#primarysource

[lordzannis]

For exploring esoteric topics like alchemy, hermeticism, and occult philosophies from more grounded, academic perspectives without promoting pseudoscience, here are some alternative recommendations:

YouTube Channels:

- Esoteric Book Reviews - A scholar provides overviews of key esoteric texts through an impartial lens

- Metaphysical Substance - Covers esoteric subjects like hermeticism, but separates fact from fiction

- Esoterica Etc - Examines occult influences in art/culture, while debunking pseudohistory claims

Online Resources:

- Public Domain Review - Excellent source for historical texts/art related to esoteric traditions

- Hermetic Kabbalah - Academic site exploring the historical origins of Kabbalah and hermeticism

- Alchemy Website - Maintained by a science historian, covers alchemy's scientific development

Books:

- "The Occult Mind" by Christopher Partridge - Overview of Western esoteric traditions by a religious scholar

- "The Hermetic Tradition" by Clement Salaman - Traces the history of hermeticism and alchemy

- "Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition" by Frances Yates - Scholarly work on Renaissance hermeticism

When exploring these sources, they will inform you about any pseudoscientific or unsubstantiated claims related to esoteric topics, but from an impartial, fact-based perspective. The goal is education over promotion of fringe theories.

You can learn about concepts like alchemy's symbolic principles or hermeticism's metaphysical ideas in their historical/philosophical context, without necessarily buying into them as literal truths.

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[weemsbotts]

“Did you or did you not sell or offer her for sale”: The Case of Nelly Jackson vs. Thomas Tebbs

By: Lisa Timmerman, Executive Director

In 1816, Nelly Jackson appeared before the Judges of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Alexandria suing Thomas Tebbs for her freedom. Although manumitted in William Carr’s will in 1790 upon Carr’s 1791 death, she alleged Betsy Tebbs offered her for sale instead. A case stretching from 1791 to the 1820s, it encompassed the Town of Dumfries along with the counties of Prince William, Loudoun, and Alexandria as she attempted to recover her freedom.

Nelly Jackson appeared in court after her escape from Thomas Tebbs.

“Nelly Jackson complains of Thos. Tebbs in custody &c of a Plea of Trespass. For that the said Th. Tebbs. on the 25 day of December 1815 at the County aforesaid with force & arms assaulted the said plaintiff, and her then and there took imprisoned, and restrained her of her liberty and held her in bondage from the said 25 day of December till the 3d day of December 1816 against the will of the said Plaintiff and against the law of the Land & other injuries to the said plaintiff there and during that time did against the peace and dignity of the United States, and to the damage of the plff One hundred dollars, and therefore she brings Suit.”

While acknowledged, most of the case referred to William Carr’s will and genealogical lineage not the assault. The prosecution emphasized the following section of Carr’s will,

“I Give and bequeath to my Son John Carr during his Natural life the Lands I now live on after the death of my Dear wife from the Church branch falling into Quantico run below the Quarry Hill including the meadow devised to me from my father and all the lands Purchased of Cols. Ewell whereon my Grist mill Stands with my lott in Dumfries purchased of Alexander Doyle the Land purchased of John Berryman the Land purchased of Alexander Scott Mount Horeb with all the Lands adjoining Purchased of  James Varper Knox & Combs and the land purchased of William Bales with negro Lucy and all her Children, Jim Harry & Viney I say I give the said recited Lands & negroes to my dear Son John Carr during his Natural life & then to his Child or Children if any living at his death if none to my Daugther Betsy Tebbs & my Son William Carr during life & then to their Children to be equally divided my will & desire is that the Negroes bequeathed to my dear Children should remain with my dear Wife during her life unless she should Marry in that Case my will and desire is that my Slaves should go immediately to those to whom they are Devised That None of them be sold out of the Family to whom they are Devised if offered for Sale by any of them out of the Family of my wife my Daughter & my Sons that they be immediately Liberated And I do hereby desire they may be free to all intents & purposes.”

