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Hereford of Sufton Court

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Description: Extensive genealogy of the Hereford family, beginning with a history of their origins in England. Includes color illustrations of Hereford family members and typescripts of wills, land grants, and some correspondence. In addition to the Hereford genealogy, the volume includes detailed excursus for the families of Ammon, Ball, Barnes, Beale/Carter, Berry, Brice/Shaw, Bohun, Bronaugh, Chunn, Cole, Doherty, Flowerree, Foote, Garner, Garnett, Genhry, George, Harrison, Kerns/Boyer, Lewis, Mason, Mauze/Mauzey, McClung, Miller, Mockbee/Cook/Hailey, Moise/Loomis, Newman, Page, Patterson, Percy, Reynolds, Shaffer, Shirling, Stribling, Shove, Stone/Short, Strother, Valdez/Rocha and Washington. Includes index. With the volume is a separate sheet of errata. Bound in book form.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1995.
Call number: mssHM 78053
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Typescripts of letters by Margaret Short Hereford Wilson

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Typescripts of letters by and relating to Margaret Short Hereford Wilson from originals held by the Huntington Library. The letters span 1840-1892 and include those written to Margaret's first husband Dr. Thomas A. Hereford, second husband Benjamin Davis Wilson, mother Esther Short Sale, and other family members. The majority of Margaret's letters were sent from California, but others were written from Tuscumbia, Alabama; during her travels in Mexico (1850); and during her trip to New York on the steamer Illinois and subsequent stay in St. Louis (1856). Also includes some letters from family members to Margaret. Included with the letter transcripts are genealogical notes on the Herefords, Pattons, Wilsons, and Shorbs, a biography of Benjamin Davis Wilson, and an index. Bound.

mssHM 78052

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Practical Geometry

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A volume with autograph diagrams, plans, and maps in ink and color; with one map laid in: "...Plan of Topography of forty square miles with a Brigade Encamped...finished by A. Brice Nov. 18, 1784," and one map removed and placed in a separate portfolio: "The Attack and Defeat of the American fleet under Benedict Arnold...upon Lake Champlain the 11th Oct. 1776." Also laid in portfolio: 1901 newspaper clippings about Benedict Arnold which were removed from volume. The Geometry volume is inscribed: "Alexander Adair Brice his Father's Book given him by his Mother - 1806."

mssHM 972

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Alabama Courts. Franklin County. Appointment of Thomas A. Hereford as guardian for minor heirs of Thomas Sublette Hereford. Russelville, Ala

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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents and maps related to the life and business affairs of Benjamin D. Wilson. Subject matter includes business and social life in California (1850-90), Indian affairs in Southern California (1852-56), the wine industry, the Santa Fe trade, the estate settlement of Solomon Sublette, and the early history of Pasadena, San Marino, and Wilmington, California. There is also a great deal of personal correspondence from Wilson's wife Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson, his daughters Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb, Ruth Wilson Patton, and Annie Wilson, his son John B. Wilson, Ruth's husband George S. Patton, Sr., and many of Margaret's Hereford relatives. Also included are diaries kept by Margaret, Ruth, and Annie Wilson. Other individuals represented in the collection include Phineas Banning, Edward Fitzgerald Beale, Joseph Lancaster Brent, Cave Johnson Couts, Stephen Clark Foster, John Charles Fŕemont, John S. Griffin, William McKendree Gwin, Benjamin Hayes, Henry Edwards Huntington, George S. Patton, Jr., and Jonathan Trumbull Warner.

WN 1147.

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Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson. Letter to Thomas A. Hereford

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WN 1369.

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Edward Sublette Hereford. Letter to [Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson]

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WN 399.

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[Edward Sublette Hereford]. Letter to [Margaret S. Hereford Hereford Wilson]

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WN 402.

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