Abstract This collection consists of several documents written by or pertaining to Alabama Congressman David Hubbard. There are two letters written by Hubbard in the collection. There is also a letter written on the page of a published address by David Hubbard and other Democrats in Alabama supporting Martin Van Buren in the upcoming presidential election. Also included is a legal document pertaining to Hubbard's success as a Congressional candidate in the polls. The collection also contains one...

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Josiah Meigs, then acting as the United States Surveyor General, wrote this letter to the General Land Office of the State of Alabama on February 24, 1820. In it, Meigs instructs Alabama and Mississippi to continue surveying the boundary between their two states.

Abstract In the first of these letters, W. B. Lewis tells Earl that the orders Earl sent were not the orders that he wanted. He goes on to explain that he needs copies of the orders that the Secretary of War sent to General Gaines. In the second letter, A. J. Donelson describes his and Andrew Jackson's movements, relates military news, expresses his distaste for Blakely, Alabama (from whence he is writing), apologizes for leaving before his portrait was completed, and sends his respects to Earl and...