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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.","Forbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.","Forbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","About one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. Separate inventory\n available.","Enclosure: \"A Copy Establishment for Two Compys. of\n Carpenters...\" 4 p.","Originally enclosed with 1756 August 18 Loretto, \n Hu[gh] Forbes to \n John [Forbes?].","Originally enclosed 1756 August 16 \n William Forbes to \n Hugh Forbes.","Forbes' commission as colonel of the \n Seventeenth Regiment of Foot.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair. The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... The Memorial of\n the Freemen...\"","Concerns imprisonment of deserters.","A manuscript map of \n Fort Ticonderoga and the surrounding\n country is enclosed.","Enclosed: Ms., \"Rattle Snakes Faisants...\"","In French.","Corrections and additions in Forbes' handwriting.","Summary of military strategy.","Another draft of previous item.","Summary of military strategy.","Order of march.","Another draft of previous enrtry","Probably an early draft of the following letter.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["10034"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_title_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_ssim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["In the foreword to his \n Writings of General John Forbes (Menasha, Wisconsin: Collegiate Press,\n 1938) , \n Alfred Proctor James discussed the fate\n of the Forbes office copies relating to the \n Duquesne expedition. He speculated that\n the archive may have been turned over to \n James Glen, Forbes' cousin and\n executor, a former royal governor of \n South Carolina, but suggested that\n there are Forbes papers in the possession of relatives in \n Scotland.","More than a third of a century later, on October 15,\n 1974, \n Sotheby's in \n London offered for sale at auction, a\n group of some 530 manuscripts from the headquarters papers\n of General Forbes, virtually all of which related to the \n Duquesne expedition. Sotheby was able\n to say only that the owners descended from \n James Glen through his niece and heir, \n Elizabeth Glen, who married \n George Ramsay, the Eighth Earl of\n Dalhousie. These papers were purchased for the \n Tracy W. McGregor Library with funds\n provided by the \n Trustees of the McGregor Fund, who\n have made annual grants for the purchase of additions to\n the collection since 1939.","It will be immediately apparent that the present archive\n contains virtually no material after August 1758. This\n suggests that there is an additional group of papers that\n has been lost or is in the possession of some other\n descendant and may be discovered in the future."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBiographical sketch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["Biographical sketch"," John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... 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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.","Forbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.","Forbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","About one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. Separate inventory\n available.","Enclosure: \"A Copy Establishment for Two Compys. of\n Carpenters...\" 4 p.","Originally enclosed with 1756 August 18 Loretto, \n Hu[gh] Forbes to \n John [Forbes?].","Originally enclosed 1756 August 16 \n William Forbes to \n Hugh Forbes.","Forbes' commission as colonel of the \n Seventeenth Regiment of Foot.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair. The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... The Memorial of\n the Freemen...\"","Concerns imprisonment of deserters.","A manuscript map of \n Fort Ticonderoga and the surrounding\n country is enclosed.","Enclosed: Ms., \"Rattle Snakes Faisants...\"","In French.","Corrections and additions in Forbes' handwriting.","Summary of military strategy.","Another draft of previous item.","Summary of military strategy.","Order of march.","Another draft of previous enrtry","Probably an early draft of the following letter.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["10034"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_title_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_ssim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["In the foreword to his \n Writings of General John Forbes (Menasha, Wisconsin: Collegiate Press,\n 1938) , \n Alfred Proctor James discussed the fate\n of the Forbes office copies relating to the \n Duquesne expedition. He speculated that\n the archive may have been turned over to \n James Glen, Forbes' cousin and\n executor, a former royal governor of \n South Carolina, but suggested that\n there are Forbes papers in the possession of relatives in \n Scotland.","More than a third of a century later, on October 15,\n 1974, \n Sotheby's in \n London offered for sale at auction, a\n group of some 530 manuscripts from the headquarters papers\n of General Forbes, virtually all of which related to the \n Duquesne expedition. Sotheby was able\n to say only that the owners descended from \n James Glen through his niece and heir, \n Elizabeth Glen, who married \n George Ramsay, the Eighth Earl of\n Dalhousie. These papers were purchased for the \n Tracy W. McGregor Library with funds\n provided by the \n Trustees of the McGregor Fund, who\n have made annual grants for the purchase of additions to\n the collection since 1939.","It will be immediately apparent that the present archive\n contains virtually no material after August 1758. This\n suggests that there is an additional group of papers that\n has been lost or is in the possession of some other\n descendant and may be discovered in the future."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBiographical sketch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. 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He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["Biographical sketch"," John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... 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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.","Forbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.","Forbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","About one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. Separate inventory\n available.","Enclosure: \"A Copy Establishment for Two Compys. of\n Carpenters...\" 4 p.","Originally enclosed with 1756 August 18 Loretto, \n Hu[gh] Forbes to \n John [Forbes?].","Originally enclosed 1756 August 16 \n William Forbes to \n Hugh Forbes.","Forbes' commission as colonel of the \n Seventeenth Regiment of Foot.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair. The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... The Memorial of\n the Freemen...\"","Concerns imprisonment of deserters.","A manuscript map of \n Fort Ticonderoga and the surrounding\n country is enclosed.","Enclosed: Ms., \"Rattle Snakes Faisants...\"","In French.","Corrections and additions in Forbes' handwriting.","Summary of military strategy.","Another draft of previous item.","Summary of military strategy.","Order of march.","Another draft of previous enrtry","Probably an early draft of the following letter.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["10034"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_title_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_ssim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["In the foreword to his \n Writings of General John Forbes (Menasha, Wisconsin: Collegiate Press,\n 1938) , \n Alfred Proctor James discussed the fate\n of the Forbes office copies relating to the \n Duquesne expedition. He speculated that\n the archive may have been turned over to \n James Glen, Forbes' cousin and\n executor, a former royal governor of \n South Carolina, but suggested that\n there are Forbes papers in the possession of relatives in \n Scotland.","More than a third of a century later, on October 15,\n 1974, \n Sotheby's in \n London offered for sale at auction, a\n group of some 530 manuscripts from the headquarters papers\n of General Forbes, virtually all of which related to the \n Duquesne expedition. Sotheby was able\n to say only that the owners descended from \n James Glen through his niece and heir, \n Elizabeth Glen, who married \n George Ramsay, the Eighth Earl of\n Dalhousie. These papers were purchased for the \n Tracy W. McGregor Library with funds\n provided by the \n Trustees of the McGregor Fund, who\n have made annual grants for the purchase of additions to\n the collection since 1939.","It will be immediately apparent that the present archive\n contains virtually no material after August 1758. This\n suggests that there is an additional group of papers that\n has been lost or is in the possession of some other\n descendant and may be discovered in the future."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBiographical sketch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["Biographical sketch"," John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... The Memorial of\n the Freemen...\"","Concerns imprisonment of deserters.","A manuscript map of \n Fort Ticonderoga and the surrounding\n country is enclosed.","Enclosed: Ms., \"Rattle Snakes Faisants...\"","In French.","Corrections and additions in Forbes' handwriting.","Summary of military strategy.","Another draft of previous item.","Summary of military strategy.","Order of march.","Another draft of previous enrtry","Probably an early draft of the following letter."