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	James Seddon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Alexander Seddon (13 July 1815 – 19 August 1880), born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, was an American lawyer and politician who was appointed as Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America by Jefferson Davis in the American Civil War.
		{Descendened from the William Alexander "Earl of Stirling"}.
		Seddon attended the peace convention held in Washington in 1861, which attempted to devise a means of preventing the American Civil War, and in the same year, he attended the Provisional Confederate Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Seddon (197 words)

	James Alexander Seddon
		SEDDON, James Alexander, lawyer, born in Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, 13 July, 1815 ; died in Goochland county, Virginia, 19 August, 1880.
		Thomas Seddon, his father, who was first a merchant and then a banker, was descended from John Seddon, of Lancashire, England, who settled in Stafford county, Virginia, in colonial days.
		Seddon was of a frail constitution, and, owing to his delicate health, his early education was much neglected.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesalexanderseddon (546 words)

	M238 Gary (Martin Witherspoon) Papers
		James Alexander Seddon (1815-1880) graduated from the law school of the University of Virginia and began a successful and popular practice in Richmond.
		Seddon was elected to the First Confederate Congress, and on November 21, 1862, he was named Secretary of War, a position which he held until February 16, 1865.
		Seddon recommends the promotion of Colonel Gary to "Brigadier General in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States of America to command a new Brigade in (the) Department of Richmond to rank from" ________ (date not entered).
	www.lib.usm.edu /~archives/m238text.htm (447 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Collection Overview The Alexander Robert Lawton papers are largely correspondence among the three generations of the Lawton family, chiefly pertaining to the professional, military, and political activities of Alexander Robert Lawton.
		Alexander Robert Lawton's military and political careers are particularly well documented, as correspondence contains many letters from military officers, politicians, and office-holders regarding various political issues and incidents in which Lawton was involved and the positions to which Lawton was elected or appointed.
		There are several 1862 letters from Alexander Robert Lawton to his wife Sarah written while Lawton was serving in the field at Staunton, Fredericks Hall, Gordonsville, and Richmond, Va. Other family correspondence includes a letter from Alexander James Lawton disinheriting any children of his daughter Adeline in Iowa who took up arms against the South.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/l/Lawton,Alexander_Robert (2823 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Alexander Mackay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, probably on 11 May 1833.
		Alexander Mackay accompanied his cousin on the journey, and although James failed in his efforts to acquire land from the Maori, he and Alexander continued on an exploration of the Grey River until a shortage of provisions drove Alexander back to Nelson.
		Alexander Mackay retired as a Native Land Court judge in 1902, and moved to Feilding.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=2M11&related=false (860 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		of James 10 Oct 1602 Margreatt a basterd of...
		of Ja 1602 Alis Holt of Turton a basterd of James Holt and Anne Bradshaw 1602 Anne and Alis Walch of Bradshaw basterds of Thurstane and Marie Walch both of this pish 1602 Andrew Laythwood of Tonngue basterd of Charls Laythwood and Margreat Crompton of the Dayne pish 1602 Richard Aspinwall of Bradshaw s.
		of James 03 Jul 1605 Elline Greenhalgh basterd of James Greenhalgh of Burie pish and Martha Taylier of Dayn pish 03 Jul 1605 Rauph Blacklow of Darcie Leaver s.
	www.angelfire.com /in/rivington/church-records/bolton-register.txt (25838 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		James Alexander Bonar and his twin sister, Anne, were born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 12 June 1840, the children of Archibald Bonar, a banker, and his wife, Sophia Robertson.
		James was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, and in 1854 the family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia, where he was employed by James Henty and Company, general merchants.
		James Bonar and his father arrived in New Zealand in 1863 and James commenced business in Invercargill as a general merchant under the name Henderson and Bonar.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=2B32&related=false (844 words)

	Berry Hill Plantation
		This typically Randolph statement notwithstanding, James Bruce and John Randolph were close friends, and there is no reason to think that their friendship was in the least diminished by the defeat of the former by the latter in the election for a seat in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1829-30, in which Mr.
		Alexander Bruce to replace an earlier one built in 1840 by James Coles Bruce and torn down by her husband because the colored people were no longer attending it.
		James Coles was deeply devoted to his wife, and her death had left a great void in his life.
	www.oldhalifax.com /county/berry6.htm (4832 words)

