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So thorough was the system that no major change in Virginia's method of distribution of virgin land was made until the mid-20th century.\n","Under the act, any person could purchase as much vacant land as desired upon payment to the treasurer of a fee of £40 for 100 acres desired. The receipt given in return for the fee was taken to the auditor of the commonwealth. For this treasurer's receipt the auditor issued a certificate noting the amount of land to which the person was entitled. This certificate was taken to the Land Office where the Register issued a warrant. This warrant authorized any surveyor to lay off the quantity of land.","The warrantee entered a claim to the land he desired by depositing his warrant with the surveyor of the county in which the land lay. The act specified the method to be employed by the surveyor in returning his survey of the land. Once the survey had been completed, it and the depleted warrant on which it was based were returned to the warrantee whose responsibility it was to deliver the paper to the Land Office. There, all papers were examined initially for technical error and, if correctly executed, were filed for a period of not less than six months. If, within that time, no caveat was entered on the survey, the plat and certificate of survey were recorded and the grant was issued by the Register. Once written, the grant was signed by the governor, sealed, recorded, and delivered to the grantee.","During the first years of operation, the Land Office was mainly concerned with issuing warrants for military bounty, and satisfying claims originating under the colonial government. Since much of the available land was located in Kentucky, the Register was authorized in November, 1781, to appoint a deputy who would locate his office there.","Following the reorganization of the Land Office, recited in the Virginia Code of 1850, the localities were charged with the responsibilities of issuing titles to vacant lands, while the state issued grants for escheated lands only. To counter dissatisfaction with the existence of the Land Office, which first surfaced mid-19th century as the amount of wasteland declined, the General Assembly adopted the solution of assigning more duties to the Register. First, the office of Superintendent of Weights and Measures was abolished by an act of February 9, 1867, and his duties were transferred to the Register. Then, by an act of February 28, 1874, amended April 29, 1874, the responsibilities of the Superintendent of Public Buildings were assigned to the Register, and the former position was abolished. Next, in March, 1875, the Register was made the Secretary of the Board of Immigration.","Finally by legislative action of March 20, 1924, it was decreed that when the next vacancy in the position of Register of the Land Office occurred, that office was to be abolished and its duties transferred to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. The duties of Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, performed by the Register, were to be taken over by the Superintendent of State Office Buildings, who would assume the former title. This transfer of duties was accomplished by January 1925.","In 1948 the records of the Land Office which were in the custody of the Secretary of the Commonwealth were transferred to the State Library and, by Act of Assembly, March 5, 1952, the duties of the Register of the Land Office were transferred from the Secretary of the Commonwealth to the State Librarian.","These records contain plats/surveys, certificates of survey and other accompanying papers on which grants were issued through the register of the Land Office between 1779 and 1924, the secretary of the commonwealth between 1925 and 1948, and the state librarian since 1949. Supplemental papers may include warrants, assignments, affidavits, and copies of county court records.\n","These records are arranged chronologically by the year the land grant was issued.  Within each year, the files are arranged alphabetically.","Included are land grants from numerous Virginia governors including: Patrick Henry (1776-1779; 1784-1786), Thomas Jefferson (1779-1781), Edmund Randolph (1786-1788), Beverley Randolph (1788-1791), Henry Lee (1791-1794), Robert Brooke (1794-1796), James Wood (1796-1799), and James Monroe (1799-1802, 1811). Also included are land patents from King George II (1683-1760) and King George III (1738-1820) of Great Britain. Most of these are housed in oversize boxes with separation notices.","These records are currently being rehoused.  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So thorough was the system that no major change in Virginia's method of distribution of virgin land was made until the mid-20th century.\n","Under the act, any person could purchase as much vacant land as desired upon payment to the treasurer of a fee of £40 for 100 acres desired. The receipt given in return for the fee was taken to the auditor of the commonwealth. For this treasurer's receipt the auditor issued a certificate noting the amount of land to which the person was entitled. This certificate was taken to the Land Office where the Register issued a warrant. This warrant authorized any surveyor to lay off the quantity of land.","The warrantee entered a claim to the land he desired by depositing his warrant with the surveyor of the county in which the land lay. The act specified the method to be employed by the surveyor in returning his survey of the land. Once the survey had been completed, it and the depleted warrant on which it was based were returned to the warrantee whose responsibility it was to deliver the paper to the Land Office. There, all papers were examined initially for technical error and, if correctly executed, were filed for a period of not less than six months. If, within that time, no caveat was entered on the survey, the plat and certificate of survey were recorded and the grant was issued by the Register. Once written, the grant was signed by the governor, sealed, recorded, and delivered to the grantee.","During the first years of operation, the Land Office was mainly concerned with issuing warrants for military bounty, and satisfying claims originating under the colonial government. Since much of the available land was located in Kentucky, the Register was authorized in November, 1781, to appoint a deputy who would locate his office there.","Following the reorganization of the Land Office, recited in the Virginia Code of 1850, the localities were charged with the responsibilities of issuing titles to vacant lands, while the state issued grants for escheated lands only. To counter dissatisfaction with the existence of the Land Office, which first surfaced mid-19th century as the amount of wasteland declined, the General Assembly adopted the solution of assigning more duties to the Register. First, the office of Superintendent of Weights and Measures was abolished by an act of February 9, 1867, and his duties were transferred to the Register. Then, by an act of February 28, 1874, amended April 29, 1874, the responsibilities of the Superintendent of Public Buildings were assigned to the Register, and the former position was abolished. 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Within each year, the files are arranged alphabetically.","Included are land grants from numerous Virginia governors including: Patrick Henry (1776-1779; 1784-1786), Thomas Jefferson (1779-1781), Edmund Randolph (1786-1788), Beverley Randolph (1788-1791), Henry Lee (1791-1794), Robert Brooke (1794-1796), James Wood (1796-1799), and James Monroe (1799-1802, 1811). Also included are land patents from King George II (1683-1760) and King George III (1738-1820) of Great Britain. Most of these are housed in oversize boxes with separation notices.","These records are currently being rehoused.  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James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond.","James Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026 recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026 Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026 ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026 revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026 House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026 certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.","The majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026 window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026 scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026 brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026 west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026 lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026 Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026 west wings (1799 Aug. 17).","The Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026 manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026 Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026 Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026 William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026 quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).","Other public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026 Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026 commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026 Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026 drawings of the Capitol \u0026 Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).","Governor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026 Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.","Timothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026 harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.","James McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).","Samuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026 Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026 House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026 Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).","As senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026 Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.","Significant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William Berkeley, Treasurers.","Archibald Blair \u0026 Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026 Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.","As Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026 the Buckingham\n         Furnace.","John Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026 Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026 John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026 Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026 Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026 John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026 Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).","Maj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026 public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026 medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.","Thomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026 examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026 Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).","Governor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.","Additional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026 certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026 fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026 British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026 Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026 April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026 Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026 survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).","Other noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026 Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026 John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026 John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026 certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026 James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026 Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026 John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026 June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16).","There are no restrictions.","State Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)","English"],"unitid_tesim":["40844"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"collection_title_tesim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"collection_ssim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Governor's Office"],"creator_ssim":["Governor's Office"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acquired prior to 1905."