Special Collections Research Center
Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers
Leavenworth, Abner Johnson
Mss. 39.1 L48
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1.417 Linear Feet
1825-1850
English
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Acc. 2014.121 was received by Special Collections via Fedex on 5/19/2014. The letter was purchased for Swem Library with support from the SCRC Donors Fund.
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Box and folder list compiled by Gabbie DeCuir in October 2012.
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Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and papers of Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, Presbyterian clergyman relating to his theological studies at Andover, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut and his ministry at Waterbury and Bristol, Connecticut, Charlotte, North Carolina and Warrenton and Petersburg, Virginia. Includes correspondence and accounts, 1835-1838, with Turner & Hughes, booksellers in Raleigh, North Carolina. Includes correspondence with his wife Elizabeth M. Peabody Leavenworth and a letter, 1832, from missionary friends in Turkey.
Account books
Correspondence
Virginia--Religious history
Presbyterian Church--United States--Clergy
Presbyterian Church--United States--Missions--History--19th century
Presbyterian Church--United States--Missions--Turkey--19th century
Women missionaries--United States
Peabody family
Root family
Correspondenceid160370/repositories/2/archival_objects/232941825-183911Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Montague, Massachusettsid160380/repositories/2/archival_objects/233019 Feb[ruary] 18251Susan Root, at Montague, Massachusetts to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Montagueid160381/repositories/2/archival_objects/233029 Feb[ruary] 18251Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticutid160382/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330326 Oct[ober] 18251Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusettsid160383/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330426 Dec[ember] 18251Minerva Root, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Roseford, Massachusettsid160384/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330528 June 18261Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, Andover, Massachusettsid160385/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330629 July 18261Minerva Root, at Pittsfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusettsid160386/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330713 Nov[ember] 18271A[bner] J. L[eavenworth], at Andover, Massachusetts, to Minerva Root, at Greenfield, Massachusettsid160387/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330815 Jan[uary] 18281Scope and ContentsMutilated
Minerva Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusettsid160388/repositories/2/archival_objects/2330923 July 18281Minerva [Root], at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusettsid160389/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331025 Aug[ust] 18281Scope and ContentsDate changed to 5 Sept[ember] 1828 by recipient of letter, 25 Aug[ust] 1828
Minerva [Root], at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusettsid160390/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331127 Aug[ust] 18281Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticutid160391/repositories/2/archival_objects/233129 Jan[uary] 18291H. G. O. Dwight, at Hudson, New York, to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticutid160392/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331310 March 18291Scope and ContentsPostscript by William Chester
Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticutid160393/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331411 May 18291Scope and ContentsPostscript by Lydia Root
Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticutid160394/repositories/2/archival_objects/233153 Aug[ust] 18291Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticutid160395/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331628 Aug[ust] 18291H. G. O. Dwight, at Syracuse, New York, to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticutid160396/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331712 Sept[ember] 18291Scope and ContentsForwarded to Bristol, Connecticut
Lydia Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticutid160397/repositories/2/archival_objects/2331816 Sept[ember] 18291Susan Root, at Waterbury, [Connecticut], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristorl, Connecticutid160398/repositories/2/archival_objects/233197 Nov[ember] 18291Susan Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticutid160399/repositories/2/archival_objects/233203 Dec[ember] 18291H. G. O. Dwight, at Utica, [New York] to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticutid160400/repositories/2/archival_objects/2332111 Jan[uary] 18301Susan Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut] to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticutid160401/repositories/2/archival_objects/233221 Feb[ruary] 18301Susan Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticutid160402/repositories/2/archival_objects/2332322 Feb[ruary] 18301A[bner] J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut, to Susan C. Root, at Hartford, Connecticutid160403/repositories/2/archival_objects/2332425 Feb[ruary] 18301Susan C. Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticutid160404/repositories/2/archival_objects/233251 March 18301L[ydia] Root, at Greenfield, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, [Connecticut]id160405/repositories/2/archival_objects/2332622 July 18301E. M. Peabody, at Salem, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford] County, Connecticutid160406/repositories/2/archival_objects/233276 Aug[ust] 18301E.M. Peabody, at Boxford [Massachusetts] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford] County, Connecticutid160407/repositories/2/archival_objects/2332825 Sept[ember] 18301E.M. Peabody, at Salem [Massachusetts], to Rev. A.J.Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford] County, Connecticutid160408/repositories/2/archival_objects/2332912 Nov[ember] 18301Elizabeth M. Peabody, at Salem, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford], Connecticutid160409/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333011 December 18301E.B. Dwight, at Constantinople, to Mrs. A. J. Leavenworth, at Salem, Massachusettsid160410/repositories/2/archival_objects/233316 Sept[ember] 18321D.M. Forney, at Tuscaloosa [Alabama] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolinaid160411/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333229 Jan[uary] 18351O. Eastman, secretary, American Tract Society, at New York, to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolinaid160412/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333328 Jan[uary] 18361Scope and ContentsAn extract from the minutes of a meeting of the committee of the American Tract Society, held in New York, 26 Jan[uary] 1836, appears on the same sheet.
