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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Journal of accounts, etc. with the Potomac Company, and other 1803-1833 (30 years) / Thomas Harbaugh.

Title: Journal of accounts, etc. with the Potomac Company, and other 1803-1833 (30 years) / Thomas Harbaugh.

Contains payroll records and accounts with contractors for grubbing, clearing and excavation for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal locks at Great Falls, Antietam Creek, Shenandoah River, a woolen mill at Antietam and a court house in Hagerstown.

ArchivalResource: 84 p. : bound v. ; 27 x 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70704251 View

Cushwa, Barnet, d. circa 1854. Barnet Cushwa papers [manuscript] 1824-1855 (bulk 1841-1853).

Title: Barnet Cushwa papers [manuscript] 1824-1855 (bulk 1841-1853).

The collection contains a journal, 1842-1845, recording activities at Tuscarora Mills and Honeywood Mills, including buying and grinding grain, buying timber, selling general merchandise and hiring labor. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company was a customer. The collection also contains a file of letters, 1847-1855, concerning the flour trade in the United States and Europe and Cushwa's accounts with Baltimore merchants. The collection also contains documents, 1824-1853, generated by Cushwa as executor for several Berkeley County, family. Two bear the signature of Charles J. Faulkner. Others are signed by clerk of court John Strother. The collection also contains some personal correspondence of Barnet Cushwa, 1847-1854; his appointment to a directorship of the Hampshire and Berkeley Turnpike Company, 1851; and some personal receipts and bills, 1841-1850, chiefly for household goods.

ArchivalResource: circa 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648003373 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Powers of attorney to transfer stock, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1853-1888.

Title: Powers of attorney to transfer stock, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1853-1888.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Public Debt: Bond Related Records. These records contain powers of attorney and also other records, such as correspondence concerning interest due on state stock; vouchers for interest payments (act of March 28, 1879); cancelled stock and warrants of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; powers of attorney to transfer stock to Board of Public Works, for purchase of Blue Ridge Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal stock, and the transfer of Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad stock, April 19, 1880.

ArchivalResource: 29.1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435428724 View

Potomac Company. Time book, 1821.

Title: Time book, 1821.

Lists hours worked for men engaged in construction of locks at Little Falls on the Potomac River [later incorporated into the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.] Also used as a commonplace book by [Sarah Emily Plummer?].

ArchivalResource: 156 p. : Bound v. ; 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20185702 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Register of bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1854-1860.

Title: Register of bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, from the Office of the Second Auditor, 1854-1860.

These records are part of Office of the Second Auditor. Internal Improvement Fund: Canals. These records contain a register of interest paid on bonds from July 1854 to January 1860. The bond number, amount, interest, and to whom paid are given.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/427393888 View

Virginia. Auditor of Public Accounts (1776-1928). Certificates relating to the redemption of the state loan of 1833 to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1850-1851.

Title: Certificates relating to the redemption of the state loan of 1833 to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1850-1851.

The certificates in this series verify the numbers of shares redeemed.

ArchivalResource: 3 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122394600 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company memoir, 1859.

Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company memoir, 1859.

Illustrated memoir (119 pages with illustrations) of several months working on the C&O canal. Includes comments on the Maryland countryside, towns, and natural history.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79456334 View

Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792. Papers, 1785-1816.

Title: Papers, 1785-1816.

Business letters, chiefly addressed to Charles and John Morrow, Rumsey's brothers-in-law; minutes (1785) of the Potomac Navigation Company (later the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company); papers relating to Rumsey's business operations, steamboats, and steam navigating; and letters concerning the settlement of his estate.

ArchivalResource: 68 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20159048 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company archives, 1880-1945, 1889-1945

Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company records

This collection consists of legal and financial records, correspondence, and maps documenting the construction and operation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Many of the materials concern land transactions and there is also a significant amount of documentation of court cases involving the company.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1226 View

United States. National Park Service. Records of the Potomac Company and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

Title: Records of the Potomac Company and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.