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":541,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:19:07.628Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00124_c275"}},{"id":"viu_viu00124_c240","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"Winchester, St. Clair to Forbes. 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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.","Forbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.","Forbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","About one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... 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He speculated that\n the archive may have been turned over to \n James Glen, Forbes' cousin and\n executor, a former royal governor of \n South Carolina, but suggested that\n there are Forbes papers in the possession of relatives in \n Scotland.","More than a third of a century later, on October 15,\n 1974, \n Sotheby's in \n London offered for sale at auction, a\n group of some 530 manuscripts from the headquarters papers\n of General Forbes, virtually all of which related to the \n Duquesne expedition. Sotheby was able\n to say only that the owners descended from \n James Glen through his niece and heir, \n Elizabeth Glen, who married \n George Ramsay, the Eighth Earl of\n Dalhousie. These papers were purchased for the \n Tracy W. 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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. 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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.","Forbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.","Forbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","About one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... 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He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["Biographical sketch"," John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... 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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.","Forbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.","Forbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","About one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... The Memorial of\n the Freemen...\"","Concerns imprisonment of deserters.","A manuscript map of \n Fort Ticonderoga and the surrounding\n country is enclosed.","Enclosed: Ms., \"Rattle Snakes Faisants...\"","In French.","Corrections and additions in Forbes' handwriting.","Summary of military strategy.","Another draft of previous item.","Summary of military strategy.","Order of march.","Another draft of previous enrtry","Probably an early draft of the following letter.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["10034"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_title_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_ssim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["In the foreword to his \n Writings of General John Forbes (Menasha, Wisconsin: Collegiate Press,\n 1938) , \n Alfred Proctor James discussed the fate\n of the Forbes office copies relating to the \n Duquesne expedition. He speculated that\n the archive may have been turned over to \n James Glen, Forbes' cousin and\n executor, a former royal governor of \n South Carolina, but suggested that\n there are Forbes papers in the possession of relatives in \n Scotland.","More than a third of a century later, on October 15,\n 1974, \n Sotheby's in \n London offered for sale at auction, a\n group of some 530 manuscripts from the headquarters papers\n of General Forbes, virtually all of which related to the \n Duquesne expedition. Sotheby was able\n to say only that the owners descended from \n James Glen through his niece and heir, \n Elizabeth Glen, who married \n George Ramsay, the Eighth Earl of\n Dalhousie. These papers were purchased for the \n Tracy W. 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He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biography"],"bioghist_tesim":["Biographical sketch"," John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. 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He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHeadquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758, 1729-1759, Accession #10034, Special Collections, University of\n Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eForbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. 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Separate inventory\n available.","Enclosure: \"A Copy Establishment for Two Compys. of\n Carpenters...\" 4 p.","Originally enclosed with 1756 August 18 Loretto, \n Hu[gh] Forbes to \n John [Forbes?].","Originally enclosed 1756 August 16 \n William Forbes to \n Hugh Forbes.","Forbes' commission as colonel of the \n Seventeenth Regiment of Foot.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair. The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... The Memorial of\n the Freemen...\"","Concerns imprisonment of deserters.","A manuscript map of \n Fort Ticonderoga and the surrounding\n country is enclosed.","Enclosed: Ms., \"Rattle Snakes Faisants...\"","In French.","Corrections and additions in Forbes' handwriting.","Summary of military strategy.","Another draft of previous item.","Summary of military strategy.","Order of march.","Another draft of previous enrtry","Probably an early draft of the following letter."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eSee the \n \u003cextref type=\"simple\" href=\"https://www.library.virginia.edu/policies/use-of-materials\"\u003e\n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.\u003c/extref\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc/\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":[""],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":541,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T12:19:07.628Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu00124_c232"}},{"id":"viu_viu00124_c267","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"Winchester, St. Clair to \n John Forbes. 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He was trained in medicine, and on September 25, 1729,\n received his commission as surgeon in the \n Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons (Scots Greys). In July, 1735, he purchased\n a cornetcy in a troop of the Regiment. With faithful service\n in the \n Scots Greys during the War of Austrian\n Succession, he was promoted rapidly, reaching the rank of\n lieutenant-colonel in December, 1750 (he had been given that\n rank in the Army in December, 1745). In Februaryruary, 1757, Forbes\n was given the colonelcy of the \n 17th Foot and shortly thereafter departed\n for \n North America, where he served the Earl\n of Loudoun as adjutant general.","Forbes was made a brigadier by \n William Pitt in December, 1757, with the\n responsibility of directing a campaign in 1758 the objective\n of which was the capture of \n Fort Duquesne and the clearing of the\n French from the \n Ohio River Valley. He proceeded to \n Philadelphia in April, 1758, to assume\n direct command of operations and planning for the expedition.\n After months of building a new road through the wilderness and\n rugged terrain of western \n Pennsylvania, of building forts along the\n way to hold territory and protect his army and its supply\n posts, \n Fort Duquesne was finally taken on\n November 25th, after the French had evacuated and blown it up.\n General Forbes was a very sick man during the campaign and he\n died in \n Philadelphia on March 11, 1759, and was\n buried there in the chancel of \n Christ Church.","Forbes' commission as surgeon to the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as cornet in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons ( \n Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as captain in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as deputy quartermaster general\n with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army.","Forbes' commission as major in the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","Forbes' commission as lieutenant-colonel of the \n Royal Regiment of North British\n Dragoons (Scots Greys).","About one-half of the volume is devoted to\n correspondence concerning the Expedition against \n Fort Duquesne under the command of\n Major General \n Edward Braddock. Separate inventory\n available.","Enclosure: \"A Copy Establishment for Two Compys. of\n Carpenters...\" 4 p.","Originally enclosed with 1756 August 18 Loretto, \n Hu[gh] Forbes to \n John [Forbes?].","Originally enclosed 1756 August 16 \n William Forbes to \n Hugh Forbes.","Forbes' commission as colonel of the \n Seventeenth Regiment of Foot.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair.","Originally laid in the letterbook of Sir \n John St. Clair. The letters are on\n the same leaf of paper.","Originally enclosed in Abercromby to Forbes, Albany,\n December. 4, 1757.","\"Companies-------Quartered 2 at ------- \n Jamaica 1 at ------- \n Flushing 1 at ------- \n New Town 1 at ------- \n Bedford \u0026 \n Bushwick 1 at ------- \n Bruckland Ferry 1 at ------- \n Flatt Bush \u0026 \n New Lotts 1 at ------- \n Gravesend \u0026 \n Flatt Lands 1 at ------- \n New Utrecht Gravesend Flatt Bush Grenadiers detached\"","Compys. 5 at Annapolis 3 at Redding 2 at Yorktown 10 Total\"","A second copy is included.","Originally enclosed in March 1, 1758, Johnstone to\n [Forbes].","Postscript is dated April 1.","Includes next four items on the same sheet.","Encloses two faked army discharge forms printed at \n Ephrata, about which the letter is\n concerned.","Enclosure: St. Clair account, 1756 May -1757 January. 