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Box 2

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Leven Powell, Washington, D.C., to Burr Powell, Middleburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, 1801 January 25

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 59
Identifier: id23010
Scope and Contents

Farm discussion, including beef prices, the threshing and distribution of clover seed, and amounts of corn coming in from tenants; tells of several days of debates in Congress over whether or not to continue the Sedition Law; doubts that it will pass, even though he voted wholeheartedly for it because he was "sure that my constituents were not afraid of a law which went to punish...

Dates: 1801 January 25