors of Benj. Waller, paid to attorneys for firm £ 1325 pounds and £2587.18 pounds - Va. currency in April 1779","Re: Henry Carleton's debt to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Pitch Landing, 1781; [Anderson was bookkeeper for firm then]","Sent salt, lemons, china and oranges to Blow","Is sending over in the Rebecca a very famous horse, Dare Devil, property of John Hoomer of Virginia","Dare Devil, Hoomer's horse, arrived safe in Virginia","\" I hear you have married Miss Wright..\"","General conditions","3 horses sent by Lamb \u0026 Younger to his father on Eliza;  give M. Lawson of Williamsburg and father information about this","Tobacco very high here","Current prices","Re: a fire which destroyed storehouse of Blow's, which Nash had rented. Mrs. Marks occupies the remaining house left of Blow's; wishes to continue renting it","Gives current prices","Re: Blow's and Barksdale's foreign business, collections, etc.","Received 5 hogsheads of tobacco from Tower Hill  overseer, entire crop","Writes for red birds; sends silk to Mrs. Blow","\"America must be reaping immense advantage from the war that is going on in Europe\"","Current prices","Re: purchase of a good vessel; condition uncertain due to war. Does not think good time to increase foreign trade","Ship Louise bringing cargo of salt to City Point in exchange for tobacco","Business [unclear?]","116 pieces.","Scammel was part owner with Blow of a store at Tower Hill [see Blow Family Papers, W\u0026M Library, Special Collections Research Center]","230 pieces","Re: settlement of Carolina business and also those for conveyance of the lot to John Baird and Jamestown","Re: collecting for Blow rent on Petersburg Storehouse and house, and recovering debts owed to Blow; current prices listed","Re: debt he owes for rent","Re: estate of Thompson","Re: purchase of ship Moses Myers by Strange \u0026 Blow","Re: rent of Blow's houses in Petersburg","Re: Brig Moses Myers","Re: Deed from Blow for Petersburg lots and houses","Re: Collection for Blow \u0026 Barksdale business","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Re: Th. Thompson's Estate","Discusses foreign wars and politics in France; not in favor of the Moses Myers brig sent out to Dunkirk now; perilous situation","\"..enclosed you have a Deed of trust from M. John Baird Jr. to you which he wishes to execute to secure the payment of his bond to you..\"","…would like to have the name pedigree of Mr. Burwells horse","Wishes stud horses sent to his place, Chalmeria, Dinwiddie County, by way of Suffolk and Petersburg, understands a groom and ferrier are with the house; avoid all ferries","Wish Blow to get him the pedigree of horse Traveller and also name and pedigree of Mr. Burwell's horse","A vessel has arrived from London at Norfolk and has brought two stud horses shipped by Mr. Barksdale for M. Strange","Re: Thompsons settlement of estate","To collect debt owed by Anderson since 1795","Baird buys lots from Blow in Petersburg on Brick House Run","12 pieces","Brig Moses Myers, Sloop Industry, Sloop Rebecca; German Ships; 50 pieces)","54 pieces","Over 100 pieces","Naval stores","Refers to war conditions and settlements abroad","Gives current prices","Bad news from abroad","Has rented Blow's orchards","Re: settlement of Father's debts","Re: Baker and Blow's business—debts owed them and bonds given","\"…I have at last made sale of Blow \u0026 Barksdale's land in Charlotte for £ 1000 pounds","Has sold Brig Moses Myers to Freeland","Re: execution papers re Nicholson of Cabin Point for Blow","Re: sale of his tobacco","Re: damaged tobacco","Thomas, Industry, Moses Myers, Galliat-a-Maria, Fox, Stafford, Mill River","Henry Urquhart, Wilmington North Carolina to Wm. Barksdale+1719:1724","List of 24 hogsheads of tobacco on board of the Harmony for Norfolk to Blow","Re: San Domingo Business","Sending naval stores","Shipping garden seeds to Blow","Captain of ship bound to Port-au-Prince","Re: buying salt","Re: buying salt","Re: salt from Isle of May and his warehouse for storing the salt is good","Re: order from Blow for a rolling mill for a Goldsmith's work; will send later; other business between them","Re: sale of David \u0026 George (ship), Bills of lading sent; have sold tobacco and beeswax of Blow's; poor market; Georgia cotton is high and sugar and coffee equally as high","Industry arrived at Falmouth-sent her to Hull","Fort \u0026 Barksdale will send cargo of tobacco, flour, etc. to San Domingo; asks Blow to secure proper vessel for them","Sending 1 bale of woolens (£ 133.2) for Norfolk","Newspapers being sent to Blow. \"You will find much news and the state of Public Affairs in Europe; great events is looked for shortly\"","Re: Blow's insurance on buildings; request a copy of Blow's policy \"Tobacco market perfectly flat\"","Business with Blow; for tobacco and brandy","List of good shipped to Blow aboard Jennie; cargo for West Indies","Cargo of $7000 sent aboard Jennie for West Indies; invoice listed","Re: settlement with Blow for damaged tobacco and hominy","Re: estate settlement of Moore's","A list of bonds, notes, and securities due to the Estate of Th. Thompson put into the hands of Mr. Copeland","Sending invoices and bills of lading for woolens, etc. Could not ship guns without permission of this Government which could have cost more than the value; sending earthenware","Would like to rent rooms belonging to Blow's store, \"for the accommodation of about half a dozen particular acquaintances.\" Would like Blow's \"young gentlemen\" to board with her","Account of sales for tobacco and beeswax","Accounts for cotton","Re: wines","Re: salt","Re: debts due Blow","Has man who wishes to buy Blow's 100 acres near Petersburg called \"Chicken Quarter\" will give £ 55; invoice of timber sent","Blow elected Director of the Bank of U.S., Norfolk office","Re: settlement of father's estate","Current price list","Dudley was nephew of Mrs. Lee Hall","Re: suspicion that his aunt was poisoned","List of articles sent by sloop for Mr. Barksdale's trip abroad 11 packages in all.","Son has sailed for England","Wm. West is to build a house at Old Place (Blow's father's home in Southampton) for Richard Blow, how large must it be?","\"All of Mr. Barksdale's furniture and etc. was sold off by Haxall on Thursday last; and at prices enormously high; the sales will exceed the original cost of the property\"","\"..our sales in September amounts to 124 pounds, 30 pounds cash\"","\"..Ship Moses Myers has been taken on her return from Madeira, retaken and carried into St. Kitts which has entirely frustrated the views that were entered into for her immediately going back with an assorted cargo…and I regret you will be disappointed of the fine old wines..\"","Son John has returned from London; 37 day passage","Opinion of political situation between France, Austria, England, and Denmark and business repercussions as result. Reported that Blow's Ship Portsmouth has been detained in England.","Is renting warehouse to Mr. [John] Halt.","Discusses international situation; England's problems, etc. Is moving his store to Bolling Brook Street; gives current prices for tobacco and etc.","Re: his father's estate and collections","Discusses uprising of enslaved person Gabriel (\"slave insurrection\")","Refers to setting up business at Surry; will get Mr. McIntosh's building","\"Late news from abroad; England and Denmark will not [rupture?]; will send ship Louisa out soon..\"","Brand and corn meal being sent to Blow on the Hannah and Enterprize also tobacco","Importations this year very large","On way to canal to get shingles","Importation considerable; back country merchants will not buy anything of any consequence; desires salt, now worth 22/6 a sack and 4/3 loose per bushel","Gives prices current","Had shipment of gloves valued; sending some to Blow; doubts if they can sell well; discusses salt market.","Re; Salt and spices","Sending tobacco for sale in Clarissa; wishes wine bought for him","Schooner Eira from Norfolk brought news of death of his father; schooner Augusta brought letter from Blow. Thinks M. Goodwin very improper person to administer father's estate. Brother William may wind up estate in Virginia, if not, asks Blow to administer. Remit all collections to mother; George Leckie, London, sending turtle andBox of oranges to Blow as present","Ship Mississippi brought salt from Liverpool; Is shipping tobacco to Blow by sloop Mill River","Re: shipping him flour and staves","Re: shipping of tobacco ahead; gloves he has are hard to unload on merchants; William Barksdale in England","Accounts current (Blow \u0026 Barksdale, June 23, 1800) and others, Bonds for duties on ships, Prom. Notes, bills of lading, receipts","see Folder 2 also","Foreign mostly","Dudley was a nephew of Dr. Hall. Had a small grocery store","Re: seizure of the Charles Carter by French privateer and uncertainty of the Mary Hilton","Wishes his 350 or 400 hogheads of Indian meal shipped to England as a better market than western ports. Was priced at 12/6 [Stg?] per bushel and flour quoted at 120 per Bushel. Tobacco very dull here. \"I have no doubt that France will capture all neutral vessels they can that are loaded with provisions for England.\" Gives current prices of flour, bacon, hogs.","Wishes salt for the Indian meal he has sent to Blow for sale","Re: Bankrupt, Jesse Brown - Refers to \"Master George (Blow) at Bellfield (Academy)\" [Bellfield is now Emporia. There was a school there which George Blow attended. See Blow Family Papers Index, M. Stephenson]","Is building a schooner for the West Indies","Conditions of markets local and abroad","Using Blow's Brig Almira to send his tobacco to Falmouth and Dunkirk or Havre (both in France); Wishes brig to come to City Point to load; gives current prices","Wishes to go to Scotland; asks Blow about passage","Ship Washington loading at Harrison's Bar near here","Contract for ship Washington for load for Falmouth","Good news from Europe related to war there; Mr. Barksdale in England gives condition of market for tobacco there, in France and Holland.","Sales in April amounted to £ 140, £ 36 cash","Loading Almira for Dunkirk or Havre, or Rotterdam, on Blow's terms, all load to go to Mr. Barksdale for sale","Re: shipments of tobacco abroad, current prices noted","Tobacco accounts","Tobacco accounts","Re: 2 horses and a mare sent from abroad to Hoomes in care of Blow, Horses to arrive in the Chesapeake","Exchange at par; tobacco prices dull","\"We have this moment received intelligence that preliminaries of peace between this country and France were signed on the 1st. Inst. What will be the effects with the commercial world we are not prepared to say..\"","Several arrivals of foreign ships at City Point","Exchange only 1 per cent under par in New York and really as high in Philadelphia and Baltimore","Invoice of 24 hogshead of tobacco from Dixon's warehouse","Sending Blow 16 hogshead of tobacco on Neptune on account of Col. Burwell (Carter's Grove). Send the German linens on board the Nancy to Col. Burwell","Re: Col Nathaniel Burwell's tobacco. \"The remainder of the tobacco shall be sent you from the College W. House as soon as a craft can be obtained.\" \"N.B. I send you four hogshead of tobacco marked and [unclear?] as [unclear?] the property of Matthew Anderson of Williamsburg which he wishes shipped to Messrs Davis Stephenson \u0026 Co. (London)…if not to Messrs Lamb \u0026 Young..\"","Re: debt owed by Godwin to Leckie","Introducing Mr. Somerville of Somerville \u0026 Halliday, New York","Mr. Galigo wishes to charter ship Washington if you have not disposed of her","Sending tobacco to go to London via ship Washington","Thinking of returning to England as has closed all business in Richmond; flour market here good; let me hear of the flour shipped","Shipping tobacco on ship Mill Run to be sent to Liverpool: will you attend to this?","Is collecting debts owed to Blow, Tobacco very dull here at 27/meal and flour at high prices","Hear brig Betsy en route to Jamaica; would like Blow to ship his flour to Kingston?","Re: shipping of tobacco on brig Polly, schooner William for London","Re: attempt to sell his ship at anchor at Blow's warehouse in Norfolk","Re: Blow's taking over Brown, Rives \u0026 Co.'s ships for Leeth and other ports","Re: Blow's help in getting cargo for England, current prices","Enclosed bill of lading for 58 hogsheads of tobacco per schooner William","Re: collecting Blow's acts for him","Enclosed bill of lading for 79 hogheads of tobacco for Leeth","Re: conditions in New York for discounting notes","Re: shoe leather and flour barrels needed","Listing ships carrying 310 hogheads tobacco abroad for firm: Mary Hatton, Hooper, Harriet, William.","Asking Blow to send his tobacco to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","November sales at store amounted to 354 pounds £74 cash. Out of sugar; Mr. West (overseer) wishes to be paid for his last year's wages; says T. Gray is pushing him for payment for land","Re: London goods shipped to Taliaferro via Blow","Announcing loss of the ship Charlotte Walton in Dunkirk harbor; all perrished. Mr. Barksdale had written him of this; gives prices of flour and tobacco","Tobacco sent for Lamb \u0026 Younger to Blow; the brig Delight has also hogsgead of corn, meal, [beans?]; I need 44 new flour barrels of you","Prices higher because of state of things in Europe, Inflation may increase if seasons are not good","Current business statement","Re: tobacco to be shipped abroad","Re: seizure of brig Morris Myers in Nova Scotia; asks Blow's advice about insurance of cargo (London?); cargo was sold; should we prosecute the Appeals?","Re: estate of his father, wishes family bible","Expecting ship from Ireland soon; wishes cargo for it, vessel about 250 tons","Current prices","Re: sale of tar and turpentine","Has purchased a pair of mill stones for my friend Gen. Henry See, shipped on board a vessel of Mr. David Anderson of Petersburg. Please send them up the Potomac to Gen. See, Westmoreland County.","Has canvas, tar and turpentine for sale","Bills of lading for wines","Wishes to sell pork made by John D. White of Carolina, inspected in full salt but not pickled; 600 + land","Re: his tobacco lost by sinking ship","Re: sale of his skins","Re: rum","Can't sell gloves","Business in shipping and current prices","Gen. Lee wishes the Mill stones to be landed at Stratford three miles above Blackstones Island. Taylor has stone steps from city of Washington being sent down to him via Blow's vessel.","Asks Blow to ship a couple dozen hams to London, 1 dozen for Mr. Barksdale and 1 dozen for Mr. A. Donald, an old friend. Wishes bacon and hams for personal use.","Is financially ruined and will have to take bankruptcy; asks advice of Blow","Wishes to sell 15,000 lbs (pounds) of cured bacon and hams which are salpetered","Tobacco [unclear?] may get up to 5 ½ or 6 dollars","Re: his shipments abroad","Asks about price of beeswax and cheese","Re: sale of his schooners to pay his debts","Brown, Rives, \u0026 Co., Richmond, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Flour has fallen; tobacco [transient?]","Cannot sell gloves which Blow sent him; might try Charleston, but New York would be better market","Store sales in February were £ 120 pounds, £ 30 cash","Re: tobacco shipments abroad","Thanks him for sending hams to London for him, also for flour and corn forwarded to him","Old Tobacco is worth $ 7 or $ 8; send Lees to Philadelphia; other to go to England; better to send in 2 ships as risk is less.; fill in with corn and Indian meal.","Re: vast acreage of land in Nansemond County surveyed in 1791 and entered in Surveyor's book, Norfolk, in name of James Murdough and Daniel Fisher (20,000 acres). Entry was first made in 1783 with Andrew Stewart, and later Col. Charles Connor; asks Blow to \"have inventory made in the names of Thomas Edmonds and John T. Blow who are the right and only owners of these warrants\"","Re: collection for Blow","Bought sloop Alexander to save debt of Francis Jones","Orders for shipments of tobacco to England","Great demand for grain and flour; have had no sales for gloves","Have shipped by brig Betsy 416 [hbls?] flour to Blow; also have sent 58 [hbls?] by brig Independence. Gives current price list.","Received cheese; wishes price of corn and bacon. Little peach brandy in this neighborhood this year; sales at store were £ 162, £ 54 cash","Gloves (380 dozen) sent to Philadelphia for possible sale; would like coffee, sugar and salt in barter for Indian corn. Send prices for tobacco, flour, mead, corn, rum, brandy, coffee, and sugar. Wishes payment for Barksdale's debt to him for tobacco.","Re: note of Mr. Jones","Sent set of springs for a gigg for Mr. Fort on sloop Sincerity","Is there any demand for Russian goods with you? Expect a ship from the Baltics soon","Re: flour to be exported","Re: sending tobacco to Blow for export","Sending tobacco for shipment on brig Washington to London","Sorry to hear of the loss of brigs Carter and Mary Hylton, hope to go to London soon, peace seems near.","Re: tobacco shipments","Orders for tobacco sent down to go to Cowes, Havre, Dunkirk (France), and Rotterdam via the brig Almira","Re: tobacco for London","Need French brandy and rum; Crops poor, trade dull","Going to London via ship Washington; sending tobacco to Blow","Re: tobacco for ships Nancy and Almira","Tobacco for ship Almira","Re: tobacco for Almira and meal—Blow's plantation tobacco sent to Fort was refused","Wishes permission to send away ship which Blow may charter to Great Britain or Ireland if necessary","Re: problems about his sailing for England","Tobacco business and shipping","Re: illness of his mother (a sister of Richard Blow) Nancy is Rob Hines wife and child, George","Re: trip abroad and tobacco sent for shipment","Re: Ships' cargoes for Europe","Re: Cargoes for Europe","Every cellar full of water due to late rains","273 hhds by ship Almira already shipped","Wishes 100 hhds herrings","Tobacco by sloop Ranger for Almira","Tobacco by Ranger for Almira gloves for your store","Refers to Davis warehouse, Petersburg; sending tobacco for shipment","Tobacco bound for Orient via ship Antelope","Get passage to London for Thomas Leckie; wishes hams sent to friends Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","\"Our ship Venus arriving; will you get cargo for Ireland, England or France. Prefer Liverpool; can take staves.\"","\"Our ship Venus is a ship of 250 tons, 5 years old, has accommodations for passengers and sails well\"","Sloop Dispatch, Capt. Ash, bringing 26 hhds tobacco which Blow will ship according to manifest; detailed directions with tobacco marks ES, EF, W, RB","Re: tobacco shipments","Wishes 5 tons of logwood and 2 tons of lignum vitae to City Point, wishes logwood for ship Louisa, also.","Re: ship Almira whereabouts; lemons sent to Tower Hill. Tobacco, wheat and flour market very dull","Orders coffee, sugar, rum, oil, molasses","Barksdale wishes logwood by ship Louisa; Mr. Blow at Tower Hill","Takes out insurance for Blow at Phoenix Fire Insurance Office; surprised that Blow does not pay his overdue debt to them.","\"The Coopers left Tower Hill some days ago; they have some barrels to make at the old place, then they set off for Norfolk\"","Sending 22 hogsheads…","Hope Col. Carter's crop from York River has reached you. Hope Col. Burwell's from Rappahannock as well as the tobaccos from Carter's Grove are down. Buy pipes of wine for us.","Ship Nancy in from London","Hear his horses have arrived","Re: collection of debts due him","Re: Ships Almira and Venus belonging to Hathaway, Howes \u0026 Russell enroute to [unclear?] and Dunkirk","Blow owes them £ 1216.19.0; no insurance has been received from Blow's ship David \u0026 George","Account: £ 3593.8.0 ¾ (1800-1802)","Itemized lists of goods furnished £ 205.3.9 ¾","9 items","Desires Blow's foreign accounts shared by him","Accounts due Richard Blow","List of tobacco consigned to Blow, Norfolk","Struck by lightening from France to Virginia; repairs necessary listed","Repairs and disbursements","Sending Blow barrel staves by brig, about 250,000.","[Burwell had lived at Carter's Gove near Williamsburg before moving to Carter Hall]","Asks Blow to send up a cargo of logwood and [2 bbhs?] Rum","Latest letter from Europe gives a very unfavorable account of tobacco, prices here have fallen","Danish ship Ferendchaff[?] arrived at City Point yesterday from Dunkirk (France); will take logwood in cargo, tobacco prices low in France","Re: an unsettled account between Hussey and A. Wiscort \u0026 Aug. Derenville, merchants in New Castle, New Kent County [Derenville was a Merchant in Williamsburg: see also: CWF research department]","Hines gives consent to have her [daighter Patsy] inocculated for small pox. [Background information: Hines was a nephew of Blow. Hine's daughter, Patsy was living with Blow and going to school there.]","Gives list of current prices there; wishes Blow to give him letters of introduction to merchants in different parts of France, Spain, England and Holland. Armistead is sending his ship over there in trade","Re: store and plantation affairs","Re: tobacco sold Blow","Re: accounts for logwood and tobacco","Re: freight rates to Dunkirk and other ports","Part owner of ship Washington; wishes Blow to get cargo for ship to foreign ports","Sending Blow 4000 staves","SendingBox of books, send to Suffolk","Re: his problems with shipping","Re: ships Charles Carter and [Friendchoff?]","62 hhds tobacco aboard ship Washington","Cotton and wheat crop destroyed by hail storm","Many accounts owing to store cannot pay anything to Blow at present. We owe about $300 for pork we bought last winter","Orders from Blow for furniture to be made: mahogany enough for chairs and a sofa","Has just heard that a declaration of war has taken place between Great Britain and France; it appears that Louisiana and all the country west is ceded to the U.S. (Mailed from Baltimore)","Re: Hall Suit","Re: cargo of the Washington","Re: sale of tobacco","Math. Anderson of Williamsburg has sent down 4 hhds of tobacco for your care, please ship to London in British Vessel","Ships Martha Bland and the Lovely Lass are now loaded at City Point and bound for England via Norfolk, business very dull here","Sending Blow 194 pieces of bacon and 200 + 2 hhds of Indian meal and 1 [unclear?] flour. Send me store ware, mostly butter pots, also a set of bedstead screens","Crops injured by wet weather; Mr. West (overseer) needs about fifteen [unclear?]; trade dull; our sales for 3 months only £ 500 out of which there was only about £ 90 cash. Refers to \"Old Place\" in Southampton County [owned by Blow's father, Scammel, and now property of Blow]","Re: various ships available for shipping and tobacco abroad","Sailing for Nassau in ten days","Sending tombstone which I ask to be put over my father's grave; I sail for Halifax and England soon","Send shoe makers and oil to grease leather, tacks, hammer awls, etc., and cotton and wool cards","Wishes aid in taking his ship Almira to sea bound for Livernick, Ireland","Wishes barrel staves","Refers to \"Aunt Hall\" and calls Hall \"Uncle\"","Going to west Indies with 100 hbls of corn","Re: debt which Talbot Godwin owes Blow","Wishes Blow to sell his ship for him at $600","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","3 pieces","Tobacco Warehouse listings; Stud horse desired from England, Ship accounts.","Have received 10,000 lb of pork this season and only 1 hhd of tobacco; no cash worth sending","Re: insurance of ship Dauphin and other insurance","Re: escape of an enslaved person (\"escaped negro\")","acknowledges payment of $10.00","Re: debts and notes owed him and hopes that Blow can lend him money","May be willing to buy Blow's stack of goods which he had offered him a while back; Mr Lee will look them over and determine value etc.","Re: bargaining of above terms, etc.","Announcing Benson, Cropper \u0026 Benson, Corn Merchants","Discussion of visit to Brandon","E: Market conditions in France: Indigo is in demand, market favorable; tobacco market good; no demand for wood, pitch or tar","Goods, invoice; Shoes £ 246.17","Willing to give mortgages on goods in store for security","Re: his credit","Assembly extended the market land to be leased for 99 years","A candidate for House in Virginia Assembly","Re: bond for enslaved persons (\"negroes\")","Re: provisions asked for ship Parkman","Letter regarding the 'sale' of enslaved people.","Sailing soon with 15,000 bu. wheat. Wishes Harris, the baker, to furnish ship bread.","Wishes to be appointed insurance inspector for ship coming into port, asks Blow's support","Wishes ship for conveying 2,500 bushels of wheat at once","The Eliza has arrived; tobacco market good as [scarce?]","Re: cargo of corn and a ship furnished by Blow for Bahamas. Return cargo to be cane, apples and turtle (?)","Brother wishes to go to West Indies. He wishes pay for staves and tobacco if sold.","Re: collections to be made for him by Blow [Swain was a Quaker]","Trade slow, collections poor","Re: price for 15,000 barrel staves sent to Blow for sale; wishes current prices on tobacco and staves, white hominy corn and other corn","Sends his wheat from Dunkirk (N.C.) to Walker Town, about 10 or 12 miles) by land and little more by water. Is satisfied with this mode of conveyance.","Explains navigation up river as far as Walker Town for vessels of 100 or 150 tons; wishes Blow to send ship for his wheat; has the Ann arrived in London?","Has 4 enslaved carpenters ( \"valuable negro carpenters\") for 'sale' ($500 each)","Discusses prospect of buying horse Diamond, is disappointed in Pegasus, he is a bad foal getter and not much thought of in England. Heard a horse called [Pipaten?], mother to Trumpeter, has produced successful horses lately; also [Warten?] or [Sementan?] can be purchased for a moderate sum according to M. Crews to Mr. Drew. Get in touch with Mr. Barksdale (in London). I wish a horse of good size and very beautiful.","Received account sales of 2 hhds tobacco sold you from 41.17.7 pounds, Norfolk Store is debited with---problem of Collections suits?","Will send ship of assorted cargo to Tobego; corn plentiful on the Roanoke (river)","5 hhds tobacco received from James Scammel; sending down","Wishes ship for West Indies voyage","Leaving for voyage","Captain Thomas Bonner sailing in Joseph of Edenton for Tobago; Assorted cargo","Re: sale of naval stores","Sending brig of 150 tons for loading with barrel staves for Ireland or Liverpool","Unsettled state of Europe makes uncertain and dull market. Current price list given (wheat, flour, tobacco, tar, turpentine, staves, wool, and logwood)","Suit against Leonard at next Southampton Court. Paid Col. Maclin for young George Blow's schooling £ 20.10; charged to Norfolk Store","Wine for him from Madeira by ship Virginia, asks Blow to send to Alexandria; send bill to him.","Have parcel of Gray's Creek tobacco; price at Norfolk? Lists pounds of tobacco at Gray's Creek and Low Point. Asks price of brown sugar, coffee, molasses, and [unclear?] sugar","Have red oak staves, white oak [unclear?] and 12,000 shingles on way to Blow. Wishes peach brandy and price of apple cider and molasses","Has received counterfeit bank notes, information as to what to do","Re: 3 French enslaved people (\"Negroes\") brought from Hispaniola against law and now in jail at Norfolk; to be returned at expense of French who claim them","Indenture between Louis Marshall of 1st part, Jeremiah Andrews of 2nd part and Richard Blow of 3rd part and trustee for the other parties. Deed of Trust by Marshall of price of property leased from Anthony Walke in 1793, to Blow","[Blow was Dudley's uncle; Battery may be in Matthews County]","Re: current prices","Re: staves","Re: rent for his house and enslaved person (\"Negro\") for year","Re: delivery of staves","[See: Page's letter of July 9, re: French enslaved persons from Hispanola]","Re: brandy made and barrels for same","Sending Ship Fortitude to Blow, wishes Blow to get cargo of flour or tobacco for England and Ireland for her. Wishes ship to go at once, gives agents names at each British Port to which his cargo should be consigned","Re: injunction of B \u0026 B","Announcing his commission business and offering services","Wishes vessel for Falmouth","Re: arrival of his imported horse; [See letter of April 25, 1803 about horse]","\"Agreement with Thomas Wallace relative to bringing horses from England in 1803.\" Names of horses were Citizen and Clown, Wallace was the groom.","[Nephew of Blow]","Re: Blow's renewal of insurance policy at Phoenix office, Premium of £ 18.15.","Re: Mrs. Boothe, widow's dower and [div.?] of enslaved persons (\"Negroes\") between Hutchings and Edwards, commissioners appointed formerly, who neglected to allot dower: one is now dead and two have left the state. Please have commissioners appointed for my guardian; suggests Wm. E. Brodnax \u0026 Sterling Ruffin \u0026 Hutchings will appoint two for himself. Dr. John Claiborne and Tho. [unclear?], Jr. may be chosen if H. has no objections.","Re: cargoes","Re: land in Dismal Swamps alleged to be property of Robt. Craig of Manchester (England), adjacent Col. Newton's","\"The canal road is in such order as you may ride to the end of [unclear?] Contract\"","Re: opening of canal road","Re: hiring additional enslaved persons (\"negroes\") so that the Canal and road can be opened with ease this summer","Re: idea of taking on cargo of staves for Falmouth and possibly England. Wishes Blow to furnish beef, pork and bread for his ship","Cannot furnish pitch; resin is priced at 30/","Re: his ships off for Falmouth and Cork; what can Blow offer in way of ships?","Re: cargo of ship Kingston and prospects of his ship out of New York taking in tobacco at Norfolk","Wishes Blow to charter a vessel at once for Cork, they will send down tobacco, pitch, resin, white oak staves for cargo","Re: A horse arrived for Messrs [Caine?] \u0026 Ray; how to care for it and where to deliver","Refers to yellow fever raging in New York","Re: horse bought for him by Mr. Barksdale in England and problem of payments for it","Asks about cargo for sea, wishes tobacco and staves","Has 300 [unclear?] of pork for sale; grain crop on the Roanoke very good. Tar and Turpentine plentiful. Ship Mariah Jones at Barbados will return with salt by November. Then to load up with grain and staves for foreign ports.","Asks Blow to ship his tobacco to Barksdale in England","Re: price of a saddle sent to Blow","Re: cargo of staves on Little William","Send personal items of late Leckie to son","Sales account current: \"Mr. Adams will finish stilling room, only 10 bbls of Brandy made this year. It takes 10 bbls cider to make 1 bbl brandy. Hands [workers] are getting in fodder and making bricks. Have paid Wm West [overseer] $100, debited to Norfolk Store","Re: Collecting debt owed him by Dudley","Wishes $ 90 in U.S. notes sent by Mrs. Gray","Re: Horse Clown bought from abroad to be sent for by Statt, groom and Peter to take care of horse in travel","Re: cargo of staves and price for Ireland","Re: settling of account of Talbot Godwin","Re: horse Citizen which he bought for Gen. Carney; hope it has landed and is on its way to Carolina as I shipped on board the Gosport to your wharf; \"I am glad to hear George (Blow) is doing so well at the Williamsburg Colledge [College of William \u0026 Mary]. I always admired the Colledge as all the young men brought (out) there of late years, leave the Colledge new firebrands in politics\"","Re: note of Ambrose Dudley","Invoice of shoes for Grillet \u0026 Bell to Richard Blow, Norfolk","Wishes sacks, molasses, sugar, and coffee in exchange for lampblack and butter","Re: business difficulties of Lamb \u0026 Younger; has sent a horse names Citizen for Gen. Carney to Blow","Look out for Mr. Strange's furniture; he leaves Liverpool around 10 August in The Fame; send on to Petersburg c/o Mr. Pallak","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, ceased business","Re: Ships Kingston and Nansuch and trade","Sending naval stores wanted to City Point","Will sell his 2 lots in Gosport to pay his debt but wants $3000 for them. Willing to sell his military lands also; signed note for George Wilson for brother's debt.","Wish to wagon by bacon from here to Suffolk and thence by water to Norfolk. Will put up hams, shoulders and midlings; Baltimore may be a good market or Alexandria. Expect Blow to take consignments","Letter for trustees of Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, or their trustees if they are dissolved; would like wine, sherry and bbl whiskey","Hope to pay Blow what they owe him","Re: trip to Georgia, would like to take some enslaved persons (\"slaves\") to help pay expenses. Refers to Mrs. Blow as his aunt","Invoice of goods sent us from Norfolk Store, £ 109.0.10. Newspapers come regularly once a week; tobacco market poor. Will go to the Old Place [Southampton] soon to see how things go there.","Current prices","Re: Business difficulties","Applying for position in office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk","Re: A horse which he wishes Mr. Barksdale [London] to buy for him","Wishes consignments of tobacco and cotton from Blow","Refers to Mr. West [overseer at Old Place] and Mr. Adams [overseer at Tower Hill] their crops and prospects, etc. Burning bricks","Current prices","Has 300 or more barrels for sale","Little in shipping due to uncertainty of invasion of England","Wishes wines; the Antelope has been chartered for continent would you like space for cargo?","Corn crop in; bricks burning; trade dull","Re: business of barrel staves","Has crab cider for sale, what price will Blow pay? Also, gives prices for brandy, new corn, peas and tobacco.","Reed (groom), has brought horse Archduke; arrived at Blow's from abroad. Reed wishes Blow to employ him to go to England and bring back horses. Write at once your decision; prices of horses have risen as of late in England","Have 7000+ lbs. of pork, no tobacco","[Administrator of father's estate]","Re: payment for Citizen, the horse imported from England for him through Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Citizen is highly praised and valued by many: \"He is as springy as any lady on a dancing room and cutts as many capers.\" Hopes Mr. Barksdale will send him a mare from which he can breed racers for his children.","Re: payment of debt and security for his friends","Sending 78 hhds of tobacco to Blow","Sending staves and peas for sale—wish salt and sugar","Received from Richard Blow [Adm. of Alex. Leckie Sr.'s estate], personal articles, etc.","[Richard Blow, Agent]","Description of cargo, ports of call in US and Europe","Cargo of tobacco for France","Cargo of flour to London","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth, England and Hamburg","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth","On board ships [Inn___?] and Dundas for Virginia; Personal effects","Cargo for Ireland","Adjustment for loss of David \u0026 George","Account with Richard Blow $16,966.34","3056.19.5 ¾ [John Patterson, surviving partner after Capt. Brown's death]","…at time of Captain Brown's Death £ 4918.19.3","1790-1796….£ 3585.10.8 ½; Balance due the G. Store… £ 7577.5.11","Re: Privateer Moses Myers taken and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Vice Adm. Court has been reversed here, money in hands of owners in Nova Scotia. Division of money of those entitled now uncertain. \"If brought into court here, I'll pay attention to your interest in the business.\" Flour cheaper here than in Virginia, tobacco holds same price","Refers to the \"bank at this time [seems] to engross and interest the citizens of our Town; we expect it to operate in about ten days","Has received 17 hhds tobacco of N. Burwell's on board the Almira; Insurance taken out","Re: his business arrangements; will not be a partner to [Brown?] or affiliate with Pallak; promise of his business good","Re: Younger's [unclear?] with Brown","\"We are happy to inform you that our house goes on as before\"","Re: Blow's desire to pay a large debt which he owes to Donald \u0026 Burton. Funds in London on account there; Advise.","\"…I like America but as yet I am quite at a loss where to fix...The Baptist's cause here is not very strong although there are two meetings\"","Has prospect of ship proper for shipping tobacco; would Blow be interested in a cargo?","Re: problems arriving from Love's failure to comply with rules for Book of Claims and Barksdale's attempt to clear it for him","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, has shipped guns for our stores, please deliver them to us","Re: Charter for Snow Concord for London; can fill her cargo","Re: coming to Portsmouth, to establish a tannery. Wishes Blow to assist him and his friend, Crossthwaits, from Keswich, England. Has worked for Mr. Wm. Plume tanner, a short time. [Plume had been in Williamsburg for years prior to going to Portsmouth] Barron knows of a new process for tanning which shortens time; also knows great deal about skinning sheep, etc. [Letter provides great detail on tanning]","Re: claims made by Blow to board of Clairs, London","Re: recovering insurance on building burned in Portsmouth","Discusses how to pay Donald \u0026 Burton, London; has £ 1900 also has £ 500 [Stg?]; payment from Phoenix Ins. Co. which he can add to above sum","Re: sale of his pork","Trade poor, collections poor, wheat sold, bricks being made","Business dull, current prices","Banking arrangements for Blow to pay Donald \u0026 Burton through Dan. Call.","Has received bill of exchange of Macmurdo \u0026 Fisher for £ 1831.5 Stg. on Wm. Barksdale in town of assignees of Donald \u0026 Burton","Re: brick making and crops","Re: [bbls.?] of turpentine in [cypress bbls.?]; bound with white oak, should demand good prices","Re: tobacco shipped","Re: shipment of turpentine and horse Buzzard","Re: pork sent to Blow for sale","Our ship Samuel Jackson with part cargo of staves and bound for Cadiz will come into Hampton Roads for further cargo; will Blow notify him when it arrives and leaves","Flour has advanced and is in demand here, salt and tobacco good. Gives list of hhds of tobacco stored with Richard Blow in Campbell and Wheeley Fire Proof Warehouse","Introducing William Carter, son to Mr. Cater of Shirley, goes to Norfolk to procure passage to a port in France. Mr. Carter has $ 200 which may not be enough for his passage,. if not, will you supply the difference. [This may be the William Carter who attended the College of William \u0026 Mary in 1801]","Re: buying insurance and bank shares","Re: ship Samuel Jackson leaving Ocracock [Ocracoke] Bar for Hampton Roads laden with cargo for Cadiz, Spain","General Affairs at store and conditions of crops","Re: insurance on cargo to Dunkirk","Re: tobacco in storage and prospect of cargo","Could send soon 30 hhds if you ship to London","Asks current price of tobacco","Re: pipe staves on hand for sale","Consign tobacco to Samuel Buchanan of London","Mr. Adams, overseer, has gotten in ¼ of crops of corn and all of hogs; enslaved persons (\"slaves\") sick","Gives Blow's balance and what borrowed","Will Blow get Gaskins to make him ½ dozen table and ½ dozen tea spoons as he made for you with G.M.D. in a cypher on them; refers to \"Aunt Hall\"","\"Copy of papers sent to London, to recover insurance on my houses burned in Norfolk on \"Marketstreet:\" 3 Story Brick house and store burned, warehouse and offices, also. Littleton Tazewell, Notary Public. Home was 35' in length and 29' in breadth, brick, 3 story's high, besides cellars and ganet. Lower store was occupied as a Day Goods Store with mahogany counters; passage below and 4 rooms on 2 story were never completely finished and were strucco (?) and whole house plastered; counting room in read of sd. House was 16' square, 2 stories high with cellar and chimney of brick and completely finished Kitchen in rear of wood, 2 stories high and chimney of brick 20' x '16; smoke (house) 12' square with stove and warehouse shelved and laid out for wholesale store was 30' long and 21' broad, 2 stoves of wood. Value of building prior to fire was $8,939.60 Itemized Estimate of House of Offices to be built given: \"Bricks and Stone Work: $2750\" Scantling, plank and shingles: $1540 Glass, nails, locks: $684 Carpenters Bill: $2770.60 Plastering $926 Painting Bill: $265.00 Total: $8939.60","£ 4030.12 \"amo goods on hand £ 620.6.11 ¾ 90 pct advance £ 558.6.3 1/7 Amo currency articles:£ 425.1.4 Total: £ 5634.6.8 ¼ \"","Bill of measuring the ruins of my buildings $19.12, receipt in full","Bill of house frame and plank [unclear?] of Major John Armstrong for my dwelling and warehouse in Norfolk...$256.75","Wm. Wark, power of attorney for heirs","Petersburg, to New York, $ 80.46; Marine Insurance Office, Norfolk","Sundry Entries","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 15 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","6 items","33 items","4 items","12 pieces","Includes names of debtors; 7 pieces","over 100 items","109 items","50 items","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","Wishes to purchase the horse Buzzard in England thru Mr. Barksdale if possible. Sending 736 [unclear?] of turpentine to pay for him","Sent stud book and sporting magazine for A. Walke by Captain Baird; heard you have had a very severe winter, worst in 25 years","Think I can get horse for your friend in Carolina for about 500 guineas. Oscar is [unclear?] and going to Virginia for Col. Lightfoot; Nat as good a horse as Sir Harry or several others","Asking Blow to send him scrip at once so he can make payment of some shares.","2 enslaved persons (\"slaves\") have escaped","Wishes to buy 700 bu. of salt","Re: collection of debt for Blow (John Nicholas, debtor)","Sundries deliv. by Blow for ship Cracker","Re: to \"Aunt Hall;\" will leave Mathews as soon as land is sold; have advertised in Richmond Enquirer","\"Uncle Wm. Drew suggested that I write you about employment\"","Refers to forwarding papers to M. Madison in Washington, necessary for [past?] port to Dublin. Will ship be able to wait for me 6 or 7 days?","Sending staves","Re: sale of his tobacco and corn","Sending 10 hhds tobacco by sloop Sophia to Blow","[Nears?] staves to fill up his ship when it calls at Norfolk","Cannot supply tobacco for Blow's ship now","Sends bill of laden for 15 hhds tobacco, through Blow to London","Ship America will not come to Norfolk now; for Europe","Tobacco problems","14 hhds tobacco","Refers to debt he owes Dr. Hall, will collect money from Carter Braxton and send to him","Discusses insurance on Blow's houses burned in Norfolk; Mr. Buchanan's displeasure at Blow buying the old ship William, horse Benenborough is for sale at 1000 guineas, inform General (Carney); must have cash before I can buy","Will send turpentine as soon as boat can be found to take it down the river to Plymouth. Have 240 [unclear?]. In looking over racing calendar and stud book see a mare, Penelope got by Trumpetor bred by the Duke of Grattan, foaled in 1798; get Barksdale to purchase her for me; if not, get one of Hutchinson's family of horses, the man that bred Beninborough","Has received Gen. Carney's turpentine on America, do not think he can get either of the horses the General wants","Bill of lading for goods shipped for Col. Hoomes of Bowling Green","Col Hoomes wishes 20 or 30 bbls herrings","Received staves sold for 28 pounds per [hd?] and 14 pounds per bbls, \"Our good friends the English are taking all vessels that are not bound direct to their parts.\"","Has ship; wishes to come to Virginia for freight; ship is new; Advise me.","258 bbls of herrings shipped to Blow","Re: wine to be shipped to him","Will ship turpentine to Blow as soon as weather opens","Re: possible loss of ferry if legislature decides to allow a new ferry to be operated","Re: his debts","\"The money for the capture of the brig Richmond has all been paid.\" Advise who has money","Re: debt he owes, must sell property in Blow's hands","Re: settlements and credits for turpentine and tobacco sold, no chance of getting the two horses, General Carney wants","Bill of Lading for James Strange","Re: legal case against his brother Alex Leckie now in Virginia. Refers to his attorneys in Georgia and Rode Island.","Wishes ½ ton iron, bellows and German [Steel?]","The original Box 31 has been expanded into two boxes as currently described in the finding aid: Box 31 and Box 31 A.","For corn \"being the price per season for the said Waller's young mare being covered by Col. Cary's Horse Daredevil [Williamsburg Data?]","Re: Division of property and debts of Baker \u0026 Blow…","For goods sold him","Asking father to pay Leroy Anderson $60.00","$270 port payment in suit against Blow, Adm. of estate of John Redwood, also a note for $830.33","Wm. Redwood with appear at Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg for purpose of collecting funds due by suit from Blow","Advises against buying big stock due to world conditions; will send George up to help take inventory; he is in Williamsburg now","1130.51","$ 1838.9.7 ¼ Itemized list of those who owe firm","$ 16010.65 ½","Col Noth Burmell; Robert. C. Burwell; Ph. Burwell; Math. Pape; Robt. Page $196.12.½","Proceed to England and other countries","Proceed to the Baltics","Proceed to Portugal","Father and Son, London, July 9, 1806 (2Boxes of cheese for Lucy Paradise, Williamsburg) Iris Madeira, April 3, 1806 (wines) Jolly Sails, Plymouth NC, June 2, 1806 (shad) Sally Nun, Plymouth NC, June 3, 1806 (shad) Laura, Liverpool (England), July 18, 1806 (merchandise) Dispatch, New York, August 19, 1806 (merchandise) Antelope, Windsor NC, March 13 1806 (tar) John and Avice, River Thames, August 1806 (Merchandise) Eagle, Edenton, October 17, 1806 (sugar, white, oak stoves) Dunfries, London, February 24, 1806 (goods, treasures?) Fairplay, Plymouth NC, April 19, 1806 (hhls, hinings) Antelope, Windsor, NC, March 13 1806 (tar) Anne, Windsor NC, October 28, 1806 (staves and turpentine) Judith, Windsor NC, October 16, 1806 General Green, May 31, 1806 (oak staves) Jenny and Sheperdern, Manchester (England), June 2, 1806, (hhds of tobacco) Sally, Salmon Creek, May 1, 1806 (herrings) Insurance on Sally Ann Neptune, Richmond, March 1, 1806 (tobacco) Commerce, February 1806 (salt and c) America, October 9, 1806 (ship, break, flour) John, Richmond, November 1, 1806 (tobacco) Arnick, July 15, 1806 (staves) Lydia, New Bedford, June 3, 1806 Ontario, June 4, 1806 America, Norfolk, October 10, 1806, $1041.59 Bell Savage, June 8, 1806 (accounts) Robt. Barclay, September 1806 (accounts) Commerce, April 26, 1806 (accounts) Mt. Vernon, Rotterdam, September 24, 1806 (insurance) Atlantic, London, August 1806 (tobacco) Regulator, Plymouth NC, March 28, 1806 (turpentine, tar, sugar) April 16, 1816 (rum) Judith, Windsor NC, March 31, 1806 Commerce, New Bedford, February 22, 1806 (staves) Army, Plymouth, March 5, 1806 Mary, Richmond, April 19, 1806 Mt. Vernon, December 22, 1806 (freight account) Mt Vernon, December16, 1806 (cider, food) Mt. Vernon, December 16, 1806 (oil, beef, etc) Mt. Vernon, October 11, 1806 (navy, bread) Brig George, November 19, 1806 Averick, August 6, 1806 (general account) Fredice, May 1795 (pitch) Sally, Petersburg, June 16, 1795 (tobacco) Flora and Betsy, July 1, 1806 (tobacco) Grey Hound, Plymouth NC, May 7 1806, (pork and turpentine) James Smith, John Coke, Carterise December 5, 1806 (pipe staves inspected from and consigned to Richard Blow) Neptune: October 13 1806 Oak Boards, inspected","Ship Antelope's cargo much damaged, public sale will be had at Calais, and results sent to Mr. Barksdale towards claim and insurance. Blow's tobacco was on Antelope","Discusses current prices of cotton, coffee, tobacco; claims of cargo of Antelope further discussed","Re: settlement of property of Baird's; see also:Box 30","Trade dull: Received bills of lading for Blow's tobacco","Re: turpentine of General Carney's shipped to him, can't buy a horse for Carney as price is 1,000 guineas for either horse he wants. Await Carney's orders; sent him books he wished by Captain Baird; have sent Blow average for loses on Antelope. Son, William, is at school in Reading.","Partners in House of Lamb \u0026 Younger were James Brown, Richmond, Virginia and John Lamb \u0026 John Younger, London; upon death of Mr. Lamb, survivors have admitted J. C. Wardrop as a partner","Re: mistake in shipment of tobacco","Sent 16 quarters [unclear?] 1736 of beef for sale","Re: cargo for ship Globe","Re: pork sent Blow for sale","Tobacco manifests sent for ship Industry for Liverpool and 2 parcels of newspapers for John Hunter","Ship Globe now loading","Re: his debts and how to collect from C. Braxton","Act bills of lading for tobacco, gives current prices of wheat and flour per barrel","Prices current","Discusses dropping prices for turpentine, flour, tobacco better","Re: collection due him","Re: bills of lading for London firms, tobacco sales","Re: tar shipped to Blow; wishes flour in return","Re: cost of ship to take tobacco to France","Re: collections-wishes rum sent to him","Re: suit Ladd v. Strange","Re: debt owed to him by Captain Micks","Re: pork shipped to Blow","Has leased for 10 years furnished place 5 miles from Rayall Exchange, sending Mrs. Blow shoes","Re: loading of Mount Vernon","Bill of lading for fish sent, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Printed; business conditions, current prices of cotton, turpentine, tobacco, flour, rice, staves there","$ 100 Virginia currency","Damages to anchors of his ship","Re: cargo of tobacco and possibly flour for the ship General Green","Pork and turpentine to be shipped to Blow aboard the ship Grey Hound for General Carney's account","Bills of lading for tobacco aboard ships Betsy and Nancy","Re: cargo of tobacco for Bell Savage","Re: a ship for Rotterdam","Inquiry about father and letters to him","Has received letters from his father. Was on a Prussian ship carried into Portsmouth and condemned because he came out of a French Port that was blockaded","Discusses business with Blow; amounts due him for merchandise and amounts due Blow for tobacco sent to Calais and Dunkirk (France) per ship Antelope","Tar and turpentine sent on ship The Planter have been sold. Inform General Carney that neither of the horses he wants he can get now. Gives names of other horses which he thinks he can buy once the season is over here: Whiskey, Coreador, Beningborough, and Citizen","Sending down tobacco for ship Flora, Portsmouth","Re: shipment from Virginia, of salt, current prices there","Re: to money he had received due Dr. Hall from Carter Braxton","Re: cargo of staves","\"at the request of Col. Nathaniel Burwell I have shipped on Sloop George 3 trunks, 1Box, and 1 bundle to your care which you will please keep until they are called for by the Reverend John V. Wylie.\"","Ship America, in port will send down to you, she is 287 ton [burden?], can carry 350 hhds and storage of staves to any port in Great Britain","Where is his tobacco? Has price in London fallen?","Ship Mary E. Wright, has been carried into Germany and condemned as prize; ask H. to get $ 9000 insured on her, world conditions affecting prices of product sent over","Wishes 50 sacks of salt","Re: shipment of herrings","Gives ship America's account held in high regard by the ship owners here; discusses conditions between Russia and France, not good","Have to go down tomorrow to the wreck of ship The Shepherdess. Do you have any goods aboard?","Wish 4 bbls of crab cider","Expect ship General Greene owned by Tobias Lard \u0026 Co. of Kennebunk from Liverpool; could a cargo of staves be procured at your place for return voyage","Re: letters he should have received","Re: payments for staves and sugar","Re: change in ownership and management of the 8 ferries, opposed to incorporating; will you influence Richmond legislators to this effect?","Discusses trade and changes for selling Petersburg and Richmond goods, gives estimate of general market for tobacco, sugar, cotton, etc.","Business settlements with Blow","76 items","22 items","25 and 150 items","50 items","1 item","Order for salt","Re: tar sold to Blow","Announces conclusion of a treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce between this country and the USA signed on the 31 [ulto?]","Re: his recent settling in Georgia, prospects, etc.","Re: Blow's suit vs. Gill for debt accrued since 1786","Re: George Blow's marriage and placing him with Tazewell and Jon Cowper to study law; Discusses tobacco business, etc.","Re: damaged flour on ship Alexander","Enclosed copy of condemnation of ship Mary T. Wright","Give freight rates at Norfolk for landing salt from Liverpool (England), also tobacco freight rates","Re: Ships William \u0026 Mary and Paulina and letters due him","Need 1 or 2 small vessels to load at Bermuda Hundred for Falmouth; have 180 hhds tobacco for ship Averick","Re: loading tobacco on ship Niagara","Bill of lading for herrings enclosed","Re: ship Washington's loading; also ship Russell, a very fine, fast sailing copper bottomed ship of 300 tons","Describes splendid entertainment by citizens to the Cavalry and Militia which went from here. I enclose a copy of the toasts, was mortified by his furlough. Tell young George that I hope he will merit the promotion I bestowed on him.","Re: settlement of co-partnership with J. Waldone \u0026 Co.; Blow one of bondsmen","Left British book on Cavalry discipline at Blow's House","Re: Cargo of ship Niagara to Great Britain","Discussion of ship's journey down James to Norfolk [Caffin was mate for ship Albright]","Re: recovering money from Carter Braxton","Writes of wife, Mary's death","Refers to Dudley's wife's death [Mrs. Hall is Lucy]. Says Portsmouth has been upset over aggressions of British Ships of war; an army in our streets, houses, etc. Business is stagnated","Re: cargo of salt or tobacco","Wishes freight for London, or Liverpool","Wishes his Gosport property sold","Wishes to know prices","Re: cargo of staves","Re: cargo of salt from Liverpool and prospect of tobacco on return","Hopes Blow has sold fish for him","Captain Barney of ship Argus sailed for Hobbs Hole, Virginia, for tobacco","Re: cargo of ship Washington","Prices current given in detail","Re: problems of cargo and men for ships","Re: how to pay his debts","Ships Neptune and Reward here","Terms for ship May en route to Continent","Wishes freight for ship Russell","Wishes 100 lbs of bacon, hams and candles sent to him. There is an opening for a retail store on York River","Freight received from Blow via sloop Little Jim; salt","Re: Sale of fish","Ship Averick, tobacco cargo lost, no insurance on ship. Eight of the hams which Mrs. Blow sent, saved. Thinks there will be no war between England and U.S.","Gives dimensions of Dismal Swamp Canal lock[?]. Detailed letter.","Re: Shipment of tobacco to Blow","Asking for position of book keeper in U.S. Bank","Wishes oder of general merchandise sent","Re: Fish he sold; large grain crops here and quantity of lumber of every kind","Having sale on 22nd","Re: Pitch stored with Blow","Introducing Col. Wm. Fontaine of Hanover, who has a considerable interest in the Dismal Swamp Canal.","Order for general goods.","Notifying re: suit filed","Personal Letter; sends love to \"Aunt\"","Cash scarce; trade dull","£ 802.3.-","£ 883.4.8 3/4","£ 7269.13.5 \"Debts due from the Store: Norfolk Store; Littleton Lamir; James Dunlop \u0026 Co.; Butts Birds[srpey?]; Isaac Andrews; Allen Hines; John Berryman; £ 4898. - 9 1/2 / £ 2371.12.7 1/2","165 items","Re: Letters he had asked Blow to forward to England to Mr. Rennolds","Sending $ 54.50 in [unlcear?]loans for payment for flour, etc.","Order for garden seeds","Re: Commission merchants, Treble, Spe[unclear?] \u0026 Co., of [Nantz?]","Re: Deed of trust to secure[?] Blow","Wishes to pay General Thomas Blount, Member of Congress, some money; wishes Blow to [unclear?]","Introducing F. Le Roy of Nantz","Re: Cargo of corn and effects of cargo on its outcome","Re: Whiskey and brandy to go to Charles Carter of Shirley Plantation","Re: problems of present embargo on his corn","Re: Money he owes Blow","Re: Prospects of freight should embargo be lifted","Wishes ship Belle Savage for cargo, for Liverpool","Re: Political Situation in Spain \u0026 France [Refers to the Napoleonic Wars]","Sending down corn \u0026 tobacco for shipment","Wishes Blow to sell enslaved persons for Drew, even at $ 30.00; needs money at once","64 items","Hopes beef and candles sent to Blow can be disposed of as embargo is partially repealed.","Sending ship down to be loaded with cargo for anywhere except to North of Europe. Ship American built. Ship bringing down building stone.","Send salt to him at once","Re: shipment of corn and tobacco","Re: Need salt at once","Re: Salt","Re: Ship Washington en route to Norfolk for corn and flour","Re: Bills owned them","Gives current prices of tobacco","General conditions discussed","Re: Cargo of ship Columbia","Re: Staves","Discusses affairs abroad. Wishes Blow to sell salt at City Point.","Re: Wine from Madeira","Re: Freight desired for ship Columbia to England","Wishes ship for his tobacco. Address him at White Chimney's, Caroline County","Tobacco bringing good prices here","Wishes Blow to advertise his ship Mary Ann for freight for Europe. Must avoid Amsterdam or any place under French domination. Ship able to take tobacco, cotton, or hogsheads.","Have ship ready in a few weeks for freight to Europe. Can Blow secure freights?","Problem as to ship. Has tobacco ready for Europe","Can fill up another ship with flour","Re: Sale of his Gosport lots by Blow \u0026 his debts.","Refers to his cargo of lour, etc. now ready","Has hogshead staves instead of barrel staves at landing","Have bt. 10,000 barrel staves and leave at once; will send rough staves down on another lighter. This will complete my contract with you","Sent 5000 barrel staves per the lightman","Sending Blow rough hhds. staves","Awaiting craft to send 7 hhds of tobacco down. Hope you have shipped out the 15hhds with you aboard the Pocahontas","Wish to have price of bacon and brandy","Re: Ship for Dublin and freight cost","Send candles to me at Washington","Re: Freight for ship Washington out of Norfolk","Enc. Charter Party for ship Nancy","Is concerned about vice around his residence , etc. Wishes Blow to have law change this situation","Re: Barrel staves","Ship Columbia from Tappahannock to Liverpool with freight of staves or tobacco. Ship Mary Ann sailed ysterday for Charleston for freight","Re: Staves and undressed wood","Re: Tobacco freight","Tobacco on ship Alexander for Falmouth and England or Ireland","Barrell staves on board brig Catherine","Passage wanted to Cork, Ireland or England","Business accounts of ship Alexander","Sends letters for Richard Blow (her father-in-law) to send to her mother, Mrs. Waller, in Williamsburg","Wishes small vessel for his freight","Ship Union, belonging to us expected from Cadiz (Spain). Wish freight for her.","Will take inventory of store goods by September 1st and balance books.","Discusses current prices of hemp and accounts of ship Columbia","Re: President's proclamation. Gives current prices of tobacco and flour.","Has white oak hhds and red oak hhds and 150 lbs. bee's wax to sell","Has contracted for small ships to take his tobacco to port north of Gothenburg (Sweden) or to the south of Lisbon (Portugal). Blow's rate of freight too high. Need Blow's advice about proper paper for clearing ship, etc.","Wishes advice of Blow for marketing goods in New York","Re: Small debts and lack of news as to her son's whereabouts","Re: Shipment of hemp","Cargo of tobacco is intended for continent. Blow will get French consul's certif. for Hatcher","Re: Suit","Notice of board meeting to be held in 12th.","For 12 different ships","6 items","50 items","Details an agreement between Hatcher and Blow for freight on ship Mary Ann, to discharge cargo in British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Canary or Western Islands. To be allowed 50 days to load and discharge and call for orders. Tobacco freight.","Duty Bonds not paid in bank, by law, will be put in suit. Request merchants of Norfolk to have their bonds adjusted in bank","Re: discusses loading of the ship Mary Ann and bills of lading.","Continuation of business of loading ship Mary Ann","Discussing Hatcher's business ventures abroad: Hatcher's shipping of tobacco abroad. Details of necessary papers to be taken by the ship and to be used to different countries.","Acknowledges proposals of Brown \u0026 Rives","Re: Ship Mary Ann","Discussing shipment of good to Europe: Freight for ships Columbia and Mary Ann","Discussing the election of Richard Blow as director of the Bank of the United States for a one-year term [Oliphant was chashier of bank]","Certificate for $ 2794.51 for 30 hhds tobacco [unclear?] by Blow","Re: concerning political actions of the U.S. Congress: refers to \"ultimate fate of Mason's resolutions\" in Congress","Re: business of ships abroad, Mary Ann and Columbia","Re: tobacco aboard the ship Mary Ann","Re: Mary Ann cargo and departure","Discussing the positions of the French: French near border of Portugal now","Loads of tobacco of the ship Mary Ann","Current price of tobacco. Refers to \"Mr. Masons bill passing in the Senate and small vessels will immediately be wanted for Britain and Ireland\"","Discusses ships' destinations and cargos: problems of loading the Mary Ann; disagreement between Hatcher and Blow","Mary Ann destinations, cargo, etc.","Re: Furniture sent to Blow for sale in 1809. Please return if not sold","Agreement between Blow \u0026 Hatcher for ship Mary Ann's cargo","Need small vessel for overseas trade","Barksdale's son is en route to Norfolk from London, to study in the U.S. Has chosen Law as his profession, wishes Blow to encourage and supervise William. Mr. Hill's [unclear] has returned here and demands pay for training Hill's horses (\"fillies\")","Wishes Blow to get vessel for his tobacco","Discusses sailing across the Atlantic, heavily armed: \"on April 1st was boarded by a French Privateer and plundered of all our clothes, money, everything moveable. Was Brig 20 guns, 150 men\"","30 hhds. of tobacco for Juno","Re: tobacco for ships Juno and Washington.","Corn sent to Blow by ship Sisters","Her [unclear?] son estate in Virginia [largely illegible]","Sending 225 bhls. of tar to Blow for sale; asks prize of staves (white oak or red oak)","Ship delayed; will send in 3 weeks","Shipping tobacco","His ship Industry en route to Blow for freight; prefer a freight to Lisbon (Portugal) or Cadiz (Spain); Insurance to England very high for small vessel; maybe West Indies would be wiser.","Distressed at no news from his ships or from William [Drew]. Addresses Blow as \"kind relative\"","Sending ship Mary Ann to New York for freight as cheaper rate than Norfolk","Requests Blow to return invoice of furniture to him as he is loading for So[uth?] America","Asks for his account and prices for freights at Alexandria, Norfolk, etc.","Re: fish sent to Blow for sale","Re: African-Americans in prison there and prices for wheat, corn.","Still concerned over fate of her son Thomas","Reports death of John Rogers. His son-in-law, Samuel Nightingale, is admin. of estate","Vessels [unclear?] here","[Blow had been guardian of Davis]","Inquiring if M. Triplett, lately from Cadiz (Spain) is there to purchase flour for the British Army in Spain","Re: Account of Nathaniel Burwell","Re: Estate of his father-in-law, John Rogers","Dissatisfied with Mr. Foster who has delayed building a ship for him. Asks Blow to see about it for him","Re: Burwell's salt order","Re: newspaper subscription of The Herald","Asks settlement for turpentine","Has not received his letter","Has two ships ready by November and December","Sending load of staves to Blow","Hear Napoleon Bonaparte has rescinded his decree and ordered the release of all American property under adjudication in his dominion (goods and prisoners?).","Recommends Thomas J. Allen, Commission Merchant, Baltimore to Blow's attention","Re: Discussing the detention of vessels in Cadiz Bay","Re: Blow's payments due","Sale of fish to Blow","Sending 86 hams and 3 bhls. Turpentine for sale. Would like [unclear?] of salt","Directions for goods to be sent to him","Inquiring about the price of Liverpool salt and Spanish brandy","Remittance and sale of salt","Sloop Exchange bringing 12 [unclear?] white oak staves to Blow","Little chance of flour cargo; same (some?) tobacco","Cargo of ship Hunter in Virginia waters, now desiring wheat and flour","Tobacco shipment is ready for sending to Bordeaux or port in Bay of Biscay (France)","Wishes news of departure of ship Mary Ann for Europe. Are bonnets all sold and what prospect is there for the Columbia's salt? Expecting ship Nancy soon.","55 hhds. tobacco shipped to Blow","Re: valuations of ships and averages charged at Greenock","Has not sold Blow's Spanish [Brown?] yet.","Sending load of staves","Ship Averick loading tobacco and cotton for London","Re: payments due from Blow","Acknowledges hams sent to him; wishes news of his son, William, who went to Virginia recently","Re: Bow's ship Nancy in France, insurance etc.","Ship Nancy has arrived. Discussing the \"present officers decline all [risquer?] to France: A few days will determine England's steps…\"","Wishes price of ground allum salt; also price of flour and old whisky","Wishes vessel of 180 to 250 hhds to load for Liverpool direct.","Staves hard to get right now","Have 400 ton ship and wish cargo from Norfolk","Contract for outgoing ship to Europe","Glad Blow secured vessel for cargo aboard","Re: fish sold to Blow; also admin. of his bother's estate","Insurance of ship; wishes price of [unclear?] goods incl. bristles","For ships Catherine, Freyheit, Pindur, Fredonia, Juno, and the Columbia.","For ships Washington, Rachel and Mary, Mary Ann, Jersey Blue, Sally, Planter, and the Nancy with tobacco accounts.","Sending Blow a load of staves","Tobacco ready for ship Betsy","Tobacco shipment ready for ship Unity","Shipment of sperm (whale) oil and problems about it","Re: discussing a shipment of tobacco for the Betsy","Introducing Capt. Joel Thorp to Blow","Re: Sale of fish","Introducing J. K. Townsend of Townsend \u0026 White, New York","Re: flour from Lisbon (Portugal)","Blow appointed agent of the Trustees of the [late?] Bank of the United States","Have new ship of 300 tns ready in 6 weeks and would like freight in Virginia for her.","4 hhds. of tobacco on board of ship Aberdeen","Draft on Blow, etc.","Has about 300 bhls. flour for sale. Advise.","Directions to Cat. Russell from Liverpoole in case Non-Intercourse Act going into effect. Discusses U.S. Government problems about foreign trade","Current prices of tobacco and flour given","Discusses financial transactions: transfers 2 shares of stock into Bank of Virginia to Blow","Ship has arrived and experiencing government entanglements: ship Mary Ann here now and whether she can clear after February orders by Government. Keep him posted as to chance of freight to any port of Europe in case of U.S. change of orders","Requests remittance for wines ordered by Messrs. Burwell \u0026 Pages.","Has candles and twisted horse manes suitable for matresses for sale. Like to know where ship St. Chuthbert is.","Discusses political entanglement and shipping: \"Non-Intercourse laws have vanished and all our expectations now is that Congress will adjourn in 10 or 12 days….\" How are vessels there now?","Has about 300 bhls. Herring fish for sale","Shipping business: Capt. Allen of schooner Hero looking for business there","Flour for sale and price he is willing to take for it.","Current prices for tobacco and flour.","12 bags horse manes sent to Blow for sale.","Re: his order for Madeira wines","Has a vessel for sale; gives minute detailes and description of her and price asked.","Can furnish red oak staves at $ 18 per M.","Gives Golsborough family genealogy","Re: Ship Nancy","Sending his son home.","Has new ship of 360 tons available to Bow. Expects ship Ann Alexander soon and wishes business for her","Re: business with Wm. Barksdale for son's money.","Re: flour shipped to London and insurance for it","Re: Rogers estate; ship Mary Ann waits for cargo from Bow; Dull times in foreign freights","Business dull for all kinds of vessels.","Death of Mr. Pallak; he left no will; Estate of $ 35,000 or $ 45,000 goes to his brother Allan.","Suit between him and George Keckie. Refers to Mr. Wickham as counsel","Business payments discussed","Pallack estate and payments","Has St. Petersburg Russian hemp for sale. Can Blow use any?","Business between the two.","Asks Blow to give ship Tracta[?] 10 or 15 bhls. of their tobacco in storage.","Payments and shipping matters: sends bill for still sent to Bow","Roger's estate payments due from Blow. Wishes freight of corn for ship Mary Ann.","Capt. Robinson needs help to obtain a consular certificate","Payment for 12 bales of hair.","Invoice for hats.","Step-daughter married Robert Goldsborogh; Divorced in 1804, child, a male, living on Eastern Shore with grandmother now. Problems of guardianship. Re: will, if there was one etc.","Wishes 80 bhls of herrings","Wishes Blow to collect from Josiah Hunter's estate of Great Bridge, Virginia; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, Admin.","Sending new ship down. Wishes freight, Ann Alexander, has not arrived yet. Will send her to Blow at once","Ship Augustus sent to Blow for freight; gives curent prices of corn, tobacco, hemp","Mary Ann dispatched to you for freight to Lisbon (Portufal), Ireland or Liverpool (England)","Please remit for tobaco sold Blow","Freight for ship Augustus near ready, will send drum to Blow for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus will carry 550 hhds tobacco. Staves are plentiful now; Have plans for loading ship Mary Ann with flour for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus and ship Mary Ann loading","No offer for ship Independence as yet. Lays idle here. What do you think of freight for Cadiz (Spain) or Lisbon (Portugal) of flour? Ship Silver Grey has loaded for these ports; ship Powhatan bound for London left City Point.","Cannot dispense of barrel staves you bought of Lewis at the Bridge","Four ships availabe, except to Spain and Portugal","Ship Euphratis owned by C. Grinnell, James Howland and myself: no prospect of freigh; Will send to you if desired; about 2 years old and 365 tons.","Wish business for new ship","Remit for staves","Cargo to Ireland, Liverpool (England), etc.","[Belfield \u0026 Hicksf[?]d men same as Emporia, Virginia in 19th and 20th century]","Shipping questions about transportation abilities of ships: What prospects will ship Mary Ann have for freight at Norfolk? She can carry 300 hhds of tobacco","Wishes to sell circa 400 bhls of pork; willing to barter with debtors in Fredericksbug, Port Royal, Tappahannock, Dunkirk, etc.","Since arriving I find that dispute with Great Britain will be amicably settled.","Shipping and economic conditions in Europe: No trade here, ice in harbor, will leave at once on ship Euphratis; Questions advisability of freight of staves for West Indies on account of worms; as to timber, for England, after duty and other expenses, little profit; but agrees for Blow to load Euphratis  with timber for England if ship is filled. Prefers freight of tobacco at £ 4.5 for England or Ireland, or corn flour at 9 per bbl for Cadiz, Lisbon or Gibraltar (Spain and Portugal)","Cancel wine order","Shipping conditions and goods: Ships The Powhatan and Fingal? are up for freight; only half a cargo; further discussions about cargo; give current prices for tobacco and flour","Will Blow purchase [unclear?] staves for brig Ann?","Shipping to Europe: Ship Powhatan up for London needs further cargo. Nothing offered for ships Independence or Ann Alexander.","Buy 500 lbs of cable j[?]k for ship Independence at City Point. Give prospects for a cargo.","Re: staves","Ship Fame available","Goods on ship Averick en route to Blow for British port","[Curell was the Captain of the Polly, bound for Norfolk] Bill of Lading; bringing 92 bhls flour from John Hoomer, assigned to Richard Blow with freight at 25 cent per bbl.","Has ship coming soon from England. Wishes cargo.","Need freight and charter for ships Ann Alexander and Independence. Advise.","Re: loading of ship Ann Alexander with staves","Re: cargo of ships Independence and Ann Alexander","Discusses difficult atmosphere in trade, fear of a war if British actions don't change: no prospect as yet for employment for Ann Alexander, Euphrates or Independence. General feeling here that war will ensue if British orders in Council are not soon rescinded","[approximately 100 items]","Schooner Prospect sailing for Norfolk; asks Blow to give any assistance she may need.","Decided to send ship Euphrates to Liverpool (England) with tobacco","Business arrangements for payments, etc.","Sends few goods and a hobby horse Blow had ordered (cost $ 15)","Re: drafts given etc.","Delay in getting cargoes for ships Ann Alexander and Independence, no cotton or tobacco available for ship Euphrates now. Good apple brandy scarce here, gives current prices of tobacco in Richmond","Sending down garden seeds, potatoes and oats for Mrs. Blow for planting, and oats for son George","Re: flour sent","Needs vessel to carry 14 to 18 hundred barrels of flour for Spain; what would a vessel cost? Can money be had of you for bills on London and at what exchange?","Cargo of Betsy \u0026 Mary","As executor of Edw. Cowper estate gives legal details to collect and pay Blow","Check sent for payments due","Letter from John Randolph [in Congress] that an Embargo would be immediately laid. Get off any flour[?] to foreign port at once","Problems if embargo goes into effect","Discusses actions of the U.S. Congress, the trade embargo and their response: a law laying an embargo of 90 days has passed both Houses of Congress. Trust the ship John \u0026 Adam has put out to sea and that you have got rid of any flour","Shipment by Blow of a carriage to him","Re: payments","Problems of flour certificates as schooner Richmond put in to Wilmington, North Carolina, after Lisbon (Portugal) and Cadiz (Spain).","Sends premium for cargo on schooner Richmond and discusses problem of stops at several ports","Re: payments","Re: stock shares taken in Farmers Bank","Has ham and midlings for sale","Commission merchant asking for business","Concerning the account of the ship Ann Alexander","Re: discusses a canal from head of Pasquotank River in North Carolina to head of Elizabeth River and Virginia","Declines to help Blow buy a privateer","Asks for place at bank","Applies for a teller position at the bank","Officers of Farmers Bank, Richard Blow, President","Detailed letter: Terms if Farmers wishes to rent his house as a banking place.","Has set of India Table China which he wishes to sell. You and Capt. Parker have one like it imported at some time. What did he cost you?","Re: deed sent to Robertson in Petersburg","Asks for meeting of Board of Directors for Farmers Bank","Re: note against Benj. P. Hoomes of King \u0026 Queen County, Virginia","Re: sale of cargo of oil","Suggested notice of opening of the branch of Farmers Bank at Norfolk","Has ships empty and ready for cargoes. What prospects in Virginia?","Banking matters: Delays in getting necessary discounts for Bank to begin","Re: shipment of goods and prices: Schooner Richmond at Newbern, North Carolina. Asks Blow to insure her cargo of salt and [unclear?] at $ 5000. Blow valued ship at $ 3000 and cargo at $ 8300. [Blow as president of Marine Insurance Office]","Norfolk: Re: insurance premium for Richmond","Problem of his debt to U.S. Bank and Mr Allmond's endorsements; a suit in [unclear?], to save his two warehouses on Commerce St. and two dwellings on B[unclear?] Street; he asks for loan from Blow. If not, he will be financially ruined.","Ship Richmond has not left here yet","Ship Bedford was damaged in Lynn Haven Bay; asks for assistance for sale and repairs","Continuation and letter of November 22.","Re: ship Bedford See letter of November 22nd.","Cargo of a ship Ann Alexander","Subscribing for shares in Farmers Bank","Applying for cashier's position at the bank","Applying for gr[and?] son, Benj. Pollard, as notary","Applying for position of watchman at bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Applying for job of porter at the bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Job application for watchman","Job application for watchman","Job application for book keeper or discount clerk","Job application","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job applications , 21 letters","Job application for discount clerk","Job application","Recommends Benjamin Pollard for notary","Recommends T. J. Parker for notary","Job application for runner","Job application for porter","Job application for work","Job application as clerk","sold house to Farmer's Bank","Job application for book keeper","Job application for discount clerk","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application discount clerk","Job application teller","Job application discount clerk","Job application discount clerk","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Purchase of shares in Bank","Discusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea: Orders about ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's cargo \"British licenses have risen here very much and cannot be had under $ 1500 and there is great alarm here that the British cruisers will take our vessels that are bound to Southern parts…Insurance for voyage to Lisbon is 17.5 p.c. …\" [War of 1812]","Crates sent to Blow in ship Richmond","Whale cargo of the ship Debby \u0026 Eliza engaged","Duty of oil to be before Congress","Banking and movement of money: advisability of removing specie from Bank out of town. The Virginia Bank has done this already.","Debby \u0026 Eliza chartered for Lisbon if Blow has not chartered her already","[In handwriting of] Blow: Detailed memo of his correspondence with Bridges \u0026 Robertson regarding cargo of Debby \u0026 Eliza and problems encountered by blockades, etc. from 1813 February 5 to 1815 May 20","Discusses politics, shipping difficulties: Re: past cargo of flour for Debby \u0026 Eliza \"considerable fervor pervades our city especially the Legislature = who are this instant organizing a plan of defense for your Borough and will probably order out 3000 men forthwith\"","Has flour for available","Difficulties of getting flour down to Blow","Re: problems getting flour to Blow; \"excitement of arrival of troops for Richmond and Manchester on way to Norfolk for your protection\"","Re: his chartering of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza, Z[unclear]; ship Algernon, lost at Cape Hatteras, was insured fully","Ship Two Marys entering Chesapeake Bay was met (stopped and boarded) by British fleet under Admiral Warren, had her register and declare different ports…uncertainty about vessels being permitted to go out and impediment re ingress of vessels.","Blockade and how long it will last","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza via ship Catherine","Continuation of problems of getting flour cargo down for Debby \u0026 Eliza","\"The blockade has had a serious effects here. Flour has fallen 2 1/3 per barrel.\"","Sending 200 bhls flour by Martha Ann for Debby \u0026 Eliza cargo","Do not send Debby \u0026 Eliza out of port until blockade is lifted or assurance from British that licensed vessels will be permitted to proceed","Thinks blockade will soon be lifted and ship Debby \u0026 Eliza can get out","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: discussing the British blockage, the embargo and cargo for his vessels","Nat. Clanton, Wm. Peter, Wm. Comm[unclear?] $ 150.15 [unclear?] of Virginia; land formerly property of Walter Gilliam deceased of 1272/3 acres","Gives Blow permission to appoint Director of Farmer's Bank in his place","Power given to Blow to sell cargo of May Ann (800 bu. salt). Wishes 270 bhls flour sent to him","James Geddy signed acknowledged loan of $ 30 from Baron.","Problems of blockade, etc.; Bills of Lading","Concerning the removal of R. Blow as president of Farmers Bank, and five letters concerning Farmers Bank.","Wishes herings sent by packet to Williamsburg","Discusses ship Powhatan's departure from City Point: please furnish Captain with what he needs","Citizen's of Portsmouth sent $ 700.81 for relief of sufferers by the late fire; note of thanks","Returns his 5 volumes of Helvetius","Charter of ship Victory","Cargoes of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Richmond","Blow was agent for ship Victory of New Bedford - to receive load of tobacco at City Point","Re: ships and tobacco shipments: Debby \u0026 Eliza to Rhoads with tobacco and cotton; ship Augustus; ship Richmond; ship Edward Bartin","Re: ship the Victory; many British vessels at City Point and Bermuda Hundred","Discusses losses due to late war.","Re: commission business","Sent 1600 staves to Blow","Purchase of boat","Re: Debby \u0026 Eliza; rates of exchange","Ship Augustus cargo full","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco for Richmond","Primarily concerning his shipping trade","Re: concerning various ships owned by Blow: Debby \u0026 Eliza, Richmond, cargoes; Ship Powhatan","Ship Richmond's account","Wishes shingles","Re: ship Richmond","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco and staves","Re: staves and flour","Fire in Petersburg destroyed half the town, about 300 houses. His counting house was saved","Ship Augustus cargo","Re: Blow's debt to Bank","For building the [unclear?]","Primarily concerns his sea shipping trade","Re: ship Edward Barten's cargo","Re: Shipment in Edw. Bardin","Re: furnishing brig Charles Fourcett en route to Bermuda Hundred for tobacco and staves","Ship Ceres has not arrived at City Point","Re: cargo of Ceres, Edward Bordin, and Alexander for City Point","Re: Edward Bardin, Ceres, Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: shipped of fish thru the Canal to you, will ship shad [type of fish] for family use the last of this month","(see April 12 letter)","Re: ship Augustus","Re: Humph Hathaway and his cargo","Re: Ship Ceres from City Point to Rotterdam with tobacco; Re: ship Debby \u0026 Eliza; Re: ship Edward Bordin","Re: Edward Bordin to Liverpool with tobacco","Re: ship Victoria for Europe","Primarily concerns his shipping trade","Re: freight rates","Re: falling freight rates","Re: Ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's flour cargo","Re: Cargo ofships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Baltie for Liverpool (England), Scotland and Ireland, freight rates a problem. Mr. Dunlop wished possibly to charter the ship Ceres for Leith.","Re: Mr. Dunlop did not accept ship Ceres as expected. Freight is down, problem of getting ships to take out cargoes.","No sale for Blow's salt","Re:Ship Ceres for Rotterdam and cargo","Concerns the tuition and board for Blow's sons, Robert Richard","Robert and Richard Blow by Aiken \u0026 Brooks, and Books for Robert","Three letters and one resolution document","Re: Financial affairs of Farmer's Bank, scale of loans, debts allowed, etc.","Refers to branches at Petersburg, Lynchburg, etc.","Petty bills of Richard Blow, four letters, and accounts with Neilson \u0026 Neale.","80 items","Re: state of exchange, etc.","Banking business","Re: Accounts","Re: Alleged default in bank, etc.","Cost of kitchen, stable, dailty building and garden $ 428.18","Renewing Charter of Farmer's Bank which will expire 1827; urges renewal and to confer with stockholders as to their opinion.","General conditions of banking.","Legislature wishes detailed statement of expenses of Branches of this bank; asks Mother Bank (Norfolk) to send earliest mail; also list of salaries.","80 items.","4 letters","Re: Branches of Farmer's Bank","Election of Lee as cashier","Re: Cashier","Detailed letter describing Christmas as Tower Hill: Weather very bad, hunting, ice house full of ice, new school at Coman's [?] Well, Sussex; wants daugher, Mary Frances put there. Death of Capt. John R. Mason. Edwin Gray sold off all his estate yesterday. Thomas Gray to manage the Ruffin plantation. Imagine Thomas will buy Edwins land; there will be Grays all around us. Just heard that Captain Wm. Briggs bought Edwin's place, $ 1800.","Repairing the man building and slating kitchen","Paint, lead, etc. $ 84.36","Describing post Civil War life conditions: Reconstruction, \"thievery\" of African-Americans; Fanny (his wife) is teaching 10 pupils; Mary is chief assistant in a large female school here; Aleck has been here. Orange and Alexander R.R. has joined up to the Manasses R.R.","George Blow, Micajah Felts, Adminsitrators; Inventory of App.","$ 6235.20; Divison of Estate to 3 grandchildren: Mary E. Turner, Martha Jordan and Georgia Ann Hines.","Leaves Mary E. Hines his plantation on East side of Austin's branch; leaves Martha Hines his plantation on Wesst side of Austin's branch; [Mary Elizabeth Hines husband was George Hines] George Blow and James Rochelle, executors, Rochelle did not act.; John D. Turner who married Mary, act.","George Blow administrator","Dozens of petty accounts between Richard Blow and merchants, trades, etc.","Field book of line between George Blow, Jr., John Clanton Saldsberry and Nancy Clanton and adjoining [unclear?]","Barham's Tract…183+ acres sold at $ 5 per acre. Plat of Barham Wren's land and north side of Racoon Swamp by Wm. Darbie of which this is an exact copy - total acres 345.","Number of packages consigend to [names from Williamsburg, Petersburg, Yorktown, Burwell's Ferry, Hanover]","Original field notes of a Road from Bla[?]'s Mill to Sussex Coutr House chained by Joseph Clanton","£ 1409.9.10 1/2 : long listing","Re: Suit Blow \u0026 Oldham trading as merchants at South Quay, Nansemond County. Each to put up £ 400 V.Cur. and going under firm name of Baker, Oldham \u0026 Blow and to continue throgh the War. In 3 months Oldham died. Firm continued as Baker \u0026 Blow. Store began at Pitch Landing, North Carolina. Other stores were established at Petersburg under firm name of Blow \u0026 Barksdale in 1782.","Answer of Blow refers to the year 1793","Tobacco imanifests for various ships; invoices of tobacco to Wm. Blow at Dunkirk; Invoices to Petersburg Store.","[torn at date] Re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale accounts and ship Flying Jennie 's Cargo","Ships Portsmouth, Grand Duke, [unclear?], Mt. Vernon","[7 items]","Re: Settlement of father's estate","A personal letter about her son, John, who was employed by Freeland \u0026 Gillis in Petersburg. Sent down to Williamsburg on business stayed at the Eagle Tavern. [Mrs. Taylor was a sister of Robert H. Walker]","Re: Goods shipped to him from Lamb \u0026 Younger, London. Requests Blow to attend the Customs and have goods sent up to him as soon as he can. Goods came in the America.","Re: Blow's subscription to the Virginia Gazette for 1800 and 1801","Has sent down 4 hhds. tobacco to Blow.","Re: wine for his father. Asks it to be sent to Alexandria c/o Jenny \u0026 Graham or some person who does business for his father.","Also, letter of March 1 1803 from Cropper, P[unclear?] \u0026 Co., Liverpool","Ship Thomas Wilson, freight bill: 1 case containing a Piano Forte \"for Hon. Samuel Tyler, Judge of Court of Chancery in Williamsburg\"","Re: A Disagreement between Arthur Hope and Blow. Hope had deposited funds with Blow for purpose of Blow investing for him in Bank Stock. Wirt advises Blow to agree to a committee of 3 men to settle rather than go into court.","Acknowledges tobacco sent over by Mrs. Lucy Paradise per The Sheffield. According to Mrs. Paradise's desire we are sending 2 [ch___s?] marked \"LLP1.2\" Bills of Lading sent to Blow at her request. \"She is miserably in debt\"","Has established a printing office in Norfolk with Daniel Baxter. Solicits Blow's goodwill and business.","Re: tobacco she had shipped to Reynolds in Liverpool (see letter of July 12, 1806).","Wishes to employ a tutor to live in his house. Enclose advertisement for same to be put in The Herald. Wishes a mentor in Latin, French but must have one good on Arithmetic and English. Say £ 50 or £ 60 for English teacher and £ 70 or so for language teacher.","His opinion of western lands, 1st rate land sells at $ 20 to $ 30 and 2nd rate at $ 10. Does not wish to settle out here.","Regulations as to conduct: Divine Services, Reveille, etc.","Will not come to Norfolk until yellow fever is over or is prudent to come. Keep him informed.","Bills rendered for postage","Bill for books (listed) $28","Bill","Bill for books (listed)","Appeals to Blow to assist him. He is a British subject and \"confined in jail and then to be sold as a slave for the benefit of the state of Virginia.\" Gives his life history and tells how he a came to America at 3 years old.","Inscription to be put on gravestone of Marie Semple, daughter of James Semple and Joanna his wife, daughter of Doctor William McKenzie, dec'd. Born August 16, 1809 and died November 12th 1810. Note from Semple to Blow with directions for sending stone to Cobham or to the Bay warehouse in Surry or upper end Isle of Wight County.","January 16, 1801, Lee Hall, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, Norfolk. Asks for Blow's assistance so he can obtain a job as a clerk in the Navy Yard at Gosport. January 26, 1801, Congressman Sam W. Dana, Washington DC, to Lee Hall. Discussing a possible job position for Hall. 1804 and 1805, Sam Lord, New York, to Dr. Lee Hall, Portsmouth.","6 pieces","Requests Blow's influences in procuring his appointment as cleark in Public Navy Yard in Gosport","Recommending Dr. Hall to be Clerk of Gosport Navy Yard","Re: Medicine ordered by Hall","A teacher, will return to Portsmouth if conditions seem good","Measures taken to prevent interruption of the commerce of tobacco have had full success.","Suit between Vaughan and Baker \u0026 Blow; he will represent Baker \u0026 Blow.","Re: Inquiring about books sent to Mr. Thomas Jefferson.","Inquires about M. Davis [Augustine] establishing a printing press in the city.","Goods delivered at Capital Landing","Bill of Lading for his tobacco","Encloses letter to London","Petitions re: governorship. Refers to \"Cousin Sam Briggs\" being in Richmond","Fragment of drawing of houses and streets in Petersburg [in handwriting of Richard Blow]: Appomattox River, Tabbs Branch, Brick House [Run?] (all near Blandford)","Memo for [watchwork?]","Ballast Office, London; John Longman \u0026 others, London","(8 items)","(2 items)","Re: shingles","[Drugs?]","Business Correspondence regarding ship Monmouth from Bordeaux and problems encountered; also references to ship America (10 pieces)","Gives news that daughter Patsy will marry Dr. Gray on 26th","Letter from Capt. Blow to his daughter Lizzie (1864); and letter from a nephew, Norfolk, to Capt. Blow (1880) regarding sale of part of the \"Old Place\" in Southampton County.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872"],"collection_ssim":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 B625","/repositories/2/resources/9297"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 B625","/repositories/2/resources/9297"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century"],"places_ssim":["Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"creators_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift; 137 items, 1/26/1942; gift; 717 items, 2/18/1942; gift 12,193 items on 5/22/1946; gift 2,655 items on 5/22/1947; gift 21 items on 3/3/1948; gift 197 items on 5/29/1948; and gift 150 items on 3/20/1961; gift ALS from Hugh Nelson to Richard Blow, 20 June 1794 \u0026 ALS from William Archer to Richard Blow, 17 March 1808, on 3/11/1983."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Banks and banking--Virginia--History--19th century","Canals--Southern States","Embargo, 1807-1809","Horses--North Carolina","Horses--Virginia","Legal documents","Merchants--Great Britain","Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century","Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--Nansemond County","Merchants--Virginia--Petersburg","Merchants--Virginia--Sussex County","Merchants--West Indies","Plantation life--Virginia","Plantations","Slavery--Virginia--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Tobacco--Southern States--History--18th century","United States--History--War of 1812","Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794","Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Banks and banking--Virginia--History--19th century","Canals--Southern States","Embargo, 1807-1809","Horses--North Carolina","Horses--Virginia","Legal documents","Merchants--Great Britain","Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century","Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--Nansemond County","Merchants--Virginia--Petersburg","Merchants--Virginia--Sussex County","Merchants--West Indies","Plantation life--Virginia","Plantations","Slavery--Virginia--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Tobacco--Southern States--History--18th century","United States--History--War of 1812","Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794","Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["16  Linear Feet 39 Century boxes."],"extent_tesim":["16  Linear Feet 39 Century boxes."],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices"],"date_range_isim":[1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. 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Blow died in Portsmouth, Virginia."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichard Blow Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Richard Blow Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBlow Family Papers (Mss. 65 B63), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; and Richard Blow Papers (PH 28), Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Mss. 2008.18 Blow Family Genealogy\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Blow Family Papers (Mss. 65 B63), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; and Richard Blow Papers (PH 28), Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.","Mss. 2008.18 Blow Family Genealogy"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and \"Tower Hill,\" Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs \u0026amp; Blow, Baker \u0026amp; Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation owner that operated in part by labor of enslaved persons. He shipped the goods produced by the plantation by sea, often to European markets. His correspondence and papers during this period provide a model source on plantation management, sea trade, trade during the American Revolution, and trade during the War of 1812. Includes correspondence, plantation accounts, ship accounts, and legal papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Subjects covered in the collection include trade, tobacco, prices, Whiskey Rebellion, thoroughbred horses, banking (Bank of the United States and Farmers Bank of Norfolk), Dismal Swamp Canal, the Embargo of 1807-1809, and the War of 1812. There are letters from merchants in Great Britain and in the West Indies.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eRe: Prices for tobacco, salt, hogs, to be bought in that are area\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 invoices for miscellaneous goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 invoices for miscellaneous goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Goods shipped from London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 invoices for Miscellaneous goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book kept at Sussex Court and Southampton Court (56 pp.); Cash memo book of Richard Blow (Tobacco accounts, collections, etc.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter relates to selling salt, tobacco and escaping enemy ships, etc. [Hines was the nephew of Richard Blow and in business with him. 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Ships mentioned are \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRanger,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrapevine,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRace Horse\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Business dealings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBoston sales after she was wrecked[?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnthony Diggs, builder, £ 90.656.19.3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1782-1789 (16 pp)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 silver buttons at £ 4.5.1. [Waddell was the son of Wm. 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Difficulties with Danish Law; difficulty in shipping and risk from English Privateers - sends what goods Baker \u0026amp; Blow ordered as soon as possible. (8pp)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco acccounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOctober 3rd, 7th,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: his ships loading, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payment for weapons sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes arrival of B \u0026amp; B's schooners, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouth Quay goods shipped on board of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e for South Quay\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I can inform you of the surrender of the British Army the night before last\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of surrender\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eshingles and guns\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMurdock's part ownership in schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJohn\u003c/emph\u003e and goods therein. Directs when sold to give his part to Samuel Beale, Williamsburg on account. Discusses falling prices if Cornwallis should surrender and a general peace ensue\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to sailing of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly \u003c/emph\u003eand \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFlying Jenny\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice of tobacco is rising; every kind of good is falling. Refers to sending the sloop to St. Thomas with shingles and staves. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCount de Grass\u003c/emph\u003e expected Wednesday. Will meet her at Ocracock [Ocracoke] on 20th with 100lb cannon powder and all the men. Muskets and powder to be sent from Newbern.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of merchandise. 12 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter re: his share of a schooner for sale; tobacco on hand to his account, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods shipped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eExperiment\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAdelphi\u003c/emph\u003e here with tobacco, staves and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice and to whom sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrench are now in possession of whole island except Br[?]nton Hill. Capt Stogdale has taken 3 prizes before his arrival at St. Croix and several leaving St. Kitts and sent them to St. Eustatius. Refers to state of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJenny\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetty\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharming Polly \u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIsland of St. Christopher surrendered to France - refers to lumber sales\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for molasses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness affairs to be settled\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness between the two, conditions for shipping, new markets for goods, etc. (13 letters)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: disposal of the store business. Dick Baker, John Redwood interested, and \"major part of the business will be carried on at South Quay being the seaport place\" Baker's proposition as to carrying on business with Blow in the future. (6pp)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpenses of sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry\u003c/emph\u003e to Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of goods to Blow. Proposes going into business with Blow at Richmond. \"The Revd. Wm. Andrews is now at Chelsea in this neighborhood and without any employment or assistance except £ 80 per annum which is allowed by government as temporary…\" (7pp)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePricilla\u003c/emph\u003e disbursements in Cadiz; November 5th: cabin furniture, cabin stores, ship stores…\"; Invoice of Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e in account, Richard Blow, Merchant, Norfolk (4 items); Portsmouth store account; Petersburg store: invoice of tobacco shipped on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus;\u003c/emph\u003e South Quay Store: invoice in account with Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale; Portsmouth store account to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: voyage to Fredericksburg; repairs; voyage to Cape Charles and back\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharged to Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePricilla:\u003c/emph\u003e wages, contract to Cadiz; Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNonpareil\u003c/emph\u003e accounts due to Rey \u0026amp; Brandenbourg, Cadiz; 4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003evoyage to London; 28 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOutfitted and cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales wages, shingles, bamboo, lumbwer, etc. Cargo, invoice to Richard Blow and others; 2 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices, sales, etc. 24 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales, wages, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of various ships [?] to Richard Blow; Accounts of Richard Blow [?] to others: to Hathorn \u0026amp; Miller for painting inside of store, glazing, a corner cupboard, table; Portsmouth Store; tavern account of George Briggs [?] to Ann[?] Livingston (dinner, club, wines, and board - £ 3.11.5; 20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales at auction of the Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBrilliant's\u003c/emph\u003e Cargo, New York; Tobacco shipped on Brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNelly\u003c/emph\u003e by Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale—invoice; Invoice of Richard Blow \u0026amp; Co. with Oxley \u0026amp; Hancock on ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough Dancer\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWm. Randall\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDivision account of owners of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNonpareil,\u003c/emph\u003e her cargo in account with Baker \u0026amp; Blow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOwners of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBrilliant\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, Petersburg; Account of sale of cargo of Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichard\u003c/emph\u003e in account with Baker \u0026amp; Blow at South Quay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Key 1/3 of profits made, Baker and Blow 2/3 of profits\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the amount of £ 7681.18.3; schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVirginia,\u003c/emph\u003e schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSt. Thomas\u003c/emph\u003e; Debts due to following persons….; South Quay Store £ 2240.10.2½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. James Caton, Norfolk: saddlery, shoes, linens, twine, glass, etc…£ 586.3.6½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter re: delivery of shingles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: change of occupation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e and sailing hack\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sailing of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e out of London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping good to firm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSame as above.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTartar\u003c/emph\u003e and sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld\u003c/emph\u003e from Philadelphia with much needed goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending flour down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping goods to him in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e. Asked for tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: ships to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: goods bought and desired\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: exchange of flour and tobacco for salt and blankets, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: ordering a few items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods disbursed from ships to store in Petersburg and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill;\u003c/emph\u003e dissatisfied over trade conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esame as above\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas engaged James Marsh as an assistant for you; salary to be £ 50 per year from time he arrives in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter sent by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e, 7pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for [mourning?] goods to be sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e is coming up the river to Four Mile Creek; general trade conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e has at last got up to 4 Mile Creek an is not discharging her load\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: poor credit of English \u0026amp; French merchants; refers his uncle Scott going blind; general business affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods to be delivered to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, merchants, Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis sons, George and Sammy, are in service to Richard Blow in his business. Asks that Blow continue them. He is infirm and keeps his store only to give his sons Charles some insight in business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJolly Tar is here with your tobacco; will sail back in 3 weeks with your goods; the William left on January 3rd. Has established correspondence and credit on best footing with Birmingham and Manchester (England), Sheffield, Halifax and Leeds houses. Discusses Blow's ability with shipping business. Crew does no think Blow has experience for this in times of peace. Says only 2 trips a year can be made to England and to West Indies. Advises Blow against using [unclear?] ships in this voyage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for linens; suggests Blow have a craft or two built to go up and down river\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Ta\u003c/emph\u003er about to sail, not German goods to be had, no pewter or nails\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIronmongery hard to get; Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlotte Daniel\u003c/emph\u003e chartered with load for James River. Mentions Mr. Allen of Surry, Mr. Charles Carter of Charles City; discusses prices of American goods and demands abroad. Asks Blow to send tobacco back in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlotte.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: escaped enslaved person (\"runaway slave\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip to go to City Point, Virginia and load with tobacco and proceed to London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Lots in Petersburg and buildings thereon too near Blow's storehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 63\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods sent out, etc. Commission merchants problems re payment of tobacco brought over\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e sent to Virginia for tobacco. Probably to West Point; York River tobacco brings better prices than James River; \"my commission for selling a hhd of tobacco shall be 21 shillings; brokerage is 5 shilling\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 350 due\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood shipped out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing firm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes bar iron\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to death of George Briggs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to the Charlotte store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants canvas and anchor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles bound from Norfolk to London, agreement, names of Crew, wages, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not want any part of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e at sea\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItemized\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor shingles, etc., shipped by boats to Portsmouth or Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePepper, coffee, mill;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLinseed oil, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew sloop of £ 850\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral merchandise\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOils, locks, paints\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShot, lead, nails, window glass, glass, hats, axes, linens, copper, hardware, guns: £ 986.60 pounds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShoes and hats\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGinger\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGinger\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSail duck\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoolens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpoons, combs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProvisions for sloop dispatch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice, to D[arton?], Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods at £ 256.0.11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 3074.10.8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 197.15.1 ¼\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 60.16.7\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThompson,\u003c/emph\u003e hardware; £ 106.7.8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOils and lampblack\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor store and wharf repairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 1171.15.9½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Blow, Thomas Ogburn, Owners \u0026amp; Thomas [Angnus?], Master of Schooner Venus: Contract to West Indies; also ship's personnel with wages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 carts of snakeroot per the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor goods bought at Port Au Prince, Jamaica.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping Blow's fall goods and pick up blows tobacco for foreign ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas hired Benjamin Wythe to live with him at £ 20 instead of Fort at £ 60. Key was the operator of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill \u003c/emph\u003estore and plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: damage and vandalism to ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMalborough\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: John [Cohn?] to be apprenticed to Richard Blow for 6 years\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not keep on Benjamin Wythe (see January 4th above)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bill of laden for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarian,\u003c/emph\u003e Norfolk from Harvre de Grace\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: store there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: they will have new neighbors soon at Sandy Hill: J. Stewart \u0026amp; Company. (Key operated \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store for Richard Blow)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods for Col. Allen and for Charles Carter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: blooded mares owned by Allen Cooke's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: management of store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: mercantile business there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e to Glasgow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of stones to Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e and possible cargoes, [unclear] \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJasmine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…the men who can fight best, lye [sic!] most and swear cleverly are most in repute\" here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"back country stores have taken a great deal of the trade from this place…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: ships for cargo in James, York and Rappahannock Rivers - [unclear] and get \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMalborough\u003c/emph\u003e full as soon as possible, refers to Blow's trip to England soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: leaving lot by Barton for a lumber house near store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's paying his account with him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: death\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying lot from Blow for new store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: arrival of ships. Bland, apparently, was manager of Blow's business in his absence\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: corn delivered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: hard money, much of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeorge\u003c/emph\u003e off Smith's Island - losses…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: building store; arrival of foreign ships…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts due Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts of Blow to Company\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: getting watch springs from London; (Geddy lived in Williamsburg near Palace; see James Geddey House History C.W.; he moved to Petersburg when Capitol left Williamsburg)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending some paper of Baker to Blow before he sets out for London. May send them to Blow in London, asks about what Blow has decided re land and who is to settle it for him; will give Blow's agent the refusal as he promised; (Zach Rowland owned a lot in Williamsburg on Waller Street (from 1782-1786); see C.W. for location of his lot—[M.A.S])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's trip to Europe soon, wishes some memo or form of a co-partnership, between them before Blow goes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeal sent down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTorn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's debts to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sending tobacco by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e to London next week, sends lists so collections can be made there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's letter dated on board ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e in Hampton Roads was received; refers to copartnership in letter of 4th (above). Approves of getting another partner from Britain to go into their firm (Barksdale \u0026amp; Blow). Suggests as Blow is there and will visit all trading posts in Britain, he can choose one better and will visit \"all the back stores\" before his return to Petersburg. McNeil has Married Youille's daughte - after a feud Youville has disowned them. Barksdale will have to settle McNeil elsewhere in back country and will settle [unclear?] in back country and will need spring goods for these small stores; asks Blow to send goods back to him in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: send cellar window frames to him via Pierce's Sloop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \"trade very dull, collections same, money tight\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: no chances of collecting money at this time, money tight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's finances here while he is abroad no chance of collections until fall; workmen must be paid at all events. Ask Mr. Key or Mr. Barksdale for help if you need funds badly (Hines was Blow's nephew and manager of some of his property).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: can furnish stores, planks, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow and Baker \u0026amp; Blow's overdue account with Hazlehurst, Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Just back from 6 weeks up the country, per ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVirginia\u003c/emph\u003e. Been the round of all the stores in the Country that we have an interest in. Collections very small. Insects among tobacco has been very fatal. Business very dull. If ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e should arrive early, I can do well this fall in trade; may be able to get Northern goods this fall; Insists upon Blow getting them a partner for Britain, perhaps in Glasgow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Refers to lots of goods sent to Blow in Virginia in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeorge.