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Box 9

 Container

Contains 130 Results:

George White, Wheeling, West Virginia, to Archibald Woods, 1816 March 27

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 962
Identifier: id163315
Scope and Contents

Wants to buy or borrow anvil.

Dates: 1816 March 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Bond for an unidentified person to pay Archibald Woods 125 dollars, 1816 March 30

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 963
Identifier: id163317
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers, chiefly 1783-1846, of Archibald Woods of Ohio County, West Virginia. The papers concern his family, the Poage family, and the Houston family, as well as his business dealings. Correspondents include Levi Barber, Daniel Call, Philip Doddridge, Chapman Johnson, Henry Lee, James Pindall, Benjamin Ruggles, Daniel Sheffey and John Tyler, Edgar Campbell Wilson, George Washington Wilson and Thomas Wilson. Subjects dealt with in the collection include banking, cholera, the Cumberland Road,...
Dates: 1816 March 30
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Benjamin Ruggles, Washington, D.C., to Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 April 1

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 964
Identifier: id163318
Scope and Contents

Resolutions introduced to appoint committee to look into military road through Charleston. Bills passed House to admit Indiana and Mississippi as states. Nothing done on appropriation for building Cumberland Road.

Dates: 1816 April 1
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

John Gardiner, General Land Office Washington, D.C., to Benjamin Ruggles, Senate United States Washington, D.C., 1816 April 3

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 965
Identifier: id163320
Scope and Contents

Draughtsman in office is unable to attend to business. Sends sketch of Indiana Territory taken from Bradley's maps by a pupil of the draughtsman.

Dates: 1816 April 3
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Benjamin Ruggles, Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C. to Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 April 3

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 966
Identifier: id163322
Scope and Contents

House has passed appropriation of $300,000 for Cumberland Road.

Dates: 1816 April 3
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia to Levi Barber, Marietta Ohio, 1816 April 11

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 967
Identifier: id163323
Scope and Contents

Necessary for Woods and Barber to pay up all the installments on the land Woodfield stands on so lot owners can have deeds. Wants Barber to go to Indiana with him. Wants to speculate with Barber's interest in Woodfield.

Dates: 1816 April 11
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

William Irwin, Wheeling, West Virginia, to Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 April 13

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 968
Identifier: id163325
Scope and Contents

Resigns his commission as captain in the Wheeling Light Infantry.

Dates: 1816 April 13
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

John Richardson, Wheeling, West Virginia, to Archibald Woods, 1816 April 17

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 969
Identifier: id163327
Scope and Contents

Asks to borrow $160.

Dates: 1816 April 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

E. McClandhan, Botetourt County, Virginia to Archibald Woods, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, 1816 April 22

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 970
Identifier: id163328
Scope and Contents

McClandhan's father needs taxes paid on land.

Dates: 1816 April 22
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Benjamin Ruggles, Washington, D.C., to Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 April 24

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 971
Identifier: id163330
Scope and Contents

Concerns appointment for superintendent of Cumberland Road. Connell has withdrawn. Moses Shepherd and Rolfe are applicants.

Dates: 1816 April 24
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, to Claiborne W. Gooch, Adjunct General Richmond, Virginia, 1816 April 28

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 972
Identifier: id163332
Scope and Contents

Concerning legal difficulties in collecting militia fines.

Dates: 1816 April 28
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Thomas Wilson, Morgantown, West Virginia, to Archibald Woods, 1816 April 29

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 973
Identifier: id163334
Scope and Contents

Will pay money to redeem land for taxes to County clerk of Wood County. Wilson's daughter died on April 15.

Dates: 1816 April 29
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

William McCoy, Lt. to Col. Archibald Woods, 1816 May 2

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 974
Identifier: id163335
Scope and Contents

Resigns commission.

Dates: 1816 May 2
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Levi Barber, Marietta, Ohio, to Archibald Woods, near Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 May 5

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 975
Identifier: id163337
Scope and Contents

Has not heard from servants. Sends amount due on a fractional section. Has heard nothing from Indiana lands.

Dates: 1816 May 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

John Bonnett, Big Wheeling, Creek, West Virginia, to Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 May 6

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 976
Identifier: id163339
Scope and Contents

Cannot attend training or regimental muster because of illness. Sends company return.

Dates: 1816 May 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

George Paull to Archibald Woods, 1816 May 15

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 977
Identifier: id163340
Scope and Contents

Sale of lots to David Person and ? Jackson.

Dates: 1816 May 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

David Person to ? Woods, 1816 May 16

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 978
Identifier: id163342
Scope and Contents

Asks terms for a lot.

Dates: 1816 May 16
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, to Stephen R. Wilson, 1816 May 27

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 979
Identifier: id163344
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Will take depositions in lawsuit of Wilson (as administrator of Richard Nichols v. John Caldwell, Robert Woods, Archibald Woods et al. in District Chancery Court at Clarksburg, West Virginia

Dates: 1816 May 27
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

A. Hamilton to Archibald Woods, 1816 May 29

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 980
Identifier: id163345
Scope and Contents

Sends for corn meal.

Dates: 1816 May 29
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Thomas Wells, Tyler County, West Virginia, to Archibald Woods, 1816 June 4

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 981
Identifier: id163347
Scope and Contents

Sends for land patents.

Dates: 1816 June 4
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Stephen R. Wilson, Wood County, West Virginia to Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 June 14

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 982
Identifier: id163348
Scope and Contents

Unable to attend taking of depositions in Wilson v. Caldwell, Woods et al.

Dates: 1816 June 14
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Cornelius Peterson, Woodsfield, to Archibald Woods, 1816 June 16

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 983
Identifier: id163741
Scope and Contents

Shall be ready to raise house for Franklin Woods. Needs flour and money.

Dates: 1816 June 16
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Spencer Biddle to Archibald Woods, Ohio County, West Virginia, 1816 June 16

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 983A
Identifier: id163742
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Request for payment of son's board. Includes account of ? Woods with Biddle.

Dates: 1816 June 16
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

Archibald Woods, Wheeling, West Virginia to Philip Doddridge, Charleston, Brooke County, West Virginia, 1816 June 17

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 984
Identifier: id163743
Scope and Contents

Does not want to buy lots at Doddridge's price.

Dates: 1816 June 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9

E. C. Wilson, Washington, D.C., to George Washington Wilson, Wheeling, West Virginia, 1816 June 19

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 985
Identifier: id163744
Scope and Contents

Cumberland Road bill for $300,000 has passed. Majority struck out $30,000 for surveys of harbor bill. Determined to protrate system of interval improvements. Includes speech of David Crockett from notes made by Wilson while Crockett was speaking.

Dates: 1816 June 19
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Archibald Woods Papers / Box 9