	Guide Introduction: Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations–Series M:
		1809-1881] and Reconstruction), James Barrett Dupuy ([1805-1878] of Richmond, Virginia, concerning Reconstruction; and funds for the relief of sufferers from the collapse of the courtroom floor of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals sitting in the Capitol, Richmond, Virginia, 27 April 1870), Eliza Ann (Bennett) Easley ([b.
		The accounts were kept in Cumberland County, Virginia, and concern, in part, James A. Boatwright (1851); the purchase of Lucy (a slave) from Drury Boatwright (1824); and the payment of land and personal property taxes in Cumberland and Fluvanna counties, Virginia.
		Bryant to [unidentified correspondent]), and James Asbury Tilman; and a certificate, 1883, issued by the Road Board of Cumberland County, Virginia, to John M. Shepherd to be surveyor of the 1st District in Hamilton Township (signed by P. Hooe).
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantm5.htm (11716 words)

	Africans in America/Part 3/List & Inventory of Negroes on Plantation...
		Wilton was owned by James Alexander Seddon and James Coles Bruce, both of Virginia, and Dr. William Webb Wilkins of Louisiana.
		Most of the Bruce family plantations were in Virginia and North Carolina, except for these two owned in partnership with Seddon and Wilkins.
		Seddon served in the U.S. Congress and was Secretary of War for the Confederacy, under President Jefferson Davis.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3h503.html (288 words)

	Guide Introduction: Slavery in Ante-Bellum Southern Industries–Series C:
		James Southall and the Representatives of Richard Hogge.
		Edmundson's agreement, 1841, with James Mackey of Rockbridge County concerns the hire of Mackey's slave, Bob, at $7 per month and designates necessary clothes to be charged cheaply to Mackey (section 9).
		McEnery to Alexander Hamilton (1851-1916) of Wales, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and land in Petersburg, Virginia (bears affidavits of John Clayton Armistead [1835-1901] and Thomas A. Bass); and a deed of trust,1882, John E. McEnery to G. Wing (bears affidavit of S. Baker) for land in Petersburg, Virginia, for the benefit of James Skelton Gilliam [1838-1916]).
	www.lexis-nexis.com /academic/guides/african_american/southern_industries/slavec2.htm (13210 words)

	Provisional Confederate Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		---- Alexander Blackburn Bradford (took his seat on 5 December 1861 - Elected to fill vacancy)
		---- James Lawrence Orr (took his seat on 17 February 1862 - Appointed to fill vacancy)
		Representatives from states to secede after the Battle of Fort Sumter were referred to as delegates, in contrast to the deputies from the original seven states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provisional_Confederate_Congress (430 words)

	A., Jim - Aylett Family Papers: Civil War Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society
		Kept by James W. Albright of the 12th Virginia Artillery Battalion, this diary, 26 June 1862–9 April 1865, contains entries concerning the unit's service in the Seven Days' battles, the Suffolk and Petersburg campaigns, and the Appomattox campaign.
		This collection consists of a photocopy of the fifteen-page typescript recollections of James McClure Scott (1841–1913), compiled by Sarah Travers Lewis (Scott) Anderson (1847–1926).
		The collection includes a letter, 17 July 1864, from Alexander Wellington Wallace (1843–1927) of the 30th Virginia Infantry Regiment offering a description of his participation in the battles of Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor (section 16).
	www.vahistorical.org /cwg/a.htm (1396 words)

	Virginians: The Family History of George Hooper
		Cabell’s land began where the Rockfish River flows into the James River at the intersection of present-day Nelson, Albemarle, and Buckingham counties and ran along the river for 20 miles to present-day Riverville in Amherst County.
		Seddon was a popular attorney with a lucrative law practice in Richmond from which he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (1845-47, 1849-51).
		James was the son of Thomas Seddon and Susan Pearson Alexander.
	www.virginians.com /topics/3450.htm (10402 words)

