Upshur, A. P. (Abel Parker), 1790-1844
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
James Barron Papers (I)
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 B27
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Commodore James Barron relating to his career in the United States Navy, and especially relating to The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair in 1807 and to his duel with Stephen Decatur. Collection includes photocopies of patents issued to Barron for his inventions and a typescript of William Oliver Stevens' An Affair of Honor, a biography of Barron. Correspondents include John Adams, Jesse Duncan Elliott, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Duff Green and Abel...
Dates:
1766-1899
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Francis J. Mallory Letter to Abel P. Upshur
Collection
Identifier: SC 00546
Scope and Contents
Francis J. Mallory to Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy, where he recommends the son of a friend for a naval warrant. October 7, 1841.
Dates:
1841 October 7
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Moncure Robinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 65 R56, 77-14
Scope and Contents
Personal and professional papers of Moncure Robinson dealing mostly with management of Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in which he held controlling interest. Prominent correspondents include James Buchanan, Washington Irving, Dennis Hart Mahan, Winfield Scott and Abel Parker Upshur. Also included is the correspondence of his father, John Robinson (including letters from William C. C. Claiborne), his brothers, Cary, Edwin, Conway and Eustace Robinson and his brother-in-law John...
Dates:
1787-1889
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Southall Papers
Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. 39.1 So8
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Southall family of Williamsburg, Va. including correspondence, 1828-1830, of Peyton Alexander Southall but mostly comprised of the legal correspondence, 1831-1851, of George Washington Southall and documents concerning lawsuits and civil proceedings in many Virginia counties and including account books, 1832-1846, of George Washington Southall. Prominent correspondents include Lemuel Jackson Bowden, Richard Coke, John Augustine Deneufville, Thomas Roderick Dew, George Frederick...
Dates:
1807-1904
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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- Correspondence 3
- Financial records 2
- United States. Navy--History--19th century 2
- Account books 1
- Agriculture--Southern States--History--19th century 1
- Appointments (military records) 1
- Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, 1807 1
- Civil engineering--United States--History--19th century 1
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States 1
- Dueling--Virginia 1
- Inventions--History--United States 1
- Lawyers--Virginia--History 1
- Legal documents 1
- Letters of recommendation 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Merchants--Virginia--19th century 1
- Notebooks 1
- Patents--United States 1
- Receipts (financial records) 1
- Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad 1
- Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 1
- Typescripts 1
- United States. Navy--History--Tripolitan War, 1801-1805 1
- Virginia--Politics and Government 1
- Williamsburg (Va.)--History--19th century 1 + ∧ less
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