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Title |
Letter |
Dates of Creation |
January 20, 1837 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed "Leigh, January 20, 1837" and mailed from Hardin's Tavern from Mary Gilmer to her daughter, Emma Breckinridge, Catawba. Tells of Judge Carr's death, of farm business, of receiving canal damages for land in Fluvanna, of trouble with a Negro who threatened a white man and then ran away, and feeling she must sell him even though he is one of "the smartest Negroes for work on the plantation." This is a very interesting comment on the problems of slavery for the owners as well as the slave. She also told of William's visit and his trip to Richmond and of Lucy's progress at school. |
Year Range from |
1837 |
Year Range to |
1837 |
Subjects |
Beef Boarders Boarding houses Boarding schools Boats Bond Canal construction Canals Coopering tools Damage to property Death Families Family news Friends Ice Ice houses Illness Meals Money Parties Pies Pigs Plum puddings Pork Rooming houses Slave fugitives Slave markets Slave owners Slave sale Slavery Slaves Tobacco Travel Turkeys Wheat |
Search Terms |
Alabama Buckingham County, Virginia Catawba (home of Cary and Emma Gilmer Breckinridge) Fincastle, Virginia Hardins Tavern (Albemarle County, Virginia) Leigh, residence in Albemarle County, VA New York Richmond, Virginia Staunton, Virginia |
People |
Bouldin. Wood Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Breckinridge, Mary Ann Breckinridge, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Cabell, Judge Cabell, Miss Cabell, Miss E. Carr, Judge Carr, Mrs. ? Cochrane, Mr. Daniel, W. Duval, Mrs. Edwards and Company Garrett, Mrs. Gilmer, A [Ann] H. Gilmer, John Gilmer, Lucy Gilmer, Mary (Polly) House Gilmer, Peachy Ridgway Gilmer, WIlliam Gooch, Tom Harrison, Mrs. Leigh, Tom Leigh, Watkins Lewis, Mr. ? Lewis, Mrs. Lindsey, Millie Mitchell, Mr. Mumford, Mr. Persico, Mrs. Randolph, Sarah Robertson, Mr. Taylor, Mrs. Terrill, Lucy Watts, James Winn, Alonsa and Gooch, Inc. |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
005\196951215.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.215 |
Extent of Description |
1- 4 pages, size 9 3/4" x 7 3/4" |