Episodes Nearest to January 1, 1822 to December 31, 1822: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. Life on the Mississippi
    date 1822map LAFOURCHE, Louisianatags Crime/Violence, Education

    When Jean Pearce moved to Louisiana from New York, he had high expectations. Pearce moved his family south in order to live near his brother and get education for his children. Plagued by illness and bad luck, Pearce moved his family away from his brother and took a job as an overseer at a secluded plantation on the Mississippi River. In his new surroundings, Pearce learned through the murder of...

  2. Sudden Jump in Southern Church Membership
    date 1822map ABBEVILLE, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery

    After years of meetings focused on the business of dealing with church members who struggled with drunkenness or loose morals, the minutes of the Turkey Creek Baptist Church took a fairly drastic turn into the nineteenth century, showing records of meetings now consumed with the granting of fellowship to slaves.  Almost every entry in the mid-nineteenth century included some account of “a woman...

  3. Community: The Saving Grace of Slavery
    date 1822map KENT, Marylandtags Slavery, Community, fugitive slave

    Huddled beneath a large, decrepit tree in the woods, Isaac Mason was closer to freedom than ever before.  He had escaped his master, which seemingly should have been the hardest part of his journey.  However, Mason found himself desperately trying to convince his fellow fugitives that freedom was worth it—worth the wait and worth the nerves.  Mason’s whole future, and his freedom, was on...

  4. Col. Cumming and Mr. M'Duffie Duel
    date June 8, 1822 to June 18, 1822map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Politics, Migration/Transportation

    On June 8, 1822 in Savannah, Ga. Col. Cumming and Mr. M'Duffie carried out a long anticipated duel over a political dispute. M'Duffie was shot in the back (he lived) and Col. Cumming was not injured. M'Duffie was a congressman for South Carolina at the time, and would later become governor of the state. Original reports sent back to Charleston anticipated that M'Duffie would die...

  5. Sports of the Turf
    date May 12, 1822 to May 13, 1822map PRINCESS ANNE, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In Portsmouth, Virginia the Greens Course hosted a series of horse races on Friday, June 15, 1822. The American Beacon and Commercial Daily posted advertisements for the event starting a month before officials scheduled for it to take place. This allowed time for news to spread throughout the region. It cost 20 dollars to enter a horse into the race, but owners who lived within a 50 miles...

  6. Alexander Ross writes of his travels as a Fur Trader.
    date May 1, 1822map TERRITORY, Territorytags Ross, Alexander, fur trade, Economy

    The value of furs and peltries were increasing, causing many adventurers to travel abroad and engage in the fur trade.  Alexander Ross was raised in Scotland on his father’s farm. In 1804, He left for Quebec where his journey led him from being a schoolmaster to that of a fur trader. In 1822, in a letter to his sister, Alexander Ross wrote about his regrets, travels, and misfortunes abroad. All...

  7. Controversial Mail in Tennessee
    date September 7, 1822map WILLIAMSON, Tennesseetags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    On September 7, 1822, The Independent Gazette explained that Proposals have been issued for carrying the mail in Tennessee. According to the newspaper, people of Franklin would receive two mails a week, instead of thesix previously received (one from the South to arrive every Tuesday and one from Nashville, every Wednesday). Such a modification would cut economic and commercial links, and actually,...

  8. Religion in the Piney Woods
    date September 8, 1822map PERRY, Mississippitags Church/Religious-Activity

    In the early 1820s, the Carter family of Georgia migrated with their aging mother to Piney Woods, Mississippi, a rural backcountry 40 miles from Mobile, Alabama along the Pascagoula River. In letters to family who remained in Georgia religion was frequently mentioned; Evangelical Christianity was central to the Carter family. In 1822, we had regular preaching this year once in three weeks within...

  9. The Republic Woman and the public sphere in the early 1800s.
    date March 2, 1822map SUFFOLK, Massachusettstags Women, women's rights

    Susan Thoughtful wrote to the editor of The Euterpeiad on March 2, 1822 to ask a few simple questions about the position of men and women in the republic society. She wondered how women were considered for government positions and how it affected the ideals of marriage. Thoughful questioned for example, a woman named Elizabeth Bartlett. Since she ran for office for the Register of Deeds,...

  10. Traveler Surprised to See Companion Survive Illness
    date December 21, 1822map NELSON, Virginiatags African-Americans, Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Science/Technology, Slavery

    Nathaniel Blaine, a resident of Nelson County, Virginia, received a letter from his friend Richard Perkins, who had been traveling by horse and buggy. Dated December 21, 1822, the letter described some of the details of Perkins' journey, including an illness that befell one of his traveling companions, Betty: "...all well exept bety and she has bin very sick on the road hardly expected...

  11. Bank Notes: The Second Bank of the United States
    date March 7, 1823 to March 8, 1823map WESTMORELAND, Virginiatags Economy, Government

    William Booth Taliaferro, a resident of Norfolk, Virginia sent a letter on March 7, 1823 to Mr. Richards, the manager of finances of the George Washington Estate of Westmoreland County, Virginia. In the letter, Taliaferro informed Richards that he received the manager's previous letter enclosed with a check. In Richards's previous letter, he made the check to Taliaferro for 840 dollars....

  12. New Rector at Eatonton Academy
    date October 21, 1821map JASPER, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    On October 12, 1821, Secretary William Williams of the Eatonton Academy sent a letter of inquiry to the residence of Iveson Lewis Brookes. The content of the letter, as authorized by the Eatonton Academy Board of Directors, asked Brookes to move from his estate in Bibb County, Georgia, to Jasper County, Georgia, in order to serve as the Rector of the Academy. Secretary Williams' letter began...