1\n p.","Enclosure: \"A return of provisions expended from\n April 18th 1756 to December 1, 1757 at \n Alexandria...\" 1 p.","Enclosure: \"The Nearest Computation...\" 1 p.","Includes petition, 1758 July 12, \"To \n William Denny... The Memorial of\n the Freemen...\"","Concerns imprisonment of deserters.","A manuscript map of \n Fort Ticonderoga and the surrounding\n country is enclosed.","Enclosed: Ms., \"Rattle Snakes Faisants...\"","In French.","Corrections and additions in Forbes' handwriting.","Summary of military strategy.","Another draft of previous item.","Summary of military strategy.","Order of march.","Another draft of previous enrtry","Probably an early draft of the following letter.","See the \n \n University of Virginia Library’s use policy.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["10034"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_title_tesim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"collection_ssim":["Headquarters Papers of\n Brigadier-General John Forbes Relating to the Expedition\n against Fort Duquesne in 1758 1729-1759"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["In the foreword to his \n Writings of General John Forbes (Menasha, Wisconsin: Collegiate Press,\n 1938) , \n Alfred Proctor James discussed the fate\n of the Forbes office copies relating to the \n Duquesne expedition. He speculated that\n the archive may have been turned over to \n James Glen, Forbes' cousin and\n executor, a former royal governor of \n South Carolina, but suggested that\n there are Forbes papers in the possession of relatives in \n Scotland.","More than a third of a century later, on October 15,\n 1974, \n Sotheby's in \n London offered for sale at auction, a\n group of some 530 manuscripts from the headquarters papers\n of General Forbes, virtually all of which related to the \n Duquesne expedition. Sotheby was able\n to say only that the owners descended from \n James Glen through his niece and heir, \n Elizabeth Glen, who married \n George Ramsay, the Eighth Earl of\n Dalhousie. These papers were purchased for the \n Tracy W. McGregor Library with funds\n provided by the \n Trustees of the McGregor Fund, who\n have made annual grants for the purchase of additions to\n the collection since 1939.","It will be immediately apparent that the present archive\n contains virtually no material after August 1758. This\n suggests that there is an additional group of papers that\n has been lost or is in the possession of some other\n descendant and may be discovered in the future."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBiographical sketch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e John Forbes, the son of Colonel \n John Forbes of \n Pittencrief, Dunfermline, Fifeshire,\n Scotland, and \n Elizabeth Graham, was probably born in\n 1707. 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The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land claims agency operated by George M. Woodbridge, 1861-1864; and justice of the peace accounts, 1832-1863. Subjects include the development of river markets, transportation, and the livestock industry in the early Ohio Valley; fur trade and commerce with England and Europe; the Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company; Kanawha and Sciota salt works; Ohio Company lands; Woodbridge-Harman Blennerhassett partnership; ginseng trade; Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company; ropewalk and shipbuilding in Marietta; military land warrants; estate of George Morgan; career of William Woodbridge, United States senator and governor of Michigan; pioneer education; Meadville Seminary; Ohio University; Miami University; Marietta Collegiate Institute; Belpre, Ohio; American Catholic missions; early history of Marietta; the American Colonization Society; Washington County Colonization Society; churches; Washington County Tract Society; recruiting in Marietta during the Civil War; impact of the War of 1812 on westward migration and labor; and Woodbridge family affairs. Letters are addressed to merchants in London, France, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston (West Virginia), Lexington and Louisville (Kentucky), Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans, Washington, Detroit, and Baltimore. 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Other topics include aspects of life in the early nineteenth century Ohio River Valley, real estate, and other business concerns. Prominent names in the collection include D. Woodbridge, George M. Woodbridge, and Harmon Blennerhasset.","Subjects found in collection:","Ships and shipbuilding – Volumes 1, 6, 8, 14, 31, 37, 53, 132","Transportation of goods, overland and by river (Ohio and Muskingum) – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 123, 124","Harmon Blennerhasset and Blennerhasset Island – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25","Land values and transaction of land – Volumes 56, 79, 81, 89, 131","Bank of Marietta – Volumes 2, 6, 9, 98","This series includes volumes 1-10, which are letter books dating from 1801 to 1836. These books contain copies of correspondence mostly regarding business matters of Woodbridge Mercantile Company. Subjects discussed include goods traded, ship building, river traffic and overland transportation of goods, impact of the War of 1812, Blennerhasset Island, purchases of stock in local banks, and land sales.","Letters signed D. Woodbridge, Jr. and D. Woodbridge and Co. Includes 52 letters to Harman Blennerhassett re. company business, goods ordered, and ship building, launching, and voyages. Cargo mentioned includes skins, hemp, ginseng, and pork taken in trade and purchased for sale in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also, letters to James Converse, Joseph F. Munro, Mrs. Mary Jourdan (Philadelphia agent for Woodbridge \u0026 Co.), James Backus, William Woodbridge, Joseph Clarke, Jacob Burnet, John Daman, Andrew and John Oliphant, R. Caldwell, and Capt. William Latimer. Subjects include purchasing and selling various goods, shipbuilding, ropewalk business in Marietta, river traffic, instructions to agents, and Sciota Salt Works.","Subjects include dissolution of D. Woodbridge \u0026 Co. partnership, purchase and sale of goods, transportation by wagon and riverboats, salt received on commission from Donnally and Steele (Kanawha Salt Works), transactions on Ohio Company lands, ropewalk in Marietta, purchase of shares in Pittsburgh manufaturing company, settlement of Col. George Morgan estate, transactions involving sugar and cotton in New Orleans and Kentucky, riverboat accidents and loss of cargo, effects of war on emigration to Ohio, the shortage of labor, Ohio banks, purchase of stock in a Canal company, and barge building in Marietta. Correspondents include: Moses Dillon, Jeffry Price, Sen. John Lambert, John Tilford, James Mountain, Harmon Blennerhassett, George Morgan, Philip Doddridge, Capt. Daniel Greene, Jonathan Buitteau, Benjamin Morgan, and Thomas Butler. Locations include: Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, Charleston, Lexington, Zanesville, and New Orleans.","Subjects include fur trade with London and French merchants, purcahse and sale of ginseng and other products, and re. conduct of storage and commission business. Names include: Thomas Morgan, Samuel Murdock, Thomas L. Pierce, Sevil Scovil and Co., John Barr, and L. Barber. Places named include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Lexington, New York, St. Louis, and London.","Subjects include currency exchange, shipping conditions, marketing information, rental of Blennerhassett Island, and mercantile business. Names and firms: Moses Dillon, James W. Biddle \u0026 Co., Steele, Donnally \u0026 Steele, Thomas Baker, S.\u0026G. Trotter \u0026 Co., and Gelman and Ammidon. Places named include: Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky.","Subjects include routine business letters, the Lucy Backus Woodbridge estate, family correspondence, resignation of William Woodbridge from Congress, rental of Blennerhassett Island. Business firms mentioned: Benjamin J. Gilman, W. Wilson \u0026 Co., Robert Fulton, R. J. Meigs, Clarissa Backus, J. W. Biddle \u0026 Co., and John Sproule. Places of business include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Frankfort, Lexington, Washington D.C., Zanesville, Chillicothe, Detroit, Clarksburg, and Parkersburg.","Subjects include purchase of bank stock, estate of Lucy Backus Woodbridge, currency exchange, steamboat building, and family and business affairs. Correspondents include: Jesse B. Thomas, Benjamin Reeder, E. Buckingham Jr. \u0026 Co., Elihu Chauncey, Henry Strong, Daniel Converse, Joseph Willard, Sam A. Wescott, and Henry Northrup. Places addressed: Washington D.C., Norwich, Lexington, Philadelphia, Pitssburgh, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Frankfort, St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Zanesville, and Cincinnati.","Unsigned letters, mainly from Pt. Harman, ordering goods for the D. Woodbridge Store. Also some letters concerning tobacco, ginseng, dried fruit, skins, beeswax, rags, feathers, and other products shipped to eastern markets for sale.","Subjects: principally rountine business correspondence, but also includes letters to Wheeling seeking wool. Names of steamboats and captains are mentioned in various letters. Names of persons and companies addressed: J.J. Jackson, Luther Edgerton, Jones, Tyson \u0026 Co., W. Palmer, and D.T. Chambers. Letters addressed to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Sistersville, Wheeling, Louisville, Pt. Harman, Salem Ripley, and McConnelsville.","Subjects: family affairs, religion, William Woodbridge's office as U.S. Judge in Michigan, Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Co., stock in Bank of the U.S. and other banks, the Morganza Tract in Pennsylvania, churches, missionary societies,Collegiate Institute, property in Marietta, and business opportunities. Correspondents include: Lewis Cass, Thomas McKennan, Waterman Palmer, Thomas Morgan, Rev. R.H. Bishop, William Holyoke, Rev. Artemus Ballard, Joseph Gales, and Rev. James Laurie.","A few letters dated at Pittsburgh to merchants and business houses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Also includes a cash book spanning Jan. 1834 to Oct. 1836.","This series includes volumes 11-89. These are all daybooks (blotters) from 1788-1862. Subjects included concern river boats, Harmon Blennerhasset, transactions with various firms, goods traded, land warrants, and land sales.","This series contains record books other than daybooks, including volumes 90-128, 137, 138, and 141-145. Volumes 90-128 are records of the Woodbridge Company; volumes 137-138 are the records of the Greene Company; and volumes 142-145 are the records of the F.B. Loomis Company. Many of these contain the same sort of information as the day books, in a similar format. Years covered are 1743-1854. Types of books include invoice books, ledgers, cash books, inventory, warehouse books, memorandum books, sale books, receipt books, account books, and alphabetical indexes (volume 141).","This series contains only volumes 139-140. These are pension claim books of George M. Woodbridge during the Civil War. Dates are 1861-1864 and 1863 respectively.","This series consists of volumes 129-136, which are miscellaneous collections of George M. Woodbridge. Dates run from 1779 to 1882, but most items concern the later time period. Items included are blank notes from G.M. Woodbridge's General Agency and Land Office; Justice of the Peace Accounts, listing notes, cash payments, unsettled notes, etc.; Woodbridge Autobiographical memo, including a sampling of materials found elsewhere in the collection; a prescription book; a newspaper scrapbook compiled in the 1870s; another scrapbook, containing mostly religious material; a U.S. Internal Revenue List of the Several Collection Districts (1870); and an old manuscript book containing copies of anecdotes, stories, diary excerpts, and poems written by George M. Woodbridge. This last includes such titles as \"Marietta in 1804 or 1805,\" \"The Blennerhassets,\" \"Ships and Steamboats,\" and \"Steamboats Built at Marietta.\" There are 34 such writings in the manuscript book.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land claims agency operated by George M. Woodbridge, 1861-1864; and justice of the peace accounts, 1832-1863. 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Woodbridge began the business, which included trade up and down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to Kentucky and points in between. George M. Woodbridge's business dealt in real estate, and so indicates the growth of the area west of Marietta. The growth of river trade and the types of goods traded are described extensively in the collection. Other topics include aspects of life in the early nineteenth century Ohio River Valley, real estate, and other business concerns. Prominent names in the collection include D. Woodbridge, George M. 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Subjects discussed include goods traded, ship building, river traffic and overland transportation of goods, impact of the War of 1812, Blennerhasset Island, purchases of stock in local banks, and land sales.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed D. Woodbridge, Jr. and D. Woodbridge and Co. Includes 52 letters to Harman Blennerhassett re. company business, goods ordered, and ship building, launching, and voyages. Cargo mentioned includes skins, hemp, ginseng, and pork taken in trade and purchased for sale in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also, letters to James Converse, Joseph F. Munro, Mrs. Mary Jourdan (Philadelphia agent for Woodbridge \u0026amp; Co.), James Backus, William Woodbridge, Joseph Clarke, Jacob Burnet, John Daman, Andrew and John Oliphant, R. Caldwell, and Capt. William Latimer. Subjects include purchasing and selling various goods, shipbuilding, ropewalk business in Marietta, river traffic, instructions to agents, and Sciota Salt Works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include dissolution of D. Woodbridge \u0026amp; Co. partnership, purchase and sale of goods, transportation by wagon and riverboats, salt received on commission from Donnally and Steele (Kanawha Salt Works), transactions on Ohio Company lands, ropewalk in Marietta, purchase of shares in Pittsburgh manufaturing company, settlement of Col. George Morgan estate, transactions involving sugar and cotton in New Orleans and Kentucky, riverboat accidents and loss of cargo, effects of war on emigration to Ohio, the shortage of labor, Ohio banks, purchase of stock in a Canal company, and barge building in Marietta. Correspondents include: Moses Dillon, Jeffry Price, Sen. John Lambert, John Tilford, James Mountain, Harmon Blennerhassett, George Morgan, Philip Doddridge, Capt. Daniel Greene, Jonathan Buitteau, Benjamin Morgan, and Thomas Butler. Locations include: Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, Charleston, Lexington, Zanesville, and New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include fur trade with London and French merchants, purcahse and sale of ginseng and other products, and re. conduct of storage and commission business. Names include: Thomas Morgan, Samuel Murdock, Thomas L. Pierce, Sevil Scovil and Co., John Barr, and L. Barber. Places named include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Lexington, New York, St. Louis, and London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include currency exchange, shipping conditions, marketing information, rental of Blennerhassett Island, and mercantile business. Names and firms: Moses Dillon, James W. Biddle \u0026amp; Co., Steele, Donnally \u0026amp; Steele, Thomas Baker, S.\u0026amp;G. Trotter \u0026amp; Co., and Gelman and Ammidon. Places named include: Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include routine business letters, the Lucy Backus Woodbridge estate, family correspondence, resignation of William Woodbridge from Congress, rental of Blennerhassett Island. Business firms mentioned: Benjamin J. Gilman, W. Wilson \u0026amp; Co., Robert Fulton, R. J. Meigs, Clarissa Backus, J. W. Biddle \u0026amp; Co., and John Sproule. Places of business include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Frankfort, Lexington, Washington D.C., Zanesville, Chillicothe, Detroit, Clarksburg, and Parkersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include purchase of bank stock, estate of Lucy Backus Woodbridge, currency exchange, steamboat building, and family and business affairs. Correspondents include: Jesse B. Thomas, Benjamin Reeder, E. Buckingham Jr. \u0026amp; Co., Elihu Chauncey, Henry Strong, Daniel Converse, Joseph Willard, Sam A. Wescott, and Henry Northrup. Places addressed: Washington D.C., Norwich, Lexington, Philadelphia, Pitssburgh, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Frankfort, St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Zanesville, and Cincinnati.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned letters, mainly from Pt. Harman, ordering goods for the D. Woodbridge Store. Also some letters concerning tobacco, ginseng, dried fruit, skins, beeswax, rags, feathers, and other products shipped to eastern markets for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects: principally rountine business correspondence, but also includes letters to Wheeling seeking wool. Names of steamboats and captains are mentioned in various letters. Names of persons and companies addressed: J.J. Jackson, Luther Edgerton, Jones, Tyson \u0026amp; Co., W. Palmer, and D.T. Chambers. Letters addressed to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Sistersville, Wheeling, Louisville, Pt. Harman, Salem Ripley, and McConnelsville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects: family affairs, religion, William Woodbridge's office as U.S. Judge in Michigan, Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Co., stock in Bank of the U.S. and other banks, the Morganza Tract in Pennsylvania, churches, missionary societies,Collegiate Institute, property in Marietta, and business opportunities. Correspondents include: Lewis Cass, Thomas McKennan, Waterman Palmer, Thomas Morgan, Rev. R.H. Bishop, William Holyoke, Rev. Artemus Ballard, Joseph Gales, and Rev. James Laurie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few letters dated at Pittsburgh to merchants and business houses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Also includes a cash book spanning Jan. 1834 to Oct. 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes volumes 11-89. These are all daybooks (blotters) from 1788-1862. Subjects included concern river boats, Harmon Blennerhasset, transactions with various firms, goods traded, land warrants, and land sales.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains record books other than daybooks, including volumes 90-128, 137, 138, and 141-145. Volumes 90-128 are records of the Woodbridge Company; volumes 137-138 are the records of the Greene Company; and volumes 142-145 are the records of the F.B. Loomis Company. Many of these contain the same sort of information as the day books, in a similar format. Years covered are 1743-1854. Types of books include invoice books, ledgers, cash books, inventory, warehouse books, memorandum books, sale books, receipt books, account books, and alphabetical indexes (volume 141).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series contains only volumes 139-140. These are pension claim books of George M. Woodbridge during the Civil War. Dates are 1861-1864 and 1863 respectively.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series consists of volumes 129-136, which are miscellaneous collections of George M. Woodbridge. Dates run from 1779 to 1882, but most items concern the later time period. Items included are blank notes from G.M. Woodbridge's General Agency and Land Office; Justice of the Peace Accounts, listing notes, cash payments, unsettled notes, etc.; Woodbridge Autobiographical memo, including a sampling of materials found elsewhere in the collection; a prescription book; a newspaper scrapbook compiled in the 1870s; another scrapbook, containing mostly religious material; a U.S. Internal Revenue List of the Several Collection Districts (1870); and an old manuscript book containing copies of anecdotes, stories, diary excerpts, and poems written by George M. Woodbridge. This last includes such titles as \"Marietta in 1804 or 1805,\" \"The Blennerhassets,\" \"Ships and Steamboats,\" and \"Steamboats Built at Marietta.\" There are 34 such writings in the manuscript book.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["These are the records of the Woodbridge Mercantile Company and related businesses operated in Marietta, Ohio from the years 1743 to 1882. Woodbridge began the business, which included trade up and down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to Kentucky and points in between. George M. Woodbridge's business dealt in real estate, and so indicates the growth of the area west of Marietta. The growth of river trade and the types of goods traded are described extensively in the collection. Other topics include aspects of life in the early nineteenth century Ohio River Valley, real estate, and other business concerns. Prominent names in the collection include D. Woodbridge, George M. Woodbridge, and Harmon Blennerhasset.","Subjects found in collection:","Ships and shipbuilding – Volumes 1, 6, 8, 14, 31, 37, 53, 132","Transportation of goods, overland and by river (Ohio and Muskingum) – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 123, 124","Harmon Blennerhasset and Blennerhasset Island – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25","Land values and transaction of land – Volumes 56, 79, 81, 89, 131","Bank of Marietta – Volumes 2, 6, 9, 98","This series includes volumes 1-10, which are letter books dating from 1801 to 1836. These books contain copies of correspondence mostly regarding business matters of Woodbridge Mercantile Company. Subjects discussed include goods traded, ship building, river traffic and overland transportation of goods, impact of the War of 1812, Blennerhasset Island, purchases of stock in local banks, and land sales.","Letters signed D. Woodbridge, Jr. and D. Woodbridge and Co. Includes 52 letters to Harman Blennerhassett re. company business, goods ordered, and ship building, launching, and voyages. Cargo mentioned includes skins, hemp, ginseng, and pork taken in trade and purchased for sale in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also, letters to James Converse, Joseph F. Munro, Mrs. Mary Jourdan (Philadelphia agent for Woodbridge \u0026 Co.), James Backus, William Woodbridge, Joseph Clarke, Jacob Burnet, John Daman, Andrew and John Oliphant, R. Caldwell, and Capt. William Latimer. Subjects include purchasing and selling various goods, shipbuilding, ropewalk business in Marietta, river traffic, instructions to agents, and Sciota Salt Works.","Subjects include dissolution of D. Woodbridge \u0026 Co. partnership, purchase and sale of goods, transportation by wagon and riverboats, salt received on commission from Donnally and Steele (Kanawha Salt Works), transactions on Ohio Company lands, ropewalk in Marietta, purchase of shares in Pittsburgh manufaturing company, settlement of Col. George Morgan estate, transactions involving sugar and cotton in New Orleans and Kentucky, riverboat accidents and loss of cargo, effects of war on emigration to Ohio, the shortage of labor, Ohio banks, purchase of stock in a Canal company, and barge building in Marietta. Correspondents include: Moses Dillon, Jeffry Price, Sen. John Lambert, John Tilford, James Mountain, Harmon Blennerhassett, George Morgan, Philip Doddridge, Capt. Daniel Greene, Jonathan Buitteau, Benjamin Morgan, and Thomas Butler. Locations include: Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, Charleston, Lexington, Zanesville, and New Orleans.","Subjects include fur trade with London and French merchants, purcahse and sale of ginseng and other products, and re. conduct of storage and commission business. Names include: Thomas Morgan, Samuel Murdock, Thomas L. Pierce, Sevil Scovil and Co., John Barr, and L. Barber. Places named include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Lexington, New York, St. Louis, and London.","Subjects include currency exchange, shipping conditions, marketing information, rental of Blennerhassett Island, and mercantile business. Names and firms: Moses Dillon, James W. Biddle \u0026 Co., Steele, Donnally \u0026 Steele, Thomas Baker, S.\u0026G. Trotter \u0026 Co., and Gelman and Ammidon. Places named include: Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky.","Subjects include routine business letters, the Lucy Backus Woodbridge estate, family correspondence, resignation of William Woodbridge from Congress, rental of Blennerhassett Island. Business firms mentioned: Benjamin J. Gilman, W. Wilson \u0026 Co., Robert Fulton, R. J. Meigs, Clarissa Backus, J. W. Biddle \u0026 Co., and John Sproule. Places of business include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Frankfort, Lexington, Washington D.C., Zanesville, Chillicothe, Detroit, Clarksburg, and Parkersburg.","Subjects include purchase of bank stock, estate of Lucy Backus Woodbridge, currency exchange, steamboat building, and family and business affairs. Correspondents include: Jesse B. Thomas, Benjamin Reeder, E. Buckingham Jr. \u0026 Co., Elihu Chauncey, Henry Strong, Daniel Converse, Joseph Willard, Sam A. Wescott, and Henry Northrup. Places addressed: Washington D.C., Norwich, Lexington, Philadelphia, Pitssburgh, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Frankfort, St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Zanesville, and Cincinnati.","Unsigned letters, mainly from Pt. Harman, ordering goods for the D. Woodbridge Store. Also some letters concerning tobacco, ginseng, dried fruit, skins, beeswax, rags, feathers, and other products shipped to eastern markets for sale.","Subjects: principally rountine business correspondence, but also includes letters to Wheeling seeking wool. Names of steamboats and captains are mentioned in various letters. Names of persons and companies addressed: J.J. Jackson, Luther Edgerton, Jones, Tyson \u0026 Co., W. Palmer, and D.T. Chambers. Letters addressed to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Sistersville, Wheeling, Louisville, Pt. Harman, Salem Ripley, and McConnelsville.","Subjects: family affairs, religion, William Woodbridge's office as U.S. Judge in Michigan, Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Co., stock in Bank of the U.S. and other banks, the Morganza Tract in Pennsylvania, churches, missionary societies,Collegiate Institute, property in Marietta, and business opportunities. Correspondents include: Lewis Cass, Thomas McKennan, Waterman Palmer, Thomas Morgan, Rev. R.H. Bishop, William Holyoke, Rev. Artemus Ballard, Joseph Gales, and Rev. James Laurie.","A few letters dated at Pittsburgh to merchants and business houses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Also includes a cash book spanning Jan. 1834 to Oct. 1836.","This series includes volumes 11-89. These are all daybooks (blotters) from 1788-1862. Subjects included concern river boats, Harmon Blennerhasset, transactions with various firms, goods traded, land warrants, and land sales.","This series contains record books other than daybooks, including volumes 90-128, 137, 138, and 141-145. Volumes 90-128 are records of the Woodbridge Company; volumes 137-138 are the records of the Greene Company; and volumes 142-145 are the records of the F.B. Loomis Company. Many of these contain the same sort of information as the day books, in a similar format. Years covered are 1743-1854. Types of books include invoice books, ledgers, cash books, inventory, warehouse books, memorandum books, sale books, receipt books, account books, and alphabetical indexes (volume 141).","This series contains only volumes 139-140. These are pension claim books of George M. Woodbridge during the Civil War. Dates are 1861-1864 and 1863 respectively.","This series consists of volumes 129-136, which are miscellaneous collections of George M. Woodbridge. Dates run from 1779 to 1882, but most items concern the later time period. Items included are blank notes from G.M. Woodbridge's General Agency and Land Office; Justice of the Peace Accounts, listing notes, cash payments, unsettled notes, etc.; Woodbridge Autobiographical memo, including a sampling of materials found elsewhere in the collection; a prescription book; a newspaper scrapbook compiled in the 1870s; another scrapbook, containing mostly religious material; a U.S. Internal Revenue List of the Several Collection Districts (1870); and an old manuscript book containing copies of anecdotes, stories, diary excerpts, and poems written by George M. Woodbridge. This last includes such titles as \"Marietta in 1804 or 1805,\" \"The Blennerhassets,\" \"Ships and Steamboats,\" and \"Steamboats Built at Marietta.