Saturday, January 21, 2017

Andrew Jackson Visits Botetourt Springs, Virginia, September 18, 1830

From catalog record: Andrew Jackson [1767-1845] at Botetourt Springs, Virginia, to Major William B. [Berkeley] Lewis [1784-1866] at Washington City, September 18, 1830: "Informing him of his arrival at Botetourt Springs and telling him that he hopes to reach Washington in six or seven days." Collection of autograph letters signed from Andrew Jackson to William B. Lewis (MA 811) item 37 unbound. Pierpont Morgan Library Dept. of Literary and Historical Manuscripts. Also published in Daniel Feller, Thomas Coens, and Laura-Eve Moss, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, volume VIII, 1830 (Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2010), p. 525. The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, (212) 685-0008.

Jackson was President of the United States at the time. John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) of South Carolina was Vice President. Important for documenting the fact that Jackson stayed at Botetourt Springs, operated by Charles Johnston (1769-1833).

[Many thanks to William Myers, Mary Davy, Sally Young and Susan Davis for their ongoing research collaboration.]  

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