Episodes Nearest to November 23, 1823: 1 through 25 of 25

  1. The first use of the Seneca Cayuga and Erie Canals to transport commodities across New York State
    date November 23, 1823map CAYUGA, New Yorktags Market Revolution, Erie Canal, Seneca Cayuga Canal, Canal, Economy

    John 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...

  2. Steamship Lines of Norfolk, Virginia
    date December 11, 1823map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    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...

  3. Mummy Visits Charleston
    date January 31, 1824map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Health/Death, Education

    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...

  4. A Long Process
    date January 9, 1824 to May 6, 1824map ST JOHNS, Floridatags Slavery

    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...

  5. By-law Implemented for Gun Control
    date March 25, 1824 to March 26, 1824map ANNE ARUNDEL, Marylandtags Crime/Violence, Law, Slavery

    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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. The Election of 1824 in the Seminole Nation
    date 1824map Florida, Floridatags Government, Politics, Native-Americans, Race-Relations

    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,...

  10. Henry Clay's 1824 Speech
    date 1824map NELSON, Virginiatags Economy, Politics

    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,...

  11. A Petition on Behalf of a Slave Named Royal
    date 1824map RICHLAND, South Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Government, Slavery

    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...

  12. Crop Diversity in Agricultural Virginia
    date July 31, 1824map RICHMOND, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    "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...

  13. Annabella Porter Sells Cotton to Joseph Gammill
    date June 21, 1824 to September 21, 1824map MORGAN, Georgiatags Agriculture, Economy, Women

    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...

  14. 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....

  15. Robbery in Jackson
    date September 11, 1824 to September 12, 1824map INDIAN LANDS, Tennesseetags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Although Jackson was one of the largest cities in Tennessee, it was not one of the most dangerous. However, in September 1824, two little boys from a well-known family in the area, the Joshua Haskell's family, were accosted by a runaway slave on their way to school. He first spoke to them then grabbed their dinner-basket. Fortunately, he let them leave and the two little boys managed to arrive...

  16. The Marquis de Lafayette Visits Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia
    date October 19, 1824 to October 27, 1824map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism, War

    Although a Frenchmen, the Marquis de Lafayette was a man dear to the hearts of many Americans in the early nineteenth century. He led American troops into battle during the Revolution, had sustained a wound at the Battle of Brandywine, and was instrumental in encouraging the participation of the French forces in the siege of Yorktown which led to the surrender of the British in 1781. Lafayette was...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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,...

  20. A Missionary's View of the Choctaw Nation in 1825
    date February 15, 1825map INDIAN LANDS, Mississippitags Native-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity

    In February of 1825 the Western Recorder published an extract from a letter describing the current state of the Choctaw Indians. The missionary L.S. Williams wrote the letter in December of 1824 after having lived with the Choctaw for almost eight years. He wrote that the human nature he saw in the Choctaw nation was lower than any he had previously witnessed. He regarded the Indians as ignorant,...

  21. Gooch on Slaveholding
    date February 23, 1825map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Government, Race-Relations, Slavery

    In response to John Floyd (whom had written him in correspondence just six days prior), C.W. Gooch wrote a letter in the winter of 1825 on the issue of slaveholding in Virginia and the South. Gooch believed that the subject of slaveholding states rights' was not getting enough attention from southern politicians. Throughout the letter Gooch argued against the intrusive interference of our northern...

  22. The Murder that Shocked Fairfax
    date March 22, 1825map FAIRFAX, Virginiatags Crime/Violence, Health/Death

    William Simpson, a prominent slave trader who resided in Fairfax County, was murdered in Centreville, Virginia. He was brutally shot in the head with a pistol and stabbed. He was also robbed of a reported 1600. The notes were from the Bank of Virginia. His body was found dumped near a road. According to witnesses, Simpson and the man later revealed as his murderer, William F. Hoose, spent two days...

  23. 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...

  24. 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...

  25. 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...