Records of the Potomac Company include proceedings, 1785-96; minutes, correspondence, and reports, 1785-1828; letters sent, 1817-28; legal records, 1792-1828; records concerning transfer of shares of stock, 1791-1828; a stock ledger, 1787-1828; ledgers, 1796 and 1800-1807; a cashbook, 1823-28; letters sent and other records relating to the Potomac and Shenandoah Navigation Lottery, 1810-19; and miscellaneous accounts, 1785-1828. Records of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Compnay include proceedings of stockholders, 1828-89, with an index, 1828-83; proceedings of the president and directors, 1828-90, with indexes; subscription books, 1827-30; lists of shareholders, ca. 1829-37; letters received by the office of the president and directors, 1828-89, with registers, 1828-88; letters sent by the office of the president and directors, 1828-70 and 1879-81, with a register, 1828-70; letters sent by the office of the trustees, 1897-1938, and correspondence, 1913-38, with an index; letters received by the Commissioner of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1835-42, and letter books of the Commissioner, 1835-42; letters received by the chief engineer, 1834-52, with a register, 1835-40; letters sent by the chief engineer, 1838-52; and records of the resident and assistant engineers, 1828-42. There are also records concerning legal matters and land, including legal records, 1828-1900, deeds and other records concerning land titles, 1828-78, and land surveys and descriptions of land, 1828-73; records concerning construction and maintenance, including drawings and calculations for the Paw Paw Tunnel, ca. 1836, and for sections of the canal, 1836-41, field notebooks, 1827-96, records relating to bids for construction work, 1836 and 1841, assessment books, 1828-33, and accounting records relating to construction and maintenance, 1828-82; records concerning traffic on the canal, including a record of boat registrations, 1851-74, a registrations, 1851-74, a register of boats employed on the canal, 1878, statements of articles transported, 1850-78, registers of tools collected at Georgetown, 1845-54, registers of ascending and descending boats, 1869-80, returns of manifests, 1851-77, returns of waybills, 1878-87, and ledgers for toll accounts, 1855-92; financial records, including journals, and ledgers, 1828-90, treasures' journals, 1853-70 and 1872, treasurers' ledgers, 1828-70 and 1881-89, abstracts of receipts and expenditures, 1828-80, records relating to bonds and coupons, 1838-84, payrolls, 1873-74 and 1884-85, record of payrolls, 1913-38, records relating to leases, 1870-1938, accounts, 1872-90, financial statements, 1893-98 and 1909-24, and miscellaneous accounting records, ca. 1828-89. There are records relating to a proposed extension of the canal, 1874, memorandums concerning the coal trade, 1893, and printed materials, 1816-1907.

ArchivalResource: 116 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122648481 View

Richard Rush Papers, 1805-1852

Title: Richard Rush Papers 1805-1852

Lawyer and statesman. Correspondence, diary, notes, writings, and engraved portraits relating primarily to Rush’s duties as attorney general, secretary of state, minister to Great Britain, and secretary of the treasury, and legal documents concerning a loan from the Netherlands he arranged to finance the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company in and near the District of Columbia.

ArchivalResource: 60 items; 1 containers plus 1 oversize; .2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006051 View

Potomac Company. Stock ledger, 1787-1828.

Title: Stock ledger, 1787-1828.

A record of transactions concerning the purchase and transfer of shares of stocks in the company.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear in. (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578572 View

Potomac Company. Records concerning transfer of shares of stock, 1791-1828.

Title: Records concerning transfer of shares of stock, 1791-1828.

These volumes are labeled "Deed Records" and contain handwritten copies of indentures and other legal documents prepared in order to transfer title to shares of stocks, usually by sale or inheritance. A few documents are dated 1832. Original documents concerning transfers of stocks are among those described in the series titled "Legal Records" (DCNV89-A42).

ArchivalResource: 5 linear in. (2 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122572755 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company records, 1833-1914.

Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company records, 1833-1914.

Contains letters sent to the board, reports, petitions, deed of mortgage, and newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/256493468 View

Ramsay family. Papers, 1828-1958.

Title: Papers, 1828-1958.

The Ramsay Family Papers (1828-1958, four linear feet) consist of William G. Ramsay's personal and business papers, as well as his family's personal papers which are primarily correspondence received by family members. The letters are arranged by recipient of the correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123530 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Letters concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. [manuscript], 1828-1829.

Title: Letters concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. [manuscript], 1828-1829.

In a letter, 1828 September 4, John Cox, Mayor of Georgetown, forwards to the Board of Alderman and the Board of Common Council several documents from the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company which he has received from General Smith. In a letter, 1829 June 28, Charles Fenton Mercer, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, writes to Thomas P. Cope, of the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, concerning the services of Judge Wright [on the Delaware and Chesapeake canal ?] as he is needed on the Chesapeake and Ohio. He discusses his own work load, loans from Cope's bank, the resultant building boom in Georgetown, and the renewal of the bank's charter. In a letter, 1829 November 9, J. Hoge writes to General Walter Smith concenring C & O stockholders who have not paid their installments.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647917202 View

Addison, Henry, 1798-1870. Henry Addison papers 1853.

Title: Henry Addison papers 1853.

Photocopies of original papers from Henry Addison, mayor of Georgetown, 1853. Includes a Sinking Fund Report from Georgetown surveyor Lewis Carberry; a letter to the Canal Committee from Addison suggesting that the footings on Bridge Street be repaired; a letter from Addison to Interior Secretary Robert McClelland requesting that Falls Bridge be rebuilt; a letter requesting that an alley near the property of the late Francis Dodge be graded and paved to allow drainage of the water; and a letter to the Maryland House of Delegates requesting the right to use water from the Great Falls of the Potomac. Also included are letters on a Canal Company loan, the Causeway estimate, the sale of market stalls, and auction regulations.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/642829256 View

Patterson, William, 1752-1835. Letter, 1831 October 26, Baltimore, to Daniel Webster, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1831 October 26, Baltimore, to Daniel Webster, Boston.

Sends a retaining fee in the case of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. vs. the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3937324 View

United States. National Park Service. Cartographic Records.

Title: Cartographic Records.

Included are maps and plans prepared by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and its predecessor, the Potomac Company, 1791-1937; the "numbered map file" prepared by the National Capital Parks and its predecessors, the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds and the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, consisting of maps relating to public lands, buildings, and monuments in the National Capital area, 1797-1958; master and progress plans for Washington, D.C. compiled in the Branch of Plans and Design of the National Park Service 1936-37; maps and plans of the District of Columbia recreation system, 1930-41, prepared as part of the D.C. Work Projects Administration; maps, diagrams, and tables relating to Rock Creek pollution studies in Washington, D.C., prepared for the Eastern Division, Branch of Engineering, National Park Service, 1935; maps and plans prepared by the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, 1923-42; and large-scale aerial photographic prints of northwest Washington, 1937.

ArchivalResource: 8,861 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122567252 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company records, 1830-1870.

Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company records, 1830-1870.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79451740 View

Howard, Henry, 1792-1874. Journal of Henry Howard, 1856-1873.

Title: Journal of Henry Howard, 1856-1873.

The journal contains Howard's personal financial accounts as well as accounts as a guardian, administrator for the estate of Edward H. Courtenay, and trustee of William H. McGuffey. The volume contains lists of stocks and bonds; dealings with the Bank of Washington, New York bankers Johnston Brothers & Co., and the Virginia Loan & Trust Company of Charlottesville. There are small accounts with newspaper publishers, the University of Virginia and its proctor R.R. Prentis, Socrates Maupin, Christ Church, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Miscellaneous financial notes are loose in the volume.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53357908 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Records, 1891-1923.

Title: Records, 1891-1923.

Business correspondence, daybook, returns of manifests, records and returns of way bills, records of business transacted daily on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at Williamsport, Md., and daily reports on boats and cargoes clearing Williamsport from March 30 to April 28, 1911.

ArchivalResource: 109 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19465080 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company archives, 1880-1945, 1889-1945

Title: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company records

This collection consists of legal and financial records, correspondence, and maps documenting the construction and operation of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Many of the materials concern land transactions and there is also a significant amount of documentation of court cases involving the company.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1226 View

Woodhams, Robert E.,. Robert E. Woodhams Collection, 1795-1919.

Title: Robert E. Woodhams Collection, 1795-1919.

