Daniel French Slaughter papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Terms of access:

There are no restrictions

Preferred citation:

Daniel French Slaughter papers, 1827-1885, MSS 15438, Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia

Summary

Extent:
.04 Cubic Feet 7 folders in one half of a legal size document box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Daniel French Slaughter papers, 1827-1885, MSS 15438, Small Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Virginia

Background

Scope and content:

This collection of the Daniel French Slaughet papers, 250 items, one half-size legal document box, .04 cubic feet and contains the business and family correspondence of the Slaughter family, the Winston family and papers related to slavery, and the Civil War. There is also correspondence of Lewis Rogers to John Rogers and Charles Cocke to Jeremiah Morton.

Slaughter business and political correspondence Virginia Governor John M. Patton.

Biographical / historical:

Daniel French Slaughter 1805-1882 was a Senator of Virginia from 1828 to 1836, in the House of Delegates from 1846 to 1847, Director of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, and a farmer and slave owner in Culpeper, Virginia.

He married Letitia Madison in 1825 and had two children, Phillip Madison Slaughter and James Edwin Slaughter (politician). Letitia died in 1828 and Daniel was remarried to Mary Winston. They had five children Eliza French Slaughter, John Mercer Slaughter, Mary Wallace Slaughter, Caroline Slaughter, and Daniel Alexander Slaughter.

Daniel French Slaughter 1858-1963 was the son of Alexander Slaughter and married Caroline Nelson Strother, and was also a politician in Virginia.

Acquisition information:
This collection is a gift from John Thornton to the Small Special Collections at the University of Virginia Library on August 16, 2012.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged by each family (Slaughter and Winston) and then by type of material, business, and family papes, documents, slave papers, Civil War letters, indentures, and miscellaneous

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard