Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Joseph Eggleston

Published Biographies
  • George Tucker, Memoir of the Life and Character of John P. Emmet, M.D. (1845), with variant birth year of 1797 on 6.

  • Thomas Addis Emmet (son), Memoir of John Patten Emmet M.D. (1898), with frontispiece portrait, birth date on 15, contradictory marriage dates of July 21, 1827 (on 33) and July 24, 1827 (on 59), variant death date of August 15, 1842 on 54 and 59, texts of letters, and reproductions of drawings.

  • B. F. D. Runk, "John Patten Emmet," Magazine of Albemarle County History 13 (1953): 54–67.

, Primary Sources
  • Emmet correspondence, class notes, and MS "Syllabus on the Refraction of Light" in Papers of John Patten Emmet (1842–1879), Note Books of John Patten Emmet (1825–1841), and other collections in Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Albemarle Co. Marriage Bonds (bond dated July 19, 1827)

  • Washington Daily National Intelligencer, August 1, 1827 (marriage date of July 21, 1827)

  • Estate inventory in Albemarle Co. Will Book, 15:113–116, Library of Virginia

  • Emmet's publications include:

    • "Upon the solvent and oxidating powers of Ammoniacal Salts, &c.," American Journal of Science and Arts 18 (1830): 255–260
    • "Experiments upon the Solidification of raw Gypsum," American Journal of Science and Arts 23 (1833): 209–212
    • "Notices on Thermo-Electricity and Electro-Magnetism," American Journal of Science and Arts 26 (1834): 311–313
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Obituaries
  • Christian Register and Boston Observer, August 20, 1842 (death notice)

  • Richmond Enquirer, October 18, 1842 (obituary and memorial)

Biographical Information
  • James Henry Bailey, "John Wayles Eppes, Planter and Politician" (Master's thesis, University of Virginia, 1942).

  • John Cook Wyllie, ed., Thomas Jefferson's Prayer Book (1952), plate ix, with birth date of April 1772 and date of first marriage; variant birth date of April 9, 1773, derived from gravestone (died on September 15, 1823, "aged 50 years 5 months and 6 days"), but Eppes is mentioned by name in codicil, February 12, 1773, to grandfather's will (Charles City Co. Records, Deeds, and Wills [1766–1774], 462).

  • John Frederick Dorman, Descendants of Francis Epes I of Virginia (Epes-Eppes-Epps) (1992– ), 2:397–399, 403–407.

  • Marriage reported in Richmond Enquirer, April 25, 1809.

  • Will in Hubard Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

  • Estate division in Cumberland Co. Deed Book, 29:354–362.

  • Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America (1994), 298 (portrait).

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Eppes Correspondence
  • John Wayles Eppes Letters, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.

  • Carr-Cary Family Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Eppes Family Papers (1775–1928), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Thomas Jefferson Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

  • Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass., with first and third quotations in Eppes to Jefferson, February 14, 1818.

  • Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

  • James Madison Papers, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

  • James Monroe Papers, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

  • Eppes correspondence printed in part in:

    • Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1950– ), with second quotation in Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, June 8, 1797, 29:424.
    • Jefferson Looney et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series (2004– ).
    • Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (1984– ).
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Obituaries
  • Richmond Enquirer, September 19, 1823

  • Washington Daily National Intelligencer, September 20, 1823 ("aged about 50 years" with death erroneously "At his seat in Chesterfield county").

Primary Sources
  • Birth, marriage, and death dates in Eppes family Bible record, 1788–1844, Accession 34047, Bible Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

  • Sussex Co. Marriage Bond and Sussex Co. Register of Marriages.

  • Election as general in Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond … (1826–1827 sess.), 32.

  • Report of the Select Committee on the Resolutions of Georgia and South Carolina, bound with Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond … (1828–1829 sess.).

  • Office of the Governor, Militia Commission Papers (1877–1858), Record Group 3, Library of Virginia.

  • Letters to and from Governor John Floyd and other documents, printed in Henry Irving Tragle, The Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831: A Compilation of Source Material (1971).

  • Personal Property Tax Returns, Sussex Co., 1832, Auditor of Public Accounts, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.

  • Land Tax Returns, Sussex Co. 1832, Auditor of Public Accounts, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.

  • Sussex Co. Will Book L:445–446 (quotation on 445).

, Newspapers
, Obituaries
  • Richmond Whig & Commercial Journal, Aug. 6, 1832.

  • Obituary and tribute in Richmond Enquirer, Aug. 7, 1832 (with incorrect death date); Aug. 17, 1832.