The American Beacon and Norfolk and Portsmouth Daily Advertiser of Thursday, December 11, 1823 contained two advertisements that concerned a new technology that would greatly change the speed with which Americans traveled their vast continent. Both advertisements concerned the establishment of steamship lines from Norfolk to important cities in the Chesapeake Bay region. The first of the...
After the First Seminole War and the United States' acquisition of Florida, the U.S. Government encouraged the self-governance of the Seminoles as a united tribe. As 1823 turned to 1824, Neamathla was the head chief of the Seminole Nation. This would not last, however. By July, he had been removed by the United States because of growing tension between him and the governor of the Florida territory,...
Floyd L. Whitehead saved an article that reviews Henry Clay's 1824 speech. Clay spoke on a major economic issue that began to drive the North and South further and further apart in the eras leading up to the Civil War - the tariff. Henry Clay argued in favor of the Tariff of 1824. He declared that the Union had diminished exports of native produce, the depressed state of our foreign navigation,...
Several citizens of upstate South Carolina approached the state assembly with a petition concerning a runaway slave of special concern to the region. Several years earlier a South Carolina citizen by the name of George Ford had been murdered by a slave named Joe (also called Forest) owned by a Mr. Carroll of Richland County. Both Mr. Ford's relatives, as well as the state, offered more than...
Charles Seton was still waiting for payment after the court ordered Eleazar Waterman to pay Seton for a loan and after he filed two petitions to the court to speed up the process. Waterman was in debt to Charles Seton for a couple of years. On June 11, 1823, the Superior Court of East Florida ordered the sheriff, James R. Hankam, to sell the slaves that belonged to Waterman. The slaves were supposed...
The Lady of Thebes Mummy was exhibited in Charleston and described in the Charleston Courier on January 31, 1824. The mummy was on a tour and had already visited Boston, Massachusetts. It's coffin was covered in hieroglyphics, and it was really a sight to see for the people of Charleston.
The ancient Egyptian burial rites were a whole different world to the white Christians of South...
The Mayor and Common Council of Annapolis declared a by-law to prevent the firing of guns within the city limits. The Mayor first informed the citizens of Annapolis on the by-law in an article published in the local paper, The Maryland Gazette, on March 25, 1824. The article permitted a week long period of time for news of the by-law to reach the people of Annapolis before the Common Council...
James O. Pattie, on a trip through the southwest of America, had been traveling in Pawnee territory for multiple days. After enjoying a peaceful time with the Pawnees, partaking in traditional Pawnee activities like the smoking of pipes and eating buffalo meat together, he was impressed with their hospitality and even went so far as to, in his travel notes, call the chief paternal.
Because...
During the summer of 1824, Annabella Porter sold seven bales of cotton to Joseph Gammill. She grew the cotton on her and her husband's plantation, Poplar Grove in Morgan County. The bales sold in two different bundles. The first totaled 1,399 lbs and the second added to 1,012 lbs, and Gammill paid 184.96 and 105.63, respectively. Mrs. Porter also subtracted on several charges because she paid...
"You wish to know how the Virginians live" wrote L.W. Howe to his brother John, of Enfield, Massachusetts on July 31, 1824. In meeting his brother's request, L.W. certainly provided an extensive account of the principal facets of life in the state of Virginia. Not only did he recount that the preferred beverage of the state was Whiskey, but he was mystified by the details of cooking...