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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 5: West Point, 1818-25. (search)
Chapter 5: West Point, 1818-25. Genealogy of the Howell family-lieutenant Howell's visit to Natchez-his marriage-purchase of Hurricane plantation-visit to West Point. The friendship between the Davis family and my own began about this time. My grandfather, Major Richard Howell, was born in Delaware. For some of these particulars I am indebted to my friend and cousin, General Meredith Read, of the United States Army, who is too much esteemed and too widely known to need other introduction to my readers. For other data I am obliged to my cousin, Justice Daniel Agnew, of Beaver, Pa. His great-grandfather was a Howell of Caerleon, Monmouth County. One of the sons moved to Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales, where he was seated until he moved to Delaware about 1690, and became a large planter there. One of his daughters married Colonel John Read, the signer. Richard, the father of William B. Howell, was a practising lawyer in Mount Holly, N. J., before the Revolution, and