Guide to the Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers , Mss. 39.1 L48

Leavenworth, Abner Johnson Papers Guide to the Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers Mss. 39.1 L48

Guide to the Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers Mss. 39.1 L48

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Repository

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Identification

Mss. 39.1 L48

Title

Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers 1825-1850

Quantity

1.417 Linear Feet

Creator

Leavenworth, Abner Johnson

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation:

Abner Johnson Leavenworth Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

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.

Processing Information:

Box and folder list compiled by Gabbie DeCuir in October 2012.

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Account books
Correspondence
Peabody family
Presbyterian Church--United States--Clergy
Presbyterian Church--United States--Missions--History--19th century
Presbyterian Church--United States--Missions--Turkey--19th century
Root family
Virginia--Religious history
Women missionaries--United States

Significant Persons Associated With the Collection

Leavenworth, Abner Johnson

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Virginia--Religious history

Container List

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 1 id160370

Correspondence

1825-1839

Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160380
Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Montague, Massachusetts
9 Feb[ruary] 1825
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160381
Susan Root, at Montague, Massachusetts to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Montague
9 Feb[ruary] 1825
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160382
Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticut
26 Oct[ober] 1825
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160383
Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusetts
26 Dec[ember] 1825
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160384
Minerva Root, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Roseford, Massachusetts
28 June 1826
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160385
Minerva Root, at Montague, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, Andover, Massachusetts
29 July 1826
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160386
Minerva Root, at Pittsfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusetts
13 Nov[ember] 1827
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160387
A[bner] J. L[eavenworth], at Andover, Massachusetts, to Minerva Root, at Greenfield, Massachusetts
15 Jan[uary] 1828
Scope and Contents
Mutilated
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160388
Minerva Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusetts
23 July 1828
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160389
Minerva [Root], at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusetts
25 Aug[ust] 1828
Scope and Contents
Date changed to 5 Sept[ember] 1828 by recipient of letter, 25 Aug[ust] 1828
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160390
Minerva [Root], at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Andover, Massachusetts
27 Aug[ust] 1828
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160391
Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticut
9 Jan[uary] 1829
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160392
H. G. O. Dwight, at Hudson, New York, to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticut
10 March 1829
Scope and Contents
Postscript by William Chester
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160393
Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticut
11 May 1829
Scope and Contents
Postscript by Lydia Root
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160394
Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticut
3 Aug[ust] 1829
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160395
Susan Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut
28 Aug[ust] 1829
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160396
H. G. O. Dwight, at Syracuse, New York, to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, Connecticut
12 Sept[ember] 1829
Scope and Contents
Forwarded to Bristol, Connecticut
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160397
Lydia Root, at Greenfield, [Massachusetts] to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut
16 Sept[ember] 1829
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160398
Susan Root, at Waterbury, [Connecticut], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristorl, Connecticut
7 Nov[ember] 1829
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160399
Susan Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut
3 Dec[ember] 1829
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160400
H. G. O. Dwight, at Utica, [New York] to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut
11 Jan[uary] 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160401
Susan Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut] to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut
1 Feb[ruary] 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160402
Susan Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut
22 Feb[ruary] 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160403
A[bner] J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut, to Susan C. Root, at Hartford, Connecticut
25 Feb[ruary] 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160404
Susan C. Root, at Hartford, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, Connecticut
1 March 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160405
L[ydia] Root, at Greenfield, [Connecticut], to Rev. Abner J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, [Connecticut]
22 July 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160406
E. M. Peabody, at Salem, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford] County, Connecticut
6 Aug[ust] 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160407
E.M. Peabody, at Boxford [Massachusetts] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford] County, Connecticut
25 Sept[ember] 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160408
E.M. Peabody, at Salem [Massachusetts], to Rev. A.J.Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford] County, Connecticut
12 Nov[ember] 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160409
Elizabeth M. Peabody, at Salem, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Bristol, H[artford], Connecticut
11 December 1830
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160410
E.B. Dwight, at Constantinople, to Mrs. A. J. Leavenworth, at Salem, Massachusetts
6 Sept[ember] 1832
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160411
D.M. Forney, at Tuscaloosa [Alabama] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolina
29 Jan[uary] 1835
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160412
O. Eastman, secretary, American Tract Society, at New York, to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolina
28 Jan[uary] 1836
Scope and Contents
An 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.
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160413
G.A. Mathis to [Rev. A.J.] Leavenworth
28 Dec[ember] 1836
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160414
Joseph Sumner, at Brooklyn to [Rev. A.J. Leavenworth]
28 April 1837
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160415
S. Blanding, at Columbia, South Carolina to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolina
26 Dec[ember] 1837
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160416
Joseph H. Mather, Raleigh, North Carolina to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina
12 June 1838
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160417
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte, North Carolina
8 Aug[ust] 1838
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160418
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, North Carolina to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth
10 Sept[ember] 1838
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160419
Elizabeth N. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Charlotte [Mecklenburg County], North Carolina
27 Nov[ember] 1838
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160420
Joseph Sumner to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia
6 March 1839
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160421
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina], to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia
3 April 1839
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160422
A. J. Leavenwoth, at Warrenton, Virginia to Joseph Sumner
22 April 1839
Scope and Contents
Copy.
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160423
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia
7 May 1839
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160424
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A. J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia
31 May 1839
Mixed Materials Folder: 1 id160425
Abner J. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia to Joseph Sumner
13 June 1839
Scope and Contents
Copy. The letter includes a copy of an amendment to a contract between Abner J. Leavenworth and Joseph Sumner regarding Sumner's salary.

