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 Request for reference of Robert Miller

  • » Date: 1838-02-04
  • » Subject: Request for reference of Robert Miller
  • » Written By: G. W. Hopkins
  • » Addressed To: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr
  • » Transcriber: Davy Davis
  • » File # 897

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Postmark: Washington City D. C.

            Feb. 5

 

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G. W. Hopkins

 

            Major James T. Gleaves

            Ho. Of Delegates

            Richmond,

                        Virginia


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                                                Ho. of Repr.  Feb 4, 1838

 

Major James T. Gleaves

            My Dear Sir

            I am requested by Col. McClellan of Tennessee, to ask you what is the character of Robert Miller, an old man who resides about ten miles east of your Courthouse.  I was unable to give him the information as I did not know the old man personally.  I promised him to write you upon the subject.  You will confer a favor upon Col. Mc. by writing him here upon the subject, as he desires to use the affidavit of Mr. Miller, which is wanting in some satisfactory evidence of his credibility. McClellan is a member of the Ho. Of Reps.

 

                                                With great respect

                                                I am sir

                                                Your friend & obt. Servt.

                                                G. W. Hopkins

Transcriber Notes

The Millers lived in Max Meadows and Millers Creek, which is named for them.  They were active in the Presbyterian Church (Anchor of Hope) and an old Miller cemetery remains from their days in the area but they were gone by the late 1800s.

 

From http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000774

HOPKINS, George Washington, a Representative from Virginia; born near Goochland Court House, Goochland County, Va., February 22, 1804; attended the common schools; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Va.; member of the State house of delegates 1833-1835; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress, as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress, as a Conservative to the Twenty-sixth Congress and as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh through the Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1847); chairman, Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1846 to the Thirtieth Congress; appointed by President Polk Chargé d’Affaires to Portugal and served from March 3, 1847, to October 18, 1849; again a member of the State house of delegates in 1850 and 1851; member of the State constitutional convention of 1850 and 1851; judge of the circuit court of Washington and other counties; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Thirty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in 1858 to the Thirty-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Abingdon, Va.; again elected to State house of delegates and served from 1859 until his death in Richmond, Henrico County, Va., March 1, 1861; interment in Sinking Springs Cemetery, Abingdon, Va.

 From http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000328

McCLELLAN, Abraham, a Representative from Tennessee; born at “White Top,” on Beaver Creek, Sullivan County, Tenn., October 4, 1789; attended the common schools and was graduated from Washington (Tenn.) College; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1823-1825, 1827-1829; served in the State senate 1829-1833; member of the convention to revise the State constitution in 1834; member of the Second Regiment, Second Brigade, Tennessee Mounted Volunteer Militia, in 1836 and 1837 during the Seminole War; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1843); resumed agricultural pursuits; died at his home, “White Top,” in Sullivan County, Tenn., May 3, 1866; interment in Weavers Cemetery, near Bristol, Tenn.

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