  13. Iveson L. Brookes Appointed Rector of Eatonton Academy
    date October 12, 1821map PUTNAM, Georgiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Education

    The evangelical explosion weaved and cemented itself through the South during the 18th century. Hundreds of thousands of Southerners followed the flourishing Christian principals, and Iveson L. Brookes was no different. He encountered the tenants of the Baptist tradition and became a devout follower. Brookes completed his coursework from the University of North Carolina in 1819 and spread the Baptist...

  14. Education in the Nineteenth-Century South
    date September 15, 1821map LOUISA, Virginiatags Education

    Philip Saint George Ambler copied the poem Ode to Spring from Anacreon in September 1821. Copying poetry was a common part of education in the early nineteenth century. This practice would have taught not only poetry, but also handwriting and Greek mythology. Philip was one of John Ambler's sons; his education was a private education in which a tutor came to their house to educate the Ambler...

  15. Sunday School: The Only Remedy
    date February 1, 1823 to November 3, 1823map FRANKLIN, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Education, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    There was a buzz around town about free education on Sundays. Sunday School proved to be popular because it was beneficial for all sects and denominations. The advertisement posted in the Independent Gazette informed readers that school would be offered on Sundays, free of charge. According to the advertisement, "the school will be opened under the direction of the Board of Managers, for the...

  16. Threshing Machines of Virginia
    date March 16, 1821 to November 2, 1821map FREDERICK, Virginiatags Agriculture, Science/Technology

    In Virginia, during the period before industrial boom, new techniques for threshing wheat were becoming more and more popular. The technique that had remained relatively unchanged since Biblical times was, after the wheat was harvested, to have it trodden upon by horses, cattle, or oxen. This practice was slow, tedious, and left dirty grain that only numbered in about five bushels a day per laborer....

  17. Oration Delivered to the Charleston Riflemen
    date July 4, 1821map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Government, Slavery

    Robert Elfe, Esq. delivered an oration to the Charleston Riflemen about where America has been and where it is going. In the printed version, he used terms such as liberty and fellow citizens in bold face all caps, suggesting that these are words he emphasized in his speech. He spoke on the importance of government, stating Man's elevation or depression in society is the effect of good or bad...

  18. Keeping it in the Family: Slave Inheritance
    date 1823map BRUNSWICK, Virginiatags Economy, Slavery

    With the exception of slaves with certain bargains, William Gilliam willed all slaves, land and stock to John William Gilliam around 1823. It was important to William Gilliam that his estate, stock and slaves remained in his family. He promised it to his relative upon his twenty first birthday; and he emphasized that the slaves could not be removed from the estate until that time. It was also important...

  19. Blackburn in Gallatin
    date 1821map SUMNER, Tennesseetags Church/Religious-Activity

    In 1821, Gideon Blackburn, a very talented Presbyterian itinerant preacher, also known for his proposal to establish a school for Cherokee children, came to Gallatin. More than 300 people where there to listen to him. According to the judge Jo C. Guild, who attended the meeting, he was the most powerful and eloquent minister he had ever heard.

    Religion was considered as one of the most important...

  20. The Mississippi in Flood
    date July 2, 1823map OUACHITA, Louisianatags Agriculture, Economy

    Financial ruin courted the planters of Ouachita and Concordia Parishes in a taunting dance of destruction in the summer of 1823. The Mississippi River, so vital to the economic profit of the sugar and cotton plantations along its banks, flooded and overflowed the fields of both parishes. Whole crops were ruined. According to B. Levy & Company's Price Current, published in the Baltimore Patriot...

  21. Mid-Autumn Musters
    date 1821map ALBEMARLE, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, War

    On consecutive weekends in October 1821, two companies of Albemarle militia held their yearly musters. On the first Saturday of the month, a company of artillery headed by Captain F.B. Dyers gathered at an old field in the countryside. This muster was the first ever of Dyer's troop. At the session, matters of moment pertaining to the company as a whole were submitted to the men. A week later,...

  22. Mrs Elizabeth Crockett's Poisoning
    date June 1, 1821 to June, 1821map MONTGOMERY, Tennesseetags Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    Elizabeth Crockett, a member of one of the most famous families in Tennessee, died of blood poisoning in 1821. On June 1, 1821, a special court, held in Clarksville, Montgomery County, charged two slaves owned by Mr. William Sullivan with having killed Elizabeth Crockett. According to The Watchman, a Tennessean newspaper: the court and jury were occupied until about eleven o'clock, on Thursday...

  23. Mills and the Woolen Industry
    date May 11, 1821 to May 12, 1821map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    M.H. Rice posted an advertisement in The Richmond Enquirer titled Wool Wanted. Rice claimed that cash will be paid for good, clean wool. In the expanding population of the early nineteenth century the demand for woolen cloth kept well ahead of its productive capacity. In response to the increased demand for wool, a boom in mill construction occurred across America. According to...

  24. The Portsmouth Fire of 1821
    date March 21, 1821map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    At around 2:45 a.m. on the morning of Wed., March 21, 1821, a fire broke out in the kitchen of a vacant tenement on the corner of Main and Market Streets in Portsmouth, Virginia. The Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald of Friday, March 23 reported that owing to the violence of the wind, which was blowing at the time a perfect gale from S. S. W., and the combustible nature of the buildings, the...

  25. The Huger House Fire in Clermont, South Carolina
    date March 17, 1821map SUMTER, South Carolinatags Health/Death, Slavery, Women

    On March 17, 1821, a woman named Harriet Lucas Huger penned an affectionate letter to her aunt, Mrs. Harriott Horry, thanking her for expressing concern over the family's well-being. Just days earlier, a catastrophic fire had destroyed the Huger's plantation home in Clermont, South Carolina; upon finding this out, Mrs. Horry had written a letter to her niece to ensure the Huger family's...