\u003c/emph\u003e No sale as yet for Blow's tobacco arrived in [unclear?] due to uncertainty as to duty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: demands very pressing at Portsmouth and here; out of his power to give any financial assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending meal down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending framing down; get bricks for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Citron bought, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[torn]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent Blow naval stores for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlex Donald, Richmond, wishes 1,081,000 barrel stones; (Donald is a partner of Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends goods to Robert Rines \u0026amp; Co., John Hoomer \u0026amp; Co. and Robert Craige; asks Blow to clear these at customs and to these people for them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends him 2 , [unclear?] of brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices of goods shipped in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e also in your ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth \u003c/emph\u003ere: sales of tobacco there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts on Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Give Capt. Diamond a compass…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn pleasure trip; business in Virginia very dull. \"I find a good many houses failing in this place as well as in Philadelphia. Northern cities laden with India goods;\" urges Blow to have a separate account for the Portsmouth and Petersburg stores as I have no interest in the Portsmouth store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[torn]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business conditions there and his interests in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his goods from abroad have arrived. Can furnish Bland some for Blow's store in Portsmouth if needed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received goods by the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJasmond,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBattleton,\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison;\u003c/emph\u003e Re: their credit with Donald \u0026amp; Burton, collection of debts owving in Virginia, etc. Thinks Blow was right not to send off goods to his \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e and Portsmouth stores this fall. Reports total loss of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJasmond\u003c/emph\u003e off Hatteras, passengers saved, all goods lost, great damage by this storm at Norfolk and Portsmouth as tides were 10 feet higher than ever known before. John Key, the operator of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store, has come for a few goods for that store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow just returned from four months abroad. Discusses ships and cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Mr. Jerdon's horses and groom[?] to be sent to him at Louisa if not, to A. Donald. Directions for putting off goods at Brandon; and to York County customers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: confusion of orders for goods from Barksdale \u0026amp; Blow; and quality of tobacco shipped to him, prices etc;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods not coming to him on schedule. Wishes 500 bushels salt and some rum and sugar. Have no money to purchase tobacco. Dull sales at this place, low prices of tobacco and high prices of goods, keeps off buyers at store .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for goods to be sent by Blow to Wilmington by Sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSpeedwell.\u003c/emph\u003e Thinks there is an excellent opening for a business there. Virginia is overstocked with Country Stores or rather shops. Could accept H.C. produce in payments. Send the goods to Henry Urquahart or Carmical \u0026amp; Bogle as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods received\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing going here in retail line but a demand to country merchants in the wholesale way...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of credit for David and Herbert Hines, his brothers. [David Hines married Elizabeth Francis, daughter of Thomas Francis, February 3rd, 1781]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: need for molasses and rum, sugar or coffee for his business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods by the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSpeedwell\u003c/emph\u003e to hand (£ 381.15.10); goods sent him (saddler, corderoys, [unclear?], men's shoes) \"not suitable for my trade here.\" I wish rum, sugar; will try to pay in North Carolina produce but that is as low in your state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed letter re economic conditions in England and the reaction to follow if Virginia General Assembly lays heavy duties on British shipping and on B[low's] goods imported in them; if this happens, a fatal blow will be given to the credit of Virginia in this country…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Accounts for collection\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOut of certain goods, will loose customers if Blow does not send some up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ereturns invoices for damaged goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discusses effect to follow if paper currency is issued to you. It will raise your exchange very much. It is prudent for you to collect your debts before their value is reduced thereby…warns against giving too much credit…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: needs cloth for clothes for enslaved persons\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: difficulty of getting spring goods from abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[need to check folder break-down for accuracy]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor goods [unclear?] and to be sent to Richard Blow per ship Portsmouth. Blow had sent stoves over to be sold (8 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived credit for shingles, scantling, garden nails and lumber\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 petty accounts of Richard Blow with craftsmen; Accounts of Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London for goods; List for Richard Blow, Virginia (6 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists: \"1 fine Carnelian seal with Coat of Arms crest. Neatly set in gold [unclear?] pattern £ 5.5 \"N.B. the seal, pin and ring were delivered to Mr. Blow\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFifteen accounts of Richard Blow for various needs at home and abroad; Tavern account with Mr. A. Livingston; Repairs to ship Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipped by Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJesmond\u003c/emph\u003e for their account with Robt. Crew, Merchant, London, £ 1034.13.5\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 heads[?] of Tobacco; £ 600.17.11;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 invoices for jewelry;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 petty accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 receipts Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e...for goods furnished to Captains of ships and other individuals; 24 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Pair of Silver [unclear?] Pistols, Brass Barrels and [unclear?] locks: (£ 8.18.6)\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003edress materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 pieces, receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 pieces, receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice; wide selection of goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWide selection of goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJesmond\u003c/emph\u003e is now loaded and will sail, Captain Smith is in charge\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills for plank and lumber of all kinds, R. Blow; 12 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 prices (August 1st??)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading of tobacco in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e at Cabin Point or Petersburg. Times hard; cannot remit now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA continuation of letter of January 1st (above)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to new tax imposed by General Assembly of January 1st on tobacco. Money very hard, being [unclear?] often. Sends invoices for tobacco shipped out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip Portsmouth leaving for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: glad to know ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e is out of Cape's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco down in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMolly\u003c/emph\u003e or the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTermagant\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn distress for cash to get French ships out—has drawn on Blow for £ 50. Gordon \u0026amp; Kean will send her (ship) out to sea for Grubb if I can furnish funds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his personal business affairs—Roberts almost paid now. James River tobacco now in demand here. Refers to George Briggs, nephew of Blow, owing him; also George Nicholson and Richmond Rope Walk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: carpenters working on the wharf, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: corn sent to Blow from the Plantation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blows ship in port and difficulties re manifest. Refers to Blow's marriage and send congratulations to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: general news\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Blow's \"happy day\" (wedding day / Richard Blow's Marriage); Tobacco prices looking up. Trade duller than when you were here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Grand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e has brought in £ 2200. Refers to the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison,\u003c/emph\u003e safe at Cadiz\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends manifests of ship's \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e cargo. She [ship]will be in England before the Harrison or the Grand Duke. Needs salt and stoneware\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives ship's \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e cargo and his needs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e…when he left South Quay he settled with Baker \u0026amp; Blow. Invoice of Tobacco received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuying lighter of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends goods out by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e to Portsmouth and Petersburg stores. Business dealing with the two stores sends tobacco and staves back in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods for (Richard Blow)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice, harness and saddler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipped in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHagard\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow; concerned over how to pay creditors: \"very stagnant times\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to go up to the Charlotte store only 85 miles from Petersburg and see Mr. Youville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Bax \u0026amp; Ellill for \"Blow\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Trinbug \u0026amp; Bell for Blow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026amp; Co. for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Mr. Galloway from Jamaica who would like to be their agent there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor £ 1233.19.14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026amp; Co. for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Tyson wishes circa 200 hhds tobacco from lower James River. Recommends shipping tobacco to France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like business dealings with Blow; encloses list of goods available for exportation and prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegging for goods to be sent to him in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends invoice of goods needed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnable to send the candlesticks you wanted for the Mason's Lodge. Pattern desired not available, very expensive to be made by silversmith; awaits Blow's decision\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of 1784 January 1st\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of goods to him and tobacco loaded in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debt to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sends tobacco in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods sent to Blow's store in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth.\u003c/emph\u003e Barksdale not liable for that store. Settled with Blow before he went to England (in 1785) \"I have no more interest in the Portsmouth Store or the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e than a man unborn nor never had from the beginning of our co-partnership\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 invoices for goods for Blow in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious assortments, 10 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy: Rich Barton, Henry Dickson, Donald \u0026amp; Burton; Taxes, Sussex County or Richard Blow: 1196 acres land, 203 acres land, 210 acres land, 28 polls, 13 levis, 10 horses, 50 cattle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efrom Donald \u0026amp; Burton, John Begg, James Williamson, Portsmouth Store, J. Barrister (10 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith carpenters, tailors, butcher, cabinet maker (10 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo M. Finkle, Jno. Thomson, [D____unclear?], Eph. Elder, Alex. Smith, E. Youngman, H. Brown, G. Nickols\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003evarious goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterial for dresses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"London, 3 Voyages;\" \"Virginia, 3 voyages\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bread, rum, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor repairs to ships of Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e for store and for wharf; and for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDispatch\u003c/emph\u003e (repairs)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice for misc. goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor craftsmen. 23 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor craftsmen. 30 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarpenter and builders account\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor Petersburg store, South Quay store, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips furnished, Ports listed, foreign merchants traded with, invoices (local and foreign); 200 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMessrs. Brothers De Bacque, Dunkirk (France)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 business letters concerning the sale of tobacco and loading on ship Portsmouth and others for foreign ports. Also their business agreements. The dates of the letters are as follows: January 12 11, 15, 26, February 2, 1, 8, March 12 26, April 4, 20, 12 30, May 16, 26, 31, 20, June 6, July 16, 13 August 10, 17, 19, 14 12 29, September 2, December 1, 13\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports dissolution of the Partnership of Thomas Bland \u0026amp;Co., will continue the business under the firm name of William Edwards \u0026amp; Co. and settle former co-partnership\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo: Wm Pritchard, Wm Corrupter, Gabriel and [Rhilgo?], James Brown, John Cranbury, John Bingham, M. Donald, John Whitley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: renting house (Waddell was a silversmith, formerly of Williamsburg)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: to James Giddy Jr., Silversmith in Petersburg, formerly of Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: renting store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: about to settle in Amherst Country\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargoes for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e and payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales of cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHaney\u003c/emph\u003e reported to your credit. Sends hogshead of London wine via ship. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eActive\u003c/emph\u003e soliciting trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndian corn cargo sent by Blow to them; Enclosed invoice of prices or articles imported to this island: wheat, grain and flour always command good prices and good profit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco is a very dull sale at present. Wheat high all over Europe, Turpentine is much demand\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo for North Carolina, salt, rum, ship bread and 400 empty hands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFort was manager or operator of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store for Blow, George Andrews is overseer for 1788 for £ 20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipments to Donald \u0026amp; Burton via Bowman; other shipments discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(fragment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 to 15 ships en route to Portsmouth are frozen up in Appomattox River near the bar; ice is 5 inches thick\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost woolens entirely too high for this market\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: clothing for Col. Lewis Burwell's enslaved persons is held up for duties at Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suits in General Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suits in court there. Blow's debts due; payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking that Blow send 2 packages that came for him from abroad. One may be a spinet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis detailed letter about the economy discusses prices for canvas, salt, tar; compares French and English prices for same. French minister has written to Jefferson with regard to trade to tobacco. France may become a very important depot for tobacco and particularly this port as it is near to the Dutch and German Ports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sendingBoxes of James Geddy's by first vessel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: James Geddy's invoice of sundry goods in 3 packages misplaed; never arrived here; find they are in Norfolk at Capt. Maxwell's. Please send.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in General Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(care of Joshua Fort, Tower Hill) Re: [unclear?] a lot of his\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in General Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bill owed by Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Geddy's 3 packages of goods have arrived at last, send duties due from him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: coming for final settlement of accounts of Baker and Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's lots in Petersburg. Legality of ownership must be cleared up. Will check deeds in Prince George County. Gill will sue you if not cleared up soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipments of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco very promising this year, prospects for 1/3 more crop. Wants horseman's trumpet for our Cavalry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral prices and tobacco sales outlook\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco down, also bacon, hams for Mr. Gregory in Dunkirk. M. Oldner will look after them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Lathian, Sharp, Wardrop \u0026amp; Co., Weavers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Hunt \u0026amp; Clay, Ribbon Weaver\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Henry \u0026amp; Richard Joseph, Pewterers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Lancaster, Bax and Ellill and shipment in Bowman for Virginia, bird shot, seeds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of James Davidson, Net, Rope, Twine, Line maker\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Wm \u0026amp; Rdn Borradaile \u0026amp; Co.; Hats and felts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Edward Collinson, Tin Plate, [Warker?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of [North?] Johnson \u0026amp; [Frith?], turners and brush makers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: prices of naval stores, lumber and staves. Asks for settlement of their business for past year soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e has gone to sea, re: Blow's lands\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of John Freeman \"cork cutter to his majesty\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLooking for Captain Oldner. Stack of Tobacco in France kept up high by late deliveries. Farmers General will buy at liberal prices to encourage commerce between the two countries. When \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e arrives, will write you further.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending sturgeon down, wishes nails\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: coming to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill \u003c/emph\u003esoon; We should come to something decisive in our business. Crop up country good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipments of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: [lands?] of Baker \u0026amp; Blow in western lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: repairs to shop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecution against blow for £ 600.5, for debts owed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds salt for store; re: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] Gov. of Virginia for duties past due £ 80\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipments in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip Captain: business about sailing for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill sell 1,200 acres of land in order to pay if Blow insists\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt owed to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suit in Southampton Co. Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's debt to firm for tobacco sent him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending load of staves down by Mr. Gray\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllowed another ship to have barrel of mead as they were out; Oldner was the Captain of Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm conditions bad due to inclemency of weather; John Rochelle needs salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawyer for Mr. Baker and Blow, Suit vs. Holland to come up at next court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sold Robert Rives remaining stock of goods belonging to Webb, Barksdale \u0026amp; Co. Accounts enclosed to amount of £ 916.8.4 sterling to go on proper account to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale. It is now time to rent out the Courthouse store if no renter applies, we shall have to pay dead rent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa\u003c/emph\u003e is in from Isle of May with salt. Says prices of barrel staves is too high\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs willing to be Captain of ship to ply between Holland to Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks that goods come up in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBell Cap Bay,\u003c/emph\u003e lying now at New Point News or in Nansemond River. May send \"my ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eConstitution\"\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMember of House of Delegates from Sussex County. General Discussion of affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Law cases\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of schooner and cargo in Rotterdam; Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eKepple\u003c/emph\u003e to be sold in West Indies. Mr. Rosser to Fredericksburg with load of salt and dry goods. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMeremaid\u003c/emph\u003e from Glasgow arrived today. Mr. Lightfoot's sloop from Antigua here [Mrs. Blow and little George were staying in Petersburg with Mr. Blow]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: changing from employ to Rotterdan [unclear?] to Captain of Portsmouth owned by Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e and other ships: staves business and red oak hogsheads for sale. \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eQueen of France\u003c/emph\u003e from London and Captain Blaney from St. Martins here with salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of General Assembly in session. Briggs was representative from Sussex County. John Pride was speaker of Senate, defeated Charles Carter. Briggs thinks Pride better for office as he is \"more of a republican;\" [theater] plays to start here soon, place very gay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: case Baker and Blow versus Applewhaite\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: package lost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits and loss of legal papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuits in court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e140 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items pertaining to sloop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e100 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee alsoBox 11A: Financial Records, 1787-1789.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave sent Blow 12 hogsheads tobacco and 10 [unclear?] pork; no peas to be had.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending navel stores for A. Donald\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Wishes to rent Blow's house in Petersburg for Mr. Rose; let him hear your wishes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's judgment against him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in Brunswick County Court vs. Blow \u0026amp; Baker\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices of staves, shingles, scantling, sugar, molasses, coffee, tobacco, fish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTar sent to A. Donald, sending 4 [bbls?] of turpentine to you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: selling enslaved person; Col. Baker's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e thought lost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBurgess had a school in Southampton. Reference to payments to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received Indian corn shipment for the account of James Brown of Richmond, Virginia. American grain is much in favor here, tho' [am?] crops of wheat, rye and barley are good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends flour and corn down for foreign trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Baker estate and suits in Brunswick County Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses financial conditions, tariff changes and effects on American goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends manifests for 55 hogeheads by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth;\u003c/emph\u003eAlso, others. Brother (James) is at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e on business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in Brunswick County Court, of Blows\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bar iron for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes quantity of peas to fill ship to be sent to Madeira before Christmas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 2,800 bushels of wheat in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e for Philadelphia. Will Blow get bills of lading for it for Manson?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot pay his account to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down 100 [unclear?] of flour and a parcel of back eyes peas (12 to 1,500 bushels) for Madeira\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists tobacco sent down for Blow, needs Liverpool salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs, wages, food, ports, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs, bread, rum, cordage, naval stores and general petty accounts for misc. articles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of laden and accounts of sloops \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eElizabeth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsey,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAcorn\u003c/emph\u003e and others; and petty accounts for ships\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecirca 100 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecirca 71 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer of Richard Blow, partner of Baker \u0026amp; Blow and of Richard Blow \u0026amp; Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer of Richard Blow partner of Baker and Blow and of Richard Blow and Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo ship on board the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e for Havre De Grass: Smithfield, Low Point, Hoods, Davis's, B. Brooke, Byrds, Lowpoint\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Richard Blow for the ships\" account of repairs Blacksmith account-ship Gloucester to Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWork on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items and one item related to freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Tobacco saved from wreck of the schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNelly\u003c/emph\u003e in November 1783. Asks for settlement, may enter suit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas corn and cask of ginger for Mr. Blow, by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlie\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping tobacco via City Point, 60 [unclear?] corn at 4-Mile-Creek, little wheat\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 33 hogsheads of tobacco to Blow, for shipment on Portsmouth for Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rent of Blow's warehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOwes blow; he is out of work, can't pay now (ship captain?)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems regarding ship and loading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down brandy, nuts, apples by cart. \"people\" (referring to enslaved persons) need shoes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been to France, 3 days at Dunkirk at Messrs. De Bacque. They seem agreeable to do business but due to the critical condition of affairs in France, the exchange is above par. Will go to Liverpool to look situation over. \"Expect to get the scheme completed to the fullest extent and the goods shipped…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends invoice of goods and corn delivered to Capt. Binghame\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sent 3000 [unclear?] of turpentine for account of Mr. Donald\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale (2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend him rum for corn he sent to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends turpentine (600??) would want $3 per (??)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading corn and sending down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending corn for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of boards, shingles, scantling to merchants here. Will have 600 bushels of salt for Captain Cox and flour and fish. Hope to sail back by August\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDemand for Virginia. Coal is very slow due to quantity of British coal on market. Corn prices low, Captain Fineash has employed Willing, Morris \u0026amp; Co. to buy his bricks. Wheat and flour prices good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends down turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSailing on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBowman\u003c/emph\u003e on 20th; dissapointed that Blow has done nothing to fit up his store in Petersburg for the reception of goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePeggy\u003c/emph\u003e left Lyon's Creek with corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts for sale of cargo and prices received\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Capt Fineash's business affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's accounts there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending tobacco and turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Brunswick County Suits\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items: The dates are as follows: January 13 February 24, March 9, 13 April 14 21, 28, May 14 7, 10, 5, 26, 21, 24, 31, June 7, 23, July 1, August 13 14 September 12 20, 25, October 2, 2, 20, 19, 22, 25\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items: Brown's loading of tobacco and corn on the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClermont,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePhoenix,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e to be delivered to Blow for foreign sale. Brown wished Blow to send him turpentine, salt, dry goods , rum, sugar, coffee, etc. Brown was a big merchant in Richmond. The dates are as follows: August 2, 2, 6, 11, 17, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 13 28, 30, September 1, 8, 12 12 13 17, 20, 24, 27, October 6, 4, 4, November 1, 3, 8, 10, 19, 23, December 2, 14 28, 30, 30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral condition of market, shipping, etc. The dates are as follows: March 9, 18, 24, 24, 27, 30; April 1, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 28, 24, 26, 28, 27, 29; May 1, 3, 19, 30, 19, 21, 22, 21, 26, 28; June 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 25, 25, 28, 30; July 2, 5, 9, 19, 19, 22, 29, 29; December 9.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Brown, Richmond merchant, accounts with Richard Blow; Brown's sale to various foreign merchants and delivered to ship Captains sailing, etc.; flour, corn, tobacco. 25 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 misc. petty accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo sales, voyage #10: wages, repairs, fitting out food, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e77 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e75 items regarding repairs, fittings etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpenses of Corn shipped on the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBirch,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCleopatra,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary.\u003c/emph\u003e Naval stores statement . 20 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of ships with Richard Blow; ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBowman,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCleopatra,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePhoenix,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEndeavor.\u003c/emph\u003e Sales of turpentine, tar, staves, rum, molasses, corn, repair work done, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received flour and black-eyed peas from Blow; will send wines to Blow; gives current prices of wheat, corn, rice, flour, beans, beef, pork, bees wax and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Blow for present of 4 red birds sent to him. Three arrived safely. I gave two to female friends and one to Mr. Donald.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLow Point, Milners, Smithfield, Suffolk, G-Creek,Hampton, Petersburg, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's Tobacco sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for joiners work\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelating to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeorge,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBowman,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarriet,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCastor,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eUnion,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMolly,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy master shipwrights, Captain John Cox, commander of Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs result of damage received on the Bognor Rocks £ 633 [Bognor Rocks, Sussex County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 pieces: Repairs, wages, food, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 200 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts now due and insaluable; rent for Princeton (house near Sussex County house); about Wm. Bland's inability to pay for horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAristotle\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThank for red birds sent to him. Sned more\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending oranges and hives\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"France is at war with the Emperor of Prussia; gives effect of current prices\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRed birds died on voyage; Captain Pollack of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e will bring others for me, I hope\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes cargo of staves—has shipped brandy to Blow. Also wishes Oak timbers and cedar boards for whale boats and harpoon. Situation of political affairs will influence the exchange. The success of our war against the Emperor and the King of Prussia has made prices fall already. Our success in several battles has recovered from the Emperor the whole Belgick [Belgique] or Flanders, besides the whole kingdom of Savoy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs establishing a House of Commerce in Bordeaux; asks business of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, disbursements, (32 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs, bills, after hurricane from St. Eustatias to Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid and George\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBallie De Sulpier\u003c/emph\u003e; Captain Timothy Congers was captain of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBallie de Sulpier.\u003c/emph\u003e In his account to Richard Blow under July 9, 1792 there is this item: \"Cash paid expenses to Williamsburg to see the judge (2.14.3 ½)\" and on July 29, 1792 \"Cash at Maupin's (5.18.1) on July 11 1792 Captain [Conears?] to Gabriel Maupin..\"[unclear?] for dinner, club, wine, lodging, grog are listed by Maupin as paid on July 12th. Maupin kept an ordinary in Williamsburg; [see: House History at Research department C.W. (M.A. Stephenson, March 1968)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items: Foreign agents, local suit, ship captains accounts, invoices of sloop Industry and David and George, Portsmouth, repairs to ships (nail maker, blackmaker, iron work), invoices for lumber, scantling, shingles, food furnished ships (ship bread, rum, beef, etc.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Captain John Cox)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrival of your ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth.\u003c/emph\u003e Wishes staves, cedar hoards, oak timbers for the whole boats and tarpons. Wishes tobacco; Brandy or gin will not be allowed to go into your country but in casks upward of 90 gallons. Which type of brandy and cognac will Blow like? Will send price current from time to time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A committee of the inhabitants of Petersburg assembled on Wednesday to devise some measure to prevent the communication of the Small Pox from Richmond, and they have resolved on planning a smoke house at Pocahontas to have every person from Richmond smoked before they are admitted into town..\" Gives prices current.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses war with Portugal and Spain and consequent fall in prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco delivered to Port-au-Prince\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping Blow tobacco at Kemp's Warehouse on the Piankatank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of 15 hogsheads of tobacco for sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eExperience\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips Blow hering, shad and tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends 32 hhds tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives prices current in list for tobacco and turpentine, deerskins, tar and rice\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Buying ship with Blow; son going to Virginia to be in business there, gives current prices of tobacco, turpentine, etc. Tobacco sales down 1/3 in France by National Assembly orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that Donald \u0026amp; Burton have failed. He and Mr. Lamb, book keeper for Donald \u0026amp; Burton, will form a joint business. Asks for Blow's business with them. Lamb \u0026amp; Younger are insurance workers, also.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of laden (12), wages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…There never was such distress in this kingdom amongst the commercial people as at this time prevails…I think very few will be able to ship goods the coming fall for their correspondents. Tobacco is very low and hardly any sale. A cargo of (??) Virginia Tobacco has lately been sold at 1¾, wheat 6/6, tar 21/[unclear], turpentine 12/ct\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers to collect debts for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives London exhange and needs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives prices current in Cadiz and exchange in London, Amsterdam and Paris; gives money valuations also\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses prices and general trade conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bill for goods desired\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Coffee House\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter and copy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 miscellaneous bills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Collections for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Price current for Antigua Rum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cask of chewing tobacco sent him for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The embargo will cease after the 25th of this month. The resolution to continue it after that time was rejected by a large majority yesterday..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow \u0026amp; Baker's judgment vs. Henry Banks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuits of Baker \u0026amp; Blow, judgments, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…M. Lee has rented your old store house to a M. Dudgin, a baker is building a very large oven in the back yard adjoining the old kitchen on the [run?]. Your carriage is now all ready, it is a nice one and I hope will please Mrs. Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Relationship between J. Boyce and T. Thompson Jr., dissolving partnership\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders 40 lb. of West India Cotton and some salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending corn from \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e, to Blow via Cabin Point and River\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e87 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e111 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Lot in Petersburg of Blow's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote the N.B.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debts to Blow under firm name of \"Fort \u0026amp; Nicholson\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of Laden and earthenware\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Merchant, Mr. Smith, who is coming to Virginia to settle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Thomas Thompson has died; Re: Blow's business with Thompson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The troop of Cavalry of Petersburg, marched on Saturday and about 160 militia and now going on daily from the different countries that come through here, the result of this business is very much to be feared will end in some thing that will be shocking to human nature…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for goods (dress materials)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturning to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Th. Thompson's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Thompson, Jr., arrived safely; Executors of T. Thompson, Jr. will give up the trade entirely, so partnership between him and you will be closed as early as possible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: T. Thompson's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays great Britain will pay for all injustices which Americans have suffered by the West Indies cruisers: make your just claim for loss suffered by the capture of your vessels. Do not doubt but that you'll be reimbursed for loss; discusses his and Blow's business connections and Thompson's son's business affairs in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices of Richard Blow's. 50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to French American difficulties at present; Thompson's estate affairs not favorable; great demand for middle grade tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Strange, Manchester to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice current list\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Captain Harrison of the Fort was shot last night by Lt. Willson in a duel\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBritish cruisers have orders to bring in every ship of whatever nation loaded with Provisions bound to France;... a great number of Americans are amongst but Commissioners appointed to purchase and to pay for the same instantly…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn sea 38 days, cargo damaged\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives genealogy of kinship of Drews, Hines and Blows.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs for Portsmouth dwelling\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs for Portsmouth dwelling\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices and receipts paid by Richard Blow to Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, and to local tradesmen in Norfolk (50 pieces) see: Jacob Andrews, Norfolk, silversmith, for ½ dozen, tea spoons and a tea canister\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Waller, Williamsburg, agent, for firm Abram Newman of London and John Grayson of Petersburg, Virginia, representing the firm of Davison \u0026amp; Newman, London, Executors of Benj. Waller, paid to attorneys for firm £ 1325 pounds and £2587.18 pounds - Va. currency in April 1779\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Henry Carleton's debt to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, Pitch Landing, 1781; [Anderson was bookkeeper for firm then]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent salt, lemons, china and oranges to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sending over in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRebecca\u003c/emph\u003e a very famous horse, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDare Devil\u003c/emph\u003e, property of John Hoomer of Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDare Devil\u003c/emph\u003e, Hoomer's horse, arrived safe in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\" I hear you have married Miss Wright..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 horses sent by Lamb \u0026amp; Younger to his father on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEliza; \u003c/emph\u003e give M. Lawson of Williamsburg and father information about this\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco very high here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: a fire which destroyed storehouse of Blow's, which Nash had rented. Mrs. Marks occupies the remaining house left of Blow's; wishes to continue renting it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's and Barksdale's foreign business, collections, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived 5 hogsheads of tobacco from \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill \u003c/emph\u003e overseer, entire crop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites for red birds; sends silk to Mrs. Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"America must be reaping immense advantage from the war that is going on in Europe\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: purchase of a good vessel; condition uncertain due to war. Does not think good time to increase foreign trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouise\u003c/emph\u003e bringing cargo of salt to City Point in exchange for tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e116 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScammel was part owner with Blow of a store at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill [\u003c/emph\u003esee Blow Family Papers, W\u0026amp;M Library, Special Collections Research Center]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e230 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of Carolina business and also those for conveyance of the lot to John Baird and Jamestown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collecting for Blow rent on Petersburg Storehouse and house, and recovering debts owed to Blow; current prices listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt he owes for rent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: estate of Thompson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: purchase of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e by Strange \u0026amp; Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rent of Blow's houses in Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Deed from Blow for Petersburg lots and houses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Collection for Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Th. Thompson's Estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses foreign wars and politics in France; not in favor of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e brig sent out to Dunkirk now; perilous situation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"..enclosed you have a Deed of trust from M. John Baird Jr. to you which he wishes to execute to secure the payment of his bond to you..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e…would like to have the name pedigree of Mr. Burwells horse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes stud horses sent to his place, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eChalmeria,\u003c/emph\u003e Dinwiddie County, by way of Suffolk and Petersburg, understands a groom and ferrier are with the house; avoid all ferries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish Blow to get him the pedigree of horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTraveller\u003c/emph\u003e and also name and pedigree of Mr. Burwell's horse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA vessel has arrived from London at Norfolk and has brought two stud horses shipped by Mr. Barksdale for M. Strange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Thompsons settlement of estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo collect debt owed by Anderson since 1795\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaird buys lots from Blow in Petersburg on Brick House Run\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e, Sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e Sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRebecca;\u003c/emph\u003e German Ships; 50 pieces)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 100 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNaval stores\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to war conditions and settlements abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBad news from abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas rented Blow's orchards\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of Father's debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Baker and Blow's business—debts owed them and bonds given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…I have at last made sale of Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale's land in Charlotte for £ 1000 pounds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sold Brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e to Freeland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: execution papers re Nicholson of Cabin Point for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: damaged tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThomas,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGalliat-a-Maria\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFox,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eStafford, Mill River\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Urquhart, Wilmington North Carolina to Wm. Barksdale+1719:1724\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of 24 hogsheads of tobacco on board of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarmony\u003c/emph\u003e for Norfolk to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: San Domingo Business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending naval stores\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping garden seeds to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain of ship bound to Port-au-Prince\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: salt from Isle of May and his warehouse for storing the salt is good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: order from Blow for a rolling mill for a Goldsmith's work; will send later; other business between them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid \u0026amp; George\u003c/emph\u003e (ship), Bills of lading sent; have sold tobacco and beeswax of Blow's; poor market; Georgia cotton is high and sugar and coffee equally as high\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry\u003c/emph\u003e arrived at Falmouth-sent her to Hull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFort \u0026amp; Barksdale will send cargo of tobacco, flour, etc. to San Domingo; asks Blow to secure proper vessel for them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 1 bale of woolens (£ 133.2) for Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers being sent to Blow. \"You will find much news and the state of Public Affairs in Europe; great events is looked for shortly\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's insurance on buildings; request a copy of Blow's policy \"Tobacco market perfectly flat\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness with Blow; for tobacco and brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of good shipped to Blow aboard \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJennie;\u003c/emph\u003e cargo for West Indies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of $7000 sent aboard \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJennie\u003c/emph\u003e for West Indies; invoice listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement with Blow for damaged tobacco and hominy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: estate settlement of Moore's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of bonds, notes, and securities due to the Estate of Th. Thompson put into the hands of Mr. Copeland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending invoices and bills of lading for woolens, etc. Could not ship guns without permission of this Government which could have cost more than the value; sending earthenware\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to rent rooms belonging to Blow's store, \"for the accommodation of about half a dozen particular acquaintances.\" Would like Blow's \"young gentlemen\" to board with her\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sales for tobacco and beeswax\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts for cotton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: wines\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts due Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas man who wishes to buy Blow's 100 acres near Petersburg called \"Chicken Quarter\" will give £ 55; invoice of timber sent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow elected Director of the Bank of U.S., Norfolk office\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of father's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent price list\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDudley was nephew of Mrs. Lee Hall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suspicion that his aunt was poisoned\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of articles sent by sloop for Mr. Barksdale's trip abroad 11 packages in all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSon has sailed for England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWm. West is to build a house at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld Place\u003c/emph\u003e (Blow's father's home in Southampton) for Richard Blow, how large must it be?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"All of Mr. Barksdale's furniture and etc. was sold off by Haxall on Thursday last; and at prices enormously high; the sales will exceed the original cost of the property\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"..our sales in September amounts to 124 pounds, 30 pounds cash\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"..Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e has been taken on her return from Madeira, retaken and carried into St. Kitts which has entirely frustrated the views that were entered into for her immediately going back with an assorted cargo…and I regret you will be disappointed of the fine old wines..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSon John has returned from London; 37 day passage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion of political situation between France, Austria, England, and Denmark and business repercussions as result. Reported that Blow's Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e has been detained in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs renting warehouse to Mr. [John] Halt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses international situation; England's problems, etc. Is moving his store to Bolling Brook Street; gives current prices for tobacco and etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his father's estate and collections\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses uprising of enslaved person Gabriel (\"slave insurrection\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to setting up business at Surry; will get Mr. McIntosh's building\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Late news from abroad; England and Denmark will not [rupture?]; will send ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa\u003c/emph\u003e out soon..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrand and corn meal being sent to Blow on the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHannah\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEnterprize\u003c/emph\u003e also tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImportations this year very large\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn way to canal to get shingles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImportation considerable; back country merchants will not buy anything of any consequence; desires salt, now worth 22/6 a sack and 4/3 loose per bushel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives prices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad shipment of gloves valued; sending some to Blow; doubts if they can sell well; discusses salt market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe; Salt and spices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco for sale in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClarissa;\u003c/emph\u003e wishes wine bought for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchooner Eira from Norfolk brought news of death of his father; schooner Augusta brought letter from Blow. Thinks M. Goodwin very improper person to administer father's estate. Brother William may wind up estate in Virginia, if not, asks Blow to administer. Remit all collections to mother; George Leckie, London, sending turtle andBox of oranges to Blow as present\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMississippi\u003c/emph\u003e brought salt from Liverpool; Is shipping tobacco to Blow by sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMill River\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping him flour and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of tobacco ahead; gloves he has are hard to unload on merchants; William Barksdale in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts current (Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, June 23, 1800) and others, Bonds for duties on ships, Prom. Notes, bills of lading, receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esee Folder 2 also\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForeign mostly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDudley was a nephew of Dr. Hall. Had a small grocery store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: seizure of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharles Carter\u003c/emph\u003e by French privateer and uncertainty of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Hilton\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes his 350 or 400 hogheads of Indian meal shipped to England as a better market than western ports. Was priced at 12/6 [Stg?] per bushel and flour quoted at 120 per Bushel. Tobacco very dull here. \"I have no doubt that France will capture all neutral vessels they can that are loaded with provisions for England.\" Gives current prices of flour, bacon, hogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes salt for the Indian meal he has sent to Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Bankrupt, Jesse Brown - Refers to \"Master George (Blow) at Bellfield (Academy)\" [Bellfield is now Emporia. There was a school there which George Blow attended. See Blow Family Papers Index, M. Stephenson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs building a schooner for the West Indies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConditions of markets local and abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUsing Blow's \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBrig Almira\u003c/emph\u003e to send his tobacco to Falmouth and Dunkirk or Havre (both in France); Wishes brig to come to City Point to load; gives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to go to Scotland; asks Blow about passage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e loading at Harrison's Bar near here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e for load for Falmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood news from Europe related to war there; Mr. Barksdale in England gives condition of market for tobacco there, in France and Holland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales in April amounted to £ 140, £ 36 cash\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoading \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e for Dunkirk or Havre, or Rotterdam, on Blow's terms, all load to go to Mr. Barksdale for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipments of tobacco abroad, current prices noted\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: 2 horses and a mare sent from abroad to Hoomes in care of Blow, Horses to arrive in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eChesapeake\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange at par; tobacco prices dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We have this moment received intelligence that preliminaries of peace between this country and France were signed on the 1st. Inst. What will be the effects with the commercial world we are not prepared to say..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral arrivals of foreign ships at City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange only 1 per cent under par in New York and really as high in Philadelphia and Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of 24 hogshead of tobacco from Dixon's warehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow 16 hogshead of tobacco on Neptune on account of Col. Burwell (Carter's Grove). Send the German linens on board the Nancy to Col. Burwell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Col Nathaniel Burwell's tobacco. \"The remainder of the tobacco shall be sent you from the College W. House as soon as a craft can be obtained.\" \"N.B. I send you four hogshead of tobacco marked and [unclear?] as [unclear?] the property of Matthew Anderson of Williamsburg which he wishes shipped to Messrs Davis Stephenson \u0026amp; Co. (London)…if not to Messrs Lamb \u0026amp; Young..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt owed by Godwin to Leckie\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Mr. Somerville of Somerville \u0026amp; Halliday, New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Galigo wishes to charter ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e if you have not disposed of her\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco to go to London via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinking of returning to England as has closed all business in Richmond; flour market here good; let me hear of the flour shipped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping tobacco on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMill Run\u003c/emph\u003e to be sent to Liverpool: will you attend to this?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs collecting debts owed to Blow, Tobacco very dull here at 27/meal and flour at high prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHear brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Jamaica; would like Blow to ship his flour to Kingston?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of tobacco on brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e for London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: attempt to sell his ship at anchor at Blow's warehouse in Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's taking over Brown, Rives \u0026amp; Co.'s ships for Leeth and other ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's help in getting cargo for England, current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed bill of lading for 58 hogsheads of tobacco per schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collecting Blow's acts for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed bill of lading for 79 hogheads of tobacco for Leeth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: conditions in New York for discounting notes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shoe leather and flour barrels needed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eListing ships carrying 310 hogheads tobacco abroad for firm: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Hatton,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHooper,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarriet,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking Blow to send his tobacco to Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNovember sales at store amounted to 354 pounds £74 cash. Out of sugar; Mr. West (overseer) wishes to be paid for his last year's wages; says T. Gray is pushing him for payment for land\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: London goods shipped to Taliaferro via Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing loss of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlotte Walton\u003c/emph\u003e in Dunkirk harbor; all perrished. Mr. Barksdale had written him of this; gives prices of flour and tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sent for Lamb \u0026amp; Younger to Blow; the brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDelight\u003c/emph\u003e has also hogsgead of corn, meal, [beans?]; I need 44 new flour barrels of you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices higher because of state of things in Europe, Inflation may increase if seasons are not good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent business statement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco to be shipped abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: seizure of brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorris Myers\u003c/emph\u003e in Nova Scotia; asks Blow's advice about insurance of cargo (London?); cargo was sold; should we prosecute the Appeals?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: estate of his father, wishes family bible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpecting ship from Ireland soon; wishes cargo for it, vessel about 250 tons\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of tar and turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas purchased a pair of mill stones for my friend Gen. Henry See, shipped on board a vessel of Mr. David Anderson of Petersburg. Please send them up the Potomac to Gen. See, Westmoreland County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas canvas, tar and turpentine for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of lading for wines\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to sell pork made by John D. White of Carolina, inspected in full salt but not pickled; 600 + land\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his tobacco lost by sinking ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his skins\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't sell gloves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness in shipping and current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGen. Lee wishes the Mill stones to be landed at Stratford three miles above Blackstones Island. Taylor has stone steps from city of Washington being sent down to him via Blow's vessel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to ship a couple dozen hams to London, 1 dozen for Mr. Barksdale and 1 dozen for Mr. A. Donald, an old friend. Wishes bacon and hams for personal use.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs financially ruined and will have to take bankruptcy; asks advice of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to sell 15,000 lbs (pounds) of cured bacon and hams which are salpetered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco [unclear?] may get up to 5 ½ or 6 dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his shipments abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about price of beeswax and cheese\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his schooners to pay his debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown, Rives, \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour has fallen; tobacco [transient?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot sell gloves which Blow sent him; might try Charleston, but New York would be better market\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStore sales in February were £ 120 pounds, £ 30 cash\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for sending hams to London for him, also for flour and corn forwarded to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOld Tobacco is worth $ 7 or $ 8; send Lees to Philadelphia; other to go to England; better to send in 2 ships as risk is less.; fill in with corn and Indian meal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: vast acreage of land in Nansemond County surveyed in 1791 and entered in Surveyor's book, Norfolk, in name of James Murdough and Daniel Fisher (20,000 acres). Entry was first made in 1783 with Andrew Stewart, and later Col. Charles Connor; asks Blow to \"have inventory made in the names of Thomas Edmonds and John T. Blow who are the right and only owners of these warrants\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBought sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e to save debt of Francis Jones\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders for shipments of tobacco to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreat demand for grain and flour; have had no sales for gloves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave shipped by brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e 416 [hbls?] flour to Blow; also have sent 58 [hbls?] by brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e. Gives current price list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived cheese; wishes price of corn and bacon. Little peach brandy in this neighborhood this year; sales at store were £ 162, £ 54 cash\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloves (380 dozen) sent to Philadelphia for possible sale; would like coffee, sugar and salt in barter for Indian corn. Send prices for tobacco, flour, mead, corn, rum, brandy, coffee, and sugar. Wishes payment for Barksdale's debt to him for tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: note of Mr. Jones\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent set of springs for a gigg for Mr. Fort on sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSincerity\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs there any demand for Russian goods with you? Expect a ship from the Baltics soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour to be exported\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending tobacco to Blow for export\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco for shipment on brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear of the loss of brigs \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCarter\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Hylton\u003c/emph\u003e, hope to go to London soon, peace seems near.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders for tobacco sent down to go to Cowes, Havre, Dunkirk (France), and Rotterdam via the brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed French brandy and rum; Crops poor, trade dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to London via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington;\u003c/emph\u003e sending tobacco to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e and meal—Blow's plantation tobacco sent to Fort was refused\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes permission to send away ship which Blow may charter to Great Britain or Ireland if necessary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems about his sailing for England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco business and shipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: illness of his mother (a sister of Richard Blow) Nancy is Rob Hines wife and child, George\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: trip abroad and tobacco sent for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships' cargoes for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargoes for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvery cellar full of water due to late rains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e273 hhds by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e already shipped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 100 hhds herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco by sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRanger\u003c/emph\u003e for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRanger\u003c/emph\u003e for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e gloves for your store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Davis warehouse, Petersburg; sending tobacco for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco bound for Orient via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGet passage to London for Thomas Leckie; wishes hams sent to friends Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e arriving; will you get cargo for Ireland, England or France. Prefer Liverpool; can take staves.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e is a ship of 250 tons, 5 years old, has accommodations for passengers and sails well\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDispatch,\u003c/emph\u003e Capt. Ash, bringing 26 hhds tobacco which Blow will ship according to manifest; detailed directions with tobacco marks ES, EF, W, RB\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 5 tons of logwood and 2 tons of lignum vitae to City Point, wishes logwood for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa,\u003c/emph\u003e also.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e whereabouts; lemons sent to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hil\u003c/emph\u003el. Tobacco, wheat and flour market very dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders coffee, sugar, rum, oil, molasses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarksdale wishes logwood by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa;\u003c/emph\u003e Mr. Blow at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes out insurance for Blow at Phoenix Fire Insurance Office; surprised that Blow does not pay his overdue debt to them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Coopers left \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e some days ago; they have some barrels to make at the old place, then they set off for Norfolk\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 22 hogsheads…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope Col. Carter's crop from York River has reached you. Hope Col. Burwell's from Rappahannock as well as the tobaccos from Carter's Grove are down. Buy pipes of wine for us.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e in from London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHear his horses have arrived\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection of debts due him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e belonging to Hathaway, Howes \u0026amp; Russell enroute to [unclear?] and Dunkirk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow owes them £ 1216.19.0; no insurance has been received from Blow's ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid \u0026amp; George\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount: £ 3593.8.0 ¾ (1800-1802)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItemized lists of goods furnished £ 205.3.9 ¾\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDesires Blow's foreign accounts shared by him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts due Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of tobacco consigned to Blow, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStruck by lightening from France to Virginia; repairs necessary listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs and disbursements\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow barrel staves by brig, about 250,000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Burwell had lived at Carter's Gove near Williamsburg before moving to Carter Hall]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to send up a cargo of logwood and [2 bbhs?] Rum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLatest letter from Europe gives a very unfavorable account of tobacco, prices here have fallen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDanish ship Ferendchaff[?] arrived at City Point yesterday from Dunkirk (France); will take logwood in cargo, tobacco prices low in France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: an unsettled account between Hussey and A. Wiscort \u0026amp; Aug. Derenville, merchants in New Castle, New Kent County [Derenville was a Merchant in Williamsburg: see also: CWF research department]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHines gives consent to have her [daighter Patsy] inocculated for small pox. [Background information: Hines was a nephew of Blow. Hine's daughter, Patsy was living with Blow and going to school there.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives list of current prices there; wishes Blow to give him letters of introduction to merchants in different parts of France, Spain, England and Holland. Armistead is sending his ship over there in trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: store and plantation affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco sold Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: accounts for logwood and tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: freight rates to Dunkirk and other ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePart owner of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington;\u003c/emph\u003e wishes Blow to get cargo for ship to foreign ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow 4000 staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSendingBox of books, send to Suffolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his problems with shipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharles Carter\u003c/emph\u003e and [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFriendchoff?]\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62 hhds tobacco aboard ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCotton and wheat crop destroyed by hail storm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany accounts owing to store cannot pay anything to Blow at present. We owe about $300 for pork we bought last winter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders from Blow for furniture to be made: mahogany enough for chairs and a sofa\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just heard that a declaration of war has taken place between Great Britain and France; it appears that Louisiana and all the country west is ceded to the U.S. (Mailed from Baltimore)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Hall Suit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMath. Anderson of Williamsburg has sent down 4 hhds of tobacco for your care, please ship to London in British Vessel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMartha Bland\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLovely Lass\u003c/emph\u003e are now loaded at City Point and bound for England via Norfolk, business very dull here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow 194 pieces of bacon and 200 + 2 hhds of Indian meal and 1 [unclear?] flour. Send me store ware, mostly butter pots, also a set of bedstead screens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrops injured by wet weather; Mr. West (overseer) needs about fifteen [unclear?]; trade dull; our sales for 3 months only £ 500 out of which there was only about £ 90 cash. Refers to \"Old Place\" in Southampton County [owned by Blow's father, Scammel, and now property of Blow]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: various ships available for shipping and tobacco abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSailing for Nassau in ten days\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tombstone which I ask to be put over my father's grave; I sail for Halifax and England soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend shoe makers and oil to grease leather, tacks, hammer awls, etc., and cotton and wool cards\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes aid in taking his ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e to sea bound for Livernick, Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes barrel staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to \"Aunt Hall\" and calls Hall \"Uncle\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to west Indies with 100 hbls of corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt which Talbot Godwin owes Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to sell his ship for him at $600\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco Warehouse listings; Stud horse desired from England, Ship accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave received 10,000 lb of pork this season and only 1 hhd of tobacco; no cash worth sending\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: insurance of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDauphin\u003c/emph\u003e and other insurance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: escape of an enslaved person (\"escaped negro\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eacknowledges payment of $10.00\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts and notes owed him and hopes that Blow can lend him money\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay be willing to buy Blow's stack of goods which he had offered him a while back; Mr Lee will look them over and determine value etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bargaining of above terms, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing Benson, Cropper \u0026amp; Benson, Corn Merchants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of visit to Brandon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE: Market conditions in France: Indigo is in demand, market favorable; tobacco market good; no demand for wood, pitch or tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods, invoice; Shoes £ 246.17\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilling to give mortgages on goods in store for security\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his credit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssembly extended the market land to be leased for 99 years\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA candidate for House in Virginia Assembly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bond for enslaved persons (\"negroes\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: provisions asked for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eParkman\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding the 'sale' of enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSailing soon with 15,000 bu. wheat. Wishes Harris, the baker, to furnish ship bread.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to be appointed insurance inspector for ship coming into port, asks Blow's support\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship for conveying 2,500 bushels of wheat at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEliza\u003c/emph\u003e has arrived; tobacco market good as [scarce?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of corn and a ship furnished by Blow for Bahamas. Return cargo to be cane, apples and turtle (?)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrother wishes to go to West Indies. He wishes pay for staves and tobacco if sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collections to be made for him by Blow [Swain was a Quaker]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrade slow, collections poor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: price for 15,000 barrel staves sent to Blow for sale; wishes current prices on tobacco and staves, white hominy corn and other corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends his wheat from Dunkirk (N.C.) to Walker Town, about 10 or 12 miles) by land and little more by water. Is satisfied with this mode of conveyance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplains navigation up river as far as Walker Town for vessels of 100 or 150 tons; wishes Blow to send ship for his wheat; has the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn\u003c/emph\u003e arrived in London?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas 4 enslaved carpenters ( \"valuable negro carpenters\") for 'sale' ($500 each)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses prospect of buying horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDiamond,\u003c/emph\u003e is disappointed in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePegasus,\u003c/emph\u003e he is a bad foal getter and not much thought of in England. Heard a horse called [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePipaten?],\u003c/emph\u003e mother to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTrumpeter,\u003c/emph\u003e has produced successful horses lately; also [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWarten?]\u003c/emph\u003e or [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSementan?]\u003c/emph\u003e can be purchased for a moderate sum according to M. Crews to Mr. Drew. Get in touch with Mr. Barksdale (in London). I wish a horse of good size and very beautiful.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived account sales of 2 hhds tobacco sold you from 41.17.7 pounds, Norfolk Store is debited with---problem of Collections suits?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill send ship of assorted cargo to Tobego; corn plentiful on the Roanoke (river)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 hhds tobacco received from James Scammel; sending down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship for West Indies voyage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaving for voyage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Thomas Bonner sailing in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJoseph of Edenton\u003c/emph\u003e for Tobago; Assorted cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of naval stores\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending brig of 150 tons for loading with barrel staves for Ireland or Liverpool\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsettled state of Europe makes uncertain and dull market. Current price list given (wheat, flour, tobacco, tar, turpentine, staves, wool, and logwood)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit against Leonard at next Southampton Court. Paid Col. Maclin for young George Blow's schooling £ 20.10; charged to Norfolk Store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWine for him from Madeira by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVirginia,\u003c/emph\u003e asks Blow to send to Alexandria; send bill to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave parcel of Gray's Creek tobacco; price at Norfolk? Lists pounds of tobacco at Gray's Creek and Low Point. Asks price of brown sugar, coffee, molasses, and [unclear?] sugar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave red oak staves, white oak [unclear?] and 12,000 shingles on way to Blow. Wishes peach brandy and price of apple cider and molasses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received counterfeit bank notes, information as to what to do\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: 3 French enslaved people (\"Negroes\") brought from Hispaniola against law and now in jail at Norfolk; to be returned at expense of French who claim them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture between Louis Marshall of 1st part, Jeremiah Andrews of 2nd part and Richard Blow of 3rd part and trustee for the other parties. Deed of Trust by Marshall of price of property leased from Anthony Walke in 1793, to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Blow was Dudley's uncle; Battery may be in Matthews County]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rent for his house and enslaved person (\"Negro\") for year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: delivery of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[See: Page's letter of July 9, re: French enslaved persons from Hispanola]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: brandy made and barrels for same\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFortitude\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow, wishes Blow to get cargo of flour or tobacco for England and Ireland for her. Wishes ship to go at once, gives agents names at each British Port to which his cargo should be consigned\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: injunction of B \u0026amp; B\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing his commission business and offering services\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes vessel for Falmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: arrival of his imported horse; [See letter of April 25, 1803 about horse]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Agreement with Thomas Wallace relative to bringing horses from England in 1803.\" Names of horses were \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClown,\u003c/emph\u003e Wallace was the groom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Nephew of Blow]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's renewal of insurance policy at Phoenix office, Premium of £ 18.15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Mrs. Boothe, widow's dower and [div.?] of enslaved persons (\"Negroes\") between Hutchings and Edwards, commissioners appointed formerly, who neglected to allot dower: one is now dead and two have left the state. Please have commissioners appointed for my guardian; suggests Wm. E. Brodnax \u0026amp; Sterling Ruffin \u0026amp; Hutchings will appoint two for himself. Dr. John Claiborne and Tho. [unclear?], Jr. may be chosen if H. has no objections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargoes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: land in Dismal Swamps alleged to be property of Robt. Craig of Manchester (England), adjacent Col. Newton's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The canal road is in such order as you may ride to the end of [unclear?] Contract\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: opening of canal road\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: hiring additional enslaved persons (\"negroes\") so that the Canal and road can be opened with ease this summer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: idea of taking on cargo of staves for Falmouth and possibly England. Wishes Blow to furnish beef, pork and bread for his ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot furnish pitch; resin is priced at 30/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his ships off for Falmouth and Cork; what can Blow offer in way of ships?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eKingston\u003c/emph\u003e and prospects of his ship out of New York taking in tobacco at Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to charter a vessel at once for Cork, they will send down tobacco, pitch, resin, white oak staves for cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: A horse arrived for Messrs [Caine?] \u0026amp; Ray; how to care for it and where to deliver\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to yellow fever raging in New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: horse bought for him by Mr. Barksdale in England and problem of payments for it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about cargo for sea, wishes tobacco and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas 300 [unclear?] of pork for sale; grain crop on the Roanoke very good. Tar and Turpentine plentiful. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMariah Jones\u003c/emph\u003e at Barbados will return with salt by November. Then to load up with grain and staves for foreign ports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to ship his tobacco to Barksdale in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: price of a saddle sent to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLittle William\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend personal items of late Leckie to son\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales account current: \"Mr. Adams will finish stilling room, only 10 bbls of Brandy made this year. It takes 10 bbls cider to make 1 bbl brandy. Hands [workers] are getting in fodder and making bricks. Have paid Wm West [overseer] $100, debited to Norfolk Store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Collecting debt owed him by Dudley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes $ 90 in U.S. notes sent by Mrs. Gray\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClown\u003c/emph\u003e bought from abroad to be sent for by Statt, groom and Peter to take care of horse in travel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves and price for Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settling of account of Talbot Godwin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e which he bought for Gen. Carney; hope it has landed and is on its way to Carolina as I shipped on board the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGosport\u003c/emph\u003e to your wharf; \"I am glad to hear George (Blow) is doing so well at the Williamsburg Colledge [College of William \u0026amp; Mary]. I always admired the Colledge as all the young men brought (out) there of late years, leave the Colledge new firebrands in politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: note of Ambrose Dudley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of shoes for Grillet \u0026amp; Bell to Richard Blow, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes sacks, molasses, sugar, and coffee in exchange for lampblack and butter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business difficulties of Lamb \u0026amp; Younger; has sent a horse names \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e for Gen. Carney to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLook out for Mr. Strange's furniture; he leaves Liverpool around 10 August in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Fame;\u003c/emph\u003e send on to Petersburg c/o Mr. Pallak\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, ceased business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eKingston\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNansuch\u003c/emph\u003e and trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending naval stores wanted to City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill sell his 2 lots in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGosport\u003c/emph\u003e to pay his debt but wants $3000 for them. Willing to sell his military lands also; signed note for George Wilson for brother's debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish to wagon by bacon from here to Suffolk and thence by water to Norfolk. Will put up hams, shoulders and midlings; Baltimore may be a good market or Alexandria. Expect Blow to take consignments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter for trustees of Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, or their trustees if they are dissolved; would like wine, sherry and bbl whiskey\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope to pay Blow what they owe him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: trip to Georgia, would like to take some enslaved persons (\"slaves\") to help pay expenses. Refers to Mrs. Blow as his aunt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods sent us from Norfolk Store, £ 109.0.10. Newspapers come regularly once a week; tobacco market poor. Will go to the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld Plac\u003c/emph\u003ee [Southampton] soon to see how things go there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Business difficulties\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for position in office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: A horse which he wishes Mr. Barksdale [London] to buy for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes consignments of tobacco and cotton from Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Mr. West [overseer at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld Place\u003c/emph\u003e] and Mr. Adams [overseer at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e] their crops and prospects, etc. Burning bricks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas 300 or more barrels for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittle in shipping due to uncertainty of invasion of England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes wines; the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e has been chartered for continent would you like space for cargo?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn crop in; bricks burning; trade dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business of barrel staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas crab cider for sale, what price will Blow pay? Also, gives prices for brandy, new corn, peas and tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReed (groom), has brought horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArchduke;\u003c/emph\u003e arrived at Blow's from abroad. Reed wishes Blow to employ him to go to England and bring back horses. Write at once your decision; prices of horses have risen as of late in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave 7000+ lbs. of pork, no tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Administrator of father's estate]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payment for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen,\u003c/emph\u003e the horse imported from England for him through Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e is highly praised and valued by many: \"He is as springy as any lady on a dancing room and cutts as many capers.\" Hopes Mr. Barksdale will send him a mare from which he can breed racers for his children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payment of debt and security for his friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 78 hhds of tobacco to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending staves and peas for sale—wish salt and sugar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived from Richard Blow [Adm. of Alex. Leckie Sr.'s estate], personal articles, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Richard Blow, Agent]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of cargo, ports of call in US and Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco for France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of flour to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco to Falmouth, England and Hamburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco to Falmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn board ships [Inn___?] and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDundas\u003c/emph\u003e for Virginia; Personal effects\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo for Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjustment for loss of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid \u0026amp; George\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount with Richard Blow $16,966.34\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3056.19.5 ¾ [John Patterson, surviving partner after Capt. Brown's death]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e…at time of Captain Brown's Death £ 4918.19.3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1790-1796….£ 3585.10.8 ½; Balance due the G. Store… £ 7577.5.11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Privateer \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e taken and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Vice Adm. Court has been reversed here, money in hands of owners in Nova Scotia. Division of money of those entitled now uncertain. \"If brought into court here, I'll pay attention to your interest in the business.\" Flour cheaper here than in Virginia, tobacco holds same price\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to the \"bank at this time [seems] to engross and interest the citizens of our Town; we expect it to operate in about ten days\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received 17 hhds tobacco of N. Burwell's on board the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira;\u003c/emph\u003e Insurance taken out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his business arrangements; will not be a partner to [Brown?] or affiliate with Pallak; promise of his business good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Younger's [unclear?] with Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We are happy to inform you that our house goes on as before\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's desire to pay a large debt which he owes to Donald \u0026amp; Burton. Funds in London on account there; Advise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…I like America but as yet I am quite at a loss where to fix...The Baptist's cause here is not very strong although there are two meetings\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas prospect of ship proper for shipping tobacco; would Blow be interested in a cargo?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems arriving from Love's failure to comply with rules for Book of Claims and Barksdale's attempt to clear it for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, has shipped guns for our stores, please deliver them to us\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Charter for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSnow Concord\u003c/emph\u003e for London; can fill her cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: coming to Portsmouth, to establish a tannery. Wishes Blow to assist him and his friend, Crossthwaits, from Keswich, England. Has worked for Mr. Wm. Plume tanner, a short time. [Plume had been in Williamsburg for years prior to going to Portsmouth] Barron knows of a new process for tanning which shortens time; also knows great deal about skinning sheep, etc. [Letter provides great detail on tanning]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: claims made by Blow to board of Clairs, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: recovering insurance on building burned in Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how to pay Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London; has £ 1900 also has £ 500 [Stg?]; payment from Phoenix Ins. Co. which he can add to above sum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his pork\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrade poor, collections poor, wheat sold, bricks being made\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness dull, current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking arrangements for Blow to pay Donald \u0026amp; Burton through Dan. Call.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received bill of exchange of Macmurdo \u0026amp; Fisher for £ 1831.5 Stg. on Wm. Barksdale in town of assignees of Donald \u0026amp; Burton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: brick making and crops\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: [bbls.?] of turpentine in [cypress bbls.?]; bound with white oak, should demand good prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of turpentine and horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBuzzard\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pork sent to Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOur ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSamuel Jackson\u003c/emph\u003e with part cargo of staves and bound for Cadiz will come into Hampton Roads for further cargo; will Blow notify him when it arrives and leaves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour has advanced and is in demand here, salt and tobacco good. Gives list of hhds of tobacco stored with Richard Blow in Campbell and Wheeley Fire Proof Warehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing William Carter, son to Mr. Cater of Shirley, goes to Norfolk to procure passage to a port in France. Mr. Carter has $ 200 which may not be enough for his passage,. if not, will you supply the difference. [This may be the William Carter who attended the College of William \u0026amp; Mary in 1801]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying insurance and bank shares\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship Samuel Jackson leaving Ocracock [Ocracoke] Bar for Hampton Roads laden with cargo for Cadiz, Spain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Affairs at store and conditions of crops\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: insurance on cargo to Dunkirk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco in storage and prospect of cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCould send soon 30 hhds if you ship to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks current price of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pipe staves on hand for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsign tobacco to Samuel Buchanan of London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Adams, overseer, has gotten in ¼ of crops of corn and all of hogs; enslaved persons (\"slaves\") sick\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Blow's balance and what borrowed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill Blow get Gaskins to make him ½ dozen table and ½ dozen tea spoons as he made for you with G.M.D. in a cypher on them; refers to \"Aunt Hall\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Copy of papers sent to London, to recover insurance on my houses burned in Norfolk on \"Marketstreet:\" 3 Story Brick house and store burned, warehouse and offices, also. Littleton Tazewell, Notary Public. Home was 35' in length and 29' in breadth, brick, 3 story's high, besides cellars and ganet. Lower store was occupied as a Day Goods Store with mahogany counters; passage below and 4 rooms on 2 story were never completely finished and were strucco (?) and whole house plastered; counting room in read of sd. House was 16' square, 2 stories high with cellar and chimney of brick and completely finished Kitchen in rear of wood, 2 stories high and chimney of brick 20' x '16; smoke (house) 12' square with stove and warehouse shelved and laid out for wholesale store was 30' long and 21' broad, 2 stoves of wood. Value of building prior to fire was $8,939.60 Itemized Estimate of House of Offices to be built given: \"Bricks and Stone Work: $2750\" Scantling, plank and shingles: $1540 Glass, nails, locks: $684 Carpenters Bill: $2770.60 Plastering $926 Painting Bill: $265.00 Total: $8939.60\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 4030.12 \"amo goods on hand £ 620.6.11 ¾ 90 pct advance £ 558.6.3 1/7 Amo currency articles:£ 425.1.4 Total: £ 5634.6.8 ¼ \"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of measuring the ruins of my buildings $19.12, receipt in full\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of house frame and plank [unclear?] of Major John Armstrong for my dwelling and warehouse in Norfolk...$256.75\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWm. Wark, power of attorney for heirs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetersburg, to New York, $ 80.46; Marine Insurance Office, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSundry Entries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 15 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes names of debtors; 7 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eover 100 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e109 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to purchase the horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBuzzard \u003c/emph\u003ein England thru Mr. Barksdale if possible. Sending 736 [unclear?] of turpentine to pay for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent stud book and sporting magazine for A. Walke by Captain Baird; heard you have had a very severe winter, worst in 25 years\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThink I can get horse for your friend in Carolina for about 500 guineas. \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOscar\u003c/emph\u003e is [unclear?] and going to Virginia for Col. Lightfoot; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNat\u003c/emph\u003e as good a horse as \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSir Harry\u003c/emph\u003e or several others\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking Blow to send him scrip at once so he can make payment of some shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 enslaved persons (\"slaves\") have escaped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to buy 700 bu. of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection of debt for Blow (John Nicholas, debtor)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSundries deliv. by Blow for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCracker\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: to \"Aunt Hall;\" will leave Mathews as soon as land is sold; have advertised in Richmond Enquirer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Uncle Wm. Drew suggested that I write you about employment\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to forwarding papers to M. Madison in Washington, necessary for [past?] port to Dublin. Will ship be able to wait for me 6 or 7 days?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his tobacco and corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 10 hhds tobacco by sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSophia\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Nears?] staves to fill up his ship when it calls at Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot supply tobacco for Blow's ship now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bill of laden for 15 hhds tobacco, through Blow to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/emph\u003e will not come to Norfolk now; for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco problems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 hhds tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to debt he owes Dr. Hall, will collect money from Carter Braxton and send to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses insurance on Blow's houses burned in Norfolk; Mr. Buchanan's displeasure at Blow buying the old ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam,\u003c/emph\u003e horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBenenborough\u003c/emph\u003e is for sale at 1000 guineas, inform General (Carney); must have cash before I can buy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill send turpentine as soon as boat can be found to take it down the river to Plymouth. Have 240 [unclear?]. In looking over racing calendar and stud book see a mare, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePenelope\u003c/emph\u003e got by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTrumpetor\u003c/emph\u003e bred by the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDuke of Grattan\u003c/emph\u003e, foaled in 1798; get Barksdale to purchase her for me; if not, get one of Hutchinson's family of horses, the man that bred \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBeninborough\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received Gen. Carney's turpentine on America, do not think he can get either of the horses the General wants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of lading for goods shipped for Col. Hoomes of Bowling Green\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol Hoomes wishes 20 or 30 bbls herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived staves sold for 28 pounds per [hd?] and 14 pounds per bbls, \"Our good friends the English are taking all vessels that are not bound direct to their parts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ship; wishes to come to Virginia for freight; ship is new; Advise me.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e258 bbls of herrings shipped to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: wine to be shipped to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill ship turpentine to Blow as soon as weather opens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: possible loss of ferry if legislature decides to allow a new ferry to be operated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The money for the capture of the brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e has all been paid.\" Advise who has money\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt he owes, must sell property in Blow's hands\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlements and credits for turpentine and tobacco sold, no chance of getting the two horses, General Carney wants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of Lading for James Strange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: legal case against his brother Alex Leckie now in Virginia. Refers to his attorneys in Georgia and Rode Island.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ½ ton iron, bellows and German [Steel?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe original Box 31 has been expanded into two boxes as currently described in the finding aid: Box 31 and Box 31 A.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor corn \"being the price per season for the said Waller's young mare being covered by Col. Cary's Horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDaredevil [Williamsburg Data?]\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Division of property and debts of Baker \u0026amp; Blow…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor goods sold him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking father to pay Leroy Anderson $60.00\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$270 port payment in suit against Blow, Adm. of estate of John Redwood, also a note for $830.33\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWm. Redwood with appear at Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg for purpose of collecting funds due by suit from Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises against buying big stock due to world conditions; will send George up to help take inventory; he is in Williamsburg now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1130.51\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 1838.9.7 ¼ Itemized list of those who owe firm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 16010.65 ½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol Noth Burmell; Robert. C. Burwell; Ph. Burwell; Math. Pape; Robt. Page $196.12.