Woodhams family papers include letters to Henry Woodhams, 1862; an account book of William Woodhams, 1845-1862; William and Edward H. Woodhams, family scrapbook, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1919. Genealogies of the Kabler and Gilkey families, William and Elizabeth Chart family, Conrad and Lucia Finkabiner Prugh family, and Minter and Humphrey families. Benjamin W. Chidlaw letters, 1822-1868. Robert and James Wasson letters, Hagerstown, Maryland, and copies of bonds, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, 1838-1856. Hughes family papers, 1795-1845, include William Hughes' letters from Wales to his brother, Ezekiel, in Philadelpha and Ohio; and a letter verifying baptisms of Ezekiel and Ann Hughes. Nicholas Archbold papers, 1839-1846, include miscellaneous business records of Nicholas Archbold's Grocery in Spencerport, New York. Joseph Roberts correspondence, Dakota Territory, 1862-1987. Diary of Evans Morris, Jr., 1861. Account book of bridges, 1846-1847. The Probable Truth, 1918-1919, a newspaper published for the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky (incomplete run).

ArchivalResource: 1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/651677152 View

Barksdale, Narcissa L. Smith, d. 1875. Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Title: Papers of the Janney family, 1695-1981 (bulk 1755-1944).

Papers of the Janney and allied families of Gilmour and Pollock consisting of personal and political correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical material and photographs, particularly of John Janney of Loudoun County, Va. The papers cover Janney's legal practice, his career as a Whig politician, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and president of Virginia's secession convention. His correspondents include Arthur Ingram Borreman; John Minor Botts; Henry Clay; J.J. Crittenden; Charles J. Faulkner; Philip R. Fendall; Joshua F. Fisher; Willis Green; John W. Mallet; R.C.L. Moncure; Jeremiah Morton; Richard William Noland; Francis H. Pierpoint; William Cabell Rives; Wyndham Robertson; Valentine Wood Southall; James F. Strother; Alexander H.H. Stuart; and George Summers. Major topics include the Whig Party and the elections of 1840, 1844, 1848 and 1860; the tariff; the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; the Loco-Focos; slavery and the new territories; the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850; the University of Virginia; the Constitutional Union Party; the Virginia Convention of 1861; a re-union of Virginia and West Virginia and debt readjustment. Of interest is an 1861 electoral ticket for Jefferson Davis. People discussed in the correspondence include J.S. Barbour, John C. Calhoun, Joseph Johnson; Robert E. Lee; "Extra Billy" Smith; Alexander H. Stephens; Zachary Taylor; and Daniel Webster. Of interest in Janney's financial and legal papers are a letter from Abbott Lawrence to John S. Pendleton on the machine shop at Lowell, Mass.; correspondence regarding the building of the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad; papers conderning the Mutual Assurance Society; and a slave bill of sale for one Harriet Jackson. Papers of Solomon Parsons, 1810-1830, concern business in Alexandria, Gloucester and Occoquan, and include letters on the War of 1812 and British Admiral J.B. Warren; and an 1829 letter from a slave to "Dear Master." Civil War and Reconstruction papers include passes; a letter to J.E. Johnston regarding Janney's slave "George"; a list of sick soldiers nursed by Mrs. Janney; letters, 1862, 1866, from Narcissa L. Smith Barksdale regarding the Civil War in Louisiana and the death of her husband at Gettysburg; letters from Joseph E. Segar regarding reconstruction; and two memoranda by Alcinda S. Marmaduke Janney, 1862 and 1863, relating details of the war in Leesburg and Loudoun County, including the arrest of John Janney, Federal occupation and outrages, Confederate procurement, and second hand news about personalities and battles. The collection also contains letters and a portrait of World War II American pilot, Robert Stevenson Janney. Topics include student life at Princeton, travel in Europe and Japan in the 1930s including a 1937 Nazi festival, and World War II experiences in training, in North Africa and in Italy. Topics of interest in the miscellaneous Gilmour, Janney and Pollock family papers include the early ministry of W.H. Milton; slavery; St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1830s and 40s; foreign travel; Pantops Academy of Charlottesville; V.M.I. in the 1890s; U. Va. in the 1850s and 1890s; medical missionary work in China and Japan in the 1930s; social life in Virginia in the 1930s; the great depression; the Leesburg, Va., Presbyterian church; Virginia governor Almond and Massive Resistance; and life in Pioche, Nevada and Pasadena, Calif. Correspondents include W. Sinclair Bowen, Lily H.D. Dabney, William E. Dodd; Edward Griffith Dodson;and the Rev. James Shannon Montgomery. In addition there are photographs, scrapbooks and travel journals.

ArchivalResource: 2750 (c.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57123190 View

Virginia. Board of Public Works. Internal Improvement Fund. Register of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal certificates, April 25, 1833-April 10, 1846.

