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WEEDON AND WHITEHURST FAMILY PAPERS, #4057, 1824-1869; 1932- 1966

Scattered business papers, commissions and army orders, and letters of Frederick Weedon, physician of St. Augustine, Florida; of his daughter, Henrietta Williams Weedon Whitehurst; and of her husband, Daniel Winchester Whitehurst, newspaper editor, physician, and member of the American Colonization Society. Papers refer to Whitehurst's activities in Liberia with the Colonization Society and the estate of Weedon and the sale of his slaves. Included are letters concerning the activities of the American Colonization Society (1834-1835) and slave bills of sale (1847, 1860-1861). Microfilm available.