½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceed to England and other countries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceed to the Baltics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceed to Portugal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather and Son, London, July 9, 1806 (2Boxes of cheese for Lucy Paradise, Williamsburg) Iris Madeira, April 3, 1806 (wines) Jolly Sails, Plymouth NC, June 2, 1806 (shad) Sally Nun, Plymouth NC, June 3, 1806 (shad) Laura, Liverpool (England), July 18, 1806 (merchandise) Dispatch, New York, August 19, 1806 (merchandise) Antelope, Windsor NC, March 13 1806 (tar) John and Avice, River Thames, August 1806 (Merchandise) Eagle, Edenton, October 17, 1806 (sugar, white, oak stoves) Dunfries, London, February 24, 1806 (goods, treasures?) Fairplay, Plymouth NC, April 19, 1806 (hhls, hinings) Antelope, Windsor, NC, March 13 1806 (tar) Anne, Windsor NC, October 28, 1806 (staves and turpentine) Judith, Windsor NC, October 16, 1806 General Green, May 31, 1806 (oak staves) Jenny and Sheperdern, Manchester (England), June 2, 1806, (hhds of tobacco) Sally, Salmon Creek, May 1, 1806 (herrings) Insurance on Sally Ann Neptune, Richmond, March 1, 1806 (tobacco) Commerce, February 1806 (salt and c) America, October 9, 1806 (ship, break, flour) John, Richmond, November 1, 1806 (tobacco) Arnick, July 15, 1806 (staves) Lydia, New Bedford, June 3, 1806 Ontario, June 4, 1806 America, Norfolk, October 10, 1806, $1041.59 Bell Savage, June 8, 1806 (accounts) Robt. Barclay, September 1806 (accounts) Commerce, April 26, 1806 (accounts) Mt. Vernon, Rotterdam, September 24, 1806 (insurance) Atlantic, London, August 1806 (tobacco) Regulator, Plymouth NC, March 28, 1806 (turpentine, tar, sugar) April 16, 1816 (rum) Judith, Windsor NC, March 31, 1806 Commerce, New Bedford, February 22, 1806 (staves) Army, Plymouth, March 5, 1806 Mary, Richmond, April 19, 1806 Mt. Vernon, December 22, 1806 (freight account) Mt Vernon, December16, 1806 (cider, food) Mt. Vernon, December 16, 1806 (oil, beef, etc) Mt. Vernon, October 11, 1806 (navy, bread) Brig George, November 19, 1806 Averick, August 6, 1806 (general account) Fredice, May 1795 (pitch) Sally, Petersburg, June 16, 1795 (tobacco) Flora and Betsy, July 1, 1806 (tobacco) Grey Hound, Plymouth NC, May 7 1806, (pork and turpentine) James Smith, John Coke, Carterise December 5, 1806 (pipe staves inspected from and consigned to Richard Blow) Neptune: October 13 1806 Oak Boards, inspected\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e's cargo much damaged, public sale will be had at Calais, and results sent to Mr. Barksdale towards claim and insurance. Blow's tobacco was on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses current prices of cotton, coffee, tobacco; claims of cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e further discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of property of Baird's; see also:Box 30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrade dull: Received bills of lading for Blow's tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: turpentine of General Carney's shipped to him, can't buy a horse for Carney as price is 1,000 guineas for either horse he wants. Await Carney's orders; sent him books he wished by Captain Baird; have sent Blow average for loses on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope.\u003c/emph\u003e Son, William, is at school in Reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePartners in House of Lamb \u0026amp; Younger were James Brown, Richmond, Virginia and John Lamb \u0026amp; John Younger, London; upon death of Mr. Lamb, survivors have admitted J. C. Wardrop as a partner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: mistake in shipment of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 16 quarters [unclear?] 1736 of beef for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGlobe\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pork sent Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco manifests sent for ship Industry for Liverpool and 2 parcels of newspapers for John Hunter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGlobe\u003c/emph\u003e now loading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debts and how to collect from C. Braxton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAct bills of lading for tobacco, gives current prices of wheat and flour per barrel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dropping prices for turpentine, flour, tobacco better\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection due him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bills of lading for London firms, tobacco sales\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tar shipped to Blow; wishes flour in return\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cost of ship to take tobacco to France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collections-wishes rum sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suit Ladd v. Strange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt owed to him by Captain Micks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pork shipped to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas leased for 10 years furnished place 5 miles from Rayall Exchange, sending Mrs. Blow shoes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading of Mount Vernon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of lading for fish sent, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted; business conditions, current prices of cotton, turpentine, tobacco, flour, rice, staves there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 100 Virginia currency\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDamages to anchors of his ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of tobacco and possibly flour for the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeneral Green\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePork and turpentine to be shipped to Blow aboard the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrey Hound \u003c/emph\u003efor General Carney's account\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of lading for tobacco aboard ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of tobacco for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBell Savage\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: a ship for Rotterdam\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiry about father and letters to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received letters from his father. Was on a Prussian ship carried into Portsmouth and condemned because he came out of a French Port that was blockaded\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses business with Blow; amounts due him for merchandise and amounts due Blow for tobacco sent to Calais and Dunkirk (France) per ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTar and turpentine sent on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Planter\u003c/emph\u003e have been sold. Inform General Carney that neither of the horses he wants he can get now. Gives names of other horses which he thinks he can buy once the season is over here: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWhiskey,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCoreador,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBeningborough,\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down tobacco for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFlora,\u003c/emph\u003e Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment from Virginia, of salt, current prices there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: to money he had received due Dr. Hall from Carter Braxton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"at the request of Col. Nathaniel Burwell I have shipped on Sloop George 3 trunks, 1Box, and 1 bundle to your care which you will please keep until they are called for by the Reverend John V. Wylie.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica,\u003c/emph\u003e in port will send down to you, she is 287 ton [burden?], can carry 350 hhds and storage of staves to any port in Great Britain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhere is his tobacco? Has price in London fallen?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary E. Wright\u003c/emph\u003e, has been carried into Germany and condemned as prize; ask H. to get $ 9000 insured on her, world conditions affecting prices of product sent over\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 50 sacks of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/emph\u003e's account held in high regard by the ship owners here; discusses conditions between Russia and France, not good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHave to go down tomorrow to the wreck of ship \u003c/emph\u003eThe Shepherdess. Do you have any goods aboard?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish 4 bbls of crab cider\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpect ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeneral Greene\u003c/emph\u003e owned by Tobias Lard \u0026amp; Co. of Kennebunk from Liverpool; could a cargo of staves be procured at your place for return voyage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: letters he should have received\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments for staves and sugar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: change in ownership and management of the 8 ferries, opposed to incorporating; will you influence Richmond legislators to this effect?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses trade and changes for selling Petersburg and Richmond goods, gives estimate of general market for tobacco, sugar, cotton, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness settlements with Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e76 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 and 150 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tar sold to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces conclusion of a treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce between this country and the USA signed on the 31 [ulto?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his recent settling in Georgia, prospects, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's suit vs. Gill for debt accrued since 1786\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: George Blow's marriage and placing him with Tazewell and Jon Cowper to study law; Discusses tobacco business, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: damaged flour on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of condemnation of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary T. Wright\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGive freight rates at Norfolk for landing salt from Liverpool (England), also tobacco freight rates\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam \u0026amp; Mary\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePaulina\u003c/emph\u003e and letters due him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed 1 or 2 small vessels to load at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e for Falmouth; have 180 hhds tobacco for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading tobacco on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNiagara\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of lading for herrings enclosed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington'\u003c/emph\u003es loading; also ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRussell,\u003c/emph\u003e a very fine, fast sailing copper bottomed ship of 300 tons\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes splendid entertainment by citizens to the Cavalry and Militia which went from here. I enclose a copy of the toasts, was mortified by his furlough. Tell young George that I hope he will merit the promotion I bestowed on him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of co-partnership with J. Waldone \u0026amp; Co.; Blow one of bondsmen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft British book on Cavalry discipline at Blow's House\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNiagara\u003c/emph\u003e to Great Britain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of ship's journey down James to Norfolk [Caffin was mate for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlbright]\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: recovering money from Carter Braxton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of wife, Mary's death\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Dudley's wife's death [Mrs. Hall is Lucy]. Says Portsmouth has been upset over aggressions of British Ships of war; an army in our streets, houses, etc. Business is stagnated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of salt or tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes freight for London, or Liverpool\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes his Gosport property sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to know prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of salt from Liverpool and prospect of tobacco on return\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes Blow has sold fish for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Barney of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArgus\u003c/emph\u003e sailed for Hobbs Hole, Virginia, for tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current given in detail\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems of cargo and men for ships\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: how to pay his debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNeptune\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eReward\u003c/emph\u003e here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerms for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMay\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Continent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes freight for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRussell\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 100 lbs of bacon, hams and candles sent to him. There is an opening for a retail store on York River\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight received from Blow via sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLittle Jim;\u003c/emph\u003e salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sale of fish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e, tobacco cargo lost, no insurance on ship. Eight of the hams which Mrs. Blow sent, saved. Thinks there will be no war between England and U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives dimensions of Dismal Swamp Canal lock[?]. Detailed letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Shipment of tobacco to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking for position of book keeper in U.S. Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes oder of general merchandise sent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Fish he sold; large grain crops here and quantity of lumber of every kind\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHaving sale on 22nd\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Pitch stored with Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Col. Wm. Fontaine of Hanover, who has a considerable interest in the Dismal Swamp Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for general goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifying re: suit filed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal Letter; sends love to \"Aunt\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCash scarce; trade dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 802.3.-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 883.4.8 3/4\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 7269.13.5 \"Debts due from the Store: Norfolk Store; Littleton Lamir; James Dunlop \u0026amp; Co.; Butts Birds[srpey?]; Isaac Andrews; Allen Hines; John Berryman; £ 4898. - 9 1/2 / £ 2371.12.7 1/2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e165 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Letters he had asked Blow to forward to England to Mr. Rennolds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending $ 54.50 in [unlcear?]loans for payment for flour, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for garden seeds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Commission merchants, Treble, Spe[unclear?] \u0026amp; Co., of [Nantz?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Deed of trust to secure[?] Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to pay General Thomas Blount, Member of Congress, some money; wishes Blow to [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing F. Le Roy of Nantz\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of corn and effects of cargo on its outcome\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Whiskey and brandy to go to Charles Carter of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eShirley\u003c/emph\u003e Plantation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems of present embargo on his corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Money he owes Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Prospects of freight should embargo be lifted\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship B\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eelle Savage\u003c/emph\u003e for cargo, for Liverpool\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Political Situation in Spain \u0026amp; France [Refers to the Napoleonic Wars]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down corn \u0026amp; tobacco for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to sell enslaved persons for Drew, even at $ 30.00; needs money at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes beef and candles sent to Blow can be disposed of as embargo is partially repealed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending ship down to be loaded with cargo for anywhere except to North of Europe. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/emph\u003e built. Ship bringing down building stone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend salt to him at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of corn and tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Need salt at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Norfolk for corn and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Bills owned them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral conditions discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses affairs abroad. Wishes Blow to sell salt at City Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Wine from Madeira\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Freight desired for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship for his tobacco. Address him at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWhite Chimney\u003c/emph\u003e's, Caroline County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco bringing good prices here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to advertise his ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e for freight for Europe. Must avoid Amsterdam or any place under French domination. Ship able to take tobacco, cotton, or hogsheads.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave ship ready in a few weeks for freight to Europe. Can Blow secure freights?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblem as to ship. Has tobacco ready for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan fill up another ship with flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sale of his Gosport lots by Blow \u0026amp; his debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to his cargo of lour, etc. now ready\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas hogshead staves instead of barrel staves at landing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave bt. 10,000 barrel staves and leave at once; will send rough staves down on another lighter. This will complete my contract with you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 5000 barrel staves per the lightman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow rough hhds. staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAwaiting craft to send 7 hhds of tobacco down. Hope you have shipped out the 15hhds with you aboard the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePocahontas\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish to have price of bacon and brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship for Dublin and freight cost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend candles to me at Washington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Freight for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e out of Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnc. Charter Party for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs concerned about vice around his residence , etc. Wishes Blow to have law change this situation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Barrel staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e from Tappahannock to Liverpool with freight of staves or tobacco. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e sailed ysterday for Charleston for freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Staves and undressed wood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Tobacco freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e for Falmouth and England or Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarrell staves on board brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCatherine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePassage wanted to Cork, Ireland or England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness accounts of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends letters for Richard Blow (her father-in-law) to send to her mother, Mrs. Waller, in Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes small vessel for his freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eUnion\u003c/emph\u003e, belonging to us expected from Cadiz (Spain). Wish freight for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill take inventory of store goods by September 1st and balance books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses current prices of hemp and accounts of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: President's proclamation. Gives current prices of tobacco and flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas white oak hhds and red oak hhds and 150 lbs. bee's wax to sell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas contracted for small ships to take his tobacco to port north of Gothenburg (Sweden) or to the south of Lisbon (Portugal). Blow's rate of freight too high. Need Blow's advice about proper paper for clearing ship, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes advice of Blow for marketing goods in New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Small debts and lack of news as to her son's whereabouts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Shipment of hemp\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco is intended for continent. Blow will get French consul's certif. for Hatcher\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of board meeting to be held in 12th.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor 12 different ships\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails an agreement between Hatcher and Blow for freight on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e, to discharge cargo in British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Canary or Western Islands. To be allowed 50 days to load and discharge and call for orders. Tobacco freight.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuty Bonds not paid in bank, by law, will be put in suit. Request merchants of Norfolk to have their bonds adjusted in bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discusses loading of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e and bills of lading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation of business of loading ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing Hatcher's business ventures abroad: Hatcher's shipping of tobacco abroad. Details of necessary papers to be taken by the ship and to be used to different countries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges proposals of Brown \u0026amp; Rives\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing shipment of good to Europe: Freight for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing the election of Richard Blow as director of the Bank of the United States for a one-year term [Oliphant was chashier of bank]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate for $ 2794.51 for 30 hhds tobacco [unclear?] by Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: concerning political actions of the U.S. Congress: refers to \"ultimate fate of Mason's resolutions\" in Congress\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business of ships abroad, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco aboard the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e cargo and departure\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing the positions of the French: French near border of Portugal now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoads of tobacco of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent price of tobacco. Refers to \"Mr. Masons bill passing in the Senate and small vessels will immediately be wanted for Britain and Ireland\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses ships' destinations and cargos: problems of loading the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e; disagreement between Hatcher and Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e destinations, cargo, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Furniture sent to Blow for sale in 1809. Please return if not sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement between Blow \u0026amp; Hatcher for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann's \u003c/emph\u003ecargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed small vessel for overseas trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarksdale's son is en route to Norfolk from London, to study in the U.S. Has chosen Law as his profession, wishes Blow to encourage and supervise William. Mr. Hill's [unclear] has returned here and demands pay for training Hill's horses (\"fillies\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to get vessel for his tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses sailing across the Atlantic, heavily armed: \"on April 1st was boarded by a French Privateer and plundered of all our clothes, money, everything moveable. Was Brig 20 guns, 150 men\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 hhds. of tobacco for Juno\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJuno\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn sent to Blow by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSisters\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer [unclear?] son estate in Virginia [largely illegible]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 225 bhls. of tar to Blow for sale; asks prize of staves (white oak or red oak)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip delayed; will send in 3 weeks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Blow for freight; prefer a freight to Lisbon (Portugal) or Cadiz (Spain); Insurance to England very high for small vessel; maybe West Indies would be wiser.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDistressed at no news from his ships or from William [Drew]. Addresses Blow as \"kind relative\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e to New York for freight as cheaper rate than Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Blow to return invoice of furniture to him as he is loading for So[uth?] America\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for his account and prices for freights at Alexandria, Norfolk, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: fish sent to Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: African-Americans in prison there and prices for wheat, corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStill concerned over fate of her son Thomas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports death of John Rogers. His son-in-law, Samuel Nightingale, is admin. of estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVessels [unclear?] here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Blow had been guardian of Davis]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring if M. Triplett, lately from Cadiz (Spain) is there to purchase flour for the British Army in Spain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Account of Nathaniel Burwell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Estate of his father-in-law, John Rogers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDissatisfied with Mr. Foster who has delayed building a ship for him. Asks Blow to see about it for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Burwell's salt order\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: newspaper subscription of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Herald\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks settlement for turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not received his letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas two ships ready by November and December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of staves to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHear Napoleon Bonaparte has rescinded his decree and ordered the release of all American property under adjudication in his dominion (goods and prisoners?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Thomas J. Allen, Commission Merchant, Baltimore to Blow's attention\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Discussing the detention of vessels in Cadiz Bay\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's payments due\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of fish to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 86 hams and 3 bhls. Turpentine for sale. Would like [unclear?] of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections for goods to be sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring about the price of Liverpool salt and Spanish brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemittance and sale of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eExchange\u003c/emph\u003e bringing 12 [unclear?] white oak staves to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittle chance of flour cargo; same (some?) tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHunter\u003c/emph\u003e in Virginia waters, now desiring wheat and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipment is ready for sending to Bordeaux or port in Bay of Biscay (France)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes news of departure of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e for Europe. Are bonnets all sold and what prospect is there for the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e's salt? Expecting ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 hhds. tobacco shipped to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: valuations of ships and averages charged at Greenock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not sold Blow's Spanish [Brown?] yet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e loading tobacco and cotton for London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments due from Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges hams sent to him; wishes news of his son, William, who went to Virginia recently\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Bow's ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e in France, insurance etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e has arrived. Discussing the \"present officers decline all [risquer?] to France: A few days will determine England's steps…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes price of ground allum salt; also price of flour and old whisky\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes vessel of 180 to 250 hhds to load for Liverpool direct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStaves hard to get right now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave 400 ton ship and wish cargo from Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for outgoing ship to Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad Blow secured vessel for cargo aboard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: fish sold to Blow; also admin. of his bother's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInsurance of ship; wishes price of [unclear?] goods incl. bristles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCatherine,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFreyheit,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePindur,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFredonia,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJuno,\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRachel and Mary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJersey Blue\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSally\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePlanter\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e with tobacco accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow a load of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco ready for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipment ready for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eUnity\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of sperm (whale) oil and problems about it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discussing a shipment of tobacco for the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Capt. Joel Thorp to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sale of fish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing J. K. Townsend of Townsend \u0026amp; White, New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour from Lisbon (Portugal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow appointed agent of the Trustees of the [late?] Bank of the United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave new ship of 300 tns ready in 6 weeks and would like freight in Virginia for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 hhds. of tobacco on board of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAberdeen\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft on Blow, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas about 300 bhls. flour for sale. Advise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections to Cat. Russell from Liverpoole in case Non-Intercourse Act going into effect. Discusses U.S. Government problems about foreign trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices of tobacco and flour given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses financial transactions: transfers 2 shares of stock into Bank of Virginia to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip has arrived and experiencing government entanglements: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann \u003c/emph\u003ehere now and whether she can clear after February orders by Government. Keep him posted as to chance of freight to any port of Europe in case of U.S. change of orders\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests remittance for wines ordered by Messrs. Burwell \u0026amp; Pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas candles and twisted horse manes suitable for matresses for sale. Like to know where ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSt. Chuthbert\u003c/emph\u003e is.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses political entanglement and shipping: \"Non-Intercourse laws have vanished and all our expectations now is that Congress will adjourn in 10 or 12 days….\" How are vessels there now?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas about 300 bhls. Herring fish for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping business: Capt. Allen of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHero\u003c/emph\u003e looking for business there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour for sale and price he is willing to take for it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices for tobacco and flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 bags horse manes sent to Blow for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his order for Madeira wines\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas a vessel for sale; gives minute detailes and description of her and price asked.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan furnish red oak staves at $ 18 per M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Golsborough family genealogy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending his son home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas new ship of 360 tons available to Bow. Expects ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e soon and wishes business for her\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business with Wm. Barksdale for son's money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour shipped to London and insurance for it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Rogers estate; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e waits for cargo from Bow; Dull times in foreign freights\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness dull for all kinds of vessels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mr. Pallak; he left no will; Estate of $ 35,000 or $ 45,000 goes to his brother Allan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit between him and George Keckie. Refers to Mr. Wickham as counsel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness payments discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePallack estate and payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas St. Petersburg Russian hemp for sale. Can Blow use any?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness between the two.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to give ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTracta[?]\u003c/emph\u003e 10 or 15 bhls. of their tobacco in storage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayments and shipping matters: sends bill for still sent to Bow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoger's estate payments due from Blow. Wishes freight of corn for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. Robinson needs help to obtain a consular certificate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for 12 bales of hair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice for hats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStep-daughter married Robert Goldsborogh; Divorced in 1804, child, a male, living on Eastern Shore with grandmother now. Problems of guardianship. Re: will, if there was one etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 80 bhls of herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to collect from Josiah Hunter's estate of Great Bridge, Virginia; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, Admin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending new ship down. Wishes freight, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e, has not arrived yet. Will send her to Blow at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e sent to Blow for freight; gives curent prices of corn, tobacco, hemp\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e dispatched to you for freight to Lisbon (Portufal), Ireland or Liverpool (England)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease remit for tobaco sold Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e near ready, will send drum to Blow for Liverpool.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e will carry 550 hhds tobacco. Staves are plentiful now; Have plans for loading ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e with flour for Liverpool.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e and ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e loading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo offer for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e as yet. Lays idle here. What do you think of freight for Cadiz (Spain) or Lisbon (Portugal) of flour? Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSilver Grey\u003c/emph\u003e has loaded for these ports; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e bound for London left City Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot dispense of barrel staves you bought of Lewis at the Bridge\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour ships availabe, except to Spain and Portugal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphratis\u003c/emph\u003e owned by C. Grinnell, James Howland and myself: no prospect of freigh; Will send to you if desired; about 2 years old and 365 tons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish business for new ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemit for staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo to Ireland, Liverpool (England), etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Belfield \u0026amp; Hicksf[?]d men same as Emporia, Virginia in 19th and 20th century]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping questions about transportation abilities of ships: What prospects will ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e have for freight at Norfolk? She can carry 300 hhds of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to sell circa 400 bhls of pork; willing to barter with debtors in Fredericksbug, Port Royal, Tappahannock, Dunkirk, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince arriving I find that dispute with Great Britain will be amicably settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping and economic conditions in Europe: No trade here, ice in harbor, will leave at once on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphratis\u003c/emph\u003e; Questions advisability of freight of staves for West Indies on account of worms; as to timber, for England, after duty and other expenses, little profit; but agrees for Blow to load \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphratis \u003c/emph\u003e with timber for England if ship is filled. Prefers freight of tobacco at £ 4.5 for England or Ireland, or corn flour at 9 per bbl for Cadiz, Lisbon or Gibraltar (Spain and Portugal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCancel wine order\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping conditions and goods: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Powhatan\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFingal?\u003c/emph\u003e are up for freight; only half a cargo; further discussions about cargo; give current prices for tobacco and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill Blow purchase [unclear?] staves for brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn\u003c/emph\u003e?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping to Europe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e up for London needs further cargo. Nothing offered for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuy 500 lbs of cable j[?]k for ship Independence at City Point. Give prospects for a cargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFame\u003c/emph\u003e available\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Blow for British port\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Curell was the Captain of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e bound for Norfolk] Bill of Lading; bringing 92 bhls flour from John Hoomer, assigned to Richard Blow with freight at 25 cent per bbl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ship coming soon from England. Wishes cargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed freight and charter for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence.\u003c/emph\u003e Advise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e with staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses difficult atmosphere in trade, fear of a war if British actions don't change: no prospect as yet for employment for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence.\u003c/emph\u003e General feeling here that war will ensue if British orders in Council are not soon rescinded\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[approximately 100 items]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eProspect\u003c/emph\u003e sailing for Norfolk; asks Blow to give any assistance she may need.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDecided to send ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/emph\u003e to Liverpool (England) with tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness arrangements for payments, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends few goods and a hobby horse Blow had ordered (cost $ 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: drafts given etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelay in getting cargoes for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence,\u003c/emph\u003e no cotton or tobacco available for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/emph\u003e now. Good apple brandy scarce here, gives current prices of tobacco in Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down garden seeds, potatoes and oats for Mrs. Blow for planting, and oats for son George\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour sent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds vessel to carry 14 to 18 hundred barrels of flour for Spain; what would a vessel cost? Can money be had of you for bills on London and at what exchange?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy \u0026amp; Mary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs executor of Edw. Cowper estate gives legal details to collect and pay Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCheck sent for payments due\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Randolph [in Congress] that an Embargo would be immediately laid. Get off any flour[?] to foreign port at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems if embargo goes into effect\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses actions of the U.S. Congress, the trade embargo and their response: a law laying an embargo of 90 days has passed both Houses of Congress. Trust the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJohn \u0026amp; Adam\u003c/emph\u003e has put out to sea and that you have got rid of any flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment by Blow of a carriage to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems of flour certificates as schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e put in to Wilmington, North Carolina, after Lisbon (Portugal) and Cadiz (Spain).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends premium for cargo on schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e and discusses problem of stops at several ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: stock shares taken in Farmers Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ham and midlings for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommission merchant asking for business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the account of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discusses a canal from head of Pasquotank River in North Carolina to head of Elizabeth River and Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeclines to help Blow buy a privateer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for place at bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplies for a teller position at the bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOfficers of Farmers Bank, Richard Blow, President\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed letter: Terms if Farmers wishes to rent his house as a banking place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas set of India Table China which he wishes to sell. You and Capt. Parker have one like it imported at some time. What did he cost you?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: deed sent to Robertson in Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for meeting of Board of Directors for Farmers Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: note against Benj. P. Hoomes of King \u0026amp; Queen County, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of cargo of oil\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggested notice of opening of the branch of Farmers Bank at Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ships empty and ready for cargoes. What prospects in Virginia?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking matters: Delays in getting necessary discounts for Bank to begin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of goods and prices: Schooner Richmond at Newbern, North Carolina. Asks Blow to insure her cargo of salt and [unclear?] at $ 5000. Blow valued ship at $ 3000 and cargo at $ 8300. [Blow as president of Marine Insurance Office]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNorfolk: Re: insurance premium for Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblem of his debt to U.S. Bank and Mr Allmond's endorsements; a suit in [unclear?], to save his two warehouses on Commerce St. and two dwellings on B[unclear?] Street; he asks for loan from Blow. If not, he will be financially ruined.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e has not left here yet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBedford\u003c/emph\u003e was damaged in Lynn Haven Bay; asks for assistance for sale and repairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation and letter of November 22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship Bedford See letter of November 22nd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of a ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubscribing for shares in Farmers Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for cashier's position at the bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for gr[and?] son, Benj. Pollard, as notary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for position of watchman at bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for notary at Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for job of porter at the bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for notary at Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for watchman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for watchman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for book keeper or discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob applications , 21 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Benjamin Pollard for notary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends T. J. Parker for notary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for porter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for work\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esold house to Farmer's Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for book keeper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application teller\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of shares in Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea: Orders about ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e's cargo \"British licenses have risen here very much and cannot be had under $ 1500 and there is great alarm here that the British cruisers will take our vessels that are bound to Southern parts…Insurance for voyage to Lisbon is 17.5 p.c. …\" [War of 1812]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrates sent to Blow in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhale cargo of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e engaged\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuty of oil to be before Congress\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking and movement of money: advisability of removing specie from Bank out of town. The Virginia Bank has done this already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e chartered for Lisbon if Blow has not chartered her already\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[In handwriting of] Blow: Detailed memo of his correspondence with Bridges \u0026amp; Robertson regarding cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza \u003c/emph\u003eand problems encountered by blockades, etc. from 1813 February 5 to 1815 May 20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses politics, shipping difficulties: Re: past cargo of flour for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e \"considerable fervor pervades our city especially the Legislature = who are this instant organizing a plan of defense for your Borough and will probably order out 3000 men forthwith\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas flour for available\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDifficulties of getting flour down to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems getting flour to Blow; \"excitement of arrival of troops for Richmond and Manchester on way to Norfolk for your protection\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his chartering of ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eZ[unclear]\u003c/emph\u003e; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlgernon,\u003c/emph\u003e lost at Cape Hatteras, was insured fully\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTwo Marys\u003c/emph\u003e entering Chesapeake Bay was met (stopped and boarded) by British fleet under Admiral Warren, had her register and declare different ports…uncertainty about vessels being permitted to go out and impediment re ingress of vessels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlockade and how long it will last\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending flour for ship D\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCatherine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation of problems of getting flour cargo down for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The blockade has had a serious effects here. Flour has fallen 2 \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1/3\u003c/emph\u003e per barrel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 200 bhls flour by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMartha Ann\u003c/emph\u003e for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDo not send \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e out of port until blockade is lifted or assurance from British that licensed vessels will be permitted to proceed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks blockade will soon be lifted and ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e can get out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending flour for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discussing the British blockage, the embargo and cargo for his vessels\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNat. Clanton, Wm. Peter, Wm. Comm[unclear?] $ 150.15 [unclear?] of Virginia; land formerly property of Walter Gilliam deceased of 1272/3 acres\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Blow permission to appoint Director of Farmer's Bank in his place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePower given to Blow to sell cargo of May Ann (800 bu. salt). Wishes 270 bhls flour sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Geddy signed acknowledged loan of $ 30 from Baron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems of blockade, etc.; Bills of Lading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the removal of R. Blow as president of Farmers Bank, and five letters concerning Farmers Bank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes herings sent by packet to Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses ship Powhatan's departure from City Point: please furnish Captain with what he needs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCitizen's of Portsmouth sent $ 700.81 for relief of sufferers by the late fire; note of thanks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturns his 5 volumes of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHelvetius\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictory\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargoes of ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow was agent for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictory\u003c/emph\u003e of New Bedford - to receive load of tobacco at City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships and tobacco shipments: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e to Rhoads with tobacco and cotton; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus;\u003c/emph\u003e ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond;\u003c/emph\u003e ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bartin\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictory;\u003c/emph\u003e many British vessels at City Point and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses losses due to late war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: commission business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 1600 staves to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of boat\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e; rates of exchange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e cargo full\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e cargo of tobacco for Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily concerning his shipping trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: concerning various ships owned by Blow: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond,\u003c/emph\u003e cargoes; Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e's account\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes shingles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e cargo of tobacco and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: staves and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFire in Petersburg destroyed half the town, about 300 houses. His counting house was saved\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's debt to Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor building the [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily concerns his sea shipping trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Barten\u003c/emph\u003e's cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Shipment in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdw. Bardin\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: furnishing brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharles Fourcett\u003c/emph\u003e en route to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e for tobacco and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e has not arrived at City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bordi\u003c/emph\u003en, and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e for City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bardin\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipped of fish thru the Canal to you, will ship shad [type of fish] for family use the last of this month\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(see April 12 letter)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Humph Hathaway and his cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e from City Point to Rotterdam with tobacco; Re: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e; Re: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bordin\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bordin\u003c/emph\u003e to Liverpool with tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictoria\u003c/emph\u003e for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily concerns his shipping trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: freight rates\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: falling freight rates\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e's flour cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo ofships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBaltie\u003c/emph\u003e for Liverpool (England), Scotland and Ireland, freight rates a problem. Mr. Dunlop wished possibly to charter the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e for Leith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Mr. Dunlop did not accept ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e as expected. Freight is down, problem of getting ships to take out cargoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo sale for Blow's salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe:Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e for Rotterdam and cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the tuition and board for Blow's sons, Robert Richard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert and Richard Blow by Aiken \u0026amp; Brooks, and Books for Robert\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters and one resolution document\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Financial affairs of Farmer's Bank, scale of loans, debts allowed, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to branches at Petersburg, Lynchburg, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetty bills of Richard Blow, four letters, and accounts with Neilson \u0026amp; Neale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e80 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: state of exchange, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Alleged default in bank, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCost of kitchen, stable, dailty building and garden $ 428.18\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRenewing Charter of Farmer's Bank which will expire 1827; urges renewal and to confer with stockholders as to their opinion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral conditions of banking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegislature wishes detailed statement of expenses of Branches of this bank; asks Mother Bank (Norfolk) to send earliest mail; also list of salaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e80 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Branches of Farmer's Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElection of Lee as cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed letter describing Christmas as \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e: Weather very bad, hunting, ice house full of ice, new school at Coman's [?] Well, Sussex; wants daugher, Mary Frances put there. Death of Capt. John R. Mason. Edwin Gray sold off all his estate yesterday. Thomas Gray to manage the Ruffin plantation. Imagine Thomas will buy Edwins land; there will be Grays all around us. Just heard that Captain Wm. Briggs bought Edwin's place, $ 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairing the man building and slating kitchen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaint, lead, etc. $ 84.36\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribing post Civil War life conditions: Reconstruction, \"thievery\" of African-Americans; Fanny (his wife) is teaching 10 pupils; Mary is chief assistant in a large female school here; Aleck has been here. Orange and Alexander R.R. has joined up to the Manasses R.R.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Blow, Micajah Felts, Adminsitrators; Inventory of App.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 6235.20; Divison of Estate to 3 grandchildren: Mary E. Turner, Martha Jordan and Georgia Ann Hines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaves Mary E. Hines his plantation on East side of Austin's branch; leaves Martha Hines his plantation on Wesst side of Austin's branch; [Mary Elizabeth Hines husband was George Hines] George Blow and James Rochelle, executors, Rochelle did not act.; John D. Turner who married Mary, act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Blow administrator\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDozens of petty accounts between Richard Blow and merchants, trades, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eField book of line between George Blow, Jr., John Clanton Saldsberry and Nancy Clanton and adjoining [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarham's Tract…183+ acres sold at $ 5 per acre. Plat of Barham Wren's land and north side of Racoon Swamp by Wm. Darbie of which this is an exact copy - total acres 345.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNumber of packages consigend to [names from Williamsburg, Petersburg, Yorktown, Burwell's Ferry, Hanover]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal field notes of a Road from Bla[?]'s Mill to Sussex Coutr House chained by Joseph Clanton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 1409.9.10 1/2 : long listing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suit Blow \u0026amp; Oldham trading as merchants at South Quay, Nansemond County. Each to put up £ 400 V.Cur. and going under firm name of Baker, Oldham \u0026amp; Blow and to continue throgh the War. In 3 months Oldham died. Firm continued as Baker \u0026amp; Blow. Store began at Pitch Landing, North Carolina. Other stores were established at Petersburg under firm name of Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale in 1782.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer of Blow refers to the year 1793\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco imanifests for various ships; invoices of tobacco to Wm. Blow at Dunkirk; Invoices to Petersburg Store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[torn at date] Re: Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale accounts and ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFlying Jennie \u003c/emph\u003e's Cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e, [unclear?], \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMt. Vernon\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[7 items]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Settlement of father's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA personal letter about her son, John, who was employed by Freeland \u0026amp; Gillis in Petersburg. Sent down to Williamsburg on business stayed at the Eagle Tavern. [Mrs. Taylor was a sister of Robert H. Walker]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Goods shipped to him from Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London. Requests Blow to attend the Customs and have goods sent up to him as soon as he can. Goods came in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's subscription to the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVirginia Gazette\u003c/emph\u003e for 1800 and 1801\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sent down 4 hhds. tobacco to Blow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: wine for his father. Asks it to be sent to Alexandria c/o Jenny \u0026amp; Graham or some person who does business for his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, letter of March 1 1803 from Cropper, P[unclear?] \u0026amp; Co., Liverpool\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThomas Wilso\u003c/emph\u003en, freight bill: 1 case containing a Piano Forte \"for Hon. Samuel Tyler, Judge of Court of Chancery in Williamsburg\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: A Disagreement between Arthur Hope and Blow. Hope had deposited funds with Blow for purpose of Blow investing for him in Bank Stock. Wirt advises Blow to agree to a committee of 3 men to settle rather than go into court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges tobacco sent over by Mrs. Lucy Paradise per \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Sheffield\u003c/emph\u003e. According to Mrs. Paradise's desire we are sending 2 [ch___s?] marked \"LLP1.2\" Bills of Lading sent to Blow at her request. \"She is miserably in debt\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas established a printing office in Norfolk with Daniel Baxter. Solicits Blow's goodwill and business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco she had shipped to Reynolds in Liverpool (see letter of July 12, 1806).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to employ a tutor to live in his house. Enclose advertisement for same to be put in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Herald\u003c/emph\u003e. Wishes a mentor in Latin, French but must have one good on Arithmetic and English. Say £ 50 or £ 60 for English teacher and £ 70 or so for language teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis opinion of western lands, 1st rate land sells at $ 20 to $ 30 and 2nd rate at $ 10. Does not wish to settle out here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegulations as to conduct: Divine Services, Reveille, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not come to Norfolk until yellow fever is over or is prudent to come. Keep him informed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills rendered for postage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for books (listed) $28\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for books (listed)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppeals to Blow to assist him. He is a British subject and \"confined in jail and then to be sold as a slave for the benefit of the state of Virginia.\" Gives his life history and tells how he a came to America at 3 years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInscription to be put on gravestone of Marie Semple, daughter of James Semple and Joanna his wife, daughter of Doctor William McKenzie, dec'd. Born August 16, 1809 and died November 12th 1810. Note from Semple to Blow with directions for sending stone to Cobham or to the Bay warehouse in Surry or upper end Isle of Wight County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 16, 1801, Lee Hall, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, Norfolk. Asks for Blow's assistance so he can obtain a job as a clerk in the Navy Yard at Gosport. January 26, 1801, Congressman Sam W. Dana, Washington DC, to Lee Hall. Discussing a possible job position for Hall. 1804 and 1805, Sam Lord, New York, to Dr. Lee Hall, Portsmouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Blow's influences in procuring his appointment as cleark in Public Navy Yard in Gosport\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommending Dr. Hall to be Clerk of Gosport Navy Yard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Medicine ordered by Hall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA teacher, will return to Portsmouth if conditions seem good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeasures taken to prevent interruption of the commerce of tobacco have had full success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit between Vaughan and Baker \u0026amp; Blow; he will represent Baker \u0026amp; Blow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Inquiring about books sent to Mr. Thomas Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about M. Davis [Augustine] establishing a printing press in the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods delivered at Capital Landing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of Lading for his tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetitions re: governorship. Refers to \"Cousin Sam Briggs\" being in Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFragment of drawing of houses and streets in Petersburg [in handwriting of Richard Blow]: Appomattox River, Tabbs Branch, Brick House [Run?] (all near Blandford)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMemo for [watchwork?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBallast Office, London; John Longman \u0026amp; others, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(8 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(2 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shingles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Drugs?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness Correspondence regarding ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMonmouth\u003c/emph\u003e from Bordeaux and problems encountered; also references to ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/emph\u003e (10 pieces)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives news that daughter Patsy will marry Dr. Gray on 26th\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Capt. Blow to his daughter Lizzie (1864); and letter from a nephew, Norfolk, to Capt. Blow (1880) regarding sale of part of the \"Old Place\" in Southampton County.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and 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the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and \"Tower Hill,\" Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs \u0026 Blow, Baker \u0026 Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow \u0026 Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation owner that operated in part by labor of enslaved persons. He shipped the goods produced by the plantation by sea, often to European markets. His correspondence and papers during this period provide a model source on plantation management, sea trade, trade during the American Revolution, and trade during the War of 1812. Includes correspondence, plantation accounts, ship accounts, and legal papers.","Subjects covered in the collection include trade, tobacco, prices, Whiskey Rebellion, thoroughbred horses, banking (Bank of the United States and Farmers Bank of Norfolk), Dismal Swamp Canal, the Embargo of 1807-1809, and the War of 1812. There are letters from merchants in Great Britain and in the West Indies.","Re: Prices for tobacco, salt, hogs, to be bought in that are area","4 invoices for miscellaneous goods","15 invoices for miscellaneous goods","Re: Goods shipped from London","8 invoices for Miscellaneous goods","Account book kept at Sussex Court and Southampton Court (56 pp.); Cash memo book of Richard Blow (Tobacco accounts, collections, etc.)","7 invoices","Invoice","4 items","3 invoices","2 items","Letter relates to selling salt, tobacco and escaping enemy ships, etc. [Hines was the nephew of Richard Blow and in business with him. See South Quay Store references in Blow Family Papers Index]","Property adjacent Davis, [Welch ?], Cary \u0026 Edards \u0026 [Tynes?]","Property near Cedar Island on Lawn's Creek to Brantley's Landing to Welshe's spring branch","Bought of various people tobacco, cloth, china, etc.","Re: Invoices of goods sent from Glasgow","Re: 6 items","(postage)","Letter and petty account","Re: tobacco","3 items","Deed from from Williamson to Land, and deed from Land to Land","Re: Purchasing vessels at Charlestown, will bring back salt","Re: Shipment of iron","Invoice","As well as other accounts with Blow. Ships mentioned are Ranger, Grapevine, Race Horse","Re: Business dealings","Boston sales after she was wrecked[?]","Anthony Diggs, builder, £ 90.656.19.3","13 pp.","1782-1789 (16 pp)","14 silver buttons at £ 4.5.1. [Waddell was the son of Wm. Waddell of Williamsburg, a jeweller and son-in-law of James Geddy II]","Counting room, lumber house, painting, etc.","Complaints of quality of tobacco shipped to him from South Quay, Pitch Landing and Petersburg, gives problems of trading and selling to Dutch, Danish and English - gives prices current of rum, sugar, coffee, humth, hoops, salt tow, etc. Letter gives details of economy in West Indies.","Says Blow's ships Nonpareil and Jenny left for Port-au-Prince had brush with Angulla[?] privateers; Vessel Defiance, will sail shortly ; Discusses conditions for sale of Virginia Tobacco (Pitch Landing is worst in quality yet sent). Difficulties with Danish Law; difficulty in shipping and risk from English Privateers - sends what goods Baker \u0026 Blow ordered as soon as possible. (8pp)","Tobacco acccounts.","October 3rd, 7th,","re: his ships loading, etc.","Re: payment for weapons sold","Notes arrival of B \u0026 B's schooners, Polly, Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there","Remarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc","South Quay goods shipped on board of schooner Venus for South Quay","8 pp.","\"I can inform you of the surrender of the British Army the night before last\"","News of surrender","shingles and guns","2 letters","Murdock's part ownership in schooner John and goods therein. Directs when sold to give his part to Samuel Beale, Williamsburg on account. Discusses falling prices if Cornwallis should surrender and a general peace ensue","Refers to sailing of Polly and Flying Jenny","Price of tobacco is rising; every kind of good is falling. Refers to sending the sloop to St. Thomas with shingles and staves. Ship Count de Grass expected Wednesday. Will meet her at Ocracock [Ocracoke] on 20th with 100lb cannon powder and all the men. Muskets and powder to be sent from Newbern.","List of merchandise. 12 pp.","2 letters","Refers to surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown","Letter re: his share of a schooner for sale; tobacco on hand to his account, etc","Invoice of goods shipped","Ships Experiment and Adelphi here with tobacco, staves and flour","Invoice and to whom sold","French are now in possession of whole island except Br[?]nton Hill. Capt Stogdale has taken 3 prizes before his arrival at St. Croix and several leaving St. Kitts and sent them to St. Eustatius. Refers to state of the Jenny","Refers to Brig Betty","Refers to Charming Polly","Island of St. Christopher surrendered to France - refers to lumber sales","Request for molasses","Business affairs to be settled","2 letters","Business between the two, conditions for shipping, new markets for goods, etc. (13 letters)","Re: disposal of the store business. Dick Baker, John Redwood interested, and \"major part of the business will be carried on at South Quay being the seaport place\" Baker's proposition as to carrying on business with Blow in the future. (6pp)","10 letters","3 items","4 items","7 items","5 items","Expenses of sloop Industry to Philadelphia","Re: shipping of goods to Blow. Proposes going into business with Blow at Richmond. \"The Revd. Wm. Andrews is now at Chelsea in this neighborhood and without any employment or assistance except £ 80 per annum which is allowed by government as temporary…\" (7pp)","Brig Pricilla disbursements in Cadiz; November 5th: cabin furniture, cabin stores, ship stores…\"; Invoice of Schooner Venus in account, Richard Blow, Merchant, Norfolk (4 items); Portsmouth store account; Petersburg store: invoice of tobacco shipped on Venus; South Quay Store: invoice in account with Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Portsmouth store account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale","Re: voyage to Fredericksburg; repairs; voyage to Cape Charles and back","Charged to Richard Blow","Brig Pricilla: wages, contract to Cadiz; Schooner Nonpareil accounts due to Rey \u0026 Brandenbourg, Cadiz; 4 items","voyage to London; 28 items","Outfitted and cargo","Sales wages, shingles, bamboo, lumbwer, etc. Cargo, invoice to Richard Blow and others; 2 items","Invoices, sales, etc. 24 items","Sales, wages, etc","Accounts of various ships [?] to Richard Blow; Accounts of Richard Blow [?] to others: to Hathorn \u0026 Miller for painting inside of store, glazing, a corner cupboard, table; Portsmouth Store; tavern account of George Briggs [?] to Ann[?] Livingston (dinner, club, wines, and board - £ 3.11.5; 20 items","Sales at auction of the Schooner Brilliant's Cargo, New York; Tobacco shipped on Brig Nelly by Blow \u0026 Barksdale—invoice; Invoice of Richard Blow \u0026 Co. with Oxley \u0026 Hancock on ships Jolly Tar, Marlborough Dancer, Wm. Randall.","Division account of owners of schooner Nonpareil, her cargo in account with Baker \u0026 Blow.","Owners of schooner Brilliant to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Petersburg; Account of sale of cargo of Schooner Richard in account with Baker \u0026 Blow at South Quay.","John Key 1/3 of profits made, Baker and Blow 2/3 of profits","In the amount of £ 7681.18.3; schooner Virginia, schooner St. Thomas; Debts due to following persons….; South Quay Store £ 2240.10.2½","Capt. James Caton, Norfolk: saddlery, shoes, linens, twine, glass, etc…£ 586.3.6½","Letter re: delivery of shingles","Re: change of occupation","Re: sale of cargo of Jolly Tar and sailing hack","Re: sailing of Jolly Tar out of London","Shipping good to firm","Same as above.","Asks about ships Jolly Tar, Tartar and sloop Old from Philadelphia with much needed goods","Sending flour down","Shipping goods to him in the William. Asked for tobacco","re: ships to England","re: goods bought and desired","re: exchange of flour and tobacco for salt and blankets, etc.","re: ordering a few items","Re: goods disbursed from ships to store in Petersburg and Tower Hill; dissatisfied over trade conditions","same as above","Has engaged James Marsh as an assistant for you; salary to be £ 50 per year from time he arrives in Virginia","Letter sent by ship William, 7pp.","Asks for [mourning?] goods to be sent to him","Ship Marlborough is coming up the river to Four Mile Creek; general trade conditions","\"Ship Marlborough has at last got up to 4 Mile Creek an is not discharging her load\"","Re: poor credit of English \u0026 French merchants; refers his uncle Scott going blind; general business affairs","Re: goods to be delivered to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, merchants, Petersburg","His sons, George and Sammy, are in service to Richard Blow in his business. Asks that Blow continue them. He is infirm and keeps his store only to give his sons Charles some insight in business","Jolly Tar is here with your tobacco; will sail back in 3 weeks with your goods; the William left on January 3rd. Has established correspondence and credit on best footing with Birmingham and Manchester (England), Sheffield, Halifax and Leeds houses. Discusses Blow's ability with shipping business. Crew does no think Blow has experience for this in times of peace. Says only 2 trips a year can be made to England and to West Indies. Advises Blow against using [unclear?] ships in this voyage.","Re: Cargo of Jolly Tar","Asks for linens; suggests Blow have a craft or two built to go up and down river","Re: Jolly Tar about to sail, not German goods to be had, no pewter or nails","Ironmongery hard to get; Ship Charlotte Daniel chartered with load for James River. Mentions Mr. Allen of Surry, Mr. Charles Carter of Charles City; discusses prices of American goods and demands abroad. Asks Blow to send tobacco back in the Charlotte.","Re: escaped enslaved person (\"runaway slave\")","Ship to go to City Point, Virginia and load with tobacco and proceed to London.","29 items","Re: Lots in Petersburg and buildings thereon too near Blow's storehouse","£ 63","Goods sent out, etc. Commission merchants problems re payment of tobacco brought over","Ship Marlborough sent to Virginia for tobacco. Probably to West Point; York River tobacco brings better prices than James River; \"my commission for selling a hhd of tobacco shall be 21 shillings; brokerage is 5 shilling\"","£ 350 due","Good shipped out","Announcing firm","Wishes bar iron","Refers to death of George Briggs","Refers to the Charlotte store","Wants canvas and anchor","Articles bound from Norfolk to London, agreement, names of Crew, wages, etc.","Does not want any part of ship Jolly Tar at sea","Itemized","16 pieces","For shingles, etc., shipped by boats to Portsmouth or Norfolk","Pepper, coffee, mill;","Linseed oil, etc.","New sloop of £ 850","General merchandise","Oils, locks, paints","Shot, lead, nails, window glass, glass, hats, axes, linens, copper, hardware, guns: £ 986.60 pounds","Shoes and hats","Ginger","Ginger","Sail duck","Woolens","Spoons, combs","Provisions for sloop dispatch","Invoice, to D[arton?], Petersburg","Goods at £ 256.0.11","£ 3074.10.8","Several invoices","£ 197.15.1 ¼","£ 60.16.7","2 accounts","In ship Thompson, hardware; £ 106.7.8","Oils and lampblack","For store and wharf repairs","£ 1171.15.9½","Richard Blow, Thomas Ogburn, Owners \u0026 Thomas [Angnus?], Master of Schooner Venus: Contract to West Indies; also ship's personnel with wages","3 carts of snakeroot per the Jolly Tar, London","For goods bought at Port Au Prince, Jamaica.","Re: shipping Blow's fall goods and pick up blows tobacco for foreign ports","25 items","23 items","25 items","25 items","Re: accounts","Has hired Benjamin Wythe to live with him at £ 20 instead of Fort at £ 60. Key was the operator of Tower Hill store and plantation.","Re: damage and vandalism to ship Malborough","Re: John [Cohn?] to be apprenticed to Richard Blow for 6 years","Will not keep on Benjamin Wythe (see January 4th above)","Re: bill of laden for ships Marian, Norfolk from Harvre de Grace","Re: store there","Re: they will have new neighbors soon at Sandy Hill: J. Stewart \u0026 Company. (Key operated Tower Hill Store for Richard Blow)","Re: ships for sale","Re: goods for Col. Allen and for Charles Carter","Re: blooded mares owned by Allen Cooke's estate","Re: management of store","re: mercantile business there","Re: sending Marlborough to Glasgow","Re: shipment of stones to Richard Blow","Re: ships Marlborough and Portsmouth and possible cargoes, [unclear] Jasmine","\"…the men who can fight best, lye [sic!] most and swear cleverly are most in repute\" here.","\"back country stores have taken a great deal of the trade from this place…\"","re: ships for cargo in James, York and Rappahannock Rivers - [unclear] and get Malborough full as soon as possible, refers to Blow's trip to England soon","Re: leaving lot by Barton for a lumber house near store","Re: Blow's paying his account with him","Re: death","Re: buying lot from Blow for new store","Re: arrival of ships. Bland, apparently, was manager of Blow's business in his absence","Re: corn delivered","Re: hard money, much of ship George off Smith's Island - losses…","Re: building store; arrival of foreign ships…","Re: debts due Co.","Re: debts of Blow to Company","Re: getting watch springs from London; (Geddy lived in Williamsburg near Palace; see James Geddey House History C.W.; he moved to Petersburg when Capitol left Williamsburg)","Re: sending some paper of Baker to Blow before he sets out for London. May send them to Blow in London, asks about what Blow has decided re land and who is to settle it for him; will give Blow's agent the refusal as he promised; (Zach Rowland owned a lot in Williamsburg on Waller Street (from 1782-1786); see C.W. for location of his lot—[M.A.S])","Re: Blow's trip to Europe soon, wishes some memo or form of a co-partnership, between them before Blow goes","Meal sent down","Torn","Re: Blow's debts to him","Re: Sending tobacco by Marlborough to London next week, sends lists so collections can be made there","Re: Blow's letter dated on board ship Portsmouth in Hampton Roads was received; refers to copartnership in letter of 4th (above). Approves of getting another partner from Britain to go into their firm (Barksdale \u0026 Blow). Suggests as Blow is there and will visit all trading posts in Britain, he can choose one better and will visit \"all the back stores\" before his return to Petersburg. McNeil has Married Youille's daughte - after a feud Youville has disowned them. Barksdale will have to settle McNeil elsewhere in back country and will settle [unclear?] in back country and will need spring goods for these small stores; asks Blow to send goods back to him in the Marlborough.","Re: send cellar window frames to him via Pierce's Sloop","Re: \"trade very dull, collections same, money tight\"","Re: no chances of collecting money at this time, money tight","Re: Blow's finances here while he is abroad no chance of collections until fall; workmen must be paid at all events. Ask Mr. Key or Mr. Barksdale for help if you need funds badly (Hines was Blow's nephew and manager of some of his property).","Re: can furnish stores, planks, etc.","Re: Blow and Baker \u0026 Blow's overdue account with Hazlehurst, Philadelphia","Re: Just back from 6 weeks up the country, per ship Virginia. Been the round of all the stores in the Country that we have an interest in. Collections very small. Insects among tobacco has been very fatal. Business very dull. If ship Portsmouth should arrive early, I can do well this fall in trade; may be able to get Northern goods this fall; Insists upon Blow getting them a partner for Britain, perhaps in Glasgow.","Re: Refers to lots of goods sent to Blow in Virginia in the George. No sale as yet for Blow's tobacco arrived in [unclear?] due to uncertainty as to duty.","Re: demands very pressing at Portsmouth and here; out of his power to give any financial assistance.","Re: sending meal down","Re: sending framing down; get bricks for him","Re: Citron bought, etc","[torn]","Sent Blow naval stores for sale","Alex Donald, Richmond, wishes 1,081,000 barrel stones; (Donald is a partner of Donald \u0026 Burton, London)","Sends goods to Robert Rines \u0026 Co., John Hoomer \u0026 Co. and Robert Craige; asks Blow to clear these at customs and to these people for them","Sends him 2 , [unclear?] of brandy","Invoices of goods shipped in Harrison and Richmond also in your ship Portsmouth re: sales of tobacco there","Drafts on Donald \u0026 Burton, London","\"Give Capt. Diamond a compass…\"","On pleasure trip; business in Virginia very dull. \"I find a good many houses failing in this place as well as in Philadelphia. Northern cities laden with India goods;\" urges Blow to have a separate account for the Portsmouth and Petersburg stores as I have no interest in the Portsmouth store.","[torn]","Re: business conditions there and his interests in Virginia","Re: his goods from abroad have arrived. Can furnish Bland some for Blow's store in Portsmouth if needed","Has received goods by the Richmond, Jasmond, Battleton, and Harrison; Re: their credit with Donald \u0026 Burton, collection of debts owving in Virginia, etc. Thinks Blow was right not to send off goods to his Tower Hill and Portsmouth stores this fall. Reports total loss of the Jasmond off Hatteras, passengers saved, all goods lost, great damage by this storm at Norfolk and Portsmouth as tides were 10 feet higher than ever known before. John Key, the operator of the Tower Hill Store, has come for a few goods for that store.","Re: Blow just returned from four months abroad. Discusses ships and cargo","Re: Mr. Jerdon's horses and groom[?] to be sent to him at Louisa if not, to A. Donald. Directions for putting off goods at Brandon; and to York County customers.","Re: confusion of orders for goods from Barksdale \u0026 Blow; and quality of tobacco shipped to him, prices etc;","Goods not coming to him on schedule. Wishes 500 bushels salt and some rum and sugar. Have no money to purchase tobacco. Dull sales at this place, low prices of tobacco and high prices of goods, keeps off buyers at store .","Order for goods to be sent by Blow to Wilmington by Sloop Speedwell. Thinks there is an excellent opening for a business there. Virginia is overstocked with Country Stores or rather shops. Could accept H.C. produce in payments. Send the goods to Henry Urquahart or Carmical \u0026 Bogle as soon as possible.","Re: goods received","\"Nothing going here in retail line but a demand to country merchants in the wholesale way...\"","Letter of credit for David and Herbert Hines, his brothers. [David Hines married Elizabeth Francis, daughter of Thomas Francis, February 3rd, 1781]","Re: need for molasses and rum, sugar or coffee for his business","Goods by the Speedwell to hand (£ 381.15.10); goods sent him (saddler, corderoys, [unclear?], men's shoes) \"not suitable for my trade here.\" I wish rum, sugar; will try to pay in North Carolina produce but that is as low in your state.","Detailed letter re economic conditions in England and the reaction to follow if Virginia General Assembly lays heavy duties on British shipping and on B[low's] goods imported in them; if this happens, a fatal blow will be given to the credit of Virginia in this country…","Re: Accounts for collection","Out of certain goods, will loose customers if Blow does not send some up.","returns invoices for damaged goods","Re: discusses effect to follow if paper currency is issued to you. It will raise your exchange very much. It is prudent for you to collect your debts before their value is reduced thereby…warns against giving too much credit…","Re: needs cloth for clothes for enslaved persons","Re: difficulty of getting spring goods from abroad","[need to check folder break-down for accuracy]","For goods [unclear?] and to be sent to Richard Blow per ship Portsmouth. Blow had sent stoves over to be sold (8 items)","Received credit for shingles, scantling, garden nails and lumber","14 petty accounts of Richard Blow with craftsmen; Accounts of Donald \u0026 Burton, London for goods; List for Richard Blow, Virginia (6 items)","Lists: \"1 fine Carnelian seal with Coat of Arms crest. Neatly set in gold [unclear?] pattern £ 5.5 \"N.B. the seal, pin and ring were delivered to Mr. Blow\"","Fifteen accounts of Richard Blow for various needs at home and abroad; Tavern account with Mr. A. Livingston; Repairs to ship Portsmouth","Shipped by Blow \u0026 Barksdale on Jesmond for their account with Robt. Crew, Merchant, London, £ 1034.13.5","30 heads[?] of Tobacco; £ 600.17.11;","8 invoices","10 invoices for jewelry;","32 petty accounts","6 receipts Richard Blow","30 receipts","10 items","9 items","...for goods furnished to Captains of ships and other individuals; 24 items","21 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","12 items","\"A Pair of Silver [unclear?] Pistols, Brass Barrels and [unclear?] locks: (£ 8.18.6)\"","dress materials","30 pieces, receipts","30 pieces, receipts","Invoice; wide selection of goods","Wide selection of goods","The Jesmond is now loaded and will sail, Captain Smith is in charge","30 prices","30 prices","20 prices","20 prices","Bills for plank and lumber of all kinds, R. Blow; 12 prices","18 prices (August 1st??)","Re: loading of tobacco in ship Portsmouth at Cabin Point or Petersburg. Times hard; cannot remit now","A continuation of letter of January 1st (above)","Refers to new tax imposed by General Assembly of January 1st on tobacco. Money very hard, being [unclear?] often. Sends invoices for tobacco shipped out","Ship Portsmouth leaving for Portsmouth…","Re: glad to know ship Portsmouth is out of Cape's","Sending tobacco down in the Molly or the Termagant","In distress for cash to get French ships out—has drawn on Blow for £ 50. Gordon \u0026 Kean will send her (ship) out to sea for Grubb if I can furnish funds.","Discusses his personal business affairs—Roberts almost paid now. James River tobacco now in demand here. Refers to George Briggs, nephew of Blow, owing him; also George Nicholson and Richmond Rope Walk","Re: carpenters working on the wharf, etc.","Re: corn sent to Blow from the Plantation","Re: Blows ship in port and difficulties re manifest. Refers to Blow's marriage and send congratulations to him","Re: general news","Refers to Blow's \"happy day\" (wedding day / Richard Blow's Marriage); Tobacco prices looking up. Trade duller than when you were here.","The Grand Duke has brought in £ 2200. Refers to the Portsmouth, the Harrison, safe at Cadiz","Sends manifests of ship's Portsmouth cargo. She [ship]will be in England before the Harrison or the Grand Duke. Needs salt and stoneware","Gives ship's Portsmouth cargo and his needs.","…when he left South Quay he settled with Baker \u0026 Blow. Invoice of Tobacco received.","Buying lighter of Blow","Sends goods out by Grande Duke to Portsmouth and Petersburg stores. Business dealing with the two stores sends tobacco and staves back in Grand Duke.","Invoice of goods for (Richard Blow)","Invoice, harness and saddler","Tobacco shipped in the Hagard to Blow; concerned over how to pay creditors: \"very stagnant times\"","Wishes Blow to go up to the Charlotte store only 85 miles from Petersburg and see Mr. Youville","[Bot.?] of Bax \u0026 Ellill for \"Blow\"","[Bot.?] of Trinbug \u0026 Bell for Blow.","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Introducing Mr. Galloway from Jamaica who would like to be their agent there","For £ 1233.19.14","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Mr. Tyson wishes circa 200 hhds tobacco from lower James River. Recommends shipping tobacco to France","Would like business dealings with Blow; encloses list of goods available for exportation and prices","Begging for goods to be sent to him in ship Portsmouth soon","Sends invoice of goods needed","Unable to send the candlesticks you wanted for the Mason's Lodge. Pattern desired not available, very expensive to be made by silversmith; awaits Blow's decision","Re: tobacco shipments","Bond of 1784 January 1st","Re: shipping of goods to him and tobacco loaded in Portsmouth","Re: his debt to Blow","Re: sends tobacco in ship Portsmouth","Re: goods sent to Blow's store in ship Portsmouth. Barksdale not liable for that store. Settled with Blow before he went to England (in 1785) \"I have no more interest in the Portsmouth Store or the ship Portsmouth than a man unborn nor never had from the beginning of our co-partnership\"","7 invoices for goods for Blow in England","3 items","Various assortments, 10 items","By: Rich Barton, Henry Dickson, Donald \u0026 Burton; Taxes, Sussex County or Richard Blow: 1196 acres land, 203 acres land, 210 acres land, 28 polls, 13 levis, 10 horses, 50 cattle","from Donald \u0026 Burton, John Begg, James Williamson, Portsmouth Store, J. Barrister (10 items)","With carpenters, tailors, butcher, cabinet maker (10 items)","15 items","30 items","30 items","To M. Finkle, Jno. Thomson, [D____unclear?], Eph. Elder, Alex. Smith, E. Youngman, H. Brown, G. Nickols","various goods","Material for dresses","\"London, 3 Voyages;\" \"Virginia, 3 voyages\"","Re: bread, rum, etc","For repairs to ships of Portsmouth","For ship Industry, for store and for wharf; and for ship Dispatch (repairs)","Invoice for misc. goods.","For craftsmen. 23 items","For craftsmen. 30 items","Carpenter and builders account","For Petersburg store, South Quay store, etc.","Goods of Blow","2 items","14 pp.","5 pp.","5 pp.","13 pp.","3 pp.","6 pp.","Ships furnished, Ports listed, foreign merchants traded with, invoices (local and foreign); 200 items","Messrs. Brothers De Bacque, Dunkirk (France)","29 business letters concerning the sale of tobacco and loading on ship Portsmouth and others for foreign ports. Also their business agreements. The dates of the letters are as follows: January 12 11, 15, 26, February 2, 1, 8, March 12 26, April 4, 20, 12 30, May 16, 26, 31, 20, June 6, July 16, 13 August 10, 17, 19, 14 12 29, September 2, December 1, 13","Reports dissolution of the Partnership of Thomas Bland \u0026Co., will continue the business under the firm name of William Edwards \u0026 Co. and settle former co-partnership","To: Wm Pritchard, Wm Corrupter, Gabriel and [Rhilgo?], James Brown, John Cranbury, John Bingham, M. Donald, John Whitley","Re: renting house (Waddell was a silversmith, formerly of Williamsburg)","Re: to James Giddy Jr., Silversmith in Petersburg, formerly of Williamsburg","Re: renting store","70 pieces","Re: about to settle in Amherst Country","Re: cargoes for Portsmouth and Grande Duke and payments","Sales of cargo of Haney reported to your credit. Sends hogshead of London wine via ship. Ship Active soliciting trade","Indian corn cargo sent by Blow to them; Enclosed invoice of prices or articles imported to this island: wheat, grain and flour always command good prices and good profit","Tobacco is a very dull sale at present. Wheat high all over Europe, Turpentine is much demand","Cargo for North Carolina, salt, rum, ship bread and 400 empty hands.","Fort was manager or operator of the Tower Hill Store for Blow, George Andrews is overseer for 1788 for £ 20","Shipments to Donald \u0026 Burton via Bowman; other shipments discussed","(fragment)","2 to 15 ships en route to Portsmouth are frozen up in Appomattox River near the bar; ice is 5 inches thick","Most woolens entirely too high for this market","Re: clothing for Col. Lewis Burwell's enslaved persons is held up for duties at Portsmouth","Re: Suits in General Court","Re: Suits in court there. Blow's debts due; payments","Asking that Blow send 2 packages that came for him from abroad. One may be a spinet.","This detailed letter about the economy discusses prices for canvas, salt, tar; compares French and English prices for same. French minister has written to Jefferson with regard to trade to tobacco. France may become a very important depot for tobacco and particularly this port as it is near to the Dutch and German Ports.","Re: sendingBoxes of James Geddy's by first vessel","Re: James Geddy's invoice of sundry goods in 3 packages misplaed; never arrived here; find they are in Norfolk at Capt. Maxwell's. Please send.","Re: suits in General Court","(care of Joshua Fort, Tower Hill) Re: [unclear?] a lot of his","Re: suits in General Court","Re: bill owed by Blow","Mr. Geddy's 3 packages of goods have arrived at last, send duties due from him","re: coming for final settlement of accounts of Baker and Blow","Re: Blow's lots in Petersburg. Legality of ownership must be cleared up. Will check deeds in Prince George County. Gill will sue you if not cleared up soon.","Re: debts","Re: shipments of tobacco","Tobacco very promising this year, prospects for 1/3 more crop. Wants horseman's trumpet for our Cavalry","General prices and tobacco sales outlook","Sending tobacco down, also bacon, hams for Mr. Gregory in Dunkirk. M. Oldner will look after them.","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Lathian, Sharp, Wardrop \u0026 Co., Weavers","[unclear?] of Hunt \u0026 Clay, Ribbon Weaver","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Henry \u0026 Richard Joseph, Pewterers","[unclear?] of Lancaster, Bax and Ellill and shipment in Bowman for Virginia, bird shot, seeds","[unclear?] of James Davidson, Net, Rope, Twine, Line maker","[unclear?] of Wm \u0026 Rdn Borradaile \u0026 Co.; Hats and felts","[unclear?] of Edward Collinson, Tin Plate, [Warker?]","[unclear?] of [North?] Johnson \u0026 [Frith?], turners and brush makers","Re: prices of naval stores, lumber and staves. Asks for settlement of their business for past year soon","Glad Portsmouth has gone to sea, re: Blow's lands","[unclear?] of John Freeman \"cork cutter to his majesty\"","Looking for Captain Oldner. Stack of Tobacco in France kept up high by late deliveries. Farmers General will buy at liberal prices to encourage commerce between the two countries. When Portsmouth arrives, will write you further.","Sending sturgeon down, wishes nails","Re: coming to Tower Hill soon; We should come to something decisive in our business. Crop up country good.","Re: shipments of staves","Re: [lands?] of Baker \u0026 Blow in western lands.","Re: repairs to shop","Execution against blow for £ 600.5, for debts owed","Needs salt for store; re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] Gov. of Virginia for duties past due £ 80","Shipments in Portsmouth","Ship Captain: business about sailing for Blow","Will sell 1,200 acres of land in order to pay if Blow insists","Re: debt owed to Blow","Sending down tobacco","Re: suit in Southampton Co. Court","Re: Blow's debt to firm for tobacco sent him","Re: sending load of staves down by Mr. Gray","Allowed another ship to have barrel of mead as they were out; Oldner was the Captain of Ship Portsmouth","Farm conditions bad due to inclemency of weather; John Rochelle needs salt","Lawyer for Mr. Baker and Blow, Suit vs. Holland to come up at next court","Has sold Robert Rives remaining stock of goods belonging to Webb, Barksdale \u0026 Co. Accounts enclosed to amount of £ 916.8.4 sterling to go on proper account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale. It is now time to rent out the Courthouse store if no renter applies, we shall have to pay dead rent","Ship Louisa is in from Isle of May with salt. Says prices of barrel staves is too high","Is willing to be Captain of ship to ply between Holland to Portsmouth","Asks that goods come up in ship Bell Cap Bay, lying now at New Point News or in Nansemond River. May send \"my ship Constitution\"","Member of House of Delegates from Sussex County. General Discussion of affairs","Re: Law cases","Sale of schooner and cargo in Rotterdam; Ship Kepple to be sold in West Indies. Mr. Rosser to Fredericksburg with load of salt and dry goods. Ship Meremaid from Glasgow arrived today. Mr. Lightfoot's sloop from Antigua here [Mrs. Blow and little George were staying in Petersburg with Mr. Blow]","Re: changing from employ to Rotterdan [unclear?] to Captain of Portsmouth owned by Blow","Ships Portsmouth and other ships: staves business and red oak hogsheads for sale. Queen of France from London and Captain Blaney from St. Martins here with salt.","News of General Assembly in session. Briggs was representative from Sussex County. John Pride was speaker of Senate, defeated Charles Carter. Briggs thinks Pride better for office as he is \"more of a republican;\" [theater] plays to start here soon, place very gay.","Re: case Baker and Blow versus Applewhaite","Re: package lost","Re: suits and loss of legal papers","13 items","Suits in court","140 items","19 items pertaining to sloop","100 items","50 items","See alsoBox 11A: Financial Records, 1787-1789.","Have sent Blow 12 hogsheads tobacco and 10 [unclear?] pork; no peas to be had.","Sending load of tar","Re: sending navel stores for A. Donald","Re: Wishes to rent Blow's house in Petersburg for Mr. Rose; let him hear your wishes.","Sending load of tar","Re: Blow's judgment against him","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court vs. Blow \u0026 Baker","Prices of staves, shingles, scantling, sugar, molasses, coffee, tobacco, fish","Tar sent to A. Donald, sending 4 [bbls?] of turpentine to you","Re: selling enslaved person; Col. Baker's estate","Ship Powhatan thought lost","Burgess had a school in Southampton. Reference to payments to Blow","Has received Indian corn shipment for the account of James Brown of Richmond, Virginia. American grain is much in favor here, tho' [am?] crops of wheat, rye and barley are good","Sends flour and corn down for foreign trade","Re: Baker estate and suits in Brunswick County Court","Discusses financial conditions, tariff changes and effects on American goods","Sends manifests for 55 hogeheads by Portsmouth;Also, others. Brother (James) is at Bermuda Hundred on business","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court, of Blows","Sends bar iron for sale","Wishes quantity of peas to fill ship to be sent to Madeira before Christmas","Sent 2,800 bushels of wheat in ship Nancy for Philadelphia. Will Blow get bills of lading for it for Manson?","Cannot pay his account to Blow","Sending down 100 [unclear?] of flour and a parcel of back eyes peas (12 to 1,500 bushels) for Madeira","Lists tobacco sent down for Blow, needs Liverpool salt","Repairs, wages, food, ports, etc.","Repairs, bread, rum, cordage, naval stores and general petty accounts for misc. articles","Bills of laden and accounts of sloops Portsmouth, Elizabeth, Betsey, Acorn and others; and petty accounts for ships","12 items","circa 100 items","circa 71 items","Answer of Richard Blow, partner of Baker \u0026 Blow and of Richard Blow \u0026 Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","Answer of Richard Blow partner of Baker and Blow and of Richard Blow and Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","26 items","3 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","10 items","20 items","To ship on board the Portsmouth for Havre De Grass: Smithfield, Low Point, Hoods, Davis's, B. Brooke, Byrds, Lowpoint","\"Richard Blow for the ships\" account of repairs Blacksmith account-ship Gloucester to Richard Blow","20 items","20 items","Work on ship Portsmouth","20 items","20 items","13 items and one item related to freight","1 item","14 items","23 items","4 items","Re: Tobacco saved from wreck of the schooner Nelly in November 1783. Asks for settlement, may enter suit","Has corn and cask of ginger for Mr. Blow, by ship Charlie","Re: shipping tobacco via City Point, 60 [unclear?] corn at 4-Mile-Creek, little wheat","Sending 33 hogsheads of tobacco to Blow, for shipment on Portsmouth for Donald \u0026 Burton, London","Re: rent of Blow's warehouse","Owes blow; he is out of work, can't pay now (ship captain?)","Problems regarding ship and loading","Sending down brandy, nuts, apples by cart. \"people\" (referring to enslaved persons) need shoes","Has been to France, 3 days at Dunkirk at Messrs. De Bacque. They seem agreeable to do business but due to the critical condition of affairs in France, the exchange is above par. Will go to Liverpool to look situation over. \"Expect to get the scheme completed to the fullest extent and the goods shipped…\"","Sends invoice of goods and corn delivered to Capt. Binghame","Has sent 3000 [unclear?] of turpentine for account of Mr. Donald","re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale (2)","Send him rum for corn he sent to Blow","Wishes turpentine","Sends turpentine (600??) would want $3 per (??)","Re: loading corn and sending down","Re: sending corn for shipment","Re: sale of boards, shingles, scantling to merchants here. Will have 600 bushels of salt for Captain Cox and flour and fish. Hope to sail back by August","Demand for Virginia. Coal is very slow due to quantity of British coal on market. Corn prices low, Captain Fineash has employed Willing, Morris \u0026 Co. to buy his bricks. Wheat and flour prices good.","Sends down turpentine","Sailing on Bowman on 20th; dissapointed that Blow has done nothing to fit up his store in Petersburg for the reception of goods","Sloop Peggy left Lyon's Creek with corn","Accounts for sale of cargo and prices received","Re: Capt Fineash's business affairs","Re: Blow's accounts there","Re: sending tobacco and turpentine","Re: Brunswick County Suits","30 items: The dates are as follows: January 13 February 24, March 9, 13 April 14 21, 28, May 14 7, 10, 5, 26, 21, 24, 31, June 7, 23, July 1, August 13 14 September 12 20, 25, October 2, 2, 20, 19, 22, 25","35 items: Brown's loading of tobacco and corn on the Portsmouth, Clermont, Polly, Phoenix, Harrison, Grand Duke to be delivered to Blow for foreign sale. Brown wished Blow to send him turpentine, salt, dry goods , rum, sugar, coffee, etc. Brown was a big merchant in Richmond. The dates are as follows: August 2, 2, 6, 11, 17, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 13 28, 30, September 1, 8, 12 12 13 17, 20, 24, 27, October 6, 4, 4, November 1, 3, 8, 10, 19, 23, December 2, 14 28, 30, 30","General condition of market, shipping, etc. The dates are as follows: March 9, 18, 24, 24, 27, 30; April 1, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 28, 24, 26, 28, 27, 29; May 1, 3, 19, 30, 19, 21, 22, 21, 26, 28; June 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 25, 25, 28, 30; July 2, 5, 9, 19, 19, 22, 29, 29; December 9.","James Brown, Richmond merchant, accounts with Richard Blow; Brown's sale to various foreign merchants and delivered to ship Captains sailing, etc.; flour, corn, tobacco. 25 pieces","20 misc. petty accounts","Cargo sales, voyage #10: wages, repairs, fitting out food, etc.","38 items","41 items","77 items","3 items","75 items regarding repairs, fittings etc.","54 pieces","Expenses of Corn shipped on the Birch, Cleopatra, Mary. Naval stores statement . 20 pieces","Accounts of ships with Richard Blow; ships Bowman, Cleopatra, Portsmouth, Phoenix, Grande Duke, Endeavor. Sales of turpentine, tar, staves, rum, molasses, corn, repair work done, etc.","Has received flour and black-eyed peas from Blow; will send wines to Blow; gives current prices of wheat, corn, rice, flour, beans, beef, pork, bees wax and staves","Thanks Blow for present of 4 red birds sent to him. Three arrived safely. I gave two to female friends and one to Mr. Donald.","Low Point, Milners, Smithfield, Suffolk, G-Creek,Hampton, Petersburg, Tower Hill","Re: Blow's Tobacco sent to him","In French.","Bill for joiners work","Relating to Portsmouth, George, Industry, Nancy, Grand Duke, Bowman, Harriet, Castor, Union, Molly, Harrison","By master shipwrights, Captain John Cox, commander of Portsmouth","As result of damage received on the Bognor Rocks £ 633 [Bognor Rocks, Sussex County","58 pieces: Repairs, wages, food, etc","Over 200 items","Re: debts now due and insaluable; rent for Princeton (house near Sussex County house); about Wm. Bland's inability to pay for horse Aristotle","Thank for red birds sent to him. Sned more","Re: sending oranges and hives","\"France is at war with the Emperor of Prussia; gives effect of current prices\"","Red birds died on voyage; Captain Pollack of ship Grand Duke will bring others for me, I hope","Wishes cargo of staves—has shipped brandy to Blow. Also wishes Oak timbers and cedar boards for whale boats and harpoon. Situation of political affairs will influence the exchange. The success of our war against the Emperor and the King of Prussia has made prices fall already. Our success in several battles has recovered from the Emperor the whole Belgick [Belgique] or Flanders, besides the whole kingdom of Savoy.","In French.","Is establishing a House of Commerce in Bordeaux; asks business of Blow","3 items","Accounts, disbursements, (32 items)","Repairs, bills, after hurricane from St. Eustatias to Virginia","David and George, Grande Duke, Ballie De Sulpier; Captain Timothy Congers was captain of the Ballie de Sulpier. In his account to Richard Blow under July 9, 1792 there is this item: \"Cash paid expenses to Williamsburg to see the judge (2.14.3 ½)\" and on July 29, 1792 \"Cash at Maupin's (5.18.1) on July 11 1792 Captain [Conears?] to Gabriel Maupin..\"[unclear?] for dinner, club, wine, lodging, grog are listed by Maupin as paid on July 12th. Maupin kept an ordinary in Williamsburg; [see: House History at Research department C.W. (M.A. Stephenson, March 1968)]","40 items","21 items","21 items","12 items","55 items","50 items","21 items","12 items","55 items: Foreign agents, local suit, ship captains accounts, invoices of sloop Industry and David and George, Portsmouth, repairs to ships (nail maker, blackmaker, iron work), invoices for lumber, scantling, shingles, food furnished ships (ship bread, rum, beef, etc.)","(Captain John Cox)","Arrival of your ship Portsmouth. Wishes staves, cedar hoards, oak timbers for the whole boats and tarpons. Wishes tobacco; Brandy or gin will not be allowed to go into your country but in casks upward of 90 gallons. Which type of brandy and cognac will Blow like? Will send price current from time to time.","Over 50 items.","\"A committee of the inhabitants of Petersburg assembled on Wednesday to devise some measure to prevent the communication of the Small Pox from Richmond, and they have resolved on planning a smoke house at Pocahontas to have every person from Richmond smoked before they are admitted into town..\" Gives prices current.","Discusses war with Portugal and Spain and consequent fall in prices","Re: tobacco delivered to Port-au-Prince","Re: shipping Blow tobacco at Kemp's Warehouse on the Piankatank","List of 15 hogsheads of tobacco for sloop Experience","Ships Blow hering, shad and tar","Sends 32 hhds tobacco","Gives prices current in list for tobacco and turpentine, deerskins, tar and rice","Re: Buying ship with Blow; son going to Virginia to be in business there, gives current prices of tobacco, turpentine, etc. Tobacco sales down 1/3 in France by National Assembly orders.","States that Donald \u0026 Burton have failed. He and Mr. Lamb, book keeper for Donald \u0026 Burton, will form a joint business. Asks for Blow's business with them. Lamb \u0026 Younger are insurance workers, also.","Bills of laden (12), wages","\"…There never was such distress in this kingdom amongst the commercial people as at this time prevails…I think very few will be able to ship goods the coming fall for their correspondents. Tobacco is very low and hardly any sale. A cargo of (??) Virginia Tobacco has lately been sold at 1¾, wheat 6/6, tar 21/[unclear], turpentine 12/ct\"","Offers to collect debts for Blow","Gives London exhange and needs","Gives prices current in Cadiz and exchange in London, Amsterdam and Paris; gives money valuations also","Discusses prices and general trade conditions","Sends bill for goods desired","Virginia Coffee House","Letter and copy","50 miscellaneous bills.","89 items.","Re: Collections for Blow","Re: Price current for Antigua Rum","Re: cask of chewing tobacco sent him for sale","\"The embargo will cease after the 25th of this month. The resolution to continue it after that time was rejected by a large majority yesterday..\"","Re: Blow \u0026 Baker's judgment vs. Henry Banks","Suits of Baker \u0026 Blow, judgments, etc.","\"…M. Lee has rented your old store house to a M. Dudgin, a baker is building a very large oven in the back yard adjoining the old kitchen on the [run?]