Box 9
Contains 33 Results:
Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginia to William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 January 25
Scope and Contents Reports on health of slaves; refers to weather and plowing; refers to difficulty in getting cotton; other plantation news.
Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 February 15
Scope and Contents Refers to illness at plantation; refers to plowing; reports on cloth woven; other family news.
Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 March 5
Scope and Contents Reports on planting of crops; other news.
Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 March 25
Scope and Contents Reports on work on fence; refers to making of clothes; reports on planting; other news.
Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 April 14
Scope and Contents Reports on planting; refers to fire on plantation; refers to runaway slaves; other news.
Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1844 April 28
Scope and Contents Reports progress of crops and sales; refers to timber cut; other news.
Francis Jerdone, Bloomsbury, Va. to his brother, William Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, 1844 May 19
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.
John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginiato his brother, William Jerdone, Suipher Springs, Va., 1844 July 22
Scope and Contents Reports on health of the family; has discharged ?] Reynolds overseer?]; advises to accept proposal; other family news.
John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, Virginia, 1844 August 6
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.
John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling", Charles City County, Virginia, 1844 November 20
Scope and Contents Reports on crops; refers to payment from Dr. Price; other family news.
John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling", Charles City County, Virginia, 1844 November 24
Scope and Contents Discusses possibility of instituting new suit against Price.
John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, Richmond, Virginia, 1844 December 16
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.
Richard Hill, Richmond, Virginia to William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 2
Scope and Contents Reports having hired two men to Major Snead for $80 each.
Geo. Pottie, Pottiesville, Louisa County, Virginia to his cousin, William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 10
Scope and Contents Discusses paying debt with two slaves.
Richard Tucker, overseer of "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 13
Scope and Contents 2 pages. Letter. Reports delivering men to Mr. Hall in Richmond; reports on repairing fence; refers to livestock; other news.
William Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginiato his cousin George Pottie, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 18
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."
Richard Tucker, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginia to William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 January 29
Scope and Contents Possibly in another hand. Reports on ploughing; refers to livestock; reports filling ice house; other news.
Richard Tucker, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 February 15
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.
Maria C. Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to her father, William Jerdone, 1845 March 4
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.
John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginia, 1845 March 6
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.
Eliza Merrill?, Oswego, New York to Anna E. V. Burfitt, Troy, New York, 1845 March 18
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.
Louise May, Middlebury, Vermont to Anna Burfitt, "Female Seminary," Troy, New York, 1845 April 3
Scope and Contents Advise on male interests; reports on local gossip; discusses desire to move to Virginia as teacher.
John Jerdone, Spotsylvania County, Virginia to his brother, William Jerdone, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginia, 1845 April 4
Scope and Contents Reports on children and health of family; relates progress of crops; refers to court case against Hart, Collins; other family news.
Richard Tucker, "Mount Sterling," Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 May 13
Scope and Contents (Possibly not in his hand.) Report on crops; refers to fish caught; other news.
Richard Tucker, Charles City County, Virginiato William Jerdone, Louisa County, Virginia, 1845 May 21
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.