I am riding on the back of this discussion as I am looking for a
recommendation on a possible book.
I have just read "The Great Plantation:A profile of Berkeley Hundred and
Plantation Virginia from Jamestown to Appomattox" by Clifford Dowdey
published in 1957. I am now looking for a more current book or two of
similar topic. Is there such a thing? Much material and work has transpired
since this book was written and I am really looking for one or two books
that might be much newer parallels.
Thanks
Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
FL
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> 2. cipher (2)
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> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:20:12 +0000
> From: "Wilson, Donald L" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: FW: Explore RELIC (March 2020)
>
> EXPLORE RELIC
>
> March 2020 - The Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center for Genealogy and Local
> History (RELIC)
>
> Start your historical journey here. RELIC's email newsletter highlights
> upcoming free events and happenings. Genealogy and local Virginia history
> are our specialty as a service provided by the Prince William Public
> Library System. We're located at Bull Run Regional Library and you can
> always find more about us at
> https://www.pwcgov.org/government/dept/library/Pages/relic.aspx
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>
> *PRESERVATION FOR HOME ARCHIVES.
> Archivist Gabrielle Sanchez will introduce participants to the basics of
> preservation and discuss the best ways to house and protect personal
> archives. Topics include proper handling of letters, books, photographs,
> and other media, threats to paper and electronic media, and the dangers of
> non-archival storage products.
> Tuesday, March 10, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
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> BATTLE AT BRAWNER'S FARM.
> Historian Lionel Raymond will take us through the lead up to and action at
> Brawner's Farm, a significant episode in the Battle of Second Manassas,
> August 1862.
> Tuesday, March 24, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
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> RELIC INSIDER:
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> RELIC staff are now preparing for our big move later this spring to
> Central Community Library. The department at Bull Run Regional Library will
> be officially closed beginning Monday, April 6, until we reopen at Central
> in June. While we are "under construction," we still intend to provide
> research help on a "by appointment" basis. Many of the materials in our
> collection may be temporarily unavailable, but we expect we can continue to
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> REMINDER -- SAVE THE DATES:
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> THE SIXTH ANNUAL PRINCE WILLIAM / MANASSAS HISTORY SYMPOSIUM will be held
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> House, 9248 Lee Avenue, Manassas.
> Sponsored by the County Historic Preservation Division, the County
> Historical Commission, Historic Prince William, and the Manassas Museum,
> this year's topics include:
> . The Freedman's Bureau in Prince William County . The Legend of
> "Stonewall"
> . Prince William County's Frontiersman: Simon Kenton . The Life of Robert
> Carter III, Virginia's First Emancipator . Lady Spies of the O.S.S.
>
> A HISTORIC HOMES TOUR OF PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY will be held on Sunday,
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> NEXT MONTH:
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> WHO'S YOUR CIVIL WAR ANCESTOR?
> Manassas is a focus for the study of the American Civil War (1861 - 1865).
> If your family lived in the United States during that time, you can find a
> personal link to those exciting events. RELIC's Don Wilson will show how to
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> to respond in case of invasion. For the first time, their names have been
> compiled to recognize their service. Join us as historian J. Nathan
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> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 17:35:47 +0000
> From: "William B. Whitley" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: cipher
>
> To all,
>
> I don't anticipate getting an answer to this query, but perhaps folks will
> find it interesting nonetheless. Has a diplomatic code that would have been
> used by Virginia's government during the Revolution ever been found and
> deciphered? The particular code I'm interested in shows up in a letter of
> 30 Nov. 1780 from Philip Mazzei, then serving as the state's agent in
> Europe, to James Madison and can be seen via the link below:
>
> https://www.loc.gov/resource/mjm.01_0298_0300/?sp=2
>
> Volume 2 of the Papers of JM prints the letter and a translation but also
> notes that Madison was unable to decipher the code because he lacked the
> key and later learned that the state's copy of the key was destroyed during
> Benedict Arnold's raid on Richmond. I'm assuming that the trail has run dry
> there, but perhaps in the intervening years another copy of the cipher
> turned up, or some other information on the Virginia government's use of
> codes during the Revolution. With its array of Greek letters, numbers, and
> other symbols, it is entirely different from the code that the state's
> delegates to the Confederation Congress used and that is reprinted in Ralph
> E. Weber's United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers. It doesn't match up
> with any of Weber's codes and was likely something Virginia authorities and
> Mazzei cooked up shortly before he was dispatched to Europe in 1779. A
> small scrap of a very similar looking cipher appears in a draft of a letter
> from Thomas Jefferson to Mazzei, which recently turned up at the Biblioteca
> Nazionale in Florence.
>
> Thanks for any help, advice, etc.,
>
> Bland Whitley
> Papers of Thomas Jefferson
>
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> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 14:05:50 -0500
> From: "Schneider, Rebecca" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cipher
>
> Hello,
>
> I just did a bit of digging and found a possible solution to the code
> proposed by a German cryptologist:
> http://cryptiana.web.fc2.com/code/madison2.htm
>
> Here's a translation of the German publication that announced the solution:
>
> https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2015/08/03/verschluesselung-aus-dem-nachlass-von-us-praesident-madison-geloest/&prev=search
>
> I can't find any scholarly publications that cite this work; it seems to
> only have circulated in the code-breaking world.
>
> Best,
> Rebecca Schneider
> Senior Reference Librarian
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:39 PM William B. Whitley <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > To all,
> >
> > I don't anticipate getting an answer to this query, but perhaps folks
> will
> > find it interesting nonetheless. Has a diplomatic code that would have
> been
> > used by Virginia's government during the Revolution ever been found and
> > deciphered? The particular code I'm interested in shows up in a letter of
> > 30 Nov. 1780 from Philip Mazzei, then serving as the state's agent in
> > Europe, to James Madison and can be seen via the link below:
> >
> > https://www.loc.gov/resource/mjm.01_0298_0300/?sp=2
> >
> > Volume 2 of the Papers of JM prints the letter and a translation but also
> > notes that Madison was unable to decipher the code because he lacked the
> > key and later learned that the state's copy of the key was destroyed
> during
> > Benedict Arnold's raid on Richmond. I'm assuming that the trail has run
> dry
> > there, but perhaps in the intervening years another copy of the cipher
> > turned up, or some other information on the Virginia government's use of
> > codes during the Revolution. With its array of Greek letters, numbers,
> and
> > other symbols, it is entirely different from the code that the state's
> > delegates to the Confederation Congress used and that is reprinted in
> Ralph
> > E. Weber's United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers. It doesn't match
> up
> > with any of Weber's codes and was likely something Virginia authorities
> and
> > Mazzei cooked up shortly before he was dispatched to Europe in 1779. A
> > small scrap of a very similar looking cipher appears in a draft of a
> letter
> > from Thomas Jefferson to Mazzei, which recently turned up at the
> Biblioteca
> > Nazionale in Florence.
> >
> > Thanks for any help, advice, etc.,
> >
> > Bland Whitley
> > Papers of Thomas Jefferson
> >
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