. Your carriage is now all ready, it is a nice one and I hope will please Mrs. Blow","Re: Relationship between J. Boyce and T. Thompson Jr., dissolving partnership","Orders 40 lb. of West India Cotton and some salt","Sending corn from Tower Hill, to Blow via Cabin Point and River","87 pieces.","111 pieces.","Re: Lot in Petersburg of Blow's","Gives current prices","Gives current prices","Note the N.B.","Gives current prices","Re: his debts to Blow under firm name of \"Fort \u0026 Nicholson\"","Prices current","Prices current","Prices current","Bill of Laden and earthenware","Re: Merchant, Mr. Smith, who is coming to Virginia to settle","Re: Thomas Thompson has died; Re: Blow's business with Thompson","\"The troop of Cavalry of Petersburg, marched on Saturday and about 160 militia and now going on daily from the different countries that come through here, the result of this business is very much to be feared will end in some thing that will be shocking to human nature…\"","Order for goods (dress materials)","Returning to England","Re: Th. Thompson's estate","Mr. Thompson, Jr., arrived safely; Executors of T. Thompson, Jr. will give up the trade entirely, so partnership between him and you will be closed as early as possible","Re: T. Thompson's estate","Says great Britain will pay for all injustices which Americans have suffered by the West Indies cruisers: make your just claim for loss suffered by the capture of your vessels. Do not doubt but that you'll be reimbursed for loss; discusses his and Blow's business connections and Thompson's son's business affairs in Virginia","Invoices of Richard Blow's. 50 items","Refers to French American difficulties at present; Thompson's estate affairs not favorable; great demand for middle grade tobacco","J. Strange, Manchester to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Price current list","Prices current listed","\"Captain Harrison of the Fort was shot last night by Lt. Willson in a duel\"","Prices current given","Prices current given","British cruisers have orders to bring in every ship of whatever nation loaded with Provisions bound to France;... a great number of Americans are amongst but Commissioners appointed to purchase and to pay for the same instantly…","On sea 38 days, cargo damaged","Gives genealogy of kinship of Drews, Hines and Blows.","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","13 pieces","Invoices and receipts paid by Richard Blow to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, and to local tradesmen in Norfolk (50 pieces) see: Jacob Andrews, Norfolk, silversmith, for ½ dozen, tea spoons and a tea canister","43 pieces.","Benjamin Waller, Williamsburg, agent, for firm Abram Newman of London and John Grayson of Petersburg, Virginia, representing the firm of Davison \u0026 Newman, London, Executors of Benj. Waller, paid to attorneys for firm £ 1325 pounds and £2587.18 pounds - Va. currency in April 1779","Re: Henry Carleton's debt to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Pitch Landing, 1781; [Anderson was bookkeeper for firm then]","Sent salt, lemons, china and oranges to Blow","Is sending over in the Rebecca a very famous horse, Dare Devil, property of John Hoomer of Virginia","Dare Devil, Hoomer's horse, arrived safe in Virginia","\" I hear you have married Miss Wright..\"","General conditions","3 horses sent by Lamb \u0026 Younger to his father on Eliza;  give M. Lawson of Williamsburg and father information about this","Tobacco very high here","Current prices","Re: a fire which destroyed storehouse of Blow's, which Nash had rented. Mrs. Marks occupies the remaining house left of Blow's; wishes to continue renting it","Gives current prices","Re: Blow's and Barksdale's foreign business, collections, etc.","Received 5 hogsheads of tobacco from Tower Hill  overseer, entire crop","Writes for red birds; sends silk to Mrs. Blow","\"America must be reaping immense advantage from the war that is going on in Europe\"","Current prices","Re: purchase of a good vessel; condition uncertain due to war. Does not think good time to increase foreign trade","Ship Louise bringing cargo of salt to City Point in exchange for tobacco","Business [unclear?]","116 pieces.","Scammel was part owner with Blow of a store at Tower Hill [see Blow Family Papers, W\u0026M Library, Special Collections Research Center]","230 pieces","Re: settlement of Carolina business and also those for conveyance of the lot to John Baird and Jamestown","Re: collecting for Blow rent on Petersburg Storehouse and house, and recovering debts owed to Blow; current prices listed","Re: debt he owes for rent","Re: estate of Thompson","Re: purchase of ship Moses Myers by Strange \u0026 Blow","Re: rent of Blow's houses in Petersburg","Re: Brig Moses Myers","Re: Deed from Blow for Petersburg lots and houses","Re: Collection for Blow \u0026 Barksdale business","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Re: Th. Thompson's Estate","Discusses foreign wars and politics in France; not in favor of the Moses Myers brig sent out to Dunkirk now; perilous situation","\"..enclosed you have a Deed of trust from M. John Baird Jr. to you which he wishes to execute to secure the payment of his bond to you..\"","…would like to have the name pedigree of Mr. Burwells horse","Wishes stud horses sent to his place, Chalmeria, Dinwiddie County, by way of Suffolk and Petersburg, understands a groom and ferrier are with the house; avoid all ferries","Wish Blow to get him the pedigree of horse Traveller and also name and pedigree of Mr. Burwell's horse","A vessel has arrived from London at Norfolk and has brought two stud horses shipped by Mr. Barksdale for M. Strange","Re: Thompsons settlement of estate","To collect debt owed by Anderson since 1795","Baird buys lots from Blow in Petersburg on Brick House Run","12 pieces","Brig Moses Myers, Sloop Industry, Sloop Rebecca; German Ships; 50 pieces)","54 pieces","Over 100 pieces","Naval stores","Refers to war conditions and settlements abroad","Gives current prices","Bad news from abroad","Has rented Blow's orchards","Re: settlement of Father's debts","Re: Baker and Blow's business—debts owed them and bonds given","\"…I have at last made sale of Blow \u0026 Barksdale's land in Charlotte for £ 1000 pounds","Has sold Brig Moses Myers to Freeland","Re: execution papers re Nicholson of Cabin Point for Blow","Re: sale of his tobacco","Re: damaged tobacco","Thomas, Industry, Moses Myers, Galliat-a-Maria, Fox, Stafford, Mill River","Henry Urquhart, Wilmington North Carolina to Wm. Barksdale+1719:1724","List of 24 hogsheads of tobacco on board of the Harmony for Norfolk to Blow","Re: San Domingo Business","Sending naval stores","Shipping garden seeds to Blow","Captain of ship bound to Port-au-Prince","Re: buying salt","Re: buying salt","Re: salt from Isle of May and his warehouse for storing the salt is good","Re: order from Blow for a rolling mill for a Goldsmith's work; will send later; other business between them","Re: sale of David \u0026 George (ship), Bills of lading sent; have sold tobacco and beeswax of Blow's; poor market; Georgia cotton is high and sugar and coffee equally as high","Industry arrived at Falmouth-sent her to Hull","Fort \u0026 Barksdale will send cargo of tobacco, flour, etc. to San Domingo; asks Blow to secure proper vessel for them","Sending 1 bale of woolens (£ 133.2) for Norfolk","Newspapers being sent to Blow. \"You will find much news and the state of Public Affairs in Europe; great events is looked for shortly\"","Re: Blow's insurance on buildings; request a copy of Blow's policy \"Tobacco market perfectly flat\"","Business with Blow; for tobacco and brandy","List of good shipped to Blow aboard Jennie; cargo for West Indies","Cargo of $7000 sent aboard Jennie for West Indies; invoice listed","Re: settlement with Blow for damaged tobacco and hominy","Re: estate settlement of Moore's","A list of bonds, notes, and securities due to the Estate of Th. Thompson put into the hands of Mr. Copeland","Sending invoices and bills of lading for woolens, etc. Could not ship guns without permission of this Government which could have cost more than the value; sending earthenware","Would like to rent rooms belonging to Blow's store, \"for the accommodation of about half a dozen particular acquaintances.\" Would like Blow's \"young gentlemen\" to board with her","Account of sales for tobacco and beeswax","Accounts for cotton","Re: wines","Re: salt","Re: debts due Blow","Has man who wishes to buy Blow's 100 acres near Petersburg called \"Chicken Quarter\" will give £ 55; invoice of timber sent","Blow elected Director of the Bank of U.S., Norfolk office","Re: settlement of father's estate","Current price list","Dudley was nephew of Mrs. Lee Hall","Re: suspicion that his aunt was poisoned","List of articles sent by sloop for Mr. Barksdale's trip abroad 11 packages in all.","Son has sailed for England","Wm. West is to build a house at Old Place (Blow's father's home in Southampton) for Richard Blow, how large must it be?","\"All of Mr. Barksdale's furniture and etc. was sold off by Haxall on Thursday last; and at prices enormously high; the sales will exceed the original cost of the property\"","\"..our sales in September amounts to 124 pounds, 30 pounds cash\"","\"..Ship Moses Myers has been taken on her return from Madeira, retaken and carried into St. Kitts which has entirely frustrated the views that were entered into for her immediately going back with an assorted cargo…and I regret you will be disappointed of the fine old wines..\"","Son John has returned from London; 37 day passage","Opinion of political situation between France, Austria, England, and Denmark and business repercussions as result. Reported that Blow's Ship Portsmouth has been detained in England.","Is renting warehouse to Mr. [John] Halt.","Discusses international situation; England's problems, etc. Is moving his store to Bolling Brook Street; gives current prices for tobacco and etc.","Re: his father's estate and collections","Discusses uprising of enslaved person Gabriel (\"slave insurrection\")","Refers to setting up business at Surry; will get Mr. McIntosh's building","\"Late news from abroad; England and Denmark will not [rupture?]; will send ship Louisa out soon..\"","Brand and corn meal being sent to Blow on the Hannah and Enterprize also tobacco","Importations this year very large","On way to canal to get shingles","Importation considerable; back country merchants will not buy anything of any consequence; desires salt, now worth 22/6 a sack and 4/3 loose per bushel","Gives prices current","Had shipment of gloves valued; sending some to Blow; doubts if they can sell well; discusses salt market.","Re; Salt and spices","Sending tobacco for sale in Clarissa; wishes wine bought for him","Schooner Eira from Norfolk brought news of death of his father; schooner Augusta brought letter from Blow. Thinks M. Goodwin very improper person to administer father's estate. Brother William may wind up estate in Virginia, if not, asks Blow to administer. Remit all collections to mother; George Leckie, London, sending turtle andBox of oranges to Blow as present","Ship Mississippi brought salt from Liverpool; Is shipping tobacco to Blow by sloop Mill River","Re: shipping him flour and staves","Re: shipping of tobacco ahead; gloves he has are hard to unload on merchants; William Barksdale in England","Accounts current (Blow \u0026 Barksdale, June 23, 1800) and others, Bonds for duties on ships, Prom. Notes, bills of lading, receipts","see Folder 2 also","Foreign mostly","Dudley was a nephew of Dr. Hall. Had a small grocery store","Re: seizure of the Charles Carter by French privateer and uncertainty of the Mary Hilton","Wishes his 350 or 400 hogheads of Indian meal shipped to England as a better market than western ports. Was priced at 12/6 [Stg?] per bushel and flour quoted at 120 per Bushel. Tobacco very dull here. \"I have no doubt that France will capture all neutral vessels they can that are loaded with provisions for England.\" Gives current prices of flour, bacon, hogs.","Wishes salt for the Indian meal he has sent to Blow for sale","Re: Bankrupt, Jesse Brown - Refers to \"Master George (Blow) at Bellfield (Academy)\" [Bellfield is now Emporia. There was a school there which George Blow attended. See Blow Family Papers Index, M. Stephenson]","Is building a schooner for the West Indies","Conditions of markets local and abroad","Using Blow's Brig Almira to send his tobacco to Falmouth and Dunkirk or Havre (both in France); Wishes brig to come to City Point to load; gives current prices","Wishes to go to Scotland; asks Blow about passage","Ship Washington loading at Harrison's Bar near here","Contract for ship Washington for load for Falmouth","Good news from Europe related to war there; Mr. Barksdale in England gives condition of market for tobacco there, in France and Holland.","Sales in April amounted to £ 140, £ 36 cash","Loading Almira for Dunkirk or Havre, or Rotterdam, on Blow's terms, all load to go to Mr. Barksdale for sale","Re: shipments of tobacco abroad, current prices noted","Tobacco accounts","Tobacco accounts","Re: 2 horses and a mare sent from abroad to Hoomes in care of Blow, Horses to arrive in the Chesapeake","Exchange at par; tobacco prices dull","\"We have this moment received intelligence that preliminaries of peace between this country and France were signed on the 1st. Inst. What will be the effects with the commercial world we are not prepared to say..\"","Several arrivals of foreign ships at City Point","Exchange only 1 per cent under par in New York and really as high in Philadelphia and Baltimore","Invoice of 24 hogshead of tobacco from Dixon's warehouse","Sending Blow 16 hogshead of tobacco on Neptune on account of Col. Burwell (Carter's Grove). Send the German linens on board the Nancy to Col. Burwell","Re: Col Nathaniel Burwell's tobacco. \"The remainder of the tobacco shall be sent you from the College W. House as soon as a craft can be obtained.\" \"N.B. I send you four hogshead of tobacco marked and [unclear?] as [unclear?] the property of Matthew Anderson of Williamsburg which he wishes shipped to Messrs Davis Stephenson \u0026 Co. (London)…if not to Messrs Lamb \u0026 Young..\"","Re: debt owed by Godwin to Leckie","Introducing Mr. Somerville of Somerville \u0026 Halliday, New York","Mr. Galigo wishes to charter ship Washington if you have not disposed of her","Sending tobacco to go to London via ship Washington","Thinking of returning to England as has closed all business in Richmond; flour market here good; let me hear of the flour shipped","Shipping tobacco on ship Mill Run to be sent to Liverpool: will you attend to this?","Is collecting debts owed to Blow, Tobacco very dull here at 27/meal and flour at high prices","Hear brig Betsy en route to Jamaica; would like Blow to ship his flour to Kingston?","Re: shipping of tobacco on brig Polly, schooner William for London","Re: attempt to sell his ship at anchor at Blow's warehouse in Norfolk","Re: Blow's taking over Brown, Rives \u0026 Co.'s ships for Leeth and other ports","Re: Blow's help in getting cargo for England, current prices","Enclosed bill of lading for 58 hogsheads of tobacco per schooner William","Re: collecting Blow's acts for him","Enclosed bill of lading for 79 hogheads of tobacco for Leeth","Re: conditions in New York for discounting notes","Re: shoe leather and flour barrels needed","Listing ships carrying 310 hogheads tobacco abroad for firm: Mary Hatton, Hooper, Harriet, William.","Asking Blow to send his tobacco to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","November sales at store amounted to 354 pounds £74 cash. Out of sugar; Mr. West (overseer) wishes to be paid for his last year's wages; says T. Gray is pushing him for payment for land","Re: London goods shipped to Taliaferro via Blow","Announcing loss of the ship Charlotte Walton in Dunkirk harbor; all perrished. Mr. Barksdale had written him of this; gives prices of flour and tobacco","Tobacco sent for Lamb \u0026 Younger to Blow; the brig Delight has also hogsgead of corn, meal, [beans?]; I need 44 new flour barrels of you","Prices higher because of state of things in Europe, Inflation may increase if seasons are not good","Current business statement","Re: tobacco to be shipped abroad","Re: seizure of brig Morris Myers in Nova Scotia; asks Blow's advice about insurance of cargo (London?); cargo was sold; should we prosecute the Appeals?","Re: estate of his father, wishes family bible","Expecting ship from Ireland soon; wishes cargo for it, vessel about 250 tons","Current prices","Re: sale of tar and turpentine","Has purchased a pair of mill stones for my friend Gen. Henry See, shipped on board a vessel of Mr. David Anderson of Petersburg. Please send them up the Potomac to Gen. See, Westmoreland County.","Has canvas, tar and turpentine for sale","Bills of lading for wines","Wishes to sell pork made by John D. White of Carolina, inspected in full salt but not pickled; 600 + land","Re: his tobacco lost by sinking ship","Re: sale of his skins","Re: rum","Can't sell gloves","Business in shipping and current prices","Gen. Lee wishes the Mill stones to be landed at Stratford three miles above Blackstones Island. Taylor has stone steps from city of Washington being sent down to him via Blow's vessel.","Asks Blow to ship a couple dozen hams to London, 1 dozen for Mr. Barksdale and 1 dozen for Mr. A. Donald, an old friend. Wishes bacon and hams for personal use.","Is financially ruined and will have to take bankruptcy; asks advice of Blow","Wishes to sell 15,000 lbs (pounds) of cured bacon and hams which are salpetered","Tobacco [unclear?] may get up to 5 ½ or 6 dollars","Re: his shipments abroad","Asks about price of beeswax and cheese","Re: sale of his schooners to pay his debts","Brown, Rives, \u0026 Co., Richmond, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Flour has fallen; tobacco [transient?]","Cannot sell gloves which Blow sent him; might try Charleston, but New York would be better market","Store sales in February were £ 120 pounds, £ 30 cash","Re: tobacco shipments abroad","Thanks him for sending hams to London for him, also for flour and corn forwarded to him","Old Tobacco is worth $ 7 or $ 8; send Lees to Philadelphia; other to go to England; better to send in 2 ships as risk is less.; fill in with corn and Indian meal.","Re: vast acreage of land in Nansemond County surveyed in 1791 and entered in Surveyor's book, Norfolk, in name of James Murdough and Daniel Fisher (20,000 acres). Entry was first made in 1783 with Andrew Stewart, and later Col. Charles Connor; asks Blow to \"have inventory made in the names of Thomas Edmonds and John T. Blow who are the right and only owners of these warrants\"","Re: collection for Blow","Bought sloop Alexander to save debt of Francis Jones","Orders for shipments of tobacco to England","Great demand for grain and flour; have had no sales for gloves","Have shipped by brig Betsy 416 [hbls?] flour to Blow; also have sent 58 [hbls?] by brig Independence. Gives current price list.","Received cheese; wishes price of corn and bacon. Little peach brandy in this neighborhood this year; sales at store were £ 162, £ 54 cash","Gloves (380 dozen) sent to Philadelphia for possible sale; would like coffee, sugar and salt in barter for Indian corn. Send prices for tobacco, flour, mead, corn, rum, brandy, coffee, and sugar. Wishes payment for Barksdale's debt to him for tobacco.","Re: note of Mr. Jones","Sent set of springs for a gigg for Mr. Fort on sloop Sincerity","Is there any demand for Russian goods with you? Expect a ship from the Baltics soon","Re: flour to be exported","Re: sending tobacco to Blow for export","Sending tobacco for shipment on brig Washington to London","Sorry to hear of the loss of brigs Carter and Mary Hylton, hope to go to London soon, peace seems near.","Re: tobacco shipments","Orders for tobacco sent down to go to Cowes, Havre, Dunkirk (France), and Rotterdam via the brig Almira","Re: tobacco for London","Need French brandy and rum; Crops poor, trade dull","Going to London via ship Washington; sending tobacco to Blow","Re: tobacco for ships Nancy and Almira","Tobacco for ship Almira","Re: tobacco for Almira and meal—Blow's plantation tobacco sent to Fort was refused","Wishes permission to send away ship which Blow may charter to Great Britain or Ireland if necessary","Re: problems about his sailing for England","Tobacco business and shipping","Re: illness of his mother (a sister of Richard Blow) Nancy is Rob Hines wife and child, George","Re: trip abroad and tobacco sent for shipment","Re: Ships' cargoes for Europe","Re: Cargoes for Europe","Every cellar full of water due to late rains","273 hhds by ship Almira already shipped","Wishes 100 hhds herrings","Tobacco by sloop Ranger for Almira","Tobacco by Ranger for Almira gloves for your store","Refers to Davis warehouse, Petersburg; sending tobacco for shipment","Tobacco bound for Orient via ship Antelope","Get passage to London for Thomas Leckie; wishes hams sent to friends Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","\"Our ship Venus arriving; will you get cargo for Ireland, England or France. Prefer Liverpool; can take staves.\"","\"Our ship Venus is a ship of 250 tons, 5 years old, has accommodations for passengers and sails well\"","Sloop Dispatch, Capt. Ash, bringing 26 hhds tobacco which Blow will ship according to manifest; detailed directions with tobacco marks ES, EF, W, RB","Re: tobacco shipments","Wishes 5 tons of logwood and 2 tons of lignum vitae to City Point, wishes logwood for ship Louisa, also.","Re: ship Almira whereabouts; lemons sent to Tower Hill. Tobacco, wheat and flour market very dull","Orders coffee, sugar, rum, oil, molasses","Barksdale wishes logwood by ship Louisa; Mr. Blow at Tower Hill","Takes out insurance for Blow at Phoenix Fire Insurance Office; surprised that Blow does not pay his overdue debt to them.","\"The Coopers left Tower Hill some days ago; they have some barrels to make at the old place, then they set off for Norfolk\"","Sending 22 hogsheads…","Hope Col. Carter's crop from York River has reached you. Hope Col. Burwell's from Rappahannock as well as the tobaccos from Carter's Grove are down. Buy pipes of wine for us.","Ship Nancy in from London","Hear his horses have arrived","Re: collection of debts due him","Re: Ships Almira and Venus belonging to Hathaway, Howes \u0026 Russell enroute to [unclear?] and Dunkirk","Blow owes them £ 1216.19.0; no insurance has been received from Blow's ship David \u0026 George","Account: £ 3593.8.0 ¾ (1800-1802)","Itemized lists of goods furnished £ 205.3.9 ¾","9 items","Desires Blow's foreign accounts shared by him","Accounts due Richard Blow","List of tobacco consigned to Blow, Norfolk","Struck by lightening from France to Virginia; repairs necessary listed","Repairs and disbursements","Sending Blow barrel staves by brig, about 250,000.","[Burwell had lived at Carter's Gove near Williamsburg before moving to Carter Hall]","Asks Blow to send up a cargo of logwood and [2 bbhs?] Rum","Latest letter from Europe gives a very unfavorable account of tobacco, prices here have fallen","Danish ship Ferendchaff[?] arrived at City Point yesterday from Dunkirk (France); will take logwood in cargo, tobacco prices low in France","Re: an unsettled account between Hussey and A. Wiscort \u0026 Aug. Derenville, merchants in New Castle, New Kent County [Derenville was a Merchant in Williamsburg: see also: CWF research department]","Hines gives consent to have her [daighter Patsy] inocculated for small pox. [Background information: Hines was a nephew of Blow. Hine's daughter, Patsy was living with Blow and going to school there.]","Gives list of current prices there; wishes Blow to give him letters of introduction to merchants in different parts of France, Spain, England and Holland. Armistead is sending his ship over there in trade","Re: store and plantation affairs","Re: tobacco sold Blow","Re: accounts for logwood and tobacco","Re: freight rates to Dunkirk and other ports","Part owner of ship Washington; wishes Blow to get cargo for ship to foreign ports","Sending Blow 4000 staves","SendingBox of books, send to Suffolk","Re: his problems with shipping","Re: ships Charles Carter and [Friendchoff?]","62 hhds tobacco aboard ship Washington","Cotton and wheat crop destroyed by hail storm","Many accounts owing to store cannot pay anything to Blow at present. We owe about $300 for pork we bought last winter","Orders from Blow for furniture to be made: mahogany enough for chairs and a sofa","Has just heard that a declaration of war has taken place between Great Britain and France; it appears that Louisiana and all the country west is ceded to the U.S. (Mailed from Baltimore)","Re: Hall Suit","Re: cargo of the Washington","Re: sale of tobacco","Math. Anderson of Williamsburg has sent down 4 hhds of tobacco for your care, please ship to London in British Vessel","Ships Martha Bland and the Lovely Lass are now loaded at City Point and bound for England via Norfolk, business very dull here","Sending Blow 194 pieces of bacon and 200 + 2 hhds of Indian meal and 1 [unclear?] flour. Send me store ware, mostly butter pots, also a set of bedstead screens","Crops injured by wet weather; Mr. West (overseer) needs about fifteen [unclear?]; trade dull; our sales for 3 months only £ 500 out of which there was only about £ 90 cash. Refers to \"Old Place\" in Southampton County [owned by Blow's father, Scammel, and now property of Blow]","Re: various ships available for shipping and tobacco abroad","Sailing for Nassau in ten days","Sending tombstone which I ask to be put over my father's grave; I sail for Halifax and England soon","Send shoe makers and oil to grease leather, tacks, hammer awls, etc., and cotton and wool cards","Wishes aid in taking his ship Almira to sea bound for Livernick, Ireland","Wishes barrel staves","Refers to \"Aunt Hall\" and calls Hall \"Uncle\"","Going to west Indies with 100 hbls of corn","Re: debt which Talbot Godwin owes Blow","Wishes Blow to sell his ship for him at $600","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","3 pieces","Tobacco Warehouse listings; Stud horse desired from England, Ship accounts.","Have received 10,000 lb of pork this season and only 1 hhd of tobacco; no cash worth sending","Re: insurance of ship Dauphin and other insurance","Re: escape of an enslaved person (\"escaped negro\")","acknowledges payment of $10.00","Re: debts and notes owed him and hopes that Blow can lend him money","May be willing to buy Blow's stack of goods which he had offered him a while back; Mr Lee will look them over and determine value etc.","Re: bargaining of above terms, etc.","Announcing Benson, Cropper \u0026 Benson, Corn Merchants","Discussion of visit to Brandon","E: Market conditions in France: Indigo is in demand, market favorable; tobacco market good; no demand for wood, pitch or tar","Goods, invoice; Shoes £ 246.17","Willing to give mortgages on goods in store for security","Re: his credit","Assembly extended the market land to be leased for 99 years","A candidate for House in Virginia Assembly","Re: bond for enslaved persons (\"negroes\")","Re: provisions asked for ship Parkman","Letter regarding the 'sale' of enslaved people.","Sailing soon with 15,000 bu. wheat. Wishes Harris, the baker, to furnish ship bread.","Wishes to be appointed insurance inspector for ship coming into port, asks Blow's support","Wishes ship for conveying 2,500 bushels of wheat at once","The Eliza has arrived; tobacco market good as [scarce?]","Re: cargo of corn and a ship furnished by Blow for Bahamas. Return cargo to be cane, apples and turtle (?)","Brother wishes to go to West Indies. He wishes pay for staves and tobacco if sold.","Re: collections to be made for him by Blow [Swain was a Quaker]","Trade slow, collections poor","Re: price for 15,000 barrel staves sent to Blow for sale; wishes current prices on tobacco and staves, white hominy corn and other corn","Sends his wheat from Dunkirk (N.C.) to Walker Town, about 10 or 12 miles) by land and little more by water. Is satisfied with this mode of conveyance.","Explains navigation up river as far as Walker Town for vessels of 100 or 150 tons; wishes Blow to send ship for his wheat; has the Ann arrived in London?","Has 4 enslaved carpenters ( \"valuable negro carpenters\") for 'sale' ($500 each)","Discusses prospect of buying horse Diamond, is disappointed in Pegasus, he is a bad foal getter and not much thought of in England. Heard a horse called [Pipaten?], mother to Trumpeter, has produced successful horses lately; also [Warten?] or [Sementan?] can be purchased for a moderate sum according to M. Crews to Mr. Drew. Get in touch with Mr. Barksdale (in London). I wish a horse of good size and very beautiful.","Received account sales of 2 hhds tobacco sold you from 41.17.7 pounds, Norfolk Store is debited with---problem of Collections suits?","Will send ship of assorted cargo to Tobego; corn plentiful on the Roanoke (river)","5 hhds tobacco received from James Scammel; sending down","Wishes ship for West Indies voyage","Leaving for voyage","Captain Thomas Bonner sailing in Joseph of Edenton for Tobago; Assorted cargo","Re: sale of naval stores","Sending brig of 150 tons for loading with barrel staves for Ireland or Liverpool","Unsettled state of Europe makes uncertain and dull market. Current price list given (wheat, flour, tobacco, tar, turpentine, staves, wool, and logwood)","Suit against Leonard at next Southampton Court. Paid Col. Maclin for young George Blow's schooling £ 20.10; charged to Norfolk Store","Wine for him from Madeira by ship Virginia, asks Blow to send to Alexandria; send bill to him.","Have parcel of Gray's Creek tobacco; price at Norfolk? Lists pounds of tobacco at Gray's Creek and Low Point. Asks price of brown sugar, coffee, molasses, and [unclear?] sugar","Have red oak staves, white oak [unclear?] and 12,000 shingles on way to Blow. Wishes peach brandy and price of apple cider and molasses","Has received counterfeit bank notes, information as to what to do","Re: 3 French enslaved people (\"Negroes\") brought from Hispaniola against law and now in jail at Norfolk; to be returned at expense of French who claim them","Indenture between Louis Marshall of 1st part, Jeremiah Andrews of 2nd part and Richard Blow of 3rd part and trustee for the other parties. Deed of Trust by Marshall of price of property leased from Anthony Walke in 1793, to Blow","[Blow was Dudley's uncle; Battery may be in Matthews County]","Re: current prices","Re: staves","Re: rent for his house and enslaved person (\"Negro\") for year","Re: delivery of staves","[See: Page's letter of July 9, re: French enslaved persons from Hispanola]","Re: brandy made and barrels for same","Sending Ship Fortitude to Blow, wishes Blow to get cargo of flour or tobacco for England and Ireland for her. Wishes ship to go at once, gives agents names at each British Port to which his cargo should be consigned","Re: injunction of B \u0026 B","Announcing his commission business and offering services","Wishes vessel for Falmouth","Re: arrival of his imported horse; [See letter of April 25, 1803 about horse]","\"Agreement with Thomas Wallace relative to bringing horses from England in 1803.\" Names of horses were Citizen and Clown, Wallace was the groom.","[Nephew of Blow]","Re: Blow's renewal of insurance policy at Phoenix office, Premium of £ 18.15.","Re: Mrs. Boothe, widow's dower and [div.?] of enslaved persons (\"Negroes\") between Hutchings and Edwards, commissioners appointed formerly, who neglected to allot dower: one is now dead and two have left the state. Please have commissioners appointed for my guardian; suggests Wm. E. Brodnax \u0026 Sterling Ruffin \u0026 Hutchings will appoint two for himself. Dr. John Claiborne and Tho. [unclear?], Jr. may be chosen if H. has no objections.","Re: cargoes","Re: land in Dismal Swamps alleged to be property of Robt. Craig of Manchester (England), adjacent Col. Newton's","\"The canal road is in such order as you may ride to the end of [unclear?] Contract\"","Re: opening of canal road","Re: hiring additional enslaved persons (\"negroes\") so that the Canal and road can be opened with ease this summer","Re: idea of taking on cargo of staves for Falmouth and possibly England. Wishes Blow to furnish beef, pork and bread for his ship","Cannot furnish pitch; resin is priced at 30/","Re: his ships off for Falmouth and Cork; what can Blow offer in way of ships?","Re: cargo of ship Kingston and prospects of his ship out of New York taking in tobacco at Norfolk","Wishes Blow to charter a vessel at once for Cork, they will send down tobacco, pitch, resin, white oak staves for cargo","Re: A horse arrived for Messrs [Caine?] \u0026 Ray; how to care for it and where to deliver","Refers to yellow fever raging in New York","Re: horse bought for him by Mr. Barksdale in England and problem of payments for it","Asks about cargo for sea, wishes tobacco and staves","Has 300 [unclear?] of pork for sale; grain crop on the Roanoke very good. Tar and Turpentine plentiful. Ship Mariah Jones at Barbados will return with salt by November. Then to load up with grain and staves for foreign ports.","Asks Blow to ship his tobacco to Barksdale in England","Re: price of a saddle sent to Blow","Re: cargo of staves on Little William","Send personal items of late Leckie to son","Sales account current: \"Mr. Adams will finish stilling room, only 10 bbls of Brandy made this year. It takes 10 bbls cider to make 1 bbl brandy. Hands [workers] are getting in fodder and making bricks. Have paid Wm West [overseer] $100, debited to Norfolk Store","Re: Collecting debt owed him by Dudley","Wishes $ 90 in U.S. notes sent by Mrs. Gray","Re: Horse Clown bought from abroad to be sent for by Statt, groom and Peter to take care of horse in travel","Re: cargo of staves and price for Ireland","Re: settling of account of Talbot Godwin","Re: horse Citizen which he bought for Gen. Carney; hope it has landed and is on its way to Carolina as I shipped on board the Gosport to your wharf; \"I am glad to hear George (Blow) is doing so well at the Williamsburg Colledge [College of William \u0026 Mary]. I always admired the Colledge as all the young men brought (out) there of late years, leave the Colledge new firebrands in politics\"","Re: note of Ambrose Dudley","Invoice of shoes for Grillet \u0026 Bell to Richard Blow, Norfolk","Wishes sacks, molasses, sugar, and coffee in exchange for lampblack and butter","Re: business difficulties of Lamb \u0026 Younger; has sent a horse names Citizen for Gen. Carney to Blow","Look out for Mr. Strange's furniture; he leaves Liverpool around 10 August in The Fame; send on to Petersburg c/o Mr. Pallak","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, ceased business","Re: Ships Kingston and Nansuch and trade","Sending naval stores wanted to City Point","Will sell his 2 lots in Gosport to pay his debt but wants $3000 for them. Willing to sell his military lands also; signed note for George Wilson for brother's debt.","Wish to wagon by bacon from here to Suffolk and thence by water to Norfolk. Will put up hams, shoulders and midlings; Baltimore may be a good market or Alexandria. Expect Blow to take consignments","Letter for trustees of Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, or their trustees if they are dissolved; would like wine, sherry and bbl whiskey","Hope to pay Blow what they owe him","Re: trip to Georgia, would like to take some enslaved persons (\"slaves\") to help pay expenses. Refers to Mrs. Blow as his aunt","Invoice of goods sent us from Norfolk Store, £ 109.0.10. Newspapers come regularly once a week; tobacco market poor. Will go to the Old Place [Southampton] soon to see how things go there.","Current prices","Re: Business difficulties","Applying for position in office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk","Re: A horse which he wishes Mr. Barksdale [London] to buy for him","Wishes consignments of tobacco and cotton from Blow","Refers to Mr. West [overseer at Old Place] and Mr. Adams [overseer at Tower Hill] their crops and prospects, etc. Burning bricks","Current prices","Has 300 or more barrels for sale","Little in shipping due to uncertainty of invasion of England","Wishes wines; the Antelope has been chartered for continent would you like space for cargo?","Corn crop in; bricks burning; trade dull","Re: business of barrel staves","Has crab cider for sale, what price will Blow pay? Also, gives prices for brandy, new corn, peas and tobacco.","Reed (groom), has brought horse Archduke; arrived at Blow's from abroad. Reed wishes Blow to employ him to go to England and bring back horses. Write at once your decision; prices of horses have risen as of late in England","Have 7000+ lbs. of pork, no tobacco","[Administrator of father's estate]","Re: payment for Citizen, the horse imported from England for him through Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Citizen is highly praised and valued by many: \"He is as springy as any lady on a dancing room and cutts as many capers.\" Hopes Mr. Barksdale will send him a mare from which he can breed racers for his children.","Re: payment of debt and security for his friends","Sending 78 hhds of tobacco to Blow","Sending staves and peas for sale—wish salt and sugar","Received from Richard Blow [Adm. of Alex. Leckie Sr.'s estate], personal articles, etc.","[Richard Blow, Agent]","Description of cargo, ports of call in US and Europe","Cargo of tobacco for France","Cargo of flour to London","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth, England and Hamburg","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth","On board ships [Inn___?] and Dundas for Virginia; Personal effects","Cargo for Ireland","Adjustment for loss of David \u0026 George","Account with Richard Blow $16,966.34","3056.19.5 ¾ [John Patterson, surviving partner after Capt. Brown's death]","…at time of Captain Brown's Death £ 4918.19.3","1790-1796….£ 3585.10.8 ½; Balance due the G. Store… £ 7577.5.11","Re: Privateer Moses Myers taken and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Vice Adm. Court has been reversed here, money in hands of owners in Nova Scotia. Division of money of those entitled now uncertain. \"If brought into court here, I'll pay attention to your interest in the business.\" Flour cheaper here than in Virginia, tobacco holds same price","Refers to the \"bank at this time [seems] to engross and interest the citizens of our Town; we expect it to operate in about ten days","Has received 17 hhds tobacco of N. Burwell's on board the Almira; Insurance taken out","Re: his business arrangements; will not be a partner to [Brown?] or affiliate with Pallak; promise of his business good","Re: Younger's [unclear?] with Brown","\"We are happy to inform you that our house goes on as before\"","Re: Blow's desire to pay a large debt which he owes to Donald \u0026 Burton. Funds in London on account there; Advise.","\"…I like America but as yet I am quite at a loss where to fix...The Baptist's cause here is not very strong although there are two meetings\"","Has prospect of ship proper for shipping tobacco; would Blow be interested in a cargo?","Re: problems arriving from Love's failure to comply with rules for Book of Claims and Barksdale's attempt to clear it for him","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, has shipped guns for our stores, please deliver them to us","Re: Charter for Snow Concord for London; can fill her cargo","Re: coming to Portsmouth, to establish a tannery. Wishes Blow to assist him and his friend, Crossthwaits, from Keswich, England. Has worked for Mr. Wm. Plume tanner, a short time. [Plume had been in Williamsburg for years prior to going to Portsmouth] Barron knows of a new process for tanning which shortens time; also knows great deal about skinning sheep, etc. [Letter provides great detail on tanning]","Re: claims made by Blow to board of Clairs, London","Re: recovering insurance on building burned in Portsmouth","Discusses how to pay Donald \u0026 Burton, London; has £ 1900 also has £ 500 [Stg?]; payment from Phoenix Ins. Co. which he can add to above sum","Re: sale of his pork","Trade poor, collections poor, wheat sold, bricks being made","Business dull, current prices","Banking arrangements for Blow to pay Donald \u0026 Burton through Dan. Call.","Has received bill of exchange of Macmurdo \u0026 Fisher for £ 1831.5 Stg. on Wm. Barksdale in town of assignees of Donald \u0026 Burton","Re: brick making and crops","Re: [bbls.?] of turpentine in [cypress bbls.?]; bound with white oak, should demand good prices","Re: tobacco shipped","Re: shipment of turpentine and horse Buzzard","Re: pork sent to Blow for sale","Our ship Samuel Jackson with part cargo of staves and bound for Cadiz will come into Hampton Roads for further cargo; will Blow notify him when it arrives and leaves","Flour has advanced and is in demand here, salt and tobacco good. Gives list of hhds of tobacco stored with Richard Blow in Campbell and Wheeley Fire Proof Warehouse","Introducing William Carter, son to Mr. Cater of Shirley, goes to Norfolk to procure passage to a port in France. Mr. Carter has $ 200 which may not be enough for his passage,. if not, will you supply the difference. [This may be the William Carter who attended the College of William \u0026 Mary in 1801]","Re: buying insurance and bank shares","Re: ship Samuel Jackson leaving Ocracock [Ocracoke] Bar for Hampton Roads laden with cargo for Cadiz, Spain","General Affairs at store and conditions of crops","Re: insurance on cargo to Dunkirk","Re: tobacco in storage and prospect of cargo","Could send soon 30 hhds if you ship to London","Asks current price of tobacco","Re: pipe staves on hand for sale","Consign tobacco to Samuel Buchanan of London","Mr. Adams, overseer, has gotten in ¼ of crops of corn and all of hogs; enslaved persons (\"slaves\") sick","Gives Blow's balance and what borrowed","Will Blow get Gaskins to make him ½ dozen table and ½ dozen tea spoons as he made for you with G.M.D. in a cypher on them; refers to \"Aunt Hall\"","\"Copy of papers sent to London, to recover insurance on my houses burned in Norfolk on \"Marketstreet:\" 3 Story Brick house and store burned, warehouse and offices, also. Littleton Tazewell, Notary Public. Home was 35' in length and 29' in breadth, brick, 3 story's high, besides cellars and ganet. Lower store was occupied as a Day Goods Store with mahogany counters; passage below and 4 rooms on 2 story were never completely finished and were strucco (?) and whole house plastered; counting room in read of sd. House was 16' square, 2 stories high with cellar and chimney of brick and completely finished Kitchen in rear of wood, 2 stories high and chimney of brick 20' x '16; smoke (house) 12' square with stove and warehouse shelved and laid out for wholesale store was 30' long and 21' broad, 2 stoves of wood. Value of building prior to fire was $8,939.60 Itemized Estimate of House of Offices to be built given: \"Bricks and Stone Work: $2750\" Scantling, plank and shingles: $1540 Glass, nails, locks: $684 Carpenters Bill: $2770.60 Plastering $926 Painting Bill: $265.00 Total: $8939.60","£ 4030.12 \"amo goods on hand £ 620.6.11 ¾ 90 pct advance £ 558.6.3 1/7 Amo currency articles:£ 425.1.4 Total: £ 5634.6.8 ¼ \"","Bill of measuring the ruins of my buildings $19.12, receipt in full","Bill of house frame and plank [unclear?] of Major John Armstrong for my dwelling and warehouse in Norfolk...$256.75","Wm. Wark, power of attorney for heirs","Petersburg, to New York, $ 80.46; Marine Insurance Office, Norfolk","Sundry Entries","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 15 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","6 items","33 items","4 items","12 pieces","Includes names of debtors; 7 pieces","over 100 items","109 items","50 items","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","Wishes to purchase the horse Buzzard in England thru Mr. Barksdale if possible. Sending 736 [unclear?] of turpentine to pay for him","Sent stud book and sporting magazine for A. Walke by Captain Baird; heard you have had a very severe winter, worst in 25 years","Think I can get horse for your friend in Carolina for about 500 guineas. Oscar is [unclear?] and going to Virginia for Col. Lightfoot; Nat as good a horse as Sir Harry or several others","Asking Blow to send him scrip at once so he can make payment of some shares.","2 enslaved persons (\"slaves\") have escaped","Wishes to buy 700 bu. of salt","Re: collection of debt for Blow (John Nicholas, debtor)","Sundries deliv. by Blow for ship Cracker","Re: to \"Aunt Hall;\" will leave Mathews as soon as land is sold; have advertised in Richmond Enquirer","\"Uncle Wm. Drew suggested that I write you about employment\"","Refers to forwarding papers to M. Madison in Washington, necessary for [past?] port to Dublin. Will ship be able to wait for me 6 or 7 days?","Sending staves","Re: sale of his tobacco and corn","Sending 10 hhds tobacco by sloop Sophia to Blow","[Nears?] staves to fill up his ship when it calls at Norfolk","Cannot supply tobacco for Blow's ship now","Sends bill of laden for 15 hhds tobacco, through Blow to London","Ship America will not come to Norfolk now; for Europe","Tobacco problems","14 hhds tobacco","Refers to debt he owes Dr. Hall, will collect money from Carter Braxton and send to him","Discusses insurance on Blow's houses burned in Norfolk; Mr. Buchanan's displeasure at Blow buying the old ship William, horse Benenborough is for sale at 1000 guineas, inform General (Carney); must have cash before I can buy","Will send turpentine as soon as boat can be found to take it down the river to Plymouth. Have 240 [unclear?]. In looking over racing calendar and stud book see a mare, Penelope got by Trumpetor bred by the Duke of Grattan, foaled in 1798; get Barksdale to purchase her for me; if not, get one of Hutchinson's family of horses, the man that bred Beninborough","Has received Gen. Carney's turpentine on America, do not think he can get either of the horses the General wants","Bill of lading for goods shipped for Col. Hoomes of Bowling Green","Col Hoomes wishes 20 or 30 bbls herrings","Received staves sold for 28 pounds per [hd?] and 14 pounds per bbls, \"Our good friends the English are taking all vessels that are not bound direct to their parts.\"","Has ship; wishes to come to Virginia for freight; ship is new; Advise me.","258 bbls of herrings shipped to Blow","Re: wine to be shipped to him","Will ship turpentine to Blow as soon as weather opens","Re: possible loss of ferry if legislature decides to allow a new ferry to be operated","Re: his debts","\"The money for the capture of the brig Richmond has all been paid.\" Advise who has money","Re: debt he owes, must sell property in Blow's hands","Re: settlements and credits for turpentine and tobacco sold, no chance of getting the two horses, General Carney wants","Bill of Lading for James Strange","Re: legal case against his brother Alex Leckie now in Virginia. Refers to his attorneys in Georgia and Rode Island.","Wishes ½ ton iron, bellows and German [Steel?]","The original Box 31 has been expanded into two boxes as currently described in the finding aid: Box 31 and Box 31 A.","For corn \"being the price per season for the said Waller's young mare being covered by Col. Cary's Horse Daredevil [Williamsburg Data?]","Re: Division of property and debts of Baker \u0026 Blow…","For goods sold him","Asking father to pay Leroy Anderson $60.00","$270 port payment in suit against Blow, Adm. of estate of John Redwood, also a note for $830.33","Wm. Redwood with appear at Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg for purpose of collecting funds due by suit from Blow","Advises against buying big stock due to world conditions; will send George up to help take inventory; he is in Williamsburg now","1130.51","$ 1838.9.7 ¼ Itemized list of those who owe firm","$ 16010.65 ½","Col Noth Burmell; Robert. C. Burwell; Ph. Burwell; Math. Pape; Robt. Page $196.12.½","Proceed to England and other countries","Proceed to the Baltics","Proceed to Portugal","Father and Son, London, July 9, 1806 (2Boxes of cheese for Lucy Paradise, Williamsburg) Iris Madeira, April 3, 1806 (wines) Jolly Sails, Plymouth NC, June 2, 1806 (shad) Sally Nun, Plymouth NC, June 3, 1806 (shad) Laura, Liverpool (England), July 18, 1806 (merchandise) Dispatch, New York, August 19, 1806 (merchandise) Antelope, Windsor NC, March 13 1806 (tar) John and Avice, River Thames, August 1806 (Merchandise) Eagle, Edenton, October 17, 1806 (sugar, white, oak stoves) Dunfries, London, February 24, 1806 (goods, treasures?) Fairplay, Plymouth NC, April 19, 1806 (hhls, hinings) Antelope, Windsor, NC, March 13 1806 (tar) Anne, Windsor NC, October 28, 1806 (staves and turpentine) Judith, Windsor NC, October 16, 1806 General Green, May 31, 1806 (oak staves) Jenny and Sheperdern, Manchester (England), June 2, 1806, (hhds of tobacco) Sally, Salmon Creek, May 1, 1806 (herrings) Insurance on Sally Ann Neptune, Richmond, March 1, 1806 (tobacco) Commerce, February 1806 (salt and c) America, October 9, 1806 (ship, break, flour) John, Richmond, November 1, 1806 (tobacco) Arnick, July 15, 1806 (staves) Lydia, New Bedford, June 3, 1806 Ontario, June 4, 1806 America, Norfolk, October 10, 1806, $1041.59 Bell Savage, June 8, 1806 (accounts) Robt. Barclay, September 1806 (accounts) Commerce, April 26, 1806 (accounts) Mt. Vernon, Rotterdam, September 24, 1806 (insurance) Atlantic, London, August 1806 (tobacco) Regulator, Plymouth NC, March 28, 1806 (turpentine, tar, sugar) April 16, 1816 (rum) Judith, Windsor NC, March 31, 1806 Commerce, New Bedford, February 22, 1806 (staves) Army, Plymouth, March 5, 1806 Mary, Richmond, April 19, 1806 Mt. Vernon, December 22, 1806 (freight account) Mt Vernon, December16, 1806 (cider, food) Mt. Vernon, December 16, 1806 (oil, beef, etc) Mt. Vernon, October 11, 1806 (navy, bread) Brig George, November 19, 1806 Averick, August 6, 1806 (general account) Fredice, May 1795 (pitch) Sally, Petersburg, June 16, 1795 (tobacco) Flora and Betsy, July 1, 1806 (tobacco) Grey Hound, Plymouth NC, May 7 1806, (pork and turpentine) James Smith, John Coke, Carterise December 5, 1806 (pipe staves inspected from and consigned to Richard Blow) Neptune: October 13 1806 Oak Boards, inspected","Ship Antelope's cargo much damaged, public sale will be had at Calais, and results sent to Mr. Barksdale towards claim and insurance. Blow's tobacco was on Antelope","Discusses current prices of cotton, coffee, tobacco; claims of cargo of Antelope further discussed","Re: settlement of property of Baird's; see also:Box 30","Trade dull: Received bills of lading for Blow's tobacco","Re: turpentine of General Carney's shipped to him, can't buy a horse for Carney as price is 1,000 guineas for either horse he wants. Await Carney's orders; sent him books he wished by Captain Baird; have sent Blow average for loses on Antelope. Son, William, is at school in Reading.","Partners in House of Lamb \u0026 Younger were James Brown, Richmond, Virginia and John Lamb \u0026 John Younger, London; upon death of Mr. Lamb, survivors have admitted J. C. Wardrop as a partner","Re: mistake in shipment of tobacco","Sent 16 quarters [unclear?] 1736 of beef for sale","Re: cargo for ship Globe","Re: pork sent Blow for sale","Tobacco manifests sent for ship Industry for Liverpool and 2 parcels of newspapers for John Hunter","Ship Globe now loading","Re: his debts and how to collect from C. Braxton","Act bills of lading for tobacco, gives current prices of wheat and flour per barrel","Prices current","Discusses dropping prices for turpentine, flour, tobacco better","Re: collection due him","Re: bills of lading for London firms, tobacco sales","Re: tar shipped to Blow; wishes flour in return","Re: cost of ship to take tobacco to France","Re: collections-wishes rum sent to him","Re: suit Ladd v. Strange","Re: debt owed to him by Captain Micks","Re: pork shipped to Blow","Has leased for 10 years furnished place 5 miles from Rayall Exchange, sending Mrs. Blow shoes","Re: loading of Mount Vernon","Bill of lading for fish sent, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Printed; business conditions, current prices of cotton, turpentine, tobacco, flour, rice, staves there","$ 100 Virginia currency","Damages to anchors of his ship","Re: cargo of tobacco and possibly flour for the ship General Green","Pork and turpentine to be shipped to Blow aboard the ship Grey Hound for General Carney's account","Bills of lading for tobacco aboard ships Betsy and Nancy","Re: cargo of tobacco for Bell Savage","Re: a ship for Rotterdam","Inquiry about father and letters to him","Has received letters from his father. Was on a Prussian ship carried into Portsmouth and condemned because he came out of a French Port that was blockaded","Discusses business with Blow; amounts due him for merchandise and amounts due Blow for tobacco sent to Calais and Dunkirk (France) per ship Antelope","Tar and turpentine sent on ship The Planter have been sold. Inform General Carney that neither of the horses he wants he can get now. Gives names of other horses which he thinks he can buy once the season is over here: Whiskey, Coreador, Beningborough, and Citizen","Sending down tobacco for ship Flora, Portsmouth","Re: shipment from Virginia, of salt, current prices there","Re: to money he had received due Dr. Hall from Carter Braxton","Re: cargo of staves","\"at the request of Col. Nathaniel Burwell I have shipped on Sloop George 3 trunks, 1Box, and 1 bundle to your care which you will please keep until they are called for by the Reverend John V. Wylie.\"","Ship America, in port will send down to you, she is 287 ton [burden?], can carry 350 hhds and storage of staves to any port in Great Britain","Where is his tobacco? Has price in London fallen?","Ship Mary E. Wright, has been carried into Germany and condemned as prize; ask H. to get $ 9000 insured on her, world conditions affecting prices of product sent over","Wishes 50 sacks of salt","Re: shipment of herrings","Gives ship America's account held in high regard by the ship owners here; discusses conditions between Russia and France, not good","Have to go down tomorrow to the wreck of ship The Shepherdess. Do you have any goods aboard?","Wish 4 bbls of crab cider","Expect ship General Greene owned by Tobias Lard \u0026 Co. of Kennebunk from Liverpool; could a cargo of staves be procured at your place for return voyage","Re: letters he should have received","Re: payments for staves and sugar","Re: change in ownership and management of the 8 ferries, opposed to incorporating; will you influence Richmond legislators to this effect?","Discusses trade and changes for selling Petersburg and Richmond goods, gives estimate of general market for tobacco, sugar, cotton, etc.","Business settlements with Blow","76 items","22 items","25 and 150 items","50 items","1 item","Order for salt","Re: tar sold to Blow","Announces conclusion of a treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce between this country and the USA signed on the 31 [ulto?]","Re: his recent settling in Georgia, prospects, etc.","Re: Blow's suit vs. Gill for debt accrued since 1786","Re: George Blow's marriage and placing him with Tazewell and Jon Cowper to study law; Discusses tobacco business, etc.","Re: damaged flour on ship Alexander","Enclosed copy of condemnation of ship Mary T. Wright","Give freight rates at Norfolk for landing salt from Liverpool (England), also tobacco freight rates","Re: Ships William \u0026 Mary and Paulina and letters due him","Need 1 or 2 small vessels to load at Bermuda Hundred for Falmouth; have 180 hhds tobacco for ship Averick","Re: loading tobacco on ship Niagara","Bill of lading for herrings enclosed","Re: ship Washington's loading; also ship Russell, a very fine, fast sailing copper bottomed ship of 300 tons","Describes splendid entertainment by citizens to the Cavalry and Militia which went from here. I enclose a copy of the toasts, was mortified by his furlough. Tell young George that I hope he will merit the promotion I bestowed on him.","Re: settlement of co-partnership with J. Waldone \u0026 Co.; Blow one of bondsmen","Left British book on Cavalry discipline at Blow's House","Re: Cargo of ship Niagara to Great Britain","Discussion of ship's journey down James to Norfolk [Caffin was mate for ship Albright]","Re: recovering money from Carter Braxton","Writes of wife, Mary's death","Refers to Dudley's wife's death [Mrs. Hall is Lucy]. Says Portsmouth has been upset over aggressions of British Ships of war; an army in our streets, houses, etc. Business is stagnated","Re: cargo of salt or tobacco","Wishes freight for London, or Liverpool","Wishes his Gosport property sold","Wishes to know prices","Re: cargo of staves","Re: cargo of salt from Liverpool and prospect of tobacco on return","Hopes Blow has sold fish for him","Captain Barney of ship Argus sailed for Hobbs Hole, Virginia, for tobacco","Re: cargo of ship Washington","Prices current given in detail","Re: problems of cargo and men for ships","Re: how to pay his debts","Ships Neptune and Reward here","Terms for ship May en route to Continent","Wishes freight for ship Russell","Wishes 100 lbs of bacon, hams and candles sent to him. There is an opening for a retail store on York River","Freight received from Blow via sloop Little Jim; salt","Re: Sale of fish","Ship Averick, tobacco cargo lost, no insurance on ship. Eight of the hams which Mrs. Blow sent, saved. Thinks there will be no war between England and U.S.","Gives dimensions of Dismal Swamp Canal lock[?]. Detailed letter.","Re: Shipment of tobacco to Blow","Asking for position of book keeper in U.S. Bank","Wishes oder of general merchandise sent","Re: Fish he sold; large grain crops here and quantity of lumber of every kind","Having sale on 22nd","Re: Pitch stored with Blow","Introducing Col. Wm. Fontaine of Hanover, who has a considerable interest in the Dismal Swamp Canal.","Order for general goods.","Notifying re: suit filed","Personal Letter; sends love to \"Aunt\"","Cash scarce; trade dull","£ 802.3.-","£ 883.4.8 3/4","£ 7269.13.5 \"Debts due from the Store: Norfolk Store; Littleton Lamir; James Dunlop \u0026 Co.; Butts Birds[srpey?]; Isaac Andrews; Allen Hines; John Berryman; £ 4898. - 9 1/2 / £ 2371.12.7 1/2","165 items","Re: Letters he had asked Blow to forward to England to Mr. Rennolds","Sending $ 54.50 in [unlcear?]loans for payment for flour, etc.","Order for garden seeds","Re: Commission merchants, Treble, Spe[unclear?] \u0026 Co., of [Nantz?]","Re: Deed of trust to secure[?] Blow","Wishes to pay General Thomas Blount, Member of Congress, some money; wishes Blow to [unclear?]","Introducing F. Le Roy of Nantz","Re: Cargo of corn and effects of cargo on its outcome","Re: Whiskey and brandy to go to Charles Carter of Shirley Plantation","Re: problems of present embargo on his corn","Re: Money he owes Blow","Re: Prospects of freight should embargo be lifted","Wishes ship Belle Savage for cargo, for Liverpool","Re: Political Situation in Spain \u0026 France [Refers to the Napoleonic Wars]","Sending down corn \u0026 tobacco for shipment","Wishes Blow to sell enslaved persons for Drew, even at $ 30.00; needs money at once","64 items","Hopes beef and candles sent to Blow can be disposed of as embargo is partially repealed.","Sending ship down to be loaded with cargo for anywhere except to North of Europe. Ship American built. Ship bringing down building stone.","Send salt to him at once","Re: shipment of corn and tobacco","Re: Need salt at once","Re: Salt","Re: Ship Washington en route to Norfolk for corn and flour","Re: Bills owned them","Gives current prices of tobacco","General conditions discussed","Re: Cargo of ship Columbia","Re: Staves","Discusses affairs abroad. Wishes Blow to sell salt at City Point.","Re: Wine from Madeira","Re: Freight desired for ship Columbia to England","Wishes ship for his tobacco. Address him at White Chimney's, Caroline County","Tobacco bringing good prices here","Wishes Blow to advertise his ship Mary Ann for freight for Europe. Must avoid Amsterdam or any place under French domination. Ship able to take tobacco, cotton, or hogsheads.","Have ship ready in a few weeks for freight to Europe. Can Blow secure freights?","Problem as to ship. Has tobacco ready for Europe","Can fill up another ship with flour","Re: Sale of his Gosport lots by Blow \u0026 his debts.","Refers to his cargo of lour, etc. now ready","Has hogshead staves instead of barrel staves at landing","Have bt. 10,000 barrel staves and leave at once; will send rough staves down on another lighter. This will complete my contract with you","Sent 5000 barrel staves per the lightman","Sending Blow rough hhds. staves","Awaiting craft to send 7 hhds of tobacco down. Hope you have shipped out the 15hhds with you aboard the Pocahontas","Wish to have price of bacon and brandy","Re: Ship for Dublin and freight cost","Send candles to me at Washington","Re: Freight for ship Washington out of Norfolk","Enc. Charter Party for ship Nancy","Is concerned about vice around his residence , etc. Wishes Blow to have law change this situation","Re: Barrel staves","Ship Columbia from Tappahannock to Liverpool with freight of staves or tobacco. Ship Mary Ann sailed ysterday for Charleston for freight","Re: Staves and undressed wood","Re: Tobacco freight","Tobacco on ship Alexander for Falmouth and England or Ireland","Barrell staves on board brig Catherine","Passage wanted to Cork, Ireland or England","Business accounts of ship Alexander","Sends letters for Richard Blow (her father-in-law) to send to her mother, Mrs. Waller, in Williamsburg","Wishes small vessel for his freight","Ship Union, belonging to us expected from Cadiz (Spain). Wish freight for her.","Will take inventory of store goods by September 1st and balance books.","Discusses current prices of hemp and accounts of ship Columbia","Re: President's proclamation. Gives current prices of tobacco and flour.","Has white oak hhds and red oak hhds and 150 lbs. bee's wax to sell","Has contracted for small ships to take his tobacco to port north of Gothenburg (Sweden) or to the south of Lisbon (Portugal). Blow's rate of freight too high. Need Blow's advice about proper paper for clearing ship, etc.","Wishes advice of Blow for marketing goods in New York","Re: Small debts and lack of news as to her son's whereabouts","Re: Shipment of hemp","Cargo of tobacco is intended for continent. Blow will get French consul's certif. for Hatcher","Re: Suit","Notice of board meeting to be held in 12th.","For 12 different ships","6 items","50 items","Details an agreement between Hatcher and Blow for freight on ship Mary Ann, to discharge cargo in British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Canary or Western Islands. To be allowed 50 days to load and discharge and call for orders. Tobacco freight.","Duty Bonds not paid in bank, by law, will be put in suit. Request merchants of Norfolk to have their bonds adjusted in bank","Re: discusses loading of the ship Mary Ann and bills of lading.","Continuation of business of loading ship Mary Ann","Discussing Hatcher's business ventures abroad: Hatcher's shipping of tobacco abroad. Details of necessary papers to be taken by the ship and to be used to different countries.","Acknowledges proposals of Brown \u0026 Rives","Re: Ship Mary Ann","Discussing shipment of good to Europe: Freight for ships Columbia and Mary Ann","Discussing the election of Richard Blow as director of the Bank of the United States for a one-year term [Oliphant was chashier of bank]","Certificate for $ 2794.51 for 30 hhds tobacco [unclear?] by Blow","Re: concerning political actions of the U.S. Congress: refers to \"ultimate fate of Mason's resolutions\" in Congress","Re: business of ships abroad, Mary Ann and Columbia","Re: tobacco aboard the ship Mary Ann","Re: Mary Ann cargo and departure","Discussing the positions of the French: French near border of Portugal now","Loads of tobacco of the ship Mary Ann","Current price of tobacco. Refers to \"Mr. Masons bill passing in the Senate and small vessels will immediately be wanted for Britain and Ireland\"","Discusses ships' destinations and cargos: problems of loading the Mary Ann; disagreement between Hatcher and Blow","Mary Ann destinations, cargo, etc.","Re: Furniture sent to Blow for sale in 1809. Please return if not sold","Agreement between Blow \u0026 Hatcher for ship Mary Ann's cargo","Need small vessel for overseas trade","Barksdale's son is en route to Norfolk from London, to study in the U.S. Has chosen Law as his profession, wishes Blow to encourage and supervise William. Mr. Hill's [unclear] has returned here and demands pay for training Hill's horses (\"fillies\")","Wishes Blow to get vessel for his tobacco","Discusses sailing across the Atlantic, heavily armed: \"on April 1st was boarded by a French Privateer and plundered of all our clothes, money, everything moveable. Was Brig 20 guns, 150 men\"","30 hhds. of tobacco for Juno","Re: tobacco for ships Juno and Washington.","Corn sent to Blow by ship Sisters","Her [unclear?] son estate in Virginia [largely illegible]","Sending 225 bhls. of tar to Blow for sale; asks prize of staves (white oak or red oak)","Ship delayed; will send in 3 weeks","Shipping tobacco","His ship Industry en route to Blow for freight; prefer a freight to Lisbon (Portugal) or Cadiz (Spain); Insurance to England very high for small vessel; maybe West Indies would be wiser.","Distressed at no news from his ships or from William [Drew]. Addresses Blow as \"kind relative\"","Sending ship Mary Ann to New York for freight as cheaper rate than Norfolk","Requests Blow to return invoice of furniture to him as he is loading for So[uth?] America","Asks for his account and prices for freights at Alexandria, Norfolk, etc.","Re: fish sent to Blow for sale","Re: African-Americans in prison there and prices for wheat, corn.","Still concerned over fate of her son Thomas","Reports death of John Rogers. His son-in-law, Samuel Nightingale, is admin. of estate","Vessels [unclear?] here","[Blow had been guardian of Davis]","Inquiring if M. Triplett, lately from Cadiz (Spain) is there to purchase flour for the British Army in Spain","Re: Account of Nathaniel Burwell","Re: Estate of his father-in-law, John Rogers","Dissatisfied with Mr. Foster who has delayed building a ship for him. Asks Blow to see about it for him","Re: Burwell's salt order","Re: newspaper subscription of The Herald","Asks settlement for turpentine","Has not received his letter","Has two ships ready by November and December","Sending load of staves to Blow","Hear Napoleon Bonaparte has rescinded his decree and ordered the release of all American property under adjudication in his dominion (goods and prisoners?).","Recommends Thomas J. Allen, Commission Merchant, Baltimore to Blow's attention","Re: Discussing the detention of vessels in Cadiz Bay","Re: Blow's payments due","Sale of fish to Blow","Sending 86 hams and 3 bhls. Turpentine for sale. Would like [unclear?] of salt","Directions for goods to be sent to him","Inquiring about the price of Liverpool salt and Spanish brandy","Remittance and sale of salt","Sloop Exchange bringing 12 [unclear?] white oak staves to Blow","Little chance of flour cargo; same (some?) tobacco","Cargo of ship Hunter in Virginia waters, now desiring wheat and flour","Tobacco shipment is ready for sending to Bordeaux or port in Bay of Biscay (France)","Wishes news of departure of ship Mary Ann for Europe. Are bonnets all sold and what prospect is there for the Columbia's salt? Expecting ship Nancy soon.","55 hhds. tobacco shipped to Blow","Re: valuations of ships and averages charged at Greenock","Has not sold Blow's Spanish [Brown?] yet.","Sending load of staves","Ship Averick loading tobacco and cotton for London","Re: payments due from Blow","Acknowledges hams sent to him; wishes news of his son, William, who went to Virginia recently","Re: Bow's ship Nancy in France, insurance etc.","Ship Nancy has arrived. Discussing the \"present officers decline all [risquer?] to France: A few days will determine England's steps…\"","Wishes price of ground allum salt; also price of flour and old whisky","Wishes vessel of 180 to 250 hhds to load for Liverpool direct.","Staves hard to get right now","Have 400 ton ship and wish cargo from Norfolk","Contract for outgoing ship to Europe","Glad Blow secured vessel for cargo aboard","Re: fish sold to Blow; also admin. of his bother's estate","Insurance of ship; wishes price of [unclear?] goods incl. bristles","For ships Catherine, Freyheit, Pindur, Fredonia, Juno, and the Columbia.","For ships Washington, Rachel and Mary, Mary Ann, Jersey Blue, Sally, Planter, and the Nancy with tobacco accounts.","Sending Blow a load of staves","Tobacco ready for ship Betsy","Tobacco shipment ready for ship Unity","Shipment of sperm (whale) oil and problems about it","Re: discussing a shipment of tobacco for the Betsy","Introducing Capt. Joel Thorp to Blow","Re: Sale of fish","Introducing J. K. Townsend of Townsend \u0026 White, New York","Re: flour from Lisbon (Portugal)","Blow appointed agent of the Trustees of the [late?] Bank of the United States","Have new ship of 300 tns ready in 6 weeks and would like freight in Virginia for her.","4 hhds. of tobacco on board of ship Aberdeen","Draft on Blow, etc.","Has about 300 bhls. flour for sale. Advise.","Directions to Cat. Russell from Liverpoole in case Non-Intercourse Act going into effect. Discusses U.S. Government problems about foreign trade","Current prices of tobacco and flour given","Discusses financial transactions: transfers 2 shares of stock into Bank of Virginia to Blow","Ship has arrived and experiencing government entanglements: ship Mary Ann here now and whether she can clear after February orders by Government. Keep him posted as to chance of freight to any port of Europe in case of U.S. change of orders","Requests remittance for wines ordered by Messrs. Burwell \u0026 Pages.","Has candles and twisted horse manes suitable for matresses for sale. Like to know where ship St. Chuthbert is.","Discusses political entanglement and shipping: \"Non-Intercourse laws have vanished and all our expectations now is that Congress will adjourn in 10 or 12 days….\" How are vessels there now?","Has about 300 bhls. Herring fish for sale","Shipping business: Capt. Allen of schooner Hero looking for business there","Flour for sale and price he is willing to take for it.","Current prices for tobacco and flour.","12 bags horse manes sent to Blow for sale.","Re: his order for Madeira wines","Has a vessel for sale; gives minute detailes and description of her and price asked.","Can furnish red oak staves at $ 18 per M.","Gives Golsborough family genealogy","Re: Ship Nancy","Sending his son home.","Has new ship of 360 tons available to Bow. Expects ship Ann Alexander soon and wishes business for her","Re: business with Wm. Barksdale for son's money.","Re: flour shipped to London and insurance for it","Re: Rogers estate; ship Mary Ann waits for cargo from Bow; Dull times in foreign freights","Business dull for all kinds of vessels.","Death of Mr. Pallak; he left no will; Estate of $ 35,000 or $ 45,000 goes to his brother Allan.","Suit between him and George Keckie. Refers to Mr. Wickham as counsel","Business payments discussed","Pallack estate and payments","Has St. Petersburg Russian hemp for sale. Can Blow use any?","Business between the two.","Asks Blow to give ship Tracta[?] 10 or 15 bhls. of their tobacco in storage.","Payments and shipping matters: sends bill for still sent to Bow","Roger's estate payments due from Blow. Wishes freight of corn for ship Mary Ann.","Capt. Robinson needs help to obtain a consular certificate","Payment for 12 bales of hair.","Invoice for hats.","Step-daughter married Robert Goldsborogh; Divorced in 1804, child, a male, living on Eastern Shore with grandmother now. Problems of guardianship. Re: will, if there was one etc.","Wishes 80 bhls of herrings","Wishes Blow to collect from Josiah Hunter's estate of Great Bridge, Virginia; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, Admin.","Sending new ship down. Wishes freight, Ann Alexander, has not arrived yet. Will send her to Blow at once","Ship Augustus sent to Blow for freight; gives curent prices of corn, tobacco, hemp","Mary Ann dispatched to you for freight to Lisbon (Portufal), Ireland or Liverpool (England)","Please remit for tobaco sold Blow","Freight for ship Augustus near ready, will send drum to Blow for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus will carry 550 hhds tobacco. Staves are plentiful now; Have plans for loading ship Mary Ann with flour for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus and ship Mary Ann loading","No offer for ship Independence as yet. Lays idle here. What do you think of freight for Cadiz (Spain) or Lisbon (Portugal) of flour? Ship Silver Grey has loaded for these ports; ship Powhatan bound for London left City Point.","Cannot dispense of barrel staves you bought of Lewis at the Bridge","Four ships availabe, except to Spain and Portugal","Ship Euphratis owned by C. Grinnell, James Howland and myself: no prospect of freigh; Will send to you if desired; about 2 years old and 365 tons.","Wish business for new ship","Remit for staves","Cargo to Ireland, Liverpool (England), etc.","[Belfield \u0026 Hicksf[?]d men same as Emporia, Virginia in 19th and 20th century]","Shipping questions about transportation abilities of ships: What prospects will ship Mary Ann have for freight at Norfolk? She can carry 300 hhds of tobacco","Wishes to sell circa 400 bhls of pork; willing to barter with debtors in Fredericksbug, Port Royal, Tappahannock, Dunkirk, etc.","Since arriving I find that dispute with Great Britain will be amicably settled.","Shipping and economic conditions in Europe: No trade here, ice in harbor, will leave at once on ship Euphratis; Questions advisability of freight of staves for West Indies on account of worms; as to timber, for England, after duty and other expenses, little profit; but agrees for Blow to load Euphratis  with timber for England if ship is filled. Prefers freight of tobacco at £ 4.5 for England or Ireland, or corn flour at 9 per bbl for Cadiz, Lisbon or Gibraltar (Spain and Portugal)","Cancel wine order","Shipping conditions and goods: Ships The Powhatan and Fingal? are up for freight; only half a cargo; further discussions about cargo; give current prices for tobacco and flour","Will Blow purchase [unclear?] staves for brig Ann?","Shipping to Europe: Ship Powhatan up for London needs further cargo. Nothing offered for ships Independence or Ann Alexander.","Buy 500 lbs of cable j[?]k for ship Independence at City Point. Give prospects for a cargo.","Re: staves","Ship Fame available","Goods on ship Averick en route to Blow for British port","[Curell was the Captain of the Polly, bound for Norfolk] Bill of Lading; bringing 92 bhls flour from John Hoomer, assigned to Richard Blow with freight at 25 cent per bbl.","Has ship coming soon from England. Wishes cargo.","Need freight and charter for ships Ann Alexander and Independence. Advise.","Re: loading of ship Ann Alexander with staves","Re: cargo of ships Independence and Ann Alexander","Discusses difficult atmosphere in trade, fear of a war if British actions don't change: no prospect as yet for employment for Ann Alexander, Euphrates or Independence. General feeling here that war will ensue if British orders in Council are not soon rescinded","[approximately 100 items]","Schooner Prospect sailing for Norfolk; asks Blow to give any assistance she may need.","Decided to send ship Euphrates to Liverpool (England) with tobacco","Business arrangements for payments, etc.","Sends few goods and a hobby horse Blow had ordered (cost $ 15)","Re: drafts given etc.","Delay in getting cargoes for ships Ann Alexander and Independence, no cotton or tobacco available for ship Euphrates now. Good apple brandy scarce here, gives current prices of tobacco in Richmond","Sending down garden seeds, potatoes and oats for Mrs. Blow for planting, and oats for son George","Re: flour sent","Needs vessel to carry 14 to 18 hundred barrels of flour for Spain; what would a vessel cost? Can money be had of you for bills on London and at what exchange?","Cargo of Betsy \u0026 Mary","As executor of Edw. Cowper estate gives legal details to collect and pay Blow","Check sent for payments due","Letter from John Randolph [in Congress] that an Embargo would be immediately laid. Get off any flour[?] to foreign port at once","Problems if embargo goes into effect","Discusses actions of the U.S. Congress, the trade embargo and their response: a law laying an embargo of 90 days has passed both Houses of Congress. Trust the ship John \u0026 Adam has put out to sea and that you have got rid of any flour","Shipment by Blow of a carriage to him","Re: payments","Problems of flour certificates as schooner Richmond put in to Wilmington, North Carolina, after Lisbon (Portugal) and Cadiz (Spain).","Sends premium for cargo on schooner Richmond and discusses problem of stops at several ports","Re: payments","Re: stock shares taken in Farmers Bank","Has ham and midlings for sale","Commission merchant asking for business","Concerning the account of the ship Ann Alexander","Re: discusses a canal from head of Pasquotank River in North Carolina to head of Elizabeth River and Virginia","Declines to help Blow buy a privateer","Asks for place at bank","Applies for a teller position at the bank","Officers of Farmers Bank, Richard Blow, President","Detailed letter: Terms if Farmers wishes to rent his house as a banking place.","Has set of India Table China which he wishes to sell. You and Capt. Parker have one like it imported at some time. What did he cost you?","Re: deed sent to Robertson in Petersburg","Asks for meeting of Board of Directors for Farmers Bank","Re: note against Benj. P. Hoomes of King \u0026 Queen County, Virginia","Re: sale of cargo of oil","Suggested notice of opening of the branch of Farmers Bank at Norfolk","Has ships empty and ready for cargoes. What prospects in Virginia?","Banking matters: Delays in getting necessary discounts for Bank to begin","Re: shipment of goods and prices: Schooner Richmond at Newbern, North Carolina. Asks Blow to insure her cargo of salt and [unclear?] at $ 5000. Blow valued ship at $ 3000 and cargo at $ 8300. [Blow as president of Marine Insurance Office]","Norfolk: Re: insurance premium for Richmond","Problem of his debt to U.S. Bank and Mr Allmond's endorsements; a suit in [unclear?], to save his two warehouses on Commerce St. and two dwellings on B[unclear?] Street; he asks for loan from Blow. If not, he will be financially ruined.","Ship Richmond has not left here yet","Ship Bedford was damaged in Lynn Haven Bay; asks for assistance for sale and repairs","Continuation and letter of November 22.","Re: ship Bedford See letter of November 22nd.","Cargo of a ship Ann Alexander","Subscribing for shares in Farmers Bank","Applying for cashier's position at the bank","Applying for gr[and?] son, Benj. Pollard, as notary","Applying for position of watchman at bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Applying for job of porter at the bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Job application for watchman","Job application for watchman","Job application for book keeper or discount clerk","Job application","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job applications , 21 letters","Job application for discount clerk","Job application","Recommends Benjamin Pollard for notary","Recommends T. J. Parker for notary","Job application for runner","Job application for porter","Job application for work","Job application as clerk","sold house to Farmer's Bank","Job application for book keeper","Job application for discount clerk","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application discount clerk","Job application teller","Job application discount clerk","Job application discount clerk","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Purchase of shares in Bank","Discusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea: Orders about ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's cargo \"British licenses have risen here very much and cannot be had under $ 1500 and there is great alarm here that the British cruisers will take our vessels that are bound to Southern parts…Insurance for voyage to Lisbon is 17.5 p.c. …\" [War of 1812]","Crates sent to Blow in ship Richmond","Whale cargo of the ship Debby \u0026 Eliza engaged","Duty of oil to be before Congress","Banking and movement of money: advisability of removing specie from Bank out of town. The Virginia Bank has done this already.","Debby \u0026 Eliza chartered for Lisbon if Blow has not chartered her already","[In handwriting of] Blow: Detailed memo of his correspondence with Bridges \u0026 Robertson regarding cargo of Debby \u0026 Eliza and problems encountered by blockades, etc. from 1813 February 5 to 1815 May 20","Discusses politics, shipping difficulties: Re: past cargo of flour for Debby \u0026 Eliza \"considerable fervor pervades our city especially the Legislature = who are this instant organizing a plan of defense for your Borough and will probably order out 3000 men forthwith\"","Has flour for available","Difficulties of getting flour down to Blow","Re: problems getting flour to Blow; \"excitement of arrival of troops for Richmond and Manchester on way to Norfolk for your protection\"","Re: his chartering of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza, Z[unclear]; ship Algernon, lost at Cape Hatteras, was insured fully","Ship Two Marys entering Chesapeake Bay was met (stopped and boarded) by British fleet under Admiral Warren, had her register and declare different ports…uncertainty about vessels being permitted to go out and impediment re ingress of vessels.","Blockade and how long it will last","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza via ship Catherine","Continuation of problems of getting flour cargo down for Debby \u0026 Eliza","\"The blockade has had a serious effects here. Flour has fallen 2 1/3 per barrel.\"","Sending 200 bhls flour by Martha Ann for Debby \u0026 Eliza cargo","Do not send Debby \u0026 Eliza out of port until blockade is lifted or assurance from British that licensed vessels will be permitted to proceed","Thinks blockade will soon be lifted and ship Debby \u0026 Eliza can get out","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: discussing the British blockage, the embargo and cargo for his vessels","Nat. Clanton, Wm. Peter, Wm. Comm[unclear?] $ 150.15 [unclear?] of Virginia; land formerly property of Walter Gilliam deceased of 1272/3 acres","Gives Blow permission to appoint Director of Farmer's Bank in his place","Power given to Blow to sell cargo of May Ann (800 bu. salt). Wishes 270 bhls flour sent to him","James Geddy signed acknowledged loan of $ 30 from Baron.","Problems of blockade, etc.; Bills of Lading","Concerning the removal of R. Blow as president of Farmers Bank, and five letters concerning Farmers Bank.","Wishes herings sent by packet to Williamsburg","Discusses ship Powhatan's departure from City Point: please furnish Captain with what he needs","Citizen's of Portsmouth sent $ 700.81 for relief of sufferers by the late fire; note of thanks","Returns his 5 volumes of Helvetius","Charter of ship Victory","Cargoes of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Richmond","Blow was agent for ship Victory of New Bedford - to receive load of tobacco at City Point","Re: ships and tobacco shipments: Debby \u0026 Eliza to Rhoads with tobacco and cotton; ship Augustus; ship Richmond; ship Edward Bartin","Re: ship the Victory; many British vessels at City Point and Bermuda Hundred","Discusses losses due to late war.","Re: commission business","Sent 1600 staves to Blow","Purchase of boat","Re: Debby \u0026 Eliza; rates of exchange","Ship Augustus cargo full","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco for Richmond","Primarily concerning his shipping trade","Re: concerning various ships owned by Blow: Debby \u0026 Eliza, Richmond, cargoes; Ship Powhatan","Ship Richmond's account","Wishes shingles","Re: ship Richmond","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco and staves","Re: staves and flour","Fire in Petersburg destroyed half the town, about 300 houses. His counting house was saved","Ship Augustus cargo","Re: Blow's debt to Bank","For building the [unclear?]","Primarily concerns his sea shipping trade","Re: ship Edward Barten's cargo","Re: Shipment in Edw. Bardin","Re: furnishing brig Charles Fourcett en route to Bermuda Hundred for tobacco and staves","Ship Ceres has not arrived at City Point","Re: cargo of Ceres, Edward Bordin, and Alexander for City Point","Re: Edward Bardin, Ceres, Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: shipped of fish thru the Canal to you, will ship shad [type of fish] for family use the last of this month","(see April 12 letter)","Re: ship Augustus","Re: Humph Hathaway and his cargo","Re: Ship Ceres from City Point to Rotterdam with tobacco; Re: ship Debby \u0026 Eliza; Re: ship Edward Bordin","Re: Edward Bordin to Liverpool with tobacco","Re: ship Victoria for Europe","Primarily concerns his shipping trade","Re: freight rates","Re: falling freight rates","Re: Ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's flour cargo","Re: Cargo ofships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Baltie for Liverpool (England), Scotland and Ireland, freight rates a problem. Mr. Dunlop wished possibly to charter the ship Ceres for Leith.","Re: Mr. Dunlop did not accept ship Ceres as expected. Freight is down, problem of getting ships to take out cargoes.","No sale for Blow's salt","Re:Ship Ceres for Rotterdam and cargo","Concerns the tuition and board for Blow's sons, Robert Richard","Robert and Richard Blow by Aiken \u0026 Brooks, and Books for Robert","Three letters and one resolution document","Re: Financial affairs of Farmer's Bank, scale of loans, debts allowed, etc.","Refers to branches at Petersburg, Lynchburg, etc.","Petty bills of Richard Blow, four letters, and accounts with Neilson \u0026 Neale.","80 items","Re: state of exchange, etc.","Banking business","Re: Accounts","Re: Alleged default in bank, etc.","Cost of kitchen, stable, dailty building and garden $ 428.18","Renewing Charter of Farmer's Bank which will expire 1827; urges renewal and to confer with stockholders as to their opinion.","General conditions of banking.","Legislature wishes detailed statement of expenses of Branches of this bank; asks Mother Bank (Norfolk) to send earliest mail; also list of salaries.","80 items.","4 letters","Re: Branches of Farmer's Bank","Election of Lee as cashier","Re: Cashier","Detailed letter describing Christmas as Tower Hill: Weather very bad, hunting, ice house full of ice, new school at Coman's [?] Well, Sussex; wants daugher, Mary Frances put there. Death of Capt. John R. Mason. Edwin Gray sold off all his estate yesterday. Thomas Gray to manage the Ruffin plantation. Imagine Thomas will buy Edwins land; there will be Grays all around us. Just heard that Captain Wm. Briggs bought Edwin's place, $ 1800.","Repairing the man building and slating kitchen","Paint, lead, etc. $ 84.36","Describing post Civil War life conditions: Reconstruction, \"thievery\" of African-Americans; Fanny (his wife) is teaching 10 pupils; Mary is chief assistant in a large female school here; Aleck has been here. Orange and Alexander R.R. has joined up to the Manasses R.R.","George Blow, Micajah Felts, Adminsitrators; Inventory of App.","$ 6235.20; Divison of Estate to 3 grandchildren: Mary E. Turner, Martha Jordan and Georgia Ann Hines.","Leaves Mary E. Hines his plantation on East side of Austin's branch; leaves Martha Hines his plantation on Wesst side of Austin's branch; [Mary Elizabeth Hines husband was George Hines] George Blow and James Rochelle, executors, Rochelle did not act.; John D. Turner who married Mary, act.","George Blow administrator","Dozens of petty accounts between Richard Blow and merchants, trades, etc.","Field book of line between George Blow, Jr., John Clanton Saldsberry and Nancy Clanton and adjoining [unclear?]","Barham's Tract…183+ acres sold at $ 5 per acre. Plat of Barham Wren's land and north side of Racoon Swamp by Wm. Darbie of which this is an exact copy - total acres 345.","Number of packages consigend to [names from Williamsburg, Petersburg, Yorktown, Burwell's Ferry, Hanover]","Original field notes of a Road from Bla[?]'s Mill to Sussex Coutr House chained by Joseph Clanton","£ 1409.9.10 1/2 : long listing","Re: Suit Blow \u0026 Oldham trading as merchants at South Quay, Nansemond County. Each to put up £ 400 V.Cur. and going under firm name of Baker, Oldham \u0026 Blow and to continue throgh the War. In 3 months Oldham died. Firm continued as Baker \u0026 Blow. Store began at Pitch Landing, North Carolina. Other stores were established at Petersburg under firm name of Blow \u0026 Barksdale in 1782.","Answer of Blow refers to the year 1793","Tobacco imanifests for various ships; invoices of tobacco to Wm. Blow at Dunkirk; Invoices to Petersburg Store.","[torn at date] Re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale accounts and ship Flying Jennie 's Cargo","Ships Portsmouth, Grand Duke, [unclear?], Mt. Vernon","[7 items]","Re: Settlement of father's estate","A personal letter about her son, John, who was employed by Freeland \u0026 Gillis in Petersburg. Sent down to Williamsburg on business stayed at the Eagle Tavern. [Mrs. Taylor was a sister of Robert H. Walker]","Re: Goods shipped to him from Lamb \u0026 Younger, London. Requests Blow to attend the Customs and have goods sent up to him as soon as he can. Goods came in the America.","Re: Blow's subscription to the Virginia Gazette for 1800 and 1801","Has sent down 4 hhds. tobacco to Blow.","Re: wine for his father. Asks it to be sent to Alexandria c/o Jenny \u0026 Graham or some person who does business for his father.","Also, letter of March 1 1803 from Cropper, P[unclear?] \u0026 Co., Liverpool","Ship Thomas Wilson, freight bill: 1 case containing a Piano Forte \"for Hon. Samuel Tyler, Judge of Court of Chancery in Williamsburg\"","Re: A Disagreement between Arthur Hope and Blow. Hope had deposited funds with Blow for purpose of Blow investing for him in Bank Stock. Wirt advises Blow to agree to a committee of 3 men to settle rather than go into court.","Acknowledges tobacco sent over by Mrs. Lucy Paradise per The Sheffield. According to Mrs. Paradise's desire we are sending 2 [ch___s?] marked \"LLP1.2\" Bills of Lading sent to Blow at her request. \"She is miserably in debt\"","Has established a printing office in Norfolk with Daniel Baxter. Solicits Blow's goodwill and business.","Re: tobacco she had shipped to Reynolds in Liverpool (see letter of July 12, 1806).","Wishes to employ a tutor to live in his house. Enclose advertisement for same to be put in The Herald. Wishes a mentor in Latin, French but must have one good on Arithmetic and English. Say £ 50 or £ 60 for English teacher and £ 70 or so for language teacher.","His opinion of western lands, 1st rate land sells at $ 20 to $ 30 and 2nd rate at $ 10. Does not wish to settle out here.","Regulations as to conduct: Divine Services, Reveille, etc.","Will not come to Norfolk until yellow fever is over or is prudent to come. Keep him informed.","Bills rendered for postage","Bill for books (listed) $28","Bill","Bill for books (listed)","Appeals to Blow to assist him. He is a British subject and \"confined in jail and then to be sold as a slave for the benefit of the state of Virginia.\" Gives his life history and tells how he a came to America at 3 years old.","Inscription to be put on gravestone of Marie Semple, daughter of James Semple and Joanna his wife, daughter of Doctor William McKenzie, dec'd. Born August 16, 1809 and died November 12th 1810. Note from Semple to Blow with directions for sending stone to Cobham or to the Bay warehouse in Surry or upper end Isle of Wight County.","January 16, 1801, Lee Hall, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, Norfolk. Asks for Blow's assistance so he can obtain a job as a clerk in the Navy Yard at Gosport. January 26, 1801, Congressman Sam W. Dana, Washington DC, to Lee Hall. Discussing a possible job position for Hall. 1804 and 1805, Sam Lord, New York, to Dr. Lee Hall, Portsmouth.","6 pieces","Requests Blow's influences in procuring his appointment as cleark in Public Navy Yard in Gosport","Recommending Dr. Hall to be Clerk of Gosport Navy Yard","Re: Medicine ordered by Hall","A teacher, will return to Portsmouth if conditions seem good","Measures taken to prevent interruption of the commerce of tobacco have had full success.","Suit between Vaughan and Baker \u0026 Blow; he will represent Baker \u0026 Blow.","Re: Inquiring about books sent to Mr. Thomas Jefferson.","Inquires about M. Davis [Augustine] establishing a printing press in the city.","Goods delivered at Capital Landing","Bill of Lading for his tobacco","Encloses letter to London","Petitions re: governorship. Refers to \"Cousin Sam Briggs\" being in Richmond","Fragment of drawing of houses and streets in Petersburg [in handwriting of Richard Blow]: Appomattox River, Tabbs Branch, Brick House [Run?] (all near Blandford)","Memo for [watchwork?]","Ballast Office, London; John Longman \u0026 others, London","(8 items)","(2 items)","Re: shingles","[Drugs?]","Business Correspondence regarding ship Monmouth from Bordeaux and problems encountered; also references to ship America (10 pieces)","Gives news that daughter Patsy will marry Dr. Gray on 26th","Letter from Capt. Blow to his daughter Lizzie (1864); and letter from a nephew, Norfolk, to Capt. Blow (1880) regarding sale of part of the \"Old Place\" in Southampton County."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use:"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"names_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4038,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-06-23T07:49:03.421Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","ead_ssi":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","_root_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","_nest_parent_":"viw_repositories_2_resources_9297","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WM/repositories_2_resources_9297.xml","title_filing_ssi":"Blow, Richard, Papers","title_ssm":["Richard Blow Papers"],"title_tesim":["Richard Blow Papers"],"unitdate_ssm":["1772-1872"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1772-1872"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1772/1872"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872"],"text":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872","Mss. 65 B625","/repositories/2/resources/9297","Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century","Banks and banking--Virginia--History--19th century","Canals--Southern States","Embargo, 1807-1809","Horses--North Carolina","Horses--Virginia","Legal documents","Merchants--Great Britain","Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century","Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--Nansemond County","Merchants--Virginia--Petersburg","Merchants--Virginia--Sussex County","Merchants--West Indies","Plantation life--Virginia","Plantations","Slavery--Virginia--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Tobacco--Southern States--History--18th century","United States--History--War of 1812","Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794","Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices","Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.","The collection is arranged chronologically.","Richard Blow (1746-1833) was a native of Southampton County, Va. He was born in 1746, the son of Samuel Blow and Martha (Drew) Blow. He married Frances Wright in 1786. He owned \"Tower Hill,\" plantation in Sussex County, Va. and was a partner in stores operated in Virginia and North Carolina. He furnished ships to trade American goods abroad. He was the first president of the Farmers Bank of Norfolk and was president of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company. Blow died in Portsmouth, Virginia.","Blow Family Papers (Mss. 65 B63), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; and Richard Blow Papers (PH 28), Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.","Mss. 2008.18 Blow Family Genealogy","Papers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and \"Tower Hill,\" Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs \u0026 Blow, Baker \u0026 Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow \u0026 Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation owner that operated in part by labor of enslaved persons. He shipped the goods produced by the plantation by sea, often to European markets. His correspondence and papers during this period provide a model source on plantation management, sea trade, trade during the American Revolution, and trade during the War of 1812. Includes correspondence, plantation accounts, ship accounts, and legal papers.","Subjects covered in the collection include trade, tobacco, prices, Whiskey Rebellion, thoroughbred horses, banking (Bank of the United States and Farmers Bank of Norfolk), Dismal Swamp Canal, the Embargo of 1807-1809, and the War of 1812. There are letters from merchants in Great Britain and in the West Indies.","Re: Prices for tobacco, salt, hogs, to be bought in that are area","4 invoices for miscellaneous goods","15 invoices for miscellaneous goods","Re: Goods shipped from London","8 invoices for Miscellaneous goods","Account book kept at Sussex Court and Southampton Court (56 pp.); Cash memo book of Richard Blow (Tobacco accounts, collections, etc.)","7 invoices","Invoice","4 items","3 invoices","2 items","Letter relates to selling salt, tobacco and escaping enemy ships, etc. [Hines was the nephew of Richard Blow and in business with him. See South Quay Store references in Blow Family Papers Index]","Property adjacent Davis, [Welch ?], Cary \u0026 Edards \u0026 [Tynes?]","Property near Cedar Island on Lawn's Creek to Brantley's Landing to Welshe's spring branch","Bought of various people tobacco, cloth, china, etc.","Re: Invoices of goods sent from Glasgow","Re: 6 items","(postage)","Letter and petty account","Re: tobacco","3 items","Deed from from Williamson to Land, and deed from Land to Land","Re: Purchasing vessels at Charlestown, will bring back salt","Re: Shipment of iron","Invoice","As well as other accounts with Blow. Ships mentioned are Ranger, Grapevine, Race Horse","Re: Business dealings","Boston sales after she was wrecked[?]","Anthony Diggs, builder, £ 90.656.19.3","13 pp.","1782-1789 (16 pp)","14 silver buttons at £ 4.5.1. [Waddell was the son of Wm. Waddell of Williamsburg, a jeweller and son-in-law of James Geddy II]","Counting room, lumber house, painting, etc.","Complaints of quality of tobacco shipped to him from South Quay, Pitch Landing and Petersburg, gives problems of trading and selling to Dutch, Danish and English - gives prices current of rum, sugar, coffee, humth, hoops, salt tow, etc. Letter gives details of economy in West Indies.","Says Blow's ships Nonpareil and Jenny left for Port-au-Prince had brush with Angulla[?] privateers; Vessel Defiance, will sail shortly ; Discusses conditions for sale of Virginia Tobacco (Pitch Landing is worst in quality yet sent). Difficulties with Danish Law; difficulty in shipping and risk from English Privateers - sends what goods Baker \u0026 Blow ordered as soon as possible. (8pp)","Tobacco acccounts.","October 3rd, 7th,","re: his ships loading, etc.","Re: payment for weapons sold","Notes arrival of B \u0026 B's schooners, Polly, Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there","Remarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc","South Quay goods shipped on board of schooner Venus for South Quay","8 pp.","\"I can inform you of the surrender of the British Army the night before last\"","News of surrender","shingles and guns","2 letters","Murdock's part ownership in schooner John and goods therein. Directs when sold to give his part to Samuel Beale, Williamsburg on account. Discusses falling prices if Cornwallis should surrender and a general peace ensue","Refers to sailing of Polly and Flying Jenny","Price of tobacco is rising; every kind of good is falling. Refers to sending the sloop to St. Thomas with shingles and staves. Ship Count de Grass expected Wednesday. Will meet her at Ocracock [Ocracoke] on 20th with 100lb cannon powder and all the men. Muskets and powder to be sent from Newbern.","List of merchandise. 12 pp.","2 letters","Refers to surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown","Letter re: his share of a schooner for sale; tobacco on hand to his account, etc","Invoice of goods shipped","Ships Experiment and Adelphi here with tobacco, staves and flour","Invoice and to whom sold","French are now in possession of whole island except Br[?]nton Hill. Capt Stogdale has taken 3 prizes before his arrival at St. Croix and several leaving St. Kitts and sent them to St. Eustatius. Refers to state of the Jenny","Refers to Brig Betty","Refers to Charming Polly","Island of St. Christopher surrendered to France - refers to lumber sales","Request for molasses","Business affairs to be settled","2 letters","Business between the two, conditions for shipping, new markets for goods, etc. (13 letters)","Re: disposal of the store business. Dick Baker, John Redwood interested, and \"major part of the business will be carried on at South Quay being the seaport place\" Baker's proposition as to carrying on business with Blow in the future. (6pp)","10 letters","3 items","4 items","7 items","5 items","Expenses of sloop Industry to Philadelphia","Re: shipping of goods to Blow. Proposes going into business with Blow at Richmond. \"The Revd. Wm. Andrews is now at Chelsea in this neighborhood and without any employment or assistance except £ 80 per annum which is allowed by government as temporary…\" (7pp)","Brig Pricilla disbursements in Cadiz; November 5th: cabin furniture, cabin stores, ship stores…\"; Invoice of Schooner Venus in account, Richard Blow, Merchant, Norfolk (4 items); Portsmouth store account; Petersburg store: invoice of tobacco shipped on Venus; South Quay Store: invoice in account with Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Portsmouth store account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale","Re: voyage to Fredericksburg; repairs; voyage to Cape Charles and back","Charged to Richard Blow","Brig Pricilla: wages, contract to Cadiz; Schooner Nonpareil accounts due to Rey \u0026 Brandenbourg, Cadiz; 4 items","voyage to London; 28 items","Outfitted and cargo","Sales wages, shingles, bamboo, lumbwer, etc. Cargo, invoice to Richard Blow and others; 2 items","Invoices, sales, etc. 24 items","Sales, wages, etc","Accounts of various ships [?] to Richard Blow; Accounts of Richard Blow [?] to others: to Hathorn \u0026 Miller for painting inside of store, glazing, a corner cupboard, table; Portsmouth Store; tavern account of George Briggs [?] to Ann[?] Livingston (dinner, club, wines, and board - £ 3.11.5; 20 items","Sales at auction of the Schooner Brilliant's Cargo, New York; Tobacco shipped on Brig Nelly by Blow \u0026 Barksdale—invoice; Invoice of Richard Blow \u0026 Co. with Oxley \u0026 Hancock on ships Jolly Tar, Marlborough Dancer, Wm. Randall.","Division account of owners of schooner Nonpareil, her cargo in account with Baker \u0026 Blow.","Owners of schooner Brilliant to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Petersburg; Account of sale of cargo of Schooner Richard in account with Baker \u0026 Blow at South Quay.","John Key 1/3 of profits made, Baker and Blow 2/3 of profits","In the amount of £ 7681.18.3; schooner Virginia, schooner St. Thomas; Debts due to following persons….; South Quay Store £ 2240.10.2½","Capt. James Caton, Norfolk: saddlery, shoes, linens, twine, glass, etc…£ 586.3.6½","Letter re: delivery of shingles","Re: change of occupation","Re: sale of cargo of Jolly Tar and sailing hack","Re: sailing of Jolly Tar out of London","Shipping good to firm","Same as above.","Asks about ships Jolly Tar, Tartar and sloop Old from Philadelphia with much needed goods","Sending flour down","Shipping goods to him in the William. Asked for tobacco","re: ships to England","re: goods bought and desired","re: exchange of flour and tobacco for salt and blankets, etc.","re: ordering a few items","Re: goods disbursed from ships to store in Petersburg and Tower Hill; dissatisfied over trade conditions","same as above","Has engaged James Marsh as an assistant for you; salary to be £ 50 per year from time he arrives in Virginia","Letter sent by ship William, 7pp.","Asks for [mourning?] goods to be sent to him","Ship Marlborough is coming up the river to Four Mile Creek; general trade conditions","\"Ship Marlborough has at last got up to 4 Mile Creek an is not discharging her load\"","Re: poor credit of English \u0026 French merchants; refers his uncle Scott going blind; general business affairs","Re: goods to be delivered to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, merchants, Petersburg","His sons, George and Sammy, are in service to Richard Blow in his business. Asks that Blow continue them. He is infirm and keeps his store only to give his sons Charles some insight in business","Jolly Tar is here with your tobacco; will sail back in 3 weeks with your goods; the William left on January 3rd. Has established correspondence and credit on best footing with Birmingham and Manchester (England), Sheffield, Halifax and Leeds houses. Discusses Blow's ability with shipping business. Crew does no think Blow has experience for this in times of peace. Says only 2 trips a year can be made to England and to West Indies. Advises Blow against using [unclear?] ships in this voyage.","Re: Cargo of Jolly Tar","Asks for linens; suggests Blow have a craft or two built to go up and down river","Re: Jolly Tar about to sail, not German goods to be had, no pewter or nails","Ironmongery hard to get; Ship Charlotte Daniel chartered with load for James River. Mentions Mr. Allen of Surry, Mr. Charles Carter of Charles City; discusses prices of American goods and demands abroad. Asks Blow to send tobacco back in the Charlotte.","Re: escaped enslaved person (\"runaway slave\")","Ship to go to City Point, Virginia and load with tobacco and proceed to London.","29 items","Re: Lots in Petersburg and buildings thereon too near Blow's storehouse","£ 63","Goods sent out, etc. Commission merchants problems re payment of tobacco brought over","Ship Marlborough sent to Virginia for tobacco. Probably to West Point; York River tobacco brings better prices than James River; \"my commission for selling a hhd of tobacco shall be 21 shillings; brokerage is 5 shilling\"","£ 350 due","Good shipped out","Announcing firm","Wishes bar iron","Refers to death of George Briggs","Refers to the Charlotte store","Wants canvas and anchor","Articles bound from Norfolk to London, agreement, names of Crew, wages, etc.","Does not want any part of ship Jolly Tar at sea","Itemized","16 pieces","For shingles, etc., shipped by boats to Portsmouth or Norfolk","Pepper, coffee, mill;","Linseed oil, etc.","New sloop of £ 850","General merchandise","Oils, locks, paints","Shot, lead, nails, window glass, glass, hats, axes, linens, copper, hardware, guns: £ 986.60 pounds","Shoes and hats","Ginger","Ginger","Sail duck","Woolens","Spoons, combs","Provisions for sloop dispatch","Invoice, to D[arton?], Petersburg","Goods at £ 256.0.11","£ 3074.10.8","Several invoices","£ 197.15.1 ¼","£ 60.16.7","2 accounts","In ship Thompson, hardware; £ 106.7.8","Oils and lampblack","For store and wharf repairs","£ 1171.15.9½","Richard Blow, Thomas Ogburn, Owners \u0026 Thomas [Angnus?], Master of Schooner Venus: Contract to West Indies; also ship's personnel with wages","3 carts of snakeroot per the Jolly Tar, London","For goods bought at Port Au Prince, Jamaica.","Re: shipping Blow's fall goods and pick up blows tobacco for foreign ports","25 items","23 items","25 items","25 items","Re: accounts","Has hired Benjamin Wythe to live with him at £ 20 instead of Fort at £ 60. Key was the operator of Tower Hill store and plantation.","Re: damage and vandalism to ship Malborough","Re: John [Cohn?] to be apprenticed to Richard Blow for 6 years","Will not keep on Benjamin Wythe (see January 4th above)","Re: bill of laden for ships Marian, Norfolk from Harvre de Grace","Re: store there","Re: they will have new neighbors soon at Sandy Hill: J. Stewart \u0026 Company. (Key operated Tower Hill Store for Richard Blow)","Re: ships for sale","Re: goods for Col. Allen and for Charles Carter","Re: blooded mares owned by Allen Cooke's estate","Re: management of store","re: mercantile business there","Re: sending Marlborough to Glasgow","Re: shipment of stones to Richard Blow","Re: ships Marlborough and Portsmouth and possible cargoes, [unclear] Jasmine","\"…the men who can fight best, lye [sic!] most and swear cleverly are most in repute\" here.","\"back country stores have taken a great deal of the trade from this place…\"","re: ships for cargo in James, York and Rappahannock Rivers - [unclear] and get Malborough full as soon as possible, refers to Blow's trip to England soon","Re: leaving lot by Barton for a lumber house near store","Re: Blow's paying his account with him","Re: death","Re: buying lot from Blow for new store","Re: arrival of ships. Bland, apparently, was manager of Blow's business in his absence","Re: corn delivered","Re: hard money, much of ship George off Smith's Island - losses…","Re: building store; arrival of foreign ships…","Re: debts due Co.","Re: debts of Blow to Company","Re: getting watch springs from London; (Geddy lived in Williamsburg near Palace; see James Geddey House History C.W.; he moved to Petersburg when Capitol left Williamsburg)","Re: sending some paper of Baker to Blow before he sets out for London. May send them to Blow in London, asks about what Blow has decided re land and who is to settle it for him; will give Blow's agent the refusal as he promised; (Zach Rowland owned a lot in Williamsburg on Waller Street (from 1782-1786); see C.W. for location of his lot—[M.A.S])","Re: Blow's trip to Europe soon, wishes some memo or form of a co-partnership, between them before Blow goes","Meal sent down","Torn","Re: Blow's debts to him","Re: Sending tobacco by Marlborough to London next week, sends lists so collections can be made there","Re: Blow's letter dated on board ship Portsmouth in Hampton Roads was received; refers to copartnership in letter of 4th (above). Approves of getting another partner from Britain to go into their firm (Barksdale \u0026 Blow). Suggests as Blow is there and will visit all trading posts in Britain, he can choose one better and will visit \"all the back stores\" before his return to Petersburg. McNeil has Married Youille's daughte - after a feud Youville has disowned them. Barksdale will have to settle McNeil elsewhere in back country and will settle [unclear?] in back country and will need spring goods for these small stores; asks Blow to send goods back to him in the Marlborough.","Re: send cellar window frames to him via Pierce's Sloop","Re: \"trade very dull, collections same, money tight\"","Re: no chances of collecting money at this time, money tight","Re: Blow's finances here while he is abroad no chance of collections until fall; workmen must be paid at all events. Ask Mr. Key or Mr. Barksdale for help if you need funds badly (Hines was Blow's nephew and manager of some of his property).","Re: can furnish stores, planks, etc.","Re: Blow and Baker \u0026 Blow's overdue account with Hazlehurst, Philadelphia","Re: Just back from 6 weeks up the country, per ship Virginia. Been the round of all the stores in the Country that we have an interest in. Collections very small. Insects among tobacco has been very fatal. Business very dull. If ship Portsmouth should arrive early, I can do well this fall in trade; may be able to get Northern goods this fall; Insists upon Blow getting them a partner for Britain, perhaps in Glasgow.","Re: Refers to lots of goods sent to Blow in Virginia in the George. No sale as yet for Blow's tobacco arrived in [unclear?] due to uncertainty as to duty.","Re: demands very pressing at Portsmouth and here; out of his power to give any financial assistance.","Re: sending meal down","Re: sending framing down; get bricks for him","Re: Citron bought, etc","[torn]","Sent Blow naval stores for sale","Alex Donald, Richmond, wishes 1,081,000 barrel stones; (Donald is a partner of Donald \u0026 Burton, London)","Sends goods to Robert Rines \u0026 Co., John Hoomer \u0026 Co. and Robert Craige; asks Blow to clear these at customs and to these people for them","Sends him 2 , [unclear?] of brandy","Invoices of goods shipped in Harrison and Richmond also in your ship Portsmouth re: sales of tobacco there","Drafts on Donald \u0026 Burton, London","\"Give Capt. Diamond a compass…\"","On pleasure trip; business in Virginia very dull. \"I find a good many houses failing in this place as well as in Philadelphia. Northern cities laden with India goods;\" urges Blow to have a separate account for the Portsmouth and Petersburg stores as I have no interest in the Portsmouth store.","[torn]","Re: business conditions there and his interests in Virginia","Re: his goods from abroad have arrived. Can furnish Bland some for Blow's store in Portsmouth if needed","Has received goods by the Richmond, Jasmond, Battleton, and Harrison; Re: their credit with Donald \u0026 Burton, collection of debts owving in Virginia, etc. Thinks Blow was right not to send off goods to his Tower Hill and Portsmouth stores this fall. Reports total loss of the Jasmond off Hatteras, passengers saved, all goods lost, great damage by this storm at Norfolk and Portsmouth as tides were 10 feet higher than ever known before. John Key, the operator of the Tower Hill Store, has come for a few goods for that store.","Re: Blow just returned from four months abroad. Discusses ships and cargo","Re: Mr. Jerdon's horses and groom[?] to be sent to him at Louisa if not, to A. Donald. Directions for putting off goods at Brandon; and to York County customers.","Re: confusion of orders for goods from Barksdale \u0026 Blow; and quality of tobacco shipped to him, prices etc;","Goods not coming to him on schedule. Wishes 500 bushels salt and some rum and sugar. Have no money to purchase tobacco. Dull sales at this place, low prices of tobacco and high prices of goods, keeps off buyers at store .","Order for goods to be sent by Blow to Wilmington by Sloop Speedwell. Thinks there is an excellent opening for a business there. Virginia is overstocked with Country Stores or rather shops. Could accept H.C. produce in payments. Send the goods to Henry Urquahart or Carmical \u0026 Bogle as soon as possible.","Re: goods received","\"Nothing going here in retail line but a demand to country merchants in the wholesale way...\"","Letter of credit for David and Herbert Hines, his brothers. [David Hines married Elizabeth Francis, daughter of Thomas Francis, February 3rd, 1781]","Re: need for molasses and rum, sugar or coffee for his business","Goods by the Speedwell to hand (£ 381.15.10); goods sent him (saddler, corderoys, [unclear?], men's shoes) \"not suitable for my trade here.\" I wish rum, sugar; will try to pay in North Carolina produce but that is as low in your state.","Detailed letter re economic conditions in England and the reaction to follow if Virginia General Assembly lays heavy duties on British shipping and on B[low's] goods imported in them; if this happens, a fatal blow will be given to the credit of Virginia in this country…","Re: Accounts for collection","Out of certain goods, will loose customers if Blow does not send some up.","returns invoices for damaged goods","Re: discusses effect to follow if paper currency is issued to you. It will raise your exchange very much. It is prudent for you to collect your debts before their value is reduced thereby…warns against giving too much credit…","Re: needs cloth for clothes for enslaved persons","Re: difficulty of getting spring goods from abroad","[need to check folder break-down for accuracy]","For goods [unclear?] and to be sent to Richard Blow per ship Portsmouth. Blow had sent stoves over to be sold (8 items)","Received credit for shingles, scantling, garden nails and lumber","14 petty accounts of Richard Blow with craftsmen; Accounts of Donald \u0026 Burton, London for goods; List for Richard Blow, Virginia (6 items)","Lists: \"1 fine Carnelian seal with Coat of Arms crest. Neatly set in gold [unclear?] pattern £ 5.5 \"N.B. the seal, pin and ring were delivered to Mr. Blow\"","Fifteen accounts of Richard Blow for various needs at home and abroad; Tavern account with Mr. A. Livingston; Repairs to ship Portsmouth","Shipped by Blow \u0026 Barksdale on Jesmond for their account with Robt. Crew, Merchant, London, £ 1034.13.5","30 heads[?] of Tobacco; £ 600.17.11;","8 invoices","10 invoices for jewelry;","32 petty accounts","6 receipts Richard Blow","30 receipts","10 items","9 items","...for goods furnished to Captains of ships and other individuals; 24 items","21 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","12 items","\"A Pair of Silver [unclear?] Pistols, Brass Barrels and [unclear?] locks: (£ 8.18.6)\"","dress materials","30 pieces, receipts","30 pieces, receipts","Invoice; wide selection of goods","Wide selection of goods","The Jesmond is now loaded and will sail, Captain Smith is in charge","30 prices","30 prices","20 prices","20 prices","Bills for plank and lumber of all kinds, R. Blow; 12 prices","18 prices (August 1st??)","Re: loading of tobacco in ship Portsmouth at Cabin Point or Petersburg. Times hard; cannot remit now","A continuation of letter of January 1st (above)","Refers to new tax imposed by General Assembly of January 1st on tobacco. Money very hard, being [unclear?] often. Sends invoices for tobacco shipped out","Ship Portsmouth leaving for Portsmouth…","Re: glad to know ship Portsmouth is out of Cape's","Sending tobacco down in the Molly or the Termagant","In distress for cash to get French ships out—has drawn on Blow for £ 50. Gordon \u0026 Kean will send her (ship) out to sea for Grubb if I can furnish funds.","Discusses his personal business affairs—Roberts almost paid now. James River tobacco now in demand here. Refers to George Briggs, nephew of Blow, owing him; also George Nicholson and Richmond Rope Walk","Re: carpenters working on the wharf, etc.","Re: corn sent to Blow from the Plantation","Re: Blows ship in port and difficulties re manifest. Refers to Blow's marriage and send congratulations to him","Re: general news","Refers to Blow's \"happy day\" (wedding day / Richard Blow's Marriage); Tobacco prices looking up. Trade duller than when you were here.","The Grand Duke has brought in £ 2200. Refers to the Portsmouth, the Harrison, safe at Cadiz","Sends manifests of ship's Portsmouth cargo. She [ship]will be in England before the Harrison or the Grand Duke. Needs salt and stoneware","Gives ship's Portsmouth cargo and his needs.","…when he left South Quay he settled with Baker \u0026 Blow. Invoice of Tobacco received.","Buying lighter of Blow","Sends goods out by Grande Duke to Portsmouth and Petersburg stores. Business dealing with the two stores sends tobacco and staves back in Grand Duke.","Invoice of goods for (Richard Blow)","Invoice, harness and saddler","Tobacco shipped in the Hagard to Blow; concerned over how to pay creditors: \"very stagnant times\"","Wishes Blow to go up to the Charlotte store only 85 miles from Petersburg and see Mr. Youville","[Bot.?] of Bax \u0026 Ellill for \"Blow\"","[Bot.?] of Trinbug \u0026 Bell for Blow.","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Introducing Mr. Galloway from Jamaica who would like to be their agent there","For £ 1233.19.14","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Mr. Tyson wishes circa 200 hhds tobacco from lower James River. Recommends shipping tobacco to France","Would like business dealings with Blow; encloses list of goods available for exportation and prices","Begging for goods to be sent to him in ship Portsmouth soon","Sends invoice of goods needed","Unable to send the candlesticks you wanted for the Mason's Lodge. Pattern desired not available, very expensive to be made by silversmith; awaits Blow's decision","Re: tobacco shipments","Bond of 1784 January 1st","Re: shipping of goods to him and tobacco loaded in Portsmouth","Re: his debt to Blow","Re: sends tobacco in ship Portsmouth","Re: goods sent to Blow's store in ship Portsmouth. Barksdale not liable for that store. Settled with Blow before he went to England (in 1785) \"I have no more interest in the Portsmouth Store or the ship Portsmouth than a man unborn nor never had from the beginning of our co-partnership\"","7 invoices for goods for Blow in England","3 items","Various assortments, 10 items","By: Rich Barton, Henry Dickson, Donald \u0026 Burton; Taxes, Sussex County or Richard Blow: 1196 acres land, 203 acres land, 210 acres land, 28 polls, 13 levis, 10 horses, 50 cattle","from Donald \u0026 Burton, John Begg, James Williamson, Portsmouth Store, J. Barrister (10 items)","With carpenters, tailors, butcher, cabinet maker (10 items)","15 items","30 items","30 items","To M. Finkle, Jno. Thomson, [D____unclear?], Eph. Elder, Alex. Smith, E. Youngman, H. Brown, G. Nickols","various goods","Material for dresses","\"London, 3 Voyages;\" \"Virginia, 3 voyages\"","Re: bread, rum, etc","For repairs to ships of Portsmouth","For ship Industry, for store and for wharf; and for ship Dispatch (repairs)","Invoice for misc. goods.","For craftsmen. 