Charles Yancey to Thomas Jefferson, 1 December 1819
From Charles Yancey
Yancey’s Mills Va Decr 1st 1819
Dear Sir
Colo MCWherter, Majr Davidson & 4 other Gentlemen all Members of the Va Legeslature will Call on You as they pass On I know Your attention to Strangers they are Gentlemen Worthy Your Notise
C Yancey
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 2 Dec. 1819 and so recorded (with additional bracketed notation: “Wherter. Davidson”) in SJL.
John McWhorter (1784–1880), attorney and public official, was a militia captain during the War of 1812. He sat for his native Harrison County (later West Virginia) in the House of Delegates, 1816–17, successfully worked to create Lewis County from Harrison late in 1816, and was a delegate for the new county, 1817–18, 1819–21, and 1825–28. McWhorter represented Harrison, Lewis, and Wood counties in the Senate of Virginia, 1830–33. He was also a justice of Lewis County starting in 1817, longtime prosecuting attorney of Lewis and Braxton counties, an active Mason until his death and, late in life, a Methodist minister. In 1850 McWhorter held real estate valued at $9,375. He died in Lewis County (Lucullus V. McWhorter, “Henry McWhorter and Descendants—Col. John McWhorter,” West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly 2 [1902]: 69–72; , 105, 281; , 1:682; ; Edward Conrad Smith, A History of Lewis County, West Virginia [1920]; DNA: RG 29, CS, W.Va., Lewis Co., 1850, 1870; Weston [W.Va.] Democrat, 17 Apr. 1880).
George Izzard Davisson (d. 1836), attorney and public official, was captain of an artillery battalion during the War of 1812. He was the senior warden of a newly organized Masonic lodge in Harrison County in 1814. Davisson represented that county in the House of Delegates, 1813–14 and 1830–31, and a district in the Senate of Virginia that included Harrison and grew from seven to nine counties during his service from 1816 to 1820. In 1819 he was one of the first attorneys to qualify to plead before the first federal court west of the Allegheny Mountains. Davisson also served as clerk of the Harrison County circuit court in 1831 (History of Harrison County West Virginia [1910]; gravestone inscription in Daniel Davisson DAR Cemetery, Clarksburg, W.Va.).
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- Davisson, George Izzard; identified search
- Davisson, George Izzard; introduced to TJ search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Correspondence; letters of introduction to search
- McWhorter, John; identified search
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- Monticello (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate); Visitors to; Davisson, George I. search
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- Virginia; General Assembly search
- Yancey, Charles (1766–ca.1825); introduces G. I. Davisson and J. McWhorter search
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