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The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. 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Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/1222","Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers","United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History","Enslaved laborers","enslaved persons","University of Virginia -- Faculty","letters (correspondence)","human hair","University of Virginia--Students--Correspondence","Fair to good.","The collection is open for research use.","The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.","Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers","The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.","Correspondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant","Includes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.","Some letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family","Photographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.","Includes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.","John Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous","Article Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.","Certificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. 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Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026amp; writings\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOthello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBoston Home Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Tribune\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Literary Messenger\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026amp;pg=PA33\u0026amp;lpg=PA33\u0026amp;dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026amp;source=bl\u0026amp;ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026amp;sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026amp;q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026amp;f=false\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e The Richmond Times Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eZachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. 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The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.","Correspondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant","Includes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.","Some letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family","Photographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.","Includes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.","John Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous","Article Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.","Certificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. 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use.","The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.","Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers","The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.","Correspondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant","Includes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.","Some letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family","Photographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.","Includes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.","John Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous","Article Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.","Certificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. Mead; Anna Maria Chalmers marriage certificate; and Kappa Alpha In Universitate Virginiae broadside.","Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library","English"],"unitid_tesim":["MSS 4966","Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","Previous Archival Resource Key","/repositories/3/resources/1222"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers"],"collection_title_tesim":["Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers"],"collection_ssim":["Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers family papers"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"geogname_ssm":["United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History"],"geogname_ssim":["United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History"],"places_ssim":["United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Personal narratives","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives","women--education -- Virginia","Enslavers","United States -- History -- War of 1812","University of Virginia -- History"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Part of this collection was a deposit from Ernest C. 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Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026amp; writings\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnder Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is arranged into fifteen series: 1.William and Sarah Hull papers, 2.Otis Mead Chalmers family correspondence, 3.Anna Maria Mead Chalmers correspondence, 4.Clarke family correspondence, 5. Anna Maria Mead Chalmers business papers, 6. Enslavery, 7. United States Civil War, 8. Financial papers, 9.Diaries and daybooks, 10. Genealogy, 11. Hair collection, 12. Miscellaneous first telegraph of morse code, 13.Photographs 14. Printed items  15.Poetry \u0026 writings","Under Series 1. William and Sarah Hull papers includes letters about  filing a claim in support of General Hull. Information about the claim can also be found throughout the family correspondence in the collection.","There are letters from the family and others about General Hull's claim throughout the correspondence in the collection."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOthello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eBoston Home Journal\u003c/emph\u003e, the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Tribune\u003c/emph\u003e, and the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Literary Messenger\u003c/emph\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eSouthern Churchmen\u003c/emph\u003e also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHer grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026amp;pg=PA33\u0026amp;lpg=PA33\u0026amp;dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026amp;source=bl\u0026amp;ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026amp;sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;sa=X\u0026amp;ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026amp;q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026amp;f=false\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical","Biographical / Historical"],"bioghist_tesim":["Othello Tillo Freeman (1) was enslaved by General William Hull before or at the turn of the nineteenth century. He moved with Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hickman (1787-1847), daughter of General William Hull, from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838 and continued to be enslaved by the Mead Chalmers family until his death, which may have been in the 1860's. Sam had escaped from an enslaver in Louisiana and worked on the Hull farm for the last thirty years of his life [1800's to 1830's]. Jordan is described as hired out in a letter from Thomas R. Blair dated September 8, 1841. ","Anna Maria Chalmers was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825) who recollects the memories of Tillo and Sam on her grandparents farm. She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the  Southern Churchmen , an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\") a hospital for children. She wrote articles for the  Boston Home Journal , the  New York Tribune , and the  Southern Literary Messenger","Her mother was Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman and her father was Harris H. Hickman who served as a captain in the War of 1812 and the United States Navy, and died in 1824 in St. Thomas, South America. Her grandparents General William and Sarah Fuller Hull helped raise her in Newton, Massachusetts. She attended William B. Fowle's school in Boston (2) and after her father and grandparents died, she lived with her Uncle Edward and Aunt Maria Campbell, who ran a school in Marietta, Georgia. Her sister Louisa \"Louly\" Hickman Smith was a published poet who died as a young mother aged 21, in 1832 leaving a husband, Samuel Jenks Smith and their two children. ","Anna Maria Mead Chalmers survived three husbands, George Alexander Otis (1803-1831), Zachariah Mead (1800-1840), and David Chalmers (1779?