Jackson was Lucy’s daughter, bequeathed to John Carr and in possession of William Carr. Both men died without children, sending Jackson to Betsy Tebbs. Betsy Tebbs sold her to Thomas Triplett, who had married her daughter Margaret Tebbs, before he then offered her for sale to Patrick McIntyre of Leesburg in 1813-1814 and possibly Jesse Timms.

(Summons of Thomas Tebbs, 02/28/1817, Nelly Jackson vs. Thomas Tebbs)

The court summoned Thomas Tebbs on 12/03/1816 and 02/28/1817. In 03/1817, the court commissioned Samuel Murrey, William Noland, and John Linton to gather evidence and take witness depositions. Throughout April, they interrogated Thomas Triplett, Thomas Chapman, Jesse Timms, and Patrick McIntyre with the following three questions:

“Are you acquainted with a negro woman called Nelly, alias Nelly Jackson? If yea, when and in what manner did you become acquainted with her?”

“Is she, or is she not one of the slaves belonging to the estate of William Carr, late of Prince William County decd. at the time of his death?”

“Did you or did you not sell or offer her for sale the said Negro Woman, if yea, when and where did you so offer her for sale, and to whom and by what authority? Was it by the authority of Mrs. Tebbs of Dumfries; if yea how was that authority given?”

Triplett testified, “I do hereby certify that Mrs Tebbs gave up to me the negroe girl Nelly belonging to the estate of the late William Carr and that (the said Slave was to be taken in part of my dividend of the said estate) at that time no division had taken place. at a subsequent period a Divison of the estate was made amongst the legatees at which the said Slave was taken away from me and assigned to Doctor Thomas F Tebbs, the brother of my wife. in right of whom I was entitled to a Dividend. I further certify that at the time I offered the said slave for sale as stated in my deposition filed in the suit by her brought in Alexandria for her freedom. I held her under the said gift from Mrs Tebbs.”

Thomas Chapman testified that he knew, “nothing of my own knowledge whether the said negro Nelly was ever offered for sale or sold neither do I know whether Mrs Tibbs ever authorized any person whatever to sell or offer her for sale.”

McIntrye testified, “Nelly was hired to me by Doctor Thos Triplett for a Short time on Tryal, Doctor Treplett offered to Sell the Said Nelly to me for the Sum of three hundred Dollars, some time in the year 1813 or 1814 at my Dwelling house in the Town of Leesburg.” He also added, “he offer'd to Sell her as property he received by his wife, under the will of the late Mr. Tibbs her father.” Jesse Timms’ denied the alleged sale only stating he knew of Jackson, and “There was a man from Carolina about purchasing a Negro woman from Doctor Thos Tripletts, and the woman Runaway, and in Concequence The man did not Get her, This happened to be Some two or three years ago. and further this deponant Saith not.”

Ultimately, the court awarded judgment for the plaintiff, Nelly Jackson, declaring her free and ordering Tebbs to pay the costs of her suit. As this court case demonstrates, the genealogical quagmire is challenging when researching the history of enslaved persons and the families that owned them. It also emphasizes the obstacles one woman faced and overcame to prove that imprisonment and deeds of sale could not stop her pursuit of freedom.

Note: Interested in learning more about Historic Dumfries Virginia and the varying programs we offer for children and adults? Join our monthly e-newsletter, The Town Crier, to see what we are up to in our small corner of Dumfries! The February 2023 edition is available here.

(Sources: Nelly Jackson vs. Thomas Tebbs. In O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family, edited by William G. Thomas III, et al. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Accessed 02/01/2023. https://earlywashingtondc.org/cases/oscys.caseid.0447)

[on-partiality]

I love your posts! How do you study and what do you read to know so much?

Yay! I get to recommend my favourite sources!