23 items","For craftsmen. 30 items","Carpenter and builders account","For Petersburg store, South Quay store, etc.","Goods of Blow","2 items","14 pp.","5 pp.","5 pp.","13 pp.","3 pp.","6 pp.","Ships furnished, Ports listed, foreign merchants traded with, invoices (local and foreign); 200 items","Messrs. Brothers De Bacque, Dunkirk (France)","29 business letters concerning the sale of tobacco and loading on ship Portsmouth and others for foreign ports. Also their business agreements. The dates of the letters are as follows: January 12 11, 15, 26, February 2, 1, 8, March 12 26, April 4, 20, 12 30, May 16, 26, 31, 20, June 6, July 16, 13 August 10, 17, 19, 14 12 29, September 2, December 1, 13","Reports dissolution of the Partnership of Thomas Bland \u0026Co., will continue the business under the firm name of William Edwards \u0026 Co. and settle former co-partnership","To: Wm Pritchard, Wm Corrupter, Gabriel and [Rhilgo?], James Brown, John Cranbury, John Bingham, M. Donald, John Whitley","Re: renting house (Waddell was a silversmith, formerly of Williamsburg)","Re: to James Giddy Jr., Silversmith in Petersburg, formerly of Williamsburg","Re: renting store","70 pieces","Re: about to settle in Amherst Country","Re: cargoes for Portsmouth and Grande Duke and payments","Sales of cargo of Haney reported to your credit. Sends hogshead of London wine via ship. Ship Active soliciting trade","Indian corn cargo sent by Blow to them; Enclosed invoice of prices or articles imported to this island: wheat, grain and flour always command good prices and good profit","Tobacco is a very dull sale at present. Wheat high all over Europe, Turpentine is much demand","Cargo for North Carolina, salt, rum, ship bread and 400 empty hands.","Fort was manager or operator of the Tower Hill Store for Blow, George Andrews is overseer for 1788 for £ 20","Shipments to Donald \u0026 Burton via Bowman; other shipments discussed","(fragment)","2 to 15 ships en route to Portsmouth are frozen up in Appomattox River near the bar; ice is 5 inches thick","Most woolens entirely too high for this market","Re: clothing for Col. Lewis Burwell's enslaved persons is held up for duties at Portsmouth","Re: Suits in General Court","Re: Suits in court there. Blow's debts due; payments","Asking that Blow send 2 packages that came for him from abroad. One may be a spinet.","This detailed letter about the economy discusses prices for canvas, salt, tar; compares French and English prices for same. French minister has written to Jefferson with regard to trade to tobacco. France may become a very important depot for tobacco and particularly this port as it is near to the Dutch and German Ports.","Re: sendingBoxes of James Geddy's by first vessel","Re: James Geddy's invoice of sundry goods in 3 packages misplaed; never arrived here; find they are in Norfolk at Capt. Maxwell's. Please send.","Re: suits in General Court","(care of Joshua Fort, Tower Hill) Re: [unclear?] a lot of his","Re: suits in General Court","Re: bill owed by Blow","Mr. Geddy's 3 packages of goods have arrived at last, send duties due from him","re: coming for final settlement of accounts of Baker and Blow","Re: Blow's lots in Petersburg. Legality of ownership must be cleared up. Will check deeds in Prince George County. Gill will sue you if not cleared up soon.","Re: debts","Re: shipments of tobacco","Tobacco very promising this year, prospects for 1/3 more crop. Wants horseman's trumpet for our Cavalry","General prices and tobacco sales outlook","Sending tobacco down, also bacon, hams for Mr. Gregory in Dunkirk. M. Oldner will look after them.","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Lathian, Sharp, Wardrop \u0026 Co., Weavers","[unclear?] of Hunt \u0026 Clay, Ribbon Weaver","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Henry \u0026 Richard Joseph, Pewterers","[unclear?] of Lancaster, Bax and Ellill and shipment in Bowman for Virginia, bird shot, seeds","[unclear?] of James Davidson, Net, Rope, Twine, Line maker","[unclear?] of Wm \u0026 Rdn Borradaile \u0026 Co.; Hats and felts","[unclear?] of Edward Collinson, Tin Plate, [Warker?]","[unclear?] of [North?] Johnson \u0026 [Frith?], turners and brush makers","Re: prices of naval stores, lumber and staves. Asks for settlement of their business for past year soon","Glad Portsmouth has gone to sea, re: Blow's lands","[unclear?] of John Freeman \"cork cutter to his majesty\"","Looking for Captain Oldner. Stack of Tobacco in France kept up high by late deliveries. Farmers General will buy at liberal prices to encourage commerce between the two countries. When Portsmouth arrives, will write you further.","Sending sturgeon down, wishes nails","Re: coming to Tower Hill soon; We should come to something decisive in our business. Crop up country good.","Re: shipments of staves","Re: [lands?] of Baker \u0026 Blow in western lands.","Re: repairs to shop","Execution against blow for £ 600.5, for debts owed","Needs salt for store; re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] Gov. of Virginia for duties past due £ 80","Shipments in Portsmouth","Ship Captain: business about sailing for Blow","Will sell 1,200 acres of land in order to pay if Blow insists","Re: debt owed to Blow","Sending down tobacco","Re: suit in Southampton Co. Court","Re: Blow's debt to firm for tobacco sent him","Re: sending load of staves down by Mr. Gray","Allowed another ship to have barrel of mead as they were out; Oldner was the Captain of Ship Portsmouth","Farm conditions bad due to inclemency of weather; John Rochelle needs salt","Lawyer for Mr. Baker and Blow, Suit vs. Holland to come up at next court","Has sold Robert Rives remaining stock of goods belonging to Webb, Barksdale \u0026 Co. Accounts enclosed to amount of £ 916.8.4 sterling to go on proper account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale. It is now time to rent out the Courthouse store if no renter applies, we shall have to pay dead rent","Ship Louisa is in from Isle of May with salt. Says prices of barrel staves is too high","Is willing to be Captain of ship to ply between Holland to Portsmouth","Asks that goods come up in ship Bell Cap Bay, lying now at New Point News or in Nansemond River. May send \"my ship Constitution\"","Member of House of Delegates from Sussex County. General Discussion of affairs","Re: Law cases","Sale of schooner and cargo in Rotterdam; Ship Kepple to be sold in West Indies. Mr. Rosser to Fredericksburg with load of salt and dry goods. Ship Meremaid from Glasgow arrived today. Mr. Lightfoot's sloop from Antigua here [Mrs. Blow and little George were staying in Petersburg with Mr. Blow]","Re: changing from employ to Rotterdan [unclear?] to Captain of Portsmouth owned by Blow","Ships Portsmouth and other ships: staves business and red oak hogsheads for sale. Queen of France from London and Captain Blaney from St. Martins here with salt.","News of General Assembly in session. Briggs was representative from Sussex County. John Pride was speaker of Senate, defeated Charles Carter. Briggs thinks Pride better for office as he is \"more of a republican;\" [theater] plays to start here soon, place very gay.","Re: case Baker and Blow versus Applewhaite","Re: package lost","Re: suits and loss of legal papers","13 items","Suits in court","140 items","19 items pertaining to sloop","100 items","50 items","See alsoBox 11A: Financial Records, 1787-1789.","Have sent Blow 12 hogsheads tobacco and 10 [unclear?] pork; no peas to be had.","Sending load of tar","Re: sending navel stores for A. Donald","Re: Wishes to rent Blow's house in Petersburg for Mr. Rose; let him hear your wishes.","Sending load of tar","Re: Blow's judgment against him","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court vs. Blow \u0026 Baker","Prices of staves, shingles, scantling, sugar, molasses, coffee, tobacco, fish","Tar sent to A. Donald, sending 4 [bbls?] of turpentine to you","Re: selling enslaved person; Col. Baker's estate","Ship Powhatan thought lost","Burgess had a school in Southampton. Reference to payments to Blow","Has received Indian corn shipment for the account of James Brown of Richmond, Virginia. American grain is much in favor here, tho' [am?] crops of wheat, rye and barley are good","Sends flour and corn down for foreign trade","Re: Baker estate and suits in Brunswick County Court","Discusses financial conditions, tariff changes and effects on American goods","Sends manifests for 55 hogeheads by Portsmouth;Also, others. Brother (James) is at Bermuda Hundred on business","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court, of Blows","Sends bar iron for sale","Wishes quantity of peas to fill ship to be sent to Madeira before Christmas","Sent 2,800 bushels of wheat in ship Nancy for Philadelphia. Will Blow get bills of lading for it for Manson?","Cannot pay his account to Blow","Sending down 100 [unclear?] of flour and a parcel of back eyes peas (12 to 1,500 bushels) for Madeira","Lists tobacco sent down for Blow, needs Liverpool salt","Repairs, wages, food, ports, etc.","Repairs, bread, rum, cordage, naval stores and general petty accounts for misc. articles","Bills of laden and accounts of sloops Portsmouth, Elizabeth, Betsey, Acorn and others; and petty accounts for ships","12 items","circa 100 items","circa 71 items","Answer of Richard Blow, partner of Baker \u0026 Blow and of Richard Blow \u0026 Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","Answer of Richard Blow partner of Baker and Blow and of Richard Blow and Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","26 items","3 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","10 items","20 items","To ship on board the Portsmouth for Havre De Grass: Smithfield, Low Point, Hoods, Davis's, B. Brooke, Byrds, Lowpoint","\"Richard Blow for the ships\" account of repairs Blacksmith account-ship Gloucester to Richard Blow","20 items","20 items","Work on ship Portsmouth","20 items","20 items","13 items and one item related to freight","1 item","14 items","23 items","4 items","Re: Tobacco saved from wreck of the schooner Nelly in November 1783. Asks for settlement, may enter suit","Has corn and cask of ginger for Mr. Blow, by ship Charlie","Re: shipping tobacco via City Point, 60 [unclear?] corn at 4-Mile-Creek, little wheat","Sending 33 hogsheads of tobacco to Blow, for shipment on Portsmouth for Donald \u0026 Burton, London","Re: rent of Blow's warehouse","Owes blow; he is out of work, can't pay now (ship captain?)","Problems regarding ship and loading","Sending down brandy, nuts, apples by cart. \"people\" (referring to enslaved persons) need shoes","Has been to France, 3 days at Dunkirk at Messrs. De Bacque. They seem agreeable to do business but due to the critical condition of affairs in France, the exchange is above par. Will go to Liverpool to look situation over. \"Expect to get the scheme completed to the fullest extent and the goods shipped…\"","Sends invoice of goods and corn delivered to Capt. Binghame","Has sent 3000 [unclear?] of turpentine for account of Mr. Donald","re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale (2)","Send him rum for corn he sent to Blow","Wishes turpentine","Sends turpentine (600??) would want $3 per (??)","Re: loading corn and sending down","Re: sending corn for shipment","Re: sale of boards, shingles, scantling to merchants here. Will have 600 bushels of salt for Captain Cox and flour and fish. Hope to sail back by August","Demand for Virginia. Coal is very slow due to quantity of British coal on market. Corn prices low, Captain Fineash has employed Willing, Morris \u0026 Co. to buy his bricks. Wheat and flour prices good.","Sends down turpentine","Sailing on Bowman on 20th; dissapointed that Blow has done nothing to fit up his store in Petersburg for the reception of goods","Sloop Peggy left Lyon's Creek with corn","Accounts for sale of cargo and prices received","Re: Capt Fineash's business affairs","Re: Blow's accounts there","Re: sending tobacco and turpentine","Re: Brunswick County Suits","30 items: The dates are as follows: January 13 February 24, March 9, 13 April 14 21, 28, May 14 7, 10, 5, 26, 21, 24, 31, June 7, 23, July 1, August 13 14 September 12 20, 25, October 2, 2, 20, 19, 22, 25","35 items: Brown's loading of tobacco and corn on the Portsmouth, Clermont, Polly, Phoenix, Harrison, Grand Duke to be delivered to Blow for foreign sale. Brown wished Blow to send him turpentine, salt, dry goods , rum, sugar, coffee, etc. Brown was a big merchant in Richmond. The dates are as follows: August 2, 2, 6, 11, 17, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 13 28, 30, September 1, 8, 12 12 13 17, 20, 24, 27, October 6, 4, 4, November 1, 3, 8, 10, 19, 23, December 2, 14 28, 30, 30","General condition of market, shipping, etc. The dates are as follows: March 9, 18, 24, 24, 27, 30; April 1, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 28, 24, 26, 28, 27, 29; May 1, 3, 19, 30, 19, 21, 22, 21, 26, 28; June 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 25, 25, 28, 30; July 2, 5, 9, 19, 19, 22, 29, 29; December 9.","James Brown, Richmond merchant, accounts with Richard Blow; Brown's sale to various foreign merchants and delivered to ship Captains sailing, etc.; flour, corn, tobacco. 25 pieces","20 misc. petty accounts","Cargo sales, voyage #10: wages, repairs, fitting out food, etc.","38 items","41 items","77 items","3 items","75 items regarding repairs, fittings etc.","54 pieces","Expenses of Corn shipped on the Birch, Cleopatra, Mary. Naval stores statement . 20 pieces","Accounts of ships with Richard Blow; ships Bowman, Cleopatra, Portsmouth, Phoenix, Grande Duke, Endeavor. Sales of turpentine, tar, staves, rum, molasses, corn, repair work done, etc.","Has received flour and black-eyed peas from Blow; will send wines to Blow; gives current prices of wheat, corn, rice, flour, beans, beef, pork, bees wax and staves","Thanks Blow for present of 4 red birds sent to him. Three arrived safely. I gave two to female friends and one to Mr. Donald.","Low Point, Milners, Smithfield, Suffolk, G-Creek,Hampton, Petersburg, Tower Hill","Re: Blow's Tobacco sent to him","In French.","Bill for joiners work","Relating to Portsmouth, George, Industry, Nancy, Grand Duke, Bowman, Harriet, Castor, Union, Molly, Harrison","By master shipwrights, Captain John Cox, commander of Portsmouth","As result of damage received on the Bognor Rocks £ 633 [Bognor Rocks, Sussex County","58 pieces: Repairs, wages, food, etc","Over 200 items","Re: debts now due and insaluable; rent for Princeton (house near Sussex County house); about Wm. Bland's inability to pay for horse Aristotle","Thank for red birds sent to him. Sned more","Re: sending oranges and hives","\"France is at war with the Emperor of Prussia; gives effect of current prices\"","Red birds died on voyage; Captain Pollack of ship Grand Duke will bring others for me, I hope","Wishes cargo of staves—has shipped brandy to Blow. Also wishes Oak timbers and cedar boards for whale boats and harpoon. Situation of political affairs will influence the exchange. The success of our war against the Emperor and the King of Prussia has made prices fall already. Our success in several battles has recovered from the Emperor the whole Belgick [Belgique] or Flanders, besides the whole kingdom of Savoy.","In French.","Is establishing a House of Commerce in Bordeaux; asks business of Blow","3 items","Accounts, disbursements, (32 items)","Repairs, bills, after hurricane from St. Eustatias to Virginia","David and George, Grande Duke, Ballie De Sulpier; Captain Timothy Congers was captain of the Ballie de Sulpier. In his account to Richard Blow under July 9, 1792 there is this item: \"Cash paid expenses to Williamsburg to see the judge (2.14.3 ½)\" and on July 29, 1792 \"Cash at Maupin's (5.18.1) on July 11 1792 Captain [Conears?] to Gabriel Maupin..\"[unclear?] for dinner, club, wine, lodging, grog are listed by Maupin as paid on July 12th. Maupin kept an ordinary in Williamsburg; [see: House History at Research department C.W. (M.A. Stephenson, March 1968)]","40 items","21 items","21 items","12 items","55 items","50 items","21 items","12 items","55 items: Foreign agents, local suit, ship captains accounts, invoices of sloop Industry and David and George, Portsmouth, repairs to ships (nail maker, blackmaker, iron work), invoices for lumber, scantling, shingles, food furnished ships (ship bread, rum, beef, etc.)","(Captain John Cox)","Arrival of your ship Portsmouth. Wishes staves, cedar hoards, oak timbers for the whole boats and tarpons. Wishes tobacco; Brandy or gin will not be allowed to go into your country but in casks upward of 90 gallons. Which type of brandy and cognac will Blow like? Will send price current from time to time.","Over 50 items.","\"A committee of the inhabitants of Petersburg assembled on Wednesday to devise some measure to prevent the communication of the Small Pox from Richmond, and they have resolved on planning a smoke house at Pocahontas to have every person from Richmond smoked before they are admitted into town..\" Gives prices current.","Discusses war with Portugal and Spain and consequent fall in prices","Re: tobacco delivered to Port-au-Prince","Re: shipping Blow tobacco at Kemp's Warehouse on the Piankatank","List of 15 hogsheads of tobacco for sloop Experience","Ships Blow hering, shad and tar","Sends 32 hhds tobacco","Gives prices current in list for tobacco and turpentine, deerskins, tar and rice","Re: Buying ship with Blow; son going to Virginia to be in business there, gives current prices of tobacco, turpentine, etc. Tobacco sales down 1/3 in France by National Assembly orders.","States that Donald \u0026 Burton have failed. He and Mr. Lamb, book keeper for Donald \u0026 Burton, will form a joint business. Asks for Blow's business with them. Lamb \u0026 Younger are insurance workers, also.","Bills of laden (12), wages","\"…There never was such distress in this kingdom amongst the commercial people as at this time prevails…I think very few will be able to ship goods the coming fall for their correspondents. Tobacco is very low and hardly any sale. A cargo of (??) Virginia Tobacco has lately been sold at 1¾, wheat 6/6, tar 21/[unclear], turpentine 12/ct\"","Offers to collect debts for Blow","Gives London exhange and needs","Gives prices current in Cadiz and exchange in London, Amsterdam and Paris; gives money valuations also","Discusses prices and general trade conditions","Sends bill for goods desired","Virginia Coffee House","Letter and copy","50 miscellaneous bills.","89 items.","Re: Collections for Blow","Re: Price current for Antigua Rum","Re: cask of chewing tobacco sent him for sale","\"The embargo will cease after the 25th of this month. The resolution to continue it after that time was rejected by a large majority yesterday..\"","Re: Blow \u0026 Baker's judgment vs. Henry Banks","Suits of Baker \u0026 Blow, judgments, etc.","\"…M. Lee has rented your old store house to a M. Dudgin, a baker is building a very large oven in the back yard adjoining the old kitchen on the [run?]. Your carriage is now all ready, it is a nice one and I hope will please Mrs. Blow","Re: Relationship between J. Boyce and T. Thompson Jr., dissolving partnership","Orders 40 lb. of West India Cotton and some salt","Sending corn from Tower Hill, to Blow via Cabin Point and River","87 pieces.","111 pieces.","Re: Lot in Petersburg of Blow's","Gives current prices","Gives current prices","Note the N.B.","Gives current prices","Re: his debts to Blow under firm name of \"Fort \u0026 Nicholson\"","Prices current","Prices current","Prices current","Bill of Laden and earthenware","Re: Merchant, Mr. Smith, who is coming to Virginia to settle","Re: Thomas Thompson has died; Re: Blow's business with Thompson","\"The troop of Cavalry of Petersburg, marched on Saturday and about 160 militia and now going on daily from the different countries that come through here, the result of this business is very much to be feared will end in some thing that will be shocking to human nature…\"","Order for goods (dress materials)","Returning to England","Re: Th. Thompson's estate","Mr. Thompson, Jr., arrived safely; Executors of T. Thompson, Jr. will give up the trade entirely, so partnership between him and you will be closed as early as possible","Re: T. Thompson's estate","Says great Britain will pay for all injustices which Americans have suffered by the West Indies cruisers: make your just claim for loss suffered by the capture of your vessels. Do not doubt but that you'll be reimbursed for loss; discusses his and Blow's business connections and Thompson's son's business affairs in Virginia","Invoices of Richard Blow's. 50 items","Refers to French American difficulties at present; Thompson's estate affairs not favorable; great demand for middle grade tobacco","J. Strange, Manchester to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Price current list","Prices current listed","\"Captain Harrison of the Fort was shot last night by Lt. Willson in a duel\"","Prices current given","Prices current given","British cruisers have orders to bring in every ship of whatever nation loaded with Provisions bound to France;... a great number of Americans are amongst but Commissioners appointed to purchase and to pay for the same instantly…","On sea 38 days, cargo damaged","Gives genealogy of kinship of Drews, Hines and Blows.","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","13 pieces","Invoices and receipts paid by Richard Blow to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, and to local tradesmen in Norfolk (50 pieces) see: Jacob Andrews, Norfolk, silversmith, for ½ dozen, tea spoons and a tea canister","43 pieces.","Benjamin Waller, Williamsburg, agent, for firm Abram Newman of London and John Grayson of Petersburg, Virginia, representing the firm of Davison \u0026 Newman, London, Executors of Benj. Waller, paid to attorneys for firm £ 1325 pounds and £2587.18 pounds - Va. currency in April 1779","Re: Henry Carleton's debt to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Pitch Landing, 1781; [Anderson was bookkeeper for firm then]","Sent salt, lemons, china and oranges to Blow","Is sending over in the Rebecca a very famous horse, Dare Devil, property of John Hoomer of Virginia","Dare Devil, Hoomer's horse, arrived safe in Virginia","\" I hear you have married Miss Wright..\"","General conditions","3 horses sent by Lamb \u0026 Younger to his father on Eliza;  give M. Lawson of Williamsburg and father information about this","Tobacco very high here","Current prices","Re: a fire which destroyed storehouse of Blow's, which Nash had rented. Mrs. Marks occupies the remaining house left of Blow's; wishes to continue renting it","Gives current prices","Re: Blow's and Barksdale's foreign business, collections, etc.","Received 5 hogsheads of tobacco from Tower Hill  overseer, entire crop","Writes for red birds; sends silk to Mrs. Blow","\"America must be reaping immense advantage from the war that is going on in Europe\"","Current prices","Re: purchase of a good vessel; condition uncertain due to war. Does not think good time to increase foreign trade","Ship Louise bringing cargo of salt to City Point in exchange for tobacco","Business [unclear?]","116 pieces.","Scammel was part owner with Blow of a store at Tower Hill [see Blow Family Papers, W\u0026M Library, Special Collections Research Center]","230 pieces","Re: settlement of Carolina business and also those for conveyance of the lot to John Baird and Jamestown","Re: collecting for Blow rent on Petersburg Storehouse and house, and recovering debts owed to Blow; current prices listed","Re: debt he owes for rent","Re: estate of Thompson","Re: purchase of ship Moses Myers by Strange \u0026 Blow","Re: rent of Blow's houses in Petersburg","Re: Brig Moses Myers","Re: Deed from Blow for Petersburg lots and houses","Re: Collection for Blow \u0026 Barksdale business","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Re: Th. Thompson's Estate","Discusses foreign wars and politics in France; not in favor of the Moses Myers brig sent out to Dunkirk now; perilous situation","\"..enclosed you have a Deed of trust from M. John Baird Jr. to you which he wishes to execute to secure the payment of his bond to you..\"","…would like to have the name pedigree of Mr. Burwells horse","Wishes stud horses sent to his place, Chalmeria, Dinwiddie County, by way of Suffolk and Petersburg, understands a groom and ferrier are with the house; avoid all ferries","Wish Blow to get him the pedigree of horse Traveller and also name and pedigree of Mr. Burwell's horse","A vessel has arrived from London at Norfolk and has brought two stud horses shipped by Mr. Barksdale for M. Strange","Re: Thompsons settlement of estate","To collect debt owed by Anderson since 1795","Baird buys lots from Blow in Petersburg on Brick House Run","12 pieces","Brig Moses Myers, Sloop Industry, Sloop Rebecca; German Ships; 50 pieces)","54 pieces","Over 100 pieces","Naval stores","Refers to war conditions and settlements abroad","Gives current prices","Bad news from abroad","Has rented Blow's orchards","Re: settlement of Father's debts","Re: Baker and Blow's business—debts owed them and bonds given","\"…I have at last made sale of Blow \u0026 Barksdale's land in Charlotte for £ 1000 pounds","Has sold Brig Moses Myers to Freeland","Re: execution papers re Nicholson of Cabin Point for Blow","Re: sale of his tobacco","Re: damaged tobacco","Thomas, Industry, Moses Myers, Galliat-a-Maria, Fox, Stafford, Mill River","Henry Urquhart, Wilmington North Carolina to Wm. Barksdale+1719:1724","List of 24 hogsheads of tobacco on board of the Harmony for Norfolk to Blow","Re: San Domingo Business","Sending naval stores","Shipping garden seeds to Blow","Captain of ship bound to Port-au-Prince","Re: buying salt","Re: buying salt","Re: salt from Isle of May and his warehouse for storing the salt is good","Re: order from Blow for a rolling mill for a Goldsmith's work; will send later; other business between them","Re: sale of David \u0026 George (ship), Bills of lading sent; have sold tobacco and beeswax of Blow's; poor market; Georgia cotton is high and sugar and coffee equally as high","Industry arrived at Falmouth-sent her to Hull","Fort \u0026 Barksdale will send cargo of tobacco, flour, etc. to San Domingo; asks Blow to secure proper vessel for them","Sending 1 bale of woolens (£ 133.2) for Norfolk","Newspapers being sent to Blow. \"You will find much news and the state of Public Affairs in Europe; great events is looked for shortly\"","Re: Blow's insurance on buildings; request a copy of Blow's policy \"Tobacco market perfectly flat\"","Business with Blow; for tobacco and brandy","List of good shipped to Blow aboard Jennie; cargo for West Indies","Cargo of $7000 sent aboard Jennie for West Indies; invoice listed","Re: settlement with Blow for damaged tobacco and hominy","Re: estate settlement of Moore's","A list of bonds, notes, and securities due to the Estate of Th. Thompson put into the hands of Mr. Copeland","Sending invoices and bills of lading for woolens, etc. Could not ship guns without permission of this Government which could have cost more than the value; sending earthenware","Would like to rent rooms belonging to Blow's store, \"for the accommodation of about half a dozen particular acquaintances.\" Would like Blow's \"young gentlemen\" to board with her","Account of sales for tobacco and beeswax","Accounts for cotton","Re: wines","Re: salt","Re: debts due Blow","Has man who wishes to buy Blow's 100 acres near Petersburg called \"Chicken Quarter\" will give £ 55; invoice of timber sent","Blow elected Director of the Bank of U.S., Norfolk office","Re: settlement of father's estate","Current price list","Dudley was nephew of Mrs. Lee Hall","Re: suspicion that his aunt was poisoned","List of articles sent by sloop for Mr. Barksdale's trip abroad 11 packages in all.","Son has sailed for England","Wm. West is to build a house at Old Place (Blow's father's home in Southampton) for Richard Blow, how large must it be?","\"All of Mr. Barksdale's furniture and etc. was sold off by Haxall on Thursday last; and at prices enormously high; the sales will exceed the original cost of the property\"","\"..our sales in September amounts to 124 pounds, 30 pounds cash\"","\"..Ship Moses Myers has been taken on her return from Madeira, retaken and carried into St. Kitts which has entirely frustrated the views that were entered into for her immediately going back with an assorted cargo…and I regret you will be disappointed of the fine old wines..\"","Son John has returned from London; 37 day passage","Opinion of political situation between France, Austria, England, and Denmark and business repercussions as result. Reported that Blow's Ship Portsmouth has been detained in England.","Is renting warehouse to Mr. [John] Halt.","Discusses international situation; England's problems, etc. Is moving his store to Bolling Brook Street; gives current prices for tobacco and etc.","Re: his father's estate and collections","Discusses uprising of enslaved person Gabriel (\"slave insurrection\")","Refers to setting up business at Surry; will get Mr. McIntosh's building","\"Late news from abroad; England and Denmark will not [rupture?]; will send ship Louisa out soon..\"","Brand and corn meal being sent to Blow on the Hannah and Enterprize also tobacco","Importations this year very large","On way to canal to get shingles","Importation considerable; back country merchants will not buy anything of any consequence; desires salt, now worth 22/6 a sack and 4/3 loose per bushel","Gives prices current","Had shipment of gloves valued; sending some to Blow; doubts if they can sell well; discusses salt market.","Re; Salt and spices","Sending tobacco for sale in Clarissa; wishes wine bought for him","Schooner Eira from Norfolk brought news of death of his father; schooner Augusta brought letter from Blow. Thinks M. Goodwin very improper person to administer father's estate. Brother William may wind up estate in Virginia, if not, asks Blow to administer. Remit all collections to mother; George Leckie, London, sending turtle andBox of oranges to Blow as present","Ship Mississippi brought salt from Liverpool; Is shipping tobacco to Blow by sloop Mill River","Re: shipping him flour and staves","Re: shipping of tobacco ahead; gloves he has are hard to unload on merchants; William Barksdale in England","Accounts current (Blow \u0026 Barksdale, June 23, 1800) and others, Bonds for duties on ships, Prom. Notes, bills of lading, receipts","see Folder 2 also","Foreign mostly","Dudley was a nephew of Dr. Hall. Had a small grocery store","Re: seizure of the Charles Carter by French privateer and uncertainty of the Mary Hilton","Wishes his 350 or 400 hogheads of Indian meal shipped to England as a better market than western ports. Was priced at 12/6 [Stg?] per bushel and flour quoted at 120 per Bushel. Tobacco very dull here. \"I have no doubt that France will capture all neutral vessels they can that are loaded with provisions for England.\" Gives current prices of flour, bacon, hogs.","Wishes salt for the Indian meal he has sent to Blow for sale","Re: Bankrupt, Jesse Brown - Refers to \"Master George (Blow) at Bellfield (Academy)\" [Bellfield is now Emporia. There was a school there which George Blow attended. See Blow Family Papers Index, M. Stephenson]","Is building a schooner for the West Indies","Conditions of markets local and abroad","Using Blow's Brig Almira to send his tobacco to Falmouth and Dunkirk or Havre (both in France); Wishes brig to come to City Point to load; gives current prices","Wishes to go to Scotland; asks Blow about passage","Ship Washington loading at Harrison's Bar near here","Contract for ship Washington for load for Falmouth","Good news from Europe related to war there; Mr. Barksdale in England gives condition of market for tobacco there, in France and Holland.","Sales in April amounted to £ 140, £ 36 cash","Loading Almira for Dunkirk or Havre, or Rotterdam, on Blow's terms, all load to go to Mr. Barksdale for sale","Re: shipments of tobacco abroad, current prices noted","Tobacco accounts","Tobacco accounts","Re: 2 horses and a mare sent from abroad to Hoomes in care of Blow, Horses to arrive in the Chesapeake","Exchange at par; tobacco prices dull","\"We have this moment received intelligence that preliminaries of peace between this country and France were signed on the 1st. Inst. What will be the effects with the commercial world we are not prepared to say..\"","Several arrivals of foreign ships at City Point","Exchange only 1 per cent under par in New York and really as high in Philadelphia and Baltimore","Invoice of 24 hogshead of tobacco from Dixon's warehouse","Sending Blow 16 hogshead of tobacco on Neptune on account of Col. Burwell (Carter's Grove). Send the German linens on board the Nancy to Col. Burwell","Re: Col Nathaniel Burwell's tobacco. \"The remainder of the tobacco shall be sent you from the College W. House as soon as a craft can be obtained.\" \"N.B. I send you four hogshead of tobacco marked and [unclear?] as [unclear?] the property of Matthew Anderson of Williamsburg which he wishes shipped to Messrs Davis Stephenson \u0026 Co. (London)…if not to Messrs Lamb \u0026 Young..\"","Re: debt owed by Godwin to Leckie","Introducing Mr. Somerville of Somerville \u0026 Halliday, New York","Mr. Galigo wishes to charter ship Washington if you have not disposed of her","Sending tobacco to go to London via ship Washington","Thinking of returning to England as has closed all business in Richmond; flour market here good; let me hear of the flour shipped","Shipping tobacco on ship Mill Run to be sent to Liverpool: will you attend to this?","Is collecting debts owed to Blow, Tobacco very dull here at 27/meal and flour at high prices","Hear brig Betsy en route to Jamaica; would like Blow to ship his flour to Kingston?","Re: shipping of tobacco on brig Polly, schooner William for London","Re: attempt to sell his ship at anchor at Blow's warehouse in Norfolk","Re: Blow's taking over Brown, Rives \u0026 Co.'s ships for Leeth and other ports","Re: Blow's help in getting cargo for England, current prices","Enclosed bill of lading for 58 hogsheads of tobacco per schooner William","Re: collecting Blow's acts for him","Enclosed bill of lading for 79 hogheads of tobacco for Leeth","Re: conditions in New York for discounting notes","Re: shoe leather and flour barrels needed","Listing ships carrying 310 hogheads tobacco abroad for firm: Mary Hatton, Hooper, Harriet, William.","Asking Blow to send his tobacco to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","November sales at store amounted to 354 pounds £74 cash. Out of sugar; Mr. West (overseer) wishes to be paid for his last year's wages; says T. Gray is pushing him for payment for land","Re: London goods shipped to Taliaferro via Blow","Announcing loss of the ship Charlotte Walton in Dunkirk harbor; all perrished. Mr. Barksdale had written him of this; gives prices of flour and tobacco","Tobacco sent for Lamb \u0026 Younger to Blow; the brig Delight has also hogsgead of corn, meal, [beans?]; I need 44 new flour barrels of you","Prices higher because of state of things in Europe, Inflation may increase if seasons are not good","Current business statement","Re: tobacco to be shipped abroad","Re: seizure of brig Morris Myers in Nova Scotia; asks Blow's advice about insurance of cargo (London?); cargo was sold; should we prosecute the Appeals?","Re: estate of his father, wishes family bible","Expecting ship from Ireland soon; wishes cargo for it, vessel about 250 tons","Current prices","Re: sale of tar and turpentine","Has purchased a pair of mill stones for my friend Gen. Henry See, shipped on board a vessel of Mr. David Anderson of Petersburg. Please send them up the Potomac to Gen. See, Westmoreland County.","Has canvas, tar and turpentine for sale","Bills of lading for wines","Wishes to sell pork made by John D. White of Carolina, inspected in full salt but not pickled; 600 + land","Re: his tobacco lost by sinking ship","Re: sale of his skins","Re: rum","Can't sell gloves","Business in shipping and current prices","Gen. Lee wishes the Mill stones to be landed at Stratford three miles above Blackstones Island. Taylor has stone steps from city of Washington being sent down to him via Blow's vessel.","Asks Blow to ship a couple dozen hams to London, 1 dozen for Mr. Barksdale and 1 dozen for Mr. A. Donald, an old friend. Wishes bacon and hams for personal use.","Is financially ruined and will have to take bankruptcy; asks advice of Blow","Wishes to sell 15,000 lbs (pounds) of cured bacon and hams which are salpetered","Tobacco [unclear?] may get up to 5 ½ or 6 dollars","Re: his shipments abroad","Asks about price of beeswax and cheese","Re: sale of his schooners to pay his debts","Brown, Rives, \u0026 Co., Richmond, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Flour has fallen; tobacco [transient?]","Cannot sell gloves which Blow sent him; might try Charleston, but New York would be better market","Store sales in February were £ 120 pounds, £ 30 cash","Re: tobacco shipments abroad","Thanks him for sending hams to London for him, also for flour and corn forwarded to him","Old Tobacco is worth $ 7 or $ 8; send Lees to Philadelphia; other to go to England; better to send in 2 ships as risk is less.; fill in with corn and Indian meal.","Re: vast acreage of land in Nansemond County surveyed in 1791 and entered in Surveyor's book, Norfolk, in name of James Murdough and Daniel Fisher (20,000 acres). Entry was first made in 1783 with Andrew Stewart, and later Col. Charles Connor; asks Blow to \"have inventory made in the names of Thomas Edmonds and John T. Blow who are the right and only owners of these warrants\"","Re: collection for Blow","Bought sloop Alexander to save debt of Francis Jones","Orders for shipments of tobacco to England","Great demand for grain and flour; have had no sales for gloves","Have shipped by brig Betsy 416 [hbls?] flour to Blow; also have sent 58 [hbls?] by brig Independence. Gives current price list.","Received cheese; wishes price of corn and bacon. Little peach brandy in this neighborhood this year; sales at store were £ 162, £ 54 cash","Gloves (380 dozen) sent to Philadelphia for possible sale; would like coffee, sugar and salt in barter for Indian corn. Send prices for tobacco, flour, mead, corn, rum, brandy, coffee, and sugar. Wishes payment for Barksdale's debt to him for tobacco.","Re: note of Mr. Jones","Sent set of springs for a gigg for Mr. Fort on sloop Sincerity","Is there any demand for Russian goods with you? Expect a ship from the Baltics soon","Re: flour to be exported","Re: sending tobacco to Blow for export","Sending tobacco for shipment on brig Washington to London","Sorry to hear of the loss of brigs Carter and Mary Hylton, hope to go to London soon, peace seems near.","Re: tobacco shipments","Orders for tobacco sent down to go to Cowes, Havre, Dunkirk (France), and Rotterdam via the brig Almira","Re: tobacco for London","Need French brandy and rum; Crops poor, trade dull","Going to London via ship Washington; sending tobacco to Blow","Re: tobacco for ships Nancy and Almira","Tobacco for ship Almira","Re: tobacco for Almira and meal—Blow's plantation tobacco sent to Fort was refused","Wishes permission to send away ship which Blow may charter to Great Britain or Ireland if necessary","Re: problems about his sailing for England","Tobacco business and shipping","Re: illness of his mother (a sister of Richard Blow) Nancy is Rob Hines wife and child, George","Re: trip abroad and tobacco sent for shipment","Re: Ships' cargoes for Europe","Re: Cargoes for Europe","Every cellar full of water due to late rains","273 hhds by ship Almira already shipped","Wishes 100 hhds herrings","Tobacco by sloop Ranger for Almira","Tobacco by Ranger for Almira gloves for your store","Refers to Davis warehouse, Petersburg; sending tobacco for shipment","Tobacco bound for Orient via ship Antelope","Get passage to London for Thomas Leckie; wishes hams sent to friends Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","\"Our ship Venus arriving; will you get cargo for Ireland, England or France. Prefer Liverpool; can take staves.\"","\"Our ship Venus is a ship of 250 tons, 5 years old, has accommodations for passengers and sails well\"","Sloop Dispatch, Capt. Ash, bringing 26 hhds tobacco which Blow will ship according to manifest; detailed directions with tobacco marks ES, EF, W, RB","Re: tobacco shipments","Wishes 5 tons of logwood and 2 tons of lignum vitae to City Point, wishes logwood for ship Louisa, also.","Re: ship Almira whereabouts; lemons sent to Tower Hill. Tobacco, wheat and flour market very dull","Orders coffee, sugar, rum, oil, molasses","Barksdale wishes logwood by ship Louisa; Mr. Blow at Tower Hill","Takes out insurance for Blow at Phoenix Fire Insurance Office; surprised that Blow does not pay his overdue debt to them.","\"The Coopers left Tower Hill some days ago; they have some barrels to make at the old place, then they set off for Norfolk\"","Sending 22 hogsheads…","Hope Col. Carter's crop from York River has reached you. Hope Col. Burwell's from Rappahannock as well as the tobaccos from Carter's Grove are down. Buy pipes of wine for us.","Ship Nancy in from London","Hear his horses have arrived","Re: collection of debts due him","Re: Ships Almira and Venus belonging to Hathaway, Howes \u0026 Russell enroute to [unclear?] and Dunkirk","Blow owes them £ 1216.19.0; no insurance has been received from Blow's ship David \u0026 George","Account: £ 3593.8.0 ¾ (1800-1802)","Itemized lists of goods furnished £ 205.3.9 ¾","9 items","Desires Blow's foreign accounts shared by him","Accounts due Richard Blow","List of tobacco consigned to Blow, Norfolk","Struck by lightening from France to Virginia; repairs necessary listed","Repairs and disbursements","Sending Blow barrel staves by brig, about 250,000.","[Burwell had lived at Carter's Gove near Williamsburg before moving to Carter Hall]","Asks Blow to send up a cargo of logwood and [2 bbhs?] Rum","Latest letter from Europe gives a very unfavorable account of tobacco, prices here have fallen","Danish ship Ferendchaff[?] arrived at City Point yesterday from Dunkirk (France); will take logwood in cargo, tobacco prices low in France","Re: an unsettled account between Hussey and A. Wiscort \u0026 Aug. Derenville, merchants in New Castle, New Kent County [Derenville was a Merchant in Williamsburg: see also: CWF research department]","Hines gives consent to have her [daighter Patsy] inocculated for small pox. [Background information: Hines was a nephew of Blow. Hine's daughter, Patsy was living with Blow and going to school there.]","Gives list of current prices there; wishes Blow to give him letters of introduction to merchants in different parts of France, Spain, England and Holland. Armistead is sending his ship over there in trade","Re: store and plantation affairs","Re: tobacco sold Blow","Re: accounts for logwood and tobacco","Re: freight rates to Dunkirk and other ports","Part owner of ship Washington; wishes Blow to get cargo for ship to foreign ports","Sending Blow 4000 staves","SendingBox of books, send to Suffolk","Re: his problems with shipping","Re: ships Charles Carter and [Friendchoff?]","62 hhds tobacco aboard ship Washington","Cotton and wheat crop destroyed by hail storm","Many accounts owing to store cannot pay anything to Blow at present. We owe about $300 for pork we bought last winter","Orders from Blow for furniture to be made: mahogany enough for chairs and a sofa","Has just heard that a declaration of war has taken place between Great Britain and France; it appears that Louisiana and all the country west is ceded to the U.S. (Mailed from Baltimore)","Re: Hall Suit","Re: cargo of the Washington","Re: sale of tobacco","Math. Anderson of Williamsburg has sent down 4 hhds of tobacco for your care, please ship to London in British Vessel","Ships Martha Bland and the Lovely Lass are now loaded at City Point and bound for England via Norfolk, business very dull here","Sending Blow 194 pieces of bacon and 200 + 2 hhds of Indian meal and 1 [unclear?] flour. Send me store ware, mostly butter pots, also a set of bedstead screens","Crops injured by wet weather; Mr. West (overseer) needs about fifteen [unclear?]; trade dull; our sales for 3 months only £ 500 out of which there was only about £ 90 cash. Refers to \"Old Place\" in Southampton County [owned by Blow's father, Scammel, and now property of Blow]","Re: various ships available for shipping and tobacco abroad","Sailing for Nassau in ten days","Sending tombstone which I ask to be put over my father's grave; I sail for Halifax and England soon","Send shoe makers and oil to grease leather, tacks, hammer awls, etc., and cotton and wool cards","Wishes aid in taking his ship Almira to sea bound for Livernick, Ireland","Wishes barrel staves","Refers to \"Aunt Hall\" and calls Hall \"Uncle\"","Going to west Indies with 100 hbls of corn","Re: debt which Talbot Godwin owes Blow","Wishes Blow to sell his ship for him at $600","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","3 pieces","Tobacco Warehouse listings; Stud horse desired from England, Ship accounts.","Have received 10,000 lb of pork this season and only 1 hhd of tobacco; no cash worth sending","Re: insurance of ship Dauphin and other insurance","Re: escape of an enslaved person (\"escaped negro\")","acknowledges payment of $10.00","Re: debts and notes owed him and hopes that Blow can lend him money","May be willing to buy Blow's stack of goods which he had offered him a while back; Mr Lee will look them over and determine value etc.","Re: bargaining of above terms, etc.","Announcing Benson, Cropper \u0026 Benson, Corn Merchants","Discussion of visit to Brandon","E: Market conditions in France: Indigo is in demand, market favorable; tobacco market good; no demand for wood, pitch or tar","Goods, invoice; Shoes £ 246.17","Willing to give mortgages on goods in store for security","Re: his credit","Assembly extended the market land to be leased for 99 years","A candidate for House in Virginia Assembly","Re: bond for enslaved persons (\"negroes\")","Re: provisions asked for ship Parkman","Letter regarding the 'sale' of enslaved people.","Sailing soon with 15,000 bu. wheat. Wishes Harris, the baker, to furnish ship bread.","Wishes to be appointed insurance inspector for ship coming into port, asks Blow's support","Wishes ship for conveying 2,500 bushels of wheat at once","The Eliza has arrived; tobacco market good as [scarce?]","Re: cargo of corn and a ship furnished by Blow for Bahamas. Return cargo to be cane, apples and turtle (?)","Brother wishes to go to West Indies. He wishes pay for staves and tobacco if sold.","Re: collections to be made for him by Blow [Swain was a Quaker]","Trade slow, collections poor","Re: price for 15,000 barrel staves sent to Blow for sale; wishes current prices on tobacco and staves, white hominy corn and other corn","Sends his wheat from Dunkirk (N.C.) to Walker Town, about 10 or 12 miles) by land and little more by water. Is satisfied with this mode of conveyance.","Explains navigation up river as far as Walker Town for vessels of 100 or 150 tons; wishes Blow to send ship for his wheat; has the Ann arrived in London?","Has 4 enslaved carpenters ( \"valuable negro carpenters\") for 'sale' ($500 each)","Discusses prospect of buying horse Diamond, is disappointed in Pegasus, he is a bad foal getter and not much thought of in England. Heard a horse called [Pipaten?], mother to Trumpeter, has produced successful horses lately; also [Warten?] or [Sementan?] can be purchased for a moderate sum according to M. Crews to Mr. Drew. Get in touch with Mr. Barksdale (in London). I wish a horse of good size and very beautiful.","Received account sales of 2 hhds tobacco sold you from 41.17.7 pounds, Norfolk Store is debited with---problem of Collections suits?","Will send ship of assorted cargo to Tobego; corn plentiful on the Roanoke (river)","5 hhds tobacco received from James Scammel; sending down","Wishes ship for West Indies voyage","Leaving for voyage","Captain Thomas Bonner sailing in Joseph of Edenton for Tobago; Assorted cargo","Re: sale of naval stores","Sending brig of 150 tons for loading with barrel staves for Ireland or Liverpool","Unsettled state of Europe makes uncertain and dull market. Current price list given (wheat, flour, tobacco, tar, turpentine, staves, wool, and logwood)","Suit against Leonard at next Southampton Court. Paid Col. Maclin for young George Blow's schooling £ 20.10; charged to Norfolk Store","Wine for him from Madeira by ship Virginia, asks Blow to send to Alexandria; send bill to him.","Have parcel of Gray's Creek tobacco; price at Norfolk? Lists pounds of tobacco at Gray's Creek and Low Point. Asks price of brown sugar, coffee, molasses, and [unclear?] sugar","Have red oak staves, white oak [unclear?] and 12,000 shingles on way to Blow. Wishes peach brandy and price of apple cider and molasses","Has received counterfeit bank notes, information as to what to do","Re: 3 French enslaved people (\"Negroes\") brought from Hispaniola against law and now in jail at Norfolk; to be returned at expense of French who claim them","Indenture between Louis Marshall of 1st part, Jeremiah Andrews of 2nd part and Richard Blow of 3rd part and trustee for the other parties. Deed of Trust by Marshall of price of property leased from Anthony Walke in 1793, to Blow","[Blow was Dudley's uncle; Battery may be in Matthews County]","Re: current prices","Re: staves","Re: rent for his house and enslaved person (\"Negro\") for year","Re: delivery of staves","[See: Page's letter of July 9, re: French enslaved persons from Hispanola]","Re: brandy made and barrels for same","Sending Ship Fortitude to Blow, wishes Blow to get cargo of flour or tobacco for England and Ireland for her. Wishes ship to go at once, gives agents names at each British Port to which his cargo should be consigned","Re: injunction of B \u0026 B","Announcing his commission business and offering services","Wishes vessel for Falmouth","Re: arrival of his imported horse; [See letter of April 25, 1803 about horse]","\"Agreement with Thomas Wallace relative to bringing horses from England in 1803.\" Names of horses were Citizen and Clown, Wallace was the groom.","[Nephew of Blow]","Re: Blow's renewal of insurance policy at Phoenix office, Premium of £ 18.15.","Re: Mrs. Boothe, widow's dower and [div.?] of enslaved persons (\"Negroes\") between Hutchings and Edwards, commissioners appointed formerly, who neglected to allot dower: one is now dead and two have left the state. Please have commissioners appointed for my guardian; suggests Wm. E. Brodnax \u0026 Sterling Ruffin \u0026 Hutchings will appoint two for himself. Dr. John Claiborne and Tho. [unclear?], Jr. may be chosen if H. has no objections.","Re: cargoes","Re: land in Dismal Swamps alleged to be property of Robt. Craig of Manchester (England), adjacent Col. Newton's","\"The canal road is in such order as you may ride to the end of [unclear?] Contract\"","Re: opening of canal road","Re: hiring additional enslaved persons (\"negroes\") so that the Canal and road can be opened with ease this summer","Re: idea of taking on cargo of staves for Falmouth and possibly England. Wishes Blow to furnish beef, pork and bread for his ship","Cannot furnish pitch; resin is priced at 30/","Re: his ships off for Falmouth and Cork; what can Blow offer in way of ships?","Re: cargo of ship Kingston and prospects of his ship out of New York taking in tobacco at Norfolk","Wishes Blow to charter a vessel at once for Cork, they will send down tobacco, pitch, resin, white oak staves for cargo","Re: A horse arrived for Messrs [Caine?] \u0026 Ray; how to care for it and where to deliver","Refers to yellow fever raging in New York","Re: horse bought for him by Mr. Barksdale in England and problem of payments for it","Asks about cargo for sea, wishes tobacco and staves","Has 300 [unclear?] of pork for sale; grain crop on the Roanoke very good. Tar and Turpentine plentiful. Ship Mariah Jones at Barbados will return with salt by November. Then to load up with grain and staves for foreign ports.","Asks Blow to ship his tobacco to Barksdale in England","Re: price of a saddle sent to Blow","Re: cargo of staves on Little William","Send personal items of late Leckie to son","Sales account current: \"Mr. Adams will finish stilling room, only 10 bbls of Brandy made this year. It takes 10 bbls cider to make 1 bbl brandy. Hands [workers] are getting in fodder and making bricks. Have paid Wm West [overseer] $100, debited to Norfolk Store","Re: Collecting debt owed him by Dudley","Wishes $ 90 in U.S. notes sent by Mrs. Gray","Re: Horse Clown bought from abroad to be sent for by Statt, groom and Peter to take care of horse in travel","Re: cargo of staves and price for Ireland","Re: settling of account of Talbot Godwin","Re: horse Citizen which he bought for Gen. Carney; hope it has landed and is on its way to Carolina as I shipped on board the Gosport to your wharf; \"I am glad to hear George (Blow) is doing so well at the Williamsburg Colledge [College of William \u0026 Mary]. I always admired the Colledge as all the young men brought (out) there of late years, leave the Colledge new firebrands in politics\"","Re: note of Ambrose Dudley","Invoice of shoes for Grillet \u0026 Bell to Richard Blow, Norfolk","Wishes sacks, molasses, sugar, and coffee in exchange for lampblack and butter","Re: business difficulties of Lamb \u0026 Younger; has sent a horse names Citizen for Gen. Carney to Blow","Look out for Mr. Strange's furniture; he leaves Liverpool around 10 August in The Fame; send on to Petersburg c/o Mr. Pallak","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, ceased business","Re: Ships Kingston and Nansuch and trade","Sending naval stores wanted to City Point","Will sell his 2 lots in Gosport to pay his debt but wants $3000 for them. Willing to sell his military lands also; signed note for George Wilson for brother's debt.","Wish to wagon by bacon from here to Suffolk and thence by water to Norfolk. Will put up hams, shoulders and midlings; Baltimore may be a good market or Alexandria. Expect Blow to take consignments","Letter for trustees of Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, or their trustees if they are dissolved; would like wine, sherry and bbl whiskey","Hope to pay Blow what they owe him","Re: trip to Georgia, would like to take some enslaved persons (\"slaves\") to help pay expenses. Refers to Mrs. Blow as his aunt","Invoice of goods sent us from Norfolk Store, £ 109.0.10. Newspapers come regularly once a week; tobacco market poor. Will go to the Old Place [Southampton] soon to see how things go there.","Current prices","Re: Business difficulties","Applying for position in office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk","Re: A horse which he wishes Mr. Barksdale [London] to buy for him","Wishes consignments of tobacco and cotton from Blow","Refers to Mr. West [overseer at Old Place] and Mr. Adams [overseer at Tower Hill] their crops and prospects, etc. Burning bricks","Current prices","Has 300 or more barrels for sale","Little in shipping due to uncertainty of invasion of England","Wishes wines; the Antelope has been chartered for continent would you like space for cargo?","Corn crop in; bricks burning; trade dull","Re: business of barrel staves","Has crab cider for sale, what price will Blow pay? Also, gives prices for brandy, new corn, peas and tobacco.","Reed (groom), has brought horse Archduke; arrived at Blow's from abroad. Reed wishes Blow to employ him to go to England and bring back horses. Write at once your decision; prices of horses have risen as of late in England","Have 7000+ lbs. of pork, no tobacco","[Administrator of father's estate]","Re: payment for Citizen, the horse imported from England for him through Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Citizen is highly praised and valued by many: \"He is as springy as any lady on a dancing room and cutts as many capers.\" Hopes Mr. Barksdale will send him a mare from which he can breed racers for his children.","Re: payment of debt and security for his friends","Sending 78 hhds of tobacco to Blow","Sending staves and peas for sale—wish salt and sugar","Received from Richard Blow [Adm. of Alex. Leckie Sr.'s estate], personal articles, etc.","[Richard Blow, Agent]","Description of cargo, ports of call in US and Europe","Cargo of tobacco for France","Cargo of flour to London","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth, England and Hamburg","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth","On board ships [Inn___?] and Dundas for Virginia; Personal effects","Cargo for Ireland","Adjustment for loss of David \u0026 George","Account with Richard Blow $16,966.34","3056.19.5 ¾ [John Patterson, surviving partner after Capt. Brown's death]","…at time of Captain Brown's Death £ 4918.19.3","1790-1796….£ 3585.10.8 ½; Balance due the G. Store… £ 7577.5.11","Re: Privateer Moses Myers taken and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Vice Adm. Court has been reversed here, money in hands of owners in Nova Scotia. Division of money of those entitled now uncertain. \"If brought into court here, I'll pay attention to your interest in the business.\" Flour cheaper here than in Virginia, tobacco holds same price","Refers to the \"bank at this time [seems] to engross and interest the citizens of our Town; we expect it to operate in about ten days","Has received 17 hhds tobacco of N. Burwell's on board the Almira; Insurance taken out","Re: his business arrangements; will not be a partner to [Brown?] or affiliate with Pallak; promise of his business good","Re: Younger's [unclear?] with Brown","\"We are happy to inform you that our house goes on as before\"","Re: Blow's desire to pay a large debt which he owes to Donald \u0026 Burton. Funds in London on account there; Advise.","\"…I like America but as yet I am quite at a loss where to fix...The Baptist's cause here is not very strong although there are two meetings\"","Has prospect of ship proper for shipping tobacco; would Blow be interested in a cargo?","Re: problems arriving from Love's failure to comply with rules for Book of Claims and Barksdale's attempt to clear it for him","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, has shipped guns for our stores, please deliver them to us","Re: Charter for Snow Concord for London; can fill her cargo","Re: coming to Portsmouth, to establish a tannery. Wishes Blow to assist him and his friend, Crossthwaits, from Keswich, England. Has worked for Mr. Wm. Plume tanner, a short time. [Plume had been in Williamsburg for years prior to going to Portsmouth] Barron knows of a new process for tanning which shortens time; also knows great deal about skinning sheep, etc. [Letter provides great detail on tanning]","Re: claims made by Blow to board of Clairs, London","Re: recovering insurance on building burned in Portsmouth","Discusses how to pay Donald \u0026 Burton, London; has £ 1900 also has £ 500 [Stg?]; payment from Phoenix Ins. Co. which he can add to above sum","Re: sale of his pork","Trade poor, collections poor, wheat sold, bricks being made","Business dull, current prices","Banking arrangements for Blow to pay Donald \u0026 Burton through Dan. Call.","Has received bill of exchange of Macmurdo \u0026 Fisher for £ 1831.5 Stg. on Wm. Barksdale in town of assignees of Donald \u0026 Burton","Re: brick making and crops","Re: [bbls.?] of turpentine in [cypress bbls.?]; bound with white oak, should demand good prices","Re: tobacco shipped","Re: shipment of turpentine and horse Buzzard","Re: pork sent to Blow for sale","Our ship Samuel Jackson with part cargo of staves and bound for Cadiz will come into Hampton Roads for further cargo; will Blow notify him when it arrives and leaves","Flour has advanced and is in demand here, salt and tobacco good. Gives list of hhds of tobacco stored with Richard Blow in Campbell and Wheeley Fire Proof Warehouse","Introducing William Carter, son to Mr. Cater of Shirley, goes to Norfolk to procure passage to a port in France. Mr. Carter has $ 200 which may not be enough for his passage,. if not, will you supply the difference. [This may be the William Carter who attended the College of William \u0026 Mary in 1801]","Re: buying insurance and bank shares","Re: ship Samuel Jackson leaving Ocracock [Ocracoke] Bar for Hampton Roads laden with cargo for Cadiz, Spain","General Affairs at store and conditions of crops","Re: insurance on cargo to Dunkirk","Re: tobacco in storage and prospect of cargo","Could send soon 30 hhds if you ship to London","Asks current price of tobacco","Re: pipe staves on hand for sale","Consign tobacco to Samuel Buchanan of London","Mr. Adams, overseer, has gotten in ¼ of crops of corn and all of hogs; enslaved persons (\"slaves\") sick","Gives Blow's balance and what borrowed","Will Blow get Gaskins to make him ½ dozen table and ½ dozen tea spoons as he made for you with G.M.D. in a cypher on them; refers to \"Aunt Hall\"","\"Copy of papers sent to London, to recover insurance on my houses burned in Norfolk on \"Marketstreet:\" 3 Story Brick house and store burned, warehouse and offices, also. Littleton Tazewell, Notary Public. Home was 35' in length and 29' in breadth, brick, 3 story's high, besides cellars and ganet. Lower store was occupied as a Day Goods Store with mahogany counters; passage below and 4 rooms on 2 story were never completely finished and were strucco (?) and whole house plastered; counting room in read of sd. House was 16' square, 2 stories high with cellar and chimney of brick and completely finished Kitchen in rear of wood, 2 stories high and chimney of brick 20' x '16; smoke (house) 12' square with stove and warehouse shelved and laid out for wholesale store was 30' long and 21' broad, 2 stoves of wood. Value of building prior to fire was $8,939.60 Itemized Estimate of House of Offices to be built given: \"Bricks and Stone Work: $2750\" Scantling, plank and shingles: $1540 Glass, nails, locks: $684 Carpenters Bill: $2770.60 Plastering $926 Painting Bill: $265.00 Total: $8939.60","£ 4030.12 \"amo goods on hand £ 620.6.11 ¾ 90 pct advance £ 558.6.3 1/7 Amo currency articles:£ 425.1.4 Total: £ 5634.6.8 ¼ \"","Bill of measuring the ruins of my buildings $19.12, receipt in full","Bill of house frame and plank [unclear?] of Major John Armstrong for my dwelling and warehouse in Norfolk...$256.75","Wm. Wark, power of attorney for heirs","Petersburg, to New York, $ 80.46; Marine Insurance Office, Norfolk","Sundry Entries","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 15 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","6 items","33 items","4 items","12 pieces","Includes names of debtors; 7 pieces","over 100 items","109 items","50 items","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","Wishes to purchase the horse Buzzard in England thru Mr. Barksdale if possible. Sending 736 [unclear?] of turpentine to pay for him","Sent stud book and sporting magazine for A. Walke by Captain Baird; heard you have had a very severe winter, worst in 25 years","Think I can get horse for your friend in Carolina for about 500 guineas. Oscar is [unclear?] and going to Virginia for Col. Lightfoot; Nat as good a horse as Sir Harry or several others","Asking Blow to send him scrip at once so he can make payment of some shares.","2 enslaved persons (\"slaves\") have escaped","Wishes to buy 700 bu. of salt","Re: collection of debt for Blow (John Nicholas, debtor)","Sundries deliv. by Blow for ship Cracker","Re: to \"Aunt Hall;\" will leave Mathews as soon as land is sold; have advertised in Richmond Enquirer","\"Uncle Wm. Drew suggested that I write you about employment\"","Refers to forwarding papers to M. Madison in Washington, necessary for [past?] port to Dublin. Will ship be able to wait for me 6 or 7 days?","Sending staves","Re: sale of his tobacco and corn","Sending 10 hhds tobacco by sloop Sophia to Blow","[Nears?] staves to fill up his ship when it calls at Norfolk","Cannot supply tobacco for Blow's ship now","Sends bill of laden for 15 hhds tobacco, through Blow to London","Ship America will not come to Norfolk now; for Europe","Tobacco problems","14 hhds tobacco","Refers to debt he owes Dr. Hall, will collect money from Carter Braxton and send to him","Discusses insurance on Blow's houses burned in Norfolk; Mr. Buchanan's displeasure at Blow buying the old ship William, horse Benenborough is for sale at 1000 guineas, inform General (Carney); must have cash before I can buy","Will send turpentine as soon as boat can be found to take it down the river to Plymouth. Have 240 [unclear?]. In looking over racing calendar and stud book see a mare, Penelope got by Trumpetor bred by the Duke of Grattan, foaled in 1798; get Barksdale to purchase her for me; if not, get one of Hutchinson's family of horses, the man that bred Beninborough","Has received Gen. Carney's turpentine on America, do not think he can get either of the horses the General wants","Bill of lading for goods shipped for Col. Hoomes of Bowling Green","Col Hoomes wishes 20 or 30 bbls herrings","Received staves sold for 28 pounds per [hd?] and 14 pounds per bbls, \"Our good friends the English are taking all vessels that are not bound direct to their parts.\"","Has ship; wishes to come to Virginia for freight; ship is new; Advise me.","258 bbls of herrings shipped to Blow","Re: wine to be shipped to him","Will ship turpentine to Blow as soon as weather opens","Re: possible loss of ferry if legislature decides to allow a new ferry to be operated","Re: his debts","\"The money for the capture of the brig Richmond has all been paid.\" Advise who has money","Re: debt he owes, must sell property in Blow's hands","Re: settlements and credits for turpentine and tobacco sold, no chance of getting the two horses, General Carney wants","Bill of Lading for James Strange","Re: legal case against his brother Alex Leckie now in Virginia. Refers to his attorneys in Georgia and Rode Island.","Wishes ½ ton iron, bellows and German [Steel?]","The original Box 31 has been expanded into two boxes as currently described in the finding aid: Box 31 and Box 31 A.","For corn \"being the price per season for the said Waller's young mare being covered by Col. Cary's Horse Daredevil [Williamsburg Data?]","Re: Division of property and debts of Baker \u0026 Blow…","For goods sold him","Asking father to pay Leroy Anderson $60.00","$270 port payment in suit against Blow, Adm. of estate of John Redwood, also a note for $830.33","Wm. Redwood with appear at Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg for purpose of collecting funds due by suit from Blow","Advises against buying big stock due to world conditions; will send George up to help take inventory; he is in Williamsburg now","1130.51","$ 1838.9.7 ¼ Itemized list of those who owe firm","$ 16010.65 ½","Col Noth Burmell; Robert. C. Burwell; Ph. Burwell; Math. Pape; Robt. Page $196.12.½","Proceed to England and other countries","Proceed to the Baltics","Proceed to Portugal","Father and Son, London, July 9, 1806 (2Boxes of cheese for Lucy Paradise, Williamsburg) Iris Madeira, April 3, 1806 (wines) Jolly Sails, Plymouth NC, June 2, 1806 (shad) Sally Nun, Plymouth NC, June 3, 1806 (shad) Laura, Liverpool (England), July 18, 1806 (merchandise) Dispatch, New York, August 19, 1806 (merchandise) Antelope, Windsor NC, March 13 1806 (tar) John and Avice, River Thames, August 1806 (Merchandise) Eagle, Edenton, October 17, 1806 (sugar, white, oak stoves) Dunfries, London, February 24, 1806 (goods, treasures?) Fairplay, Plymouth NC, April 19, 1806 (hhls, hinings) Antelope, Windsor, NC, March 13 1806 (tar) Anne, Windsor NC, October 28, 1806 (staves and turpentine) Judith, Windsor NC, October 16, 1806 General Green, May 31, 1806 (oak staves) Jenny and Sheperdern, Manchester (England), June 2, 1806, (hhds of tobacco) Sally, Salmon Creek, May 1, 1806 (herrings) Insurance on Sally Ann Neptune, Richmond, March 1, 1806 (tobacco) Commerce, February 1806 (salt and c) America, October 9, 1806 (ship, break, flour) John, Richmond, November 1, 1806 (tobacco) Arnick, July 15, 1806 (staves) Lydia, New Bedford, June 3, 1806 Ontario, June 4, 1806 America, Norfolk, October 10, 1806, $1041.59 Bell Savage, June 8, 1806 (accounts) Robt. Barclay, September 1806 (accounts) Commerce, April 26, 1806 (accounts) Mt. Vernon, Rotterdam, September 24, 1806 (insurance) Atlantic, London, August 1806 (tobacco) Regulator, Plymouth NC, March 28, 1806 (turpentine, tar, sugar) April 16, 1816 (rum) Judith, Windsor NC, March 31, 1806 Commerce, New Bedford, February 22, 1806 (staves) Army, Plymouth, March 5, 1806 Mary, Richmond, April 19, 1806 Mt. Vernon, December 22, 1806 (freight account) Mt Vernon, December16, 1806 (cider, food) Mt. Vernon, December 16, 1806 (oil, beef, etc) Mt. Vernon, October 11, 1806 (navy, bread) Brig George, November 19, 1806 Averick, August 6, 1806 (general account) Fredice, May 1795 (pitch) Sally, Petersburg, June 16, 1795 (tobacco) Flora and Betsy, July 1, 1806 (tobacco) Grey Hound, Plymouth NC, May 7 1806, (pork and turpentine) James Smith, John Coke, Carterise December 5, 1806 (pipe staves inspected from and consigned to Richard Blow) Neptune: October 13 1806 Oak Boards, inspected","Ship Antelope's cargo much damaged, public sale will be had at Calais, and results sent to Mr. Barksdale towards claim and insurance. Blow's tobacco was on Antelope","Discusses current prices of cotton, coffee, tobacco; claims of cargo of Antelope further discussed","Re: settlement of property of Baird's; see also:Box 30","Trade dull: Received bills of lading for Blow's tobacco","Re: turpentine of General Carney's shipped to him, can't buy a horse for Carney as price is 1,000 guineas for either horse he wants. Await Carney's orders; sent him books he wished by Captain Baird; have sent Blow average for loses on Antelope. Son, William, is at school in Reading.","Partners in House of Lamb \u0026 Younger were James Brown, Richmond, Virginia and John Lamb \u0026 John Younger, London; upon death of Mr. Lamb, survivors have admitted J. C. Wardrop as a partner","Re: mistake in shipment of tobacco","Sent 16 quarters [unclear?] 1736 of beef for sale","Re: cargo for ship Globe","Re: pork sent Blow for sale","Tobacco manifests sent for ship Industry for Liverpool and 2 parcels of newspapers for John Hunter","Ship Globe now loading","Re: his debts and how to collect from C. Braxton","Act bills of lading for tobacco, gives current prices of wheat and flour per barrel","Prices current","Discusses dropping prices for turpentine, flour, tobacco better","Re: collection due him","Re: bills of lading for London firms, tobacco sales","Re: tar shipped to Blow; wishes flour in return","Re: cost of ship to take tobacco to France","Re: collections-wishes rum sent to him","Re: suit Ladd v. Strange","Re: debt owed to him by Captain Micks","Re: pork shipped to Blow","Has leased for 10 years furnished place 5 miles from Rayall Exchange, sending Mrs. Blow shoes","Re: loading of Mount Vernon","Bill of lading for fish sent, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Printed; business conditions, current prices of cotton, turpentine, tobacco, flour, rice, staves there","$ 100 Virginia currency","Damages to anchors of his ship","Re: cargo of tobacco and possibly flour for the ship General Green","Pork and turpentine to be shipped to Blow aboard the ship Grey Hound for General Carney's account","Bills of lading for tobacco aboard ships Betsy and Nancy","Re: cargo of tobacco for Bell Savage","Re: a ship for Rotterdam","Inquiry about father and letters to him","Has received letters from his father. Was on a Prussian ship carried into Portsmouth and condemned because he came out of a French Port that was blockaded","Discusses business with Blow; amounts due him for merchandise and amounts due Blow for tobacco sent to Calais and Dunkirk (France) per ship Antelope","Tar and turpentine sent on ship The Planter have been sold. Inform General Carney that neither of the horses he wants he can get now. Gives names of other horses which he thinks he can buy once the season is over here: Whiskey, Coreador, Beningborough, and Citizen","Sending down tobacco for ship Flora, Portsmouth","Re: shipment from Virginia, of salt, current prices there","Re: to money he had received due Dr. Hall from Carter Braxton","Re: cargo of staves","\"at the request of Col. Nathaniel Burwell I have shipped on Sloop George 3 trunks, 1Box, and 1 bundle to your care which you will please keep until they are called for by the Reverend John V. Wylie.\"","Ship America, in port will send down to you, she is 287 ton [burden?], can carry 350 hhds and storage of staves to any port in Great Britain","Where is his tobacco? Has price in London fallen?","Ship Mary E. Wright, has been carried into Germany and condemned as prize; ask H. to get $ 9000 insured on her, world conditions affecting prices of product sent over","Wishes 50 sacks of salt","Re: shipment of herrings","Gives ship America's account held in high regard by the ship owners here; discusses conditions between Russia and France, not good","Have to go down tomorrow to the wreck of ship The Shepherdess. Do you have any goods aboard?","Wish 4 bbls of crab cider","Expect ship General Greene owned by Tobias Lard \u0026 Co. of Kennebunk from Liverpool; could a cargo of staves be procured at your place for return voyage","Re: letters he should have received","Re: payments for staves and sugar","Re: change in ownership and management of the 8 ferries, opposed to incorporating; will you influence Richmond legislators to this effect?","Discusses trade and changes for selling Petersburg and Richmond goods, gives estimate of general market for tobacco, sugar, cotton, etc.","Business settlements with Blow","76 items","22 items","25 and 150 items","50 items","1 item","Order for salt","Re: tar sold to Blow","Announces conclusion of a treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce between this country and the USA signed on the 31 [ulto?]","Re: his recent settling in Georgia, prospects, etc.","Re: Blow's suit vs. Gill for debt accrued since 1786","Re: George Blow's marriage and placing him with Tazewell and Jon Cowper to study law; Discusses tobacco business, etc.","Re: damaged flour on ship Alexander","Enclosed copy of condemnation of ship Mary T. Wright","Give freight rates at Norfolk for landing salt from Liverpool (England), also tobacco freight rates","Re: Ships William \u0026 Mary and Paulina and letters due him","Need 1 or 2 small vessels to load at Bermuda Hundred for Falmouth; have 180 hhds tobacco for ship Averick","Re: loading tobacco on ship Niagara","Bill of lading for herrings enclosed","Re: ship Washington's loading; also ship Russell, a very fine, fast sailing copper bottomed ship of 300 tons","Describes splendid entertainment by citizens to the Cavalry and Militia which went from here. I enclose a copy of the toasts, was mortified by his furlough. Tell young George that I hope he will merit the promotion I bestowed on him.","Re: settlement of co-partnership with J. Waldone \u0026 Co.; Blow one of bondsmen","Left British book on Cavalry discipline at Blow's House","Re: Cargo of ship Niagara to Great Britain","Discussion of ship's journey down James to Norfolk [Caffin was mate for ship Albright]","Re: recovering money from Carter Braxton","Writes of wife, Mary's death","Refers to Dudley's wife's death [Mrs. Hall is Lucy]. Says Portsmouth has been upset over aggressions of British Ships of war; an army in our streets, houses, etc. Business is stagnated","Re: cargo of salt or tobacco","Wishes freight for London, or Liverpool","Wishes his Gosport property sold","Wishes to know prices","Re: cargo of staves","Re: cargo of salt from Liverpool and prospect of tobacco on return","Hopes Blow has sold fish for him","Captain Barney of ship Argus sailed for Hobbs Hole, Virginia, for tobacco","Re: cargo of ship Washington","Prices current given in detail","Re: problems of cargo and men for ships","Re: how to pay his debts","Ships Neptune and Reward here","Terms for ship May en route to Continent","Wishes freight for ship Russell","Wishes 100 lbs of bacon, hams and candles sent to him. There is an opening for a retail store on York River","Freight received from Blow via sloop Little Jim; salt","Re: Sale of fish","Ship Averick, tobacco cargo lost, no insurance on ship. Eight of the hams which Mrs. Blow sent, saved. Thinks there will be no war between England and U.S.","Gives dimensions of Dismal Swamp Canal lock[?]. Detailed letter.","Re: Shipment of tobacco to Blow","Asking for position of book keeper in U.S. Bank","Wishes oder of general merchandise sent","Re: Fish he sold; large grain crops here and quantity of lumber of every kind","Having sale on 22nd","Re: Pitch stored with Blow","Introducing Col. Wm. Fontaine of Hanover, who has a considerable interest in the Dismal Swamp Canal.","Order for general goods.","Notifying re: suit filed","Personal Letter; sends love to \"Aunt\"","Cash scarce; trade dull","£ 802.3.-","£ 883.4.8 3/4","£ 7269.13.5 \"Debts due from the Store: Norfolk Store; Littleton Lamir; James Dunlop \u0026 Co.; Butts Birds[srpey?]; Isaac Andrews; Allen Hines; John Berryman; £ 4898. - 9 1/2 / £ 2371.12.7 1/2","165 items","Re: Letters he had asked Blow to forward to England to Mr. Rennolds","Sending $ 54.50 in [unlcear?]loans for payment for flour, etc.","Order for garden seeds","Re: Commission merchants, Treble, Spe[unclear?] \u0026 Co., of [Nantz?]","Re: Deed of trust to secure[?] Blow","Wishes to pay General Thomas Blount, Member of Congress, some money; wishes Blow to [unclear?]","Introducing F. Le Roy of Nantz","Re: Cargo of corn and effects of cargo on its outcome","Re: Whiskey and brandy to go to Charles Carter of Shirley Plantation","Re: problems of present embargo on his corn","Re: Money he owes Blow","Re: Prospects of freight should embargo be lifted","Wishes ship Belle Savage for cargo, for Liverpool","Re: Political Situation in Spain \u0026 France [Refers to the Napoleonic Wars]","Sending down corn \u0026 tobacco for shipment","Wishes Blow to sell enslaved persons for Drew, even at $ 30.00; needs money at once","64 items","Hopes beef and candles sent to Blow can be disposed of as embargo is partially repealed.","Sending ship down to be loaded with cargo for anywhere except to North of Europe. Ship American built. Ship bringing down building stone.","Send salt to him at once","Re: shipment of corn and tobacco","Re: Need salt at once","Re: Salt","Re: Ship Washington en route to Norfolk for corn and flour","Re: Bills owned them","Gives current prices of tobacco","General conditions discussed","Re: Cargo of ship Columbia","Re: Staves","Discusses affairs abroad. Wishes Blow to sell salt at City Point.","Re: Wine from Madeira","Re: Freight desired for ship Columbia to England","Wishes ship for his tobacco. Address him at White Chimney's, Caroline County","Tobacco bringing good prices here","Wishes Blow to advertise his ship Mary Ann for freight for Europe. Must avoid Amsterdam or any place under French domination. Ship able to take tobacco, cotton, or hogsheads.","Have ship ready in a few weeks for freight to Europe. Can Blow secure freights?","Problem as to ship. Has tobacco ready for Europe","Can fill up another ship with flour","Re: Sale of his Gosport lots by Blow \u0026 his debts.","Refers to his cargo of lour, etc. now ready","Has hogshead staves instead of barrel staves at landing","Have bt. 10,000 barrel staves and leave at once; will send rough staves down on another lighter. This will complete my contract with you","Sent 5000 barrel staves per the lightman","Sending Blow rough hhds. staves","Awaiting craft to send 7 hhds of tobacco down. Hope you have shipped out the 15hhds with you aboard the Pocahontas","Wish to have price of bacon and brandy","Re: Ship for Dublin and freight cost","Send candles to me at Washington","Re: Freight for ship Washington out of Norfolk","Enc. Charter Party for ship Nancy","Is concerned about vice around his residence , etc. Wishes Blow to have law change this situation","Re: Barrel staves","Ship Columbia from Tappahannock to Liverpool with freight of staves or tobacco. Ship Mary Ann sailed ysterday for Charleston for freight","Re: Staves and undressed wood","Re: Tobacco freight","Tobacco on ship Alexander for Falmouth and England or Ireland","Barrell staves on board brig Catherine","Passage wanted to Cork, Ireland or England","Business accounts of ship Alexander","Sends letters for Richard Blow (her father-in-law) to send to her mother, Mrs. Waller, in Williamsburg","Wishes small vessel for his freight","Ship Union, belonging to us expected from Cadiz (Spain). Wish freight for her.","Will take inventory of store goods by September 1st and balance books.","Discusses current prices of hemp and accounts of ship Columbia","Re: President's proclamation. Gives current prices of tobacco and flour.","Has white oak hhds and red oak hhds and 150 lbs. bee's wax to sell","Has contracted for small ships to take his tobacco to port north of Gothenburg (Sweden) or to the south of Lisbon (Portugal). Blow's rate of freight too high. Need Blow's advice about proper paper for clearing ship, etc.","Wishes advice of Blow for marketing goods in New York","Re: Small debts and lack of news as to her son's whereabouts","Re: Shipment of hemp","Cargo of tobacco is intended for continent. Blow will get French consul's certif. for Hatcher","Re: Suit","Notice of board meeting to be held in 12th.","For 12 different ships","6 items","50 items","Details an agreement between Hatcher and Blow for freight on ship Mary Ann, to discharge cargo in British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Canary or Western Islands. To be allowed 50 days to load and discharge and call for orders. Tobacco freight.","Duty Bonds not paid in bank, by law, will be put in suit. Request merchants of Norfolk to have their bonds adjusted in bank","Re: discusses loading of the ship Mary Ann and bills of lading.","Continuation of business of loading ship Mary Ann","Discussing Hatcher's business ventures abroad: Hatcher's shipping of tobacco abroad. Details of necessary papers to be taken by the ship and to be used to different countries.","Acknowledges proposals of Brown \u0026 Rives","Re: Ship Mary Ann","Discussing shipment of good to Europe: Freight for ships Columbia and Mary Ann","Discussing the election of Richard Blow as director of the Bank of the United States for a one-year term [Oliphant was chashier of bank]","Certificate for $ 2794.51 for 30 hhds tobacco [unclear?] by Blow","Re: concerning political actions of the U.S. Congress: refers to \"ultimate fate of Mason's resolutions\" in Congress","Re: business of ships abroad, Mary Ann and Columbia","Re: tobacco aboard the ship Mary Ann","Re: Mary Ann cargo and departure","Discussing the positions of the French: French near border of Portugal now","Loads of tobacco of the ship Mary Ann","Current price of tobacco. Refers to \"Mr. Masons bill passing in the Senate and small vessels will immediately be wanted for Britain and Ireland\"","Discusses ships' destinations and cargos: problems of loading the Mary Ann; disagreement between Hatcher and Blow","Mary Ann destinations, cargo, etc.","Re: Furniture sent to Blow for sale in 1809. Please return if not sold","Agreement between Blow \u0026 Hatcher for ship Mary Ann's cargo","Need small vessel for overseas trade","Barksdale's son is en route to Norfolk from London, to study in the U.S. Has chosen Law as his profession, wishes Blow to encourage and supervise William. Mr. Hill's [unclear] has returned here and demands pay for training Hill's horses (\"fillies\")","Wishes Blow to get vessel for his tobacco","Discusses sailing across the Atlantic, heavily armed: \"on April 1st was boarded by a French Privateer and plundered of all our clothes, money, everything moveable. Was Brig 20 guns, 150 men\"","30 hhds. of tobacco for Juno","Re: tobacco for ships Juno and Washington.","Corn sent to Blow by ship Sisters","Her [unclear?] son estate in Virginia [largely illegible]","Sending 225 bhls. of tar to Blow for sale; asks prize of staves (white oak or red oak)","Ship delayed; will send in 3 weeks","Shipping tobacco","His ship Industry en route to Blow for freight; prefer a freight to Lisbon (Portugal) or Cadiz (Spain); Insurance to England very high for small vessel; maybe West Indies would be wiser.","Distressed at no news from his ships or from William [Drew]. Addresses Blow as \"kind relative\"","Sending ship Mary Ann to New York for freight as cheaper rate than Norfolk","Requests Blow to return invoice of furniture to him as he is loading for So[uth?] America","Asks for his account and prices for freights at Alexandria, Norfolk, etc.","Re: fish sent to Blow for sale","Re: African-Americans in prison there and prices for wheat, corn.","Still concerned over fate of her son Thomas","Reports death of John Rogers. His son-in-law, Samuel Nightingale, is admin. of estate","Vessels [unclear?] here","[Blow had been guardian of Davis]","Inquiring if M. Triplett, lately from Cadiz (Spain) is there to purchase flour for the British Army in Spain","Re: Account of Nathaniel Burwell","Re: Estate of his father-in-law, John Rogers","Dissatisfied with Mr. Foster who has delayed building a ship for him. Asks Blow to see about it for him","Re: Burwell's salt order","Re: newspaper subscription of The Herald","Asks settlement for turpentine","Has not received his letter","Has two ships ready by November and December","Sending load of staves to Blow","Hear Napoleon Bonaparte has rescinded his decree and ordered the release of all American property under adjudication in his dominion (goods and prisoners?).","Recommends Thomas J. Allen, Commission Merchant, Baltimore to Blow's attention","Re: Discussing the detention of vessels in Cadiz Bay","Re: Blow's payments due","Sale of fish to Blow","Sending 86 hams and 3 bhls. Turpentine for sale. Would like [unclear?] of salt","Directions for goods to be sent to him","Inquiring about the price of Liverpool salt and Spanish brandy","Remittance and sale of salt","Sloop Exchange bringing 12 [unclear?] white oak staves to Blow","Little chance of flour cargo; same (some?) tobacco","Cargo of ship Hunter in Virginia waters, now desiring wheat and flour","Tobacco shipment is ready for sending to Bordeaux or port in Bay of Biscay (France)","Wishes news of departure of ship Mary Ann for Europe. Are bonnets all sold and what prospect is there for the Columbia's salt? Expecting ship Nancy soon.","55 hhds. tobacco shipped to Blow","Re: valuations of ships and averages charged at Greenock","Has not sold Blow's Spanish [Brown?] yet.","Sending load of staves","Ship Averick loading tobacco and cotton for London","Re: payments due from Blow","Acknowledges hams sent to him; wishes news of his son, William, who went to Virginia recently","Re: Bow's ship Nancy in France, insurance etc.","Ship Nancy has arrived. Discussing the \"present officers decline all [risquer?] to France: A few days will determine England's steps…\"","Wishes price of ground allum salt; also price of flour and old whisky","Wishes vessel of 180 to 250 hhds to load for Liverpool direct.","Staves hard to get right now","Have 400 ton ship and wish cargo from Norfolk","Contract for outgoing ship to Europe","Glad Blow secured vessel for cargo aboard","Re: fish sold to Blow; also admin. of his bother's estate","Insurance of ship; wishes price of [unclear?] goods incl. bristles","For ships Catherine, Freyheit, Pindur, Fredonia, Juno, and the Columbia.","For ships Washington, Rachel and Mary, Mary Ann, Jersey Blue, Sally, Planter, and the Nancy with tobacco accounts.","Sending Blow a load of staves","Tobacco ready for ship Betsy","Tobacco shipment ready for ship Unity","Shipment of sperm (whale) oil and problems about it","Re: discussing a shipment of tobacco for the Betsy","Introducing Capt. Joel Thorp to Blow","Re: Sale of fish","Introducing J. K. Townsend of Townsend \u0026 White, New York","Re: flour from Lisbon (Portugal)","Blow appointed agent of the Trustees of the [late?] Bank of the United States","Have new ship of 300 tns ready in 6 weeks and would like freight in Virginia for her.","4 hhds. of tobacco on board of ship Aberdeen","Draft on Blow, etc.","Has about 300 bhls. flour for sale. Advise.","Directions to Cat. Russell from Liverpoole in case Non-Intercourse Act going into effect. Discusses U.S. Government problems about foreign trade","Current prices of tobacco and flour given","Discusses financial transactions: transfers 2 shares of stock into Bank of Virginia to Blow","Ship has arrived and experiencing government entanglements: ship Mary Ann here now and whether she can clear after February orders by Government. Keep him posted as to chance of freight to any port of Europe in case of U.S. change of orders","Requests remittance for wines ordered by Messrs. Burwell \u0026 Pages.","Has candles and twisted horse manes suitable for matresses for sale. Like to know where ship St. Chuthbert is.","Discusses political entanglement and shipping: \"Non-Intercourse laws have vanished and all our expectations now is that Congress will adjourn in 10 or 12 days….\" How are vessels there now?","Has about 300 bhls. Herring fish for sale","Shipping business: Capt. Allen of schooner Hero looking for business there","Flour for sale and price he is willing to take for it.","Current prices for tobacco and flour.","12 bags horse manes sent to Blow for sale.","Re: his order for Madeira wines","Has a vessel for sale; gives minute detailes and description of her and price asked.","Can furnish red oak staves at $ 18 per M.","Gives Golsborough family genealogy","Re: Ship Nancy","Sending his son home.","Has new ship of 360 tons available to Bow. Expects ship Ann Alexander soon and wishes business for her","Re: business with Wm. Barksdale for son's money.","Re: flour shipped to London and insurance for it","Re: Rogers estate; ship Mary Ann waits for cargo from Bow; Dull times in foreign freights","Business dull for all kinds of vessels.","Death of Mr. Pallak; he left no will; Estate of $ 35,000 or $ 45,000 goes to his brother Allan.","Suit between him and George Keckie. Refers to Mr. Wickham as counsel","Business payments discussed","Pallack estate and payments","Has St. Petersburg Russian hemp for sale. Can Blow use any?","Business between the two.","Asks Blow to give ship Tracta[?] 10 or 15 bhls. of their tobacco in storage.","Payments and shipping matters: sends bill for still sent to Bow","Roger's estate payments due from Blow. Wishes freight of corn for ship Mary Ann.","Capt. Robinson needs help to obtain a consular certificate","Payment for 12 bales of hair.","Invoice for hats.","Step-daughter married Robert Goldsborogh; Divorced in 1804, child, a male, living on Eastern Shore with grandmother now. Problems of guardianship. Re: will, if there was one etc.","Wishes 80 bhls of herrings","Wishes Blow to collect from Josiah Hunter's estate of Great Bridge, Virginia; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, Admin.","Sending new ship down. Wishes freight, Ann Alexander, has not arrived yet. Will send her to Blow at once","Ship Augustus sent to Blow for freight; gives curent prices of corn, tobacco, hemp","Mary Ann dispatched to you for freight to Lisbon (Portufal), Ireland or Liverpool (England)","Please remit for tobaco sold Blow","Freight for ship Augustus near ready, will send drum to Blow for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus will carry 550 hhds tobacco. Staves are plentiful now; Have plans for loading ship Mary Ann with flour for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus and ship Mary Ann loading","No offer for ship Independence as yet. Lays idle here. What do you think of freight for Cadiz (Spain) or Lisbon (Portugal) of flour? Ship Silver Grey has loaded for these ports; ship Powhatan bound for London left City Point.","Cannot dispense of barrel staves you bought of Lewis at the Bridge","Four ships availabe, except to Spain and Portugal","Ship Euphratis owned by C. Grinnell, James Howland and myself: no prospect of freigh; Will send to you if desired; about 2 years old and 365 tons.","Wish business for new ship","Remit for staves","Cargo to Ireland, Liverpool (England), etc.","[Belfield \u0026 Hicksf[?]d men same as Emporia, Virginia in 19th and 20th century]","Shipping questions about transportation abilities of ships: What prospects will ship Mary Ann have for freight at Norfolk? She can carry 300 hhds of tobacco","Wishes to sell circa 400 bhls of pork; willing to barter with debtors in Fredericksbug, Port Royal, Tappahannock, Dunkirk, etc.","Since arriving I find that dispute with Great Britain will be amicably settled.","Shipping and economic conditions in Europe: No trade here, ice in harbor, will leave at once on ship Euphratis; Questions advisability of freight of staves for West Indies on account of worms; as to timber, for England, after duty and other expenses, little profit; but agrees for Blow to load Euphratis  with timber for England if ship is filled. Prefers freight of tobacco at £ 4.5 for England or Ireland, or corn flour at 9 per bbl for Cadiz, Lisbon or Gibraltar (Spain and Portugal)","Cancel wine order","Shipping conditions and goods: Ships The Powhatan and Fingal? are up for freight; only half a cargo; further discussions about cargo; give current prices for tobacco and flour","Will Blow purchase [unclear?] staves for brig Ann?","Shipping to Europe: Ship Powhatan up for London needs further cargo. Nothing offered for ships Independence or Ann Alexander.","Buy 500 lbs of cable j[?]k for ship Independence at City Point. Give prospects for a cargo.","Re: staves","Ship Fame available","Goods on ship Averick en route to Blow for British port","[Curell was the Captain of the Polly, bound for Norfolk] Bill of Lading; bringing 92 bhls flour from John Hoomer, assigned to Richard Blow with freight at 25 cent per bbl.","Has ship coming soon from England. Wishes cargo.","Need freight and charter for ships Ann Alexander and Independence. Advise.","Re: loading of ship Ann Alexander with staves","Re: cargo of ships Independence and Ann Alexander","Discusses difficult atmosphere in trade, fear of a war if British actions don't change: no prospect as yet for employment for Ann Alexander, Euphrates or Independence. General feeling here that war will ensue if British orders in Council are not soon rescinded","[approximately 100 items]","Schooner Prospect sailing for Norfolk; asks Blow to give any assistance she may need.","Decided to send ship Euphrates to Liverpool (England) with tobacco","Business arrangements for payments, etc.","Sends few goods and a hobby horse Blow had ordered (cost $ 15)","Re: drafts given etc.","Delay in getting cargoes for ships Ann Alexander and Independence, no cotton or tobacco available for ship Euphrates now. Good apple brandy scarce here, gives current prices of tobacco in Richmond","Sending down garden seeds, potatoes and oats for Mrs. Blow for planting, and oats for son George","Re: flour sent","Needs vessel to carry 14 to 18 hundred barrels of flour for Spain; what would a vessel cost? Can money be had of you for bills on London and at what exchange?","Cargo of Betsy \u0026 Mary","As executor of Edw. Cowper estate gives legal details to collect and pay Blow","Check sent for payments due","Letter from John Randolph [in Congress] that an Embargo would be immediately laid. Get off any flour[?] to foreign port at once","Problems if embargo goes into effect","Discusses actions of the U.S. Congress, the trade embargo and their response: a law laying an embargo of 90 days has passed both Houses of Congress. Trust the ship John \u0026 Adam has put out to sea and that you have got rid of any flour","Shipment by Blow of a carriage to him","Re: payments","Problems of flour certificates as schooner Richmond put in to Wilmington, North Carolina, after Lisbon (Portugal) and Cadiz (Spain).","Sends premium for cargo on schooner Richmond and discusses problem of stops at several ports","Re: payments","Re: stock shares taken in Farmers Bank","Has ham and midlings for sale","Commission merchant asking for business","Concerning the account of the ship Ann Alexander","Re: discusses a canal from head of Pasquotank River in North Carolina to head of Elizabeth River and Virginia","Declines to help Blow buy a privateer","Asks for place at bank","Applies for a teller position at the bank","Officers of Farmers Bank, Richard Blow, President","Detailed letter: Terms if Farmers wishes to rent his house as a banking place.","Has set of India Table China which he wishes to sell. You and Capt. Parker have one like it imported at some time. What did he cost you?","Re: deed sent to Robertson in Petersburg","Asks for meeting of Board of Directors for Farmers Bank","Re: note against Benj. P. Hoomes of King \u0026 Queen County, Virginia","Re: sale of cargo of oil","Suggested notice of opening of the branch of Farmers Bank at Norfolk","Has ships empty and ready for cargoes. What prospects in Virginia?","Banking matters: Delays in getting necessary discounts for Bank to begin","Re: shipment of goods and prices: Schooner Richmond at Newbern, North Carolina. Asks Blow to insure her cargo of salt and [unclear?] at $ 5000. Blow valued ship at $ 3000 and cargo at $ 8300. [Blow as president of Marine Insurance Office]","Norfolk: Re: insurance premium for Richmond","Problem of his debt to U.S. Bank and Mr Allmond's endorsements; a suit in [unclear?], to save his two warehouses on Commerce St. and two dwellings on B[unclear?] Street; he asks for loan from Blow. If not, he will be financially ruined.","Ship Richmond has not left here yet","Ship Bedford was damaged in Lynn Haven Bay; asks for assistance for sale and repairs","Continuation and letter of November 22.","Re: ship Bedford See letter of November 22nd.","Cargo of a ship Ann Alexander","Subscribing for shares in Farmers Bank","Applying for cashier's position at the bank","Applying for gr[and?] son, Benj. Pollard, as notary","Applying for position of watchman at bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Applying for job of porter at the bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Job application for watchman","Job application for watchman","Job application for book keeper or discount clerk","Job application","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job applications , 21 letters","Job application for discount clerk","Job application","Recommends Benjamin Pollard for notary","Recommends T. J. Parker for notary","Job application for runner","Job application for porter","Job application for work","Job application as clerk","sold house to Farmer's Bank","Job application for book keeper","Job application for discount clerk","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application discount clerk","Job application teller","Job application discount clerk","Job application discount clerk","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Purchase of shares in Bank","Discusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea: Orders about ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's cargo \"British licenses have risen here very much and cannot be had under $ 1500 and there is great alarm here that the British cruisers will take our vessels that are bound to Southern parts…Insurance for voyage to Lisbon is 17.5 p.c. …\" [War of 1812]","Crates sent to Blow in ship Richmond","Whale cargo of the ship Debby \u0026 Eliza engaged","Duty of oil to be before Congress","Banking and movement of money: advisability of removing specie from Bank out of town. The Virginia Bank has done this already.","Debby \u0026 Eliza chartered for Lisbon if Blow has not chartered her already","[In handwriting of] Blow: Detailed memo of his correspondence with Bridges \u0026 Robertson regarding cargo of Debby \u0026 Eliza and problems encountered by blockades, etc. from 1813 February 5 to 1815 May 20","Discusses politics, shipping difficulties: Re: past cargo of flour for Debby \u0026 Eliza \"considerable fervor pervades our city especially the Legislature = who are this instant organizing a plan of defense for your Borough and will probably order out 3000 men forthwith\"","Has flour for available","Difficulties of getting flour down to Blow","Re: problems getting flour to Blow; \"excitement of arrival of troops for Richmond and Manchester on way to Norfolk for your protection\"","Re: his chartering of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza, Z[unclear]; ship Algernon, lost at Cape Hatteras, was insured fully","Ship Two Marys entering Chesapeake Bay was met (stopped and boarded) by British fleet under Admiral Warren, had her register and declare different ports…uncertainty about vessels being permitted to go out and impediment re ingress of vessels.","Blockade and how long it will last","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza via ship Catherine","Continuation of problems of getting flour cargo down for Debby \u0026 Eliza","\"The blockade has had a serious effects here. Flour has fallen 2 1/3 per barrel.\"","Sending 200 bhls flour by Martha Ann for Debby \u0026 Eliza cargo","Do not send Debby \u0026 Eliza out of port until blockade is lifted or assurance from British that licensed vessels will be permitted to proceed","Thinks blockade will soon be lifted and ship Debby \u0026 Eliza can get out","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: discussing the British blockage, the embargo and cargo for his vessels","Nat. Clanton, Wm. Peter, Wm. Comm[unclear?] $ 150.15 [unclear?] of Virginia; land formerly property of Walter Gilliam deceased of 1272/3 acres","Gives Blow permission to appoint Director of Farmer's Bank in his place","Power given to Blow to sell cargo of May Ann (800 bu. salt). Wishes 270 bhls flour sent to him","James Geddy signed acknowledged loan of $ 30 from Baron.","Problems of blockade, etc.; Bills of Lading","Concerning the removal of R. Blow as president of Farmers Bank, and five letters concerning Farmers Bank.","Wishes herings sent by packet to Williamsburg","Discusses ship Powhatan's departure from City Point: please furnish Captain with what he needs","Citizen's of Portsmouth sent $ 700.81 for relief of sufferers by the late fire; note of thanks","Returns his 5 volumes of Helvetius","Charter of ship Victory","Cargoes of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Richmond","Blow was agent for ship Victory of New Bedford - to receive load of tobacco at City Point","Re: ships and tobacco shipments: Debby \u0026 Eliza to Rhoads with tobacco and cotton; ship Augustus; ship Richmond; ship Edward Bartin","Re: ship the Victory; many British vessels at City Point and Bermuda Hundred","Discusses losses due to late war.","Re: commission business","Sent 1600 staves to Blow","Purchase of boat","Re: Debby \u0026 Eliza; rates of exchange","Ship Augustus cargo full","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco for Richmond","Primarily concerning his shipping trade","Re: concerning various ships owned by Blow: Debby \u0026 Eliza, Richmond, cargoes; Ship Powhatan","Ship Richmond's account","Wishes shingles","Re: ship Richmond","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco and staves","Re: staves and flour","Fire in Petersburg destroyed half the town, about 300 houses. His counting house was saved","Ship Augustus cargo","Re: Blow's debt to Bank","For building the [unclear?]","Primarily concerns his sea shipping trade","Re: ship Edward Barten's cargo","Re: Shipment in Edw. Bardin","Re: furnishing brig Charles Fourcett en route to Bermuda Hundred for tobacco and staves","Ship Ceres has not arrived at City Point","Re: cargo of Ceres, Edward Bordin, and Alexander for City Point","Re: Edward Bardin, Ceres, Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: shipped of fish thru the Canal to you, will ship shad [type of fish] for family use the last of this month","(see April 12 letter)","Re: ship Augustus","Re: Humph Hathaway and his cargo","Re: Ship Ceres from City Point to Rotterdam with tobacco; Re: ship Debby \u0026 Eliza; Re: ship Edward Bordin","Re: Edward Bordin to Liverpool with tobacco","Re: ship Victoria for Europe","Primarily concerns his shipping trade","Re: freight rates","Re: falling freight rates","Re: Ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's flour cargo","Re: Cargo ofships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Baltie for Liverpool (England), Scotland and Ireland, freight rates a problem. Mr. Dunlop wished possibly to charter the ship Ceres for Leith.","Re: Mr. Dunlop did not accept ship Ceres as expected. Freight is down, problem of getting ships to take out cargoes.","No sale for Blow's salt","Re:Ship Ceres for Rotterdam and cargo","Concerns the tuition and board for Blow's sons, Robert Richard","Robert and Richard Blow by Aiken \u0026 Brooks, and Books for Robert","Three letters and one resolution document","Re: Financial affairs of Farmer's Bank, scale of loans, debts allowed, etc.","Refers to branches at Petersburg, Lynchburg, etc.","Petty bills of Richard Blow, four letters, and accounts with Neilson \u0026 Neale.","80 items","Re: state of exchange, etc.","Banking business","Re: Accounts","Re: Alleged default in bank, etc.","Cost of kitchen, stable, dailty building and garden $ 428.18","Renewing Charter of Farmer's Bank which will expire 1827; urges renewal and to confer with stockholders as to their opinion.","General conditions of banking.","Legislature wishes detailed statement of expenses of Branches of this bank; asks Mother Bank (Norfolk) to send earliest mail; also list of salaries.","80 items.","4 letters","Re: Branches of Farmer's Bank","Election of Lee as cashier","Re: Cashier","Detailed letter describing Christmas as Tower Hill: Weather very bad, hunting, ice house full of ice, new school at Coman's [?] Well, Sussex; wants daugher, Mary Frances put there. Death of Capt. John R. Mason. Edwin Gray sold off all his estate yesterday. Thomas Gray to manage the Ruffin plantation. Imagine Thomas will buy Edwins land; there will be Grays all around us. Just heard that Captain Wm. Briggs bought Edwin's place, $ 1800.","Repairing the man building and slating kitchen","Paint, lead, etc. $ 84.36","Describing post Civil War life conditions: Reconstruction, \"thievery\" of African-Americans; Fanny (his wife) is teaching 10 pupils; Mary is chief assistant in a large female school here; Aleck has been here. Orange and Alexander R.R. has joined up to the Manasses R.R.","George Blow, Micajah Felts, Adminsitrators; Inventory of App.","$ 6235.20; Divison of Estate to 3 grandchildren: Mary E. Turner, Martha Jordan and Georgia Ann Hines.","Leaves Mary E. Hines his plantation on East side of Austin's branch; leaves Martha Hines his plantation on Wesst side of Austin's branch; [Mary Elizabeth Hines husband was George Hines] George Blow and James Rochelle, executors, Rochelle did not act.; John D. Turner who married Mary, act.","George Blow administrator","Dozens of petty accounts between Richard Blow and merchants, trades, etc.","Field book of line between George Blow, Jr., John Clanton Saldsberry and Nancy Clanton and adjoining [unclear?]","Barham's Tract…183+ acres sold at $ 5 per acre. Plat of Barham Wren's land and north side of Racoon Swamp by Wm. Darbie of which this is an exact copy - total acres 345.","Number of packages consigend to [names from Williamsburg, Petersburg, Yorktown, Burwell's Ferry, Hanover]","Original field notes of a Road from Bla[?]'s Mill to Sussex Coutr House chained by Joseph Clanton","£ 1409.9.10 1/2 : long listing","Re: Suit Blow \u0026 Oldham trading as merchants at South Quay, Nansemond County. Each to put up £ 400 V.Cur. and going under firm name of Baker, Oldham \u0026 Blow and to continue throgh the War. In 3 months Oldham died. Firm continued as Baker \u0026 Blow. Store began at Pitch Landing, North Carolina. Other stores were established at Petersburg under firm name of Blow \u0026 Barksdale in 1782.","Answer of Blow refers to the year 1793","Tobacco imanifests for various ships; invoices of tobacco to Wm. Blow at Dunkirk; Invoices to Petersburg Store.","[torn at date] Re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale accounts and ship Flying Jennie 's Cargo","Ships Portsmouth, Grand Duke, [unclear?], Mt. Vernon","[7 items]","Re: Settlement of father's estate","A personal letter about her son, John, who was employed by Freeland \u0026 Gillis in Petersburg. Sent down to Williamsburg on business stayed at the Eagle Tavern. [Mrs. Taylor was a sister of Robert H. Walker]","Re: Goods shipped to him from Lamb \u0026 Younger, London. Requests Blow to attend the Customs and have goods sent up to him as soon as he can. Goods came in the America.","Re: Blow's subscription to the Virginia Gazette for 1800 and 1801","Has sent down 4 hhds. tobacco to Blow.","Re: wine for his father. Asks it to be sent to Alexandria c/o Jenny \u0026 Graham or some person who does business for his father.","Also, letter of March 1 1803 from Cropper, P[unclear?] \u0026 Co., Liverpool","Ship Thomas Wilson, freight bill: 1 case containing a Piano Forte \"for Hon. Samuel Tyler, Judge of Court of Chancery in Williamsburg\"","Re: A Disagreement between Arthur Hope and Blow. Hope had deposited funds with Blow for purpose of Blow investing for him in Bank Stock. Wirt advises Blow to agree to a committee of 3 men to settle rather than go into court.","Acknowledges tobacco sent over by Mrs. Lucy Paradise per The Sheffield. According to Mrs. Paradise's desire we are sending 2 [ch___s?] marked \"LLP1.2\" Bills of Lading sent to Blow at her request. \"She is miserably in debt\"","Has established a printing office in Norfolk with Daniel Baxter. Solicits Blow's goodwill and business.","Re: tobacco she had shipped to Reynolds in Liverpool (see letter of July 12, 1806).","Wishes to employ a tutor to live in his house. Enclose advertisement for same to be put in The Herald. Wishes a mentor in Latin, French but must have one good on Arithmetic and English. Say £ 50 or £ 60 for English teacher and £ 70 or so for language teacher.","His opinion of western lands, 1st rate land sells at $ 20 to $ 30 and 2nd rate at $ 10. Does not wish to settle out here.","Regulations as to conduct: Divine Services, Reveille, etc.","Will not come to Norfolk until yellow fever is over or is prudent to come. Keep him informed.","Bills rendered for postage","Bill for books (listed) $28","Bill","Bill for books (listed)","Appeals to Blow to assist him. He is a British subject and \"confined in jail and then to be sold as a slave for the benefit of the state of Virginia.\" Gives his life history and tells how he a came to America at 3 years old.","Inscription to be put on gravestone of Marie Semple, daughter of James Semple and Joanna his wife, daughter of Doctor William McKenzie, dec'd. Born August 16, 1809 and died November 12th 1810. Note from Semple to Blow with directions for sending stone to Cobham or to the Bay warehouse in Surry or upper end Isle of Wight County.","January 16, 1801, Lee Hall, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, Norfolk. Asks for Blow's assistance so he can obtain a job as a clerk in the Navy Yard at Gosport. January 26, 1801, Congressman Sam W. Dana, Washington DC, to Lee Hall. Discussing a possible job position for Hall. 1804 and 1805, Sam Lord, New York, to Dr. Lee Hall, Portsmouth.","6 pieces","Requests Blow's influences in procuring his appointment as cleark in Public Navy Yard in Gosport","Recommending Dr. Hall to be Clerk of Gosport Navy Yard","Re: Medicine ordered by Hall","A teacher, will return to Portsmouth if conditions seem good","Measures taken to prevent interruption of the commerce of tobacco have had full success.","Suit between Vaughan and Baker \u0026 Blow; he will represent Baker \u0026 Blow.","Re: Inquiring about books sent to Mr. Thomas Jefferson.","Inquires about M. Davis [Augustine] establishing a printing press in the city.","Goods delivered at Capital Landing","Bill of Lading for his tobacco","Encloses letter to London","Petitions re: governorship. Refers to \"Cousin Sam Briggs\" being in Richmond","Fragment of drawing of houses and streets in Petersburg [in handwriting of Richard Blow]: Appomattox River, Tabbs Branch, Brick House [Run?] (all near Blandford)","Memo for [watchwork?]","Ballast Office, London; John Longman \u0026 others, London","(8 items)","(2 items)","Re: shingles","[Drugs?]","Business Correspondence regarding ship Monmouth from Bordeaux and problems encountered; also references to ship America (10 pieces)","Gives news that daughter Patsy will marry Dr. Gray on 26th","Letter from Capt. Blow to his daughter Lizzie (1864); and letter from a nephew, Norfolk, to Capt. Blow (1880) regarding sale of part of the \"Old Place\" in Southampton County.","Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.","Special Collections Research Center","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872"],"collection_ssim":["Richard Blow Papers, 1772/1872"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 B625","/repositories/2/resources/9297"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 B625","/repositories/2/resources/9297"],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"geogname_ssm":["Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century"],"geogname_ssim":["Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century"],"places_ssim":["Dismal Swamp Canal","Williamsburg (Va.)--History--18th century"],"creator_corpname_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"creators_ssim":["Special Collections Research Center"],"access_terms_ssm":["Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library."],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift; 137 items, 1/26/1942; gift; 717 items, 2/18/1942; gift 12,193 items on 5/22/1946; gift 2,655 items on 5/22/1947; gift 21 items on 3/3/1948; gift 197 items on 5/29/1948; and gift 150 items on 3/20/1961; gift ALS from Hugh Nelson to Richard Blow, 20 June 1794 \u0026 ALS from William Archer to Richard Blow, 17 March 1808, on 3/11/1983."],"access_subjects_ssim":["Banks and banking--Virginia--History--19th century","Canals--Southern States","Embargo, 1807-1809","Horses--North Carolina","Horses--Virginia","Legal documents","Merchants--Great Britain","Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century","Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--Nansemond County","Merchants--Virginia--Petersburg","Merchants--Virginia--Sussex County","Merchants--West Indies","Plantation life--Virginia","Plantations","Slavery--Virginia--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Tobacco--Southern States--History--18th century","United States--History--War of 1812","Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794","Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices"],"access_subjects_ssm":["Banks and banking--Virginia--History--19th century","Canals--Southern States","Embargo, 1807-1809","Horses--North Carolina","Horses--Virginia","Legal documents","Merchants--Great Britain","Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century","Merchants--North Carolina--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--18th century","Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century","Merchants--Virginia--Nansemond County","Merchants--Virginia--Petersburg","Merchants--Virginia--Sussex County","Merchants--West Indies","Plantation life--Virginia","Plantations","Slavery--Virginia--18th century","Slavery--Virginia--19th century","Tobacco--Southern States--History--18th century","United States--History--War of 1812","Whiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794","Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"extent_ssm":["16  Linear Feet 39 Century boxes."],"extent_tesim":["16  Linear Feet 39 Century boxes."],"genreform_ssim":["Correspondence","Financial records","Invoices"],"date_range_isim":[1772,1773,1774,1775,1776,1777,1778,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785,1786,1787,1788,1789,1790,1791,1792,1793,1794,1795,1796,1797,1798,1799,1800,1801,1802,1803,1804,1805,1806,1807,1808,1809,1810,1811,1812,1813,1814,1815,1816,1817,1818,1819,1820,1821,1822,1823,1824,1825,1826,1827,1828,1829,1830,1831,1832,1833,1834,1835,1836,1837,1838,1839,1840,1841,1842,1843,1844,1845,1846,1847,1848,1849,1850,1851,1852,1853,1854,1855,1856,1857,1858,1859,1860,1861,1862,1863,1864,1865,1866,1867,1868,1869,1870,1871,1872],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Access:"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers. 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Blow died in Portsmouth, Virginia."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRichard Blow Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026amp; Mary Libraries.\u003c/p\u003e  "],"prefercite_tesim":["Richard Blow Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William \u0026 Mary Libraries."