\" There are 34 such writings in the manuscript book."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePermission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the \u003ca href=\"https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/visit/permissions-and-copyright\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePermissions and Copyright page\u003c/a\u003e on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_dbebcc5ffb758c18356de41c3aa65840\"\u003eLetter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land claims agency operated by George M. Woodbridge, 1861-1864; and justice of the peace accounts, 1832-1863. Subjects include the development of river markets, transportation, and the livestock industry in the early Ohio Valley; fur trade and commerce with England and Europe; the Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company; Kanawha and Sciota salt works; Ohio Company lands; Woodbridge-Harman Blennerhassett partnership; ginseng trade; Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company; ropewalk and shipbuilding in Marietta; military land warrants; estate of George Morgan; career of William Woodbridge, United States senator and governor of Michigan; pioneer education; Meadville Seminary; Ohio University; Miami University; Marietta Collegiate Institute; Belpre, Ohio; American Catholic missions; early history of Marietta; the American Colonization Society; Washington County Colonization Society; churches; Washington County Tract Society; recruiting in Marietta during the Civil War; impact of the War of 1812 on westward migration and labor; and Woodbridge family affairs. Letters are addressed to merchants in London, France, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston (West Virginia), Lexington and Louisville (Kentucky), Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans, Washington, Detroit, and Baltimore. Correspondents include Lewis Cass, Philip Doddridge, and Benjamin Reeder.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land claims agency operated by George M. Woodbridge, 1861-1864; and justice of the peace accounts, 1832-1863. Subjects include the development of river markets, transportation, and the livestock industry in the early Ohio Valley; fur trade and commerce with England and Europe; the Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company; Kanawha and Sciota salt works; Ohio Company lands; Woodbridge-Harman Blennerhassett partnership; ginseng trade; Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company; ropewalk and shipbuilding in Marietta; military land warrants; estate of George Morgan; career of William Woodbridge, United States senator and governor of Michigan; pioneer education; Meadville Seminary; Ohio University; Miami University; Marietta Collegiate Institute; Belpre, Ohio; American Catholic missions; early history of Marietta; the American Colonization Society; Washington County Colonization Society; churches; Washington County Tract Society; recruiting in Marietta during the Civil War; impact of the War of 1812 on westward migration and labor; and Woodbridge family affairs. Letters are addressed to merchants in London, France, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston (West Virginia), Lexington and Louisville (Kentucky), Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans, Washington, Detroit, and Baltimore. Correspondents include Lewis Cass, Philip Doddridge, and Benjamin Reeder."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc id=\"aspace_97a19b48b0865b933e413ce17c6b47ab\"\u003eWest Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/"],"names_coll_ssim":["American Colonization Society","Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company","Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary","Meadville Seminary","Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)","Ohio Company.","Ohio University","United States. Congress. 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Senate","Washington County Colonization Society","Washington County Tract Society","Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company","Woodbridge-Blennerhassett.","Brody, John.","Cass, Lewis.","Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832","Greene, Daniel.","Greene, John.","Greene, Richard.","Loomis, F.B.","Morgan, George","Reeder, Benjamin.","Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr.","Woodbridge, George M.","Woodbridge, William."],"corpname_ssim":["West Virginia and Regional History Center","Woodbridge Mercantile Company","American Colonization Society","Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company","Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary","Meadville Seminary","Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)","Ohio Company.","Ohio University","United States. Congress. 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SEE ALSO Schools.","Fur trade","General stores","Justices of the peace","Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor","Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine.","Missionaries","Frontier and pioneer life","Politics and government.","Rivers and river valleys.","Salt industry and trade","Schools. SEE ALSO Academies","Slaves and slavery.","Transportation","Unions.","Universities and colleges","No special access restriction applies.","These are the records of the Woodbridge Mercantile Company and related businesses operated in Marietta, Ohio from the years 1743 to 1882. Woodbridge began the business, which included trade up and down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to Kentucky and points in between. George M. Woodbridge's business dealt in real estate, and so indicates the growth of the area west of Marietta. The growth of river trade and the types of goods traded are described extensively in the collection. Other topics include aspects of life in the early nineteenth century Ohio River Valley, real estate, and other business concerns. Prominent names in the collection include D. Woodbridge, George M. Woodbridge, and Harmon Blennerhasset.","Subjects found in collection:","Ships and shipbuilding – Volumes 1, 6, 8, 14, 31, 37, 53, 132","Transportation of goods, overland and by river (Ohio and Muskingum) – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 123, 124","Harmon Blennerhasset and Blennerhasset Island – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25","Land values and transaction of land – Volumes 56, 79, 81, 89, 131","Bank of Marietta – Volumes 2, 6, 9, 98","This series includes volumes 1-10, which are letter books dating from 1801 to 1836. These books contain copies of correspondence mostly regarding business matters of Woodbridge Mercantile Company. Subjects discussed include goods traded, ship building, river traffic and overland transportation of goods, impact of the War of 1812, Blennerhasset Island, purchases of stock in local banks, and land sales.","Letters signed D. Woodbridge, Jr. and D. Woodbridge and Co. Includes 52 letters to Harman Blennerhassett re. company business, goods ordered, and ship building, launching, and voyages. Cargo mentioned includes skins, hemp, ginseng, and pork taken in trade and purchased for sale in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also, letters to James Converse, Joseph F. Munro, Mrs. Mary Jourdan (Philadelphia agent for Woodbridge \u0026 Co.), James Backus, William Woodbridge, Joseph Clarke, Jacob Burnet, John Daman, Andrew and John Oliphant, R. Caldwell, and Capt. William Latimer. Subjects include purchasing and selling various goods, shipbuilding, ropewalk business in Marietta, river traffic, instructions to agents, and Sciota Salt Works.","Subjects include dissolution of D. Woodbridge \u0026 Co. partnership, purchase and sale of goods, transportation by wagon and riverboats, salt received on commission from Donnally and Steele (Kanawha Salt Works), transactions on Ohio Company lands, ropewalk in Marietta, purchase of shares in Pittsburgh manufaturing company, settlement of Col. George Morgan estate, transactions involving sugar and cotton in New Orleans and Kentucky, riverboat accidents and loss of cargo, effects of war on emigration to Ohio, the shortage of labor, Ohio banks, purchase of stock in a Canal company, and barge building in Marietta. Correspondents include: Moses Dillon, Jeffry Price, Sen. John Lambert, John Tilford, James Mountain, Harmon Blennerhassett, George Morgan, Philip Doddridge, Capt. Daniel Greene, Jonathan Buitteau, Benjamin Morgan, and Thomas Butler. Locations include: Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, Charleston, Lexington, Zanesville, and New Orleans.","Subjects include fur trade with London and French merchants, purcahse and sale of ginseng and other products, and re. conduct of storage and commission business. Names include: Thomas Morgan, Samuel Murdock, Thomas L. Pierce, Sevil Scovil and Co., John Barr, and L. Barber. Places named include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Lexington, New York, St. Louis, and London.","Subjects include currency exchange, shipping conditions, marketing information, rental of Blennerhassett Island, and mercantile business. Names and firms: Moses Dillon, James W. Biddle \u0026 Co., Steele, Donnally \u0026 Steele, Thomas Baker, S.