So for primary sources (first-hand accounts, letters written by people who were involved or connected to a certain event or person) I recommend:

https://founders.archives.gov/ - has lots of transcripts of letters written by or to the founding fathers.

https://www.loc.gov/ - has a wide range of revolutionary war related material like manuscripts, transcripts, maps, books and more made or written by the soldiers of the time.

https://www.masshist.org/ - has online exhibitions featuring maps, accounts of events, letters, artifacts and drawings relating to 18th century Massachusetts, the colony most important when studying the early years of the revolutionary war. I really like their Bunker hill exhibit and their one on the early days of the revolutionary war

https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/spy-letters-of-the-american-revolution/ - an online exhibition on the Culper Spy Ring and military intelligence from both sides of the war featuring letters that directly affected the war's battles and the outcomes of said battles. It's also got mini biographies, a timeline and lots of anecdotes.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/amerrev.asp - Just a lot of documents in chronological order starting from a year before the Stamp Act was passed by parliament to the surrender at Yorktown. Just try to ignore the misspelling of the word 'Britain'.

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits - admittedly not a site I'm very well acquainted with however I used it as a source in my really long post about standard Continental army soldier uniforms and it was very pleasant.

https://guides.bpl.org/primarysources/revolutionarywar - I love this one, they have so many resources and if you click on the link and scroll down it'll give you a nice list of places to find information on the five most popular founding fathers and just underneath that you can find lists of information on important political events.

All 6 American Archive volumes by Peter Force - I dream of one day having these books, they're the holy grail for anyone wanting to learn about the revolutionary war. They're filled with correspondence, state papers and debates from the war and I want them BADLY

I will make a separate post for tumblr users that I use as sources sometimes because there's too many of you people and frankly I want to get all of you in without having this post be absurdly long

[socscilearn]

Just came across this wonderful #primarysource for #SocSciLEARN - The story of the Otter, narrated by the late Joan Tenasco, Anishinabe (Algonquin) Kitigan Zibi, Quebec. Grateful for technology to record languages and stories 🩵https://t.co/I3Um6zhNve — Stacy Anne Allen (@stacyanneallen) Nov 4, 2024

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[christianityoriginal]

*#antman #resurrectionweek* http://ChristianityOriginal.com/Resurrection Skeptics say: 'You cannot quote the Bible for proof of the resurrection.' But the Bible is not a single book. It's actually a set of books/letters authored by multiple individuals. Paul's 50 AD letter to Corinthians, a *#primarysource,* refers to more than five hundred people seeing the risen Jesus. 1Cor 15:6. His point: 'Most of those are alive. Just ask them.' *#heisrisen*

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[christianityoriginaltamil]

*#ஸ்டார்வார்ஸ் #ஹலோ #எழுந்தார் #உயிர்த்தெழுதல்வாரம்* http://ta.ChristianityOriginal.com/Resurrection நாத்திகவாதிகள் நீங்கள் உயிர்த்தெழுதலை நிரூபிக்க பைபிள் மேற்கோள் சொல்லமுடியாது என்பர். ஆனால் பைபிள் என்பது வெவ்வேறு ஆசிரியர்களால் எழுதப்பட்ட புத்தகங்கள்/கடிதங்கள் ஆகியவற்றின் ஒரு தொகுப்பு ஆகும். பவுல் கொரிந்தியர்க்கு (50 கிபியில்) எழுதின கடிதம், ஒரு *#முதற்கண்ஆதாரம் #primarysource* ஆகும். அதில் அவர் 500க்கும் மேற்பட்ட மக்கள் உயிர்த்தெழுந்த இயேசுவைக் கண்டதை நினைவூட்டுகிறார் (1கொரி15:6). அவர்களில் பெரும்பாலோர் கடிதம் எழுதின தருணம் உயிருடன் இருப்பதையும் குறிப்பிடுகிறார். உயிர்தெழுதலில் சந்தேகமா? "நேரில் தரிசித்த ஆட்களிடமே போய் கேள்!" என அர்த்தப்படும்படி எழுதுகிறார்! *#இயேசுஉயிர்த்தெழுந்தார்* https://www.facebook.com/ChristianityOriginalTamil/photos/a.2028838140708019/3589705834621234/?type=3