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2 id160371

Correspondence

1840-1850

Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160426
E.M. Leavenworth, at Warrenton, Virginia to A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
15 Feb[ruary] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160427
A.D. Pollock, at Richmond [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, At Petersburg, [Virginia]
19 Feb[ruary] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160428
John H. Digges, at Warrenton, Virginia to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
17 April 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160429
John H. Parrott, at Warrenton, Virginia to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
2 May 1940
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160430
Simeon Colton, at Fayetteville, North Carolina to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
8 May 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160431
A.D. Pollock, at Richmond, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
13 May 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160432
F.J. Kingbury, at Warrenton [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
15 May 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160433
Elisha Leavenworth , at Waterbury [Connecticut] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
19 May 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160434
E. Leavenworth, at Waterbury, [Connecticut] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
3 June 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160435
George Hutchinson, at Richmond [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
5 June 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160436
John H. Parrott, at Warrenton, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
6 June 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160437
Joseph Sumner at Charlotte, [North Carolina] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
6 June 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160438
Mary A. Ladd, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Charles F. Wood, at Washington City, [D.C.]
23 June 1840
Scope and Contents
Forwarded to [Abner J.] Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160439
Simeon Colton, at Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Thomas Shore, postmaster, at Petersburg, Virginia
27 June 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160440
F.J. Kingsbury, at Warrenton, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
15 July 1840
Scope and Contents
Postscript by E.M. Leavenworth
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160441
A.D. Pollock, at Richmond, [Virginia] o Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
16 July 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160442
Mary Ann Ladd, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. J.N. Leavenworth [i.e., A.J. Leavenworth], at Petersburg, Virginia
3 Aug[ust] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160443
Henry Smith, at Hanover [Virginia] to Rev. [A.J.] Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
3 Aug[ust] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160444
J.H.C. Leach, at Farmville, [Virginia] to Edwin James at Petersburg, Virginia
30 Sept[ember] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160445
F.J. Kingsbury, at Warrenton, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
6 Oct[ober] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160446
Julius A. Palmer, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg
Virginia, 20 Oct[ober] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160447
D.E. Sykes, at New York, to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
31 Oct[ober] 1840
Scope and Contents
Includes, on same sheet, Samuel G. Whittelsey, to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, unknown date
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160448
Samuel Lloyd & E.E. Jarman, at Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] to Edwin James & Co., at Petersburg, Virginia
12 Nov[ember] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160614
Kittredge & Blakes, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
1 Dec[ember] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160615
Samuel Lloyd & E.E. Jarman, at Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] to Edwin James & Co., at Petersburg, Virginia
3 Dec[ember] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160616
Mary Ann Ladd, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
14 Dec[ember] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160617
Julius A. Palmer, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
14 Dec[ember] 1840
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160618