G.A. Mathis to [Rev. A.J.] Leavenworthid160413/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333428 Dec[ember] 18361Joseph Sumner, at Brooklyn to [Rev. A.J. Leavenworth]id160414/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333528 April 18371S. Blanding, at Columbia, South Carolina to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolinaid160415/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333626 Dec[ember] 18371Joseph H. Mather, Raleigh, North Carolina to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolinaid160416/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333712 June 18381Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolinaid160417/repositories/2/archival_objects/233388 Aug[ust] 18381Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, North Carolina to Rev. A. J. Leavenworthid160418/repositories/2/archival_objects/2333910 Sept[ember] 18381Elizabeth N. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte [Mecklenburg County], North Carolinaid160419/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334027 Nov[ember] 18381Joseph Sumner to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginiaid160420/repositories/2/archival_objects/233416 March 18391Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina], to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginiaid160421/repositories/2/archival_objects/233423 April 18391A. J. Leavenwoth, at Warrenton, Virginia to Joseph Sumnerid160422/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334322 April 18391Scope and ContentsCopy.
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginiaid160423/repositories/2/archival_objects/233447 May 18391Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginiaid160424/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334531 May 18391Abner J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia to Joseph Sumnerid160425/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334613 June 18391Scope and ContentsCopy. The letter includes a copy of an amendment to a contract between Abner J. Leavenworth and Joseph Sumner regarding Sumner's salary.
Correspondenceid160371/repositories/2/archival_objects/232951840-185012E.M. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia to A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160426/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334715 Feb[ruary] 18402A.D. Pollock, at Richmond [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, At Petersburg, [Virginia]id160427/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334819 Feb[ruary] 18402John H. Digges, at Warrenton, Virginia to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160428/repositories/2/archival_objects/2334917 April 18402John H. Parrott, at Warrenton, Virginia to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160429/repositories/2/archival_objects/233502 May 19402Simeon Colton, at Fayetteville, North Carolina to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160430/repositories/2/archival_objects/233518 May 18402A.D. Pollock, at Richmond, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160431/repositories/2/archival_objects/2335213 May 18402F.J. Kingbury, at Warrenton [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160432/repositories/2/archival_objects/2335315 May 18402Elisha Leavenworth , at Waterbury [Connecticut] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160433/repositories/2/archival_objects/2335419 May 18402E. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, [Connecticut] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160434/repositories/2/archival_objects/233553 June 18402George Hutchinson, at Richmond [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160435/repositories/2/archival_objects/233565 June 18402John H. Parrott, at Warrenton, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160436/repositories/2/archival_objects/233576 June 18402Joseph Sumner at Charlotte, [North Carolina] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160437/repositories/2/archival_objects/233586 June 18402Mary A. Ladd, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Charles F. Wood, at Washington City, [D.C.]id160438/repositories/2/archival_objects/2335923 June 18402Scope and ContentsForwarded to [Abner J.] Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
Simeon Colton, at Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Thomas Shore, postmaster, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160439/repositories/2/archival_objects/2336027 June 18402F.J. Kingsbury, at Warrenton, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160440/repositories/2/archival_objects/2336115 July 18402Scope and ContentsPostscript by E.M. Leavenworth
A.D. Pollock, at Richmond, [Virginia] o Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160441/repositories/2/archival_objects/2336216 July 18402Mary Ann Ladd, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. J.N. Leavenworth [i.e., A.J. Leavenworth], at Petersburg, Virginiaid160442/repositories/2/archival_objects/233633 Aug[ust] 18402Henry Smith, at Hanover [Virginia] to Rev. [A.J.] Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160443/repositories/2/archival_objects/233643 Aug[ust] 18402J.H.C. Leach, at Farmville, [Virginia] to Edwin James at Petersburg, Virginiaid160444/repositories/2/archival_objects/2336530 Sept[ember] 18402F.J. Kingsbury, at Warrenton, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160445/repositories/2/archival_objects/233666 Oct[ober] 18402Julius A. Palmer, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburgid160446/repositories/2/archival_objects/23367Virginia, 20 Oct[ober] 18402D.E. Sykes, at New York, to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160447/repositories/2/archival_objects/2336831 Oct[ober] 18402Scope and ContentsIncludes, on same sheet, Samuel G. Whittelsey, to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, unknown date