Title: Register of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal certificates, April 25, 1833-April 10, 1846.

Volume records stock certificates issued by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Included are the certificate number, its date of issue and amount, the name of the person receiving the certificate, the date of transfer, and the name of the person to whom the certificate was transferred.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122653824 View

Potomac Company. Ledger, 1796.

Title: Ledger, 1796.

A record of accounts with individuals and accounts of some classes of expenditures, particularly payments to carpenters, masons, and other groups of workers.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516162 View

Daniel Van Slyke papers, 1795-1880

Title: Daniel Van Slyke papers 1795-1880

Daniel Van Slyke (1799-1831) was a civil engineer who worked on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Collection consists of correspondence, documents and scrapbook belonging to Van Slyke. Correspondence, 1822-1880, concerns his work on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, other business affairs and family and personal matters. Documents include 1795 deed for land in Onondaga County, New York, and 1833 certificate for judicial appointment in Cayuga County. Scrapbook contains accounts, 1807-1813, for purchase or sale of farm supplies, food, clothing, and labor; clippings of poems; and miscellaneous notes and accounts.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot (1 box, 1 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3141 View

Potomac Company. Proceedings and resolutions, 1788-1806.

Title: Proceedings and resolutions, 1788-1806.

Drafts of minutes of meetings of the president and directors, meetings of stockholders, and resolutions passed by them.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558344 View

Richard Rush Papers, 1805-1852

Title: Richard Rush Papers 1805-1852

Lawyer and statesman. Correspondence, diary, notes, writings, and engraved portraits relating primarily to Rush’s duties as attorney general, secretary of state, minister to Great Britain, and secretary of the treasury, and legal documents concerning a loan from the Netherlands he arranged to finance the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company in and near the District of Columbia.

ArchivalResource: 60 items; 1 containers plus 1 oversize; .2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006051 View

Peabody, George, 1795-1869. George Peabody Papers, 1815-1927.

Title: George Peabody Papers, 1815-1927.

Born in South Danvers (Mass.) Resident of Baltimore and London, merchant banker and philanthropist. Business Correspondence, Outgoing, contains letterbooks and pressbook correspondence from Peabody and his company clerks to partners and business associates. Business Correspondence Incoming is divided into three sections: letters from American businesses; European businesses; and chronologically arranged pressbook and duplicate correspondence. Account Books contains 166 volumes generated by Peabody Riggs and Company and George Peabody and Company. Personal Papers contains Peabody's family and personal correspondence, speeches, social and philanthropic letters, financial, legal and miscellaneous papers. Estate Papers pertain to George Peabody's estate. Miscellaneous and Collected Papers contain a variety of written, printed, and graphic materials collected by or about Peabody. The Pamphlets reflect Peabody's interests.

ArchivalResource: 228 boxes, 172 v., 16 bundles (144.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/641643251 View

Spates, Alfred. Papers concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 1843-1909.

Title: Papers concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 1843-1909.

The collection contains correspondence, other records, and printed items pertaining to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and particularly its president in the 1860's, Alfred Spates. There is information on successive and antagonistic company administrations, the canal's role in Maryland politics, financial manipulations, and on its management by Federal military authorities, 1861-1865. Company presidents A.P. Gorman and Lewis Cass Smith are mentioned. The collection also contains some correspondence, and financial and legal papers of the Spates family, particularly Cecil S. Spates of Clarksburg, W. Va.; and dues receipts and other certificates of membership in various lodges.

ArchivalResource: 307 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32136195 View

Gorman, Arthur P. (Arthur Pue), 1839-1906. Arthur P. Gorman papers, 1872-1916 [manuscript].

Title: Arthur P. Gorman papers, 1872-1916 [manuscript].

A political letterpress copybook, 1880-1882; scrapbooks, 1872-1916, of newspaper clippings and other clippings, 1892-1905, relating to Gorman's career in Maryland politics and to his connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; pamphlets; notes; and a few letters, 1885-1916, mostly related to Gorman's political activities.

ArchivalResource: 200 items (10.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23153531 View

Potomac Company. Proceedings of general meetings, 1785-1796.

Title: Proceedings of general meetings, 1785-1796.