	Life of Brigadier General John McCausland
		Alexander McCausland, one of the descendants of Colonel Robert, married his cousin Elizabeth Kyle, the daughter of William Kyle who was knighted Sir William the Belt for gallantry and rewarded by land grants in Tyrone, Ireland.7
		For example, a private, Alexander Robinson, was captured July 13, 1862, at Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, by the Federals and shot because, as they said, "he hadn't surrendered the day before when he was firing at them." McCausland had the matter investigated.
		Moreover, James A. Seddon, the Confederate Secretary of War, said McCausland's official report of the Cloyd Mountain Campaign was "clear and unpretending." The conservative President, Jefferson Davis, described it as "satisfactory."111 McCausland was on May 24, made a brigadier general.112
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh4-1.html (16291 words)

	LSU Libraries -- Sugar Industry
		William Webb Wilkins, James Coles Bruce, and James Alexander Seddon, partners in the ownership of sugar and cotton plantations, a saw mill, and a cooper's shop in Saint James Parish and Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
		James and Ruston Maury were cotton and commission merchants in New Orleans.
		James Parish, Louisiana, in the 1840s; it produced sugar cane and was known as Constancia Plantation prior to 1864.
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/guides/sugresources.html (8436 words)

	Krazy James New Book List
		Hackercraft by James P. Barry ISBN 0-7603-1107-2 362.
		Confessions of a Boatbuilder by James Douglas Rosborough ISBN 1-57409-127-1 515.
		Healthy Cruiser's Handbook by Janette Loomis and James H. Bryan M.D. Cruising in Catamarans by Charles E. Kanter ISBN 0-9618406-6-8 775.
	www.krazyjames.com /new1.htm (10073 words)

	HECTOR, Sir James - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		James Hector was born in Edinburgh on 16 March 1834, the son of Alexander Hector, conveyancer and Writer to the Signet.
		When the Seddon Government took office (1893), the Geological Survey was transferred to the Mines Department, though Hector remained nominally Director.
		His success as a generally tolerant and accessible administrator is amply shown by the record of younger men who served under his direction.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/H/HectorSirJames/HectorSirJames/en (1341 words)

	"All the Hoos in Hooville": Fabled Faculty
		In 1864 he pleaded with Secretary of War James Seddon, himself a University graduate, for rations and retirement pay for disabled Confederate soldier students so that they might afford to stay at the University, a request which Seddon granted.
		The celebrity-scholar never came and "Atch" never left--to the delight of his office mate, James Southall Wilson, who was "thankful to unload that Old English course on [Hench] and never teach Beowulf again." One of Hench's first pupils was the future best-selling author, Erskine Caldwell.
		ORON J. Oron James "Pat" Hale taught in the Department of History from 1929 until his retirement in 1972.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/hoos/fabled.html (1902 words)

	Encyclopedia
		President James Buchanan, in the last days of his administration, declared that the federal government would not forcibly prevent the secessions.
		In February 1861, the seceding states sent representatives to a convention in Montgomery, Ala.
		The convention, presided over by Howell Cobb (1815–68) of Georgia, adopted a provisional constitution and chose Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as provisional president and Alexander Hamilton Stephens of Georgia as provisional vice-president.
	www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..co196700.a (1285 words)

	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.3, Entry 293, VIRGINIA: Library of Economics and Liberty
		Its area formed part of a general grant of James I., April 10, 1606, to two companies, controlled by a general council appointed by the king, the whole grant covering the Atlantic coast from north latitude 34° to north latitude 45°.
		Between latitude 38° and latitude 41°, where the grants conflicted, neither company was to plant a colony within 100 miles of a colony previously planted by the other.
		Size, population, wealth and concurrence of sentiment among leading men made Virginia the great exponent of "state sovereignty." (See that title.) For such a rôle her colonial history went far to prepare her.
	www.econlib.org /library/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy1063.html (4238 words)

