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Size | 20 items |
Abstract | John Rust Eaton was a planter of Granville County, N.C., representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder. The collection is two letters from John Rust Eaton to his father Charles Rust Eaton (1743-1822), and seventeen letters to John Rust Eaton--one from William H. Winder (b. 1775), two from Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837), eight from James Winchester (1752-1826), three from James Somervell, one from Robert Marion (1766-1811), and one from Benjamin Williams (1754-1814). Subjects discussed include national politics and relations with England, horse breeding, tobacco and cotton farming in Tennessee, land Eaton owned in Tennessee and prices of other land there, and prices of farm products in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. |
Creator | Eaton, John Rust, 1772-1830. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Tim West, August 1992
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-1992.
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Planter of Granville County, N.C., representative of Granville County in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1801, 1802, and 1812, and horse breeder.
Back to TopTwo letters from John Rust Eaton to his father, Charles Rust Eaton (1743-1822), and seventeen letters to John Rust Eaton--one from William H. Winder (b. 1775), two from Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837), eight from James Winchester (1752-1826), one from William Richardson Davie (1756-1820), three from James Somervell, one from Robert Marion (1766-1811), and one from Benjamin Williams (1754-1814). Subjects discussed include national politics and relations with England, horse breeding, tobacco and cotton farming in Tennessee, land Eaton owned in Tennessee and prices of other land there, and prices of farm products in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Most of these letters were published in James Sprunt Historical Publications, vol. 9, no. 1 (1910), pp. 27-59, with an introduction and notes by J. D. de Roulhac Hamilton, and a copy of this publication is included with the papers.
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