Samuel Lloyd & E.E. Jarman, at Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] to Edwin James & Co., at Petersburg, Virginiaid160448/repositories/2/archival_objects/2336912 Nov[ember] 18402Kittredge & Blakes, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160614/repositories/2/archival_objects/233701 Dec[ember] 18402Samuel Lloyd & E.E. Jarman, at Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] to Edwin James & Co., at Petersburg, Virginiaid160615/repositories/2/archival_objects/233713 Dec[ember] 18402Mary Ann Ladd, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160616/repositories/2/archival_objects/2337214 Dec[ember] 18402Julius A. Palmer, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160617/repositories/2/archival_objects/2337314 Dec[ember] 18402A.D. Pollock, to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, [Virginia]id160618/repositories/2/archival_objects/2337412 Jan[uary] 18412Henry Smith, at Hanover [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160619/repositories/2/archival_objects/2337513 Jan[uary] 18412T. Magruder, at Charleston, South Carolina to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160620/repositories/2/archival_objects/2337630 Jan[uary] 18412Henry Smith, at Hanover, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160621/repositories/2/archival_objects/233772 Feb[ruary] 18412William C. Dana, at Charleston, [South Carolina] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160622/repositories/2/archival_objects/233789 Feb[ruary] 18412Asa M. Train, at Milford, [Connecticut] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160623/repositories/2/archival_objects/2337925 March 18412William C. Dana, at Charleston, South Carolina to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160624/repositories/2/archival_objects/2338031 March 18412Alexander Mahone, at Richmond, [Virginia] to [Rev. A.J.] Leavenworthid160625/repositories/2/archival_objects/2338114 May 18412E. Ballantine, at Prince Edward Court House, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160626/repositories/2/archival_objects/2338213 July 18412A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia, to Joseph Sumnerid160627/repositories/2/archival_objects/2338319 July 18412Scope and ContentsCopy
H. Erben, at New York to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160628/repositories/2/archival_objects/233845 Oct[ober] 18412B.M. Palmer, at Washington, [D.C.] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160629/repositories/2/archival_objects/233851 Dec[ember] 18412J.B. Townsend, at Bremo, [Fluvanna County, Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160630/repositories/2/archival_objects/2338617 Jan[uary] 18422Scope and ContentsCopy
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160631/repositories/2/archival_objects/233878 Feb[ruary] 18422A.J. Leavenworth to Joseph Sumnerid160632/repositories/2/archival_objects/233887 March 18422Scope and ContentsCopy
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, [North Carolina] to Rev. [A.J. Leavenworthid160636/repositories/2/archival_objects/2338914 July 18422Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, [North Carolina] to Rev. [A.J. Leavenworthid160638/repositories/2/archival_objects/2339026 July 18422Asa M. Train, at Milford, [Connecticut], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at New Yorkid160665/repositories/2/archival_objects/2339123 Aug[ust] 18422Robert A. Young, at Margaret Academy, Pungoteague, [Accomack County], Virginia to [Rev. A.J.] Leavenworthid160668/repositories/2/archival_objects/233926 Oct[ober] 18422J.N. Danforth, at Alexandria, [Virginia] to [Abner J.] Leavenworth, James M.H. Brunet, and [?] Hopkins, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160671/repositories/2/archival_objects/233937 Nov[ember] 18422Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, [North Carolina], to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160674/repositories/2/archival_objects/2339424 Nov[ember] 18422Rebecca [?], at Salem, [Massachusetts] to M[ary] A[nn] Peabody, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160676/repositories/2/archival_objects/2339529 Jan[uary] 18462M.S. freeman, at Culpeper, [Virginia] to Mary Ann Peabody, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160677/repositories/2/archival_objects/2339629 Aug[ust] 18462Frederick J. Kingsbury, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Miss Mary Ann Peabody, at Petersburg, Virginiaid160678/repositories/2/archival_objects/2339714 July 18482Mary Ann Peabody to her nephew, [?]id160679/repositories/2/archival_objects/233989 June 18502Correspondence: Abner J. Leavenworth, Petersburg, Virginia to his Sisterid241545/repositories/2/archival_objects/232961861 April 114Scope and ContentsLetter, 1861 April 1, from Abner.J. Leavenworth, founder of Leavenworth's Female Seminary in Petersburg, Virginia to his sister. In the letter, Leavenworth writes about his failing health, confederate officers, inviting his sister to stay "before Virginia goes out of the Union,' and the aptitude of several of the female students at the seminary.
Accounts and Correspondence of A. J. Leavenworth with Turner & Hughes, booksellers, Raleigh, North Carolina/repositories/2/archival_objects/2682261835-1838English12Other Accounts and Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/2682271835-1842English13Notes on the study of languages by women and on the employment of women as missionaries/repositories/2/archival_objects/268228undatedEnglish13Incomplete draft of a short story followed by a letter from an unknown person/repositories/2/archival_objects/268229undatedEnglish13