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Scope and Contents Two separate letters from B. W. Leigh and Catherine Matthews, Petersburg and Staunton, to John Coalter.

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Scope and Contents Speaking of himself as an "ex-judge," Tucker advises John Coalter regarding his new appointment; concern for the health of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish...

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Scope and Contents Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern about her mother's health.

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Scope and Contents News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish...

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Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter's poor health.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents The nine letters discuss troubled times are reflected in this series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on the American privateer with one nine-pounder which took a British schooner armed with four twelve pounders. In August he gives an account of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was broken into and prisoners assassinated. He writes that such action "is beyond measure horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen ought to set his face against such damnable...

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Scope and Contents Two letters concerning the sale of Elm Grove.

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Reflects the uncertainty of the war situation in his letter.

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Scope and Contents Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal springs.

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Scope and Contents Writing to his daughter before she goes to the Springs for her final siege of illness, St. George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had left the waters about Williamsburg after much destruction and property along the river.

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Scope and Contents In these letters it is apparent that Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.

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Scope and Contents Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.

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Scope and Contents Three letters from Joseph C. Cabell, Mary W. Cabell, Edgewood, and Wm H. Cabell, Monte Videa. Reports of the war: "the conduct of the British at Craney Island was the most cowardly imaginable," and "We have just been informed by rumor that the British Squadron in the Chesapeake has been reinforced..."

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The cover has the date and "J. Randolph, Jr." endorsed on it with the seal containing the Randolph Coat of Arms.

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Writes of his "great and irretrievable loss" his wife died "on Sunday evening, the 12th instant."

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Scope and Contents The first letter was written after the death of St. George Tucker's daughter.

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To her granddaughter, the second child of John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in the folder with this letter.)

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Scope and Contents She writes that "the events of the present week will supply to you the want of a Mother and Sister, which you have so severly felt, particularly in the last six or eight months." Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T. Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a widow Williamson.

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Scope and Contents Second is titled "Tucker-Green Annals."

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of John Coalter and his third wife while he was serving as Circuit Court Judge; correspondence of their daughters, Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, with parents and grandparents. Subseries finishes with the fourth marriage of John Coalter. Interesting comments on the effect of the embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found in these letters. There is also a report of the destruction wrought in Bruton Parish...

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Scope and Contents The Tuckers are in their summer home at Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph Cabell.

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A New Year's greeting to his granddaughters.