Monday, November 26, 2007

William Crockett was Alfred Royal Wynne's Partner

"George [Crockett]’s brother William, a Gallatin tanner, was also sufficiently affluent to own slaves. However, the two brothers’ children had very different careers, illustrating how the boom-and-bust capitalism of the late Jacksonian era, punctuated by the Panic of 1837, could disperse family members and differentiate their achievements. George’s oldest son and namesake became the partner and legal adviser of Colonel A. J. Wynne (N. 50) who flourished in hotel, slave-trading, wholesaling, horse-raising, and merchandising businesses in the Gallatin area; George’s daughters Catherine and Eliza also married into these prosperous connections.'

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N. 50 "Alfred Royal Wynne (1800-1893): born in Wilson Co., Tenn.; son-in-law of James Winchester (see n. 46) whose business and political connections helped Wynne prosper in slave-trading and other enterprises, despite Wynne’s notoriously careless habits."


Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan:
Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815,
Page 118, by Miller, Kerby A. , Schrier, Arnold ( Joint Author ), Boling, Bruce D. ( Joint Author ) Publisher : Oxford University Press. Published : 03/01/2003. Format : Paperback , pages 816. ISBN-10 : 0195154894. ISBN-13 : 9780195154894

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Wynne Family Papers in Tennessee State Archives

Wynne Family Papers, 1801-1972. -- Mf. 813
16 vols. 5000 items. THS. 7 reels. 35 mm.


Papers primarily concerning Alfred Royal Wynne (1800-1893), merchant, resort operator, slave trader, thoroughbred horse breeder, land speculator, and member of the Tennessee General Assembly from Castalian Springs, Sumner County. Papers of the twentieth century are those of the collector, George Winchester Wynne (1887-1973), grandson of A.R. Wynne.

The papers are concentrated in the years 1840-90 and consist of accounts and account books; correspondence; legal documents, maps, memoirs and military records; obituaries, pamphlets, pictures, poems, and programs; recipes, school records, and speeches; and a few miscellaneous items. Accounts, 1801-94, are primarily those of A.R. Wynne and concern his land speculation and slave trading ventures in Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas. The account books are those of mercantile firms at the early Cumberland River port of Cairo in Sumner County. A.R. Wynne’s incoming correspondence, 1802-1972; Sumner County chancery and county court records; estate papers; genealogical data and land records are also part of the collection. Register available, including a name index to correspondence indicating subject content and date.

Tennessee State Library & Archives