Handy, Robert Jenkins Henry, 1771-1819

Robert Jenkins Henry Handy was the son of Capt. William Handy and Mary King Henry. He had a brother, three sisters, and two half-brothers from his mother’s first marriage. He married Mary “Polly” Selby on Nov. 27, 1800, and they made their home in Snow Hill, where they enslaved eight people in their household. He registered for military service in 1812. They had four children who lived to adulthood. Robert Handy died on March 19, 1819.

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[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her sister Ann Upshur Eyre - May 28, 1800]

Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her sister Ann Upshur Eyre, written from her Uncle Littleton Upshur's home, Vaucluse, on Hungars Creek. She lists off the expected guests at her upcoming wedding to Littleton Dennis Teackle: the family of John Teackle, Congressman John Dennis and his wife Eleanor Jackson Dennis, her brothers, Nancy Read, Peter Hack, Dr. George Teackle, her step-father John Upshur of Brownsville, Littleton P. Townsend, Betsy Teackle of Craddock, Maria Parker, and the family of her Uncle Col. Samuel Handy.