Box 1
Contains 112 Results:
Letter: Alfred Balch, Sans Souci near Nashville, Tennessee, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, May 1831
More on the origins of Jackson's enmity for Crawford, dating back to 1818.
Letter: Whitfield Brooks, Edgefield Court House, South Carolina, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 16 May 1831
On money due Crawford from the sale of family property.
Letter: Bolling Hall, Ellerslie, Autauga County, Alabama, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 17 June 1831
On the dangers of Freemasonry.
Letter: William W. Holt, Augusta, Georgia, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 9 September 1831
Responding to a request for a legal opinion.
Letter: John Floyd, Bellevue, Camden County, Georgia, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 15 September 1831
John Floyd was a plantation owner in Camden County. He writes to decline his appointment as delegate to an anti-tariff convention in Philadelphia.
Letter: Bolling Hall, Ellerslie, Autauga County, Alabama, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 26 October 1831
On Jackson and the Anti-Masonic Party.
Letter fragment: Bolling Hall, n.p., to [William H. Crawford], n.p., undated
Conclusion of a letter whose remaining pages deal primarily with Masonry.
Letter: Bolling Hall, Ellerslie, Autauga County, Alabama, to William H. Crawford, Lexington, Georgia, 9 January 1833
Hall voices his support for nullification.
Letter: George M. Troup, Laurens County, Georgia, to William H. Crawford and others, n.p., 11 May 1833
Declining a nomination from Crawford and others to run for governor of Georgia.
Incoming family letters to William H. Crawford, 1804-1833
Includes letters from Peter Crawford (1804); N. Crawford (1804); David Crawford (1810); John Gerardine (1818 and 1825); Bennett Crawford (1826 and 1831); and Nathan Crawford (1833). David Crawford (1767-1821) and Bennett Crawford (1781-1845) were brothers of William Harris Crawford.
Incoming letters to Susanna Gerardin Crawford, 1834-1847
Susanna Gerardin Crawford was William H. Crawford's wife. Included is one letter from William H. Crawford, written 7 May 1833. Also included are six letters from daughter Caroline Crawford Dudley or from Caroline's own daughters.
Correspondence of Caroline Crawford, 1821, undated
Caroline Crawford (1805-1875) was the oldest child of William and Susanna Crawford.
Incoming letters to Eliza Ann Crawford, 1826-1845
Eliza Ann Crawford (1809-1860) was the third child of William and Susanna Crawford. Included in the folder are letters from sister Caroline Crawford Dudley, niece Mary Dudley, and brother William Bibb Crawford.
Correspondence of William Harris Crawford Jr., 1839-1867
William Harris Crawford Jr. (1813-1883) was the fifth child of William and Susanna Crawford. Included in the folder is a letter describing then death of brother Robert Crawford (1816-1847).
Incoming letters to Susan Crawford, 1832-1847
Susan Crawford (1819-1874) was the seventh child of William and Susanna Crawford. Included in the folder are letters from brother-in-law George Dudley, sister Caroline Crawford Dudley, niece Mary Dudley, and brothers Robert and William Bibb Crawford.
Incoming letters to Susan Crawford, 1847-1862
Included in the folder are letters from siblings Caroline Crawford Dudley, William H. Crawford, Jr., and William Bibb Crawford.
Correspondence of William Wyatt Bibb Crawford, 1839, 1867
William Wyatt Bibb Crawford was the eighth and youngest child of William and Susanna Crawford.
Miscellaneous family letters, 1828, 1867-1868
Documents from the Georgia legislature re the impeachment hearings against Charles Tait, 10 November 1806-29 November 1806
The charges were brought by John Clark against Crawford ally Tait, then judge of the superior court of Georgia's Western Judicial District. The report disapproving charges of impeachment was carried 53 to 3. On 2 December Clark challenged Crawford to a duel.
Power of attorney for Reuben G. Beasley to recover cargoes of several detained ships, from merchants of Petersburg, Virginia, December 1810
Letters and manuscripts forwarded to Crawford by Thomas Sumter, U.S. minister to Portugal, from Rio de Janeiro, 1815
Manuscript geological map of Brazil, showing route from Rio de Janeiro to the diamond district of Serra do Frio, undated
Docketed "For Wm. Maclure."
Manuscript copy of an agreement between France and the U.S. on whaling rights, 14 February 1819
In French, bearing the copied signatures of Louis XVIII and the comte Decazes. With docketing in Crawford's hand: "Mr Fox will translate within."
Manuscripts relating to W. H. Crawford's currency report of 1820, 1820
Includes an unsigned essay entitled "National Currency" commenting favorably on Crawford's report, and four letter fragments (some by Crawford?) treating various aspects of the currency and National Bank issues.
W. H. Crawford's share in the Washington Library Company, 1822
Bearing the signature of William Matthews.
William Turpin: Medical advice for W. H. Crawford, 30 September 1824
Recommending a strong decoction of Artemisia abrotanum (southernwood), used in a bath.
"Thoughts on M Wm. H. Crawford's Letter concerning Inter Mariage with the Indians, by a Ignorant Man", 1825
An unpublished pamphlet written in the wake of the 1824 presidential election, supportive of Crawford and his Indian policies from his time as secretary of war, especially his proposal of Indians' intermarriage with whites as preferable to expulsion or extinction.
Appointment of William Harris Crawford as judge of the Superior Courts of the Northern Circuit of Georgia, 10 November 1827
By the authority of John Forsyth, governor.