Correspondence and financial records of Nicholas Hooper and George Wright [manuscript] 1759-1896.

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Correspondence and financial records of Nicholas Hooper and George Wright [manuscript] 1759-1896.

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Including 2 daybooks, 1824-27, and 1831-36; account books of sale of estate of Christian Hull, 1832; and papers relating to the estate of Jacob Weaver. Also papers chiefly 1830-50, of George Wright, Middletown wheat machine manufacturer including indentures, bills, shipping receipts of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad; letters of Arthur & Miller, Union Forge; Arthur & Sterrett, and J.W. Arthur, Columbia Furnace; Bejamin Blackford, Isabella Furnace; Butler & Wright, Middletown merchants; Hupp & Machir, Winchester, Virginia millers; Kline & Wright, Middletown merchants whose records give shipping rates, 1837-38, and John Slaughter. Other items include a letter, James Murray Mason to Samuel Kercheval, 21 May 1838, on price and demand for manganese, execution book 1785-90, of District Court at Winchester kept by John Kercheval, court clerk; bond, 10 Aug. 1759, Alexander McDonald to Mathias Bush; deed, 15 March 1786, Denny Fairfax to John Ghemp (Camp); agreement, 28 Dec. 1764, J.C. Daniel, for sale of his tenements in York, England; deed of manumission, December 1799, for Rachall Smith, slave of Nicholas Hooper; and widow's pension, 29 July 1848, of Christina Sperry, widow of Jacob Sperry.

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Hooper, Nicholas, 1956-....

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Smith, Rachall.

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Sperry, Jacob.

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McDonald, Alexander, 1970-

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Kercheval, Samuel, 1786-1845?

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Sperry, Christina.

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Bush, Mathias,

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Weaver, Jacob A., Mrs., 1918-

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Daniel, J. C.

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Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871

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United States senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to C. Neale, Esq., 1849 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607846 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Selma, to Joseph C. Cabell, Esq., 1846 Nov. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607032 From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Messrs. Gales & Seaton, 1839 Feb. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270607773 U.S. Congressman, and Confede...

Slaughter, John.

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Wright, George C. 1950-

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Fairfax, Denny Martin, 1725?-1800

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Epithet: formerly Martin DD British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x000359 Nephew of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, (formerly Denny Martin). After Lord Fairfax's death in 1781, Denny became the grantor of Northern Neck leases. From the description of Account book of the Rev. Denny Fairfax, 1782 April 6-1799 November 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56732768 ...

Hull, Christian.

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Kercheval, John, fl. 1786,

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Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company

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Ghemp, John,

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