Minutes of meetings of stockholders, in a volume labeled "Letterbook A." Some copies of reports of the president and directors to the stockholders are included.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear in. (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122547018 View

W. W. Corcoran Papers, 1791-1896, (bulk 1849-1888)

Title: W. W. Corcoran Papers 1791-1896 (bulk 1849-1888)

Financier and philanthropist. Correspondence, letterpress books, financial papers, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Corcoran's business and banking interests and philanthropic efforts.

ArchivalResource: 54,000 items; 105 containers; 33 linear feet; 5 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011095 View

Potomac Company. Papers relating to the payment of workers and two promissory notes [manuscript], 1785-1788.

Title: Papers relating to the payment of workers and two promissory notes [manuscript], 1785-1788.

The collection contains papers relating to the payment of workers, 1785-1788, and also two promissory notes of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (which later absorbed the Potomac Company). A 1785 October 24 document is signed by George Washington.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647880487 View

Barnard, Robert, 1786-1852. Robert Barnard family papers, 1658-1917.

Title: Robert Barnard family papers, 1658-1917.

Personal and business papers of three generations of the extended Barnard family of England and Washington, D.C. Although some material relates to the Barnard family in England, the bulk of the collection consists of 19th-century papers of Robert and Sophia Barnard of "Normanstone" in Washington, D.C., and to their children and grandchildren. Topics in the personal papers include family news, genealogy, male and female education, religion, women's daily lives, contraband slaves, Civil War military life, freedmen, and the United States Colored Troops. Topics in the business papers include the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, wills and estates, taxes, and land transactions. Also includes photographs of Normanstone and the areas around Rock Creek and Cabin John Creek in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Family members represented include Amelia P. Barnard, Katharine R. Barnard, Robert W. Barnard, Samuel Barnard, Samuel M. Barnard, Mary Barnard Cissel, George W. Cropley, Theodosia L. Barnard Talcott Hambleton, James Hamilton Higgins, Sophia Dorothy Barnard Higgins, Charles Talcott, Harry R. Talcott, and Robert Barnard Talcott.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70953473 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Letters concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio canal., 1828-1829.

Title: Letters concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio canal., 1828-1829.

In a letter, 1828 September 4, John Cox, Mayor of Georgetown, forwards to the Board of Alderman and the Board of Common Council several documents from the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company which he has received from General Smith. In a letter, 1829 January 28, Charles Fenton Mercer, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, writes to Thomas P. Cope, of the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, concerning the services of Judge Wright [on the Delaware and Chesapeake canal?] as he is needed on the Chesapeake and Ohio. He discusses his own work load, loans from Cope's bank, the resultant building boom in Georgetown, and the renewal of the bank's charter.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48995058 View

Dunlop Family Papers, 1713-1930, (bulk 1776-1876)

Title: Dunlop Family Papers 1713-1930 (bulk 1776-1876)

Correspondence, financial papers, business and legal records, and miscellaneous material concerning the mercantile interests and law practice of the Dunlop family.

ArchivalResource: 5,000 items; 20 containers plus 1 oversize; 8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007072 View

Potomac Company. Miscellaneous accounts, 1785-1828.

Title: Miscellaneous accounts, 1785-1828.

Records include receipts, vouchers, payrolls, drafts (checks), statements of accounts, accounts of delivery of rations, inventories of tools and furniture, waybills (manifests of cargoes) for tolls, and lists of subscribers and shareholders.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122515983 View

Potomac Company. Proceedings, 1788-1828.

Title: Proceedings, 1788-1828.

Minutes of meetings of the president and directors and meetings of stockholders. Copies of reports and correspondence are included. During the years 1785-96 most proceedings of stockholders' meetings were kept in a separate volume comprising the series entitled, "Proceedings of General Meetings" (DCNV89-A46).

ArchivalResource: 9 linear in. (3 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122405242 View

Potomac Company. Wastebook, 1785-1800.

Title: Wastebook, 1785-1800.

A daybook with a chronological record of transactions made at the time of the transactions. Many of the transactions are related to shares of stocks in the company.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear in. (1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122370739 View

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Account book, 1829.

Title: Account book, 1829.

Contains accounts with contractors for grubbing, clearing and excavation for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, first division and includes an alphabetical index of contractors.

ArchivalResource: 156 p. : Bound v. ; 17 cm.

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Van Slyke, Daniel, 1799-1831. Daniel Van Slyke papers, 1795-1880.

