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Tennessee Governor Willie Blount wrote this letter to Benjamin Homans, J. E. Smith, and William Blagrove of Boston, Massachusetts on November 22, 1810. In it, Blount thanks the men for sending him a copy of a speech given to the Bunker Hill Association in Boston (he does not mention who gave the speech) and expresses his appreciation for the organization's work.

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This collection houses a manuscript entitled Babyhood of Knoxville by William A. Henderson describing how the city of Knoxville was founded and how it flourished between the early 1700s and the early 1900s.

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This collection houses a letter written by Peter Staub, then the mayor of Knoxville, to the Trustees of East Tennessee University in reference to Knoxville's inability to collect outstanding taxes.

Scope and Contents Note Knoxville, October 26th 1795SirThe time you propose for sending the Powder, Lead, and other Articles for the Indians is as soon as I could expect. I did not recollect the order to you as to the mode of authenticating deliveries to Indians. My only object in mentioning Col. McKee is as the person in whose presence such deliveries should be made was because I knew he would be at the spot where the delivery was ordered to be made. It was not an Inclination to infringe on...

Scope and Contents Note No 337 Dollars 345William Blount Governor in and over the Territory of the United States south of the river OhioTo David Henley Esquire Agent for the Department of war.Pay to William Dickard Paymaster pro tem to the Troops in the Territory aforesaid, three hundred and forty five dollars out of the money in your hands appropriated for the defensive protection of the frontiers, for the pay of a Company of Infantry commanded by Captain Joseph Shaw of the...

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Wm. Blount presents his comp.ts to Mr. Hamlin -- requests the few of his compound to dine with tomorrow at 3. O'Clock.

Fryday Mor.g

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This collection consists of a lined double-page handwritten list of military documents sent from an unknown source to Memphis, Tennessee, dated December 1, 1864 to March 10, 1865. Listed are monthly returns, troop movements, transportation reports, letters of inquiry, transfers, receipts, and casualty lists. There are several references of reports sent to William Schouler, the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts during the Civil War.

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This collection contains a five-page genealogy sketch of the John Campbell family of Washington County, TN, from the 1780s to the 1940s . It includes lists of family members and dates, as well as some background information and anecdotes.

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This collection is made up of two receipts, each for a three-dollar, 52-week subscription to the Knoxville Enquirer newspaper, including the first two years of publication. The receipts are made out to “Gen. A. Jackson”.

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This collection contains a handwritten excuse for a student absence from Cooper D. Schmitt, a well-known professor at the University of Tennessee.

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This collection contains three pieces of correspondence signed by Senator John H. Eaton, including a request for a pension transfer, a transfer of money, and a letter discussing the sale of tracts of land.

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A single handwritten letter from James J. Vauln in LaGrange, Tenn. to General Ulysses S. Grant in Memphis, Tenn. dated June 23, 1862. Vauln, a deacon of the American Catholic Church in LaGrange, pleas for permission to continue his church services, as the new brigadier general had forced him to stop holding services.

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This collection contains two letters written by Cave Johnson to the editor of The Globe in Washington City regarding his subscription to that newspaper.

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This collection contains a handwritten letter from Gerard Troost to his friend Julius Ducatel, introducing another friend, Nathaniel Cross. Troost and Cross were professors in Nashville at the time, and Ducatel was a professor in Baltimore.

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This collection consists of an indenture deed of conveyance for Robert M. and Issac N. Swan for a parcel of land in Cleaveland [Cleveland], Bradley County, Tennessee. The deed, buying lot number twenty-two at a cost of eighty-one dollars, is signed by all nine of the Bradley County Commissioners.

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This collection contains a letter written in early 1862 by Joseph D. Hickey of Newport, Tennessee to the Hon. James T. Heiskell asking for any information about his son John M. Hickey, whom he had not heard from since the beginning of the Civil War.

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This document records the dissolution of the partnership between F.S. Heiskell and his brother-in-law Hugh Brown. The two founded a printing firm and created one of the earliest newspapers in Knoxville, Tennessee,

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This collection contains a two-part letter, the first part from a Lt. Lambert addressed to "Major Bills", introducing Captain J. W. Stewart and asking for any help Bills might provide in seeking volunteers for the Tennessee Artillery Corps. Stewart penned the second part, further explaining his aims for recruiting volunteers.

The letter is addressed from Forest Hill and Grand Junction, both small towns in Tennessee.