	WPA-Tour 1
		Alexander Henderson organized what was probably the first chain of stores in America with shops in Alexandria, Colchester, Occoquan, and Dumfries.
		George Brent, their nephew, was one of four men who on February 10, 1686, obtained from James II a Proclamation granting 'free exercise of their religion' on 30,000 acres 'for the encouragement of inhabitants to settle' in this area, known as the Brenton Tract.
		Here were born James Alexander Seddon (1815-80), Confederate Secretary of War, and Dr.Kate Waller Barrett (1858-1925), staunch advocate of social reform.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/tour01.html (17053 words)

	A Southern View of History: The War for Southern Independence -Part 6
		George Davis, of North Carolina, fourth Attorney General of the Confederate States, was born at Wilmington, March 1, 1820; a son of Thomas F. Davis, a prominent citizen, and a grandson of Thomas Davis, distinguished in the Revolutionary struggle.
		In 1883, he gained an acquittal in his defense of Frank James, a former Confederate and the brother of Jesse James.
		James Alexander Seddon, of Virginia, was in charge of the War Department during a longer period than any other of the Secretaries of War.
	www.scv674.org /SH-6.htm (13378 words)

	James Garland Tinsley 1843-1920 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		James Garland Tinsley b.8-30-1843 d.12-13-1920 (H), son of Thomas Garland Tinsley and his second wife, Patsy Rutherfoord, married on 2-26-1867 Martha (Pattie) Winston Jones, dau.
		It was in Hanover Co., VA a few miles north east of Richmond and was used as his main residence in order to be close to his office in Richmond.
		James Hale Steinman of Philadelphia, PA. Louise and James had 3 children.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/quarrybank/194/tinjmgar.htm (689 words)

	Lacy, Beverley Tucker - Lucas Family Papers: Civil War manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A letter, 2 June 1863, to James Power Smith (1837–1923) from Beverley Tucker Lacy (1819–1900) of Richard Stoddert Ewell's staff concerning Ewell's desire to have Smith join his staff as assistant adjutant general.
		Section 1 consists of letters, 1862–1865, to Lee from Judah Philip Benjamin (1811–1884) regarding Benjamin's collection of Confederate funds in London, England, in September 1865, from Jefferson Davis concerning Lee's command of reserve forces in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864, and from John Kirkwood Mitchell (1811–1889) acknowledging Lee's resignation from the Confederate navy.
		Also in section 1 are commissions, 1863–1864, signed by James Alexander Seddon (1815–1880), issued to Lee as lieutenant colonel, major, colonel, and brigadier general in the Confederate army.
	www.vahistorical.org /CWG/l.htm (2968 words)

	Bruce, Seddon, and Wilkins Plantation Records
		1859?), James Coles Bruce (1806-1865), and James Alexander Seddon (1815-1880) were partners in the ownership of sugar and cotton plantations, a saw mill, and a cooper's shop in Saint James Parish and Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
		Manuscript volumes consist of cashbooks and daybooks for a sawmill and a cooper's shop, for Ashton cotton plantation in East Carroll Parish, and for Wilton sugar plantation in St. James Parish, and a plantation diary for 1853.
		Ashton Plantation (East Carroll Parish, La.) Wilton Plantation (East St. James Parish, La.) Plantations--Louisiana--Carroll Parish Plantations--Louisiana--St. James Parish Slaveholders--Louisiana Kelly and Conyngham (Cotton factors) Cotton growing--Louisiana Sugar growing--Louisiana Sawmills--Louisiana
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/findaid/b2668.html (176 words)

	Southern Plantations M3
		Correspondence is by James M. Willcox (of Charles City County, Virginia) and Thomas Branch and Brother of Petersburg, Virginia.
		Correspondence is with Stuart Burrus (of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands), Charles Comer, John Gibbon, James Skelton Gilliam, Archibald Glover (of Pleasant Grove, Prince George County, Virginia), Francis Harrison Pierpont, and Richard Edward Waddill.
		Correspondence is by Thomas Cocke, Richard Eppes, James Herbert Gholson, Charles Macalester, Crawford Riddell (bears bill of lading of William A. McKee), and P. Osborne and Co. of Petersburg, Virginia (bears account of Mary (Eppes) Cocke).
	srnels.people.wm.edu /~srnels/sources/plantm3.htm (12889 words)

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