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[Identification of item], in the Garnett and Wise Family Papers, #2640, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
• Garnett family.
• Garnett, Alexander Y. P. (Alexander Yelverton Peyton), 1820-1888.
• Garnett, Thomas, fl. 1624.
• Hambleton, James P. (James Pinkney), 1830-1897.
• Jennings family.
• United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
• Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Wise family.
• Wise, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1806-1876.

Garnett family of Virginia and Washington, D.C., and Wise family of Virginia. Prominent individuals represented include Henry A. Wise and his son-in-law, Dr. Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett.

MICROFILM ONLY. Early items include a "muster" roll, dated 1624 (copy) of Thomas Garnett, listing persons residing in Elizabeth City, Va., their ages, and the year and ship in which they arrived in Virginia. Eighteenth-century materials include a letter from a soldier serving in the Continental Army in Philadelphia discussing army life and troop movements. Nineteenth- century materials include family letters, 1833-1854, of the Wise, Jennings, and Garnett families. Letters of 1855 from Henry A. Wise to James P. Hambleton and others concern Wise's election campaign and state and national political history during the 1830s and 1840s. Letters of 1863 concern a personal quarrel involving Henry A. Wise, Alexander Garnett, and Jefferson Davis (Garnett was Davis's personal physician). Postwar letters include several written by Wise to his grandchildren containing advice.