\u0026G. Trotter \u0026 Co., and Gelman and Ammidon. Places named include: Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky.","Subjects include routine business letters, the Lucy Backus Woodbridge estate, family correspondence, resignation of William Woodbridge from Congress, rental of Blennerhassett Island. Business firms mentioned: Benjamin J. Gilman, W. Wilson \u0026 Co., Robert Fulton, R. J. Meigs, Clarissa Backus, J. W. Biddle \u0026 Co., and John Sproule. Places of business include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Frankfort, Lexington, Washington D.C., Zanesville, Chillicothe, Detroit, Clarksburg, and Parkersburg.","Subjects include purchase of bank stock, estate of Lucy Backus Woodbridge, currency exchange, steamboat building, and family and business affairs. Correspondents include: Jesse B. Thomas, Benjamin Reeder, E. Buckingham Jr. \u0026 Co., Elihu Chauncey, Henry Strong, Daniel Converse, Joseph Willard, Sam A. Wescott, and Henry Northrup. Places addressed: Washington D.C., Norwich, Lexington, Philadelphia, Pitssburgh, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Frankfort, St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Zanesville, and Cincinnati.","Unsigned letters, mainly from Pt. Harman, ordering goods for the D. Woodbridge Store. Also some letters concerning tobacco, ginseng, dried fruit, skins, beeswax, rags, feathers, and other products shipped to eastern markets for sale.","Subjects: principally rountine business correspondence, but also includes letters to Wheeling seeking wool. Names of steamboats and captains are mentioned in various letters. Names of persons and companies addressed: J.J. Jackson, Luther Edgerton, Jones, Tyson \u0026 Co., W. Palmer, and D.T. Chambers. Letters addressed to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Sistersville, Wheeling, Louisville, Pt. Harman, Salem Ripley, and McConnelsville.","Subjects: family affairs, religion, William Woodbridge's office as U.S. Judge in Michigan, Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Co., stock in Bank of the U.S. and other banks, the Morganza Tract in Pennsylvania, churches, missionary societies,Collegiate Institute, property in Marietta, and business opportunities. Correspondents include: Lewis Cass, Thomas McKennan, Waterman Palmer, Thomas Morgan, Rev. R.H. Bishop, William Holyoke, Rev. Artemus Ballard, Joseph Gales, and Rev. James Laurie.","A few letters dated at Pittsburgh to merchants and business houses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Also includes a cash book spanning Jan. 1834 to Oct. 1836.","This series includes volumes 11-89. These are all daybooks (blotters) from 1788-1862. Subjects included concern river boats, Harmon Blennerhasset, transactions with various firms, goods traded, land warrants, and land sales.","This series contains record books other than daybooks, including volumes 90-128, 137, 138, and 141-145. Volumes 90-128 are records of the Woodbridge Company; volumes 137-138 are the records of the Greene Company; and volumes 142-145 are the records of the F.B. Loomis Company. Many of these contain the same sort of information as the day books, in a similar format. Years covered are 1743-1854. Types of books include invoice books, ledgers, cash books, inventory, warehouse books, memorandum books, sale books, receipt books, account books, and alphabetical indexes (volume 141).","This series contains only volumes 139-140. These are pension claim books of George M. Woodbridge during the Civil War. Dates are 1861-1864 and 1863 respectively.","This series consists of volumes 129-136, which are miscellaneous collections of George M. Woodbridge. Dates run from 1779 to 1882, but most items concern the later time period. Items included are blank notes from G.M. Woodbridge's General Agency and Land Office; Justice of the Peace Accounts, listing notes, cash payments, unsettled notes, etc.; Woodbridge Autobiographical memo, including a sampling of materials found elsewhere in the collection; a prescription book; a newspaper scrapbook compiled in the 1870s; another scrapbook, containing mostly religious material; a U.S. Internal Revenue List of the Several Collection Districts (1870); and an old manuscript book containing copies of anecdotes, stories, diary excerpts, and poems written by George M. Woodbridge. This last includes such titles as \"Marietta in 1804 or 1805,\" \"The Blennerhassets,\" \"Ships and Steamboats,\" and \"Steamboats Built at Marietta.\" There are 34 such writings in the manuscript book.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land claims agency operated by George M. Woodbridge, 1861-1864; and justice of the peace accounts, 1832-1863. Subjects include the development of river markets, transportation, and the livestock industry in the early Ohio Valley; fur trade and commerce with England and Europe; the Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company; Kanawha and Sciota salt works; Ohio Company lands; Woodbridge-Harman Blennerhassett partnership; ginseng trade; Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company; ropewalk and shipbuilding in Marietta; military land warrants; estate of George Morgan; career of William Woodbridge, United States senator and governor of Michigan; pioneer education; Meadville Seminary; Ohio University; Miami University; Marietta Collegiate Institute; Belpre, Ohio; American Catholic missions; early history of Marietta; the American Colonization Society; Washington County Colonization Society; churches; Washington County Tract Society; recruiting in Marietta during the Civil War; impact of the War of 1812 on westward migration and labor; and Woodbridge family affairs. Letters are addressed to merchants in London, France, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston (West Virginia), Lexington and Louisville (Kentucky), Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans, Washington, Detroit, and Baltimore. Correspondents include Lewis Cass, Philip Doddridge, and Benjamin Reeder.","West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/","West Virginia and Regional History Center","Woodbridge Mercantile Company","American Colonization Society","Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company","Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary","Meadville Seminary","Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)","Ohio Company.","Ohio University","United States. Congress. 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Woodbridge began the business, which included trade up and down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to Kentucky and points in between. George M. Woodbridge's business dealt in real estate, and so indicates the growth of the area west of Marietta. The growth of river trade and the types of goods traded are described extensively in the collection. Other topics include aspects of life in the early nineteenth century Ohio River Valley, real estate, and other business concerns. Prominent names in the collection include D. Woodbridge, George M. Woodbridge, and Harmon Blennerhasset.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSubjects found in collection:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eShips and shipbuilding – Volumes 1, 6, 8, 14, 31, 37, 53, 132\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eTransportation of goods, overland and by river (Ohio and Muskingum) – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 123, 124\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eHarmon Blennerhasset and Blennerhasset Island – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eLand values and transaction of land – Volumes 56, 79, 81, 89, 131\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eBank of Marietta – Volumes 2, 6, 9, 98\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes volumes 1-10, which are letter books dating from 1801 to 1836. These books contain copies of correspondence mostly regarding business matters of Woodbridge Mercantile Company. Subjects discussed include goods traded, ship building, river traffic and overland transportation of goods, impact of the War of 1812, Blennerhasset Island, purchases of stock in local banks, and land sales.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters signed D. Woodbridge, Jr. and D. Woodbridge and Co. Includes 52 letters to Harman Blennerhassett re. company business, goods ordered, and ship building, launching, and voyages. Cargo mentioned includes skins, hemp, ginseng, and pork taken in trade and purchased for sale in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also, letters to James Converse, Joseph F. Munro, Mrs. Mary Jourdan (Philadelphia agent for Woodbridge \u0026amp; Co.), James Backus, William Woodbridge, Joseph Clarke, Jacob Burnet, John Daman, Andrew and John Oliphant, R. Caldwell, and Capt. William Latimer. Subjects include purchasing and selling various goods, shipbuilding, ropewalk business in Marietta, river traffic, instructions to agents, and Sciota Salt Works.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include dissolution of D. Woodbridge \u0026amp; Co. partnership, purchase and sale of goods, transportation by wagon and riverboats, salt received on commission from Donnally and Steele (Kanawha Salt Works), transactions on Ohio Company lands, ropewalk in Marietta, purchase of shares in Pittsburgh manufaturing company, settlement of Col. George Morgan estate, transactions involving sugar and cotton in New Orleans and Kentucky, riverboat accidents and loss of cargo, effects of war on emigration to Ohio, the shortage of labor, Ohio banks, purchase of stock in a Canal company, and barge building in Marietta. Correspondents include: Moses Dillon, Jeffry Price, Sen. John Lambert, John Tilford, James Mountain, Harmon Blennerhassett, George Morgan, Philip Doddridge, Capt. Daniel Greene, Jonathan Buitteau, Benjamin Morgan, and Thomas Butler. Locations include: Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, Charleston, Lexington, Zanesville, and New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include fur trade with London and French merchants, purcahse and sale of ginseng and other products, and re. conduct of storage and commission business. Names include: Thomas Morgan, Samuel Murdock, Thomas L. Pierce, Sevil Scovil and Co., John Barr, and L. Barber. Places named include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Lexington, New York, St. Louis, and London.