-1875?), and had three sons, living during the American Civil War, George Alexander Otis, Jr. (1830-1881) who was a field surgeon in the Massachusetts 27th volunteers and assistant surgeon general of the army,  William Zachariah Mead, (1838-1864) who fought at Murfreesboro and died fighting for the Tennessee Army in the Confederacy in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, and Edward C. Mead (1837-1908) who traveled to Australia in search of financial independence with a stint in gold digging, and settled on a farm in Keswick, Virginia.","Anna Maria's first husband, George Otis was a young lawyer who died from consumption one year after their marriage in 1831. Their first and only son was Dr. George Alexander Otis. Zachariah Mead, her second husband was a reverend at the Grace Episcopal Church in Cismont, Virginia, an assistant clergyman at Monumental, Saint James's, and Saint John's Episcopal Churches in Richmond and the editor of the  Southern Churchmen  also in Richmond, Virginia. They had two sons Edward, and William, and a daughter Louisa who died as a child. She married a third time in 1856 to David Chalmers who was a plantation owner in News Ferry, (Halifax) Virginia. He enslaved people, and educated African Americans at his school. The collection does not mention the school by name and no further details were found in the papers.","In 1881, after her son Dr. George Otis died, Mrs. Chalmers moved in with her son Edward Mead on his farm in Keswick. They were close friends with many prominent Charlottesville families including Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page. William Mead attended the University of Virginia and met with many of the University of Virginia's earliest professors including Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe.","Her grandfather, General William Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut in 1753 and moved to Detroit Michigan when his government work which involved the taking of land from indigenous persons led him to become the Governor of the Territory of Michigan and the commander of the Army of the Northwest Territory during the War of 1812. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson and was a friend of General Lafayette. After being unsuccessful in fighting off the Canadians, (however claiming that the government did not give him the resources to defend Michigan) he was court-martialed by James Madison who later commuted his sentence. (3) He died in 1825 in Newton, Massachusetts. He was married to Sarah Fuller Hull. Their children were Nancy Ann Binney Hickman, Sarah McKesson (1783-1810), Maria Campbell (1788-1845) Abraham Fuller Hull (1786-1814), Rebecca Parker Clarke (1790-1865), Caroline Hull (1793-1824), Julia Knox Wheeler (1799-1842), Eliza McClellan (1784-1864), and Cornelia Page.","Sources:","1. Hurd, D. Hamilton. \"History of Middlesex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men\" Volume III. Philadelphia:J. W. Lewis and Company. 1890.\nhttps://books.google.com/books?id=mZU6AQAAIAAJ\u0026pg=PA33\u0026lpg=PA33\u0026dq=othello+%22tillo%22+freeman\u0026source=bl\u0026ots=4_Drct_uRZ\u0026sig=ACfU3U21FUtYLt8aQ7PklsGdRfOnEJ09RQ\u0026hl=en\u0026sa=X\u0026ved=2ahUKEwjRqtK1sYr5AhV0EFkFHRYkAg0Q6AF6BAgdEAM#v=onepage\u0026q=othello%20%22tillo%22%20freeman\u0026f=false","\n2.\tDuval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) From the collection.","\n3.\t\"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. \nhttps://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Lock of hair belonging to Sarah Louisa P. (Hickman) Smith who was the sister of Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers. Louisa was born in 1811 and died at age 20 from illness. Her husband, Samuel Jenks Smith published a book of her poems in 1829. They had two children.","Annie McLellan may have been a cousin of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers"],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["MSS 4966, Anna Maria Hickman Otis Mead Chalmers papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia Library."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eIn the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLetters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThere is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAnna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003e The Richmond Times Dispatch\u003c/emph\u003e dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eUnrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSources:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eZachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBlair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026amp; Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticle Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. Mead; Anna Maria Chalmers marriage certificate; and Kappa Alpha In Universitate Virginiae broadside.\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"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The papers of Anna Maria (Campbell Hickman) Otis Mead Chalmers (1809-1891) and her family offer a deep look into a 19th century American family with a sharp focus on enslaved and formerly enslaved persons. The collection documents the life of a young, widowed woman, Anna Maria Mead Chalmers, who was the granddaughter of General William Hull (1753-1825). She was a mother of four children and became a businesswoman in Richmond, Virginia. She was a writer, an editor of the Southern Churchmen, an educator and founder of Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies, and a director of The Southern Churchmen Cot (\"Retreat for the Sick\"), a hospital for children. Anna Maria's family enslaved people who are represented in the papers including Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman (1790's-1860's?). It includes a letter from William written in [1875], who was their carriage driver, and letters about Sam the fiddler, who settled on the farm after escaping harsher enslavement in Louisianna, and Jordan who was described as being hired out in a letter dated September 8, 1841 from Thomas R. Blair.","In the correspondence of the Mead-Chalmers family, are letters describing Othello Tillo Freeman. There is also a will of Nancy \"Ann\" Binney Hull Hickman (1787-1847), mother of Anna Maria Chalmers, that left a stipulation providing room and board for Tillo. ","Letters also show that the family inquired about slave laws for travelling so that they could bring Tillo with them when they moved from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia in 1838. The family is characterized as being kind to enslaved persons by providing for them and educating them however this description does not take into consideration that they never had the opportunities that existed for free white men. ","There is also a leather-bound account book with the first names of enslaved persons.  It is not clear who owns the book or the location of the enslaved persons, but it has an extensive list of first names and dates from 1767 to 1845. Also included in the account book are records for horses and business transactions. "," The letters from William C. Mead (son of Anna Maria Chalmers) and his friends and family describe skirmishes and battles in the Civil War including Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Resaca, Georgia. Included in the collection are letters about succession and anxiety about the conflict between the states. Also included is a carte de visite of Lieutenant William Mead, n.d.; a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna Maria Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to General Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Lieutenant William Mead following his death at Resaca, Georgia in 1864.","William Mead graduated from the University of Virginia in 1857 before the Civil War began. The collection has many references to Charlottesville and the University of Virginia, including comments about university professors Basil L. Gildersleeve, Gessner Harrison, Socrates Maupin, John Minor, Schele De Vere, James L. Cabell, Frederick George Holmes, and Alfred T. Bledsoe. Charlottesville families include Peter and Frances (\"Fannie\") Meriwether, Frances Poindexter, Rector, and Mrs. Ebenezer Boyd, William Cabell Rives, Franklin Minor, Thomas Walker Gilmer and Elizabeth Anderson Gilmer, and Dr. Mann Page.","Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers was extraordinary in having been as well educated as any man in Boston (1) and was able to share her knowledge with other privileged young white girls through her school, including Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy, the famous writer.The collection includes examination questions,correspondence about the school and a newspaper article in the   The Richmond Times Dispatch  dated August 10, 1913 describing Mrs. Mead Chalmers. There are also handwritten poems, short stories, and miscellaneous writings in the collection, including an essay on \"Virginia Before and After the Civil War.\" ","The collection also includes correspondence from Anna Maria Mead Chalmer's cousins, Samuel Clarke,James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) and his sister, Sarah Ann Freeman Clarke (1808-1896). Sarah Clarke was a landscape artist, a world traveler, and a member of the transcendentalist movement.(2) James Clarke was an American theologian, author, and abolitionist.(3) Mrs. Mead Chalmers and her cousins were friends with literary authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel P. Willis, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.The letters refer to these individuals but there is no correspondence with them.","Unrelated to anything else in the collection, is a miscellaneous item which is a specimen of the first telegraphic writing made on the first telegraph in this country by Professor Morse in 1847.","\nAlso of interest in the collection are letters about General William Hull (1753-1825) who fought in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. His work with the government involved taking land from indigenous persons. In the end, he was charged by the government of not properly defending Detroit in the War of 1812, but President James Madison commuted his sentence.