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Title |
Letter |
Dates of Creation |
December 12, 1839 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed Dec 12th 1839 and mailed at Hardin's Tavern, from Mary Gilmer to her daughter, Emma Breckinridge, at Catawba near Fincastle. Account of her journey home from Botetourt by way of the Watts family at Oaklands, the visits with friends in Bedford County, on to Amherst Court House, Nelson Court House, etc.. Tells of her son William taking cattle to Richmond to sell for a better price then available locally, and mentions prices of wheat, flour, and cattle. Tells story about sale of a "provoking and lazy negro" and how he was sold at auction for $400. A short story about Preacher Cobbs and his wife selling pigs for less then they were worth. She saw her son John on the way home, he has a "bad sore" on his leg and about a letter she received from "poor little Peach" who has improved on her writing. |
Year Range from |
1839 |
Year Range to |
1839 |
Subjects |
Cattle Cattle markets Clothes Family news Flour Gossip Horse teams Letters Off-road vehicles Pork Sale Sale of cattle sale of flour sale of pigs sale of slave(s) sale of wheat Sausages Tavern charges Toll bridges Travel Wheat |
Search Terms |
Amherst Court House Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge) Fincastle Hardins Tavern (Albemarle County, Virginia) Liberty (now Bedford), Virginia Nelson Court House Richmond, Virginia |
People |
B, Mr. [Breckinridge] Beale, Charles Beale, Mr. Beale, Mrs. Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Burwell, Mr.? Burwell, William Cobbs, Mr. ( clergyman ) Cobbs, Mrs. Donald, Mr. Gilmer, John Gilmer, Lucy Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Gilmer, Mary Peachy Gilmer, WIlliam Holt, Col. Holt, Mrs. Lewis, Mr. ? Mosely, Mrs. ? Oliver Radford, Mr. Radford, William Sale, Mr. Sale, Mrs. Saunders, Mrs. Steptoe, Edward Steptoe, Frances Steptoe, Mrs. Steptoe, William Taylor, Mr. Terry, Mr. [?] Terry, Mrs. Watts, James Watts, Mr. Wharton, Mrs. |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
005\196951255.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.255 |
Extent of Description |
Four leaves, size 7 1/2" x 12 1/2" |