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBlow Family Papers (Mss. 65 B63), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; and Richard Blow Papers (PH 28), Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e  \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Mss. 2008.18 Blow Family Genealogy\u003c/p\u003e  "],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials:"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Blow Family Papers (Mss. 65 B63), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; and Richard Blow Papers (PH 28), Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.","Mss. 2008.18 Blow Family Genealogy"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1772-1872, of the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and \"Tower Hill,\" Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs \u0026amp; Blow, Baker \u0026amp; Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation owner that operated in part by labor of enslaved persons. He shipped the goods produced by the plantation by sea, often to European markets. His correspondence and papers during this period provide a model source on plantation management, sea trade, trade during the American Revolution, and trade during the War of 1812. Includes correspondence, plantation accounts, ship accounts, and legal papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e Subjects covered in the collection include trade, tobacco, prices, Whiskey Rebellion, thoroughbred horses, banking (Bank of the United States and Farmers Bank of Norfolk), Dismal Swamp Canal, the Embargo of 1807-1809, and the War of 1812. There are letters from merchants in Great Britain and in the West Indies.\u003c/p\u003e  ","\u003cp\u003eRe: Prices for tobacco, salt, hogs, to be bought in that are area\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 invoices for miscellaneous goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 invoices for miscellaneous goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Goods shipped from London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 invoices for Miscellaneous goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount book kept at Sussex Court and Southampton Court (56 pp.); Cash memo book of Richard Blow (Tobacco accounts, collections, etc.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter relates to selling salt, tobacco and escaping enemy ships, etc. [Hines was the nephew of Richard Blow and in business with him. 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Difficulties with Danish Law; difficulty in shipping and risk from English Privateers - sends what goods Baker \u0026amp; Blow ordered as soon as possible. (8pp)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco acccounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOctober 3rd, 7th,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: his ships loading, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payment for weapons sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes arrival of B \u0026amp; B's schooners, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouth Quay goods shipped on board of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e for South Quay\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I can inform you of the surrender of the British Army the night before last\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of surrender\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eshingles and guns\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMurdock's part ownership in schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJohn\u003c/emph\u003e and goods therein. Directs when sold to give his part to Samuel Beale, Williamsburg on account. Discusses falling prices if Cornwallis should surrender and a general peace ensue\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to sailing of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly \u003c/emph\u003eand \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFlying Jenny\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice of tobacco is rising; every kind of good is falling. Refers to sending the sloop to St. Thomas with shingles and staves. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCount de Grass\u003c/emph\u003e expected Wednesday. Will meet her at Ocracock [Ocracoke] on 20th with 100lb cannon powder and all the men. 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(6pp)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpenses of sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry\u003c/emph\u003e to Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of goods to Blow. Proposes going into business with Blow at Richmond. \"The Revd. Wm. Andrews is now at Chelsea in this neighborhood and without any employment or assistance except £ 80 per annum which is allowed by government as temporary…\" (7pp)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePricilla\u003c/emph\u003e disbursements in Cadiz; November 5th: cabin furniture, cabin stores, ship stores…\"; Invoice of Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e in account, Richard Blow, Merchant, Norfolk (4 items); Portsmouth store account; Petersburg store: invoice of tobacco shipped on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus;\u003c/emph\u003e South Quay Store: invoice in account with Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale; Portsmouth store account to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: voyage to Fredericksburg; repairs; voyage to Cape Charles and back\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharged to Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePricilla:\u003c/emph\u003e wages, contract to Cadiz; Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNonpareil\u003c/emph\u003e accounts due to Rey \u0026amp; Brandenbourg, Cadiz; 4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003evoyage to London; 28 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOutfitted and cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales wages, shingles, bamboo, lumbwer, etc. Cargo, invoice to Richard Blow and others; 2 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices, sales, etc. 24 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales, wages, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of various ships [?] to Richard Blow; Accounts of Richard Blow [?] to others: to Hathorn \u0026amp; Miller for painting inside of store, glazing, a corner cupboard, table; Portsmouth Store; tavern account of George Briggs [?] to Ann[?] Livingston (dinner, club, wines, and board - £ 3.11.5; 20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales at auction of the Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBrilliant's\u003c/emph\u003e Cargo, New York; Tobacco shipped on Brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNelly\u003c/emph\u003e by Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale—invoice; Invoice of Richard Blow \u0026amp; Co. with Oxley \u0026amp; Hancock on ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough Dancer\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWm. Randall\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDivision account of owners of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNonpareil,\u003c/emph\u003e her cargo in account with Baker \u0026amp; Blow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOwners of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBrilliant\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, Petersburg; Account of sale of cargo of Schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichard\u003c/emph\u003e in account with Baker \u0026amp; Blow at South Quay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Key 1/3 of profits made, Baker and Blow 2/3 of profits\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the amount of £ 7681.18.3; schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVirginia,\u003c/emph\u003e schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSt. Thomas\u003c/emph\u003e; Debts due to following persons….; South Quay Store £ 2240.10.2½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. James Caton, Norfolk: saddlery, shoes, linens, twine, glass, etc…£ 586.3.6½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter re: delivery of shingles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: change of occupation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e and sailing hack\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sailing of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e out of London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping good to firm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSame as above.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTartar\u003c/emph\u003e and sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld\u003c/emph\u003e from Philadelphia with much needed goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending flour down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping goods to him in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e. Asked for tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: ships to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: goods bought and desired\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: exchange of flour and tobacco for salt and blankets, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: ordering a few items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods disbursed from ships to store in Petersburg and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill;\u003c/emph\u003e dissatisfied over trade conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esame as above\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas engaged James Marsh as an assistant for you; salary to be £ 50 per year from time he arrives in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter sent by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e, 7pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for [mourning?] goods to be sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e is coming up the river to Four Mile Creek; general trade conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e has at last got up to 4 Mile Creek an is not discharging her load\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: poor credit of English \u0026amp; French merchants; refers his uncle Scott going blind; general business affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods to be delivered to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, merchants, Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis sons, George and Sammy, are in service to Richard Blow in his business. Asks that Blow continue them. He is infirm and keeps his store only to give his sons Charles some insight in business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJolly Tar is here with your tobacco; will sail back in 3 weeks with your goods; the William left on January 3rd. Has established correspondence and credit on best footing with Birmingham and Manchester (England), Sheffield, Halifax and Leeds houses. Discusses Blow's ability with shipping business. Crew does no think Blow has experience for this in times of peace. Says only 2 trips a year can be made to England and to West Indies. Advises Blow against using [unclear?] ships in this voyage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for linens; suggests Blow have a craft or two built to go up and down river\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Ta\u003c/emph\u003er about to sail, not German goods to be had, no pewter or nails\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIronmongery hard to get; Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlotte Daniel\u003c/emph\u003e chartered with load for James River. Mentions Mr. Allen of Surry, Mr. Charles Carter of Charles City; discusses prices of American goods and demands abroad. Asks Blow to send tobacco back in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlotte.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: escaped enslaved person (\"runaway slave\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip to go to City Point, Virginia and load with tobacco and proceed to London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Lots in Petersburg and buildings thereon too near Blow's storehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 63\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods sent out, etc. Commission merchants problems re payment of tobacco brought over\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e sent to Virginia for tobacco. Probably to West Point; York River tobacco brings better prices than James River; \"my commission for selling a hhd of tobacco shall be 21 shillings; brokerage is 5 shilling\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 350 due\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood shipped out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing firm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes bar iron\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to death of George Briggs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to the Charlotte store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWants canvas and anchor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles bound from Norfolk to London, agreement, names of Crew, wages, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoes not want any part of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e at sea\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItemized\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e16 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor shingles, etc., shipped by boats to Portsmouth or Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePepper, coffee, mill;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLinseed oil, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNew sloop of £ 850\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral merchandise\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOils, locks, paints\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShot, lead, nails, window glass, glass, hats, axes, linens, copper, hardware, guns: £ 986.60 pounds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShoes and hats\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGinger\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGinger\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSail duck\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWoolens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpoons, combs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProvisions for sloop dispatch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice, to D[arton?], Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods at £ 256.0.11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 3074.10.8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 197.15.1 ¼\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 60.16.7\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThompson,\u003c/emph\u003e hardware; £ 106.7.8\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOils and lampblack\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor store and wharf repairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 1171.15.9½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRichard Blow, Thomas Ogburn, Owners \u0026amp; Thomas [Angnus?], Master of Schooner Venus: Contract to West Indies; also ship's personnel with wages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 carts of snakeroot per the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJolly Tar\u003c/emph\u003e, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor goods bought at Port Au Prince, Jamaica.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping Blow's fall goods and pick up blows tobacco for foreign ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas hired Benjamin Wythe to live with him at £ 20 instead of Fort at £ 60. Key was the operator of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill \u003c/emph\u003estore and plantation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: damage and vandalism to ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMalborough\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: John [Cohn?] to be apprenticed to Richard Blow for 6 years\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not keep on Benjamin Wythe (see January 4th above)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bill of laden for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarian,\u003c/emph\u003e Norfolk from Harvre de Grace\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: store there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: they will have new neighbors soon at Sandy Hill: J. Stewart \u0026amp; Company. (Key operated \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store for Richard Blow)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods for Col. Allen and for Charles Carter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: blooded mares owned by Allen Cooke's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: management of store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: mercantile business there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e to Glasgow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of stones to Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e and possible cargoes, [unclear] \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJasmine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…the men who can fight best, lye [sic!] most and swear cleverly are most in repute\" here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"back country stores have taken a great deal of the trade from this place…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: ships for cargo in James, York and Rappahannock Rivers - [unclear] and get \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMalborough\u003c/emph\u003e full as soon as possible, refers to Blow's trip to England soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: leaving lot by Barton for a lumber house near store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's paying his account with him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: death\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying lot from Blow for new store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: arrival of ships. Bland, apparently, was manager of Blow's business in his absence\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: corn delivered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: hard money, much of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeorge\u003c/emph\u003e off Smith's Island - losses…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: building store; arrival of foreign ships…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts due Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts of Blow to Company\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: getting watch springs from London; (Geddy lived in Williamsburg near Palace; see James Geddey House History C.W.; he moved to Petersburg when Capitol left Williamsburg)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending some paper of Baker to Blow before he sets out for London. May send them to Blow in London, asks about what Blow has decided re land and who is to settle it for him; will give Blow's agent the refusal as he promised; (Zach Rowland owned a lot in Williamsburg on Waller Street (from 1782-1786); see C.W. for location of his lot—[M.A.S])\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's trip to Europe soon, wishes some memo or form of a co-partnership, between them before Blow goes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeal sent down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTorn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's debts to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sending tobacco by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough\u003c/emph\u003e to London next week, sends lists so collections can be made there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's letter dated on board ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e in Hampton Roads was received; refers to copartnership in letter of 4th (above). Approves of getting another partner from Britain to go into their firm (Barksdale \u0026amp; Blow). Suggests as Blow is there and will visit all trading posts in Britain, he can choose one better and will visit \"all the back stores\" before his return to Petersburg. McNeil has Married Youille's daughte - after a feud Youville has disowned them. Barksdale will have to settle McNeil elsewhere in back country and will settle [unclear?] in back country and will need spring goods for these small stores; asks Blow to send goods back to him in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMarlborough.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: send cellar window frames to him via Pierce's Sloop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \"trade very dull, collections same, money tight\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: no chances of collecting money at this time, money tight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's finances here while he is abroad no chance of collections until fall; workmen must be paid at all events. Ask Mr. Key or Mr. Barksdale for help if you need funds badly (Hines was Blow's nephew and manager of some of his property).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: can furnish stores, planks, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow and Baker \u0026amp; Blow's overdue account with Hazlehurst, Philadelphia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Just back from 6 weeks up the country, per ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVirginia\u003c/emph\u003e. Been the round of all the stores in the Country that we have an interest in. Collections very small. Insects among tobacco has been very fatal. Business very dull. If ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e should arrive early, I can do well this fall in trade; may be able to get Northern goods this fall; Insists upon Blow getting them a partner for Britain, perhaps in Glasgow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Refers to lots of goods sent to Blow in Virginia in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeorge.\u003c/emph\u003e No sale as yet for Blow's tobacco arrived in [unclear?] due to uncertainty as to duty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: demands very pressing at Portsmouth and here; out of his power to give any financial assistance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending meal down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending framing down; get bricks for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Citron bought, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[torn]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent Blow naval stores for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlex Donald, Richmond, wishes 1,081,000 barrel stones; (Donald is a partner of Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends goods to Robert Rines \u0026amp; Co., John Hoomer \u0026amp; Co. and Robert Craige; asks Blow to clear these at customs and to these people for them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends him 2 , [unclear?] of brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices of goods shipped in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e also in your ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth \u003c/emph\u003ere: sales of tobacco there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDrafts on Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Give Capt. Diamond a compass…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn pleasure trip; business in Virginia very dull. \"I find a good many houses failing in this place as well as in Philadelphia. Northern cities laden with India goods;\" urges Blow to have a separate account for the Portsmouth and Petersburg stores as I have no interest in the Portsmouth store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[torn]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business conditions there and his interests in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his goods from abroad have arrived. Can furnish Bland some for Blow's store in Portsmouth if needed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received goods by the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJasmond,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBattleton,\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison;\u003c/emph\u003e Re: their credit with Donald \u0026amp; Burton, collection of debts owving in Virginia, etc. Thinks Blow was right not to send off goods to his \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e and Portsmouth stores this fall. Reports total loss of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJasmond\u003c/emph\u003e off Hatteras, passengers saved, all goods lost, great damage by this storm at Norfolk and Portsmouth as tides were 10 feet higher than ever known before. John Key, the operator of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store, has come for a few goods for that store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow just returned from four months abroad. Discusses ships and cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Mr. Jerdon's horses and groom[?] to be sent to him at Louisa if not, to A. Donald. Directions for putting off goods at Brandon; and to York County customers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: confusion of orders for goods from Barksdale \u0026amp; Blow; and quality of tobacco shipped to him, prices etc;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods not coming to him on schedule. Wishes 500 bushels salt and some rum and sugar. Have no money to purchase tobacco. Dull sales at this place, low prices of tobacco and high prices of goods, keeps off buyers at store .\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for goods to be sent by Blow to Wilmington by Sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSpeedwell.\u003c/emph\u003e Thinks there is an excellent opening for a business there. Virginia is overstocked with Country Stores or rather shops. Could accept H.C. produce in payments. Send the goods to Henry Urquahart or Carmical \u0026amp; Bogle as soon as possible.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods received\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing going here in retail line but a demand to country merchants in the wholesale way...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter of credit for David and Herbert Hines, his brothers. [David Hines married Elizabeth Francis, daughter of Thomas Francis, February 3rd, 1781]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: need for molasses and rum, sugar or coffee for his business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods by the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSpeedwell\u003c/emph\u003e to hand (£ 381.15.10); goods sent him (saddler, corderoys, [unclear?], men's shoes) \"not suitable for my trade here.\" I wish rum, sugar; will try to pay in North Carolina produce but that is as low in your state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed letter re economic conditions in England and the reaction to follow if Virginia General Assembly lays heavy duties on British shipping and on B[low's] goods imported in them; if this happens, a fatal blow will be given to the credit of Virginia in this country…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Accounts for collection\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOut of certain goods, will loose customers if Blow does not send some up.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ereturns invoices for damaged goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discusses effect to follow if paper currency is issued to you. It will raise your exchange very much. It is prudent for you to collect your debts before their value is reduced thereby…warns against giving too much credit…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: needs cloth for clothes for enslaved persons\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: difficulty of getting spring goods from abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[need to check folder break-down for accuracy]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor goods [unclear?] and to be sent to Richard Blow per ship Portsmouth. Blow had sent stoves over to be sold (8 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived credit for shingles, scantling, garden nails and lumber\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 petty accounts of Richard Blow with craftsmen; Accounts of Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London for goods; List for Richard Blow, Virginia (6 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists: \"1 fine Carnelian seal with Coat of Arms crest. Neatly set in gold [unclear?] pattern £ 5.5 \"N.B. the seal, pin and ring were delivered to Mr. Blow\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFifteen accounts of Richard Blow for various needs at home and abroad; Tavern account with Mr. A. Livingston; Repairs to ship Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipped by Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJesmond\u003c/emph\u003e for their account with Robt. Crew, Merchant, London, £ 1034.13.5\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 heads[?] of Tobacco; £ 600.17.11;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e8 invoices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 invoices for jewelry;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e32 petty accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 receipts Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e...for goods furnished to Captains of ships and other individuals; 24 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A Pair of Silver [unclear?] Pistols, Brass Barrels and [unclear?] locks: (£ 8.18.6)\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003edress materials\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 pieces, receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 pieces, receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice; wide selection of goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWide selection of goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJesmond\u003c/emph\u003e is now loaded and will sail, Captain Smith is in charge\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills for plank and lumber of all kinds, R. Blow; 12 prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e18 prices (August 1st??)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading of tobacco in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e at Cabin Point or Petersburg. Times hard; cannot remit now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA continuation of letter of January 1st (above)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to new tax imposed by General Assembly of January 1st on tobacco. Money very hard, being [unclear?] often. Sends invoices for tobacco shipped out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip Portsmouth leaving for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: glad to know ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e is out of Cape's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco down in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMolly\u003c/emph\u003e or the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTermagant\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn distress for cash to get French ships out—has drawn on Blow for £ 50. Gordon \u0026amp; Kean will send her (ship) out to sea for Grubb if I can furnish funds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses his personal business affairs—Roberts almost paid now. James River tobacco now in demand here. Refers to George Briggs, nephew of Blow, owing him; also George Nicholson and Richmond Rope Walk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: carpenters working on the wharf, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: corn sent to Blow from the Plantation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blows ship in port and difficulties re manifest. Refers to Blow's marriage and send congratulations to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: general news\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Blow's \"happy day\" (wedding day / Richard Blow's Marriage); Tobacco prices looking up. Trade duller than when you were here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Grand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e has brought in £ 2200. Refers to the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison,\u003c/emph\u003e safe at Cadiz\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends manifests of ship's \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e cargo. She [ship]will be in England before the Harrison or the Grand Duke. Needs salt and stoneware\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives ship's \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e cargo and his needs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e…when he left South Quay he settled with Baker \u0026amp; Blow. Invoice of Tobacco received.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuying lighter of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends goods out by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e to Portsmouth and Petersburg stores. Business dealing with the two stores sends tobacco and staves back in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods for (Richard Blow)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice, harness and saddler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipped in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHagard\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow; concerned over how to pay creditors: \"very stagnant times\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to go up to the Charlotte store only 85 miles from Petersburg and see Mr. Youville\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Bax \u0026amp; Ellill for \"Blow\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Trinbug \u0026amp; Bell for Blow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026amp; Co. for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Mr. Galloway from Jamaica who would like to be their agent there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor £ 1233.19.14\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026amp; Co. for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Tyson wishes circa 200 hhds tobacco from lower James River. Recommends shipping tobacco to France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like business dealings with Blow; encloses list of goods available for exportation and prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegging for goods to be sent to him in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends invoice of goods needed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnable to send the candlesticks you wanted for the Mason's Lodge. Pattern desired not available, very expensive to be made by silversmith; awaits Blow's decision\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBond of 1784 January 1st\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of goods to him and tobacco loaded in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debt to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sends tobacco in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: goods sent to Blow's store in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth.\u003c/emph\u003e Barksdale not liable for that store. Settled with Blow before he went to England (in 1785) \"I have no more interest in the Portsmouth Store or the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e than a man unborn nor never had from the beginning of our co-partnership\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e7 invoices for goods for Blow in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVarious assortments, 10 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy: Rich Barton, Henry Dickson, Donald \u0026amp; Burton; Taxes, Sussex County or Richard Blow: 1196 acres land, 203 acres land, 210 acres land, 28 polls, 13 levis, 10 horses, 50 cattle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003efrom Donald \u0026amp; Burton, John Begg, James Williamson, Portsmouth Store, J. Barrister (10 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith carpenters, tailors, butcher, cabinet maker (10 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e15 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo M. Finkle, Jno. Thomson, [D____unclear?], Eph. Elder, Alex. Smith, E. Youngman, H. Brown, G. Nickols\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003evarious goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterial for dresses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"London, 3 Voyages;\" \"Virginia, 3 voyages\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bread, rum, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor repairs to ships of Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e for store and for wharf; and for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDispatch\u003c/emph\u003e (repairs)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice for misc. goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor craftsmen. 23 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor craftsmen. 30 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCarpenter and builders account\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor Petersburg store, South Quay store, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pp.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips furnished, Ports listed, foreign merchants traded with, invoices (local and foreign); 200 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMessrs. Brothers De Bacque, Dunkirk (France)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e29 business letters concerning the sale of tobacco and loading on ship Portsmouth and others for foreign ports. Also their business agreements. The dates of the letters are as follows: January 12 11, 15, 26, February 2, 1, 8, March 12 26, April 4, 20, 12 30, May 16, 26, 31, 20, June 6, July 16, 13 August 10, 17, 19, 14 12 29, September 2, December 1, 13\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports dissolution of the Partnership of Thomas Bland \u0026amp;Co., will continue the business under the firm name of William Edwards \u0026amp; Co. and settle former co-partnership\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo: Wm Pritchard, Wm Corrupter, Gabriel and [Rhilgo?], James Brown, John Cranbury, John Bingham, M. Donald, John Whitley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: renting house (Waddell was a silversmith, formerly of Williamsburg)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: to James Giddy Jr., Silversmith in Petersburg, formerly of Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: renting store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e70 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: about to settle in Amherst Country\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargoes for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e and payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales of cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHaney\u003c/emph\u003e reported to your credit. Sends hogshead of London wine via ship. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eActive\u003c/emph\u003e soliciting trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndian corn cargo sent by Blow to them; Enclosed invoice of prices or articles imported to this island: wheat, grain and flour always command good prices and good profit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco is a very dull sale at present. Wheat high all over Europe, Turpentine is much demand\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo for North Carolina, salt, rum, ship bread and 400 empty hands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFort was manager or operator of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store for Blow, George Andrews is overseer for 1788 for £ 20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipments to Donald \u0026amp; Burton via Bowman; other shipments discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(fragment)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 to 15 ships en route to Portsmouth are frozen up in Appomattox River near the bar; ice is 5 inches thick\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost woolens entirely too high for this market\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: clothing for Col. Lewis Burwell's enslaved persons is held up for duties at Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suits in General Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suits in court there. Blow's debts due; payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking that Blow send 2 packages that came for him from abroad. One may be a spinet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis detailed letter about the economy discusses prices for canvas, salt, tar; compares French and English prices for same. French minister has written to Jefferson with regard to trade to tobacco. France may become a very important depot for tobacco and particularly this port as it is near to the Dutch and German Ports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sendingBoxes of James Geddy's by first vessel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: James Geddy's invoice of sundry goods in 3 packages misplaed; never arrived here; find they are in Norfolk at Capt. Maxwell's. Please send.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in General Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(care of Joshua Fort, Tower Hill) Re: [unclear?] a lot of his\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in General Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bill owed by Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Geddy's 3 packages of goods have arrived at last, send duties due from him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: coming for final settlement of accounts of Baker and Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's lots in Petersburg. Legality of ownership must be cleared up. Will check deeds in Prince George County. Gill will sue you if not cleared up soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipments of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco very promising this year, prospects for 1/3 more crop. Wants horseman's trumpet for our Cavalry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral prices and tobacco sales outlook\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco down, also bacon, hams for Mr. Gregory in Dunkirk. M. Oldner will look after them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Lathian, Sharp, Wardrop \u0026amp; Co., Weavers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Hunt \u0026amp; Clay, Ribbon Weaver\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Henry \u0026amp; Richard Joseph, Pewterers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Lancaster, Bax and Ellill and shipment in Bowman for Virginia, bird shot, seeds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of James Davidson, Net, Rope, Twine, Line maker\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Wm \u0026amp; Rdn Borradaile \u0026amp; Co.; Hats and felts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of Edward Collinson, Tin Plate, [Warker?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of [North?] Johnson \u0026amp; [Frith?], turners and brush makers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: prices of naval stores, lumber and staves. Asks for settlement of their business for past year soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e has gone to sea, re: Blow's lands\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] of John Freeman \"cork cutter to his majesty\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLooking for Captain Oldner. Stack of Tobacco in France kept up high by late deliveries. Farmers General will buy at liberal prices to encourage commerce between the two countries. When \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e arrives, will write you further.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending sturgeon down, wishes nails\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: coming to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill \u003c/emph\u003esoon; We should come to something decisive in our business. Crop up country good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipments of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: [lands?] of Baker \u0026amp; Blow in western lands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: repairs to shop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecution against blow for £ 600.5, for debts owed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds salt for store; re: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[unclear?] Gov. of Virginia for duties past due £ 80\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipments in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip Captain: business about sailing for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill sell 1,200 acres of land in order to pay if Blow insists\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt owed to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suit in Southampton Co. Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's debt to firm for tobacco sent him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending load of staves down by Mr. Gray\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllowed another ship to have barrel of mead as they were out; Oldner was the Captain of Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFarm conditions bad due to inclemency of weather; John Rochelle needs salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLawyer for Mr. Baker and Blow, Suit vs. Holland to come up at next court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sold Robert Rives remaining stock of goods belonging to Webb, Barksdale \u0026amp; Co. Accounts enclosed to amount of £ 916.8.4 sterling to go on proper account to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale. It is now time to rent out the Courthouse store if no renter applies, we shall have to pay dead rent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa\u003c/emph\u003e is in from Isle of May with salt. Says prices of barrel staves is too high\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs willing to be Captain of ship to ply between Holland to Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks that goods come up in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBell Cap Bay,\u003c/emph\u003e lying now at New Point News or in Nansemond River. May send \"my ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eConstitution\"\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMember of House of Delegates from Sussex County. General Discussion of affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Law cases\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of schooner and cargo in Rotterdam; Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eKepple\u003c/emph\u003e to be sold in West Indies. Mr. Rosser to Fredericksburg with load of salt and dry goods. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMeremaid\u003c/emph\u003e from Glasgow arrived today. Mr. Lightfoot's sloop from Antigua here [Mrs. Blow and little George were staying in Petersburg with Mr. Blow]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: changing from employ to Rotterdan [unclear?] to Captain of Portsmouth owned by Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e and other ships: staves business and red oak hogsheads for sale. \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eQueen of France\u003c/emph\u003e from London and Captain Blaney from St. Martins here with salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of General Assembly in session. Briggs was representative from Sussex County. John Pride was speaker of Senate, defeated Charles Carter. Briggs thinks Pride better for office as he is \"more of a republican;\" [theater] plays to start here soon, place very gay.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: case Baker and Blow versus Applewhaite\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: package lost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits and loss of legal papers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuits in court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e140 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e19 items pertaining to sloop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e100 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSee alsoBox 11A: Financial Records, 1787-1789.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave sent Blow 12 hogsheads tobacco and 10 [unclear?] pork; no peas to be had.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending navel stores for A. Donald\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Wishes to rent Blow's house in Petersburg for Mr. Rose; let him hear your wishes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's judgment against him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in Brunswick County Court vs. Blow \u0026amp; Baker\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices of staves, shingles, scantling, sugar, molasses, coffee, tobacco, fish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTar sent to A. Donald, sending 4 [bbls?] of turpentine to you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: selling enslaved person; Col. Baker's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e thought lost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBurgess had a school in Southampton. Reference to payments to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received Indian corn shipment for the account of James Brown of Richmond, Virginia. American grain is much in favor here, tho' [am?] crops of wheat, rye and barley are good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends flour and corn down for foreign trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Baker estate and suits in Brunswick County Court\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses financial conditions, tariff changes and effects on American goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends manifests for 55 hogeheads by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth;\u003c/emph\u003eAlso, others. Brother (James) is at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e on business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suits in Brunswick County Court, of Blows\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bar iron for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes quantity of peas to fill ship to be sent to Madeira before Christmas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 2,800 bushels of wheat in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e for Philadelphia. Will Blow get bills of lading for it for Manson?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot pay his account to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down 100 [unclear?] of flour and a parcel of back eyes peas (12 to 1,500 bushels) for Madeira\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists tobacco sent down for Blow, needs Liverpool salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs, wages, food, ports, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs, bread, rum, cordage, naval stores and general petty accounts for misc. articles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of laden and accounts of sloops \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eElizabeth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsey,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAcorn\u003c/emph\u003e and others; and petty accounts for ships\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecirca 100 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ecirca 71 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer of Richard Blow, partner of Baker \u0026amp; Blow and of Richard Blow \u0026amp; Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer of Richard Blow partner of Baker and Blow and of Richard Blow and Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e26 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e10 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo ship on board the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e for Havre De Grass: Smithfield, Low Point, Hoods, Davis's, B. Brooke, Byrds, Lowpoint\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Richard Blow for the ships\" account of repairs Blacksmith account-ship Gloucester to Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWork on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 items and one item related to freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e23 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Tobacco saved from wreck of the schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNelly\u003c/emph\u003e in November 1783. Asks for settlement, may enter suit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas corn and cask of ginger for Mr. Blow, by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlie\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping tobacco via City Point, 60 [unclear?] corn at 4-Mile-Creek, little wheat\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 33 hogsheads of tobacco to Blow, for shipment on Portsmouth for Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rent of Blow's warehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOwes blow; he is out of work, can't pay now (ship captain?)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems regarding ship and loading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down brandy, nuts, apples by cart. \"people\" (referring to enslaved persons) need shoes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas been to France, 3 days at Dunkirk at Messrs. De Bacque. They seem agreeable to do business but due to the critical condition of affairs in France, the exchange is above par. Will go to Liverpool to look situation over. \"Expect to get the scheme completed to the fullest extent and the goods shipped…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends invoice of goods and corn delivered to Capt. Binghame\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sent 3000 [unclear?] of turpentine for account of Mr. Donald\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ere: Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale (2)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend him rum for corn he sent to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends turpentine (600??) would want $3 per (??)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading corn and sending down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending corn for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of boards, shingles, scantling to merchants here. Will have 600 bushels of salt for Captain Cox and flour and fish. Hope to sail back by August\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDemand for Virginia. Coal is very slow due to quantity of British coal on market. Corn prices low, Captain Fineash has employed Willing, Morris \u0026amp; Co. to buy his bricks. Wheat and flour prices good.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends down turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSailing on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBowman\u003c/emph\u003e on 20th; dissapointed that Blow has done nothing to fit up his store in Petersburg for the reception of goods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePeggy\u003c/emph\u003e left Lyon's Creek with corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts for sale of cargo and prices received\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Capt Fineash's business affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's accounts there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending tobacco and turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Brunswick County Suits\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 items: The dates are as follows: January 13 February 24, March 9, 13 April 14 21, 28, May 14 7, 10, 5, 26, 21, 24, 31, June 7, 23, July 1, August 13 14 September 12 20, 25, October 2, 2, 20, 19, 22, 25\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e35 items: Brown's loading of tobacco and corn on the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClermont,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePhoenix,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e to be delivered to Blow for foreign sale. Brown wished Blow to send him turpentine, salt, dry goods , rum, sugar, coffee, etc. Brown was a big merchant in Richmond. The dates are as follows: August 2, 2, 6, 11, 17, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 13 28, 30, September 1, 8, 12 12 13 17, 20, 24, 27, October 6, 4, 4, November 1, 3, 8, 10, 19, 23, December 2, 14 28, 30, 30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral condition of market, shipping, etc. The dates are as follows: March 9, 18, 24, 24, 27, 30; April 1, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 28, 24, 26, 28, 27, 29; May 1, 3, 19, 30, 19, 21, 22, 21, 26, 28; June 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 25, 25, 28, 30; July 2, 5, 9, 19, 19, 22, 29, 29; December 9.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Brown, Richmond merchant, accounts with Richard Blow; Brown's sale to various foreign merchants and delivered to ship Captains sailing, etc.; flour, corn, tobacco. 25 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e20 misc. petty accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo sales, voyage #10: wages, repairs, fitting out food, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e38 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e41 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e77 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e75 items regarding repairs, fittings etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpenses of Corn shipped on the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBirch,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCleopatra,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary.\u003c/emph\u003e Naval stores statement . 20 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts of ships with Richard Blow; ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBowman,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCleopatra,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePhoenix,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEndeavor.\u003c/emph\u003e Sales of turpentine, tar, staves, rum, molasses, corn, repair work done, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received flour and black-eyed peas from Blow; will send wines to Blow; gives current prices of wheat, corn, rice, flour, beans, beef, pork, bees wax and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Blow for present of 4 red birds sent to him. Three arrived safely. I gave two to female friends and one to Mr. Donald.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLow Point, Milners, Smithfield, Suffolk, G-Creek,Hampton, Petersburg, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's Tobacco sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for joiners work\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRelating to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeorge,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBowman,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarriet,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCastor,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eUnion,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMolly,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarrison\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy master shipwrights, Captain John Cox, commander of Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs result of damage received on the Bognor Rocks £ 633 [Bognor Rocks, Sussex County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e58 pieces: Repairs, wages, food, etc\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 200 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts now due and insaluable; rent for Princeton (house near Sussex County house); about Wm. Bland's inability to pay for horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAristotle\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThank for red birds sent to him. Sned more\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending oranges and hives\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"France is at war with the Emperor of Prussia; gives effect of current prices\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRed birds died on voyage; Captain Pollack of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrand Duke\u003c/emph\u003e will bring others for me, I hope\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes cargo of staves—has shipped brandy to Blow. Also wishes Oak timbers and cedar boards for whale boats and harpoon. Situation of political affairs will influence the exchange. The success of our war against the Emperor and the King of Prussia has made prices fall already. Our success in several battles has recovered from the Emperor the whole Belgick [Belgique] or Flanders, besides the whole kingdom of Savoy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn French.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs establishing a House of Commerce in Bordeaux; asks business of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts, disbursements, (32 items)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs, bills, after hurricane from St. Eustatias to Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid and George\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrande Duke\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBallie De Sulpier\u003c/emph\u003e; Captain Timothy Congers was captain of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBallie de Sulpier.\u003c/emph\u003e In his account to Richard Blow under July 9, 1792 there is this item: \"Cash paid expenses to Williamsburg to see the judge (2.14.3 ½)\" and on July 29, 1792 \"Cash at Maupin's (5.18.1) on July 11 1792 Captain [Conears?] to Gabriel Maupin..\"[unclear?] for dinner, club, wine, lodging, grog are listed by Maupin as paid on July 12th. Maupin kept an ordinary in Williamsburg; [see: House History at Research department C.W. (M.A. Stephenson, March 1968)]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e40 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e21 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 items: Foreign agents, local suit, ship captains accounts, invoices of sloop Industry and David and George, Portsmouth, repairs to ships (nail maker, blackmaker, iron work), invoices for lumber, scantling, shingles, food furnished ships (ship bread, rum, beef, etc.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Captain John Cox)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArrival of your ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth.\u003c/emph\u003e Wishes staves, cedar hoards, oak timbers for the whole boats and tarpons. Wishes tobacco; Brandy or gin will not be allowed to go into your country but in casks upward of 90 gallons. Which type of brandy and cognac will Blow like? Will send price current from time to time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 50 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"A committee of the inhabitants of Petersburg assembled on Wednesday to devise some measure to prevent the communication of the Small Pox from Richmond, and they have resolved on planning a smoke house at Pocahontas to have every person from Richmond smoked before they are admitted into town..\" Gives prices current.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses war with Portugal and Spain and consequent fall in prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco delivered to Port-au-Prince\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping Blow tobacco at Kemp's Warehouse on the Piankatank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of 15 hogsheads of tobacco for sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eExperience\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips Blow hering, shad and tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends 32 hhds tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives prices current in list for tobacco and turpentine, deerskins, tar and rice\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Buying ship with Blow; son going to Virginia to be in business there, gives current prices of tobacco, turpentine, etc. Tobacco sales down 1/3 in France by National Assembly orders.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStates that Donald \u0026amp; Burton have failed. He and Mr. Lamb, book keeper for Donald \u0026amp; Burton, will form a joint business. Asks for Blow's business with them. Lamb \u0026amp; Younger are insurance workers, also.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of laden (12), wages\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…There never was such distress in this kingdom amongst the commercial people as at this time prevails…I think very few will be able to ship goods the coming fall for their correspondents. Tobacco is very low and hardly any sale. A cargo of (??) Virginia Tobacco has lately been sold at 1¾, wheat 6/6, tar 21/[unclear], turpentine 12/ct\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOffers to collect debts for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives London exhange and needs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives prices current in Cadiz and exchange in London, Amsterdam and Paris; gives money valuations also\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses prices and general trade conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bill for goods desired\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVirginia Coffee House\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter and copy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 miscellaneous bills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e89 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Collections for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Price current for Antigua Rum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cask of chewing tobacco sent him for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The embargo will cease after the 25th of this month. The resolution to continue it after that time was rejected by a large majority yesterday..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow \u0026amp; Baker's judgment vs. Henry Banks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuits of Baker \u0026amp; Blow, judgments, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…M. Lee has rented your old store house to a M. Dudgin, a baker is building a very large oven in the back yard adjoining the old kitchen on the [run?]. Your carriage is now all ready, it is a nice one and I hope will please Mrs. Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Relationship between J. Boyce and T. Thompson Jr., dissolving partnership\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders 40 lb. of West India Cotton and some salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending corn from \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e, to Blow via Cabin Point and River\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e87 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e111 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Lot in Petersburg of Blow's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote the N.B.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debts to Blow under firm name of \"Fort \u0026amp; Nicholson\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of Laden and earthenware\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Merchant, Mr. Smith, who is coming to Virginia to settle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Thomas Thompson has died; Re: Blow's business with Thompson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The troop of Cavalry of Petersburg, marched on Saturday and about 160 militia and now going on daily from the different countries that come through here, the result of this business is very much to be feared will end in some thing that will be shocking to human nature…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for goods (dress materials)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturning to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Th. Thompson's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Thompson, Jr., arrived safely; Executors of T. Thompson, Jr. will give up the trade entirely, so partnership between him and you will be closed as early as possible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: T. Thompson's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSays great Britain will pay for all injustices which Americans have suffered by the West Indies cruisers: make your just claim for loss suffered by the capture of your vessels. Do not doubt but that you'll be reimbursed for loss; discusses his and Blow's business connections and Thompson's son's business affairs in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices of Richard Blow's. 50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to French American difficulties at present; Thompson's estate affairs not favorable; great demand for middle grade tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJ. Strange, Manchester to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrice current list\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Captain Harrison of the Fort was shot last night by Lt. Willson in a duel\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBritish cruisers have orders to bring in every ship of whatever nation loaded with Provisions bound to France;... a great number of Americans are amongst but Commissioners appointed to purchase and to pay for the same instantly…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn sea 38 days, cargo damaged\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives genealogy of kinship of Drews, Hines and Blows.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs for Portsmouth dwelling\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs for Portsmouth dwelling\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e13 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoices and receipts paid by Richard Blow to Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, and to local tradesmen in Norfolk (50 pieces) see: Jacob Andrews, Norfolk, silversmith, for ½ dozen, tea spoons and a tea canister\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e43 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Waller, Williamsburg, agent, for firm Abram Newman of London and John Grayson of Petersburg, Virginia, representing the firm of Davison \u0026amp; Newman, London, Executors of Benj. Waller, paid to attorneys for firm £ 1325 pounds and £2587.18 pounds - Va. currency in April 1779\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Henry Carleton's debt to Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, Pitch Landing, 1781; [Anderson was bookkeeper for firm then]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent salt, lemons, china and oranges to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs sending over in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRebecca\u003c/emph\u003e a very famous horse, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDare Devil\u003c/emph\u003e, property of John Hoomer of Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDare Devil\u003c/emph\u003e, Hoomer's horse, arrived safe in Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\" I hear you have married Miss Wright..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral conditions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 horses sent by Lamb \u0026amp; Younger to his father on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEliza; \u003c/emph\u003e give M. Lawson of Williamsburg and father information about this\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco very high here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: a fire which destroyed storehouse of Blow's, which Nash had rented. Mrs. Marks occupies the remaining house left of Blow's; wishes to continue renting it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's and Barksdale's foreign business, collections, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived 5 hogsheads of tobacco from \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill \u003c/emph\u003e overseer, entire crop\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites for red birds; sends silk to Mrs. Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"America must be reaping immense advantage from the war that is going on in Europe\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: purchase of a good vessel; condition uncertain due to war. Does not think good time to increase foreign trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouise\u003c/emph\u003e bringing cargo of salt to City Point in exchange for tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e116 pieces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eScammel was part owner with Blow of a store at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill [\u003c/emph\u003esee Blow Family Papers, W\u0026amp;M Library, Special Collections Research Center]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e230 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of Carolina business and also those for conveyance of the lot to John Baird and Jamestown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collecting for Blow rent on Petersburg Storehouse and house, and recovering debts owed to Blow; current prices listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt he owes for rent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: estate of Thompson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: purchase of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e by Strange \u0026amp; Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rent of Blow's houses in Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Deed from Blow for Petersburg lots and houses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Collection for Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Th. Thompson's Estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses foreign wars and politics in France; not in favor of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e brig sent out to Dunkirk now; perilous situation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"..enclosed you have a Deed of trust from M. John Baird Jr. to you which he wishes to execute to secure the payment of his bond to you..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e…would like to have the name pedigree of Mr. Burwells horse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes stud horses sent to his place, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eChalmeria,\u003c/emph\u003e Dinwiddie County, by way of Suffolk and Petersburg, understands a groom and ferrier are with the house; avoid all ferries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish Blow to get him the pedigree of horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTraveller\u003c/emph\u003e and also name and pedigree of Mr. Burwell's horse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA vessel has arrived from London at Norfolk and has brought two stud horses shipped by Mr. Barksdale for M. Strange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Thompsons settlement of estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo collect debt owed by Anderson since 1795\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBaird buys lots from Blow in Petersburg on Brick House Run\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e, Sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e Sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRebecca;\u003c/emph\u003e German Ships; 50 pieces)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e54 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 100 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNaval stores\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to war conditions and settlements abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBad news from abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas rented Blow's orchards\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of Father's debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Baker and Blow's business—debts owed them and bonds given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…I have at last made sale of Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale's land in Charlotte for £ 1000 pounds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas sold Brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e to Freeland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: execution papers re Nicholson of Cabin Point for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: damaged tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThomas,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGalliat-a-Maria\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFox,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eStafford, Mill River\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Urquhart, Wilmington North Carolina to Wm. Barksdale+1719:1724\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of 24 hogsheads of tobacco on board of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarmony\u003c/emph\u003e for Norfolk to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: San Domingo Business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending naval stores\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping garden seeds to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain of ship bound to Port-au-Prince\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: salt from Isle of May and his warehouse for storing the salt is good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: order from Blow for a rolling mill for a Goldsmith's work; will send later; other business between them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid \u0026amp; George\u003c/emph\u003e (ship), Bills of lading sent; have sold tobacco and beeswax of Blow's; poor market; Georgia cotton is high and sugar and coffee equally as high\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry\u003c/emph\u003e arrived at Falmouth-sent her to Hull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFort \u0026amp; Barksdale will send cargo of tobacco, flour, etc. to San Domingo; asks Blow to secure proper vessel for them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 1 bale of woolens (£ 133.2) for Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspapers being sent to Blow. \"You will find much news and the state of Public Affairs in Europe; great events is looked for shortly\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's insurance on buildings; request a copy of Blow's policy \"Tobacco market perfectly flat\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness with Blow; for tobacco and brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of good shipped to Blow aboard \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJennie;\u003c/emph\u003e cargo for West Indies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of $7000 sent aboard \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJennie\u003c/emph\u003e for West Indies; invoice listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement with Blow for damaged tobacco and hominy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: estate settlement of Moore's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA list of bonds, notes, and securities due to the Estate of Th. Thompson put into the hands of Mr. Copeland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending invoices and bills of lading for woolens, etc. Could not ship guns without permission of this Government which could have cost more than the value; sending earthenware\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWould like to rent rooms belonging to Blow's store, \"for the accommodation of about half a dozen particular acquaintances.\" Would like Blow's \"young gentlemen\" to board with her\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount of sales for tobacco and beeswax\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts for cotton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: wines\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts due Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas man who wishes to buy Blow's 100 acres near Petersburg called \"Chicken Quarter\" will give £ 55; invoice of timber sent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow elected Director of the Bank of U.S., Norfolk office\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of father's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent price list\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDudley was nephew of Mrs. Lee Hall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suspicion that his aunt was poisoned\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of articles sent by sloop for Mr. Barksdale's trip abroad 11 packages in all.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSon has sailed for England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWm. West is to build a house at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld Place\u003c/emph\u003e (Blow's father's home in Southampton) for Richard Blow, how large must it be?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"All of Mr. Barksdale's furniture and etc. was sold off by Haxall on Thursday last; and at prices enormously high; the sales will exceed the original cost of the property\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"..our sales in September amounts to 124 pounds, 30 pounds cash\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"..Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e has been taken on her return from Madeira, retaken and carried into St. Kitts which has entirely frustrated the views that were entered into for her immediately going back with an assorted cargo…and I regret you will be disappointed of the fine old wines..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSon John has returned from London; 37 day passage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion of political situation between France, Austria, England, and Denmark and business repercussions as result. Reported that Blow's Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePortsmouth\u003c/emph\u003e has been detained in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs renting warehouse to Mr. [John] Halt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses international situation; England's problems, etc. Is moving his store to Bolling Brook Street; gives current prices for tobacco and etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his father's estate and collections\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses uprising of enslaved person Gabriel (\"slave insurrection\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to setting up business at Surry; will get Mr. McIntosh's building\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Late news from abroad; England and Denmark will not [rupture?]; will send ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa\u003c/emph\u003e out soon..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrand and corn meal being sent to Blow on the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHannah\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEnterprize\u003c/emph\u003e also tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImportations this year very large\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn way to canal to get shingles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImportation considerable; back country merchants will not buy anything of any consequence; desires salt, now worth 22/6 a sack and 4/3 loose per bushel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives prices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHad shipment of gloves valued; sending some to Blow; doubts if they can sell well; discusses salt market.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe; Salt and spices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco for sale in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClarissa;\u003c/emph\u003e wishes wine bought for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchooner Eira from Norfolk brought news of death of his father; schooner Augusta brought letter from Blow. Thinks M. Goodwin very improper person to administer father's estate. Brother William may wind up estate in Virginia, if not, asks Blow to administer. Remit all collections to mother; George Leckie, London, sending turtle andBox of oranges to Blow as present\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMississippi\u003c/emph\u003e brought salt from Liverpool; Is shipping tobacco to Blow by sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMill River\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping him flour and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of tobacco ahead; gloves he has are hard to unload on merchants; William Barksdale in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts current (Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale, June 23, 1800) and others, Bonds for duties on ships, Prom. Notes, bills of lading, receipts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esee Folder 2 also\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForeign mostly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDudley was a nephew of Dr. Hall. Had a small grocery store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: seizure of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharles Carter\u003c/emph\u003e by French privateer and uncertainty of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Hilton\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes his 350 or 400 hogheads of Indian meal shipped to England as a better market than western ports. Was priced at 12/6 [Stg?] per bushel and flour quoted at 120 per Bushel. Tobacco very dull here. \"I have no doubt that France will capture all neutral vessels they can that are loaded with provisions for England.\" Gives current prices of flour, bacon, hogs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes salt for the Indian meal he has sent to Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Bankrupt, Jesse Brown - Refers to \"Master George (Blow) at Bellfield (Academy)\" [Bellfield is now Emporia. There was a school there which George Blow attended. See Blow Family Papers Index, M. Stephenson]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs building a schooner for the West Indies\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConditions of markets local and abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUsing Blow's \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBrig Almira\u003c/emph\u003e to send his tobacco to Falmouth and Dunkirk or Havre (both in France); Wishes brig to come to City Point to load; gives current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to go to Scotland; asks Blow about passage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e loading at Harrison's Bar near here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e for load for Falmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood news from Europe related to war there; Mr. Barksdale in England gives condition of market for tobacco there, in France and Holland.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales in April amounted to £ 140, £ 36 cash\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoading \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e for Dunkirk or Havre, or Rotterdam, on Blow's terms, all load to go to Mr. Barksdale for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipments of tobacco abroad, current prices noted\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: 2 horses and a mare sent from abroad to Hoomes in care of Blow, Horses to arrive in the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eChesapeake\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange at par; tobacco prices dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We have this moment received intelligence that preliminaries of peace between this country and France were signed on the 1st. Inst. What will be the effects with the commercial world we are not prepared to say..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSeveral arrivals of foreign ships at City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExchange only 1 per cent under par in New York and really as high in Philadelphia and Baltimore\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of 24 hogshead of tobacco from Dixon's warehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow 16 hogshead of tobacco on Neptune on account of Col. Burwell (Carter's Grove). Send the German linens on board the Nancy to Col. Burwell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Col Nathaniel Burwell's tobacco. \"The remainder of the tobacco shall be sent you from the College W. House as soon as a craft can be obtained.\" \"N.B. I send you four hogshead of tobacco marked and [unclear?] as [unclear?] the property of Matthew Anderson of Williamsburg which he wishes shipped to Messrs Davis Stephenson \u0026amp; Co. (London)…if not to Messrs Lamb \u0026amp; Young..\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt owed by Godwin to Leckie\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Mr. Somerville of Somerville \u0026amp; Halliday, New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Galigo wishes to charter ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e if you have not disposed of her\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco to go to London via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinking of returning to England as has closed all business in Richmond; flour market here good; let me hear of the flour shipped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping tobacco on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMill Run\u003c/emph\u003e to be sent to Liverpool: will you attend to this?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs collecting debts owed to Blow, Tobacco very dull here at 27/meal and flour at high prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHear brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Jamaica; would like Blow to ship his flour to Kingston?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipping of tobacco on brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e for London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: attempt to sell his ship at anchor at Blow's warehouse in Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's taking over Brown, Rives \u0026amp; Co.'s ships for Leeth and other ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's help in getting cargo for England, current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed bill of lading for 58 hogsheads of tobacco per schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collecting Blow's acts for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed bill of lading for 79 hogheads of tobacco for Leeth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: conditions in New York for discounting notes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shoe leather and flour barrels needed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eListing ships carrying 310 hogheads tobacco abroad for firm: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Hatton,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHooper,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHarriet,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking Blow to send his tobacco to Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNovember sales at store amounted to 354 pounds £74 cash. Out of sugar; Mr. West (overseer) wishes to be paid for his last year's wages; says T. Gray is pushing him for payment for land\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: London goods shipped to Taliaferro via Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing loss of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharlotte Walton\u003c/emph\u003e in Dunkirk harbor; all perrished. Mr. Barksdale had written him of this; gives prices of flour and tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sent for Lamb \u0026amp; Younger to Blow; the brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDelight\u003c/emph\u003e has also hogsgead of corn, meal, [beans?]; I need 44 new flour barrels of you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices higher because of state of things in Europe, Inflation may increase if seasons are not good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent business statement\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco to be shipped abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: seizure of brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMorris Myers\u003c/emph\u003e in Nova Scotia; asks Blow's advice about insurance of cargo (London?); cargo was sold; should we prosecute the Appeals?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: estate of his father, wishes family bible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpecting ship from Ireland soon; wishes cargo for it, vessel about 250 tons\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of tar and turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas purchased a pair of mill stones for my friend Gen. Henry See, shipped on board a vessel of Mr. David Anderson of Petersburg. Please send them up the Potomac to Gen. See, Westmoreland County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas canvas, tar and turpentine for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of lading for wines\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to sell pork made by John D. White of Carolina, inspected in full salt but not pickled; 600 + land\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his tobacco lost by sinking ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his skins\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan't sell gloves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness in shipping and current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGen. Lee wishes the Mill stones to be landed at Stratford three miles above Blackstones Island. Taylor has stone steps from city of Washington being sent down to him via Blow's vessel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to ship a couple dozen hams to London, 1 dozen for Mr. Barksdale and 1 dozen for Mr. A. Donald, an old friend. Wishes bacon and hams for personal use.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs financially ruined and will have to take bankruptcy; asks advice of Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to sell 15,000 lbs (pounds) of cured bacon and hams which are salpetered\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco [unclear?] may get up to 5 ½ or 6 dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his shipments abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about price of beeswax and cheese\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his schooners to pay his debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrown, Rives, \u0026amp; Co., Richmond, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour has fallen; tobacco [transient?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot sell gloves which Blow sent him; might try Charleston, but New York would be better market\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStore sales in February were £ 120 pounds, £ 30 cash\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks him for sending hams to London for him, also for flour and corn forwarded to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOld Tobacco is worth $ 7 or $ 8; send Lees to Philadelphia; other to go to England; better to send in 2 ships as risk is less.; fill in with corn and Indian meal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: vast acreage of land in Nansemond County surveyed in 1791 and entered in Surveyor's book, Norfolk, in name of James Murdough and Daniel Fisher (20,000 acres). Entry was first made in 1783 with Andrew Stewart, and later Col. Charles Connor; asks Blow to \"have inventory made in the names of Thomas Edmonds and John T. Blow who are the right and only owners of these warrants\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection for Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBought sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e to save debt of Francis Jones\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders for shipments of tobacco to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreat demand for grain and flour; have had no sales for gloves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave shipped by brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e 416 [hbls?] flour to Blow; also have sent 58 [hbls?] by brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e. Gives current price list.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived cheese; wishes price of corn and bacon. Little peach brandy in this neighborhood this year; sales at store were £ 162, £ 54 cash\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloves (380 dozen) sent to Philadelphia for possible sale; would like coffee, sugar and salt in barter for Indian corn. Send prices for tobacco, flour, mead, corn, rum, brandy, coffee, and sugar. Wishes payment for Barksdale's debt to him for tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: note of Mr. Jones\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent set of springs for a gigg for Mr. Fort on sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSincerity\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs there any demand for Russian goods with you? Expect a ship from the Baltics soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour to be exported\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sending tobacco to Blow for export\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tobacco for shipment on brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSorry to hear of the loss of brigs \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCarter\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Hylton\u003c/emph\u003e, hope to go to London soon, peace seems near.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders for tobacco sent down to go to Cowes, Havre, Dunkirk (France), and Rotterdam via the brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed French brandy and rum; Crops poor, trade dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to London via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington;\u003c/emph\u003e sending tobacco to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e and meal—Blow's plantation tobacco sent to Fort was refused\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes permission to send away ship which Blow may charter to Great Britain or Ireland if necessary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems about his sailing for England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco business and shipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: illness of his mother (a sister of Richard Blow) Nancy is Rob Hines wife and child, George\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: trip abroad and tobacco sent for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships' cargoes for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargoes for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvery cellar full of water due to late rains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e273 hhds by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e already shipped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 100 hhds herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco by sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRanger\u003c/emph\u003e for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRanger\u003c/emph\u003e for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e gloves for your store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Davis warehouse, Petersburg; sending tobacco for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco bound for Orient via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGet passage to London for Thomas Leckie; wishes hams sent to friends Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e arriving; will you get cargo for Ireland, England or France. Prefer Liverpool; can take staves.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e is a ship of 250 tons, 5 years old, has accommodations for passengers and sails well\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDispatch,\u003c/emph\u003e Capt. Ash, bringing 26 hhds tobacco which Blow will ship according to manifest; detailed directions with tobacco marks ES, EF, W, RB\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 5 tons of logwood and 2 tons of lignum vitae to City Point, wishes logwood for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa,\u003c/emph\u003e also.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e whereabouts; lemons sent to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hil\u003c/emph\u003el. Tobacco, wheat and flour market very dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders coffee, sugar, rum, oil, molasses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarksdale wishes logwood by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLouisa;\u003c/emph\u003e Mr. Blow at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTakes out insurance for Blow at Phoenix Fire Insurance Office; surprised that Blow does not pay his overdue debt to them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Coopers left \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e some days ago; they have some barrels to make at the old place, then they set off for Norfolk\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 22 hogsheads…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope Col. Carter's crop from York River has reached you. Hope Col. Burwell's from Rappahannock as well as the tobaccos from Carter's Grove are down. Buy pipes of wine for us.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e in from London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHear his horses have arrived\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection of debts due him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVenus\u003c/emph\u003e belonging to Hathaway, Howes \u0026amp; Russell enroute to [unclear?] and Dunkirk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow owes them £ 1216.19.0; no insurance has been received from Blow's ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid \u0026amp; George\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount: £ 3593.8.0 ¾ (1800-1802)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eItemized lists of goods furnished £ 205.3.9 ¾\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e9 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDesires Blow's foreign accounts shared by him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccounts due Richard Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of tobacco consigned to Blow, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStruck by lightening from France to Virginia; repairs necessary listed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairs and disbursements\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow barrel staves by brig, about 250,000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Burwell had lived at Carter's Gove near Williamsburg before moving to Carter Hall]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to send up a cargo of logwood and [2 bbhs?] Rum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLatest letter from Europe gives a very unfavorable account of tobacco, prices here have fallen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDanish ship Ferendchaff[?] arrived at City Point yesterday from Dunkirk (France); will take logwood in cargo, tobacco prices low in France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: an unsettled account between Hussey and A. Wiscort \u0026amp; Aug. Derenville, merchants in New Castle, New Kent County [Derenville was a Merchant in Williamsburg: see also: CWF research department]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHines gives consent to have her [daighter Patsy] inocculated for small pox. [Background information: Hines was a nephew of Blow. Hine's daughter, Patsy was living with Blow and going to school there.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives list of current prices there; wishes Blow to give him letters of introduction to merchants in different parts of France, Spain, England and Holland. Armistead is sending his ship over there in trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: store and plantation affairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco sold Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: accounts for logwood and tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: freight rates to Dunkirk and other ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePart owner of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington;\u003c/emph\u003e wishes Blow to get cargo for ship to foreign ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow 4000 staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSendingBox of books, send to Suffolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his problems with shipping\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharles Carter\u003c/emph\u003e and [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFriendchoff?]\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e62 hhds tobacco aboard ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCotton and wheat crop destroyed by hail storm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany accounts owing to store cannot pay anything to Blow at present. We owe about $300 for pork we bought last winter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrders from Blow for furniture to be made: mahogany enough for chairs and a sofa\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas just heard that a declaration of war has taken place between Great Britain and France; it appears that Louisiana and all the country west is ceded to the U.S. (Mailed from Baltimore)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Hall Suit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMath. Anderson of Williamsburg has sent down 4 hhds of tobacco for your care, please ship to London in British Vessel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMartha Bland\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLovely Lass\u003c/emph\u003e are now loaded at City Point and bound for England via Norfolk, business very dull here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow 194 pieces of bacon and 200 + 2 hhds of Indian meal and 1 [unclear?] flour. Send me store ware, mostly butter pots, also a set of bedstead screens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrops injured by wet weather; Mr. West (overseer) needs about fifteen [unclear?]; trade dull; our sales for 3 months only £ 500 out of which there was only about £ 90 cash. Refers to \"Old Place\" in Southampton County [owned by Blow's father, Scammel, and now property of Blow]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: various ships available for shipping and tobacco abroad\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSailing for Nassau in ten days\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending tombstone which I ask to be put over my father's grave; I sail for Halifax and England soon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend shoe makers and oil to grease leather, tacks, hammer awls, etc., and cotton and wool cards\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes aid in taking his ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira\u003c/emph\u003e to sea bound for Livernick, Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes barrel staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to \"Aunt Hall\" and calls Hall \"Uncle\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoing to west Indies with 100 hbls of corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt which Talbot Godwin owes Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to sell his ship for him at $600\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco Warehouse listings; Stud horse desired from England, Ship accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave received 10,000 lb of pork this season and only 1 hhd of tobacco; no cash worth sending\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: insurance of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDauphin\u003c/emph\u003e and other insurance\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: escape of an enslaved person (\"escaped negro\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eacknowledges payment of $10.00\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debts and notes owed him and hopes that Blow can lend him money\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMay be willing to buy Blow's stack of goods which he had offered him a while back; Mr Lee will look them over and determine value etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bargaining of above terms, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing Benson, Cropper \u0026amp; Benson, Corn Merchants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of visit to Brandon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eE: Market conditions in France: Indigo is in demand, market favorable; tobacco market good; no demand for wood, pitch or tar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods, invoice; Shoes £ 246.17\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilling to give mortgages on goods in store for security\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his credit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAssembly extended the market land to be leased for 99 years\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA candidate for House in Virginia Assembly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bond for enslaved persons (\"negroes\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: provisions asked for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eParkman\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter regarding the 'sale' of enslaved people.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSailing soon with 15,000 bu. wheat. Wishes Harris, the baker, to furnish ship bread.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to be appointed insurance inspector for ship coming into port, asks Blow's support\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship for conveying 2,500 bushels of wheat at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEliza\u003c/emph\u003e has arrived; tobacco market good as [scarce?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of corn and a ship furnished by Blow for Bahamas. Return cargo to be cane, apples and turtle (?)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrother wishes to go to West Indies. He wishes pay for staves and tobacco if sold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collections to be made for him by Blow [Swain was a Quaker]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrade slow, collections poor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: price for 15,000 barrel staves sent to Blow for sale; wishes current prices on tobacco and staves, white hominy corn and other corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends his wheat from Dunkirk (N.C.) to Walker Town, about 10 or 12 miles) by land and little more by water. Is satisfied with this mode of conveyance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExplains navigation up river as far as Walker Town for vessels of 100 or 150 tons; wishes Blow to send ship for his wheat; has the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn\u003c/emph\u003e arrived in London?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas 4 enslaved carpenters ( \"valuable negro carpenters\") for 'sale' ($500 each)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses prospect of buying horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDiamond,\u003c/emph\u003e is disappointed in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePegasus,\u003c/emph\u003e he is a bad foal getter and not much thought of in England. Heard a horse called [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePipaten?],\u003c/emph\u003e mother to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTrumpeter,\u003c/emph\u003e has produced successful horses lately; also [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWarten?]\u003c/emph\u003e or [\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSementan?]\u003c/emph\u003e can be purchased for a moderate sum according to M. Crews to Mr. Drew. Get in touch with Mr. Barksdale (in London). I wish a horse of good size and very beautiful.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived account sales of 2 hhds tobacco sold you from 41.17.7 pounds, Norfolk Store is debited with---problem of Collections suits?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill send ship of assorted cargo to Tobego; corn plentiful on the Roanoke (river)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e5 hhds tobacco received from James Scammel; sending down\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship for West Indies voyage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaving for voyage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Thomas Bonner sailing in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJoseph of Edenton\u003c/emph\u003e for Tobago; Assorted cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of naval stores\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending brig of 150 tons for loading with barrel staves for Ireland or Liverpool\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsettled state of Europe makes uncertain and dull market. Current price list given (wheat, flour, tobacco, tar, turpentine, staves, wool, and logwood)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit against Leonard at next Southampton Court. Paid Col. Maclin for young George Blow's schooling £ 20.10; charged to Norfolk Store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWine for him from Madeira by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVirginia,\u003c/emph\u003e asks Blow to send to Alexandria; send bill to him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave parcel of Gray's Creek tobacco; price at Norfolk? Lists pounds of tobacco at Gray's Creek and Low Point. Asks price of brown sugar, coffee, molasses, and [unclear?] sugar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave red oak staves, white oak [unclear?] and 12,000 shingles on way to Blow. Wishes peach brandy and price of apple cider and molasses\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received counterfeit bank notes, information as to what to do\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: 3 French enslaved people (\"Negroes\") brought from Hispaniola against law and now in jail at Norfolk; to be returned at expense of French who claim them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIndenture between Louis Marshall of 1st part, Jeremiah Andrews of 2nd part and Richard Blow of 3rd part and trustee for the other parties. Deed of Trust by Marshall of price of property leased from Anthony Walke in 1793, to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Blow was Dudley's uncle; Battery may be in Matthews County]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: rent for his house and enslaved person (\"Negro\") for year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: delivery of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[See: Page's letter of July 9, re: French enslaved persons from Hispanola]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: brandy made and barrels for same\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFortitude\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow, wishes Blow to get cargo of flour or tobacco for England and Ireland for her. Wishes ship to go at once, gives agents names at each British Port to which his cargo should be consigned\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: injunction of B \u0026amp; B\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing his commission business and offering services\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes vessel for Falmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: arrival of his imported horse; [See letter of April 25, 1803 about horse]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Agreement with Thomas Wallace relative to bringing horses from England in 1803.\" Names of horses were \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClown,\u003c/emph\u003e Wallace was the groom.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Nephew of Blow]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's renewal of insurance policy at Phoenix office, Premium of £ 18.15.