Dougherty County GaArchives History - Letters .....Nelson Letters 
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The Nelson letters at the Atlanta History Center archives [if anyone wishes to 
see them they are collection # MSS 249-F].  They were apparently placed at the 
history center in 1971 by some of the Davis Family.  The original letters and 
documents from Washington, LaFayette, Jefferson, Edmund Randolph and others 
were all there, as well as photocopies and early photostatic copies of other 
documents.  Some intriguing materials in the collection included a photostatic 
copy of John Nelson, Jr.'s commission as a Captain in the cavalry of the 
Commonwealth of Virginia, signed by the governor - Thomsa Jefferson, in 1779; a 
full-size copy of Thomas Nelson, Jr.'s commission as a Captain of cavalry in 
the U.S. Army in 1812, signed by President James Madison , and his promotion to 
Major in 1814.  There are articles regarding the Nelson family in Columbus 
(Thomas Nelson, Jr. moved there in 1838 and his son, Capt. Thomas Nelson 
organized "Nelson's Rangers, a cavalry troop in the Confederate Army.  He was 
killed at the Battle of Tupelo, MS in 1864), references to the Nelson family 
silver - spirited out of the house in Yorktown before the seige of the city in 
1781 and later taken to Columbus, and a ceremonial sword presented by Congress 
to Thomas Nelson, Jr. for his gallant service in the War of 1812.   

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