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Box 2

 Container

Contains 2 Results:

Letter from John Preston to James McDowell, August 29, 1794

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Content From the Collection: The Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers consist of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell of Rockbridge County, Virginia. The collection also includes a will of William Campbell Preston, an obituary of John Smith Preston and his photograph, and a circular asking for funds for a memorial in honor of John Smith Preston.Many of the...
Dates: August 29, 1794

Letter from John Preston at Greenfield to James McDowell, March 23, 1822

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Content From the Collection: The Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers consist of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell of Rockbridge County, Virginia. The collection also includes a will of William Campbell Preston, an obituary of John Smith Preston and his photograph, and a circular asking for funds for a memorial in honor of John Smith Preston.Many of the...
Dates: March 23, 1822