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include currency exchange, shipping conditions, marketing information, rental of Blennerhassett Island, and mercantile business. Names and firms: Moses Dillon, James W. Biddle \u0026amp; Co., Steele, Donnally \u0026amp; Steele, Thomas Baker, S.\u0026amp;G. Trotter \u0026amp; Co., and Gelman and Ammidon. 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Places addressed: Washington D.C., Norwich, Lexington, Philadelphia, Pitssburgh, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Frankfort, St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Zanesville, and Cincinnati.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnsigned letters, mainly from Pt. Harman, ordering goods for the D. Woodbridge Store. Also some letters concerning tobacco, ginseng, dried fruit, skins, beeswax, rags, feathers, and other products shipped to eastern markets for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects: principally rountine business correspondence, but also includes letters to Wheeling seeking wool. Names of steamboats and captains are mentioned in various letters. Names of persons and companies addressed: J.J. Jackson, Luther Edgerton, Jones, Tyson \u0026amp; Co., W. Palmer, and D.T. Chambers. Letters addressed to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Sistersville, Wheeling, Louisville, Pt. Harman, Salem Ripley, and McConnelsville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects: family affairs, religion, William Woodbridge's office as U.S. Judge in Michigan, Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Co., stock in Bank of the U.S. and other banks, the Morganza Tract in Pennsylvania, churches, missionary societies,Collegiate Institute, property in Marietta, and business opportunities. Correspondents include: Lewis Cass, Thomas McKennan, Waterman Palmer, Thomas Morgan, Rev. R.H. Bishop, William Holyoke, Rev. Artemus Ballard, Joseph Gales, and Rev. James Laurie.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few letters dated at Pittsburgh to merchants and business houses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Also includes a cash book spanning Jan. 1834 to Oct. 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series includes volumes 11-89. These are all daybooks (blotters) from 1788-1862. 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This last includes such titles as \"Marietta in 1804 or 1805,\" \"The Blennerhassets,\" \"Ships and Steamboats,\" and \"Steamboats Built at Marietta.\" There are 34 such writings in the manuscript book.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents","Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["These are the records of the Woodbridge Mercantile Company and related businesses operated in Marietta, Ohio from the years 1743 to 1882. Woodbridge began the business, which included trade up and down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to Kentucky and points in between. George M. Woodbridge's business dealt in real estate, and so indicates the growth of the area west of Marietta. The growth of river trade and the types of goods traded are described extensively in the collection. Other topics include aspects of life in the early nineteenth century Ohio River Valley, real estate, and other business concerns. Prominent names in the collection include D. Woodbridge, George M. Woodbridge, and Harmon Blennerhasset.","Subjects found in collection:","Ships and shipbuilding – Volumes 1, 6, 8, 14, 31, 37, 53, 132","Transportation of goods, overland and by river (Ohio and Muskingum) – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 123, 124","Harmon Blennerhasset and Blennerhasset Island – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25","Land values and transaction of land – Volumes 56, 79, 81, 89, 131","Bank of Marietta – Volumes 2, 6, 9, 98","This series includes volumes 1-10, which are letter books dating from 1801 to 1836. These books contain copies of correspondence mostly regarding business matters of Woodbridge Mercantile Company. Subjects discussed include goods traded, ship building, river traffic and overland transportation of goods, impact of the War of 1812, Blennerhasset Island, purchases of stock in local banks, and land sales.","Letters signed D. Woodbridge, Jr. and D. Woodbridge and Co. Includes 52 letters to Harman Blennerhassett re. company business, goods ordered, and ship building, launching, and voyages. Cargo mentioned includes skins, hemp, ginseng, and pork taken in trade and purchased for sale in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also, letters to James Converse, Joseph F. Munro, Mrs. Mary Jourdan (Philadelphia agent for Woodbridge \u0026 Co.), James Backus, William Woodbridge, Joseph Clarke, Jacob Burnet, John Daman, Andrew and John Oliphant, R. Caldwell, and Capt. William Latimer. Subjects include purchasing and selling various goods, shipbuilding, ropewalk business in Marietta, river traffic, instructions to agents, and Sciota Salt Works.","Subjects include dissolution of D. Woodbridge \u0026 Co. partnership, purchase and sale of goods, transportation by wagon and riverboats, salt received on commission from Donnally and Steele (Kanawha Salt Works), transactions on Ohio Company lands, ropewalk in Marietta, purchase of shares in Pittsburgh manufaturing company, settlement of Col. George Morgan estate, transactions involving sugar and cotton in New Orleans and Kentucky, riverboat accidents and loss of cargo, effects of war on emigration to Ohio, the shortage of labor, Ohio banks, purchase of stock in a Canal company, and barge building in Marietta. Correspondents include: Moses Dillon, Jeffry Price, Sen. John Lambert, John Tilford, James Mountain, Harmon Blennerhassett, George Morgan, Philip Doddridge, Capt. Daniel Greene, Jonathan Buitteau, Benjamin Morgan, and Thomas Butler. Locations include: Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, Charleston, Lexington, Zanesville, and New Orleans.","Subjects include fur trade with London and French merchants, purcahse and sale of ginseng and other products, and re. conduct of storage and commission business. Names include: Thomas Morgan, Samuel Murdock, Thomas L. Pierce, Sevil Scovil and Co., John Barr, and L. Barber. Places named include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Lexington, New York, St. Louis, and London.","Subjects include currency exchange, shipping conditions, marketing information, rental of Blennerhassett Island, and mercantile business. Names and firms: Moses Dillon, James W. Biddle \u0026 Co., Steele, Donnally \u0026 Steele, Thomas Baker, S.\u0026G. Trotter \u0026 Co., and Gelman and Ammidon. Places named include: Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky.","Subjects include routine business letters, the Lucy Backus Woodbridge estate, family correspondence, resignation of William Woodbridge from Congress, rental of Blennerhassett Island. Business firms mentioned: Benjamin J. Gilman, W. Wilson \u0026 Co., Robert Fulton, R. J. Meigs, Clarissa Backus, J. W. Biddle \u0026 Co., and John Sproule. Places of business include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Frankfort, Lexington, Washington D.C., Zanesville, Chillicothe, Detroit, Clarksburg, and Parkersburg.","Subjects include purchase of bank stock, estate of Lucy Backus Woodbridge, currency exchange, steamboat building, and family and business affairs. Correspondents include: Jesse B. Thomas, Benjamin Reeder, E. Buckingham Jr. \u0026 Co., Elihu Chauncey, Henry Strong, Daniel Converse, Joseph Willard, Sam A. Wescott, and Henry Northrup. Places addressed: Washington D.C., Norwich, Lexington, Philadelphia, Pitssburgh, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Frankfort, St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Zanesville, and Cincinnati.","Unsigned letters, mainly from Pt. Harman, ordering goods for the D. Woodbridge Store. Also some letters concerning tobacco, ginseng, dried fruit, skins, beeswax, rags, feathers, and other products shipped to eastern markets for sale.","Subjects: principally rountine business correspondence, but also includes letters to Wheeling seeking wool. Names of steamboats and captains are mentioned in various letters. Names of persons and companies addressed: J.J. Jackson, Luther Edgerton, Jones, Tyson \u0026 Co., W. Palmer, and D.T. Chambers. Letters addressed to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Sistersville, Wheeling, Louisville, Pt. Harman, Salem Ripley, and McConnelsville.","Subjects: family affairs, religion, William Woodbridge's office as U.S. Judge in Michigan, Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Co., stock in Bank of the U.S. and other banks, the Morganza Tract in Pennsylvania, churches, missionary societies,Collegiate Institute, property in Marietta, and business opportunities. Correspondents include: Lewis Cass, Thomas McKennan, Waterman Palmer, Thomas Morgan, Rev. R.H. Bishop, William Holyoke, Rev. Artemus Ballard, Joseph Gales, and Rev. James Laurie.","A few letters dated at Pittsburgh to merchants and business houses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Also includes a cash book spanning Jan. 1834 to Oct. 1836.","This series includes volumes 11-89. These are all daybooks (blotters) from 1788-1862. 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