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

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

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

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.

circa 200 items.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7936426

University of Virginia. Library

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Hampshire and Berkeley Turnpike Company.

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Strother, John, 1782-1862

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Tuscarora Mills (Berkeley County, W. Va.)

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Honeywood Mills (Berkeley County, W. Va.)

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Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884

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Diplomat, Confederate officer, and U.S. Representative from Berkeley County, Va. (later W. Va.). From the description of Papers, 1815-1883. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536991 Representative from Virginia and West Virginia. From the description of Signature clipped from the register of Brown's Hotel : Washington, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270538814 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington, D.C.], to t...

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company

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Now a national park, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was once a major transportation artery that ran parallel to the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown in the District of Columbia. The canal operated from the mid-nineteenth century into the 1930s and was used primarily for the transportation of coal and bulk agricultural products. These products, produced in the inland regions of the developing nation, were vital to the continuing prosperity of Tidewater cities and...

Cushwa, Barnet, d. circa 1854.

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Businessman from Martinsburg, Va. From the description of Barnet Cushwa papers [manuscript] 1824-1855 (bulk 1841-1853). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 648003373 ...