(4) For years, the family and descendants refuted the charges and filed a claim to receive his backpay. In contrast to General Hull's work with the government, is a newspaper clipping of a sermon by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) printed in 1876 which displays Whipple's outrage at the United States government for taking lands from indigenous persons.","From the taking away of the  lands of indigenous persons, to enslavement of African Americans, to a widowed woman trying to earn a living in the nineteenth century, with history about the War of 1812 and the American Civil War, as well as politics, religion, transcendentalism, local Charlottesville history and professors at the University of Virginia, this is a collection of letters rich in history that shows the inner workings of government, society, and people and its effects on everyday life. Collections like these help us to envision our collective past and broaden our perspective on our history and our future. This one is worth a deep dive into the history of the nineteenth century locally and nationally.","Sources:","1. Duval, Maria Pendleton. \"The Lengthened Shadow of a Woman\" Richmond Times Dispatch. August 10, 1913 (Description of Anna Maria Mead Chalmers education in William B. Fowle's school as being the best in Boston and Mrs Chalmer's school as being up to the standards of Harvard) ","2. Maas, Judith. \"Sarah Freeman Clarke: Artist, Traveler, Diarist\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. November 21, 2019  \nhttps://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2019/11/sarah-freeman-clarke-artist-traveler-diarist/ ","3.\"James Freeman Clarke.\" Wikipedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke","\n4. \"William Hull\" Detroit Historical Society. Detroit Encyclopedia. Accessed June 7, 2022. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/hull-william","\nOther articles of interest \nMartin, Susan. \"The Unstoppable Anna Maria Mead Chalmers\" The Beehive. Massachusetts Historical Society. June 7, 2022. https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2015/03/the-unstoppable-anna-maria-mead-chalmers/","Included are comments about University of Virginia Professors Gessner Harrison, John B. Minor, Socrates Maupin, Basil L. Gildersleeve, Maximilan Schele De Vere, James Lawrence Cabell, and William Holmes McGuffey. Included is a letter from Professor Gildersleeve to Dr. George Otis, Jr. dated 1876. Dr. Otis was the first born son of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers.","Condolences on the death of daughter Louisa and her mother Nancy Binney Hull Hickman.","Includes correspondence of Richard Gambill 1851-1856. There is also a letter from Thomas Walker Gilmer to Richard Gambill from 1833.","Other cousins may be included in this correspondence including McLellans and Clouds.","Samuel C. Clarke writes to his cousin Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers about his attitudes towards Freedmen after enslavement, and their working and living conditions.","Includes small broadside of Sarah Clark art exhibit","Letters about starting the school, procurement of teachers,letters from parents, and examinations.","Letters and notes about purchase of the newspaper and maintaining its operation.","Papers related to raising money and operating a charity hospital for children in Richmond, Virginia","\"The Lengthened Shadow\" of a Woman\" by Maria Pendleton Duval in the Ricmond Times Dispatch is a newspaper aticle about how Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers started Mrs. Mead's School for Young Ladies and how it influenced the opening of the Virginia Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs Chalmers taught female students using the same curriculum as Harvard College.","Enslavement, letters from former enslaved people, and information about African American schools, and teaching African Americans to read the bible","Zachariah Mead (husband of Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers) writes a letter to his mother-in-law Nancy Binney \"Anne\" Hickman dated August 24, 1838 in which he describes to her the legislation required for bringing enslaved persons to another state. The family wants to move  from Newton, Massachusetts to Richmond, Virginia and take Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman with them.","Blair writes that the bond agreement was for him to keep Jordan until October when servants would be returning from the Springs, but he will return him if she needs his services.","In her last will and testament, \"I direct that my old servant Othello Freeman, be supported from my estate, in such manner as my said executrive, may think proper.\"","Letter from the Hickman's accountant, Joseph Bacon, that Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman,  who was enslaved by the Hull and Mead family, was removed from the Mclellan household (sister of \"Ann\" Nancy Binney Hickman) and was being boarded at Mr. White's. He writes that Tillo cannot do any work,is not well, and needs medical attention.  Mr. White wants more money to board and take care of him.","Includes unidentified letter to Anna Maria Mead Chalmers about her being honored as a teacher, and her treatment of \"Tillo\".","Mr. Potter says that he has heard good accounts of the school. No details are included.","A note signed \"Massing Bird\" to [Frances] E. Meriwether asking to buy a horse. His son has taken his horse so he needs to buy one.","Letter written by \"Old William\" who was the carriage driver for Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers. He writes to Mrs. Chalmers after the death of Mr. Chalmers about his fondness for them.","Letter from Anna Maria Otis Mead Chalmers describing her memories of her grandfather General William Hull to her cousin James Freeman Clarke. Mrs. Chalmers recollects that her grandfather required Othello \"Tillo\" Freeman who they enslaved to be present in Church.","One page argument for the Southern Planter's claim that they need the  Freedmen to labor their crops. Author unidentified, undated.","Correspondence of the Mead family, Meriwether family, George H. Geyer and others describing camp life, skirmishes and battles, and officers, including General Stonewall Jackson, General Longstreet, General Braggs, General McLellan, and General Grant","Includes a testimony to the gallantry of William L. Mead signed by J.E.B. Stuart; an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy; a map of Chattanooga \u0026 Environs November 15, 1863; a notice that William Z. Mead has been appointed 1st Lieut., 1st Battalion Sharp Shooters; a pass allowing Mrs. Anna M. Chambers to cross the lines with a hat box and carpet bag; and a memorandum sent to Gen. Joseph Wheeler, concerning  personal items taken from the body of Mead following his death at Resaca, Ga., 1864.","Some letters and notes about the genealogy of the Mead family","Photographs identified as Lieutenant William Zachariah Mead, Fannie Chalmers, and Marion Kollock.","Includes article about Bishop Whipple sermon supporting Indigenous persons; article about James Freeman Clarke, other obituaries, and various miscellaneous items including a football game at Pantops Academy.","John Greenleaf Whittier \"The Singer\" from the Atlantic Monthly, devotional prayers, and miscellaneous","Article Isaac McLellan, Sunday School brochures, advertisement for the Rockbridge Baths, Liturgy of the Holy Eucharist by N. W. Camp, and religious printed materials.","Certificate of Distinction from La Fourches School, Keswick, Virginia for Henry B. 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William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers","Martinsburg.","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","United States -- History -- War of 1812","Church buildings","Diaries and journals.","Elections","Genealogy","General stores","Politics and government.","Postal service","Revolutionary War.","Slaves and slavery.","Women's history -- 1800-1849","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Women's history -- Pre-1800","No special access restriction applies.","Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.","Collection includes:\ncorrespondence between William and Elizabeth Edwards from 1832 to 1888 (chiefly from the 1830s and 1840s about their relationship, family, and his work with the Baltimore Conference);\ngenealogical notes and narrative family histories of the Sommerville, Edwards, and the related William Brown, Laurence Balthrop, and John Sommerville families;\nand miscellaneous materials related to Captain William Sommerville.","The latter include:\nam original calendar of letter abstracts for the correspondence of William Sommerville, 1810-1811;\nan original copy of the diary of William Sommerville, 1810-1812;\na typescript of his 1794 diary;\nand a family register that contains a handwritten copy of Sommerville's brief account of his Revolutionary War service with the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment and his life after the war, as well as copied extracts of his diary from 1810 to 1812.","Topics of the diary include politics and relations between Britain and the United States; weather; news of family and friends; and the War of 1812.","The calendar of correspondence, titled \"minute of letters\" by its creator William Sommerville, consists of letter abstracts in seven sections.","1. \"minute of letters received\"; march 9 to december 28, 1811; pages 4-28 \n2. \"minute of letters wrote\"; february 3 to december 14, 1811; pages 1-24 \n3. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 10 to december 29, 1810; pages 1-16 \n4. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 5 to february 2, 1811; pages 1-3 \n5. \"minute of letters received\"; january 3 to september 19, 1810; pages 1-12 \n6. \"minute of letters [received]\"; september 29 to december 29, 1810; pages 13-18 \n7. \"minute of letters received\"; january 12-26, 1811; page 19","Correspondents and persons recorded in the calendar of correspondence include: \nmen in public office on the national and local levels, \nlocal residents, \nmembers of the Sommerville family, \nRevolutionary War veterans, \nnewspaper editors, \nand Post Office clients and officials. \nSee the name index in box 3 for an alphabetical listing.","Subjects of the correspondence include: \nestates, \nlottery - Susquehanna Canal, \nlottery - Union College, \nlottery - Wilmington College, \nlottery - smallpox vaccine institute, \npolitics, \ndeaths, \nmail schedules, \nbusiness affairs, \nelections, \napprentice, \nand vaccine legislation.","The diary of William Sommerville is in three parts, each representing a calendar year.","1. january 1 to december 24, 1810; pages 1-209 \nmissing pages:  23-30, 55-76, 83-84, (page 84 occurs twice, numbered second time), 92-93, 96-97, (page 107 occurs twice), 110-115, 120-125, 127-130, 140-143, 158-161, 164-173, 180-187, 190-200, 207-208)","2. january 1 to december 31, 1811; pages 1-205 \nmissing pages:  7-8, 11-14, 31-36, 47-48, 51-54, 61-62, 67-68, (page 70 not numbered), 108-119, 124-129, 136-137, 142-143, 160-161, 164-173, 180-181, 190-199, 202-203","3. january 1 to december 26, 1812; pages 1-195 \nmissing pages:  34-39, 58-59, 74-79, 88-89, 133-134, 140-145, 154-155, 164-167, 176-179","People mentioned or commented on in the Diary include: \npersons in politics and government on the national and local levels; \nlocal residents; \nmembers of the Sommerville family; \npost office clients and officials; \nmilitary personnel; \nRevolutionary War veterans; \nNew York, Baltimore, and local newspaper editors; \nlocal doctors and doctors associated with the smallpox Vaccine Institution; \nministers of various church denominations; \nand government officials in France and England.","Subjects mentioned or commented on in the Diary include: \npost office business; \nfamily affairs; \nbirths; \nmarriages; \ndeaths; \napprentice[s]; \nslaves; \nagricultural products; \nmethods, prices, and labor; \nelections; \ngeneral store; \nweather (daily); \nMartinsburg and its residents (frequently); \nmills; \ntaverns; \neuropean affairs; \npatriotism and Americanism; \nchurches; \nschools; \nreminiscences about the Revolutionary War; \nopinions on ministers and religion; \nlotteries -- Vaccine; \nlotteries -- Delaware; \nlotteries -- Susquehanna Canal; \nlotteries -- Washington Monument; \nlotteries -- Union College; \nlotteries -- Wilmington College; \ntravel; \nmilitia muster and draft; \nWar of 1812 -- cause; \nWar of 1812 -- local and national reaction; \nWar of 1812 -- battles; \nand government policy.","Includes letter (1799) from Sarah Brown to William Sommerville; \nand letters (1832-1888) between William Sommerville's daughter Elizabeth Sommerville (Edwards) and William B. Edwards, including their daughter and others.  William B. Edwards was a Methodist circuit rider.","Subjects include personal and family affairs, churches and the ministry, Martinsburg, and slavery, among other topics.","Includes transcribed extract from William Sommerville's diary dated March 1811 (undated); genealogy notes regarding members of the Sommerville family from the 17th century (undated); and Civil War poetry in manuscript, including \"Stonewall Jackson's Way\" (undated).","Manuscript compilation of facts and clippings regarding the Brown, Sommerville, and other families.  Family documented include predominantly Brown, Edwards (from Virginia), and Somerville (from Ireland).  This compilation seems to have been created in the late 19th century.","pages a-j:  estates, including Merida Edwards (1812), William Edwards (1755), and George Edwards (1780).","pages 1-20:  family register, including James Edwards (ca.1750-1851), John Arnold Edwards (1777-1855), William Ballthrop Edwards (1809-1888), John Sommerville (1710-?), and William Sommerville (1756-1826).  The section on William Sommerville includes extensive biographical information, including a narrative about his Revolutionary War service, and four pages of extracts from his journal (diary) (1794, 1810-1812); the entry for 15 July 1811 mentions Lawrence A. Washington, who was to settle for some time near Charleston, (West) Virginia on the Kanawha River.  The family register also includes entries for William Brown (1765-1806), Reverend John McClelland (?-1798), and for later Sommerville family members.","page 21:  \"Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Minute of Service in the Revolutionary War\" (brief narrative by William Sommerville)","pages 22-23:  marriage certificates for William Brown and William Sommerville","pages 23-40:  miscellaneous genealogical information, including manuscript signatures, Scottish ancestry, and family crests (coat of arms)","page 41:  Confederate service by family members","pages 42-43:  obituaries for William Edwards (1809-1888)","pages 45, 47:  obituary for Elizabeth Edwards (1812-?)","Photo of U.S. Army sergeant (1944) separated to Photograph Collection","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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pages 1-209\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmissing pages:  23-30, 55-76, 83-84, (page 84 occurs twice, numbered second time), 92-93, 96-97, (page 107 occurs twice), 110-115, 120-125, 127-130, 140-143, 158-161, 164-173, 180-187, 190-200, 207-208)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e2. january 1 to december 31, 1811; pages 1-205\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmissing pages:  7-8, 11-14, 31-36, 47-48, 51-54, 61-62, 67-68, (page 70 not numbered), 108-119, 124-129, 136-137, 142-143, 160-161, 164-173, 180-181, 190-199, 202-203\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e3. january 1 to december 26, 1812; pages 1-195\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmissing pages:  34-39, 58-59, 74-79, 88-89, 133-134, 140-145, 154-155, 164-167, 176-179\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003ePeople mentioned or commented on in the Diary include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\npersons in politics and government on the national and local levels;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlocal residents;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmembers of the Sommerville family;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\npost office clients and officials;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmilitary personnel;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRevolutionary War veterans;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nNew York, Baltimore, and local newspaper editors;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlocal doctors and doctors associated with the smallpox Vaccine Institution;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nministers of various church denominations;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nand government officials in France and England.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects mentioned or commented on in the Diary include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\npost office business;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nfamily affairs;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbirths;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmarriages;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ndeaths;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\napprentice[s];\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nslaves;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nagricultural products;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmethods, prices, and labor;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nelections;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ngeneral store;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nweather (daily);\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nMartinsburg and its residents (frequently);\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmills;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ntaverns;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\neuropean affairs;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\npatriotism and Americanism;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nchurches;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nschools;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nreminiscences about the Revolutionary War;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nopinions on ministers and religion;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlotteries -- Vaccine;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlotteries -- Delaware;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlotteries -- Susquehanna Canal;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlotteries -- Washington Monument;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlotteries -- Union College;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlotteries -- Wilmington College;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ntravel;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmilitia muster and draft;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWar of 1812 -- cause;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWar of 1812 -- local and national reaction;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nWar of 1812 -- battles;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nand government policy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes letter (1799) from Sarah Brown to William Sommerville;\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nand letters (1832-1888) between William Sommerville's daughter Elizabeth Sommerville (Edwards) and William B. Edwards, including their daughter and others.  