Records, 1829-1843.

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Records, 1829-1843.

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Treasurer's book kept by William Massie of Rockbridge County, Virginia, for the Tye River and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company, including lists of subscribers for construction of the road; and letters to Massie, 1842, from both Robert McCormick II and his son, Cyrus Hall McCormick, making arrangements for their payments to the company.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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McCormick, Robert, 1780-1846

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Tye River and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company (Va.)

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Massie, William, 1741-1862.

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William Massie (1742-1862) owned two plantations in Nelson County, Virginia, "Pharsalia" and "Level Green." While being educated in Staunton he met and married Sarah Steptoe in 1815. His father, Major Thomas Massie, gave him the 1,500-acre Pharsalia Plantation prior to the marriage. William, widowed three times, married Maria Catherine Effinger in 1834 and they had ten children, including Bland Massie. After William's death, the older children had to sell their shares of the plantat...

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884

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American inventor. From the description of Autograph signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, D. C., [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270608834 Cyrus H. McCormick, inventor of the reaper, was, at the time of this letter, engaged in his fruitless efforts to renew the patent for his invention. From the description of My faithful servant, Joseph, 1854 December 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122700825 Inventor, from Chicago...