Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1783-1862, of the Thomas Smith family of Powhatan County, Va., Kentucky, and Ohio. Includes typescripts of letters, 1841-1842, of James George Smith; typescript of letter, 1862, of Thomas E. Smith; constitution, 1798, of the Emigration Society; and letter, 1799, and address, n.d., of the Humane Society against slavery. The Marie M. and Edith W. Smith Papers are primarily the genealogical charts and notes used to trace ancestral lines to the twenty-five Sureties of the Magna Carta...

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James George Smith was a founder of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity at Miami College in Ohio from which he graduated in 1840. The letters were written while Smith was on a trip to Florida for reasons of health- tuberculosis. He recovered but died of cholera in 1849.

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Letter written December 5, 1862 from Callatin, Tennessee where he was serving in the U.S. Army.