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Preferred Citation:

Henry Tazewell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Scope and Contents

Typescripts of letters, 1795-1798, from Henry Tazewell of "Kingsmill," James City County, Va. while in Philadelphia, Pa. serving as United States senator to Richard Cocke, Shoal Bay, near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Va. reporting on activities of Congress. In particular, Tazewell refers to relations between France and the United States, the Alien and Sedition Acts and the banking situation.

Related Material

See also the Mss. Sm Coll Tazewell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary; and Mss. 92 T19 Tazewell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Alien and Sedition laws, 1798
• Banks and banking--United States--History
• Correspondence
• France--Foreign relations--United States
• Tazewell family
• Tazewell, Henry, 1753-1799
• Typescripts
• United States--Foreign relations--1783-1815
• United States--Foreign relations--France