William B. Edwards was a Methodist circuit rider.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include personal and family affairs, churches and the ministry, Martinsburg, and slavery, among other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes transcribed extract from William Sommerville's diary dated March 1811 (undated); genealogy notes regarding members of the Sommerville family from the 17th century (undated); and Civil War poetry in manuscript, including \"Stonewall Jackson's Way\" (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript compilation of facts and clippings regarding the Brown, Sommerville, and other families.  Family documented include predominantly Brown, Edwards (from Virginia), and Somerville (from Ireland).  This compilation seems to have been created in the late 19th century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages a-j:  estates, including Merida Edwards (1812), William Edwards (1755), and George Edwards (1780).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages 1-20:  family register, including James Edwards (ca.1750-1851), John Arnold Edwards (1777-1855), William Ballthrop Edwards (1809-1888), John Sommerville (1710-?), and William Sommerville (1756-1826).  The section on William Sommerville includes extensive biographical information, including a narrative about his Revolutionary War service, and four pages of extracts from his journal (diary) (1794, 1810-1812); the entry for 15 July 1811 mentions Lawrence A. Washington, who was to settle for some time near Charleston, (West) Virginia on the Kanawha River.  The family register also includes entries for William Brown (1765-1806), Reverend John McClelland (?-1798), and for later Sommerville family members.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epage 21:  \"Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Minute of Service in the Revolutionary War\" (brief narrative by William Sommerville)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages 22-23:  marriage certificates for William Brown and William Sommerville\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages 23-40:  miscellaneous genealogical information, including manuscript signatures, Scottish ancestry, and family crests (coat of arms)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epage 41:  Confederate service by family members\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages 42-43:  obituaries for William Edwards (1809-1888)\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages 45, 47:  obituary for Elizabeth Edwards (1812-?)\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.","Collection includes:\ncorrespondence between William and Elizabeth Edwards from 1832 to 1888 (chiefly from the 1830s and 1840s about their relationship, family, and his work with the Baltimore Conference);\ngenealogical notes and narrative family histories of the Sommerville, Edwards, and the related William Brown, Laurence Balthrop, and John Sommerville families;\nand miscellaneous materials related to Captain William Sommerville.","The latter include:\nam original calendar of letter abstracts for the correspondence of William Sommerville, 1810-1811;\nan original copy of the diary of William Sommerville, 1810-1812;\na typescript of his 1794 diary;\nand a family register that contains a handwritten copy of Sommerville's brief account of his Revolutionary War service with the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment and his life after the war, as well as copied extracts of his diary from 1810 to 1812.","Topics of the diary include politics and relations between Britain and the United States; weather; news of family and friends; and the War of 1812.","The calendar of correspondence, titled \"minute of letters\" by its creator William Sommerville, consists of letter abstracts in seven sections.","1. \"minute of letters received\"; march 9 to december 28, 1811; pages 4-28 \n2. \"minute of letters wrote\"; february 3 to december 14, 1811; pages 1-24 \n3. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 10 to december 29, 1810; pages 1-16 \n4. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 5 to february 2, 1811; pages 1-3 \n5. \"minute of letters received\"; january 3 to september 19, 1810; pages 1-12 \n6. \"minute of letters [received]\"; september 29 to december 29, 1810; pages 13-18 \n7. \"minute of letters received\"; january 12-26, 1811; page 19","Correspondents and persons recorded in the calendar of correspondence include: \nmen in public office on the national and local levels, \nlocal residents, \nmembers of the Sommerville family, \nRevolutionary War veterans, \nnewspaper editors, \nand Post Office clients and officials. \nSee the name index in box 3 for an alphabetical listing.","Subjects of the correspondence include: \nestates, \nlottery - Susquehanna Canal, \nlottery - Union College, \nlottery - Wilmington College, \nlottery - smallpox vaccine institute, \npolitics, \ndeaths, \nmail schedules, \nbusiness affairs, \nelections, \napprentice, \nand vaccine legislation.","The diary of William Sommerville is in three parts, each representing a calendar year.","1. january 1 to december 24, 1810; pages 1-209 \nmissing pages:  23-30, 55-76, 83-84, (page 84 occurs twice, numbered second time), 92-93, 96-97, (page 107 occurs twice), 110-115, 120-125, 127-130, 140-143, 158-161, 164-173, 180-187, 190-200, 207-208)","2. january 1 to december 31, 1811; pages 1-205 \nmissing pages:  7-8, 11-14, 31-36, 47-48, 51-54, 61-62, 67-68, (page 70 not numbered), 108-119, 124-129, 136-137, 142-143, 160-161, 164-173, 180-181, 190-199, 202-203","3. january 1 to december 26, 1812; pages 1-195 \nmissing pages:  34-39, 58-59, 74-79, 88-89, 133-134, 140-145, 154-155, 164-167, 176-179","People mentioned or commented on in the Diary include: \npersons in politics and government on the national and local levels; \nlocal residents; \nmembers of the Sommerville family; \npost office clients and officials; \nmilitary personnel; \nRevolutionary War veterans; \nNew York, Baltimore, and local newspaper editors; \nlocal doctors and doctors associated with the smallpox Vaccine Institution; \nministers of various church denominations; \nand government officials in France and England.","Subjects mentioned or commented on in the Diary include: \npost office business; \nfamily affairs; \nbirths; \nmarriages; \ndeaths; \napprentice[s]; \nslaves; \nagricultural products; \nmethods, prices, and labor; \nelections; \ngeneral store; \nweather (daily); \nMartinsburg and its residents (frequently); \nmills; \ntaverns; \neuropean affairs; \npatriotism and Americanism; \nchurches; \nschools; \nreminiscences about the Revolutionary War; \nopinions on ministers and religion; \nlotteries -- Vaccine; \nlotteries -- Delaware; \nlotteries -- Susquehanna Canal; \nlotteries -- Washington Monument; \nlotteries -- Union College; \nlotteries -- Wilmington College; \ntravel; \nmilitia muster and draft; \nWar of 1812 -- cause; \nWar of 1812 -- local and national reaction; \nWar of 1812 -- battles; \nand government policy.","Includes letter (1799) from Sarah Brown to William Sommerville; \nand letters (1832-1888) between William Sommerville's daughter Elizabeth Sommerville (Edwards) and William B. Edwards, including their daughter and others.  William B. Edwards was a Methodist circuit rider.","Subjects include personal and family affairs, churches and the ministry, Martinsburg, and slavery, among other topics.","Includes transcribed extract from William Sommerville's diary dated March 1811 (undated); genealogy notes regarding members of the Sommerville family from the 17th century (undated); and Civil War poetry in manuscript, including \"Stonewall Jackson's Way\" (undated).","Manuscript compilation of facts and clippings regarding the Brown, Sommerville, and other families.  Family documented include predominantly Brown, Edwards (from Virginia), and Somerville (from Ireland).  This compilation seems to have been created in the late 19th century.","pages a-j:  estates, including Merida Edwards (1812), William Edwards (1755), and George Edwards (1780).","pages 1-20:  family register, including James Edwards (ca.1750-1851), John Arnold Edwards (1777-1855), William Ballthrop Edwards (1809-1888), John Sommerville (1710-?), and William Sommerville (1756-1826).  The section on William Sommerville includes extensive biographical information, including a narrative about his Revolutionary War service, and four pages of extracts from his journal (diary) (1794, 1810-1812); the entry for 15 July 1811 mentions Lawrence A. Washington, who was to settle for some time near Charleston, (West) Virginia on the Kanawha River.  