Militia and legal papers, 1754-1905 and undated

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This series contains both militia and legal papers, including deeds, wills, claims, leases, contracts, law licenses, indentures, papers dealing with the settlement of estates and McCalla's legal practice, militia rosters, accounts, petitions to sue, and court martial proceedings from the War of 1812. Interesting property involved is from estates of J. M. Varnum whose heirs are Helen V. Hill and Mary Isabel Hill for one part and Joseph B. Varnum on the other. This estate, centered in Washington real estate and securities, continued through the life of Isabel (McCalla) Goldsborough and Helen Hill Goldsborough.

On March 31, 1845, McCalla was appointed second auditor of the U.S. Treasury and immediately relocated to Washington. Many of the papers date from his time in office.

In an affidavit of Sept. 24, 1844, John McKee claims to have seen Henry Clay drinking spirits and using profanity, in Richmond, Kentucky in the fall of 1841. An index refers to cases in Congress during the 1950s and there is an address given at the fiftieth anniversary of the Lexington Light Infantry.

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