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Recd. of Mrs. E.E. Jackson, eight hundred Dollars it being an advancement to me for that amount. Oct. 1840. Maria Gloria Underwood.

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E.E. Jackson was kin to General Thomas J. Jackson. Maria G. Underwood was the wife of Judge John C. Underwood of Virginia.

John C. Underwood: (1809-73) Lawyer. A planter in Clarke County, Va., Underwood was a Free-Soiler in politics and was virtually driven from Virginia for his attacks on slavery during the presidential campaign of 1856. A Republican office holder during the Civil War, he became a U.S. district court judge in Virginia, in 1864. In this capacity he asserted the right of the United States to confiscate property of persons in rebellion and treated Jefferson Davis with great harshness during and after Davis' indictment for treason in 1866. He presided over the Virginia constitutional convention which met at Richmond in December 1867.