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Box 4

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Folder 2, 1830-1831

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131092
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, 1645-1917, of the Gardiner family, the Gilmer family, the family of St. George Tucker (1828-1863) and miscellaneous other people unrelated to the Tylers, Tuckers, Gilmers, or Gardiners. Boxes I-III contain papers (many are typescript copies) of the Gardiner family of New York. Include letters of Juliana McLachlan Gardiner, her sons David Lyon Gardiner, Alexander Gardiner and daughter Margaret Gardiner Beeckman. Boxes IV-V contain papers, 1814-1842, of the...
Dates: 1830-1831

Thomas Walker Gilmer, Richmond, Virginia, to Ann E. Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1830 January 5

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131093
Scope and Contents

Relates his meeting with her relative, Miss Baker; wishes she was with him; complains of his ill health; discusses the purchase of a family Bible; asks whe she has not written. 3 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1830 January 5

James Hector, Giles County, Virginia, to Thomas Walker Gilmer, 1830 January 11

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131101
Scope and Contents

Asks for some money in return for his services in identifying the surveys of the Loyal Company; believes the surveys to be worth $50,000 of which his commision would be $4,000. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: 1830 January 11

Thomas Walker Gilmer, Richmond, Virginia, to Ann E, Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1830 February 1

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131102
Scope and Contents

Asks her to come down and stay with him for the remainder of the legislative session; discusses all the preparations required for her trip. 3 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1830 February 1

James Hector, Giles County, Virginia, to Thomas Walker Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1830 February 1

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131103
Scope and Contents

Asks for the legal services for Gilmer regarding tracts of land in Montgomery that he wishes to purchase; gives an account of past owners and transactions of the land in question. 3 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1830 February 1

J.E. Haleer, to Thomas Walker Gilmer, Staunton, Virginia, 1830 July 29

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131104
Scope and Contents

Requests that Gilmer inform him of the amount paid for a survey made on a tract of land for Mr. Walters. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: 1830 July 29

Thomas Lawson, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Thomas Walker Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1830 August 31

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131105
Scope and Contents

Informs him of the receipt of the Order of Account from Staunton for the Loyal Company case; asks if there are any other defendants interest in the result of the account who should be notified. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: 1830 August 31

Thomas Lawson, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Thomas Walker Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1830 September 11

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131106
Scope and Contents

Asks the court date for settlement of the debts owed the Loyal Company be moved up as he does not believe that it will be possible to notify all the defendants 30 days before the present court date; asks for a complete list of the defendants and their addresses; discusses arrangements for settlement of the case. 2 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1830 September 11

Thomas Walker Gilmer, to father,, 1830 October 9

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131107
Scope and Contents

Discusses the prospects of procuring security for his father to purchase some land; does not believe the accumulation of debt to be a good idea; proposes plans to keep his father happy in his old age. 4 pp. Incomplete.

Dates: 1830 October 9

Thomas J. Boyd, Wythe Court House, Virginia, to Thomas Walker Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1830 November 4

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131108
Scope and Contents

Discusses legal arrangements to be made in the absence of General Preston; suggests that Gilmer should publish his "sketch of the Loyal Company" in the Abingdon paper so as to give everyone the facts in the case; promises to see to it that any effort in the Legislature to abolish the Company's claim will be defeated. 2 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1830 November 4

Thomas Walker Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, to Thomas Lawson, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 1830 December 2

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131110
Scope and Contents

Discusses the case of the Taylors; sends a copy of G.C. Taylor's bond; asks that he return the copy of the Journal as soon as possible; discusses Mr. Pratt's case. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: 1830 December 2

Thomas Walker Gilmer, Richmond, Virginia, to Ann E. Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1831 February 13

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131111
Scope and Contents

Complains that she does not write as often as she should; discuses the arrangements for her move; describes visits with her friends; asks about the possibility of enlarging their family; discusses the possibility of retiring from public life. 3 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1831 February 13

Thomas Walker Gilmer, Richmond, Virginia, to Ann E. Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1831 March 18

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131112
Scope and Contents

Discusses at length his renewed need for a closer relationship with God; mentions the depravity of the world and his own; begs her to also consider these religious matters. 3 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1831 March 18

Thomas Lawson, Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Thomas Walker Gilmer, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1831 September 14

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131118
Scope and Contents

Discusses arrangements to deliver to Gilmer the papers of the Loyal Company v. Walker case; asks that his fee of $40.43 be forwarded to him by Mr. Botts. 1 p. ALS.

Dates: 1831 September 14

Application for a pension, 1831 October 12

 Item — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Identifier: id131663
Scope and Contents

For William Jordan, signed by Alexander Garrett, Albemarle County Court House, Virginia. 2 pp. ADS.

Dates: 1831 October 12