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Mrs. Boothe, widow's dower and [div.?] of enslaved persons (\"Negroes\") between Hutchings and Edwards, commissioners appointed formerly, who neglected to allot dower: one is now dead and two have left the state. Please have commissioners appointed for my guardian; suggests Wm. E. Brodnax \u0026amp; Sterling Ruffin \u0026amp; Hutchings will appoint two for himself. Dr. John Claiborne and Tho. [unclear?], Jr. may be chosen if H. has no objections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargoes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: land in Dismal Swamps alleged to be property of Robt. Craig of Manchester (England), adjacent Col. Newton's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The canal road is in such order as you may ride to the end of [unclear?] Contract\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: opening of canal road\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: hiring additional enslaved persons (\"negroes\") so that the Canal and road can be opened with ease this summer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: idea of taking on cargo of staves for Falmouth and possibly England. Wishes Blow to furnish beef, pork and bread for his ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot furnish pitch; resin is priced at 30/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his ships off for Falmouth and Cork; what can Blow offer in way of ships?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eKingston\u003c/emph\u003e and prospects of his ship out of New York taking in tobacco at Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to charter a vessel at once for Cork, they will send down tobacco, pitch, resin, white oak staves for cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: A horse arrived for Messrs [Caine?] \u0026amp; Ray; how to care for it and where to deliver\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to yellow fever raging in New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: horse bought for him by Mr. Barksdale in England and problem of payments for it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks about cargo for sea, wishes tobacco and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas 300 [unclear?] of pork for sale; grain crop on the Roanoke very good. Tar and Turpentine plentiful. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMariah Jones\u003c/emph\u003e at Barbados will return with salt by November. Then to load up with grain and staves for foreign ports.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to ship his tobacco to Barksdale in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: price of a saddle sent to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLittle William\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend personal items of late Leckie to son\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSales account current: \"Mr. Adams will finish stilling room, only 10 bbls of Brandy made this year. It takes 10 bbls cider to make 1 bbl brandy. Hands [workers] are getting in fodder and making bricks. Have paid Wm West [overseer] $100, debited to Norfolk Store\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Collecting debt owed him by Dudley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes $ 90 in U.S. notes sent by Mrs. Gray\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eClown\u003c/emph\u003e bought from abroad to be sent for by Statt, groom and Peter to take care of horse in travel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves and price for Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settling of account of Talbot Godwin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e which he bought for Gen. Carney; hope it has landed and is on its way to Carolina as I shipped on board the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGosport\u003c/emph\u003e to your wharf; \"I am glad to hear George (Blow) is doing so well at the Williamsburg Colledge [College of William \u0026amp; Mary]. I always admired the Colledge as all the young men brought (out) there of late years, leave the Colledge new firebrands in politics\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: note of Ambrose Dudley\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of shoes for Grillet \u0026amp; Bell to Richard Blow, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes sacks, molasses, sugar, and coffee in exchange for lampblack and butter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business difficulties of Lamb \u0026amp; Younger; has sent a horse names \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e for Gen. Carney to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLook out for Mr. Strange's furniture; he leaves Liverpool around 10 August in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Fame;\u003c/emph\u003e send on to Petersburg c/o Mr. Pallak\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, ceased business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eKingston\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNansuch\u003c/emph\u003e and trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending naval stores wanted to City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill sell his 2 lots in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGosport\u003c/emph\u003e to pay his debt but wants $3000 for them. Willing to sell his military lands also; signed note for George Wilson for brother's debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish to wagon by bacon from here to Suffolk and thence by water to Norfolk. Will put up hams, shoulders and midlings; Baltimore may be a good market or Alexandria. Expect Blow to take consignments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter for trustees of Lamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, or their trustees if they are dissolved; would like wine, sherry and bbl whiskey\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHope to pay Blow what they owe him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: trip to Georgia, would like to take some enslaved persons (\"slaves\") to help pay expenses. Refers to Mrs. Blow as his aunt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice of goods sent us from Norfolk Store, £ 109.0.10. Newspapers come regularly once a week; tobacco market poor. Will go to the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld Plac\u003c/emph\u003ee [Southampton] soon to see how things go there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Business difficulties\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for position in office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: A horse which he wishes Mr. Barksdale [London] to buy for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes consignments of tobacco and cotton from Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Mr. West [overseer at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOld Place\u003c/emph\u003e] and Mr. Adams [overseer at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e] their crops and prospects, etc. Burning bricks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas 300 or more barrels for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittle in shipping due to uncertainty of invasion of England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes wines; the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e has been chartered for continent would you like space for cargo?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn crop in; bricks burning; trade dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business of barrel staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas crab cider for sale, what price will Blow pay? Also, gives prices for brandy, new corn, peas and tobacco.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReed (groom), has brought horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArchduke;\u003c/emph\u003e arrived at Blow's from abroad. Reed wishes Blow to employ him to go to England and bring back horses. Write at once your decision; prices of horses have risen as of late in England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave 7000+ lbs. of pork, no tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Administrator of father's estate]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payment for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen,\u003c/emph\u003e the horse imported from England for him through Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e is highly praised and valued by many: \"He is as springy as any lady on a dancing room and cutts as many capers.\" Hopes Mr. Barksdale will send him a mare from which he can breed racers for his children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payment of debt and security for his friends\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 78 hhds of tobacco to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending staves and peas for sale—wish salt and sugar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived from Richard Blow [Adm. of Alex. Leckie Sr.'s estate], personal articles, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Richard Blow, Agent]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of cargo, ports of call in US and Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco for France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of flour to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco to Falmouth, England and Hamburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco to Falmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn board ships [Inn___?] and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDundas\u003c/emph\u003e for Virginia; Personal effects\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo for Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdjustment for loss of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDavid \u0026amp; George\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccount with Richard Blow $16,966.34\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e3056.19.5 ¾ [John Patterson, surviving partner after Capt. Brown's death]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e…at time of Captain Brown's Death £ 4918.19.3\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1790-1796….£ 3585.10.8 ½; Balance due the G. Store… £ 7577.5.11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Privateer \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMoses Myers\u003c/emph\u003e taken and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Vice Adm. Court has been reversed here, money in hands of owners in Nova Scotia. Division of money of those entitled now uncertain. \"If brought into court here, I'll pay attention to your interest in the business.\" Flour cheaper here than in Virginia, tobacco holds same price\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to the \"bank at this time [seems] to engross and interest the citizens of our Town; we expect it to operate in about ten days\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received 17 hhds tobacco of N. Burwell's on board the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlmira;\u003c/emph\u003e Insurance taken out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his business arrangements; will not be a partner to [Brown?] or affiliate with Pallak; promise of his business good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Younger's [unclear?] with Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We are happy to inform you that our house goes on as before\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's desire to pay a large debt which he owes to Donald \u0026amp; Burton. Funds in London on account there; Advise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"…I like America but as yet I am quite at a loss where to fix...The Baptist's cause here is not very strong although there are two meetings\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas prospect of ship proper for shipping tobacco; would Blow be interested in a cargo?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems arriving from Love's failure to comply with rules for Book of Claims and Barksdale's attempt to clear it for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLamb \u0026amp; Younger, London, has shipped guns for our stores, please deliver them to us\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Charter for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSnow Concord\u003c/emph\u003e for London; can fill her cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: coming to Portsmouth, to establish a tannery. Wishes Blow to assist him and his friend, Crossthwaits, from Keswich, England. Has worked for Mr. Wm. Plume tanner, a short time. [Plume had been in Williamsburg for years prior to going to Portsmouth] Barron knows of a new process for tanning which shortens time; also knows great deal about skinning sheep, etc. [Letter provides great detail on tanning]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: claims made by Blow to board of Clairs, London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: recovering insurance on building burned in Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses how to pay Donald \u0026amp; Burton, London; has £ 1900 also has £ 500 [Stg?]; payment from Phoenix Ins. Co. which he can add to above sum\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his pork\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrade poor, collections poor, wheat sold, bricks being made\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness dull, current prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking arrangements for Blow to pay Donald \u0026amp; Burton through Dan. Call.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received bill of exchange of Macmurdo \u0026amp; Fisher for £ 1831.5 Stg. on Wm. Barksdale in town of assignees of Donald \u0026amp; Burton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: brick making and crops\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: [bbls.?] of turpentine in [cypress bbls.?]; bound with white oak, should demand good prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco shipped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of turpentine and horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBuzzard\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pork sent to Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOur ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSamuel Jackson\u003c/emph\u003e with part cargo of staves and bound for Cadiz will come into Hampton Roads for further cargo; will Blow notify him when it arrives and leaves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour has advanced and is in demand here, salt and tobacco good. Gives list of hhds of tobacco stored with Richard Blow in Campbell and Wheeley Fire Proof Warehouse\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing William Carter, son to Mr. Cater of Shirley, goes to Norfolk to procure passage to a port in France. Mr. Carter has $ 200 which may not be enough for his passage,. if not, will you supply the difference. [This may be the William Carter who attended the College of William \u0026amp; Mary in 1801]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: buying insurance and bank shares\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship Samuel Jackson leaving Ocracock [Ocracoke] Bar for Hampton Roads laden with cargo for Cadiz, Spain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral Affairs at store and conditions of crops\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: insurance on cargo to Dunkirk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco in storage and prospect of cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCould send soon 30 hhds if you ship to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks current price of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pipe staves on hand for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsign tobacco to Samuel Buchanan of London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Adams, overseer, has gotten in ¼ of crops of corn and all of hogs; enslaved persons (\"slaves\") sick\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Blow's balance and what borrowed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill Blow get Gaskins to make him ½ dozen table and ½ dozen tea spoons as he made for you with G.M.D. in a cypher on them; refers to \"Aunt Hall\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Copy of papers sent to London, to recover insurance on my houses burned in Norfolk on \"Marketstreet:\" 3 Story Brick house and store burned, warehouse and offices, also. Littleton Tazewell, Notary Public. Home was 35' in length and 29' in breadth, brick, 3 story's high, besides cellars and ganet. Lower store was occupied as a Day Goods Store with mahogany counters; passage below and 4 rooms on 2 story were never completely finished and were strucco (?) and whole house plastered; counting room in read of sd. House was 16' square, 2 stories high with cellar and chimney of brick and completely finished Kitchen in rear of wood, 2 stories high and chimney of brick 20' x '16; smoke (house) 12' square with stove and warehouse shelved and laid out for wholesale store was 30' long and 21' broad, 2 stoves of wood. Value of building prior to fire was $8,939.60 Itemized Estimate of House of Offices to be built given: \"Bricks and Stone Work: $2750\" Scantling, plank and shingles: $1540 Glass, nails, locks: $684 Carpenters Bill: $2770.60 Plastering $926 Painting Bill: $265.00 Total: $8939.60\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 4030.12 \"amo goods on hand £ 620.6.11 ¾ 90 pct advance £ 558.6.3 1/7 Amo currency articles:£ 425.1.4 Total: £ 5634.6.8 ¼ \"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of measuring the ruins of my buildings $19.12, receipt in full\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of house frame and plank [unclear?] of Major John Armstrong for my dwelling and warehouse in Norfolk...$256.75\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWm. Wark, power of attorney for heirs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetersburg, to New York, $ 80.46; Marine Insurance Office, Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSundry Entries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOver 15 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e33 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes names of debtors; 7 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eover 100 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e109 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to purchase the horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBuzzard \u003c/emph\u003ein England thru Mr. Barksdale if possible. Sending 736 [unclear?] of turpentine to pay for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent stud book and sporting magazine for A. Walke by Captain Baird; heard you have had a very severe winter, worst in 25 years\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThink I can get horse for your friend in Carolina for about 500 guineas. \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eOscar\u003c/emph\u003e is [unclear?] and going to Virginia for Col. Lightfoot; \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNat\u003c/emph\u003e as good a horse as \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSir Harry\u003c/emph\u003e or several others\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking Blow to send him scrip at once so he can make payment of some shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e2 enslaved persons (\"slaves\") have escaped\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to buy 700 bu. of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection of debt for Blow (John Nicholas, debtor)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSundries deliv. by Blow for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCracker\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: to \"Aunt Hall;\" will leave Mathews as soon as land is sold; have advertised in Richmond Enquirer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Uncle Wm. Drew suggested that I write you about employment\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to forwarding papers to M. Madison in Washington, necessary for [past?] port to Dublin. Will ship be able to wait for me 6 or 7 days?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of his tobacco and corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 10 hhds tobacco by sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSophia\u003c/emph\u003e to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Nears?] staves to fill up his ship when it calls at Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot supply tobacco for Blow's ship now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends bill of laden for 15 hhds tobacco, through Blow to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/emph\u003e will not come to Norfolk now; for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco problems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e14 hhds tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to debt he owes Dr. Hall, will collect money from Carter Braxton and send to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses insurance on Blow's houses burned in Norfolk; Mr. Buchanan's displeasure at Blow buying the old ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam,\u003c/emph\u003e horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBenenborough\u003c/emph\u003e is for sale at 1000 guineas, inform General (Carney); must have cash before I can buy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill send turpentine as soon as boat can be found to take it down the river to Plymouth. Have 240 [unclear?]. In looking over racing calendar and stud book see a mare, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePenelope\u003c/emph\u003e got by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTrumpetor\u003c/emph\u003e bred by the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDuke of Grattan\u003c/emph\u003e, foaled in 1798; get Barksdale to purchase her for me; if not, get one of Hutchinson's family of horses, the man that bred \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBeninborough\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received Gen. Carney's turpentine on America, do not think he can get either of the horses the General wants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of lading for goods shipped for Col. Hoomes of Bowling Green\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol Hoomes wishes 20 or 30 bbls herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceived staves sold for 28 pounds per [hd?] and 14 pounds per bbls, \"Our good friends the English are taking all vessels that are not bound direct to their parts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ship; wishes to come to Virginia for freight; ship is new; Advise me.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e258 bbls of herrings shipped to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: wine to be shipped to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill ship turpentine to Blow as soon as weather opens\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: possible loss of ferry if legislature decides to allow a new ferry to be operated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The money for the capture of the brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e has all been paid.\" Advise who has money\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt he owes, must sell property in Blow's hands\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlements and credits for turpentine and tobacco sold, no chance of getting the two horses, General Carney wants\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of Lading for James Strange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: legal case against his brother Alex Leckie now in Virginia. Refers to his attorneys in Georgia and Rode Island.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ½ ton iron, bellows and German [Steel?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe original Box 31 has been expanded into two boxes as currently described in the finding aid: Box 31 and Box 31 A.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor corn \"being the price per season for the said Waller's young mare being covered by Col. Cary's Horse \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDaredevil [Williamsburg Data?]\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Division of property and debts of Baker \u0026amp; Blow…\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor goods sold him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking father to pay Leroy Anderson $60.00\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$270 port payment in suit against Blow, Adm. of estate of John Redwood, also a note for $830.33\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWm. Redwood with appear at Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg for purpose of collecting funds due by suit from Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvises against buying big stock due to world conditions; will send George up to help take inventory; he is in Williamsburg now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1130.51\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 1838.9.7 ¼ Itemized list of those who owe firm\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 16010.65 ½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol Noth Burmell; Robert. C. Burwell; Ph. Burwell; Math. Pape; Robt. Page $196.12.½\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceed to England and other countries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceed to the Baltics\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProceed to Portugal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFather and Son, London, July 9, 1806 (2Boxes of cheese for Lucy Paradise, Williamsburg) Iris Madeira, April 3, 1806 (wines) Jolly Sails, Plymouth NC, June 2, 1806 (shad) Sally Nun, Plymouth NC, June 3, 1806 (shad) Laura, Liverpool (England), July 18, 1806 (merchandise) Dispatch, New York, August 19, 1806 (merchandise) Antelope, Windsor NC, March 13 1806 (tar) John and Avice, River Thames, August 1806 (Merchandise) Eagle, Edenton, October 17, 1806 (sugar, white, oak stoves) Dunfries, London, February 24, 1806 (goods, treasures?) Fairplay, Plymouth NC, April 19, 1806 (hhls, hinings) Antelope, Windsor, NC, March 13 1806 (tar) Anne, Windsor NC, October 28, 1806 (staves and turpentine) Judith, Windsor NC, October 16, 1806 General Green, May 31, 1806 (oak staves) Jenny and Sheperdern, Manchester (England), June 2, 1806, (hhds of tobacco) Sally, Salmon Creek, May 1, 1806 (herrings) Insurance on Sally Ann Neptune, Richmond, March 1, 1806 (tobacco) Commerce, February 1806 (salt and c) America, October 9, 1806 (ship, break, flour) John, Richmond, November 1, 1806 (tobacco) Arnick, July 15, 1806 (staves) Lydia, New Bedford, June 3, 1806 Ontario, June 4, 1806 America, Norfolk, October 10, 1806, $1041.59 Bell Savage, June 8, 1806 (accounts) Robt. Barclay, September 1806 (accounts) Commerce, April 26, 1806 (accounts) Mt. Vernon, Rotterdam, September 24, 1806 (insurance) Atlantic, London, August 1806 (tobacco) Regulator, Plymouth NC, March 28, 1806 (turpentine, tar, sugar) April 16, 1816 (rum) Judith, Windsor NC, March 31, 1806 Commerce, New Bedford, February 22, 1806 (staves) Army, Plymouth, March 5, 1806 Mary, Richmond, April 19, 1806 Mt. Vernon, December 22, 1806 (freight account) Mt Vernon, December16, 1806 (cider, food) Mt. Vernon, December 16, 1806 (oil, beef, etc) Mt. Vernon, October 11, 1806 (navy, bread) Brig George, November 19, 1806 Averick, August 6, 1806 (general account) Fredice, May 1795 (pitch) Sally, Petersburg, June 16, 1795 (tobacco) Flora and Betsy, July 1, 1806 (tobacco) Grey Hound, Plymouth NC, May 7 1806, (pork and turpentine) James Smith, John Coke, Carterise December 5, 1806 (pipe staves inspected from and consigned to Richard Blow) Neptune: October 13 1806 Oak Boards, inspected\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e's cargo much damaged, public sale will be had at Calais, and results sent to Mr. Barksdale towards claim and insurance. Blow's tobacco was on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses current prices of cotton, coffee, tobacco; claims of cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e further discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of property of Baird's; see also:Box 30\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrade dull: Received bills of lading for Blow's tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: turpentine of General Carney's shipped to him, can't buy a horse for Carney as price is 1,000 guineas for either horse he wants. Await Carney's orders; sent him books he wished by Captain Baird; have sent Blow average for loses on \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope.\u003c/emph\u003e Son, William, is at school in Reading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePartners in House of Lamb \u0026amp; Younger were James Brown, Richmond, Virginia and John Lamb \u0026amp; John Younger, London; upon death of Mr. Lamb, survivors have admitted J. C. Wardrop as a partner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: mistake in shipment of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 16 quarters [unclear?] 1736 of beef for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGlobe\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pork sent Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco manifests sent for ship Industry for Liverpool and 2 parcels of newspapers for John Hunter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGlobe\u003c/emph\u003e now loading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his debts and how to collect from C. Braxton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAct bills of lading for tobacco, gives current prices of wheat and flour per barrel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses dropping prices for turpentine, flour, tobacco better\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collection due him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: bills of lading for London firms, tobacco sales\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tar shipped to Blow; wishes flour in return\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cost of ship to take tobacco to France\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: collections-wishes rum sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: suit Ladd v. Strange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: debt owed to him by Captain Micks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: pork shipped to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas leased for 10 years furnished place 5 miles from Rayall Exchange, sending Mrs. Blow shoes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading of Mount Vernon\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of lading for fish sent, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrinted; business conditions, current prices of cotton, turpentine, tobacco, flour, rice, staves there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 100 Virginia currency\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDamages to anchors of his ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of tobacco and possibly flour for the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeneral Green\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePork and turpentine to be shipped to Blow aboard the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGrey Hound \u003c/emph\u003efor General Carney's account\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills of lading for tobacco aboard ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of tobacco for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBell Savage\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: a ship for Rotterdam\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiry about father and letters to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas received letters from his father. Was on a Prussian ship carried into Portsmouth and condemned because he came out of a French Port that was blockaded\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses business with Blow; amounts due him for merchandise and amounts due Blow for tobacco sent to Calais and Dunkirk (France) per ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAntelope\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTar and turpentine sent on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Planter\u003c/emph\u003e have been sold. Inform General Carney that neither of the horses he wants he can get now. Gives names of other horses which he thinks he can buy once the season is over here: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWhiskey,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCoreador,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBeningborough,\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCitizen\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down tobacco for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFlora,\u003c/emph\u003e Portsmouth\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment from Virginia, of salt, current prices there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: to money he had received due Dr. Hall from Carter Braxton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"at the request of Col. Nathaniel Burwell I have shipped on Sloop George 3 trunks, 1Box, and 1 bundle to your care which you will please keep until they are called for by the Reverend John V. Wylie.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica,\u003c/emph\u003e in port will send down to you, she is 287 ton [burden?], can carry 350 hhds and storage of staves to any port in Great Britain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhere is his tobacco? Has price in London fallen?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary E. Wright\u003c/emph\u003e, has been carried into Germany and condemned as prize; ask H. to get $ 9000 insured on her, world conditions affecting prices of product sent over\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 50 sacks of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerica\u003c/emph\u003e's account held in high regard by the ship owners here; discusses conditions between Russia and France, not good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHave to go down tomorrow to the wreck of ship \u003c/emph\u003eThe Shepherdess. Do you have any goods aboard?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish 4 bbls of crab cider\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpect ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eGeneral Greene\u003c/emph\u003e owned by Tobias Lard \u0026amp; Co. of Kennebunk from Liverpool; could a cargo of staves be procured at your place for return voyage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: letters he should have received\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments for staves and sugar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: change in ownership and management of the 8 ferries, opposed to incorporating; will you influence Richmond legislators to this effect?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses trade and changes for selling Petersburg and Richmond goods, gives estimate of general market for tobacco, sugar, cotton, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness settlements with Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e76 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e22 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e25 and 150 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e1 item\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tar sold to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces conclusion of a treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce between this country and the USA signed on the 31 [ulto?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his recent settling in Georgia, prospects, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's suit vs. Gill for debt accrued since 1786\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: George Blow's marriage and placing him with Tazewell and Jon Cowper to study law; Discusses tobacco business, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: damaged flour on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of condemnation of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary T. Wright\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGive freight rates at Norfolk for landing salt from Liverpool (England), also tobacco freight rates\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWilliam \u0026amp; Mary\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePaulina\u003c/emph\u003e and letters due him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed 1 or 2 small vessels to load at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e for Falmouth; have 180 hhds tobacco for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading tobacco on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNiagara\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of lading for herrings enclosed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington'\u003c/emph\u003es loading; also ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRussell,\u003c/emph\u003e a very fine, fast sailing copper bottomed ship of 300 tons\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes splendid entertainment by citizens to the Cavalry and Militia which went from here. I enclose a copy of the toasts, was mortified by his furlough. Tell young George that I hope he will merit the promotion I bestowed on him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: settlement of co-partnership with J. Waldone \u0026amp; Co.; Blow one of bondsmen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeft British book on Cavalry discipline at Blow's House\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNiagara\u003c/emph\u003e to Great Britain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussion of ship's journey down James to Norfolk [Caffin was mate for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlbright]\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: recovering money from Carter Braxton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of wife, Mary's death\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to Dudley's wife's death [Mrs. Hall is Lucy]. Says Portsmouth has been upset over aggressions of British Ships of war; an army in our streets, houses, etc. Business is stagnated\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of salt or tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes freight for London, or Liverpool\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes his Gosport property sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to know prices\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of salt from Liverpool and prospect of tobacco on return\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes Blow has sold fish for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Barney of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eArgus\u003c/emph\u003e sailed for Hobbs Hole, Virginia, for tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrices current given in detail\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems of cargo and men for ships\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: how to pay his debts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShips \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNeptune\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eReward\u003c/emph\u003e here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTerms for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMay\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Continent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes freight for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRussell\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 100 lbs of bacon, hams and candles sent to him. There is an opening for a retail store on York River\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight received from Blow via sloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eLittle Jim;\u003c/emph\u003e salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sale of fish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e, tobacco cargo lost, no insurance on ship. Eight of the hams which Mrs. Blow sent, saved. Thinks there will be no war between England and U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives dimensions of Dismal Swamp Canal lock[?]. Detailed letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Shipment of tobacco to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsking for position of book keeper in U.S. Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes oder of general merchandise sent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Fish he sold; large grain crops here and quantity of lumber of every kind\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHaving sale on 22nd\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Pitch stored with Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Col. Wm. Fontaine of Hanover, who has a considerable interest in the Dismal Swamp Canal.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for general goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotifying re: suit filed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePersonal Letter; sends love to \"Aunt\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCash scarce; trade dull\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 802.3.-\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 883.4.8 3/4\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 7269.13.5 \"Debts due from the Store: Norfolk Store; Littleton Lamir; James Dunlop \u0026amp; Co.; Butts Birds[srpey?]; Isaac Andrews; Allen Hines; John Berryman; £ 4898. - 9 1/2 / £ 2371.12.7 1/2\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e165 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Letters he had asked Blow to forward to England to Mr. Rennolds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending $ 54.50 in [unlcear?]loans for payment for flour, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOrder for garden seeds\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Commission merchants, Treble, Spe[unclear?] \u0026amp; Co., of [Nantz?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Deed of trust to secure[?] Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to pay General Thomas Blount, Member of Congress, some money; wishes Blow to [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing F. Le Roy of Nantz\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of corn and effects of cargo on its outcome\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Whiskey and brandy to go to Charles Carter of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eShirley\u003c/emph\u003e Plantation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems of present embargo on his corn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Money he owes Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Prospects of freight should embargo be lifted\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship B\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eelle Savage\u003c/emph\u003e for cargo, for Liverpool\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Political Situation in Spain \u0026amp; France [Refers to the Napoleonic Wars]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down corn \u0026amp; tobacco for shipment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to sell enslaved persons for Drew, even at $ 30.00; needs money at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e64 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes beef and candles sent to Blow can be disposed of as embargo is partially repealed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending ship down to be loaded with cargo for anywhere except to North of Europe. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAmerican\u003c/emph\u003e built. Ship bringing down building stone.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend salt to him at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of corn and tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Need salt at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Norfolk for corn and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Bills owned them\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives current prices of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral conditions discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses affairs abroad. Wishes Blow to sell salt at City Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Wine from Madeira\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Freight desired for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e to England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes ship for his tobacco. Address him at \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWhite Chimney\u003c/emph\u003e's, Caroline County\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco bringing good prices here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to advertise his ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e for freight for Europe. Must avoid Amsterdam or any place under French domination. Ship able to take tobacco, cotton, or hogsheads.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave ship ready in a few weeks for freight to Europe. Can Blow secure freights?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblem as to ship. Has tobacco ready for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan fill up another ship with flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sale of his Gosport lots by Blow \u0026amp; his debts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to his cargo of lour, etc. now ready\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas hogshead staves instead of barrel staves at landing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave bt. 10,000 barrel staves and leave at once; will send rough staves down on another lighter. This will complete my contract with you\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 5000 barrel staves per the lightman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow rough hhds. staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAwaiting craft to send 7 hhds of tobacco down. Hope you have shipped out the 15hhds with you aboard the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePocahontas\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish to have price of bacon and brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship for Dublin and freight cost\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSend candles to me at Washington\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Freight for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington\u003c/emph\u003e out of Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnc. Charter Party for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs concerned about vice around his residence , etc. Wishes Blow to have law change this situation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Barrel staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e from Tappahannock to Liverpool with freight of staves or tobacco. Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e sailed ysterday for Charleston for freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Staves and undressed wood\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Tobacco freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e for Falmouth and England or Ireland\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarrell staves on board brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCatherine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePassage wanted to Cork, Ireland or England\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness accounts of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends letters for Richard Blow (her father-in-law) to send to her mother, Mrs. Waller, in Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes small vessel for his freight\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eUnion\u003c/emph\u003e, belonging to us expected from Cadiz (Spain). Wish freight for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill take inventory of store goods by September 1st and balance books.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses current prices of hemp and accounts of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: President's proclamation. Gives current prices of tobacco and flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas white oak hhds and red oak hhds and 150 lbs. bee's wax to sell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas contracted for small ships to take his tobacco to port north of Gothenburg (Sweden) or to the south of Lisbon (Portugal). Blow's rate of freight too high. Need Blow's advice about proper paper for clearing ship, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes advice of Blow for marketing goods in New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Small debts and lack of news as to her son's whereabouts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Shipment of hemp\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of tobacco is intended for continent. Blow will get French consul's certif. for Hatcher\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of board meeting to be held in 12th.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor 12 different ships\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e50 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetails an agreement between Hatcher and Blow for freight on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e, to discharge cargo in British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Canary or Western Islands. To be allowed 50 days to load and discharge and call for orders. Tobacco freight.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuty Bonds not paid in bank, by law, will be put in suit. Request merchants of Norfolk to have their bonds adjusted in bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discusses loading of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e and bills of lading.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation of business of loading ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing Hatcher's business ventures abroad: Hatcher's shipping of tobacco abroad. Details of necessary papers to be taken by the ship and to be used to different countries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges proposals of Brown \u0026amp; Rives\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing shipment of good to Europe: Freight for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing the election of Richard Blow as director of the Bank of the United States for a one-year term [Oliphant was chashier of bank]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate for $ 2794.51 for 30 hhds tobacco [unclear?] by Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: concerning political actions of the U.S. Congress: refers to \"ultimate fate of Mason's resolutions\" in Congress\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business of ships abroad, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco aboard the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e cargo and departure\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscussing the positions of the French: French near border of Portugal now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLoads of tobacco of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent price of tobacco. Refers to \"Mr. Masons bill passing in the Senate and small vessels will immediately be wanted for Britain and Ireland\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses ships' destinations and cargos: problems of loading the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e; disagreement between Hatcher and Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e destinations, cargo, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Furniture sent to Blow for sale in 1809. Please return if not sold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement between Blow \u0026amp; Hatcher for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann's \u003c/emph\u003ecargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed small vessel for overseas trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarksdale's son is en route to Norfolk from London, to study in the U.S. Has chosen Law as his profession, wishes Blow to encourage and supervise William. Mr. Hill's [unclear] has returned here and demands pay for training Hill's horses (\"fillies\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to get vessel for his tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses sailing across the Atlantic, heavily armed: \"on April 1st was boarded by a French Privateer and plundered of all our clothes, money, everything moveable. Was Brig 20 guns, 150 men\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e30 hhds. of tobacco for Juno\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJuno\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorn sent to Blow by ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSisters\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer [unclear?] son estate in Virginia [largely illegible]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 225 bhls. of tar to Blow for sale; asks prize of staves (white oak or red oak)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip delayed; will send in 3 weeks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndustry\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Blow for freight; prefer a freight to Lisbon (Portugal) or Cadiz (Spain); Insurance to England very high for small vessel; maybe West Indies would be wiser.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDistressed at no news from his ships or from William [Drew]. Addresses Blow as \"kind relative\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e to New York for freight as cheaper rate than Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Blow to return invoice of furniture to him as he is loading for So[uth?] America\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for his account and prices for freights at Alexandria, Norfolk, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: fish sent to Blow for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: African-Americans in prison there and prices for wheat, corn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStill concerned over fate of her son Thomas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports death of John Rogers. His son-in-law, Samuel Nightingale, is admin. of estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVessels [unclear?] here\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Blow had been guardian of Davis]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring if M. Triplett, lately from Cadiz (Spain) is there to purchase flour for the British Army in Spain\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Account of Nathaniel Burwell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Estate of his father-in-law, John Rogers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDissatisfied with Mr. Foster who has delayed building a ship for him. Asks Blow to see about it for him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Burwell's salt order\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: newspaper subscription of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Herald\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks settlement for turpentine\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not received his letter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas two ships ready by November and December\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of staves to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHear Napoleon Bonaparte has rescinded his decree and ordered the release of all American property under adjudication in his dominion (goods and prisoners?).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Thomas J. Allen, Commission Merchant, Baltimore to Blow's attention\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Discussing the detention of vessels in Cadiz Bay\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's payments due\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSale of fish to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 86 hams and 3 bhls. Turpentine for sale. Would like [unclear?] of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections for goods to be sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquiring about the price of Liverpool salt and Spanish brandy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemittance and sale of salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSloop \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eExchange\u003c/emph\u003e bringing 12 [unclear?] white oak staves to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLittle chance of flour cargo; same (some?) tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHunter\u003c/emph\u003e in Virginia waters, now desiring wheat and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipment is ready for sending to Bordeaux or port in Bay of Biscay (France)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes news of departure of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e for Europe. Are bonnets all sold and what prospect is there for the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia\u003c/emph\u003e's salt? Expecting ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e soon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e55 hhds. tobacco shipped to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: valuations of ships and averages charged at Greenock\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas not sold Blow's Spanish [Brown?] yet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending load of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e loading tobacco and cotton for London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments due from Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges hams sent to him; wishes news of his son, William, who went to Virginia recently\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Bow's ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e in France, insurance etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e has arrived. Discussing the \"present officers decline all [risquer?] to France: A few days will determine England's steps…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes price of ground allum salt; also price of flour and old whisky\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes vessel of 180 to 250 hhds to load for Liverpool direct.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStaves hard to get right now\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave 400 ton ship and wish cargo from Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContract for outgoing ship to Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGlad Blow secured vessel for cargo aboard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: fish sold to Blow; also admin. of his bother's estate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInsurance of ship; wishes price of [unclear?] goods incl. bristles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCatherine,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFreyheit,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePindur,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFredonia,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJuno,\u003c/emph\u003e and the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eColumbia.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eWashington,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRachel and Mary\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJersey Blue\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSally\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePlanter\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e with tobacco accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending Blow a load of staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco ready for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco shipment ready for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eUnity\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment of sperm (whale) oil and problems about it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discussing a shipment of tobacco for the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing Capt. Joel Thorp to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Sale of fish\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIntroducing J. K. Townsend of Townsend \u0026amp; White, New York\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour from Lisbon (Portugal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow appointed agent of the Trustees of the [late?] Bank of the United States\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHave new ship of 300 tns ready in 6 weeks and would like freight in Virginia for her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 hhds. of tobacco on board of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAberdeen\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft on Blow, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas about 300 bhls. flour for sale. Advise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections to Cat. Russell from Liverpoole in case Non-Intercourse Act going into effect. Discusses U.S. Government problems about foreign trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices of tobacco and flour given\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses financial transactions: transfers 2 shares of stock into Bank of Virginia to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip has arrived and experiencing government entanglements: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann \u003c/emph\u003ehere now and whether she can clear after February orders by Government. Keep him posted as to chance of freight to any port of Europe in case of U.S. change of orders\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests remittance for wines ordered by Messrs. Burwell \u0026amp; Pages.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas candles and twisted horse manes suitable for matresses for sale. Like to know where ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSt. Chuthbert\u003c/emph\u003e is.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses political entanglement and shipping: \"Non-Intercourse laws have vanished and all our expectations now is that Congress will adjourn in 10 or 12 days….\" How are vessels there now?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas about 300 bhls. Herring fish for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping business: Capt. Allen of schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHero\u003c/emph\u003e looking for business there\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFlour for sale and price he is willing to take for it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCurrent prices for tobacco and flour.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e12 bags horse manes sent to Blow for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his order for Madeira wines\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas a vessel for sale; gives minute detailes and description of her and price asked.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCan furnish red oak staves at $ 18 per M.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Golsborough family genealogy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eNancy\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending his son home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas new ship of 360 tons available to Bow. Expects ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e soon and wishes business for her\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: business with Wm. Barksdale for son's money.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour shipped to London and insurance for it\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Rogers estate; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e waits for cargo from Bow; Dull times in foreign freights\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness dull for all kinds of vessels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Mr. Pallak; he left no will; Estate of $ 35,000 or $ 45,000 goes to his brother Allan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit between him and George Keckie. Refers to Mr. Wickham as counsel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness payments discussed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePallack estate and payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas St. Petersburg Russian hemp for sale. Can Blow use any?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness between the two.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks Blow to give ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTracta[?]\u003c/emph\u003e 10 or 15 bhls. of their tobacco in storage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayments and shipping matters: sends bill for still sent to Bow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoger's estate payments due from Blow. Wishes freight of corn for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann.\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. Robinson needs help to obtain a consular certificate\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment for 12 bales of hair.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvoice for hats.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eStep-daughter married Robert Goldsborogh; Divorced in 1804, child, a male, living on Eastern Shore with grandmother now. Problems of guardianship. Re: will, if there was one etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes 80 bhls of herrings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes Blow to collect from Josiah Hunter's estate of Great Bridge, Virginia; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, Admin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending new ship down. Wishes freight, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e, has not arrived yet. Will send her to Blow at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e sent to Blow for freight; gives curent prices of corn, tobacco, hemp\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e dispatched to you for freight to Lisbon (Portufal), Ireland or Liverpool (England)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlease remit for tobaco sold Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFreight for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e near ready, will send drum to Blow for Liverpool.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e will carry 550 hhds tobacco. Staves are plentiful now; Have plans for loading ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e with flour for Liverpool.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e and ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e loading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo offer for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e as yet. Lays idle here. What do you think of freight for Cadiz (Spain) or Lisbon (Portugal) of flour? Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eSilver Grey\u003c/emph\u003e has loaded for these ports; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e bound for London left City Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCannot dispense of barrel staves you bought of Lewis at the Bridge\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour ships availabe, except to Spain and Portugal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphratis\u003c/emph\u003e owned by C. Grinnell, James Howland and myself: no prospect of freigh; Will send to you if desired; about 2 years old and 365 tons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWish business for new ship\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRemit for staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo to Ireland, Liverpool (England), etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Belfield \u0026amp; Hicksf[?]d men same as Emporia, Virginia in 19th and 20th century]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping questions about transportation abilities of ships: What prospects will ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMary Ann\u003c/emph\u003e have for freight at Norfolk? She can carry 300 hhds of tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to sell circa 400 bhls of pork; willing to barter with debtors in Fredericksbug, Port Royal, Tappahannock, Dunkirk, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince arriving I find that dispute with Great Britain will be amicably settled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping and economic conditions in Europe: No trade here, ice in harbor, will leave at once on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphratis\u003c/emph\u003e; Questions advisability of freight of staves for West Indies on account of worms; as to timber, for England, after duty and other expenses, little profit; but agrees for Blow to load \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphratis \u003c/emph\u003e with timber for England if ship is filled. Prefers freight of tobacco at £ 4.5 for England or Ireland, or corn flour at 9 per bbl for Cadiz, Lisbon or Gibraltar (Spain and Portugal)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCancel wine order\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping conditions and goods: Ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Powhatan\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFingal?\u003c/emph\u003e are up for freight; only half a cargo; further discussions about cargo; give current prices for tobacco and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill Blow purchase [unclear?] staves for brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn\u003c/emph\u003e?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipping to Europe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e up for London needs further cargo. Nothing offered for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBuy 500 lbs of cable j[?]k for ship Independence at City Point. Give prospects for a cargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eFame\u003c/emph\u003e available\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods on ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAverick\u003c/emph\u003e en route to Blow for British port\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[Curell was the Captain of the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePolly,\u003c/emph\u003e bound for Norfolk] Bill of Lading; bringing 92 bhls flour from John Hoomer, assigned to Richard Blow with freight at 25 cent per bbl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ship coming soon from England. Wishes cargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeed freight and charter for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence.\u003c/emph\u003e Advise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: loading of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e with staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses difficult atmosphere in trade, fear of a war if British actions don't change: no prospect as yet for employment for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/emph\u003e or \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence.\u003c/emph\u003e General feeling here that war will ensue if British orders in Council are not soon rescinded\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[approximately 100 items]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eProspect\u003c/emph\u003e sailing for Norfolk; asks Blow to give any assistance she may need.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDecided to send ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/emph\u003e to Liverpool (England) with tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness arrangements for payments, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends few goods and a hobby horse Blow had ordered (cost $ 15)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: drafts given etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDelay in getting cargoes for ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eIndependence,\u003c/emph\u003e no cotton or tobacco available for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/emph\u003e now. Good apple brandy scarce here, gives current prices of tobacco in Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending down garden seeds, potatoes and oats for Mrs. Blow for planting, and oats for son George\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: flour sent\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNeeds vessel to carry 14 to 18 hundred barrels of flour for Spain; what would a vessel cost? Can money be had of you for bills on London and at what exchange?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBetsy \u0026amp; Mary\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs executor of Edw. Cowper estate gives legal details to collect and pay Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCheck sent for payments due\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from John Randolph [in Congress] that an Embargo would be immediately laid. Get off any flour[?] to foreign port at once\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems if embargo goes into effect\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses actions of the U.S. Congress, the trade embargo and their response: a law laying an embargo of 90 days has passed both Houses of Congress. Trust the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eJohn \u0026amp; Adam\u003c/emph\u003e has put out to sea and that you have got rid of any flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShipment by Blow of a carriage to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems of flour certificates as schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e put in to Wilmington, North Carolina, after Lisbon (Portugal) and Cadiz (Spain).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends premium for cargo on schooner \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e and discusses problem of stops at several ports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: payments\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: stock shares taken in Farmers Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ham and midlings for sale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCommission merchant asking for business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the account of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discusses a canal from head of Pasquotank River in North Carolina to head of Elizabeth River and Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeclines to help Blow buy a privateer\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for place at bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplies for a teller position at the bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOfficers of Farmers Bank, Richard Blow, President\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed letter: Terms if Farmers wishes to rent his house as a banking place.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas set of India Table China which he wishes to sell. You and Capt. Parker have one like it imported at some time. What did he cost you?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: deed sent to Robertson in Petersburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAsks for meeting of Board of Directors for Farmers Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: note against Benj. P. Hoomes of King \u0026amp; Queen County, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: sale of cargo of oil\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggested notice of opening of the branch of Farmers Bank at Norfolk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas ships empty and ready for cargoes. What prospects in Virginia?\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking matters: Delays in getting necessary discounts for Bank to begin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipment of goods and prices: Schooner Richmond at Newbern, North Carolina. Asks Blow to insure her cargo of salt and [unclear?] at $ 5000. Blow valued ship at $ 3000 and cargo at $ 8300. [Blow as president of Marine Insurance Office]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNorfolk: Re: insurance premium for Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblem of his debt to U.S. Bank and Mr Allmond's endorsements; a suit in [unclear?], to save his two warehouses on Commerce St. and two dwellings on B[unclear?] Street; he asks for loan from Blow. If not, he will be financially ruined.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e has not left here yet\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBedford\u003c/emph\u003e was damaged in Lynn Haven Bay; asks for assistance for sale and repairs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation and letter of November 22.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship Bedford See letter of November 22nd.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargo of a ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAnn Alexander\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubscribing for shares in Farmers Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for cashier's position at the bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for gr[and?] son, Benj. Pollard, as notary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for position of watchman at bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for notary at Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for job of porter at the bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplying for notary at Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for watchman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for watchman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for book keeper or discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob applications , 21 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Benjamin Pollard for notary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends T. J. Parker for notary\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for porter\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for work\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003esold house to Farmer's Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for book keeper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application for cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application teller\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application discount clerk\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJob application as runner\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of shares in Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea: Orders about ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e's cargo \"British licenses have risen here very much and cannot be had under $ 1500 and there is great alarm here that the British cruisers will take our vessels that are bound to Southern parts…Insurance for voyage to Lisbon is 17.5 p.c. …\" [War of 1812]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCrates sent to Blow in ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWhale cargo of the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e engaged\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuty of oil to be before Congress\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking and movement of money: advisability of removing specie from Bank out of town. The Virginia Bank has done this already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e chartered for Lisbon if Blow has not chartered her already\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e[In handwriting of] Blow: Detailed memo of his correspondence with Bridges \u0026amp; Robertson regarding cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza \u003c/emph\u003eand problems encountered by blockades, etc. from 1813 February 5 to 1815 May 20\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses politics, shipping difficulties: Re: past cargo of flour for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e \"considerable fervor pervades our city especially the Legislature = who are this instant organizing a plan of defense for your Borough and will probably order out 3000 men forthwith\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas flour for available\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDifficulties of getting flour down to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: problems getting flour to Blow; \"excitement of arrival of troops for Richmond and Manchester on way to Norfolk for your protection\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: his chartering of ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eZ[unclear]\u003c/emph\u003e; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlgernon,\u003c/emph\u003e lost at Cape Hatteras, was insured fully\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTwo Marys\u003c/emph\u003e entering Chesapeake Bay was met (stopped and boarded) by British fleet under Admiral Warren, had her register and declare different ports…uncertainty about vessels being permitted to go out and impediment re ingress of vessels.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlockade and how long it will last\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending flour for ship D\u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e via ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCatherine\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContinuation of problems of getting flour cargo down for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The blockade has had a serious effects here. Flour has fallen 2 \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1/3\u003c/emph\u003e per barrel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending 200 bhls flour by \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eMartha Ann\u003c/emph\u003e for \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDo not send \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e out of port until blockade is lifted or assurance from British that licensed vessels will be permitted to proceed\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThinks blockade will soon be lifted and ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e can get out\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSending flour for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: discussing the British blockage, the embargo and cargo for his vessels\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNat. Clanton, Wm. Peter, Wm. Comm[unclear?] $ 150.15 [unclear?] of Virginia; land formerly property of Walter Gilliam deceased of 1272/3 acres\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives Blow permission to appoint Director of Farmer's Bank in his place\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePower given to Blow to sell cargo of May Ann (800 bu. salt). Wishes 270 bhls flour sent to him\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Geddy signed acknowledged loan of $ 30 from Baron.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProblems of blockade, etc.; Bills of Lading\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the removal of R. Blow as president of Farmers Bank, and five letters concerning Farmers Bank.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes herings sent by packet to Williamsburg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses ship Powhatan's departure from City Point: please furnish Captain with what he needs\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCitizen's of Portsmouth sent $ 700.81 for relief of sufferers by the late fire; note of thanks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReturns his 5 volumes of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eHelvetius\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter of ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictory\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCargoes of ships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlow was agent for ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictory\u003c/emph\u003e of New Bedford - to receive load of tobacco at City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ships and tobacco shipments: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e to Rhoads with tobacco and cotton; ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus;\u003c/emph\u003e ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond;\u003c/emph\u003e ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bartin\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship the \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictory;\u003c/emph\u003e many British vessels at City Point and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscusses losses due to late war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: commission business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSent 1600 staves to Blow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of boat\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e; rates of exchange\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e cargo full\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e cargo of tobacco for Richmond\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily concerning his shipping trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: concerning various ships owned by Blow: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond,\u003c/emph\u003e cargoes; Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ePowhatan\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e's account\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes shingles\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eRichmond\u003c/emph\u003e cargo of tobacco and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: staves and flour\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFire in Petersburg destroyed half the town, about 300 houses. His counting house was saved\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Blow's debt to Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor building the [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily concerns his sea shipping trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Barten\u003c/emph\u003e's cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Shipment in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdw. Bardin\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: furnishing brig \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCharles Fourcett\u003c/emph\u003e en route to \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBermuda Hundred\u003c/emph\u003e for tobacco and staves\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShip \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e has not arrived at City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: cargo of \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bordi\u003c/emph\u003en, and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAlexander\u003c/emph\u003e for City Point\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bardin\u003c/emph\u003e, \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres,\u003c/emph\u003e \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: shipped of fish thru the Canal to you, will ship shad [type of fish] for family use the last of this month\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(see April 12 letter)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eAugustus\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Humph Hathaway and his cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e from City Point to Rotterdam with tobacco; Re: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e; Re: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bordin\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eEdward Bordin\u003c/emph\u003e to Liverpool with tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eVictoria\u003c/emph\u003e for Europe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrimarily concerns his shipping trade\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: freight rates\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: falling freight rates\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e's flour cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cargo ofships \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eDebby \u0026amp; Eliza\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eBaltie\u003c/emph\u003e for Liverpool (England), Scotland and Ireland, freight rates a problem. Mr. Dunlop wished possibly to charter the ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e for Leith.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Mr. Dunlop did not accept ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e as expected. Freight is down, problem of getting ships to take out cargoes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNo sale for Blow's salt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe:Ship \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eCeres\u003c/emph\u003e for Rotterdam and cargo\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the tuition and board for Blow's sons, Robert Richard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRobert and Richard Blow by Aiken \u0026amp; Brooks, and Books for Robert\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThree letters and one resolution document\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Financial affairs of Farmer's Bank, scale of loans, debts allowed, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefers to branches at Petersburg, Lynchburg, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetty bills of Richard Blow, four letters, and accounts with Neilson \u0026amp; Neale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e80 items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: state of exchange, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBanking business\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Accounts\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Alleged default in bank, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCost of kitchen, stable, dailty building and garden $ 428.18\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRenewing Charter of Farmer's Bank which will expire 1827; urges renewal and to confer with stockholders as to their opinion.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeneral conditions of banking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLegislature wishes detailed statement of expenses of Branches of this bank; asks Mother Bank (Norfolk) to send earliest mail; also list of salaries.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e80 items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e4 letters\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Branches of Farmer's Bank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElection of Lee as cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Cashier\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDetailed letter describing Christmas as \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eTower Hill\u003c/emph\u003e: Weather very bad, hunting, ice house full of ice, new school at Coman's [?] Well, Sussex; wants daugher, Mary Frances put there. Death of Capt. John R. Mason. Edwin Gray sold off all his estate yesterday. Thomas Gray to manage the Ruffin plantation. Imagine Thomas will buy Edwins land; there will be Grays all around us. Just heard that Captain Wm. Briggs bought Edwin's place, $ 1800.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRepairing the man building and slating kitchen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaint, lead, etc. $ 84.36\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribing post Civil War life conditions: Reconstruction, \"thievery\" of African-Americans; Fanny (his wife) is teaching 10 pupils; Mary is chief assistant in a large female school here; Aleck has been here. Orange and Alexander R.R. has joined up to the Manasses R.R.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Blow, Micajah Felts, Adminsitrators; Inventory of App.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e$ 6235.20; Divison of Estate to 3 grandchildren: Mary E. Turner, Martha Jordan and Georgia Ann Hines.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaves Mary E. Hines his plantation on East side of Austin's branch; leaves Martha Hines his plantation on Wesst side of Austin's branch; [Mary Elizabeth Hines husband was George Hines] George Blow and James Rochelle, executors, Rochelle did not act.; John D. Turner who married Mary, act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Blow administrator\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDozens of petty accounts between Richard Blow and merchants, trades, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eField book of line between George Blow, Jr., John Clanton Saldsberry and Nancy Clanton and adjoining [unclear?]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBarham's Tract…183+ acres sold at $ 5 per acre. Plat of Barham Wren's land and north side of Racoon Swamp by Wm. Darbie of which this is an exact copy - total acres 345.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNumber of packages consigend to [names from Williamsburg, Petersburg, Yorktown, Burwell's Ferry, Hanover]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOriginal field notes of a Road from Bla[?]'s Mill to Sussex Coutr House chained by Joseph Clanton\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e£ 1409.9.10 1/2 : long listing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Suit Blow \u0026amp; Oldham trading as merchants at South Quay, Nansemond County. Each to put up £ 400 V.Cur. and going under firm name of Baker, Oldham \u0026amp; Blow and to continue throgh the War. In 3 months Oldham died. Firm continued as Baker \u0026amp; Blow. Store began at Pitch Landing, North Carolina. Other stores were established at Petersburg under firm name of Blow \u0026amp; Barksdale in 1782.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnswer of Blow refers to the year 1793\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco imanifests for various ships; invoices of tobacco to Wm. 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Wirt advises Blow to agree to a committee of 3 men to settle rather than go into court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAcknowledges tobacco sent over by Mrs. Lucy Paradise per \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Sheffield\u003c/emph\u003e. According to Mrs. Paradise's desire we are sending 2 [ch___s?] marked \"LLP1.2\" Bills of Lading sent to Blow at her request. \"She is miserably in debt\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas established a printing office in Norfolk with Daniel Baxter. Solicits Blow's goodwill and business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: tobacco she had shipped to Reynolds in Liverpool (see letter of July 12, 1806).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWishes to employ a tutor to live in his house. Enclose advertisement for same to be put in \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eThe Herald\u003c/emph\u003e. Wishes a mentor in Latin, French but must have one good on Arithmetic and English. Say £ 50 or £ 60 for English teacher and £ 70 or so for language teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis opinion of western lands, 1st rate land sells at $ 20 to $ 30 and 2nd rate at $ 10. Does not wish to settle out here.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegulations as to conduct: Divine Services, Reveille, etc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWill not come to Norfolk until yellow fever is over or is prudent to come. Keep him informed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBills rendered for postage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for books (listed) $28\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill for books (listed)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppeals to Blow to assist him. He is a British subject and \"confined in jail and then to be sold as a slave for the benefit of the state of Virginia.\" Gives his life history and tells how he a came to America at 3 years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInscription to be put on gravestone of Marie Semple, daughter of James Semple and Joanna his wife, daughter of Doctor William McKenzie, dec'd. Born August 16, 1809 and died November 12th 1810. Note from Semple to Blow with directions for sending stone to Cobham or to the Bay warehouse in Surry or upper end Isle of Wight County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJanuary 16, 1801, Lee Hall, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, Norfolk. Asks for Blow's assistance so he can obtain a job as a clerk in the Navy Yard at Gosport. January 26, 1801, Congressman Sam W. Dana, Washington DC, to Lee Hall. Discussing a possible job position for Hall. 1804 and 1805, Sam Lord, New York, to Dr. Lee Hall, Portsmouth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e6 pieces\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests Blow's influences in procuring his appointment as cleark in Public Navy Yard in Gosport\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommending Dr. Hall to be Clerk of Gosport Navy Yard\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Medicine ordered by Hall\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA teacher, will return to Portsmouth if conditions seem good\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMeasures taken to prevent interruption of the commerce of tobacco have had full success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuit between Vaughan and Baker \u0026amp; Blow; he will represent Baker \u0026amp; Blow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRe: Inquiring about books sent to Mr. Thomas Jefferson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInquires about M. Davis [Augustine] establishing a printing press in the city.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGoods delivered at Capital Landing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBill of Lading for his tobacco\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses letter to London\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePetitions re: governorship. 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the Blow family. Chiefly business papers, 1772-1820, of Richard Blow of Portsmouth and \"Tower Hill,\" Sussex County, Va. and his son George Blow, Sr. and George Blow, Jr. of 'Tower Hill' and Williamsburg, Va. Richard Blow was a partner in stores in Virginia and North Carolina (trading as Richard Blow and Co., Briggs \u0026 Blow, Baker \u0026 Blow [South Quay, Nansemond County, Va.], Blow \u0026 Barksdale [Petersburg, Va.], and Blow and Scammel). He was also a plantation owner that operated in part by labor of enslaved persons. He shipped the goods produced by the plantation by sea, often to European markets. His correspondence and papers during this period provide a model source on plantation management, sea trade, trade during the American Revolution, and trade during the War of 1812. Includes correspondence, plantation accounts, ship accounts, and legal papers.","Subjects covered in the collection include trade, tobacco, prices, Whiskey Rebellion, thoroughbred horses, banking (Bank of the United States and Farmers Bank of Norfolk), Dismal Swamp Canal, the Embargo of 1807-1809, and the War of 1812. There are letters from merchants in Great Britain and in the West Indies.","Re: Prices for tobacco, salt, hogs, to be bought in that are area","4 invoices for miscellaneous goods","15 invoices for miscellaneous goods","Re: Goods shipped from London","8 invoices for Miscellaneous goods","Account book kept at Sussex Court and Southampton Court (56 pp.); Cash memo book of Richard Blow (Tobacco accounts, collections, etc.)","7 invoices","Invoice","4 items","3 invoices","2 items","Letter relates to selling salt, tobacco and escaping enemy ships, etc. [Hines was the nephew of Richard Blow and in business with him. See South Quay Store references in Blow Family Papers Index]","Property adjacent Davis, [Welch ?], Cary \u0026 Edards \u0026 [Tynes?]","Property near Cedar Island on Lawn's Creek to Brantley's Landing to Welshe's spring branch","Bought of various people tobacco, cloth, china, etc.","Re: Invoices of goods sent from Glasgow","Re: 6 items","(postage)","Letter and petty account","Re: tobacco","3 items","Deed from from Williamson to Land, and deed from Land to Land","Re: Purchasing vessels at Charlestown, will bring back salt","Re: Shipment of iron","Invoice","As well as other accounts with Blow. Ships mentioned are Ranger, Grapevine, Race Horse","Re: Business dealings","Boston sales after she was wrecked[?]","Anthony Diggs, builder, £ 90.656.19.3","13 pp.","1782-1789 (16 pp)","14 silver buttons at £ 4.5.1. [Waddell was the son of Wm. Waddell of Williamsburg, a jeweller and son-in-law of James Geddy II]","Counting room, lumber house, painting, etc.","Complaints of quality of tobacco shipped to him from South Quay, Pitch Landing and Petersburg, gives problems of trading and selling to Dutch, Danish and English - gives prices current of rum, sugar, coffee, humth, hoops, salt tow, etc. Letter gives details of economy in West Indies.","Says Blow's ships Nonpareil and Jenny left for Port-au-Prince had brush with Angulla[?] privateers; Vessel Defiance, will sail shortly ; Discusses conditions for sale of Virginia Tobacco (Pitch Landing is worst in quality yet sent). Difficulties with Danish Law; difficulty in shipping and risk from English Privateers - sends what goods Baker \u0026 Blow ordered as soon as possible. (8pp)","Tobacco acccounts.","October 3rd, 7th,","re: his ships loading, etc.","Re: payment for weapons sold","Notes arrival of B \u0026 B's schooners, Polly, Conner and Flying Jenny; gives prices current there","Remarks about Tarleton[?] at York, Gloucester, etc","South Quay goods shipped on board of schooner Venus for South Quay","8 pp.","\"I can inform you of the surrender of the British Army the night before last\"","News of surrender","shingles and guns","2 letters","Murdock's part ownership in schooner John and goods therein. Directs when sold to give his part to Samuel Beale, Williamsburg on account. Discusses falling prices if Cornwallis should surrender and a general peace ensue","Refers to sailing of Polly and Flying Jenny","Price of tobacco is rising; every kind of good is falling. Refers to sending the sloop to St. Thomas with shingles and staves. Ship Count de Grass expected Wednesday. Will meet her at Ocracock [Ocracoke] on 20th with 100lb cannon powder and all the men. Muskets and powder to be sent from Newbern.","List of merchandise. 12 pp.","2 letters","Refers to surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown","Letter re: his share of a schooner for sale; tobacco on hand to his account, etc","Invoice of goods shipped","Ships Experiment and Adelphi here with tobacco, staves and flour","Invoice and to whom sold","French are now in possession of whole island except Br[?]nton Hill. Capt Stogdale has taken 3 prizes before his arrival at St. Croix and several leaving St. Kitts and sent them to St. Eustatius. Refers to state of the Jenny","Refers to Brig Betty","Refers to Charming Polly","Island of St. Christopher surrendered to France - refers to lumber sales","Request for molasses","Business affairs to be settled","2 letters","Business between the two, conditions for shipping, new markets for goods, etc. (13 letters)","Re: disposal of the store business. Dick Baker, John Redwood interested, and \"major part of the business will be carried on at South Quay being the seaport place\" Baker's proposition as to carrying on business with Blow in the future. (6pp)","10 letters","3 items","4 items","7 items","5 items","Expenses of sloop Industry to Philadelphia","Re: shipping of goods to Blow. Proposes going into business with Blow at Richmond. \"The Revd. Wm. Andrews is now at Chelsea in this neighborhood and without any employment or assistance except £ 80 per annum which is allowed by government as temporary…\" (7pp)","Brig Pricilla disbursements in Cadiz; November 5th: cabin furniture, cabin stores, ship stores…\"; Invoice of Schooner Venus in account, Richard Blow, Merchant, Norfolk (4 items); Portsmouth store account; Petersburg store: invoice of tobacco shipped on Venus; South Quay Store: invoice in account with Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Portsmouth store account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale","Re: voyage to Fredericksburg; repairs; voyage to Cape Charles and back","Charged to Richard Blow","Brig Pricilla: wages, contract to Cadiz; Schooner Nonpareil accounts due to Rey \u0026 Brandenbourg, Cadiz; 4 items","voyage to London; 28 items","Outfitted and cargo","Sales wages, shingles, bamboo, lumbwer, etc. Cargo, invoice to Richard Blow and others; 2 items","Invoices, sales, etc. 24 items","Sales, wages, etc","Accounts of various ships [?] to Richard Blow; Accounts of Richard Blow [?] to others: to Hathorn \u0026 Miller for painting inside of store, glazing, a corner cupboard, table; Portsmouth Store; tavern account of George Briggs [?] to Ann[?] Livingston (dinner, club, wines, and board - £ 3.11.5; 20 items","Sales at auction of the Schooner Brilliant's Cargo, New York; Tobacco shipped on Brig Nelly by Blow \u0026 Barksdale—invoice; Invoice of Richard Blow \u0026 Co. with Oxley \u0026 Hancock on ships Jolly Tar, Marlborough Dancer, Wm. Randall.","Division account of owners of schooner Nonpareil, her cargo in account with Baker \u0026 Blow.","Owners of schooner Brilliant to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Petersburg; Account of sale of cargo of Schooner Richard in account with Baker \u0026 Blow at South Quay.","John Key 1/3 of profits made, Baker and Blow 2/3 of profits","In the amount of £ 7681.18.3; schooner Virginia, schooner St. Thomas; Debts due to following persons….; South Quay Store £ 2240.10.2½","Capt. James Caton, Norfolk: saddlery, shoes, linens, twine, glass, etc…£ 586.3.6½","Letter re: delivery of shingles","Re: change of occupation","Re: sale of cargo of Jolly Tar and sailing hack","Re: sailing of Jolly Tar out of London","Shipping good to firm","Same as above.","Asks about ships Jolly Tar, Tartar and sloop Old from Philadelphia with much needed goods","Sending flour down","Shipping goods to him in the William. Asked for tobacco","re: ships to England","re: goods bought and desired","re: exchange of flour and tobacco for salt and blankets, etc.","re: ordering a few items","Re: goods disbursed from ships to store in Petersburg and Tower Hill; dissatisfied over trade conditions","same as above","Has engaged James Marsh as an assistant for you; salary to be £ 50 per year from time he arrives in Virginia","Letter sent by ship William, 7pp.","Asks for [mourning?] goods to be sent to him","Ship Marlborough is coming up the river to Four Mile Creek; general trade conditions","\"Ship Marlborough has at last got up to 4 Mile Creek an is not discharging her load\"","Re: poor credit of English \u0026 French merchants; refers his uncle Scott going blind; general business affairs","Re: goods to be delivered to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, merchants, Petersburg","His sons, George and Sammy, are in service to Richard Blow in his business. Asks that Blow continue them. He is infirm and keeps his store only to give his sons Charles some insight in business","Jolly Tar is here with your tobacco; will sail back in 3 weeks with your goods; the William left on January 3rd. Has established correspondence and credit on best footing with Birmingham and Manchester (England), Sheffield, Halifax and Leeds houses. Discusses Blow's ability with shipping business. Crew does no think Blow has experience for this in times of peace. Says only 2 trips a year can be made to England and to West Indies. Advises Blow against using [unclear?] ships in this voyage.","Re: Cargo of Jolly Tar","Asks for linens; suggests Blow have a craft or two built to go up and down river","Re: Jolly Tar about to sail, not German goods to be had, no pewter or nails","Ironmongery hard to get; Ship Charlotte Daniel chartered with load for James River. Mentions Mr. Allen of Surry, Mr. Charles Carter of Charles City; discusses prices of American goods and demands abroad. Asks Blow to send tobacco back in the Charlotte.","Re: escaped enslaved person (\"runaway slave\")","Ship to go to City Point, Virginia and load with tobacco and proceed to London.","29 items","Re: Lots in Petersburg and buildings thereon too near Blow's storehouse","£ 63","Goods sent out, etc. Commission merchants problems re payment of tobacco brought over","Ship Marlborough sent to Virginia for tobacco. Probably to West Point; York River tobacco brings better prices than James River; \"my commission for selling a hhd of tobacco shall be 21 shillings; brokerage is 5 shilling\"","£ 350 due","Good shipped out","Announcing firm","Wishes bar iron","Refers to death of George Briggs","Refers to the Charlotte store","Wants canvas and anchor","Articles bound from Norfolk to London, agreement, names of Crew, wages, etc.","Does not want any part of ship Jolly Tar at sea","Itemized","16 pieces","For shingles, etc., shipped by boats to Portsmouth or Norfolk","Pepper, coffee, mill;","Linseed oil, etc.","New sloop of £ 850","General merchandise","Oils, locks, paints","Shot, lead, nails, window glass, glass, hats, axes, linens, copper, hardware, guns: £ 986.60 pounds","Shoes and hats","Ginger","Ginger","Sail duck","Woolens","Spoons, combs","Provisions for sloop dispatch","Invoice, to D[arton?], Petersburg","Goods at £ 256.0.11","£ 3074.10.8","Several invoices","£ 197.15.1 ¼","£ 60.16.7","2 accounts","In ship Thompson, hardware; £ 106.7.8","Oils and lampblack","For store and wharf repairs","£ 1171.15.9½","Richard Blow, Thomas Ogburn, Owners \u0026 Thomas [Angnus?], Master of Schooner Venus: Contract to West Indies; also ship's personnel with wages","3 carts of snakeroot per the Jolly Tar, London","For goods bought at Port Au Prince, Jamaica.","Re: shipping Blow's fall goods and pick up blows tobacco for foreign ports","25 items","23 items","25 items","25 items","Re: accounts","Has hired Benjamin Wythe to live with him at £ 20 instead of Fort at £ 60. Key was the operator of Tower Hill store and plantation.","Re: damage and vandalism to ship Malborough","Re: John [Cohn?] to be apprenticed to Richard Blow for 6 years","Will not keep on Benjamin Wythe (see January 4th above)","Re: bill of laden for ships Marian, Norfolk from Harvre de Grace","Re: store there","Re: they will have new neighbors soon at Sandy Hill: J. Stewart \u0026 Company. (Key operated Tower Hill Store for Richard Blow)","Re: ships for sale","Re: goods for Col. Allen and for Charles Carter","Re: blooded mares owned by Allen Cooke's estate","Re: management of store","re: mercantile business there","Re: sending Marlborough to Glasgow","Re: shipment of stones to Richard Blow","Re: ships Marlborough and Portsmouth and possible cargoes, [unclear] Jasmine","\"…the men who can fight best, lye [sic!] most and swear cleverly are most in repute\" here.","\"back country stores have taken a great deal of the trade from this place…\"","re: ships for cargo in James, York and Rappahannock Rivers - [unclear] and get Malborough full as soon as possible, refers to Blow's trip to England soon","Re: leaving lot by Barton for a lumber house near store","Re: Blow's paying his account with him","Re: death","Re: buying lot from Blow for new store","Re: arrival of ships. Bland, apparently, was manager of Blow's business in his absence","Re: corn delivered","Re: hard money, much of ship George off Smith's Island - losses…","Re: building store; arrival of foreign ships…","Re: debts due Co.","Re: debts of Blow to Company","Re: getting watch springs from London; (Geddy lived in Williamsburg near Palace; see James Geddey House History C.W.; he moved to Petersburg when Capitol left Williamsburg)","Re: sending some paper of Baker to Blow before he sets out for London. May send them to Blow in London, asks about what Blow has decided re land and who is to settle it for him; will give Blow's agent the refusal as he promised; (Zach Rowland owned a lot in Williamsburg on Waller Street (from 1782-1786); see C.W. for location of his lot—[M.A.S])","Re: Blow's trip to Europe soon, wishes some memo or form of a co-partnership, between them before Blow goes","Meal sent down","Torn","Re: Blow's debts to him","Re: Sending tobacco by Marlborough to London next week, sends lists so collections can be made there","Re: Blow's letter dated on board ship Portsmouth in Hampton Roads was received; refers to copartnership in letter of 4th (above). Approves of getting another partner from Britain to go into their firm (Barksdale \u0026 Blow). Suggests as Blow is there and will visit all trading posts in Britain, he can choose one better and will visit \"all the back stores\" before his return to Petersburg. McNeil has Married Youille's daughte - after a feud Youville has disowned them. Barksdale will have to settle McNeil elsewhere in back country and will settle [unclear?] in back country and will need spring goods for these small stores; asks Blow to send goods back to him in the Marlborough.","Re: send cellar window frames to him via Pierce's Sloop","Re: \"trade very dull, collections same, money tight\"","Re: no chances of collecting money at this time, money tight","Re: Blow's finances here while he is abroad no chance of collections until fall; workmen must be paid at all events. Ask Mr. Key or Mr. Barksdale for help if you need funds badly (Hines was Blow's nephew and manager of some of his property).","Re: can furnish stores, planks, etc.","Re: Blow and Baker \u0026 Blow's overdue account with Hazlehurst, Philadelphia","Re: Just back from 6 weeks up the country, per ship Virginia. Been the round of all the stores in the Country that we have an interest in. Collections very small. Insects among tobacco has been very fatal. Business very dull. If ship Portsmouth should arrive early, I can do well this fall in trade; may be able to get Northern goods this fall; Insists upon Blow getting them a partner for Britain, perhaps in Glasgow.","Re: Refers to lots of goods sent to Blow in Virginia in the George. No sale as yet for Blow's tobacco arrived in [unclear?] due to uncertainty as to duty.","Re: demands very pressing at Portsmouth and here; out of his power to give any financial assistance.","Re: sending meal down","Re: sending framing down; get bricks for him","Re: Citron bought, etc","[torn]","Sent Blow naval stores for sale","Alex Donald, Richmond, wishes 1,081,000 barrel stones; (Donald is a partner of Donald \u0026 Burton, London)","Sends goods to Robert Rines \u0026 Co., John Hoomer \u0026 Co. and Robert Craige; asks Blow to clear these at customs and to these people for them","Sends him 2 , [unclear?] of brandy","Invoices of goods shipped in Harrison and Richmond also in your ship Portsmouth re: sales of tobacco there","Drafts on Donald \u0026 Burton, London","\"Give Capt. Diamond a compass…\"","On pleasure trip; business in Virginia very dull. \"I find a good many houses failing in this place as well as in Philadelphia. Northern cities laden with India goods;\" urges Blow to have a separate account for the Portsmouth and Petersburg stores as I have no interest in the Portsmouth store.","[torn]","Re: business conditions there and his interests in Virginia","Re: his goods from abroad have arrived. Can furnish Bland some for Blow's store in Portsmouth if needed","Has received goods by the Richmond, Jasmond, Battleton, and Harrison; Re: their credit with Donald \u0026 Burton, collection of debts owving in Virginia, etc. Thinks Blow was right not to send off goods to his Tower Hill and Portsmouth stores this fall. Reports total loss of the Jasmond off Hatteras, passengers saved, all goods lost, great damage by this storm at Norfolk and Portsmouth as tides were 10 feet higher than ever known before. John Key, the operator of the Tower Hill Store, has come for a few goods for that store.","Re: Blow just returned from four months abroad. Discusses ships and cargo","Re: Mr. Jerdon's horses and groom[?] to be sent to him at Louisa if not, to A. Donald. Directions for putting off goods at Brandon; and to York County customers.","Re: confusion of orders for goods from Barksdale \u0026 Blow; and quality of tobacco shipped to him, prices etc;","Goods not coming to him on schedule. Wishes 500 bushels salt and some rum and sugar. Have no money to purchase tobacco. Dull sales at this place, low prices of tobacco and high prices of goods, keeps off buyers at store .","Order for goods to be sent by Blow to Wilmington by Sloop Speedwell. Thinks there is an excellent opening for a business there. Virginia is overstocked with Country Stores or rather shops. Could accept H.C. produce in payments. Send the goods to Henry Urquahart or Carmical \u0026 Bogle as soon as possible.","Re: goods received","\"Nothing going here in retail line but a demand to country merchants in the wholesale way...