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Box 1

 Container

Contains 70 Results:

n.d. Portraits, clippings, and currency.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22242
Scope and Contents

Various items concerning the Powell and Hepburn families: an engraved portrait of Leven Powell; a photograph of Sewell S. Hepburn; an 1882 obituary of Amory Houghton; several clippings on lineage of Buchan-Hepburn, Hepburn of the Hooke, Hepburn surname, and Hepburn of Colquhalzie, and a clipping from the Southern Churchman on the Sewell & Hepburn lineages; and a Confederate $10 bill.

Dates: 1775-1870

18 July 1802.  Leven Powell, Middleburg, Va., to Mrs. Sarah Powell, Leesburg, Va.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22216
Scope and Contents

Loss of Sally’s child; health of "Negro Sally". Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

4 April 1783.  Stevens Thomson Mason to Leven Powell.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22187
Scope and Contents

Requests Powell's support in an upcoming election. Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

12 April 1803.  James Madison to Robert R. Livingston.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22217
Scope and Contents

Discusses Powell’s claim on the French government for losses incurred because they stopped the mail. Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

30 May 1833.  James H. Causten to Cuthbert Powell.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22228
Scope and Contents

Causten is the general agent of the claimants against France.

Dates: 1775-1870

16 December 1775.  “Memo of guns.”

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22179
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of...
Dates: 1775-1870

n.d. List of names, beginning with Joseph West.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22177
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of...
Dates: 1775-1870

2 January 1801.  Leven Powell to Burr Powell, 1801 January 2

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22205
Scope and Contents

Money owed by tenants to Leven Powell; compares Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson; in his decision for whom to vote, he will be governed by constituents' wishes.

Dates: 1801 January 2

January 1829.  Notes on the “Claim on France” by Burr Powell.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22223
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of...
Dates: 1775-1870

21 August 1777.  Peter Grant to Leven Powell.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22184
Scope and Contents

Describes the inoculation cabin and the difficulty of getting soldiers. Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

20 May 1862.  Charles L. Powell, Jr. to his father.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22237
Scope and Contents

[This letter may be a copy made in 1870s or 1880s.] “I left Jackson’s army at Shenandoah Mountain..." Would not be able to join Rockbridge Artillery now. Sending letter by Dr. Hunter McGuire.

Dates: 1775-1870

n.d.  Information on the Simms and Powell lineages; typed sheet with wording of the appointment of Leven Powell to rank of Lt. Colonel, 1/1777.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22243
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of...
Dates: 1775-1870

7 March 1793.  Collow Frères, Carmichael & Co., Havre, France, to Leven Powell concerning tobacco.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22192
Scope and Contents

Describes business agreements for purchasing tobacco. Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

9 November 1858.  Lloyd Powell, Henry, Ill., to “mother.”

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22235
Scope and Contents

Discusses multiple topics, such as the rainy weather, a comet that is passing nearby, and the state elections.  Mentions that his business is not doing well.  Asks her about their school.  Presbyterian minister Mr. Winn castigated the Episcopalians.  Charles is chewing tobacco.

Dates: 1775-1870

17 February 1801.  Thomas Fouch to Leven Powell.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22213
Scope and Contents

Discusses Aaron Burr versus Thomas Jefferson. Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

14 October 1862.  Selina Powell, Kenmuir,  to her mother.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22238
Scope and Contents

Mr. Gordon persuaded Mr. Powell to come take charge of Chapman’s education. Dr. McGuire talked to him about an hour before he fell. Both sons taken in their second battle.

Dates: 1775-1870

3 June 1778.  Dr. Griffith to Leven Powell at Valley Forge.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22185
Scope and Contents

There are good conditions at Valley Forge; appointment of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben as Inspector General; Tories leaving Philadelphia; Rhode Island to be evacuated; treaty with France. Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

12 February 1800. To Burr Powell, regarding the Jonathan Robbins case.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22198
Scope and Contents

Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

30 November 1783.  Stevens Thomson Mason to Leven Powell.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22188
Scope and Contents

Lawsuit and copy of laws. Includes typed transcription.

Dates: 1775-1870

July 1833. Printed form concerning the claims against France, filled in for James H. Causten by Cuthbert Powell.

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: id22229
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of...
Dates: 1775-1870