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Box 9

 Container

Contains 33 Results:

Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginia to William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 January 25

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190389
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports on health of slaves; refers to weather and plowing; refers to difficulty in getting cotton; other plantation news.

Dates: 1844 January 25

Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 February 15

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190390
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Refers to illness at plantation; refers to plowing; reports on cloth woven; other family news.

Dates: 1844 February 15

Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 March 5

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190391
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports on planting of crops; other news.

Dates: 1844 March 5

Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 March 25

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190392
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports on work on fence; refers to making of clothes; reports on planting; other news.

Dates: 1844 March 25

Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 April 14

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190393
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports on planting; refers to fire on plantation; refers to runaway slaves; other news.

Dates: 1844 April 14

Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 April 28

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190394
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports progress of crops and sales; refers to timber cut; other news.

Dates: 1844 April 28

Francis Jerdone, Bloomsbury, Va. to his brother, William Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, 1844 May 19

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190395
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports family health; refers to wife] Eliza's trip "down the country"; refers to weather and progress of crops; other family news.

Dates: 1844 May 19

John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginiato his brother, William Jerdone, Suipher Springs, Va., 1844 July 22

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190396
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports on health of the family; has discharged ?] Reynolds overseer?]; advises to accept proposal; other family news.

Dates: 1844 July 22

John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, Virginia, 1844 August 6

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190397
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Discusses Dr. Price's proposal; reports on health and crops; refers to dismissal of overseer and applicants for openings; other family news.

Dates: 1844 August 6

John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling", Charles City County, Virginia, 1844 November 20

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190398
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports on crops; refers to payment from Dr. Price; other family news.

Dates: 1844 November 20

John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling", Charles City County, Virginia, 1844 November 24

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190399
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Discusses possibility of instituting new suit against Price.

Dates: 1844 November 24

John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, Richmond, Virginia, 1844 December 16

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190400
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Requests William Jerdone settle account for him in Richmond; requests he take care of other errands for him; refers to weather; other family news.

Dates: 1844 December 16

Richard Hill, Richmond, Virginia to William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 2

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190404
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports having hired two men to Major Snead for $80 each.

Dates: 1845 January 2

Geo. Pottie, Pottiesville, Louisa County, Virginia to his cousin, William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 10

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190405
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Discusses paying debt with two slaves.

Dates: 1845 January 10

Richard Tucker, overseer of "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 13

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190406
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents 2 pages. Letter. Reports delivering men to Mr. Hall in Richmond; reports on repairing fence; refers to livestock; other news.

Dates: 1845 January 13

William Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginiato his cousin George Pottie, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 18

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190407
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Declines offer of slaves to pay debt; requests interest in spring; explains reluctance to own any more slaves; "My Negro property has increased so fast that in addition to what I hire out up in the county I am obliged to dispose of some in the same way from my Farm in Charle]s Cityas I have more than I can profitably employ there."

Dates: 1845 January 18

Richard Tucker, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginia to William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 29

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190408
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Possibly in another hand. Reports on ploughing; refers to livestock; reports filling ice house; other news.

Dates: 1845 January 29

Richard Tucker, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 February 15

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190409
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Possibly in another hand. Reports on ploughing and seeding; refers to slaughtering livestock and sale of meat; refers to sale of mule; reports progress of crops; other news.

Dates: 1845 February 15

Maria C. Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to her father, William Jerdone, 1845 March 4

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190410
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Expresses gratitude for things sent her; intends to do her lessons every day; requests him to look for a school for her to attend; expresses great desire to go to school; other family news.

Dates: 1845 March 4

John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginia, 1845 March 6

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190411
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Refers to trip from Richmond on train; reports weather and crop; refers to discovery of lice on horses; describes treatment for delousing; other family news.

Dates: 1845 March 6

Eliza Merrill?, Oswego, New York to Anna E. V. Burfitt, Troy, New York, 1845 March 18

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190412
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Praises Anna E. V. Burfitt as a good friend; discusses her difficulty in transition to Oswego; requests her Anna E. V. Burfitt] to visit; complains of Methodist preachers not being all the same; requests advice on books to read.

Dates: 1845 March 18

Louise May, Middlebury, Vermont to Anna Burfitt, "Female Seminary," Troy, New York, 1845 April 3

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190413
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Advise on male interests; reports on local gossip; discusses desire to move to Virginia as teacher.

Dates: 1845 April 3

John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginia, 1845 April 4

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190414
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Reports on children and health of family; relates progress of crops; refers to court case against Hart, Collins; other family news.

Dates: 1845 April 4

Richard Tucker, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 May 13

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190418
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents (Possibly not in his hand.) Report on crops; refers to fish caught; other news.

Dates: 1845 May 13

Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 May 21

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 6
Identifier: id190419
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents (Possibly not in his hand.) Reports on progress of crops and weather; refers to shearing sheep, hatching of turkeys and other references to livestock; refers to selection of school for Maria; other news.

Dates: 1845 May 21