A.D. Pollock, to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, [Virginia]
12 Jan[uary] 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160619
Henry Smith, at Hanover [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
13 Jan[uary] 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160620
T. Magruder, at Charleston, South Carolina to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
30 Jan[uary] 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160621
Henry Smith, at Hanover, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
2 Feb[ruary] 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160622
William C. Dana, at Charleston, [South Carolina] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
9 Feb[ruary] 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160623
Asa M. Train, at Milford, [Connecticut] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
25 March 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160624
William C. Dana, at Charleston, South Carolina to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
31 March 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160625
Alexander Mahone, at Richmond, [Virginia] to [Rev. A.J.] Leavenworth
14 May 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160626
E. Ballantine, at Prince Edward Court House, [Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
13 July 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160627
A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia, to Joseph Sumner
19 July 1841
Scope and Contents
Copy
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160628
H. Erben, at New York to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
5 Oct[ober] 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160629
B.M. Palmer, at Washington, [D.C.] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
1 Dec[ember] 1841
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160630
J.B. Townsend, at Bremo, [Fluvanna County, Virginia] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
17 Jan[uary] 1842
Scope and Contents
Copy
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160631
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte [North Carolina] to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
8 Feb[ruary] 1842
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160632
A.J. Leavenworth to Joseph Sumner
7 March 1842
Scope and Contents
Copy
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160636
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, [North Carolina] to Rev. [A.J. Leavenworth
14 July 1842
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160638
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, [North Carolina] to Rev. [A.J. Leavenworth
26 July 1842
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160665
Asa M. Train, at Milford, [Connecticut], to Abner J. Leavenworth, at New York
23 Aug[ust] 1842
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160668
Robert A. Young, at Margaret Academy, Pungoteague, [Accomack County], Virginia to [Rev. A.J.] Leavenworth
6 Oct[ober] 1842
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160671
J.N. Danforth, at Alexandria, [Virginia] to [Abner J.] Leavenworth, James M.H. Brunet, and [?] Hopkins, at Petersburg, Virginia
7 Nov[ember] 1842
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160674
Joseph Sumner, at Charlotte, [North Carolina], to Rev. A.J. Leavenworth, at Petersburg, Virginia
24 Nov[ember] 1842
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160676
Rebecca [?], at Salem, [Massachusetts] to M[ary] A[nn] Peabody, at Petersburg, Virginia
29 Jan[uary] 1846
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160677
M.S. freeman, at Culpeper, [Virginia] to Mary Ann Peabody, at Petersburg, Virginia
29 Aug[ust] 1846
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160678
Frederick J. Kingsbury, at Boston, [Massachusetts] to Miss Mary Ann Peabody, at Petersburg, Virginia
14 July 1848
Mixed Materials Folder: 2 id160679
Mary Ann Peabody to her nephew, [?]
9 June 1850

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 4 id241545

Correspondence: Abner J. Leavenworth, Petersburg, Virginia to his Sister

1861 April 1

Scope and Contents

Letter, 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.

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 2

Accounts and Correspondence of A. J. Leavenworth with Turner & Hughes, booksellers, Raleigh, North Carolina

1835-1838English

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3

Other Accounts and Correspondence

1835-1842English

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3

Notes on the study of languages by women and on the employment of women as missionaries

undatedEnglish

Mixed Materials Box: 1 folder: 3

Incomplete draft of a short story followed by a letter from an unknown person

undatedEnglish