The family register also includes entries for William Brown (1765-1806), Reverend John McClelland (?-1798), and for later Sommerville family members.","page 21:  \"Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Minute of Service in the Revolutionary War\" (brief narrative by William Sommerville)","pages 22-23:  marriage certificates for William Brown and William Sommerville","pages 23-40:  miscellaneous genealogical information, including manuscript signatures, Scottish ancestry, and family crests (coat of arms)","page 41:  Confederate service by family members","pages 42-43:  obituaries for William Edwards (1809-1888)","pages 45, 47:  obituary for Elizabeth Edwards (1812-?)"],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePhoto of U.S. Army sergeant (1944) separated to Photograph Collection\u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Materials"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Photo of U.S. Army sergeant (1944) separated to Photograph Collection"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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William Sommerville (1756-1826) Papers","Martinsburg.","United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865","United States -- History -- War of 1812","Church buildings","Diaries and journals.","Elections","Genealogy","General stores","Politics and government.","Postal service","Revolutionary War.","Slaves and slavery.","Women's history -- 1800-1849","Women's history -- 1850-1899","Women's history -- Pre-1800","No special access restriction applies.","Correspondence and genealogical materials related to the William B. Edwards family of King George County, Virginia, and the Capt. William Sommerville family of Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These families were joined when Elizabeth Sommerville (1812-1886), daughter of the Revolutionary War veteran, married William B. Edwards (1810-1888), a Methodist clergyman from a planter family, in 1833.","Collection includes:\ncorrespondence between William and Elizabeth Edwards from 1832 to 1888 (chiefly from the 1830s and 1840s about their relationship, family, and his work with the Baltimore Conference);\ngenealogical notes and narrative family histories of the Sommerville, Edwards, and the related William Brown, Laurence Balthrop, and John Sommerville families;\nand miscellaneous materials related to Captain William Sommerville.","The latter include:\nam original calendar of letter abstracts for the correspondence of William Sommerville, 1810-1811;\nan original copy of the diary of William Sommerville, 1810-1812;\na typescript of his 1794 diary;\nand a family register that contains a handwritten copy of Sommerville's brief account of his Revolutionary War service with the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment and his life after the war, as well as copied extracts of his diary from 1810 to 1812.","Topics of the diary include politics and relations between Britain and the United States; weather; news of family and friends; and the War of 1812.","The calendar of correspondence, titled \"minute of letters\" by its creator William Sommerville, consists of letter abstracts in seven sections.","1. \"minute of letters received\"; march 9 to december 28, 1811; pages 4-28 \n2. \"minute of letters wrote\"; february 3 to december 14, 1811; pages 1-24 \n3. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 10 to december 29, 1810; pages 1-16 \n4. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 5 to february 2, 1811; pages 1-3 \n5. \"minute of letters received\"; january 3 to september 19, 1810; pages 1-12 \n6. \"minute of letters [received]\"; september 29 to december 29, 1810; pages 13-18 \n7. \"minute of letters received\"; january 12-26, 1811; page 19","Correspondents and persons recorded in the calendar of correspondence include: \nmen in public office on the national and local levels, \nlocal residents, \nmembers of the Sommerville family, \nRevolutionary War veterans, \nnewspaper editors, \nand Post Office clients and officials. \nSee the name index in box 3 for an alphabetical listing.","Subjects of the correspondence include: \nestates, \nlottery - Susquehanna Canal, \nlottery - Union College, \nlottery - Wilmington College, \nlottery - smallpox vaccine institute, \npolitics, \ndeaths, \nmail schedules, \nbusiness affairs, \nelections, \napprentice, \nand vaccine legislation.","The diary of William Sommerville is in three parts, each representing a calendar year.","1. january 1 to december 24, 1810; pages 1-209 \nmissing pages:  23-30, 55-76, 83-84, (page 84 occurs twice, numbered second time), 92-93, 96-97, (page 107 occurs twice), 110-115, 120-125, 127-130, 140-143, 158-161, 164-173, 180-187, 190-200, 207-208)","2. january 1 to december 31, 1811; pages 1-205 \nmissing pages:  7-8, 11-14, 31-36, 47-48, 51-54, 61-62, 67-68, (page 70 not numbered), 108-119, 124-129, 136-137, 142-143, 160-161, 164-173, 180-181, 190-199, 202-203","3. january 1 to december 26, 1812; pages 1-195 \nmissing pages:  34-39, 58-59, 74-79, 88-89, 133-134, 140-145, 154-155, 164-167, 176-179","People mentioned or commented on in the Diary include: \npersons in politics and government on the national and local levels; \nlocal residents; \nmembers of the Sommerville family; \npost office clients and officials; \nmilitary personnel; \nRevolutionary War veterans; \nNew York, Baltimore, and local newspaper editors; \nlocal doctors and doctors associated with the smallpox Vaccine Institution; \nministers of various church denominations; \nand government officials in France and England.","Subjects mentioned or commented on in the Diary include: \npost office business; \nfamily affairs; \nbirths; \nmarriages; \ndeaths; \napprentice[s]; \nslaves; \nagricultural products; \nmethods, prices, and labor; \nelections; \ngeneral store; \nweather (daily); \nMartinsburg and its residents (frequently); \nmills; \ntaverns; \neuropean affairs; \npatriotism and Americanism; \nchurches; \nschools; \nreminiscences about the Revolutionary War; \nopinions on ministers and religion; \nlotteries -- Vaccine; \nlotteries -- Delaware; \nlotteries -- Susquehanna Canal; \nlotteries -- Washington Monument; \nlotteries -- Union College; \nlotteries -- Wilmington College; \ntravel; \nmilitia muster and draft; \nWar of 1812 -- cause; \nWar of 1812 -- local and national reaction; \nWar of 1812 -- battles; \nand government policy.","Includes letter (1799) from Sarah Brown to William Sommerville; \nand letters (1832-1888) between William Sommerville's daughter Elizabeth Sommerville (Edwards) and William B. Edwards, including their daughter and others.  William B. Edwards was a Methodist circuit rider.","Subjects include personal and family affairs, churches and the ministry, Martinsburg, and slavery, among other topics.","Includes transcribed extract from William Sommerville's diary dated March 1811 (undated); genealogy notes regarding members of the Sommerville family from the 17th century (undated); and Civil War poetry in manuscript, including \"Stonewall Jackson's Way\" (undated).","Manuscript compilation of facts and clippings regarding the Brown, Sommerville, and other families.  Family documented include predominantly Brown, Edwards (from Virginia), and Somerville (from Ireland).  This compilation seems to have been created in the late 19th century.","pages a-j:  estates, including Merida Edwards (1812), William Edwards (1755), and George Edwards (1780).","pages 1-20:  family register, including James Edwards (ca.1750-1851), John Arnold Edwards (1777-1855), William Ballthrop Edwards (1809-1888), John Sommerville (1710-?), and William Sommerville (1756-1826).  The section on William Sommerville includes extensive biographical information, including a narrative about his Revolutionary War service, and four pages of extracts from his journal (diary) (1794, 1810-1812); the entry for 15 July 1811 mentions Lawrence A. Washington, who was to settle for some time near Charleston, (West) Virginia on the Kanawha River.  The family register also includes entries for William Brown (1765-1806), Reverend John McClelland (?-1798), and for later Sommerville family members.","page 21:  \"Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment, Minute of Service in the Revolutionary War\" (brief narrative by William Sommerville)","pages 22-23:  marriage certificates for William Brown and William Sommerville","pages 23-40:  miscellaneous genealogical information, including manuscript signatures, Scottish ancestry, and family crests (coat of arms)","page 41:  Confederate service by family members","pages 42-43:  obituaries for William Edwards (1809-1888)","pages 45, 47:  obituary for Elizabeth Edwards (1812-?)","Photo of U.S. Army sergeant (1944) separated to Photograph Collection","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. 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weather; news of family and friends; and the War of 1812.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe calendar of correspondence, titled \"minute of letters\" by its creator William Sommerville, consists of letter abstracts in seven sections.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. \"minute of letters received\"; march 9 to december 28, 1811; pages 4-28\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n2. \"minute of letters wrote\"; february 3 to december 14, 1811; pages 1-24\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n3. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 10 to december 29, 1810; pages 1-16\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n4. \"minute of letters wrote\"; january 5 to february 2, 1811; pages 1-3\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n5. \"minute of letters received\"; january 3 to september 19, 1810; pages 1-12\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n6. \"minute of letters [received]\"; september 29 to december 29, 1810; pages 13-18\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\n7. \"minute of letters received\"; january 12-26, 1811; page 19\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents and persons recorded in the calendar of correspondence include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmen in public office on the national and local levels,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlocal residents,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmembers of the Sommerville family,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nRevolutionary War veterans,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nnewspaper editors,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nand Post Office clients and officials.\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nSee the name index in box 3 for an alphabetical listing.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects of the correspondence include:\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nestates,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlottery - Susquehanna Canal,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlottery - Union College,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlottery - Wilmington College,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nlottery - smallpox vaccine institute,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\npolitics,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\ndeaths,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nmail schedules,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nbusiness affairs,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nelections,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\napprentice,\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e\nand vaccine legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe diary of William Sommerville is in three parts, each representing a calendar year.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e1. january 1 to december 24, 1810; 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Edwards, including their daughter and others.  William B. Edwards was a Methodist circuit rider.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include personal and family affairs, churches and the ministry, Martinsburg, and slavery, among other topics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes transcribed extract from William Sommerville's diary dated March 1811 (undated); genealogy notes regarding members of the Sommerville family from the 17th century (undated); and Civil War poetry in manuscript, including \"Stonewall Jackson's Way\" (undated).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eManuscript compilation of facts and clippings regarding the Brown, Sommerville, and other families.  Family documented include predominantly Brown, Edwards (from Virginia), and Somerville (from Ireland).  This compilation seems to have been created in the late 19th century.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages a-j:  estates, including Merida Edwards (1812), William Edwards (1755), and George Edwards (1780).\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003epages 1-20:  family register, including James Edwards (ca.1750-1851), John Arnold Edwards (1777-1855), William Ballthrop Edwards (1809-1888), John Sommerville (1710-?), and William Sommerville (1756-1826).  The section on William Sommerville includes extensive biographical information, including a narrative about his Revolutionary War service, and four pages of extracts from his journal (diary) (1794, 1810-1812); the entry for 15 July 1811 mentions Lawrence A. Washington, who was to settle for some time near Charleston, (West) Virginia on the Kanawha River.  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Accretions: MSS 2338, MSS 2338-a, MSS 2338-b, MSS 2871, MSS 2338-c, MSS 2338-d, MSS 2338-e, MSS 2338-f.","The most recent addition (ViU-2017-0179) that is represented in this finding aid is arranged chronologically.","The collection centers around the family of John Teackle of Kegotank (1753-1817) and his wife Elizabeth Dennis Teackle (1760-1811) and their children  from the Eastern Shore (Somerset County and Accomack County of Maryland). Their granddaughter, Elizabeth Ann Teackle (daughter of their son Littleton Dennis Teackle (1777-1848) and his wife Elizabeth \"Eliza\" Upshur (1783-1835), married Aaron Balderston Quinby in 1839.","Both families came to Virginia and Maryland from Great Britain around the same time, were owners of enslaved people and were probably related through cousins.  Genealogy: Arthur Upshur (1624-1709) was born in Essex County, England. He immigrated to the Eastern Shore of Virginia about 1637. His descendants for the next five generations remained on the Eastern Shore.  The Teackle family goes back to Thomas Teackle (1624-1695) who came to the Eastern Shore from Gloucester, England. They are related to the Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. ","The collection is reparative in that Elizabeth Upshur Teackle was an exemplary independent woman and poet. It is also reparative because the Teackle family enslaved many people, who are mentioned in the letters. ","The Voices of the Eastern Shore project headed by Dreanna Belden sums it up well, \"Topics such as: slavery, women's history, home life, the economy, the War of 1812, social life, religion, health, and death – the letters encompass virtually every aspect of society that informs our understanding of the era.\" ","Children of John Teackle of Kegotank,Maryland and Elizabeth Dennis: \nLittleton Dennis Teackle (1777-1848) m. 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","In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six  Elizabeth Upshur Teackle  letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from  William Wirt , esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her husband, Mr. Teackle, was sent to prison in Baltimore, the circumstances surrounding his imprisonment and those responsible for it, and the actions and support of their family friends. She writes to two government officials making appeals on behalf of her husband for his release from prison. Mrs.Teackle also writes about the return home of her husband from prison and some of their experiences after his return, as well as her desire to see her family.","Addition ViU-2024-0134 has its own scope and content note and bio note. It contains a handwritten document listing enslaved people and 8 letters among family members particular the Teackle and Bancker family members.","The records for the rest of the collection can be found here:","MSS 2338, MSS 2338-a, MSS 2338-b, MSS 2871 -  Quinby ,  Teackle , and  Upshur  families of  Somerset County ,  Maryland , and  Accomack  and  Northampton  Counties,  Virginia  papers: \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3928667","MSS 2338-c - Papers of the  Quinby Family : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3928668","MSS 2338-d -  Accomack County , Land Patent: \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u4367998","MSS 2338-e - Genealogy of the  Evans Family : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3927001","MSS 2338-f - Letter to  Mary Emma Justis Sturgis : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u2674611 http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00995.xml","1825  and  1842  letters from  Henry Clay  to  Littleton Teackle  and  Aaron Quinby  (2 folders) interfiled in the Henry Clay Papers","An  1826 Mar 29  letter from  James Madison  to  Littleton Teakle  (1 folder) interfiled in the James Madison Papers.","Six  Elizabeth Upshur Teackle  letters with transcriptions, one of which is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. 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Mrs.Teackle also writes about the return of her husband from prison and some of their experiences after, as well as her desire to see her family.","These letters are also available online at the Voices of the Eastern Shore website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/VOESH/","In this letter Mrs. Teackle includes a copy of a June 1822 letter in her own hand.","This addition (ViU-2024-0134) to MSS 2338, Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur Families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia Papers includes one legal document and eight handwritten letters from the Teackle and Bancker family. Correspondents are Elizabeth Dennis Teackle Montgomery, Littleton Dennis Teackle, John Teackle, and William White Bancker. Letter recipients are Elizabeth's sister, Sarah Upshur Teackle Bancker, Henrietta Bancker, Aunt Hetty (Esther Maria Fisher Teackle), and Messrs. Blair from the Maryland House of Delegates. 