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*#ஸ்டார்வார்ஸ் #ஹலோ #எழுந்தார் #உயிர்த்தெழுதல்வாரம்* http://ta.ChristianityOriginal.com/Resurrection நாத்திகவாதிகள் நீங்கள் உயிர்த்தெழுதலை நிரூபிக்க பைபிள் மேற்கோள் சொல்லமுடியாது என்பர். ஆனால் பைபிள் என்பது வெவ்வேறு ஆசிரியர்களால் எழுதப்பட்ட புத்தகங்கள்/கடிதங்கள் ஆகியவற்றின் ஒரு தொகுப்பு ஆகும். பவுல் கொரிந்தியர்க்கு (50 கிபியில்) எழுதின கடிதம், ஒரு *#முதற்கண்ஆதாரம் #primarysource* ஆகும். அதில் அவர் 500க்கும் மேற்பட்ட மக்கள் உயிர்த்தெழுந்த இயேசுவைக் கண்டதை நினைவூட்டுகிறார் (1கொரி15:6). அவர்களில் பெரும்பாலோர் கடிதம் எழுதின தருணம் உயிருடன் இருப்பதையும் குறிப்பிடுகிறார். உயிர்தெழுதலில் சந்தேகமா? "நேரில் தரிசித்த ஆட்களிடமே போய் கேள்!" என அர்த்தப்படும்படி எழுதுகிறார்! *#இயேசுஉயிர்த்தெழுந்தார்* https://www.facebook.com/ChristianityOriginalTamil/photos/a.2028838140708019/3589705834621234/?type=3

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In WW1, the German military allegedly processed the fat from the bodies of their fallen soldiers in special “corpse-utilization factories.” British propagandists received this information and purposely mistranslated the German term of animal carcass into “human corpse.”

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[weemsbotts]

“Rather be Enslaved than Banished”: The Fight for Family in the 1820s

By: Lisa Timmerman, Executive Director

1n 1827, Daniel Hughes brought his petition to Virginia’s General Assembly. Presley Jewell of Stafford County enslaved Hughes for roughly forty years, emancipating Hughes upon Jewell’s death along with granting him land and stock. Although officials required free black persons to leave the state immediately, Hughes petitioned for several years to remain. The reason? His family enslaved in Prince William County. The request? Change the law.

Prior to 1782, slaveholders needed the state’s approval to emancipate their enslaved persons, and only granted to those who performed “meritorious services”, such as preventing an enslaved rebellion. This changed with “An act to authorize the manumission of slaves.”

“Be it therefore enacted, That it shall hereafter be lawful for any person, by his or her last will and testament, or by any other instrument in writing, under his or her hand and seal, attested and proved in the county court by two witnesses, or acknowledged by the party in the court of the county where he or she resides, to emacipate and set free, his or her slaves, or any of them, who shall thereupon be entirely and fully discharged from the performance of any contract entered into during servitude, and enjoy as full freedom as if they had been particularly named and freed by this act.”

The act specified that emancipated persons “…being above the age of forty-five years, or being males under the age of twenty-one, or females under the age of eighteen years…” had to be supported by their emancipators. However, there were penalties upon the free person if they neglected to pay taxes or traveled without supporting documentation. There was also the very real danger of enslavement by other white persons.

On 01/25/1806, the General Assembly amended this with “An Act to amend the several laws concerning slaves” declaring that an emancipated person had to leave the state within twelve months or risk being enslaved. The act outlined the process and penalties the slave owners would take for violating this stature. If the slave owner refused or never appeared, the person could be re-enslaved.

“And be it further enacted, That if any slave hereafter emancipated shall remain within this commonwealth more than twelve months after his or her right to freedom shall have accrued, he or she shall forfeit all such right, and may be apprehended and sold by the overseers of the poor of any county or corporation in which he or she shall be found, for the benefit of the poor of such county or corporation.”

