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Captain John Winston Land Grant

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01344
Scope and Contents

700 acre Ohio land grant to Captain John Winston, after serving 3 years in the U.S. Army, Virginia Line. Signed by Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, James Madison, Secretary of State, and Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War.

According to an article in the Nov. 1, 1944 issue of The Flat Hat, the grant was written for John W. Price, William & Mary Class of 1823. The surname Price, however, does not appear on the document.

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Edward Coles Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.2 C68
Scope and Contents Typescript copies of letters and extracts, written by Edward Coles (1786-1868), who held the positions of secretary to President James Madison and Governor of Illinois. Subjects covered by the letters include James Madison and the War of 1812; Madison's not emancipating his slaves at his death; the claiming of public lands by individual states; the estate of James Monroe; Andrew Jackson; Thomas Jefferson's authorship of the Ordinance of 1787; and Jefferson's relationship with John Adams....
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James Madison, Sr. Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 39.2 M26
Scope and Contents Dates; 1792-1831, 1931; document and correspondence (some are copies). Includes letters between James Madison, Sr. (1723-1801) and his son President James Madison, Jr., his brother Bishop James Madison, Josiah Quincy, Robert Walsh, and others. Also includes engravings and prints of Madison and a "Report of the Overseers of Harvard University" commenting of the new constitution recently submitted to the people of Virginia. Letters discuss politics, family life in Virginia, religion, and other...
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James M. Owens Collection of Madison Family Material

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Identifier: Mss. 65 Ow2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, typescripts, and genealogical charts of James M. Owens concerning genealogy of the Madison family of Virginia with emphasis on President James Madison and Bishop James Madison. Includes photocopies of letters of President James Madison and Bishop James Madison; and two original letters, 1804 and 1832, of James Madison and one, 1846, of John Quincy Adams.

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Powell Family Papers, Hepburn Addition

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Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 2007.110
Scope and Contents This collection contains the correspondence of Leven Powell, James Madison, Charles Leven Powell, Charles Leven Powell, Jr., Selina Powell Hepburn, and others. Recipients include Burr Powell, Cuthbert Powell, Sewell Stavely Hepbron [Hepburn] and others. First 30 years of correspondence is mainly written by or addressed to Leven Powell, detailing his involvement in the Revolutionary War, the Virginia House of Delegates, and the United State Congress, including letters about the Election of...
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Conway Whittle Papers

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Identifier: Mss. 76 W61
Scope and Contents Papers of Conway Whittle II of Norfolk, Va. and of his two sisters, Mary Eliza Whittle Neale and Frances Munford Whittle Lewis. There are items concerning the earlier generation of the family, represented by Conway Whittle I and his brother Fortescue Whittle, Norfolk merchants. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of social history and naval history (including personal and official correspondence of William Lewis [1781-1815] and several letters of his...
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 3
Madison, James, 1751-1836 3
Madison, Dolley P., 1768-1849 2
Madison, James, 1749-1812 2
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
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Adams, John, 1735-1826 1
Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Conway Whittle 1
Dismal Swamp Canal Company 1
Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849) 1
Hepburn family 1
Ingersoll, Charles Jared, 1782-1862 1
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 1
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 1
Lear, Tobias, 1762-1816 1
Lewis, Frances Munford Whittle, d. 1870 1
Madison, James, Sr., 1723-1801 1
Mason, Stevens Thomson, 1760-1803 1
Mercer, Margaret, 1791-1846 1
Monroe, James, 1758-1831 1
Neale, Mary Eliza Whittle, d. 1861 1
Owens, James M. 1
Powell, Charles Leven (1804-1896) 1
Powell, Leven, 1737-1810 1
Preble, Edward, 1761-1807 1
Quincy, Josiah 1
Randolph, John, 1773-1833 1
Rives, William C. (William Cabell), 1793-1868 1
Tyler, John, Jr., 1819-1896 1
Tyler, Samuel 1
Walsh, Robert, 1784-1859 1
Whittle, Conway, 1800-1881 1
Whittle, Fortescue, 1776-1858 1
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