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Mrs. Teackle in the letters mainly discuss the hardships of her family after her husband, Mr. Teackle, was sent to prison in Baltimore, the circumstances surrounding his imprisonment and those responsible for it, and the actions and support of their family friends. She writes to two government officials making appeals on behalf of her husband for his release from prison. 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The eight remaining letters are originals, postmarked on their exterior. \u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are also available online at the Voices of the Eastern Shore website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/VOESH/\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The larger collection consists of the original materials and 7 additions including the most recent one represented in this finding aid. ","In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six  Elizabeth Upshur Teackle  letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from  William Wirt , esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her husband, Mr. Teackle, was sent to prison in Baltimore, the circumstances surrounding his imprisonment and those responsible for it, and the actions and support of their family friends. She writes to two government officials making appeals on behalf of her husband for his release from prison. Mrs.Teackle also writes about the return home of her husband from prison and some of their experiences after his return, as well as her desire to see her family.","Addition ViU-2024-0134 has its own scope and content note and bio note. It contains a handwritten document listing enslaved people and 8 letters among family members particular the Teackle and Bancker family members.","The records for the rest of the collection can be found here:","MSS 2338, MSS 2338-a, MSS 2338-b, MSS 2871 -  Quinby ,  Teackle , and  Upshur  families of  Somerset County ,  Maryland , and  Accomack  and  Northampton  Counties,  Virginia  papers: \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3928667","MSS 2338-c - Papers of the  Quinby Family : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3928668","MSS 2338-d -  Accomack County , Land Patent: \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u4367998","MSS 2338-e - Genealogy of the  Evans Family : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3927001","MSS 2338-f - Letter to  Mary Emma Justis Sturgis : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u2674611 http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00995.xml","1825  and  1842  letters from  Henry Clay  to  Littleton Teackle  and  Aaron Quinby  (2 folders) interfiled in the Henry Clay Papers","An  1826 Mar 29  letter from  James Madison  to  Littleton Teakle  (1 folder) interfiled in the James Madison Papers.","Six  Elizabeth Upshur Teackle  letters with transcriptions, one of which is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. Mrs. Teackle in the letters mainly discuss the hardships of her family after her husband, Mr. Teackle, was sent to prison in Baltimore, the circumstances surrounding his imprisonment and those responsible for it, and the actions and support of their family friends. She writes to two government officials making appeals on behalf of her husband for his release from prison. Mrs.Teackle also writes about the return of her husband from prison and some of their experiences after, as well as her desire to see her family.","These letters are also available online at the Voices of the Eastern Shore website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/VOESH/","In this letter Mrs. Teackle includes a copy of a June 1822 letter in her own hand.","This addition (ViU-2024-0134) to MSS 2338, Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur Families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia Papers includes one legal document and eight handwritten letters from the Teackle and Bancker family. Correspondents are Elizabeth Dennis Teackle Montgomery, Littleton Dennis Teackle, John Teackle, and William White Bancker. Letter recipients are Elizabeth's sister, Sarah Upshur Teackle Bancker, Henrietta Bancker, Aunt Hetty (Esther Maria Fisher Teackle), and Messrs. Blair from the Maryland House of Delegates. 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Accretions: MSS 2338, MSS 2338-a, MSS 2338-b, MSS 2871, MSS 2338-c, MSS 2338-d, MSS 2338-e, MSS 2338-f.","The most recent addition (ViU-2017-0179) that is represented in this finding aid is arranged chronologically.","The collection centers around the family of John Teackle of Kegotank (1753-1817) and his wife Elizabeth Dennis Teackle (1760-1811) and their children  from the Eastern Shore (Somerset County and Accomack County of Maryland). Their granddaughter, Elizabeth Ann Teackle (daughter of their son Littleton Dennis Teackle (1777-1848) and his wife Elizabeth \"Eliza\" Upshur (1783-1835), married Aaron Balderston Quinby in 1839.","Both families came to Virginia and Maryland from Great Britain around the same time, were owners of enslaved people and were probably related through cousins.  Genealogy: Arthur Upshur (1624-1709) was born in Essex County, England. He immigrated to the Eastern Shore of Virginia about 1637. His descendants for the next five generations remained on the Eastern Shore.  The Teackle family goes back to Thomas Teackle (1624-1695) who came to the Eastern Shore from Gloucester, England. They are related to the Admiral Lord Nelson (1758-1805) who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. ","The collection is reparative in that Elizabeth Upshur Teackle was an exemplary independent woman and poet. It is also reparative because the Teackle family enslaved many people, who are mentioned in the letters. ","The Voices of the Eastern Shore project headed by Dreanna Belden sums it up well, \"Topics such as: slavery, women's history, home life, the economy, the War of 1812, social life, religion, health, and death – the letters encompass virtually every aspect of society that informs our understanding of the era.\" ","Children of John Teackle of Kegotank,Maryland and Elizabeth Dennis: \nLittleton Dennis Teackle (1777-1848) m. 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","In this addition, ViU-2017-0179, are six  Elizabeth Upshur Teackle  letters with transcriptions. Five letters are written by Mrs. Teackle, and one is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from  William Wirt , esquire. In the letters Mrs. Teackle mainly discusses the hardships of her family after her husband, Mr. Teackle, was sent to prison in Baltimore, the circumstances surrounding his imprisonment and those responsible for it, and the actions and support of their family friends. She writes to two government officials making appeals on behalf of her husband for his release from prison. Mrs.Teackle also writes about the return home of her husband from prison and some of their experiences after his return, as well as her desire to see her family.","Addition ViU-2024-0134 has its own scope and content note and bio note. It contains a handwritten document listing enslaved people and 8 letters among family members particular the Teackle and Bancker family members.","The records for the rest of the collection can be found here:","MSS 2338, MSS 2338-a, MSS 2338-b, MSS 2871 -  Quinby ,  Teackle , and  Upshur  families of  Somerset County ,  Maryland , and  Accomack  and  Northampton  Counties,  Virginia  papers: \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3928667","MSS 2338-c - Papers of the  Quinby Family : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3928668","MSS 2338-d -  Accomack County , Land Patent: \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u4367998","MSS 2338-e - Genealogy of the  Evans Family : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u3927001","MSS 2338-f - Letter to  Mary Emma Justis Sturgis : \n https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u2674611 http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00995.xml","1825  and  1842  letters from  Henry Clay  to  Littleton Teackle  and  Aaron Quinby  (2 folders) interfiled in the Henry Clay Papers","An  1826 Mar 29  letter from  James Madison  to  Littleton Teakle  (1 folder) interfiled in the James Madison Papers.","Six  Elizabeth Upshur Teackle  letters with transcriptions, one of which is addressed to Mrs. Teackle from William Wirt, esquire. 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Mrs.Teackle also writes about the return of her husband from prison and some of their experiences after, as well as her desire to see her family.","These letters are also available online at the Voices of the Eastern Shore website: https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/VOESH/","In this letter Mrs. Teackle includes a copy of a June 1822 letter in her own hand.","This addition (ViU-2024-0134) to MSS 2338, Quinby, Teackle, and Upshur Families of Somerset County, Maryland, and Accomack and Northampton Counties, Virginia Papers includes one legal document and eight handwritten letters from the Teackle and Bancker family. Correspondents are Elizabeth Dennis Teackle Montgomery, Littleton Dennis Teackle, John Teackle, and William White Bancker. Letter recipients are Elizabeth's sister, Sarah Upshur Teackle Bancker, Henrietta Bancker, Aunt Hetty (Esther Maria Fisher Teackle), and Messrs. Blair from the Maryland House of Delegates. 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