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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Kensey Johns Papers, #3874-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1965-1966

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• Cincinnati (Ohio)--Social life and customs.
• Clergy--Ohio--History--19th century.
• Delaware. Militia--History--19th century.
• Family--Ohio--Social life and customs.
• Johns, Henry V. D. (Henry Van Dyck), 1803-1859.
• Johns, Kensey, 1759-1848.
• Women--Death--History--19th century.

Scattered and miscellaneous papers of Johns, chief justice of the Delaware Supreme Court and chancellor of Delaware, including eight letters, 1839-1841, from his son, Henry Van Dyck Johns, pastor in Cincinnati, Ohio, dealing with the death of his mother and general family news; legal papers; and "Statement of the Strength and Condtion of the Fifth Regiment of the Delaware Militia," 1819.