The reasoning here was due to the potential consequences of enslaved persons associating with emancipated persons. Slave owners were always paranoid and showed their fear through acts and laws. Fearing the emancipated would encourage and support the enslaved person to possibly run away or incite an attack, the state decided it was necessary to remove any free person as soon as possible. For Hughes, this meant he needed to appeal directly to the General Assembly to either receive special permission or change the law. His numerous petitions show he tried both.

First petitioning in 02/1827, Hughes appealed to the House of Representatives and Senate. “The petition of Daniel Hughs, a free man of colour respectfully & humbly represents that he resides in the County of Stafford – that his master at his death several years ago, set him free and bequeathed to him a small farm where he has since resided – that he has a wife and two children – that he is near Sixty years of age and that he would as soon be again enslaved as to be banished the few remaining years of his life from his wife & children and place of nativity. He therefore prays your honorable body to permit him to remain in the State of Virginia the balance of his life, and trusts from his previous good character and the assurance of his future upright and orderly conduct that your honorable body will find no difficulty in extending towards him a favor seldom denied to worthy and meritorious slaves who have been emancipated by their masters…”

Thirty-two men testified to the above petition, signing their names in support of Hughes, “…as a worthy orderly and well behaved negro and have no limitation in stating that no few negro in the State of Virginia is more entitled to the privilege of remaining in this State than he is. He is near Sixty years of age, lives on the land given to him by Mr. Jewell his master and is very capable of maintaining himself.” Seymour Lyon, John Alexander, William P. Gaines, William Carter, Fielding Jewell, William Jewell, Joseph Stark, John Tausill, Thomas Nelson, and John Stone are just a few of the signatures on the petition.

George Carney, the man enslaving Hughes wife and children, also testified for Hughes, fully supporting his petition. “…and was called on by Presley Jewel his master to write his Will which I did he left him a lot of land of ten Acres and set him free observing to me he never had the weight of his hand on him in anger since he had Owned him Which was from a small boy and he did not with any man to do so after his death he is very industrious and provides well for his family and is of punctual to pay his debts as any man Whatever. therefore I pray your honorable body will consider his case and suffer him to remain the balance of his days in this commonwealth.” Carney’s support becomes clear if we consider his intentions. If forced to leave the state, the Hughes family might flee with or without active help from Hughes. By keeping Hughes nearby and supporting him, the family was seemingly less likely to run.

Despite the strong testimony and prayers, the petition was rejected.

Hughes tried again in 12/1828. “Your petitioner Daniel Hughs (a man of Colour) after serving as a slave upwards of Forty Years, was left Free some time ago by a certain Mr. Presley Jwel of Stafford County Va: Who also devised to me Ten acres of Land & some stock. I have near me a wife & Children the property of Mr Geo. Carney of P. Wm Cty. Your petitioner is informed that he cannot remain in this state Free without a special law passed by your honorable body which he prays to be passed –“

Again, several persons testified to the character of Hughes supporting his petition. Thomas Nelson, Jr. certified “that I have Known Danl Hughs for two years & believe the facts set out in his petition to be true & his general character is that of an honest, peaceable industrious inoffensive man.”

George Carney also testified again. “I certify that I have known Daniel Hughs for about 35 years and have even considered him a well behaved Servant during his masters time, and that he waited on his master during his last illness with great attention. (there being no white person about the house) and Since his master’s death his general conduct has been peaceable, industrious, inoffensive, and very punctual – his master gave me a good character of him, when writing his will.” Note how Carney emphasized that Hughes cared for Jewell when no white person was available. This subtle statement reinforced the racial codes, by suggesting Hughes care was only suitable when no white person could be found.

Besides for two men listed above, Fielding Jewell, Thomas Harman, Thomas Harding, John Alexander, Zachius Holliday, Richard Bridwell, Bryam Harding, and John Stone signed the petition in favor of Hughes. Despite their support, the Assembly denied the petition. Again.

