A Collection in
the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Manuscript Number DMS 54.5
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation
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Preferred Citation
Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Papers, Manuscript DMS 54.5,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation
Acquisition Information
Deposit, 1954.
Alternative Form
Also available on microfilm (M-1120) and as a transcript
(TR/53)
Correspondence from Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Brent
Carrington, includes letters to her friends, Mildred Smith
Dudley of Yorktown, Virginia, and Frances Caines of Bristol,
England. These letters, Elizabeth's own copies of the
originals, describe her family's difficulties during the
American Revolution; the sudden death of her first husband;
and the unfortunate life of one of her childhood friends.
Later letters to her sister, Ann Ambler Fisher, are Eliza's
attempts to describe their family and its antecedents; their
life in Yorktown before the Revolution; the hardships of their
flight from the British; and the changes the war made in their
lives. Included are sketches of their parents and their
brother-in-law, Chief Justice John Marshall. Some passages on
her later life explain why she retained these letters. Also
included is Eliza's copy of an 1815 letter from John A. B.
Fisher to his mother, discussing his parents' reaction to his
desire to become a minister.
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