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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)

Biographical/Historical Information

Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Brent Carrington (1765-1847)was the eldest daughter of Jacquelin and Rebecca Burwell Ambler.

Scope and Content Information

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.

Arrangement

Chronologically arranged.

Index Terms

Family Names:

• Ambler family.

Persons:

• Caines, Frances.
• Carrington, Elizabeth Jacquelin Ambler Brent, 1765-1847.
• Dudley, Mildred Smith.
• Fisher, Ann Ambler.
• Fisher, John A. B.
• Marshall, John, 1755-1835.

Geographical Names:

• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783-- Refugees.
• United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women.
• Yorktown (Va.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.