Episodes Nearest to September 7, 1822: 1 through 25 of 25
- Controversial Mail in Tennessee
September 7, 1822
WILLIAMSON, Tennessee
Economy, Migration/TransportationOn 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,...
- Religion in the Piney Woods
September 8, 1822
PERRY, Mississippi
Church/Religious-ActivityIn 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...
- Life on the Mississippi
1822
LAFOURCHE, Louisiana
Crime/Violence, EducationWhen 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...
- Sudden Jump in Southern Church Membership
1822
ABBEVILLE, South Carolina
African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, SlaveryAfter 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...
- Community: The Saving Grace of Slavery
1822
KENT, Maryland
Slavery, Community, fugitive slaveHuddled 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...
- Col. Cumming and Mr. M'Duffie Duel
June 8, 1822 to June 18, 1822
CHARLESTON, South Carolina
Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Law, Politics, Migration/TransportationOn 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...
- Traveler Surprised to See Companion Survive Illness
December 21, 1822
NELSON, Virginia
African-Americans, Health/Death, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Science/Technology, SlaveryNathaniel 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...
- Sports of the Turf
May 12, 1822 to May 13, 1822
PRINCESS ANNE, Virginia
Arts/Leisure, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/BoosterismIn 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...
- Alexander Ross writes of his travels as a Fur Trader.
May 1, 1822
TERRITORY, Territory
Ross, Alexander, fur trade, EconomyThe 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...
- Bank Notes: The Second Bank of the United States
March 7, 1823 to March 8, 1823
WESTMORELAND, Virginia
Economy, GovernmentWilliam 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....
- The Republic Woman and the public sphere in the early 1800s.
March 2, 1822
SUFFOLK, Massachusetts
Women, women's rightsSusan 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,...
- Sunday School: The Only Remedy
February 1, 1823 to November 3, 1823
FRANKLIN, Tennessee
Arts/Leisure, Education, Urban-Life/BoosterismThere 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...
- Keeping it in the Family: Slave Inheritance
1823
BRUNSWICK, Virginia
Economy, SlaveryWith 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...
- The Mississippi in Flood
July 2, 1823
OUACHITA, Louisiana
Agriculture, EconomyFinancial 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...
- New Rector at Eatonton Academy
October 21, 1821
JASPER, Georgia
Church/Religious-ActivityOn 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...
- Iveson L. Brookes Appointed Rector of Eatonton Academy
October 12, 1821
PUTNAM, Georgia
Church/Religious-Activity, EducationThe 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...
- Education in the Nineteenth-Century South
September 15, 1821
LOUISA, Virginia
EducationPhilip 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...
- Threshing Machines of Virginia
March 16, 1821 to November 2, 1821
FREDERICK, Virginia
Agriculture, Science/TechnologyIn 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....
- Oration Delivered to the Charleston Riflemen
July 4, 1821
CHARLESTON, South Carolina
Government, SlaveryRobert 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...
- Blackburn in Gallatin
1821
SUMNER, Tennessee
Church/Religious-ActivityIn 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...
- Mid-Autumn Musters
1821
ALBEMARLE, Virginia
Arts/Leisure, WarOn 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,...
- The first use of the Seneca Cayuga and Erie Canals to transport commodities across New York State
November 23, 1823
CAYUGA, New York
Market Revolution, Erie Canal, Seneca Cayuga Canal, Canal, EconomyJohn Osborne and Samel Seely were the owners of the first vessel to travel from Geneva, New York to New York City solely by waterways. It was November 1823 when Osborne and Seely packed the Mary and Hannah with goods from the West including eight hundred bushels of wheat, tons of butter, and barrels of beans. After the boat was packed, the crew took off for New York City by means of the...
- Mrs Elizabeth Crockett's Poisoning
June 1, 1821 to June, 1821
MONTGOMERY, Tennessee
Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery, WomenElizabeth 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...
- Steamship Lines of Norfolk, Virginia
December 11, 1823
NORFOLK CITY, Virginia
Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy, Migration/TransportationThe 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...
- Mills and the Woolen Industry
May 11, 1821 to May 12, 1821
HENRICO, Virginia
Agriculture, EconomyM.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...