Hughes tried a third time in 12/1829. This time, the petition starts off with the support of Stafford and Prince William County. “We the undersigned Citizens of Stafford and Prince William Counties being well acquainted with Daniel Hughes who was the slave of Presley Jewell & emancipated by him take pleasure in representing to your honourable body that the sd Daniel Hughes is a man of remarkably good character. That his conduct for many years past has been marked not only with usefulness to his master whom he has served to between 40 and 50 years of age with unusual fidelity in the different employments of labourer & confidential agent, but to our neighborhood We find we do not hesitate to say that independent of the claim which his general good character & conduct give him to residence in the state we should view his removal as a loss to our neighborhood & therefore recommend him as a fit person for exemption from the operations of the general law requiring his removal from the commonwelth. The undersigned tender you the [assurance] of their highest respects.” From Stafford: John Alexander, John Burroughs, Joseph Stark. From Prince William: Fielding Jewell, Thompson Lynn, John Stone, Thomas Nelson, Robert Alexander, James H. Reid, W.C. Murphy, John G. Rubleman, Richard P. Weedon, Sanford Cooper, Fledgman Murphey, Hiram D. Davis, William Cleary, William Cockrell, James B.C. Thurston, James Dowell. Unidentified: Silas Carney, probably Stafford.

Hughes appealed directly but more adamant. “He is informed that after the expiration of twelve months the law requires him to depart the state or forfeit the blessing which his kind master designed him to enjoy, and that from these evils of exile or slavery, equally detestable to him your honourable body alone can redeem, he therefore prays of your the passage of a law authorising him to reside within the commonwealth of Virginia. Your petitioner can urge no act of extraordinary merit for which he was emancipated, or would have found no difficulty in establishing such character as would have obtained of a county court the inestimable right for which he now prays, but must depend for favour upon the fact that he is a man whom the community in which he resides esteems for his character and desiring of retaining among them; satisfactory proofs of which your petitioner has herewith transmitted.”

The third petition was rejected. There is no easy answer for what happened to Hughes – at least no primary document easily accessible online! His choices were to either stay and face possible re-enslavement or leave the state. We know his age and no one identified a medical reason why he could not leave the state, such as troubles walking, injuries, etc. However, leaving the state meant leaving his home and family. Where would he go? What would he do? There are still more avenues to explore. Some possibilities: searching primary documents (court records, newspapers, wills, deeds) for George Carney especially looking into any property records available upon his death, searching for more info on the Jewell family, and searching for any court records pertaining to Daniel Hughes in Virginia. We hope to shed more light on the Hughes family living in Prince William and Stafford Counties as research facilities continue to index and upload their materials.

Note: Know a Brownie Girl Scout? We are offering the rare “Earn the Colonial Life Try-it” on Monday, 01/30 – a PWCPS work day! Join us for this great program featuring a tour of the house and related activities and crafts. Know someone that may want to participate but is not a Brownie? Contact us to discuss!  Tickets and more info available here.

(Sources: Hughes, Daniel: Petition, 1827, 1828, 1829. LVA: Legislative Petitions Digital Collection: Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative; General Assembly. “An act to authorize the manumission of slaves (1782)" Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 25 Jan. 2023; General Assembly. “An ACT to amend the several laws concerning slaves” (1806)” Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Humanities, (07 Dec. 2020). Web. 25 Jan. 2023)

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*#starwars #hellothere #generalkenobi #obiwankenobi* http://ChristianityOriginal.com/Resurrection Skeptics say: 'You cannot quote the Bible for proof of the resurrection.' But the Bible is not a single book. It's actually a set of books/letters authored by multiple individuals. Paul's 50 AD letter to Corinthians, a *#primarysource,* refers to more than five hundred people seeing the risen Jesus. 1Cor 15:6. His point back then to his readers: 'Most of those witnesses are alive. Just ask them.' *#heisrisen* https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=609580537867065&set=a.549191003906019&type=3