\"","Letter of credit for David and Herbert Hines, his brothers. [David Hines married Elizabeth Francis, daughter of Thomas Francis, February 3rd, 1781]","Re: need for molasses and rum, sugar or coffee for his business","Goods by the Speedwell to hand (£ 381.15.10); goods sent him (saddler, corderoys, [unclear?], men's shoes) \"not suitable for my trade here.\" I wish rum, sugar; will try to pay in North Carolina produce but that is as low in your state.","Detailed letter re economic conditions in England and the reaction to follow if Virginia General Assembly lays heavy duties on British shipping and on B[low's] goods imported in them; if this happens, a fatal blow will be given to the credit of Virginia in this country…","Re: Accounts for collection","Out of certain goods, will loose customers if Blow does not send some up.","returns invoices for damaged goods","Re: discusses effect to follow if paper currency is issued to you. It will raise your exchange very much. It is prudent for you to collect your debts before their value is reduced thereby…warns against giving too much credit…","Re: needs cloth for clothes for enslaved persons","Re: difficulty of getting spring goods from abroad","[need to check folder break-down for accuracy]","For goods [unclear?] and to be sent to Richard Blow per ship Portsmouth. Blow had sent stoves over to be sold (8 items)","Received credit for shingles, scantling, garden nails and lumber","14 petty accounts of Richard Blow with craftsmen; Accounts of Donald \u0026 Burton, London for goods; List for Richard Blow, Virginia (6 items)","Lists: \"1 fine Carnelian seal with Coat of Arms crest. Neatly set in gold [unclear?] pattern £ 5.5 \"N.B. the seal, pin and ring were delivered to Mr. Blow\"","Fifteen accounts of Richard Blow for various needs at home and abroad; Tavern account with Mr. A. Livingston; Repairs to ship Portsmouth","Shipped by Blow \u0026 Barksdale on Jesmond for their account with Robt. Crew, Merchant, London, £ 1034.13.5","30 heads[?] of Tobacco; £ 600.17.11;","8 invoices","10 invoices for jewelry;","32 petty accounts","6 receipts Richard Blow","30 receipts","10 items","9 items","...for goods furnished to Captains of ships and other individuals; 24 items","21 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","12 items","\"A Pair of Silver [unclear?] Pistols, Brass Barrels and [unclear?] locks: (£ 8.18.6)\"","dress materials","30 pieces, receipts","30 pieces, receipts","Invoice; wide selection of goods","Wide selection of goods","The Jesmond is now loaded and will sail, Captain Smith is in charge","30 prices","30 prices","20 prices","20 prices","Bills for plank and lumber of all kinds, R. Blow; 12 prices","18 prices (August 1st??)","Re: loading of tobacco in ship Portsmouth at Cabin Point or Petersburg. Times hard; cannot remit now","A continuation of letter of January 1st (above)","Refers to new tax imposed by General Assembly of January 1st on tobacco. Money very hard, being [unclear?] often. Sends invoices for tobacco shipped out","Ship Portsmouth leaving for Portsmouth…","Re: glad to know ship Portsmouth is out of Cape's","Sending tobacco down in the Molly or the Termagant","In distress for cash to get French ships out—has drawn on Blow for £ 50. Gordon \u0026 Kean will send her (ship) out to sea for Grubb if I can furnish funds.","Discusses his personal business affairs—Roberts almost paid now. James River tobacco now in demand here. Refers to George Briggs, nephew of Blow, owing him; also George Nicholson and Richmond Rope Walk","Re: carpenters working on the wharf, etc.","Re: corn sent to Blow from the Plantation","Re: Blows ship in port and difficulties re manifest. Refers to Blow's marriage and send congratulations to him","Re: general news","Refers to Blow's \"happy day\" (wedding day / Richard Blow's Marriage); Tobacco prices looking up. Trade duller than when you were here.","The Grand Duke has brought in £ 2200. Refers to the Portsmouth, the Harrison, safe at Cadiz","Sends manifests of ship's Portsmouth cargo. She [ship]will be in England before the Harrison or the Grand Duke. Needs salt and stoneware","Gives ship's Portsmouth cargo and his needs.","…when he left South Quay he settled with Baker \u0026 Blow. Invoice of Tobacco received.","Buying lighter of Blow","Sends goods out by Grande Duke to Portsmouth and Petersburg stores. Business dealing with the two stores sends tobacco and staves back in Grand Duke.","Invoice of goods for (Richard Blow)","Invoice, harness and saddler","Tobacco shipped in the Hagard to Blow; concerned over how to pay creditors: \"very stagnant times\"","Wishes Blow to go up to the Charlotte store only 85 miles from Petersburg and see Mr. Youville","[Bot.?] of Bax \u0026 Ellill for \"Blow\"","[Bot.?] of Trinbug \u0026 Bell for Blow.","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Introducing Mr. Galloway from Jamaica who would like to be their agent there","For £ 1233.19.14","[Bot.?] of Bird, Dolby \u0026 Co. for Blow","Mr. Tyson wishes circa 200 hhds tobacco from lower James River. Recommends shipping tobacco to France","Would like business dealings with Blow; encloses list of goods available for exportation and prices","Begging for goods to be sent to him in ship Portsmouth soon","Sends invoice of goods needed","Unable to send the candlesticks you wanted for the Mason's Lodge. Pattern desired not available, very expensive to be made by silversmith; awaits Blow's decision","Re: tobacco shipments","Bond of 1784 January 1st","Re: shipping of goods to him and tobacco loaded in Portsmouth","Re: his debt to Blow","Re: sends tobacco in ship Portsmouth","Re: goods sent to Blow's store in ship Portsmouth. Barksdale not liable for that store. Settled with Blow before he went to England (in 1785) \"I have no more interest in the Portsmouth Store or the ship Portsmouth than a man unborn nor never had from the beginning of our co-partnership\"","7 invoices for goods for Blow in England","3 items","Various assortments, 10 items","By: Rich Barton, Henry Dickson, Donald \u0026 Burton; Taxes, Sussex County or Richard Blow: 1196 acres land, 203 acres land, 210 acres land, 28 polls, 13 levis, 10 horses, 50 cattle","from Donald \u0026 Burton, John Begg, James Williamson, Portsmouth Store, J. Barrister (10 items)","With carpenters, tailors, butcher, cabinet maker (10 items)","15 items","30 items","30 items","To M. Finkle, Jno. Thomson, [D____unclear?], Eph. Elder, Alex. Smith, E. Youngman, H. Brown, G. Nickols","various goods","Material for dresses","\"London, 3 Voyages;\" \"Virginia, 3 voyages\"","Re: bread, rum, etc","For repairs to ships of Portsmouth","For ship Industry, for store and for wharf; and for ship Dispatch (repairs)","Invoice for misc. goods.","For craftsmen. 23 items","For craftsmen. 30 items","Carpenter and builders account","For Petersburg store, South Quay store, etc.","Goods of Blow","2 items","14 pp.","5 pp.","5 pp.","13 pp.","3 pp.","6 pp.","Ships furnished, Ports listed, foreign merchants traded with, invoices (local and foreign); 200 items","Messrs. Brothers De Bacque, Dunkirk (France)","29 business letters concerning the sale of tobacco and loading on ship Portsmouth and others for foreign ports. Also their business agreements. The dates of the letters are as follows: January 12 11, 15, 26, February 2, 1, 8, March 12 26, April 4, 20, 12 30, May 16, 26, 31, 20, June 6, July 16, 13 August 10, 17, 19, 14 12 29, September 2, December 1, 13","Reports dissolution of the Partnership of Thomas Bland \u0026Co., will continue the business under the firm name of William Edwards \u0026 Co. and settle former co-partnership","To: Wm Pritchard, Wm Corrupter, Gabriel and [Rhilgo?], James Brown, John Cranbury, John Bingham, M. Donald, John Whitley","Re: renting house (Waddell was a silversmith, formerly of Williamsburg)","Re: to James Giddy Jr., Silversmith in Petersburg, formerly of Williamsburg","Re: renting store","70 pieces","Re: about to settle in Amherst Country","Re: cargoes for Portsmouth and Grande Duke and payments","Sales of cargo of Haney reported to your credit. Sends hogshead of London wine via ship. Ship Active soliciting trade","Indian corn cargo sent by Blow to them; Enclosed invoice of prices or articles imported to this island: wheat, grain and flour always command good prices and good profit","Tobacco is a very dull sale at present. Wheat high all over Europe, Turpentine is much demand","Cargo for North Carolina, salt, rum, ship bread and 400 empty hands.","Fort was manager or operator of the Tower Hill Store for Blow, George Andrews is overseer for 1788 for £ 20","Shipments to Donald \u0026 Burton via Bowman; other shipments discussed","(fragment)","2 to 15 ships en route to Portsmouth are frozen up in Appomattox River near the bar; ice is 5 inches thick","Most woolens entirely too high for this market","Re: clothing for Col. Lewis Burwell's enslaved persons is held up for duties at Portsmouth","Re: Suits in General Court","Re: Suits in court there. Blow's debts due; payments","Asking that Blow send 2 packages that came for him from abroad. One may be a spinet.","This detailed letter about the economy discusses prices for canvas, salt, tar; compares French and English prices for same. French minister has written to Jefferson with regard to trade to tobacco. France may become a very important depot for tobacco and particularly this port as it is near to the Dutch and German Ports.","Re: sendingBoxes of James Geddy's by first vessel","Re: James Geddy's invoice of sundry goods in 3 packages misplaed; never arrived here; find they are in Norfolk at Capt. Maxwell's. Please send.","Re: suits in General Court","(care of Joshua Fort, Tower Hill) Re: [unclear?] a lot of his","Re: suits in General Court","Re: bill owed by Blow","Mr. Geddy's 3 packages of goods have arrived at last, send duties due from him","re: coming for final settlement of accounts of Baker and Blow","Re: Blow's lots in Petersburg. Legality of ownership must be cleared up. Will check deeds in Prince George County. Gill will sue you if not cleared up soon.","Re: debts","Re: shipments of tobacco","Tobacco very promising this year, prospects for 1/3 more crop. Wants horseman's trumpet for our Cavalry","General prices and tobacco sales outlook","Sending tobacco down, also bacon, hams for Mr. Gregory in Dunkirk. M. Oldner will look after them.","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Lathian, Sharp, Wardrop \u0026 Co., Weavers","[unclear?] of Hunt \u0026 Clay, Ribbon Weaver","Re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] of Henry \u0026 Richard Joseph, Pewterers","[unclear?] of Lancaster, Bax and Ellill and shipment in Bowman for Virginia, bird shot, seeds","[unclear?] of James Davidson, Net, Rope, Twine, Line maker","[unclear?] of Wm \u0026 Rdn Borradaile \u0026 Co.; Hats and felts","[unclear?] of Edward Collinson, Tin Plate, [Warker?]","[unclear?] of [North?] Johnson \u0026 [Frith?], turners and brush makers","Re: prices of naval stores, lumber and staves. Asks for settlement of their business for past year soon","Glad Portsmouth has gone to sea, re: Blow's lands","[unclear?] of John Freeman \"cork cutter to his majesty\"","Looking for Captain Oldner. Stack of Tobacco in France kept up high by late deliveries. Farmers General will buy at liberal prices to encourage commerce between the two countries. When Portsmouth arrives, will write you further.","Sending sturgeon down, wishes nails","Re: coming to Tower Hill soon; We should come to something decisive in our business. Crop up country good.","Re: shipments of staves","Re: [lands?] of Baker \u0026 Blow in western lands.","Re: repairs to shop","Execution against blow for £ 600.5, for debts owed","Needs salt for store; re: tobacco shipments","[unclear?] Gov. of Virginia for duties past due £ 80","Shipments in Portsmouth","Ship Captain: business about sailing for Blow","Will sell 1,200 acres of land in order to pay if Blow insists","Re: debt owed to Blow","Sending down tobacco","Re: suit in Southampton Co. Court","Re: Blow's debt to firm for tobacco sent him","Re: sending load of staves down by Mr. Gray","Allowed another ship to have barrel of mead as they were out; Oldner was the Captain of Ship Portsmouth","Farm conditions bad due to inclemency of weather; John Rochelle needs salt","Lawyer for Mr. Baker and Blow, Suit vs. Holland to come up at next court","Has sold Robert Rives remaining stock of goods belonging to Webb, Barksdale \u0026 Co. Accounts enclosed to amount of £ 916.8.4 sterling to go on proper account to Blow \u0026 Barksdale. It is now time to rent out the Courthouse store if no renter applies, we shall have to pay dead rent","Ship Louisa is in from Isle of May with salt. Says prices of barrel staves is too high","Is willing to be Captain of ship to ply between Holland to Portsmouth","Asks that goods come up in ship Bell Cap Bay, lying now at New Point News or in Nansemond River. May send \"my ship Constitution\"","Member of House of Delegates from Sussex County. General Discussion of affairs","Re: Law cases","Sale of schooner and cargo in Rotterdam; Ship Kepple to be sold in West Indies. Mr. Rosser to Fredericksburg with load of salt and dry goods. Ship Meremaid from Glasgow arrived today. Mr. Lightfoot's sloop from Antigua here [Mrs. Blow and little George were staying in Petersburg with Mr. Blow]","Re: changing from employ to Rotterdan [unclear?] to Captain of Portsmouth owned by Blow","Ships Portsmouth and other ships: staves business and red oak hogsheads for sale. Queen of France from London and Captain Blaney from St. Martins here with salt.","News of General Assembly in session. Briggs was representative from Sussex County. John Pride was speaker of Senate, defeated Charles Carter. Briggs thinks Pride better for office as he is \"more of a republican;\" [theater] plays to start here soon, place very gay.","Re: case Baker and Blow versus Applewhaite","Re: package lost","Re: suits and loss of legal papers","13 items","Suits in court","140 items","19 items pertaining to sloop","100 items","50 items","See alsoBox 11A: Financial Records, 1787-1789.","Have sent Blow 12 hogsheads tobacco and 10 [unclear?] pork; no peas to be had.","Sending load of tar","Re: sending navel stores for A. Donald","Re: Wishes to rent Blow's house in Petersburg for Mr. Rose; let him hear your wishes.","Sending load of tar","Re: Blow's judgment against him","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court vs. Blow \u0026 Baker","Prices of staves, shingles, scantling, sugar, molasses, coffee, tobacco, fish","Tar sent to A. Donald, sending 4 [bbls?] of turpentine to you","Re: selling enslaved person; Col. Baker's estate","Ship Powhatan thought lost","Burgess had a school in Southampton. Reference to payments to Blow","Has received Indian corn shipment for the account of James Brown of Richmond, Virginia. American grain is much in favor here, tho' [am?] crops of wheat, rye and barley are good","Sends flour and corn down for foreign trade","Re: Baker estate and suits in Brunswick County Court","Discusses financial conditions, tariff changes and effects on American goods","Sends manifests for 55 hogeheads by Portsmouth;Also, others. Brother (James) is at Bermuda Hundred on business","Re: suits in Brunswick County Court, of Blows","Sends bar iron for sale","Wishes quantity of peas to fill ship to be sent to Madeira before Christmas","Sent 2,800 bushels of wheat in ship Nancy for Philadelphia. Will Blow get bills of lading for it for Manson?","Cannot pay his account to Blow","Sending down 100 [unclear?] of flour and a parcel of back eyes peas (12 to 1,500 bushels) for Madeira","Lists tobacco sent down for Blow, needs Liverpool salt","Repairs, wages, food, ports, etc.","Repairs, bread, rum, cordage, naval stores and general petty accounts for misc. articles","Bills of laden and accounts of sloops Portsmouth, Elizabeth, Betsey, Acorn and others; and petty accounts for ships","12 items","circa 100 items","circa 71 items","Answer of Richard Blow, partner of Baker \u0026 Blow and of Richard Blow \u0026 Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","Answer of Richard Blow partner of Baker and Blow and of Richard Blow and Company to bill of complaint against them in court of Brunswick County","26 items","3 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","20 items","10 items","20 items","To ship on board the Portsmouth for Havre De Grass: Smithfield, Low Point, Hoods, Davis's, B. Brooke, Byrds, Lowpoint","\"Richard Blow for the ships\" account of repairs Blacksmith account-ship Gloucester to Richard Blow","20 items","20 items","Work on ship Portsmouth","20 items","20 items","13 items and one item related to freight","1 item","14 items","23 items","4 items","Re: Tobacco saved from wreck of the schooner Nelly in November 1783. Asks for settlement, may enter suit","Has corn and cask of ginger for Mr. Blow, by ship Charlie","Re: shipping tobacco via City Point, 60 [unclear?] corn at 4-Mile-Creek, little wheat","Sending 33 hogsheads of tobacco to Blow, for shipment on Portsmouth for Donald \u0026 Burton, London","Re: rent of Blow's warehouse","Owes blow; he is out of work, can't pay now (ship captain?)","Problems regarding ship and loading","Sending down brandy, nuts, apples by cart. \"people\" (referring to enslaved persons) need shoes","Has been to France, 3 days at Dunkirk at Messrs. De Bacque. They seem agreeable to do business but due to the critical condition of affairs in France, the exchange is above par. Will go to Liverpool to look situation over. \"Expect to get the scheme completed to the fullest extent and the goods shipped…\"","Sends invoice of goods and corn delivered to Capt. Binghame","Has sent 3000 [unclear?] of turpentine for account of Mr. Donald","re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale (2)","Send him rum for corn he sent to Blow","Wishes turpentine","Sends turpentine (600??) would want $3 per (??)","Re: loading corn and sending down","Re: sending corn for shipment","Re: sale of boards, shingles, scantling to merchants here. Will have 600 bushels of salt for Captain Cox and flour and fish. Hope to sail back by August","Demand for Virginia. Coal is very slow due to quantity of British coal on market. Corn prices low, Captain Fineash has employed Willing, Morris \u0026 Co. to buy his bricks. Wheat and flour prices good.","Sends down turpentine","Sailing on Bowman on 20th; dissapointed that Blow has done nothing to fit up his store in Petersburg for the reception of goods","Sloop Peggy left Lyon's Creek with corn","Accounts for sale of cargo and prices received","Re: Capt Fineash's business affairs","Re: Blow's accounts there","Re: sending tobacco and turpentine","Re: Brunswick County Suits","30 items: The dates are as follows: January 13 February 24, March 9, 13 April 14 21, 28, May 14 7, 10, 5, 26, 21, 24, 31, June 7, 23, July 1, August 13 14 September 12 20, 25, October 2, 2, 20, 19, 22, 25","35 items: Brown's loading of tobacco and corn on the Portsmouth, Clermont, Polly, Phoenix, Harrison, Grand Duke to be delivered to Blow for foreign sale. Brown wished Blow to send him turpentine, salt, dry goods , rum, sugar, coffee, etc. Brown was a big merchant in Richmond. The dates are as follows: August 2, 2, 6, 11, 17, 16, 16, 17, 17, 18, 13 28, 30, September 1, 8, 12 12 13 17, 20, 24, 27, October 6, 4, 4, November 1, 3, 8, 10, 19, 23, December 2, 14 28, 30, 30","General condition of market, shipping, etc. The dates are as follows: March 9, 18, 24, 24, 27, 30; April 1, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 28, 24, 26, 28, 27, 29; May 1, 3, 19, 30, 19, 21, 22, 21, 26, 28; June 1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 25, 25, 28, 30; July 2, 5, 9, 19, 19, 22, 29, 29; December 9.","James Brown, Richmond merchant, accounts with Richard Blow; Brown's sale to various foreign merchants and delivered to ship Captains sailing, etc.; flour, corn, tobacco. 25 pieces","20 misc. petty accounts","Cargo sales, voyage #10: wages, repairs, fitting out food, etc.","38 items","41 items","77 items","3 items","75 items regarding repairs, fittings etc.","54 pieces","Expenses of Corn shipped on the Birch, Cleopatra, Mary. Naval stores statement . 20 pieces","Accounts of ships with Richard Blow; ships Bowman, Cleopatra, Portsmouth, Phoenix, Grande Duke, Endeavor. Sales of turpentine, tar, staves, rum, molasses, corn, repair work done, etc.","Has received flour and black-eyed peas from Blow; will send wines to Blow; gives current prices of wheat, corn, rice, flour, beans, beef, pork, bees wax and staves","Thanks Blow for present of 4 red birds sent to him. Three arrived safely. I gave two to female friends and one to Mr. Donald.","Low Point, Milners, Smithfield, Suffolk, G-Creek,Hampton, Petersburg, Tower Hill","Re: Blow's Tobacco sent to him","In French.","Bill for joiners work","Relating to Portsmouth, George, Industry, Nancy, Grand Duke, Bowman, Harriet, Castor, Union, Molly, Harrison","By master shipwrights, Captain John Cox, commander of Portsmouth","As result of damage received on the Bognor Rocks £ 633 [Bognor Rocks, Sussex County","58 pieces: Repairs, wages, food, etc","Over 200 items","Re: debts now due and insaluable; rent for Princeton (house near Sussex County house); about Wm. Bland's inability to pay for horse Aristotle","Thank for red birds sent to him. Sned more","Re: sending oranges and hives","\"France is at war with the Emperor of Prussia; gives effect of current prices\"","Red birds died on voyage; Captain Pollack of ship Grand Duke will bring others for me, I hope","Wishes cargo of staves—has shipped brandy to Blow. Also wishes Oak timbers and cedar boards for whale boats and harpoon. Situation of political affairs will influence the exchange. The success of our war against the Emperor and the King of Prussia has made prices fall already. Our success in several battles has recovered from the Emperor the whole Belgick [Belgique] or Flanders, besides the whole kingdom of Savoy.","In French.","Is establishing a House of Commerce in Bordeaux; asks business of Blow","3 items","Accounts, disbursements, (32 items)","Repairs, bills, after hurricane from St. Eustatias to Virginia","David and George, Grande Duke, Ballie De Sulpier; Captain Timothy Congers was captain of the Ballie de Sulpier. In his account to Richard Blow under July 9, 1792 there is this item: \"Cash paid expenses to Williamsburg to see the judge (2.14.3 ½)\" and on July 29, 1792 \"Cash at Maupin's (5.18.1) on July 11 1792 Captain [Conears?] to Gabriel Maupin..\"[unclear?] for dinner, club, wine, lodging, grog are listed by Maupin as paid on July 12th. Maupin kept an ordinary in Williamsburg; [see: House History at Research department C.W. (M.A. Stephenson, March 1968)]","40 items","21 items","21 items","12 items","55 items","50 items","21 items","12 items","55 items: Foreign agents, local suit, ship captains accounts, invoices of sloop Industry and David and George, Portsmouth, repairs to ships (nail maker, blackmaker, iron work), invoices for lumber, scantling, shingles, food furnished ships (ship bread, rum, beef, etc.)","(Captain John Cox)","Arrival of your ship Portsmouth. Wishes staves, cedar hoards, oak timbers for the whole boats and tarpons. Wishes tobacco; Brandy or gin will not be allowed to go into your country but in casks upward of 90 gallons. Which type of brandy and cognac will Blow like? Will send price current from time to time.","Over 50 items.","\"A committee of the inhabitants of Petersburg assembled on Wednesday to devise some measure to prevent the communication of the Small Pox from Richmond, and they have resolved on planning a smoke house at Pocahontas to have every person from Richmond smoked before they are admitted into town..\" Gives prices current.","Discusses war with Portugal and Spain and consequent fall in prices","Re: tobacco delivered to Port-au-Prince","Re: shipping Blow tobacco at Kemp's Warehouse on the Piankatank","List of 15 hogsheads of tobacco for sloop Experience","Ships Blow hering, shad and tar","Sends 32 hhds tobacco","Gives prices current in list for tobacco and turpentine, deerskins, tar and rice","Re: Buying ship with Blow; son going to Virginia to be in business there, gives current prices of tobacco, turpentine, etc. Tobacco sales down 1/3 in France by National Assembly orders.","States that Donald \u0026 Burton have failed. He and Mr. Lamb, book keeper for Donald \u0026 Burton, will form a joint business. Asks for Blow's business with them. Lamb \u0026 Younger are insurance workers, also.","Bills of laden (12), wages","\"…There never was such distress in this kingdom amongst the commercial people as at this time prevails…I think very few will be able to ship goods the coming fall for their correspondents. Tobacco is very low and hardly any sale. A cargo of (??) Virginia Tobacco has lately been sold at 1¾, wheat 6/6, tar 21/[unclear], turpentine 12/ct\"","Offers to collect debts for Blow","Gives London exhange and needs","Gives prices current in Cadiz and exchange in London, Amsterdam and Paris; gives money valuations also","Discusses prices and general trade conditions","Sends bill for goods desired","Virginia Coffee House","Letter and copy","50 miscellaneous bills.","89 items.","Re: Collections for Blow","Re: Price current for Antigua Rum","Re: cask of chewing tobacco sent him for sale","\"The embargo will cease after the 25th of this month. The resolution to continue it after that time was rejected by a large majority yesterday..\"","Re: Blow \u0026 Baker's judgment vs. Henry Banks","Suits of Baker \u0026 Blow, judgments, etc.","\"…M. Lee has rented your old store house to a M. Dudgin, a baker is building a very large oven in the back yard adjoining the old kitchen on the [run?]. Your carriage is now all ready, it is a nice one and I hope will please Mrs. Blow","Re: Relationship between J. Boyce and T. Thompson Jr., dissolving partnership","Orders 40 lb. of West India Cotton and some salt","Sending corn from Tower Hill, to Blow via Cabin Point and River","87 pieces.","111 pieces.","Re: Lot in Petersburg of Blow's","Gives current prices","Gives current prices","Note the N.B.","Gives current prices","Re: his debts to Blow under firm name of \"Fort \u0026 Nicholson\"","Prices current","Prices current","Prices current","Bill of Laden and earthenware","Re: Merchant, Mr. Smith, who is coming to Virginia to settle","Re: Thomas Thompson has died; Re: Blow's business with Thompson","\"The troop of Cavalry of Petersburg, marched on Saturday and about 160 militia and now going on daily from the different countries that come through here, the result of this business is very much to be feared will end in some thing that will be shocking to human nature…\"","Order for goods (dress materials)","Returning to England","Re: Th. Thompson's estate","Mr. Thompson, Jr., arrived safely; Executors of T. Thompson, Jr. will give up the trade entirely, so partnership between him and you will be closed as early as possible","Re: T. Thompson's estate","Says great Britain will pay for all injustices which Americans have suffered by the West Indies cruisers: make your just claim for loss suffered by the capture of your vessels. Do not doubt but that you'll be reimbursed for loss; discusses his and Blow's business connections and Thompson's son's business affairs in Virginia","Invoices of Richard Blow's. 50 items","Refers to French American difficulties at present; Thompson's estate affairs not favorable; great demand for middle grade tobacco","J. Strange, Manchester to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Price current list","Prices current listed","\"Captain Harrison of the Fort was shot last night by Lt. Willson in a duel\"","Prices current given","Prices current given","British cruisers have orders to bring in every ship of whatever nation loaded with Provisions bound to France;... a great number of Americans are amongst but Commissioners appointed to purchase and to pay for the same instantly…","On sea 38 days, cargo damaged","Gives genealogy of kinship of Drews, Hines and Blows.","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","Repairs for Portsmouth dwelling","13 pieces","Invoices and receipts paid by Richard Blow to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, and to local tradesmen in Norfolk (50 pieces) see: Jacob Andrews, Norfolk, silversmith, for ½ dozen, tea spoons and a tea canister","43 pieces.","Benjamin Waller, Williamsburg, agent, for firm Abram Newman of London and John Grayson of Petersburg, Virginia, representing the firm of Davison \u0026 Newman, London, Executors of Benj. Waller, paid to attorneys for firm £ 1325 pounds and £2587.18 pounds - Va. currency in April 1779","Re: Henry Carleton's debt to Blow \u0026 Barksdale, Pitch Landing, 1781; [Anderson was bookkeeper for firm then]","Sent salt, lemons, china and oranges to Blow","Is sending over in the Rebecca a very famous horse, Dare Devil, property of John Hoomer of Virginia","Dare Devil, Hoomer's horse, arrived safe in Virginia","\" I hear you have married Miss Wright..\"","General conditions","3 horses sent by Lamb \u0026 Younger to his father on Eliza;  give M. Lawson of Williamsburg and father information about this","Tobacco very high here","Current prices","Re: a fire which destroyed storehouse of Blow's, which Nash had rented. Mrs. Marks occupies the remaining house left of Blow's; wishes to continue renting it","Gives current prices","Re: Blow's and Barksdale's foreign business, collections, etc.","Received 5 hogsheads of tobacco from Tower Hill  overseer, entire crop","Writes for red birds; sends silk to Mrs. Blow","\"America must be reaping immense advantage from the war that is going on in Europe\"","Current prices","Re: purchase of a good vessel; condition uncertain due to war. Does not think good time to increase foreign trade","Ship Louise bringing cargo of salt to City Point in exchange for tobacco","Business [unclear?]","116 pieces.","Scammel was part owner with Blow of a store at Tower Hill [see Blow Family Papers, W\u0026M Library, Special Collections Research Center]","230 pieces","Re: settlement of Carolina business and also those for conveyance of the lot to John Baird and Jamestown","Re: collecting for Blow rent on Petersburg Storehouse and house, and recovering debts owed to Blow; current prices listed","Re: debt he owes for rent","Re: estate of Thompson","Re: purchase of ship Moses Myers by Strange \u0026 Blow","Re: rent of Blow's houses in Petersburg","Re: Brig Moses Myers","Re: Deed from Blow for Petersburg lots and houses","Re: Collection for Blow \u0026 Barksdale business","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Edwin Fort, Petersburg, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Re: Th. Thompson's Estate","Discusses foreign wars and politics in France; not in favor of the Moses Myers brig sent out to Dunkirk now; perilous situation","\"..enclosed you have a Deed of trust from M. John Baird Jr. to you which he wishes to execute to secure the payment of his bond to you..\"","…would like to have the name pedigree of Mr. Burwells horse","Wishes stud horses sent to his place, Chalmeria, Dinwiddie County, by way of Suffolk and Petersburg, understands a groom and ferrier are with the house; avoid all ferries","Wish Blow to get him the pedigree of horse Traveller and also name and pedigree of Mr. Burwell's horse","A vessel has arrived from London at Norfolk and has brought two stud horses shipped by Mr. Barksdale for M. Strange","Re: Thompsons settlement of estate","To collect debt owed by Anderson since 1795","Baird buys lots from Blow in Petersburg on Brick House Run","12 pieces","Brig Moses Myers, Sloop Industry, Sloop Rebecca; German Ships; 50 pieces)","54 pieces","Over 100 pieces","Naval stores","Refers to war conditions and settlements abroad","Gives current prices","Bad news from abroad","Has rented Blow's orchards","Re: settlement of Father's debts","Re: Baker and Blow's business—debts owed them and bonds given","\"…I have at last made sale of Blow \u0026 Barksdale's land in Charlotte for £ 1000 pounds","Has sold Brig Moses Myers to Freeland","Re: execution papers re Nicholson of Cabin Point for Blow","Re: sale of his tobacco","Re: damaged tobacco","Thomas, Industry, Moses Myers, Galliat-a-Maria, Fox, Stafford, Mill River","Henry Urquhart, Wilmington North Carolina to Wm. Barksdale+1719:1724","List of 24 hogsheads of tobacco on board of the Harmony for Norfolk to Blow","Re: San Domingo Business","Sending naval stores","Shipping garden seeds to Blow","Captain of ship bound to Port-au-Prince","Re: buying salt","Re: buying salt","Re: salt from Isle of May and his warehouse for storing the salt is good","Re: order from Blow for a rolling mill for a Goldsmith's work; will send later; other business between them","Re: sale of David \u0026 George (ship), Bills of lading sent; have sold tobacco and beeswax of Blow's; poor market; Georgia cotton is high and sugar and coffee equally as high","Industry arrived at Falmouth-sent her to Hull","Fort \u0026 Barksdale will send cargo of tobacco, flour, etc. to San Domingo; asks Blow to secure proper vessel for them","Sending 1 bale of woolens (£ 133.2) for Norfolk","Newspapers being sent to Blow. \"You will find much news and the state of Public Affairs in Europe; great events is looked for shortly\"","Re: Blow's insurance on buildings; request a copy of Blow's policy \"Tobacco market perfectly flat\"","Business with Blow; for tobacco and brandy","List of good shipped to Blow aboard Jennie; cargo for West Indies","Cargo of $7000 sent aboard Jennie for West Indies; invoice listed","Re: settlement with Blow for damaged tobacco and hominy","Re: estate settlement of Moore's","A list of bonds, notes, and securities due to the Estate of Th. Thompson put into the hands of Mr. Copeland","Sending invoices and bills of lading for woolens, etc. Could not ship guns without permission of this Government which could have cost more than the value; sending earthenware","Would like to rent rooms belonging to Blow's store, \"for the accommodation of about half a dozen particular acquaintances.\" Would like Blow's \"young gentlemen\" to board with her","Account of sales for tobacco and beeswax","Accounts for cotton","Re: wines","Re: salt","Re: debts due Blow","Has man who wishes to buy Blow's 100 acres near Petersburg called \"Chicken Quarter\" will give £ 55; invoice of timber sent","Blow elected Director of the Bank of U.S., Norfolk office","Re: settlement of father's estate","Current price list","Dudley was nephew of Mrs. Lee Hall","Re: suspicion that his aunt was poisoned","List of articles sent by sloop for Mr. Barksdale's trip abroad 11 packages in all.","Son has sailed for England","Wm. West is to build a house at Old Place (Blow's father's home in Southampton) for Richard Blow, how large must it be?","\"All of Mr. Barksdale's furniture and etc. was sold off by Haxall on Thursday last; and at prices enormously high; the sales will exceed the original cost of the property\"","\"..our sales in September amounts to 124 pounds, 30 pounds cash\"","\"..Ship Moses Myers has been taken on her return from Madeira, retaken and carried into St. Kitts which has entirely frustrated the views that were entered into for her immediately going back with an assorted cargo…and I regret you will be disappointed of the fine old wines..\"","Son John has returned from London; 37 day passage","Opinion of political situation between France, Austria, England, and Denmark and business repercussions as result. Reported that Blow's Ship Portsmouth has been detained in England.","Is renting warehouse to Mr. [John] Halt.","Discusses international situation; England's problems, etc. Is moving his store to Bolling Brook Street; gives current prices for tobacco and etc.","Re: his father's estate and collections","Discusses uprising of enslaved person Gabriel (\"slave insurrection\")","Refers to setting up business at Surry; will get Mr. McIntosh's building","\"Late news from abroad; England and Denmark will not [rupture?]; will send ship Louisa out soon..\"","Brand and corn meal being sent to Blow on the Hannah and Enterprize also tobacco","Importations this year very large","On way to canal to get shingles","Importation considerable; back country merchants will not buy anything of any consequence; desires salt, now worth 22/6 a sack and 4/3 loose per bushel","Gives prices current","Had shipment of gloves valued; sending some to Blow; doubts if they can sell well; discusses salt market.","Re; Salt and spices","Sending tobacco for sale in Clarissa; wishes wine bought for him","Schooner Eira from Norfolk brought news of death of his father; schooner Augusta brought letter from Blow. Thinks M. Goodwin very improper person to administer father's estate. Brother William may wind up estate in Virginia, if not, asks Blow to administer. Remit all collections to mother; George Leckie, London, sending turtle andBox of oranges to Blow as present","Ship Mississippi brought salt from Liverpool; Is shipping tobacco to Blow by sloop Mill River","Re: shipping him flour and staves","Re: shipping of tobacco ahead; gloves he has are hard to unload on merchants; William Barksdale in England","Accounts current (Blow \u0026 Barksdale, June 23, 1800) and others, Bonds for duties on ships, Prom. Notes, bills of lading, receipts","see Folder 2 also","Foreign mostly","Dudley was a nephew of Dr. Hall. Had a small grocery store","Re: seizure of the Charles Carter by French privateer and uncertainty of the Mary Hilton","Wishes his 350 or 400 hogheads of Indian meal shipped to England as a better market than western ports. Was priced at 12/6 [Stg?] per bushel and flour quoted at 120 per Bushel. Tobacco very dull here. \"I have no doubt that France will capture all neutral vessels they can that are loaded with provisions for England.\" Gives current prices of flour, bacon, hogs.","Wishes salt for the Indian meal he has sent to Blow for sale","Re: Bankrupt, Jesse Brown - Refers to \"Master George (Blow) at Bellfield (Academy)\" [Bellfield is now Emporia. There was a school there which George Blow attended. See Blow Family Papers Index, M. Stephenson]","Is building a schooner for the West Indies","Conditions of markets local and abroad","Using Blow's Brig Almira to send his tobacco to Falmouth and Dunkirk or Havre (both in France); Wishes brig to come to City Point to load; gives current prices","Wishes to go to Scotland; asks Blow about passage","Ship Washington loading at Harrison's Bar near here","Contract for ship Washington for load for Falmouth","Good news from Europe related to war there; Mr. Barksdale in England gives condition of market for tobacco there, in France and Holland.","Sales in April amounted to £ 140, £ 36 cash","Loading Almira for Dunkirk or Havre, or Rotterdam, on Blow's terms, all load to go to Mr. Barksdale for sale","Re: shipments of tobacco abroad, current prices noted","Tobacco accounts","Tobacco accounts","Re: 2 horses and a mare sent from abroad to Hoomes in care of Blow, Horses to arrive in the Chesapeake","Exchange at par; tobacco prices dull","\"We have this moment received intelligence that preliminaries of peace between this country and France were signed on the 1st. Inst. What will be the effects with the commercial world we are not prepared to say..\"","Several arrivals of foreign ships at City Point","Exchange only 1 per cent under par in New York and really as high in Philadelphia and Baltimore","Invoice of 24 hogshead of tobacco from Dixon's warehouse","Sending Blow 16 hogshead of tobacco on Neptune on account of Col. Burwell (Carter's Grove). Send the German linens on board the Nancy to Col. Burwell","Re: Col Nathaniel Burwell's tobacco. \"The remainder of the tobacco shall be sent you from the College W. House as soon as a craft can be obtained.\" \"N.B. I send you four hogshead of tobacco marked and [unclear?] as [unclear?] the property of Matthew Anderson of Williamsburg which he wishes shipped to Messrs Davis Stephenson \u0026 Co. (London)…if not to Messrs Lamb \u0026 Young..\"","Re: debt owed by Godwin to Leckie","Introducing Mr. Somerville of Somerville \u0026 Halliday, New York","Mr. Galigo wishes to charter ship Washington if you have not disposed of her","Sending tobacco to go to London via ship Washington","Thinking of returning to England as has closed all business in Richmond; flour market here good; let me hear of the flour shipped","Shipping tobacco on ship Mill Run to be sent to Liverpool: will you attend to this?","Is collecting debts owed to Blow, Tobacco very dull here at 27/meal and flour at high prices","Hear brig Betsy en route to Jamaica; would like Blow to ship his flour to Kingston?","Re: shipping of tobacco on brig Polly, schooner William for London","Re: attempt to sell his ship at anchor at Blow's warehouse in Norfolk","Re: Blow's taking over Brown, Rives \u0026 Co.'s ships for Leeth and other ports","Re: Blow's help in getting cargo for England, current prices","Enclosed bill of lading for 58 hogsheads of tobacco per schooner William","Re: collecting Blow's acts for him","Enclosed bill of lading for 79 hogheads of tobacco for Leeth","Re: conditions in New York for discounting notes","Re: shoe leather and flour barrels needed","Listing ships carrying 310 hogheads tobacco abroad for firm: Mary Hatton, Hooper, Harriet, William.","Asking Blow to send his tobacco to Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","November sales at store amounted to 354 pounds £74 cash. Out of sugar; Mr. West (overseer) wishes to be paid for his last year's wages; says T. Gray is pushing him for payment for land","Re: London goods shipped to Taliaferro via Blow","Announcing loss of the ship Charlotte Walton in Dunkirk harbor; all perrished. Mr. Barksdale had written him of this; gives prices of flour and tobacco","Tobacco sent for Lamb \u0026 Younger to Blow; the brig Delight has also hogsgead of corn, meal, [beans?]; I need 44 new flour barrels of you","Prices higher because of state of things in Europe, Inflation may increase if seasons are not good","Current business statement","Re: tobacco to be shipped abroad","Re: seizure of brig Morris Myers in Nova Scotia; asks Blow's advice about insurance of cargo (London?); cargo was sold; should we prosecute the Appeals?","Re: estate of his father, wishes family bible","Expecting ship from Ireland soon; wishes cargo for it, vessel about 250 tons","Current prices","Re: sale of tar and turpentine","Has purchased a pair of mill stones for my friend Gen. Henry See, shipped on board a vessel of Mr. David Anderson of Petersburg. Please send them up the Potomac to Gen. See, Westmoreland County.","Has canvas, tar and turpentine for sale","Bills of lading for wines","Wishes to sell pork made by John D. White of Carolina, inspected in full salt but not pickled; 600 + land","Re: his tobacco lost by sinking ship","Re: sale of his skins","Re: rum","Can't sell gloves","Business in shipping and current prices","Gen. Lee wishes the Mill stones to be landed at Stratford three miles above Blackstones Island. Taylor has stone steps from city of Washington being sent down to him via Blow's vessel.","Asks Blow to ship a couple dozen hams to London, 1 dozen for Mr. Barksdale and 1 dozen for Mr. A. Donald, an old friend. Wishes bacon and hams for personal use.","Is financially ruined and will have to take bankruptcy; asks advice of Blow","Wishes to sell 15,000 lbs (pounds) of cured bacon and hams which are salpetered","Tobacco [unclear?] may get up to 5 ½ or 6 dollars","Re: his shipments abroad","Asks about price of beeswax and cheese","Re: sale of his schooners to pay his debts","Brown, Rives, \u0026 Co., Richmond, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Flour has fallen; tobacco [transient?]","Cannot sell gloves which Blow sent him; might try Charleston, but New York would be better market","Store sales in February were £ 120 pounds, £ 30 cash","Re: tobacco shipments abroad","Thanks him for sending hams to London for him, also for flour and corn forwarded to him","Old Tobacco is worth $ 7 or $ 8; send Lees to Philadelphia; other to go to England; better to send in 2 ships as risk is less.; fill in with corn and Indian meal.","Re: vast acreage of land in Nansemond County surveyed in 1791 and entered in Surveyor's book, Norfolk, in name of James Murdough and Daniel Fisher (20,000 acres). Entry was first made in 1783 with Andrew Stewart, and later Col. Charles Connor; asks Blow to \"have inventory made in the names of Thomas Edmonds and John T. Blow who are the right and only owners of these warrants\"","Re: collection for Blow","Bought sloop Alexander to save debt of Francis Jones","Orders for shipments of tobacco to England","Great demand for grain and flour; have had no sales for gloves","Have shipped by brig Betsy 416 [hbls?] flour to Blow; also have sent 58 [hbls?] by brig Independence. Gives current price list.","Received cheese; wishes price of corn and bacon. Little peach brandy in this neighborhood this year; sales at store were £ 162, £ 54 cash","Gloves (380 dozen) sent to Philadelphia for possible sale; would like coffee, sugar and salt in barter for Indian corn. Send prices for tobacco, flour, mead, corn, rum, brandy, coffee, and sugar. Wishes payment for Barksdale's debt to him for tobacco.","Re: note of Mr. Jones","Sent set of springs for a gigg for Mr. Fort on sloop Sincerity","Is there any demand for Russian goods with you? Expect a ship from the Baltics soon","Re: flour to be exported","Re: sending tobacco to Blow for export","Sending tobacco for shipment on brig Washington to London","Sorry to hear of the loss of brigs Carter and Mary Hylton, hope to go to London soon, peace seems near.","Re: tobacco shipments","Orders for tobacco sent down to go to Cowes, Havre, Dunkirk (France), and Rotterdam via the brig Almira","Re: tobacco for London","Need French brandy and rum; Crops poor, trade dull","Going to London via ship Washington; sending tobacco to Blow","Re: tobacco for ships Nancy and Almira","Tobacco for ship Almira","Re: tobacco for Almira and meal—Blow's plantation tobacco sent to Fort was refused","Wishes permission to send away ship which Blow may charter to Great Britain or Ireland if necessary","Re: problems about his sailing for England","Tobacco business and shipping","Re: illness of his mother (a sister of Richard Blow) Nancy is Rob Hines wife and child, George","Re: trip abroad and tobacco sent for shipment","Re: Ships' cargoes for Europe","Re: Cargoes for Europe","Every cellar full of water due to late rains","273 hhds by ship Almira already shipped","Wishes 100 hhds herrings","Tobacco by sloop Ranger for Almira","Tobacco by Ranger for Almira gloves for your store","Refers to Davis warehouse, Petersburg; sending tobacco for shipment","Tobacco bound for Orient via ship Antelope","Get passage to London for Thomas Leckie; wishes hams sent to friends Lamb \u0026 Younger, London","\"Our ship Venus arriving; will you get cargo for Ireland, England or France. Prefer Liverpool; can take staves.\"","\"Our ship Venus is a ship of 250 tons, 5 years old, has accommodations for passengers and sails well\"","Sloop Dispatch, Capt. Ash, bringing 26 hhds tobacco which Blow will ship according to manifest; detailed directions with tobacco marks ES, EF, W, RB","Re: tobacco shipments","Wishes 5 tons of logwood and 2 tons of lignum vitae to City Point, wishes logwood for ship Louisa, also.","Re: ship Almira whereabouts; lemons sent to Tower Hill. Tobacco, wheat and flour market very dull","Orders coffee, sugar, rum, oil, molasses","Barksdale wishes logwood by ship Louisa; Mr. Blow at Tower Hill","Takes out insurance for Blow at Phoenix Fire Insurance Office; surprised that Blow does not pay his overdue debt to them.","\"The Coopers left Tower Hill some days ago; they have some barrels to make at the old place, then they set off for Norfolk\"","Sending 22 hogsheads…","Hope Col. Carter's crop from York River has reached you. Hope Col. Burwell's from Rappahannock as well as the tobaccos from Carter's Grove are down. Buy pipes of wine for us.","Ship Nancy in from London","Hear his horses have arrived","Re: collection of debts due him","Re: Ships Almira and Venus belonging to Hathaway, Howes \u0026 Russell enroute to [unclear?] and Dunkirk","Blow owes them £ 1216.19.0; no insurance has been received from Blow's ship David \u0026 George","Account: £ 3593.8.0 ¾ (1800-1802)","Itemized lists of goods furnished £ 205.3.9 ¾","9 items","Desires Blow's foreign accounts shared by him","Accounts due Richard Blow","List of tobacco consigned to Blow, Norfolk","Struck by lightening from France to Virginia; repairs necessary listed","Repairs and disbursements","Sending Blow barrel staves by brig, about 250,000.","[Burwell had lived at Carter's Gove near Williamsburg before moving to Carter Hall]","Asks Blow to send up a cargo of logwood and [2 bbhs?] Rum","Latest letter from Europe gives a very unfavorable account of tobacco, prices here have fallen","Danish ship Ferendchaff[?] arrived at City Point yesterday from Dunkirk (France); will take logwood in cargo, tobacco prices low in France","Re: an unsettled account between Hussey and A. Wiscort \u0026 Aug. Derenville, merchants in New Castle, New Kent County [Derenville was a Merchant in Williamsburg: see also: CWF research department]","Hines gives consent to have her [daighter Patsy] inocculated for small pox. [Background information: Hines was a nephew of Blow. Hine's daughter, Patsy was living with Blow and going to school there.]","Gives list of current prices there; wishes Blow to give him letters of introduction to merchants in different parts of France, Spain, England and Holland. Armistead is sending his ship over there in trade","Re: store and plantation affairs","Re: tobacco sold Blow","Re: accounts for logwood and tobacco","Re: freight rates to Dunkirk and other ports","Part owner of ship Washington; wishes Blow to get cargo for ship to foreign ports","Sending Blow 4000 staves","SendingBox of books, send to Suffolk","Re: his problems with shipping","Re: ships Charles Carter and [Friendchoff?]","62 hhds tobacco aboard ship Washington","Cotton and wheat crop destroyed by hail storm","Many accounts owing to store cannot pay anything to Blow at present. We owe about $300 for pork we bought last winter","Orders from Blow for furniture to be made: mahogany enough for chairs and a sofa","Has just heard that a declaration of war has taken place between Great Britain and France; it appears that Louisiana and all the country west is ceded to the U.S. (Mailed from Baltimore)","Re: Hall Suit","Re: cargo of the Washington","Re: sale of tobacco","Math. Anderson of Williamsburg has sent down 4 hhds of tobacco for your care, please ship to London in British Vessel","Ships Martha Bland and the Lovely Lass are now loaded at City Point and bound for England via Norfolk, business very dull here","Sending Blow 194 pieces of bacon and 200 + 2 hhds of Indian meal and 1 [unclear?] flour. Send me store ware, mostly butter pots, also a set of bedstead screens","Crops injured by wet weather; Mr. West (overseer) needs about fifteen [unclear?]; trade dull; our sales for 3 months only £ 500 out of which there was only about £ 90 cash. Refers to \"Old Place\" in Southampton County [owned by Blow's father, Scammel, and now property of Blow]","Re: various ships available for shipping and tobacco abroad","Sailing for Nassau in ten days","Sending tombstone which I ask to be put over my father's grave; I sail for Halifax and England soon","Send shoe makers and oil to grease leather, tacks, hammer awls, etc., and cotton and wool cards","Wishes aid in taking his ship Almira to sea bound for Livernick, Ireland","Wishes barrel staves","Refers to \"Aunt Hall\" and calls Hall \"Uncle\"","Going to west Indies with 100 hbls of corn","Re: debt which Talbot Godwin owes Blow","Wishes Blow to sell his ship for him at $600","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","Receipts, bills for staves, tobacco, salt, harness, naval stores; Invoices; Legal Summons; Bills of Lading; Tower Hill Store Account (1801-1802) £ 5036.17.9 ¼","3 pieces","Tobacco Warehouse listings; Stud horse desired from England, Ship accounts.","Have received 10,000 lb of pork this season and only 1 hhd of tobacco; no cash worth sending","Re: insurance of ship Dauphin and other insurance","Re: escape of an enslaved person (\"escaped negro\")","acknowledges payment of $10.00","Re: debts and notes owed him and hopes that Blow can lend him money","May be willing to buy Blow's stack of goods which he had offered him a while back; Mr Lee will look them over and determine value etc.","Re: bargaining of above terms, etc.","Announcing Benson, Cropper \u0026 Benson, Corn Merchants","Discussion of visit to Brandon","E: Market conditions in France: Indigo is in demand, market favorable; tobacco market good; no demand for wood, pitch or tar","Goods, invoice; Shoes £ 246.17","Willing to give mortgages on goods in store for security","Re: his credit","Assembly extended the market land to be leased for 99 years","A candidate for House in Virginia Assembly","Re: bond for enslaved persons (\"negroes\")","Re: provisions asked for ship Parkman","Letter regarding the 'sale' of enslaved people.","Sailing soon with 15,000 bu. wheat. Wishes Harris, the baker, to furnish ship bread.","Wishes to be appointed insurance inspector for ship coming into port, asks Blow's support","Wishes ship for conveying 2,500 bushels of wheat at once","The Eliza has arrived; tobacco market good as [scarce?]","Re: cargo of corn and a ship furnished by Blow for Bahamas. Return cargo to be cane, apples and turtle (?)","Brother wishes to go to West Indies. He wishes pay for staves and tobacco if sold.","Re: collections to be made for him by Blow [Swain was a Quaker]","Trade slow, collections poor","Re: price for 15,000 barrel staves sent to Blow for sale; wishes current prices on tobacco and staves, white hominy corn and other corn","Sends his wheat from Dunkirk (N.C.) to Walker Town, about 10 or 12 miles) by land and little more by water. Is satisfied with this mode of conveyance.","Explains navigation up river as far as Walker Town for vessels of 100 or 150 tons; wishes Blow to send ship for his wheat; has the Ann arrived in London?","Has 4 enslaved carpenters ( \"valuable negro carpenters\") for 'sale' ($500 each)","Discusses prospect of buying horse Diamond, is disappointed in Pegasus, he is a bad foal getter and not much thought of in England. Heard a horse called [Pipaten?], mother to Trumpeter, has produced successful horses lately; also [Warten?] or [Sementan?] can be purchased for a moderate sum according to M. Crews to Mr. Drew. Get in touch with Mr. Barksdale (in London). I wish a horse of good size and very beautiful.","Received account sales of 2 hhds tobacco sold you from 41.17.7 pounds, Norfolk Store is debited with---problem of Collections suits?","Will send ship of assorted cargo to Tobego; corn plentiful on the Roanoke (river)","5 hhds tobacco received from James Scammel; sending down","Wishes ship for West Indies voyage","Leaving for voyage","Captain Thomas Bonner sailing in Joseph of Edenton for Tobago; Assorted cargo","Re: sale of naval stores","Sending brig of 150 tons for loading with barrel staves for Ireland or Liverpool","Unsettled state of Europe makes uncertain and dull market. Current price list given (wheat, flour, tobacco, tar, turpentine, staves, wool, and logwood)","Suit against Leonard at next Southampton Court. Paid Col. Maclin for young George Blow's schooling £ 20.10; charged to Norfolk Store","Wine for him from Madeira by ship Virginia, asks Blow to send to Alexandria; send bill to him.","Have parcel of Gray's Creek tobacco; price at Norfolk? Lists pounds of tobacco at Gray's Creek and Low Point. Asks price of brown sugar, coffee, molasses, and [unclear?] sugar","Have red oak staves, white oak [unclear?] and 12,000 shingles on way to Blow. Wishes peach brandy and price of apple cider and molasses","Has received counterfeit bank notes, information as to what to do","Re: 3 French enslaved people (\"Negroes\") brought from Hispaniola against law and now in jail at Norfolk; to be returned at expense of French who claim them","Indenture between Louis Marshall of 1st part, Jeremiah Andrews of 2nd part and Richard Blow of 3rd part and trustee for the other parties. Deed of Trust by Marshall of price of property leased from Anthony Walke in 1793, to Blow","[Blow was Dudley's uncle; Battery may be in Matthews County]","Re: current prices","Re: staves","Re: rent for his house and enslaved person (\"Negro\") for year","Re: delivery of staves","[See: Page's letter of July 9, re: French enslaved persons from Hispanola]","Re: brandy made and barrels for same","Sending Ship Fortitude to Blow, wishes Blow to get cargo of flour or tobacco for England and Ireland for her. Wishes ship to go at once, gives agents names at each British Port to which his cargo should be consigned","Re: injunction of B \u0026 B","Announcing his commission business and offering services","Wishes vessel for Falmouth","Re: arrival of his imported horse; [See letter of April 25, 1803 about horse]","\"Agreement with Thomas Wallace relative to bringing horses from England in 1803.\" Names of horses were Citizen and Clown, Wallace was the groom.","[Nephew of Blow]","Re: Blow's renewal of insurance policy at Phoenix office, Premium of £ 18.15.","Re: Mrs. Boothe, widow's dower and [div.?] of enslaved persons (\"Negroes\") between Hutchings and Edwards, commissioners appointed formerly, who neglected to allot dower: one is now dead and two have left the state. Please have commissioners appointed for my guardian; suggests Wm. E. Brodnax \u0026 Sterling Ruffin \u0026 Hutchings will appoint two for himself. Dr. John Claiborne and Tho. [unclear?], Jr. may be chosen if H. has no objections.","Re: cargoes","Re: land in Dismal Swamps alleged to be property of Robt. Craig of Manchester (England), adjacent Col. Newton's","\"The canal road is in such order as you may ride to the end of [unclear?] Contract\"","Re: opening of canal road","Re: hiring additional enslaved persons (\"negroes\") so that the Canal and road can be opened with ease this summer","Re: idea of taking on cargo of staves for Falmouth and possibly England. Wishes Blow to furnish beef, pork and bread for his ship","Cannot furnish pitch; resin is priced at 30/","Re: his ships off for Falmouth and Cork; what can Blow offer in way of ships?","Re: cargo of ship Kingston and prospects of his ship out of New York taking in tobacco at Norfolk","Wishes Blow to charter a vessel at once for Cork, they will send down tobacco, pitch, resin, white oak staves for cargo","Re: A horse arrived for Messrs [Caine?] \u0026 Ray; how to care for it and where to deliver","Refers to yellow fever raging in New York","Re: horse bought for him by Mr. Barksdale in England and problem of payments for it","Asks about cargo for sea, wishes tobacco and staves","Has 300 [unclear?] of pork for sale; grain crop on the Roanoke very good. Tar and Turpentine plentiful. Ship Mariah Jones at Barbados will return with salt by November. Then to load up with grain and staves for foreign ports.","Asks Blow to ship his tobacco to Barksdale in England","Re: price of a saddle sent to Blow","Re: cargo of staves on Little William","Send personal items of late Leckie to son","Sales account current: \"Mr. Adams will finish stilling room, only 10 bbls of Brandy made this year. It takes 10 bbls cider to make 1 bbl brandy. Hands [workers] are getting in fodder and making bricks. Have paid Wm West [overseer] $100, debited to Norfolk Store","Re: Collecting debt owed him by Dudley","Wishes $ 90 in U.S. notes sent by Mrs. Gray","Re: Horse Clown bought from abroad to be sent for by Statt, groom and Peter to take care of horse in travel","Re: cargo of staves and price for Ireland","Re: settling of account of Talbot Godwin","Re: horse Citizen which he bought for Gen. Carney; hope it has landed and is on its way to Carolina as I shipped on board the Gosport to your wharf; \"I am glad to hear George (Blow) is doing so well at the Williamsburg Colledge [College of William \u0026 Mary]. I always admired the Colledge as all the young men brought (out) there of late years, leave the Colledge new firebrands in politics\"","Re: note of Ambrose Dudley","Invoice of shoes for Grillet \u0026 Bell to Richard Blow, Norfolk","Wishes sacks, molasses, sugar, and coffee in exchange for lampblack and butter","Re: business difficulties of Lamb \u0026 Younger; has sent a horse names Citizen for Gen. Carney to Blow","Look out for Mr. Strange's furniture; he leaves Liverpool around 10 August in The Fame; send on to Petersburg c/o Mr. Pallak","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, ceased business","Re: Ships Kingston and Nansuch and trade","Sending naval stores wanted to City Point","Will sell his 2 lots in Gosport to pay his debt but wants $3000 for them. Willing to sell his military lands also; signed note for George Wilson for brother's debt.","Wish to wagon by bacon from here to Suffolk and thence by water to Norfolk. Will put up hams, shoulders and midlings; Baltimore may be a good market or Alexandria. Expect Blow to take consignments","Letter for trustees of Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, or their trustees if they are dissolved; would like wine, sherry and bbl whiskey","Hope to pay Blow what they owe him","Re: trip to Georgia, would like to take some enslaved persons (\"slaves\") to help pay expenses. Refers to Mrs. Blow as his aunt","Invoice of goods sent us from Norfolk Store, £ 109.0.10. Newspapers come regularly once a week; tobacco market poor. Will go to the Old Place [Southampton] soon to see how things go there.","Current prices","Re: Business difficulties","Applying for position in office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk","Re: A horse which he wishes Mr. Barksdale [London] to buy for him","Wishes consignments of tobacco and cotton from Blow","Refers to Mr. West [overseer at Old Place] and Mr. Adams [overseer at Tower Hill] their crops and prospects, etc. Burning bricks","Current prices","Has 300 or more barrels for sale","Little in shipping due to uncertainty of invasion of England","Wishes wines; the Antelope has been chartered for continent would you like space for cargo?","Corn crop in; bricks burning; trade dull","Re: business of barrel staves","Has crab cider for sale, what price will Blow pay? Also, gives prices for brandy, new corn, peas and tobacco.","Reed (groom), has brought horse Archduke; arrived at Blow's from abroad. Reed wishes Blow to employ him to go to England and bring back horses. Write at once your decision; prices of horses have risen as of late in England","Have 7000+ lbs. of pork, no tobacco","[Administrator of father's estate]","Re: payment for Citizen, the horse imported from England for him through Blow \u0026 Barksdale; Citizen is highly praised and valued by many: \"He is as springy as any lady on a dancing room and cutts as many capers.\" Hopes Mr. Barksdale will send him a mare from which he can breed racers for his children.","Re: payment of debt and security for his friends","Sending 78 hhds of tobacco to Blow","Sending staves and peas for sale—wish salt and sugar","Received from Richard Blow [Adm. of Alex. Leckie Sr.'s estate], personal articles, etc.","[Richard Blow, Agent]","Description of cargo, ports of call in US and Europe","Cargo of tobacco for France","Cargo of flour to London","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth, England and Hamburg","Cargo of tobacco to Falmouth","On board ships [Inn___?] and Dundas for Virginia; Personal effects","Cargo for Ireland","Adjustment for loss of David \u0026 George","Account with Richard Blow $16,966.34","3056.19.5 ¾ [John Patterson, surviving partner after Capt. Brown's death]","…at time of Captain Brown's Death £ 4918.19.3","1790-1796….£ 3585.10.8 ½; Balance due the G. Store… £ 7577.5.11","Re: Privateer Moses Myers taken and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Vice Adm. Court has been reversed here, money in hands of owners in Nova Scotia. Division of money of those entitled now uncertain. \"If brought into court here, I'll pay attention to your interest in the business.\" Flour cheaper here than in Virginia, tobacco holds same price","Refers to the \"bank at this time [seems] to engross and interest the citizens of our Town; we expect it to operate in about ten days","Has received 17 hhds tobacco of N. Burwell's on board the Almira; Insurance taken out","Re: his business arrangements; will not be a partner to [Brown?] or affiliate with Pallak; promise of his business good","Re: Younger's [unclear?] with Brown","\"We are happy to inform you that our house goes on as before\"","Re: Blow's desire to pay a large debt which he owes to Donald \u0026 Burton. Funds in London on account there; Advise.","\"…I like America but as yet I am quite at a loss where to fix...The Baptist's cause here is not very strong although there are two meetings\"","Has prospect of ship proper for shipping tobacco; would Blow be interested in a cargo?","Re: problems arriving from Love's failure to comply with rules for Book of Claims and Barksdale's attempt to clear it for him","Lamb \u0026 Younger, London, has shipped guns for our stores, please deliver them to us","Re: Charter for Snow Concord for London; can fill her cargo","Re: coming to Portsmouth, to establish a tannery. Wishes Blow to assist him and his friend, Crossthwaits, from Keswich, England. Has worked for Mr. Wm. Plume tanner, a short time. [Plume had been in Williamsburg for years prior to going to Portsmouth] Barron knows of a new process for tanning which shortens time; also knows great deal about skinning sheep, etc. [Letter provides great detail on tanning]","Re: claims made by Blow to board of Clairs, London","Re: recovering insurance on building burned in Portsmouth","Discusses how to pay Donald \u0026 Burton, London; has £ 1900 also has £ 500 [Stg?]; payment from Phoenix Ins. Co. which he can add to above sum","Re: sale of his pork","Trade poor, collections poor, wheat sold, bricks being made","Business dull, current prices","Banking arrangements for Blow to pay Donald \u0026 Burton through Dan. Call.","Has received bill of exchange of Macmurdo \u0026 Fisher for £ 1831.5 Stg. on Wm. Barksdale in town of assignees of Donald \u0026 Burton","Re: brick making and crops","Re: [bbls.?] of turpentine in [cypress bbls.?]; bound with white oak, should demand good prices","Re: tobacco shipped","Re: shipment of turpentine and horse Buzzard","Re: pork sent to Blow for sale","Our ship Samuel Jackson with part cargo of staves and bound for Cadiz will come into Hampton Roads for further cargo; will Blow notify him when it arrives and leaves","Flour has advanced and is in demand here, salt and tobacco good. Gives list of hhds of tobacco stored with Richard Blow in Campbell and Wheeley Fire Proof Warehouse","Introducing William Carter, son to Mr. Cater of Shirley, goes to Norfolk to procure passage to a port in France. Mr. Carter has $ 200 which may not be enough for his passage,. if not, will you supply the difference. [This may be the William Carter who attended the College of William \u0026 Mary in 1801]","Re: buying insurance and bank shares","Re: ship Samuel Jackson leaving Ocracock [Ocracoke] Bar for Hampton Roads laden with cargo for Cadiz, Spain","General Affairs at store and conditions of crops","Re: insurance on cargo to Dunkirk","Re: tobacco in storage and prospect of cargo","Could send soon 30 hhds if you ship to London","Asks current price of tobacco","Re: pipe staves on hand for sale","Consign tobacco to Samuel Buchanan of London","Mr. Adams, overseer, has gotten in ¼ of crops of corn and all of hogs; enslaved persons (\"slaves\") sick","Gives Blow's balance and what borrowed","Will Blow get Gaskins to make him ½ dozen table and ½ dozen tea spoons as he made for you with G.M.D. in a cypher on them; refers to \"Aunt Hall\"","\"Copy of papers sent to London, to recover insurance on my houses burned in Norfolk on \"Marketstreet:\" 3 Story Brick house and store burned, warehouse and offices, also. Littleton Tazewell, Notary Public. Home was 35' in length and 29' in breadth, brick, 3 story's high, besides cellars and ganet. Lower store was occupied as a Day Goods Store with mahogany counters; passage below and 4 rooms on 2 story were never completely finished and were strucco (?) and whole house plastered; counting room in read of sd. House was 16' square, 2 stories high with cellar and chimney of brick and completely finished Kitchen in rear of wood, 2 stories high and chimney of brick 20' x '16; smoke (house) 12' square with stove and warehouse shelved and laid out for wholesale store was 30' long and 21' broad, 2 stoves of wood. Value of building prior to fire was $8,939.60 Itemized Estimate of House of Offices to be built given: \"Bricks and Stone Work: $2750\" Scantling, plank and shingles: $1540 Glass, nails, locks: $684 Carpenters Bill: $2770.60 Plastering $926 Painting Bill: $265.00 Total: $8939.60","£ 4030.12 \"amo goods on hand £ 620.6.11 ¾ 90 pct advance £ 558.6.3 1/7 Amo currency articles:£ 425.1.4 Total: £ 5634.6.8 ¼ \"","Bill of measuring the ruins of my buildings $19.12, receipt in full","Bill of house frame and plank [unclear?] of Major John Armstrong for my dwelling and warehouse in Norfolk...$256.75","Wm. Wark, power of attorney for heirs","Petersburg, to New York, $ 80.46; Marine Insurance Office, Norfolk","Sundry Entries","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 100 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Over 15 items: Bills of lading; Bills of lumber, staves, tar, turpentine; Petty accounts; accounts of ship's captains","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","6 items","33 items","4 items","12 pieces","Includes names of debtors; 7 pieces","over 100 items","109 items","50 items","Box 30 has been divided into boxes box 30 A and 30 B.","Wishes to purchase the horse Buzzard in England thru Mr. Barksdale if possible. Sending 736 [unclear?] of turpentine to pay for him","Sent stud book and sporting magazine for A. Walke by Captain Baird; heard you have had a very severe winter, worst in 25 years","Think I can get horse for your friend in Carolina for about 500 guineas. Oscar is [unclear?] and going to Virginia for Col. Lightfoot; Nat as good a horse as Sir Harry or several others","Asking Blow to send him scrip at once so he can make payment of some shares.","2 enslaved persons (\"slaves\") have escaped","Wishes to buy 700 bu. of salt","Re: collection of debt for Blow (John Nicholas, debtor)","Sundries deliv. by Blow for ship Cracker","Re: to \"Aunt Hall;\" will leave Mathews as soon as land is sold; have advertised in Richmond Enquirer","\"Uncle Wm. Drew suggested that I write you about employment\"","Refers to forwarding papers to M. Madison in Washington, necessary for [past?] port to Dublin. Will ship be able to wait for me 6 or 7 days?","Sending staves","Re: sale of his tobacco and corn","Sending 10 hhds tobacco by sloop Sophia to Blow","[Nears?] staves to fill up his ship when it calls at Norfolk","Cannot supply tobacco for Blow's ship now","Sends bill of laden for 15 hhds tobacco, through Blow to London","Ship America will not come to Norfolk now; for Europe","Tobacco problems","14 hhds tobacco","Refers to debt he owes Dr. Hall, will collect money from Carter Braxton and send to him","Discusses insurance on Blow's houses burned in Norfolk; Mr. Buchanan's displeasure at Blow buying the old ship William, horse Benenborough is for sale at 1000 guineas, inform General (Carney); must have cash before I can buy","Will send turpentine as soon as boat can be found to take it down the river to Plymouth. Have 240 [unclear?]. In looking over racing calendar and stud book see a mare, Penelope got by Trumpetor bred by the Duke of Grattan, foaled in 1798; get Barksdale to purchase her for me; if not, get one of Hutchinson's family of horses, the man that bred Beninborough","Has received Gen. Carney's turpentine on America, do not think he can get either of the horses the General wants","Bill of lading for goods shipped for Col. Hoomes of Bowling Green","Col Hoomes wishes 20 or 30 bbls herrings","Received staves sold for 28 pounds per [hd?] and 14 pounds per bbls, \"Our good friends the English are taking all vessels that are not bound direct to their parts.\"","Has ship; wishes to come to Virginia for freight; ship is new; Advise me.","258 bbls of herrings shipped to Blow","Re: wine to be shipped to him","Will ship turpentine to Blow as soon as weather opens","Re: possible loss of ferry if legislature decides to allow a new ferry to be operated","Re: his debts","\"The money for the capture of the brig Richmond has all been paid.\" Advise who has money","Re: debt he owes, must sell property in Blow's hands","Re: settlements and credits for turpentine and tobacco sold, no chance of getting the two horses, General Carney wants","Bill of Lading for James Strange","Re: legal case against his brother Alex Leckie now in Virginia. Refers to his attorneys in Georgia and Rode Island.","Wishes ½ ton iron, bellows and German [Steel?]","The original Box 31 has been expanded into two boxes as currently described in the finding aid: Box 31 and Box 31 A.","For corn \"being the price per season for the said Waller's young mare being covered by Col. Cary's Horse Daredevil [Williamsburg Data?]","Re: Division of property and debts of Baker \u0026 Blow…","For goods sold him","Asking father to pay Leroy Anderson $60.00","$270 port payment in suit against Blow, Adm. of estate of John Redwood, also a note for $830.33","Wm. Redwood with appear at Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg for purpose of collecting funds due by suit from Blow","Advises against buying big stock due to world conditions; will send George up to help take inventory; he is in Williamsburg now","1130.51","$ 1838.9.7 ¼ Itemized list of those who owe firm","$ 16010.65 ½","Col Noth Burmell; Robert. C. Burwell; Ph. Burwell; Math. Pape; Robt. Page $196.12.½","Proceed to England and other countries","Proceed to the Baltics","Proceed to Portugal","Father and Son, London, July 9, 1806 (2Boxes of cheese for Lucy Paradise, Williamsburg) Iris Madeira, April 3, 1806 (wines) Jolly Sails, Plymouth NC, June 2, 1806 (shad) Sally Nun, Plymouth NC, June 3, 1806 (shad) Laura, Liverpool (England), July 18, 1806 (merchandise) Dispatch, New York, August 19, 1806 (merchandise) Antelope, Windsor NC, March 13 1806 (tar) John and Avice, River Thames, August 1806 (Merchandise) Eagle, Edenton, October 17, 1806 (sugar, white, oak stoves) Dunfries, London, February 24, 1806 (goods, treasures?) Fairplay, Plymouth NC, April 19, 1806 (hhls, hinings) Antelope, Windsor, NC, March 13 1806 (tar) Anne, Windsor NC, October 28, 1806 (staves and turpentine) Judith, Windsor NC, October 16, 1806 General Green, May 31, 1806 (oak staves) Jenny and Sheperdern, Manchester (England), June 2, 1806, (hhds of tobacco) Sally, Salmon Creek, May 1, 1806 (herrings) Insurance on Sally Ann Neptune, Richmond, March 1, 1806 (tobacco) Commerce, February 1806 (salt and c) America, October 9, 1806 (ship, break, flour) John, Richmond, November 1, 1806 (tobacco) Arnick, July 15, 1806 (staves) Lydia, New Bedford, June 3, 1806 Ontario, June 4, 1806 America, Norfolk, October 10, 1806, $1041.59 Bell Savage, June 8, 1806 (accounts) Robt. Barclay, September 1806 (accounts) Commerce, April 26, 1806 (accounts) Mt. Vernon, Rotterdam, September 24, 1806 (insurance) Atlantic, London, August 1806 (tobacco) Regulator, Plymouth NC, March 28, 1806 (turpentine, tar, sugar) April 16, 1816 (rum) Judith, Windsor NC, March 31, 1806 Commerce, New Bedford, February 22, 1806 (staves) Army, Plymouth, March 5, 1806 Mary, Richmond, April 19, 1806 Mt. Vernon, December 22, 1806 (freight account) Mt Vernon, December16, 1806 (cider, food) Mt. Vernon, December 16, 1806 (oil, beef, etc) Mt. Vernon, October 11, 1806 (navy, bread) Brig George, November 19, 1806 Averick, August 6, 1806 (general account) Fredice, May 1795 (pitch) Sally, Petersburg, June 16, 1795 (tobacco) Flora and Betsy, July 1, 1806 (tobacco) Grey Hound, Plymouth NC, May 7 1806, (pork and turpentine) James Smith, John Coke, Carterise December 5, 1806 (pipe staves inspected from and consigned to Richard Blow) Neptune: October 13 1806 Oak Boards, inspected","Ship Antelope's cargo much damaged, public sale will be had at Calais, and results sent to Mr. Barksdale towards claim and insurance. Blow's tobacco was on Antelope","Discusses current prices of cotton, coffee, tobacco; claims of cargo of Antelope further discussed","Re: settlement of property of Baird's; see also:Box 30","Trade dull: Received bills of lading for Blow's tobacco","Re: turpentine of General Carney's shipped to him, can't buy a horse for Carney as price is 1,000 guineas for either horse he wants. Await Carney's orders; sent him books he wished by Captain Baird; have sent Blow average for loses on Antelope. Son, William, is at school in Reading.","Partners in House of Lamb \u0026 Younger were James Brown, Richmond, Virginia and John Lamb \u0026 John Younger, London; upon death of Mr. Lamb, survivors have admitted J. C. Wardrop as a partner","Re: mistake in shipment of tobacco","Sent 16 quarters [unclear?] 1736 of beef for sale","Re: cargo for ship Globe","Re: pork sent Blow for sale","Tobacco manifests sent for ship Industry for Liverpool and 2 parcels of newspapers for John Hunter","Ship Globe now loading","Re: his debts and how to collect from C. Braxton","Act bills of lading for tobacco, gives current prices of wheat and flour per barrel","Prices current","Discusses dropping prices for turpentine, flour, tobacco better","Re: collection due him","Re: bills of lading for London firms, tobacco sales","Re: tar shipped to Blow; wishes flour in return","Re: cost of ship to take tobacco to France","Re: collections-wishes rum sent to him","Re: suit Ladd v. Strange","Re: debt owed to him by Captain Micks","Re: pork shipped to Blow","Has leased for 10 years furnished place 5 miles from Rayall Exchange, sending Mrs. Blow shoes","Re: loading of Mount Vernon","Bill of lading for fish sent, to Richard Blow, Portsmouth","Printed; business conditions, current prices of cotton, turpentine, tobacco, flour, rice, staves there","$ 100 Virginia currency","Damages to anchors of his ship","Re: cargo of tobacco and possibly flour for the ship General Green","Pork and turpentine to be shipped to Blow aboard the ship Grey Hound for General Carney's account","Bills of lading for tobacco aboard ships Betsy and Nancy","Re: cargo of tobacco for Bell Savage","Re: a ship for Rotterdam","Inquiry about father and letters to him","Has received letters from his father. Was on a Prussian ship carried into Portsmouth and condemned because he came out of a French Port that was blockaded","Discusses business with Blow; amounts due him for merchandise and amounts due Blow for tobacco sent to Calais and Dunkirk (France) per ship Antelope","Tar and turpentine sent on ship The Planter have been sold. Inform General Carney that neither of the horses he wants he can get now. Gives names of other horses which he thinks he can buy once the season is over here: Whiskey, Coreador, Beningborough, and Citizen","Sending down tobacco for ship Flora, Portsmouth","Re: shipment from Virginia, of salt, current prices there","Re: to money he had received due Dr. Hall from Carter Braxton","Re: cargo of staves","\"at the request of Col. Nathaniel Burwell I have shipped on Sloop George 3 trunks, 1Box, and 1 bundle to your care which you will please keep until they are called for by the Reverend John V. Wylie.\"","Ship America, in port will send down to you, she is 287 ton [burden?], can carry 350 hhds and storage of staves to any port in Great Britain","Where is his tobacco? Has price in London fallen?","Ship Mary E. Wright, has been carried into Germany and condemned as prize; ask H. to get $ 9000 insured on her, world conditions affecting prices of product sent over","Wishes 50 sacks of salt","Re: shipment of herrings","Gives ship America's account held in high regard by the ship owners here; discusses conditions between Russia and France, not good","Have to go down tomorrow to the wreck of ship The Shepherdess. Do you have any goods aboard?","Wish 4 bbls of crab cider","Expect ship General Greene owned by Tobias Lard \u0026 Co. of Kennebunk from Liverpool; could a cargo of staves be procured at your place for return voyage","Re: letters he should have received","Re: payments for staves and sugar","Re: change in ownership and management of the 8 ferries, opposed to incorporating; will you influence Richmond legislators to this effect?","Discusses trade and changes for selling Petersburg and Richmond goods, gives estimate of general market for tobacco, sugar, cotton, etc.","Business settlements with Blow","76 items","22 items","25 and 150 items","50 items","1 item","Order for salt","Re: tar sold to Blow","Announces conclusion of a treaty of amity, navigation, and commerce between this country and the USA signed on the 31 [ulto?]","Re: his recent settling in Georgia, prospects, etc.","Re: Blow's suit vs. Gill for debt accrued since 1786","Re: George Blow's marriage and placing him with Tazewell and Jon Cowper to study law; Discusses tobacco business, etc.","Re: damaged flour on ship Alexander","Enclosed copy of condemnation of ship Mary T. Wright","Give freight rates at Norfolk for landing salt from Liverpool (England), also tobacco freight rates","Re: Ships William \u0026 Mary and Paulina and letters due him","Need 1 or 2 small vessels to load at Bermuda Hundred for Falmouth; have 180 hhds tobacco for ship Averick","Re: loading tobacco on ship Niagara","Bill of lading for herrings enclosed","Re: ship Washington's loading; also ship Russell, a very fine, fast sailing copper bottomed ship of 300 tons","Describes splendid entertainment by citizens to the Cavalry and Militia which went from here. I enclose a copy of the toasts, was mortified by his furlough. Tell young George that I hope he will merit the promotion I bestowed on him.","Re: settlement of co-partnership with J. Waldone \u0026 Co.; Blow one of bondsmen","Left British book on Cavalry discipline at Blow's House","Re: Cargo of ship Niagara to Great Britain","Discussion of ship's journey down James to Norfolk [Caffin was mate for ship Albright]","Re: recovering money from Carter Braxton","Writes of wife, Mary's death","Refers to Dudley's wife's death [Mrs. Hall is Lucy]. Says Portsmouth has been upset over aggressions of British Ships of war; an army in our streets, houses, etc. Business is stagnated","Re: cargo of salt or tobacco","Wishes freight for London, or Liverpool","Wishes his Gosport property sold","Wishes to know prices","Re: cargo of staves","Re: cargo of salt from Liverpool and prospect of tobacco on return","Hopes Blow has sold fish for him","Captain Barney of ship Argus sailed for Hobbs Hole, Virginia, for tobacco","Re: cargo of ship Washington","Prices current given in detail","Re: problems of cargo and men for ships","Re: how to pay his debts","Ships Neptune and Reward here","Terms for ship May en route to Continent","Wishes freight for ship Russell","Wishes 100 lbs of bacon, hams and candles sent to him. There is an opening for a retail store on York River","Freight received from Blow via sloop Little Jim; salt","Re: Sale of fish","Ship Averick, tobacco cargo lost, no insurance on ship. Eight of the hams which Mrs. Blow sent, saved. Thinks there will be no war between England and U.S.","Gives dimensions of Dismal Swamp Canal lock[?]. Detailed letter.","Re: Shipment of tobacco to Blow","Asking for position of book keeper in U.S. Bank","Wishes oder of general merchandise sent","Re: Fish he sold; large grain crops here and quantity of lumber of every kind","Having sale on 22nd","Re: Pitch stored with Blow","Introducing Col. Wm. Fontaine of Hanover, who has a considerable interest in the Dismal Swamp Canal.","Order for general goods.","Notifying re: suit filed","Personal Letter; sends love to \"Aunt\"","Cash scarce; trade dull","£ 802.3.-","£ 883.4.8 3/4","£ 7269.13.5 \"Debts due from the Store: Norfolk Store; Littleton Lamir; James Dunlop \u0026 Co.; Butts Birds[srpey?]; Isaac Andrews; Allen Hines; John Berryman; £ 4898. - 9 1/2 / £ 2371.12.7 1/2","165 items","Re: Letters he had asked Blow to forward to England to Mr. Rennolds","Sending $ 54.50 in [unlcear?]loans for payment for flour, etc.","Order for garden seeds","Re: Commission merchants, Treble, Spe[unclear?] \u0026 Co., of [Nantz?]","Re: Deed of trust to secure[?] Blow","Wishes to pay General Thomas Blount, Member of Congress, some money; wishes Blow to [unclear?]","Introducing F. Le Roy of Nantz","Re: Cargo of corn and effects of cargo on its outcome","Re: Whiskey and brandy to go to Charles Carter of Shirley Plantation","Re: problems of present embargo on his corn","Re: Money he owes Blow","Re: Prospects of freight should embargo be lifted","Wishes ship Belle Savage for cargo, for Liverpool","Re: Political Situation in Spain \u0026 France [Refers to the Napoleonic Wars]","Sending down corn \u0026 tobacco for shipment","Wishes Blow to sell enslaved persons for Drew, even at $ 30.00; needs money at once","64 items","Hopes beef and candles sent to Blow can be disposed of as embargo is partially repealed.","Sending ship down to be loaded with cargo for anywhere except to North of Europe. Ship American built. Ship bringing down building stone.","Send salt to him at once","Re: shipment of corn and tobacco","Re: Need salt at once","Re: Salt","Re: Ship Washington en route to Norfolk for corn and flour","Re: Bills owned them","Gives current prices of tobacco","General conditions discussed","Re: Cargo of ship Columbia","Re: Staves","Discusses affairs abroad. Wishes Blow to sell salt at City Point.","Re: Wine from Madeira","Re: Freight desired for ship Columbia to England","Wishes ship for his tobacco. Address him at White Chimney's, Caroline County","Tobacco bringing good prices here","Wishes Blow to advertise his ship Mary Ann for freight for Europe. Must avoid Amsterdam or any place under French domination. Ship able to take tobacco, cotton, or hogsheads.","Have ship ready in a few weeks for freight to Europe. Can Blow secure freights?","Problem as to ship. Has tobacco ready for Europe","Can fill up another ship with flour","Re: Sale of his Gosport lots by Blow \u0026 his debts.","Refers to his cargo of lour, etc. now ready","Has hogshead staves instead of barrel staves at landing","Have bt. 10,000 barrel staves and leave at once; will send rough staves down on another lighter. This will complete my contract with you","Sent 5000 barrel staves per the lightman","Sending Blow rough hhds. staves","Awaiting craft to send 7 hhds of tobacco down. Hope you have shipped out the 15hhds with you aboard the Pocahontas","Wish to have price of bacon and brandy","Re: Ship for Dublin and freight cost","Send candles to me at Washington","Re: Freight for ship Washington out of Norfolk","Enc. Charter Party for ship Nancy","Is concerned about vice around his residence , etc. Wishes Blow to have law change this situation","Re: Barrel staves","Ship Columbia from Tappahannock to Liverpool with freight of staves or tobacco. Ship Mary Ann sailed ysterday for Charleston for freight","Re: Staves and undressed wood","Re: Tobacco freight","Tobacco on ship Alexander for Falmouth and England or Ireland","Barrell staves on board brig Catherine","Passage wanted to Cork, Ireland or England","Business accounts of ship Alexander","Sends letters for Richard Blow (her father-in-law) to send to her mother, Mrs. Waller, in Williamsburg","Wishes small vessel for his freight","Ship Union, belonging to us expected from Cadiz (Spain). Wish freight for her.","Will take inventory of store goods by September 1st and balance books.","Discusses current prices of hemp and accounts of ship Columbia","Re: President's proclamation. Gives current prices of tobacco and flour.","Has white oak hhds and red oak hhds and 150 lbs. bee's wax to sell","Has contracted for small ships to take his tobacco to port north of Gothenburg (Sweden) or to the south of Lisbon (Portugal). Blow's rate of freight too high. Need Blow's advice about proper paper for clearing ship, etc.","Wishes advice of Blow for marketing goods in New York","Re: Small debts and lack of news as to her son's whereabouts","Re: Shipment of hemp","Cargo of tobacco is intended for continent. Blow will get French consul's certif. for Hatcher","Re: Suit","Notice of board meeting to be held in 12th.","For 12 different ships","6 items","50 items","Details an agreement between Hatcher and Blow for freight on ship Mary Ann, to discharge cargo in British Isles, Spain, Portugal, Canary or Western Islands. To be allowed 50 days to load and discharge and call for orders. Tobacco freight.","Duty Bonds not paid in bank, by law, will be put in suit. Request merchants of Norfolk to have their bonds adjusted in bank","Re: discusses loading of the ship Mary Ann and bills of lading.","Continuation of business of loading ship Mary Ann","Discussing Hatcher's business ventures abroad: Hatcher's shipping of tobacco abroad. Details of necessary papers to be taken by the ship and to be used to different countries.","Acknowledges proposals of Brown \u0026 Rives","Re: Ship Mary Ann","Discussing shipment of good to Europe: Freight for ships Columbia and Mary Ann","Discussing the election of Richard Blow as director of the Bank of the United States for a one-year term [Oliphant was chashier of bank]","Certificate for $ 2794.51 for 30 hhds tobacco [unclear?] by Blow","Re: concerning political actions of the U.S. Congress: refers to \"ultimate fate of Mason's resolutions\" in Congress","Re: business of ships abroad, Mary Ann and Columbia","Re: tobacco aboard the ship Mary Ann","Re: Mary Ann cargo and departure","Discussing the positions of the French: French near border of Portugal now","Loads of tobacco of the ship Mary Ann","Current price of tobacco. Refers to \"Mr. Masons bill passing in the Senate and small vessels will immediately be wanted for Britain and Ireland\"","Discusses ships' destinations and cargos: problems of loading the Mary Ann; disagreement between Hatcher and Blow","Mary Ann destinations, cargo, etc.","Re: Furniture sent to Blow for sale in 1809. Please return if not sold","Agreement between Blow \u0026 Hatcher for ship Mary Ann's cargo","Need small vessel for overseas trade","Barksdale's son is en route to Norfolk from London, to study in the U.S. Has chosen Law as his profession, wishes Blow to encourage and supervise William. Mr. Hill's [unclear] has returned here and demands pay for training Hill's horses (\"fillies\")","Wishes Blow to get vessel for his tobacco","Discusses sailing across the Atlantic, heavily armed: \"on April 1st was boarded by a French Privateer and plundered of all our clothes, money, everything moveable. Was Brig 20 guns, 150 men\"","30 hhds. of tobacco for Juno","Re: tobacco for ships Juno and Washington.","Corn sent to Blow by ship Sisters","Her [unclear?] son estate in Virginia [largely illegible]","Sending 225 bhls. of tar to Blow for sale; asks prize of staves (white oak or red oak)","Ship delayed; will send in 3 weeks","Shipping tobacco","His ship Industry en route to Blow for freight; prefer a freight to Lisbon (Portugal) or Cadiz (Spain); Insurance to England very high for small vessel; maybe West Indies would be wiser.","Distressed at no news from his ships or from William [Drew]. Addresses Blow as \"kind relative\"","Sending ship Mary Ann to New York for freight as cheaper rate than Norfolk","Requests Blow to return invoice of furniture to him as he is loading for So[uth?] America","Asks for his account and prices for freights at Alexandria, Norfolk, etc.","Re: fish sent to Blow for sale","Re: African-Americans in prison there and prices for wheat, corn.","Still concerned over fate of her son Thomas","Reports death of John Rogers. His son-in-law, Samuel Nightingale, is admin. of estate","Vessels [unclear?] here","[Blow had been guardian of Davis]","Inquiring if M. Triplett, lately from Cadiz (Spain) is there to purchase flour for the British Army in Spain","Re: Account of Nathaniel Burwell","Re: Estate of his father-in-law, John Rogers","Dissatisfied with Mr. Foster who has delayed building a ship for him. Asks Blow to see about it for him","Re: Burwell's salt order","Re: newspaper subscription of The Herald","Asks settlement for turpentine","Has not received his letter","Has two ships ready by November and December","Sending load of staves to Blow","Hear Napoleon Bonaparte has rescinded his decree and ordered the release of all American property under adjudication in his dominion (goods and prisoners?).","Recommends Thomas J. Allen, Commission Merchant, Baltimore to Blow's attention","Re: Discussing the detention of vessels in Cadiz Bay","Re: Blow's payments due","Sale of fish to Blow","Sending 86 hams and 3 bhls. Turpentine for sale. Would like [unclear?] of salt","Directions for goods to be sent to him","Inquiring about the price of Liverpool salt and Spanish brandy","Remittance and sale of salt","Sloop Exchange bringing 12 [unclear?] white oak staves to Blow","Little chance of flour cargo; same (some?) tobacco","Cargo of ship Hunter in Virginia waters, now desiring wheat and flour","Tobacco shipment is ready for sending to Bordeaux or port in Bay of Biscay (France)","Wishes news of departure of ship Mary Ann for Europe. Are bonnets all sold and what prospect is there for the Columbia's salt? Expecting ship Nancy soon.","55 hhds. tobacco shipped to Blow","Re: valuations of ships and averages charged at Greenock","Has not sold Blow's Spanish [Brown?] yet.","Sending load of staves","Ship Averick loading tobacco and cotton for London","Re: payments due from Blow","Acknowledges hams sent to him; wishes news of his son, William, who went to Virginia recently","Re: Bow's ship Nancy in France, insurance etc.","Ship Nancy has arrived. Discussing the \"present officers decline all [risquer?] to France: A few days will determine England's steps…\"","Wishes price of ground allum salt; also price of flour and old whisky","Wishes vessel of 180 to 250 hhds to load for Liverpool direct.","Staves hard to get right now","Have 400 ton ship and wish cargo from Norfolk","Contract for outgoing ship to Europe","Glad Blow secured vessel for cargo aboard","Re: fish sold to Blow; also admin. of his bother's estate","Insurance of ship; wishes price of [unclear?] goods incl. bristles","For ships Catherine, Freyheit, Pindur, Fredonia, Juno, and the Columbia.","For ships Washington, Rachel and Mary, Mary Ann, Jersey Blue, Sally, Planter, and the Nancy with tobacco accounts.","Sending Blow a load of staves","Tobacco ready for ship Betsy","Tobacco shipment ready for ship Unity","Shipment of sperm (whale) oil and problems about it","Re: discussing a shipment of tobacco for the Betsy","Introducing Capt. Joel Thorp to Blow","Re: Sale of fish","Introducing J. K. Townsend of Townsend \u0026 White, New York","Re: flour from Lisbon (Portugal)","Blow appointed agent of the Trustees of the [late?] Bank of the United States","Have new ship of 300 tns ready in 6 weeks and would like freight in Virginia for her.","4 hhds. of tobacco on board of ship Aberdeen","Draft on Blow, etc.","Has about 300 bhls. flour for sale. Advise.","Directions to Cat. Russell from Liverpoole in case Non-Intercourse Act going into effect. Discusses U.S. Government problems about foreign trade","Current prices of tobacco and flour given","Discusses financial transactions: transfers 2 shares of stock into Bank of Virginia to Blow","Ship has arrived and experiencing government entanglements: ship Mary Ann here now and whether she can clear after February orders by Government. Keep him posted as to chance of freight to any port of Europe in case of U.S. change of orders","Requests remittance for wines ordered by Messrs. Burwell \u0026 Pages.","Has candles and twisted horse manes suitable for matresses for sale. Like to know where ship St. Chuthbert is.","Discusses political entanglement and shipping: \"Non-Intercourse laws have vanished and all our expectations now is that Congress will adjourn in 10 or 12 days….\" How are vessels there now?","Has about 300 bhls. Herring fish for sale","Shipping business: Capt. Allen of schooner Hero looking for business there","Flour for sale and price he is willing to take for it.","Current prices for tobacco and flour.","12 bags horse manes sent to Blow for sale.","Re: his order for Madeira wines","Has a vessel for sale; gives minute detailes and description of her and price asked.","Can furnish red oak staves at $ 18 per M.","Gives Golsborough family genealogy","Re: Ship Nancy","Sending his son home.","Has new ship of 360 tons available to Bow. Expects ship Ann Alexander soon and wishes business for her","Re: business with Wm. Barksdale for son's money.","Re: flour shipped to London and insurance for it","Re: Rogers estate; ship Mary Ann waits for cargo from Bow; Dull times in foreign freights","Business dull for all kinds of vessels.","Death of Mr. Pallak; he left no will; Estate of $ 35,000 or $ 45,000 goes to his brother Allan.","Suit between him and George Keckie. Refers to Mr. Wickham as counsel","Business payments discussed","Pallack estate and payments","Has St. Petersburg Russian hemp for sale. Can Blow use any?","Business between the two.","Asks Blow to give ship Tracta[?] 10 or 15 bhls. of their tobacco in storage.","Payments and shipping matters: sends bill for still sent to Bow","Roger's estate payments due from Blow. Wishes freight of corn for ship Mary Ann.","Capt. Robinson needs help to obtain a consular certificate","Payment for 12 bales of hair.","Invoice for hats.","Step-daughter married Robert Goldsborogh; Divorced in 1804, child, a male, living on Eastern Shore with grandmother now. Problems of guardianship. Re: will, if there was one etc.","Wishes 80 bhls of herrings","Wishes Blow to collect from Josiah Hunter's estate of Great Bridge, Virginia; Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, Admin.","Sending new ship down. Wishes freight, Ann Alexander, has not arrived yet. Will send her to Blow at once","Ship Augustus sent to Blow for freight; gives curent prices of corn, tobacco, hemp","Mary Ann dispatched to you for freight to Lisbon (Portufal), Ireland or Liverpool (England)","Please remit for tobaco sold Blow","Freight for ship Augustus near ready, will send drum to Blow for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus will carry 550 hhds tobacco. Staves are plentiful now; Have plans for loading ship Mary Ann with flour for Liverpool.","Ship Augustus and ship Mary Ann loading","No offer for ship Independence as yet. Lays idle here. What do you think of freight for Cadiz (Spain) or Lisbon (Portugal) of flour? Ship Silver Grey has loaded for these ports; ship Powhatan bound for London left City Point.","Cannot dispense of barrel staves you bought of Lewis at the Bridge","Four ships availabe, except to Spain and Portugal","Ship Euphratis owned by C. Grinnell, James Howland and myself: no prospect of freigh; Will send to you if desired; about 2 years old and 365 tons.","Wish business for new ship","Remit for staves","Cargo to Ireland, Liverpool (England), etc.","[Belfield \u0026 Hicksf[?]d men same as Emporia, Virginia in 19th and 20th century]","Shipping questions about transportation abilities of ships: What prospects will ship Mary Ann have for freight at Norfolk? She can carry 300 hhds of tobacco","Wishes to sell circa 400 bhls of pork; willing to barter with debtors in Fredericksbug, Port Royal, Tappahannock, Dunkirk, etc.","Since arriving I find that dispute with Great Britain will be amicably settled.","Shipping and economic conditions in Europe: No trade here, ice in harbor, will leave at once on ship Euphratis; Questions advisability of freight of staves for West Indies on account of worms; as to timber, for England, after duty and other expenses, little profit; but agrees for Blow to load Euphratis  with timber for England if ship is filled. Prefers freight of tobacco at £ 4.5 for England or Ireland, or corn flour at 9 per bbl for Cadiz, Lisbon or Gibraltar (Spain and Portugal)","Cancel wine order","Shipping conditions and goods: Ships The Powhatan and Fingal? are up for freight; only half a cargo; further discussions about cargo; give current prices for tobacco and flour","Will Blow purchase [unclear?] staves for brig Ann?","Shipping to Europe: Ship Powhatan up for London needs further cargo. Nothing offered for ships Independence or Ann Alexander.","Buy 500 lbs of cable j[?]k for ship Independence at City Point. Give prospects for a cargo.","Re: staves","Ship Fame available","Goods on ship Averick en route to Blow for British port","[Curell was the Captain of the Polly, bound for Norfolk] Bill of Lading; bringing 92 bhls flour from John Hoomer, assigned to Richard Blow with freight at 25 cent per bbl.","Has ship coming soon from England. Wishes cargo.","Need freight and charter for ships Ann Alexander and Independence. Advise.","Re: loading of ship Ann Alexander with staves","Re: cargo of ships Independence and Ann Alexander","Discusses difficult atmosphere in trade, fear of a war if British actions don't change: no prospect as yet for employment for Ann Alexander, Euphrates or Independence. General feeling here that war will ensue if British orders in Council are not soon rescinded","[approximately 100 items]","Schooner Prospect sailing for Norfolk; asks Blow to give any assistance she may need.","Decided to send ship Euphrates to Liverpool (England) with tobacco","Business arrangements for payments, etc.","Sends few goods and a hobby horse Blow had ordered (cost $ 15)","Re: drafts given etc.","Delay in getting cargoes for ships Ann Alexander and Independence, no cotton or tobacco available for ship Euphrates now. Good apple brandy scarce here, gives current prices of tobacco in Richmond","Sending down garden seeds, potatoes and oats for Mrs. Blow for planting, and oats for son George","Re: flour sent","Needs vessel to carry 14 to 18 hundred barrels of flour for Spain; what would a vessel cost? Can money be had of you for bills on London and at what exchange?","Cargo of Betsy \u0026 Mary","As executor of Edw. Cowper estate gives legal details to collect and pay Blow","Check sent for payments due","Letter from John Randolph [in Congress] that an Embargo would be immediately laid. Get off any flour[?] to foreign port at once","Problems if embargo goes into effect","Discusses actions of the U.S. Congress, the trade embargo and their response: a law laying an embargo of 90 days has passed both Houses of Congress. Trust the ship John \u0026 Adam has put out to sea and that you have got rid of any flour","Shipment by Blow of a carriage to him","Re: payments","Problems of flour certificates as schooner Richmond put in to Wilmington, North Carolina, after Lisbon (Portugal) and Cadiz (Spain).","Sends premium for cargo on schooner Richmond and discusses problem of stops at several ports","Re: payments","Re: stock shares taken in Farmers Bank","Has ham and midlings for sale","Commission merchant asking for business","Concerning the account of the ship Ann Alexander","Re: discusses a canal from head of Pasquotank River in North Carolina to head of Elizabeth River and Virginia","Declines to help Blow buy a privateer","Asks for place at bank","Applies for a teller position at the bank","Officers of Farmers Bank, Richard Blow, President","Detailed letter: Terms if Farmers wishes to rent his house as a banking place.","Has set of India Table China which he wishes to sell. You and Capt. Parker have one like it imported at some time. What did he cost you?","Re: deed sent to Robertson in Petersburg","Asks for meeting of Board of Directors for Farmers Bank","Re: note against Benj. P. Hoomes of King \u0026 Queen County, Virginia","Re: sale of cargo of oil","Suggested notice of opening of the branch of Farmers Bank at Norfolk","Has ships empty and ready for cargoes. What prospects in Virginia?","Banking matters: Delays in getting necessary discounts for Bank to begin","Re: shipment of goods and prices: Schooner Richmond at Newbern, North Carolina. Asks Blow to insure her cargo of salt and [unclear?] at $ 5000. Blow valued ship at $ 3000 and cargo at $ 8300. [Blow as president of Marine Insurance Office]","Norfolk: Re: insurance premium for Richmond","Problem of his debt to U.S. Bank and Mr Allmond's endorsements; a suit in [unclear?], to save his two warehouses on Commerce St. and two dwellings on B[unclear?] Street; he asks for loan from Blow. If not, he will be financially ruined.","Ship Richmond has not left here yet","Ship Bedford was damaged in Lynn Haven Bay; asks for assistance for sale and repairs","Continuation and letter of November 22.","Re: ship Bedford See letter of November 22nd.","Cargo of a ship Ann Alexander","Subscribing for shares in Farmers Bank","Applying for cashier's position at the bank","Applying for gr[and?] son, Benj. Pollard, as notary","Applying for position of watchman at bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Applying for job of porter at the bank","Applying for notary at Bank","Job application for watchman","Job application for watchman","Job application for book keeper or discount clerk","Job application","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job application","Job applications , 21 letters","Job application for discount clerk","Job application","Recommends Benjamin Pollard for notary","Recommends T. J. Parker for notary","Job application for runner","Job application for porter","Job application for work","Job application as clerk","sold house to Farmer's Bank","Job application for book keeper","Job application for discount clerk","Job application for cashier","Job application","Job application discount clerk","Job application teller","Job application discount clerk","Job application discount clerk","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Job application as runner","Purchase of shares in Bank","Discusses trouble with British confiscation of vessels at sea: Orders about ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's cargo \"British licenses have risen here very much and cannot be had under $ 1500 and there is great alarm here that the British cruisers will take our vessels that are bound to Southern parts…Insurance for voyage to Lisbon is 17.5 p.c. …\" [War of 1812]","Crates sent to Blow in ship Richmond","Whale cargo of the ship Debby \u0026 Eliza engaged","Duty of oil to be before Congress","Banking and movement of money: advisability of removing specie from Bank out of town. The Virginia Bank has done this already.","Debby \u0026 Eliza chartered for Lisbon if Blow has not chartered her already","[In handwriting of] Blow: Detailed memo of his correspondence with Bridges \u0026 Robertson regarding cargo of Debby \u0026 Eliza and problems encountered by blockades, etc. from 1813 February 5 to 1815 May 20","Discusses politics, shipping difficulties: Re: past cargo of flour for Debby \u0026 Eliza \"considerable fervor pervades our city especially the Legislature = who are this instant organizing a plan of defense for your Borough and will probably order out 3000 men forthwith\"","Has flour for available","Difficulties of getting flour down to Blow","Re: problems getting flour to Blow; \"excitement of arrival of troops for Richmond and Manchester on way to Norfolk for your protection\"","Re: his chartering of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza, Z[unclear]; ship Algernon, lost at Cape Hatteras, was insured fully","Ship Two Marys entering Chesapeake Bay was met (stopped and boarded) by British fleet under Admiral Warren, had her register and declare different ports…uncertainty about vessels being permitted to go out and impediment re ingress of vessels.","Blockade and how long it will last","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza via ship Catherine","Continuation of problems of getting flour cargo down for Debby \u0026 Eliza","\"The blockade has had a serious effects here. Flour has fallen 2 1/3 per barrel.\"","Sending 200 bhls flour by Martha Ann for Debby \u0026 Eliza cargo","Do not send Debby \u0026 Eliza out of port until blockade is lifted or assurance from British that licensed vessels will be permitted to proceed","Thinks blockade will soon be lifted and ship Debby \u0026 Eliza can get out","Sending flour for ship Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: discussing the British blockage, the embargo and cargo for his vessels","Nat. Clanton, Wm. Peter, Wm. Comm[unclear?] $ 150.15 [unclear?] of Virginia; land formerly property of Walter Gilliam deceased of 1272/3 acres","Gives Blow permission to appoint Director of Farmer's Bank in his place","Power given to Blow to sell cargo of May Ann (800 bu. salt). Wishes 270 bhls flour sent to him","James Geddy signed acknowledged loan of $ 30 from Baron.","Problems of blockade, etc.; Bills of Lading","Concerning the removal of R. Blow as president of Farmers Bank, and five letters concerning Farmers Bank.","Wishes herings sent by packet to Williamsburg","Discusses ship Powhatan's departure from City Point: please furnish Captain with what he needs","Citizen's of Portsmouth sent $ 700.81 for relief of sufferers by the late fire; note of thanks","Returns his 5 volumes of Helvetius","Charter of ship Victory","Cargoes of ships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Richmond","Blow was agent for ship Victory of New Bedford - to receive load of tobacco at City Point","Re: ships and tobacco shipments: Debby \u0026 Eliza to Rhoads with tobacco and cotton; ship Augustus; ship Richmond; ship Edward Bartin","Re: ship the Victory; many British vessels at City Point and Bermuda Hundred","Discusses losses due to late war.","Re: commission business","Sent 1600 staves to Blow","Purchase of boat","Re: Debby \u0026 Eliza; rates of exchange","Ship Augustus cargo full","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco for Richmond","Primarily concerning his shipping trade","Re: concerning various ships owned by Blow: Debby \u0026 Eliza, Richmond, cargoes; Ship Powhatan","Ship Richmond's account","Wishes shingles","Re: ship Richmond","Re: ship Richmond cargo of tobacco and staves","Re: staves and flour","Fire in Petersburg destroyed half the town, about 300 houses. His counting house was saved","Ship Augustus cargo","Re: Blow's debt to Bank","For building the [unclear?]","Primarily concerns his sea shipping trade","Re: ship Edward Barten's cargo","Re: Shipment in Edw. Bardin","Re: furnishing brig Charles Fourcett en route to Bermuda Hundred for tobacco and staves","Ship Ceres has not arrived at City Point","Re: cargo of Ceres, Edward Bordin, and Alexander for City Point","Re: Edward Bardin, Ceres, Debby \u0026 Eliza","Re: shipped of fish thru the Canal to you, will ship shad [type of fish] for family use the last of this month","(see April 12 letter)","Re: ship Augustus","Re: Humph Hathaway and his cargo","Re: Ship Ceres from City Point to Rotterdam with tobacco; Re: ship Debby \u0026 Eliza; Re: ship Edward Bordin","Re: Edward Bordin to Liverpool with tobacco","Re: ship Victoria for Europe","Primarily concerns his shipping trade","Re: freight rates","Re: falling freight rates","Re: Ship Debby \u0026 Eliza's flour cargo","Re: Cargo ofships Debby \u0026 Eliza and Baltie for Liverpool (England), Scotland and Ireland, freight rates a problem. Mr. Dunlop wished possibly to charter the ship Ceres for Leith.","Re: Mr. Dunlop did not accept ship Ceres as expected. Freight is down, problem of getting ships to take out cargoes.","No sale for Blow's salt","Re:Ship Ceres for Rotterdam and cargo","Concerns the tuition and board for Blow's sons, Robert Richard","Robert and Richard Blow by Aiken \u0026 Brooks, and Books for Robert","Three letters and one resolution document","Re: Financial affairs of Farmer's Bank, scale of loans, debts allowed, etc.","Refers to branches at Petersburg, Lynchburg, etc.","Petty bills of Richard Blow, four letters, and accounts with Neilson \u0026 Neale.","80 items","Re: state of exchange, etc.","Banking business","Re: Accounts","Re: Alleged default in bank, etc.","Cost of kitchen, stable, dailty building and garden $ 428.18","Renewing Charter of Farmer's Bank which will expire 1827; urges renewal and to confer with stockholders as to their opinion.","General conditions of banking.","Legislature wishes detailed statement of expenses of Branches of this bank; asks Mother Bank (Norfolk) to send earliest mail; also list of salaries.","80 items.","4 letters","Re: Branches of Farmer's Bank","Election of Lee as cashier","Re: Cashier","Detailed letter describing Christmas as Tower Hill: Weather very bad, hunting, ice house full of ice, new school at Coman's [?] Well, Sussex; wants daugher, Mary Frances put there. Death of Capt. John R. Mason. Edwin Gray sold off all his estate yesterday. Thomas Gray to manage the Ruffin plantation. Imagine Thomas will buy Edwins land; there will be Grays all around us. Just heard that Captain Wm. Briggs bought Edwin's place, $ 1800.","Repairing the man building and slating kitchen","Paint, lead, etc. $ 84.36","Describing post Civil War life conditions: Reconstruction, \"thievery\" of African-Americans; Fanny (his wife) is teaching 10 pupils; Mary is chief assistant in a large female school here; Aleck has been here. Orange and Alexander R.R. has joined up to the Manasses R.R.","George Blow, Micajah Felts, Adminsitrators; Inventory of App.","$ 6235.20; Divison of Estate to 3 grandchildren: Mary E. Turner, Martha Jordan and Georgia Ann Hines.","Leaves Mary E. Hines his plantation on East side of Austin's branch; leaves Martha Hines his plantation on Wesst side of Austin's branch; [Mary Elizabeth Hines husband was George Hines] George Blow and James Rochelle, executors, Rochelle did not act.; John D. Turner who married Mary, act.","George Blow administrator","Dozens of petty accounts between Richard Blow and merchants, trades, etc.","Field book of line between George Blow, Jr., John Clanton Saldsberry and Nancy Clanton and adjoining [unclear?]","Barham's Tract…183+ acres sold at $ 5 per acre. Plat of Barham Wren's land and north side of Racoon Swamp by Wm. Darbie of which this is an exact copy - total acres 345.","Number of packages consigend to [names from Williamsburg, Petersburg, Yorktown, Burwell's Ferry, Hanover]","Original field notes of a Road from Bla[?]'s Mill to Sussex Coutr House chained by Joseph Clanton","£ 1409.9.10 1/2 : long listing","Re: Suit Blow \u0026 Oldham trading as merchants at South Quay, Nansemond County. Each to put up £ 400 V.Cur. and going under firm name of Baker, Oldham \u0026 Blow and to continue throgh the War. In 3 months Oldham died. Firm continued as Baker \u0026 Blow. Store began at Pitch Landing, North Carolina. Other stores were established at Petersburg under firm name of Blow \u0026 Barksdale in 1782.","Answer of Blow refers to the year 1793","Tobacco imanifests for various ships; invoices of tobacco to Wm. Blow at Dunkirk; Invoices to Petersburg Store.","[torn at date] Re: Blow \u0026 Barksdale accounts and ship Flying Jennie 's Cargo","Ships Portsmouth, Grand Duke, [unclear?], Mt. Vernon","[7 items]","Re: Settlement of father's estate","A personal letter about her son, John, who was employed by Freeland \u0026 Gillis in Petersburg. Sent down to Williamsburg on business stayed at the Eagle Tavern. [Mrs. Taylor was a sister of Robert H. Walker]","Re: Goods shipped to him from Lamb \u0026 Younger, London. Requests Blow to attend the Customs and have goods sent up to him as soon as he can. Goods came in the America.","Re: Blow's subscription to the Virginia Gazette for 1800 and 1801","Has sent down 4 hhds. tobacco to Blow.","Re: wine for his father. Asks it to be sent to Alexandria c/o Jenny \u0026 Graham or some person who does business for his father.","Also, letter of March 1 1803 from Cropper, P[unclear?] \u0026 Co., Liverpool","Ship Thomas Wilson, freight bill: 1 case containing a Piano Forte \"for Hon. Samuel Tyler, Judge of Court of Chancery in Williamsburg\"","Re: A Disagreement between Arthur Hope and Blow. Hope had deposited funds with Blow for purpose of Blow investing for him in Bank Stock. Wirt advises Blow to agree to a committee of 3 men to settle rather than go into court.","Acknowledges tobacco sent over by Mrs. Lucy Paradise per The Sheffield. According to Mrs. Paradise's desire we are sending 2 [ch___s?] marked \"LLP1.2\" Bills of Lading sent to Blow at her request. \"She is miserably in debt\"","Has established a printing office in Norfolk with Daniel Baxter. Solicits Blow's goodwill and business.","Re: tobacco she had shipped to Reynolds in Liverpool (see letter of July 12, 1806).","Wishes to employ a tutor to live in his house. Enclose advertisement for same to be put in The Herald. Wishes a mentor in Latin, French but must have one good on Arithmetic and English. Say £ 50 or £ 60 for English teacher and £ 70 or so for language teacher.","His opinion of western lands, 1st rate land sells at $ 20 to $ 30 and 2nd rate at $ 10. Does not wish to settle out here.","Regulations as to conduct: Divine Services, Reveille, etc.","Will not come to Norfolk until yellow fever is over or is prudent to come. Keep him informed.","Bills rendered for postage","Bill for books (listed) $28","Bill","Bill for books (listed)","Appeals to Blow to assist him. He is a British subject and \"confined in jail and then to be sold as a slave for the benefit of the state of Virginia.\" Gives his life history and tells how he a came to America at 3 years old.","Inscription to be put on gravestone of Marie Semple, daughter of James Semple and Joanna his wife, daughter of Doctor William McKenzie, dec'd. Born August 16, 1809 and died November 12th 1810. Note from Semple to Blow with directions for sending stone to Cobham or to the Bay warehouse in Surry or upper end Isle of Wight County.","January 16, 1801, Lee Hall, Portsmouth, to Richard Blow, Norfolk. Asks for Blow's assistance so he can obtain a job as a clerk in the Navy Yard at Gosport. January 26, 1801, Congressman Sam W. Dana, Washington DC, to Lee Hall. Discussing a possible job position for Hall. 1804 and 1805, Sam Lord, New York, to Dr. Lee Hall, Portsmouth.","6 pieces","Requests Blow's influences in procuring his appointment as cleark in Public Navy Yard in Gosport","Recommending Dr. Hall to be Clerk of Gosport Navy Yard","Re: Medicine ordered by Hall","A teacher, will return to Portsmouth if conditions seem good","Measures taken to prevent interruption of the commerce of tobacco have had full success.","Suit between Vaughan and Baker \u0026 Blow; he will represent Baker \u0026 Blow.","Re: Inquiring about books sent to Mr. Thomas Jefferson.","Inquires about M. Davis [Augustine] establishing a printing press in the city.","Goods delivered at Capital Landing","Bill of Lading for his tobacco","Encloses letter to London","Petitions re: governorship. Refers to \"Cousin Sam Briggs\" being in Richmond","Fragment of drawing of houses and streets in Petersburg [in handwriting of Richard Blow]: Appomattox River, Tabbs Branch, Brick House [Run?] (all near Blandford)","Memo for [watchwork?]","Ballast Office, London; John Longman \u0026 others, London","(8 items)","(2 items)","Re: shingles","[Drugs?]","Business Correspondence regarding ship Monmouth from Bordeaux and problems encountered; also references to ship America (10 pieces)","Gives news that daughter Patsy will marry Dr. Gray on 26th","Letter from Capt. Blow to his daughter Lizzie (1864); and letter from a nephew, Norfolk, to Capt. 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