Title: Daniel Van Slyke papers, 1795-1880.

Collection consists of correspondence, documents and scrapbook belonging to Van Slyke.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear foot (1 box, 1 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164327 View

Hagley Museum and Library. Regional Economic History Research Center. Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

Title: Map project data files, Transportation in the Middle Atlantic States, 1750-1860.

The Map Project Data Files include all the work undertaken by the project team, including much that was excluded from the final publication.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet.

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Barnard, Robert, fl. 1827-1834,. Miscellaneous Virginia letters, 1834-1920.

Title: Miscellaneous Virginia letters, 1834-1920.

In a letter, 1834 August 28, Robert Barnard, treasurer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company writes to Elie Beatie, cashier of the Bank of Maryland requesting a statement and vouchers and conveying a list of balances due on stock subscriptions. A deposition, 1842 September 15, taken by Augustine J. Smith, concerns a Randolph County trial between John Mosby and Isaac Booth. In a letter, 1843 May 16, Benjamin Hallowell, Philadelphia writes to his nephew James S. Hallowell, Alexandria, relating news of family, meeting, and lectures. In a letter, 1851 March 11, S.S. Fahnestock, Pittsburg, Pa., writes to his cousin William C. Jennings, Rockingham County, concerning the settlement of an estate which is causing a delay in making a contribution to a cause. Mentions John Jennings and William F. Leake. In a letter, 1851 September 11, N.W. Kirkpatrick and Mason Kirkpatrick write their brother Thomas J. Kirkpatrick concerning family joys and troubles and conveying marriage advice. In a letter, 1854 September 26, Joseph Taylor, Petersburg, writes to Bulkley & Moore, New York, concerning tobacco sales and effect of crop failures in the west. In a letter, 1858 August 30, Julia Walker Gales, writes a gossipy lettter to William M. Walker, conveying news of family and friends including her uncle Joseph Gales of Gales & Seaton. In a letter, 1867 March 20, John Staige Davis, University of Virginia, asks R.L. Beall of Lenoir, N.C., for a list of physicians in Caldwell and the names of their post offices "when we are all reconstructed." In a letter, 1874 July 4, J.W. Mallet, University of Virginia, writes J.W.C. Davis of Virginia Agricultural College, Blacksburg, regretting that he can not come to Blacksburg and hoping Davis will come for the semi-centennial celebration. In a letter, 1875 March 16, Jerome T. Boyer, Putnam County, W. Va., writes to potential investor John A. Gundrum, Ohio, concerning transportation, farming land and timber land for sale, climate, coal and iron resources and noting that the government has appropriated money to improve the Kanawha River. Two letters, 1889 October 25, "Isaiah," Maxwell, Cal., to B.E. Luttrell and "Rich," Amissville, Va., concern new life in California and an old love in Virginia with comments on mutual family or acquaintances. In a letter, 1898 February 4, Methodist minister A.P. Boude, Lexington, Va., writes to Mrs. Ella Kast, Harrisburg, Penna., a former servant, concerning the poor health of his wife; Sigourney Keyser; Kast's successor as a family servant; the current "colored girl" who is "honest, and far above the average"; changes in their lives and in Lexington; his poor health and ministerial duties. In a series of 10 letters, 1915-1916, J. Mentor Caldwell, Parkersburg, W. Va., writes to M.A. Kendall, Pittsburg, Penna., regarding West Virginia coal land negotiations. In a form letter with a stamped signature, sent to J.C. McGavock, Max Meadows, Va., 1920 September 30, J.E. West, Suffolk, Va., announces his candidacy for Lieutenant-Governor. The letter is accompanied by a flier with editorial endorsements.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166268119 View

Virginia. Office of the Second Auditor. Register of bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, July 1854-January 1860.

Title: Register of bonds of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, July 1854-January 1860.

These records contain a register of interest paid on bonds. The bond number, amount, interest, and to whom paid are given.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Potomac Company. Legal records, 1792-1828.

Title: Legal records, 1792-1828.

Included are indentures (chiefly deeds for assignments of shares of stocks), contracts, resolutions, legal opinions, court judgements, notes for loans, lottery tickets, copies of legislative bills, and other records relating to the operations of the company and the ownership of shares. The conveyance, assignment, and surrender of the charter to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company are among the records.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122392076 View