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Collection Number: 01312-z

Collection Title: Letitia Preston Floyd memoirs, 1843.

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Abstract Letitia Preston Floyd was the daughter of Colonel William Preston Floyd and wife of John B. Floyd, governor of Virginia, 1830-1834. Typed copy of memoirs of Letitia Preston Floyd. The memoirs are in the form of a letter to her son, Rush Floyd, dated 22 February 1843. Included are reminiscences about 18th-century pioneers of western Virginia and Kentucky, especially Colonel James Patton and her father; genealogical information about the Preston, Floyd, Breckenridge, and Ingles families of Virginia; and description of warfare and other incidents with Indians originally written for a projected book to be called "Sketches of the Pioneers."
Creator Floyd, Letitia Preston.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Letitia Preston Floyd memoirs #1312-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Mrs. Waddy Grove, W. Va., in 1947.
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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Letitia Preston Floyd was the daughter of Colonel William Preston Floyd and wife of John B. Floyd, governor of Virginia, 1830-1834.

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Typed copy of memoirs of Letitia Preston Floyd. The memoirs are in the form of a letter to her son, Rush Floyd, dated 22 February 1843. Included are reminiscences about 18th-century pioneers of western Virginia and Kentucky, especially Colonel James Patton and her father; genealogical information about the Preston, Floyd, Breckenridge, and Ingles families of Virginia; and description of warfare and other incidents with Indians originally written for a projected book to be called "Sketches of the Pioneers."

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