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I used your arguments in Blackstone relative to the division of counties. All the petitions for new counties have failed. Know you were pleased at the failure of the Bank Bill. Col. Monroe will be supported if the majority of the Republican party are for him. Miss Polly Bush showed me your letter respecting the piano. It has never been sent down from Warminster. I will remove it to Williamsburg.

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I left on Thursday after the interment of my sister. We came home by water. My folks are better.

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Received $924.30 from E. S. Waddey and placed is to your credit.

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Am enclosing certificates of the stock purchased.

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Sorry you have not received the coffee. It will be delivered.

Scope and Contents Occasionally visits sister's (Anne Frances Bland Tucker Coalter) children and their husband but loss of sister saddens her. Joseph Cabell was at Bush Hill on day of funeral. Lives solitary life. John St. George Randolph is well and hopes to visit Tuckers. My abandon intention of going to a boarding house. Mrs. Carrington's is full. St. George is at a boarding house. Tucker's handwriting: "This is her last letter to me. She was taken ill not long after and died about the ninth or tenth of...

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Epidemics and sickness over the country. Mr. Brigham, an old federal representative from Mass. died today. Self had cholera morbus. Has been quarrelling with brother John Randolph and must ask father several questions about mother's dower, if she made a will, if father ever had any accounts with brother and how they now stand. Was he a guardian. Glad father approved his remarks on the treaty question.

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Thanks him for letter. Affairs in Germany and Spain. Prevention of war is preparedness. Regret apathy toward militia. Contemplates a respectable navy by appropriation a million a year for eight years. Captain Sinclair ordered survey of New York for naval depot. Monroe gains for presidency. Proposed tariiff considered too high here. Nancy (Anne Claiborne Bassett?) sends regards.

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Sorry Mrs. Tucker is unwell. Maybe a visit to Bush Hill this spring would help her. Mr. Brown promises to forward the set of bills.

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Requests assistance in connection with shares in Philadelphia Insurance Co. he placed in hands of friends of friends E. and J. Perot. To be held in their names subject to order of sisters, Elizabeth and Mrs. Frances Tucker Tucker. New charter of institution permits no alien to hold shares. Does not wish them in own name. Requests considering this an ackknowledgment that property belongs to sister. Includes 1816 March 13 copy of St. George Tucker. memo concering shares.

Scope and Contents Heard from Henry St. George Tucker St. George suffered attack of influenza. Also mentioned sister's (Lelia Skipwith Carter Tuckersensibility to noise distressing. Medical advice. Friends Margaret and Sarah Dashiell and mother (Mrs. Wilson) always desire to be remembered. 1816 March 1. Grieved for sufferings of sisster and consequent anxieties of St. George and her daughter (Mary Walker Carter Cabell). Thomas Jeffferson had several attacks of headache with extreme sensibility to light....

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This series is currently being added to the Box/Folder List section of the finding aid. Please check back periodically for updates. This series contains the correspondence of St. George Tucker, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman, and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. The series is arranged in chronological order.