Commodities - Lumber

Letter from Andrew D. Campbell to Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written during a journey from Scotland to Jamaica. In this letter, Campbell writes about his wife's family and recent financial troubles. He also confesses a long-held secret - he has four illegitimate sons, Thomas Hamilton, John Hamilton, James Hamilton Campbell, and Andrew Donaldson Campbell, all born in the Eden region of Cumbria.

Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle from her father-in-laws house, Kegotank. She speaks about one of their enslaved people, Martha, a washerwoman, delivering a stillbirth baby. She brings up his recent contract to provide lumber for the building of the new U.S. Navy Yard. Their brother-in-law Charles Nicoll Bancker invited the John Teackle family to Baltimore as a change of scenery after the death of one of the Teackle sons, Henry. She asks if he has news about meeting the new British Ambassador and his wife, Anthony and Elizabeth Merry.

Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, while he serves as one of Somerset County’s representatives to the Maryland House of Delegates in Annapolis. .

Document relating to the claim of Littleton D. Teackle, for payment for materials for the public buildings in the city of Washington. He supplied lumber for the building of the U.S. Naval Yard in Washington D.C and the U.S. Capitol building.