- keyword(s): Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
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Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. Louis, Mo., to St. George Tucker, 1816 August 11
Made a purchase of a small trait of land at a low price. Commoner of town on St. Charles. Am associated with other gentleman who mean to buy land for about three miles on which we expect to create a true Virginia settlement. Can raise corn, wheat and oats, and use prairie for hay. Polly hopes to have both sisters join her.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. Charles County, to St. George Tucker, 1819 September 26
Panic of 1819. Too much rain. Country sickly. Some extremely ill. Some gone back to South Carolina. Difference in piety among society when he was young and now. Recommends sermons by Chalmers called Astronomical Discourses.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Glenburnie, St. Charles to St. George Tucker, 1820 January 31
Busy with court. Bar is superior to all but Richmond's. Holmes Conrad is with him. All slaves but one with him. One is left at St. George.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Glenburnie, St. Charles to St. George Tucker, 1820 November 20
Arteries full, but veins empty. Mr. Coalter and family back. Others settling near them. William Preston's Negroes are partly here and partly on the road. Legislature only inadequate to the task of organizing government.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Glenburnie, to St. George Tucker, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1824 December 18
Wife in Virginia and will stay there. Wife's religious beliefs. His own and St. George Tucker's.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Glenburnie, to St. George Tucker, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1826 January 13
St. George Tucker has chill-blains. Nathaniel Beverley Tucker's jaws still locked. Thanks for wine.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, South Point to niece Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, 1826 August 16
Feud between Bet (Elizabeth Tucker Coalter) and her cousin. (Eliza Naylor?) Wants them to settle it.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, South Point, Mo. to St. George Tucker., 1826 October 30
Did not mean to disrespect uncle by not mentioning him in letter. Health good except for mouth. Mr. Naylor's second daughter dead. Has been called upon to practice medicine in neighborhood.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker. South Point, Mo., to Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, 1826 October 31
Glad she has gotten the religious pamphlet. Concerned about an acquaintance of his brother. Wife has beautiful carpet in the loom.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, South Point, Missouri to Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, 1827 March 8
His religious pamphlet. Has written sermons. Caroline C. wants sermons. She has gone from this dark wilderness to the broader light of S. Carolina. James is come.
Mary Coalter Tucker and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, to St. George Tucker, 1820 July 5
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker arrived yesterday. Sister McPheeters still poorly. Nathaniel Beverley Tucker had a most distressing journey. Exposed to rain and the most intense heat. Was not in the convention. Missouri Convention going on as well.
Duff Green, Washington, to Judge Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Fredericksburg., 1833 October 24 and November 9
Scope and Contents Political discussion; states rights; hopes for new edition of his father's Blackstone. Scrapbook p. 66.
John Randolph of Roanoke, Georgetown, to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1816 April 15
Upset at letter. Concerns relationships. Didn't think he was serious in proposal. Had long conversation in December with Mrs. R of Bizarre.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. Louis, to John Coalter, Richmond, 1816 September 24
Wife Mary (Coalter) Tucker and niece Eliza Naylor recovered. Babies are now angels in heaven. Worm fever, from detestable orchard near the house, attacked all the family. Has not heard from them since he left Kentucky. Note added the 25th says wife had slight chill and fever.
Carter Coupland, Richmond, to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. Charles, 1819 March 23
David Coupland has relinquished his intention of settleing in Missouri. Encloses power of attorney.
Carter Coupland, Richmond to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, St. Louis, 1819 March 28
Report on John Randolph of Roanoke. Reading law with Benjamin Watkins Leigh? B will be sent by Jefferson to France and England to catch schoolmasters for the University of Virginia.
John Randolph, Washington, D. C., to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1822 January 2
Estrangement from mother's second family. Religion. Distance and time erase the strongest attachments. Has no knowledge of Henry St. George Tucker's connections. Not invited to house where his dead sister's children live (niece and nephew). Family against him. Wants to make a suitable provision for his slaves. Congratulations on his state appointment. D? left because infatuation with a woman. D.? practice had been neglected and taken away by Yankees.
J. A. McPheeters, New Madrid, to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1822 June 15
Much detained. Stayed two days at St. George and four at Jackson. Describes land. Boards with a decent family. Possibly of practicing medicines.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Winchester, to John Randolph of Roanoke, 1825 May 16
Thankful John Randolph wants him to return from exile. "My feelings are entirely Virginian . . . recent attempts to destroy her constitution to which I look with veneration such as I feel for none of the institutions of the United States. Congratulates John Randolph on termination of affair with Webster.
H. Chamberlin, St. Louis, Mo., to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1826 July 29
Affairs between him and Mr. G still not settled. Has two contradictory statements.
Robert William Wells (1795-1864) to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1827 April 7
Silly to have gotten angry with an old friend at Calloway Court. Has secret for training a horse. Has a handsomely rigged boat. Lead mines.
William G. Pettus, St. Charles, to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1827 September 12
As soon as Lynch returns, the chair shall be commenced and sent to you.
Doctor Nathan Kouns, Fulton, Missouri to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1827 December 10
Saddlebags case.
William G. Pettus, St. Charles, to Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, 1827 December 22
Unable to get whiskey from St. Louis. Sends a barrel of best in town. Merry Christmas.
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Williamsburg to St. George Tucker, Winchester, 1801 July 25
Glad he reached Alexandria. Heard from sister Fanny. Misses Maria and Lelia Byrd found town destitute of beaux and left. Only students he knows are Messrs Edmunds, Johnson and Leigh. Leigh and the Bishop wrote a piece of the 4th of July. Has read Hume three times and now is reading Smollett’s Continuation. Finds him dry and dull and may quit him for Belsham. Sheet contains letters also by Charles Carter and Henry St. George Tucker.