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3.18 cubic\n         feet"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlso available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"simple\"\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n\u003c/item\u003e\n        \u003c/list\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Alternative Form Available\n"],"altformavail_tesim":["Also available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n","Miscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["James Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia. Governor's Office. James Wood Executive\n            Papers, 1796-1799 (bulk 1797-1799). Accession 40844. State\n            Records Collection, The Library of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Virginia. Governor's Office. James Wood Executive\n            Papers, 1796-1799 (bulk 1797-1799). Accession 40844. State\n            Records Collection, The Library of Virginia."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["James Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026 recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026 Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026 ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026 revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026 House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026 certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.","The majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026 window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026 scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026 brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026 west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026 lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026 Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026 west wings (1799 Aug. 17).","The Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026 manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026 Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026 Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026 William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026 quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).","Other public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026 Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026 commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026 Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026 drawings of the Capitol \u0026 Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).","Governor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026 Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.","Timothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026 harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.","James McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).","Samuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026 Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026 House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026 Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).","As senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026 Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.","Significant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William Berkeley, Treasurers.","Archibald Blair \u0026 Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026 Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.","As Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026 the Buckingham\n         Furnace.","John Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026 Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026 John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026 Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026 Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026 John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026 Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).","Maj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026 public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026 medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.","Thomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026 examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026 Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).","Governor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.","Additional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026 certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026 fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026 British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026 Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026 April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026 Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026 survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).","Other noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026 Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026 John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026 John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026 certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026 James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026 Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026 John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026 June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003eState Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["State Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":184,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:59:09.088Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026amp; recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026amp; Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026amp; ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026amp; revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026amp; House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026amp; certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026amp; 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026amp; window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026amp; scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026amp; Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026amp; brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026amp; 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026amp; west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026amp; lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026amp; Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026amp; west wings (1799 Aug. 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026amp; manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026amp; Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026amp; Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026amp; William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026amp;\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026amp; quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026amp; Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026amp; commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026amp; Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026amp; drawings of the Capitol \u0026amp; Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026amp; Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026amp; harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026amp; Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026amp; House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026amp; Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026amp; Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignificant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026amp; Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026amp; William Berkeley, Treasurers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArchibald Blair \u0026amp; Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026amp;\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026amp; Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026amp; Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026amp; 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026amp; the Buckingham\n         Furnace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026amp;\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026amp; Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026amp; John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026amp; Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026amp; 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026amp; Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026amp; John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026amp;\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026amp; Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026amp; public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026amp; 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026amp;\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026amp; medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026amp; Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026amp; 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026amp;\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026amp; examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026amp; 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026amp; Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026amp; William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026amp; 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026amp; 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026amp; certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026amp; fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026amp; British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026amp; Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026amp; Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026amp; April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026amp; Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026amp; 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026amp; 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026amp; Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026amp; survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026amp; Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026amp; John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026amp; John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026amp; certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026amp; James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026amp; 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026amp; Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026amp; John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026amp; June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16).\u003c/p\u003e"]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00867_c05"}},{"id":"vi_vi00867_c11","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"1799","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00867_c11#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vi_vi00867_c11","ref_ssm":["vi_vi00867_c11"],"id":"vi_vi00867_c11","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00867","_root_":"vi_vi00867","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00867","parent_ssi":"vi_vi00867","parent_ssim":["vi_vi00867"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vi_vi00867"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"text":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799","1799"],"title_filing_ssi":"1799","title_ssm":["1799"],"title_tesim":["1799"],"normalized_title_ssm":["1799"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"collection_ssim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":11,"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"sort_isi":152,"_nest_path_":"/components#10","timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:59:09.088Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi00867","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00867","_root_":"vi_vi00867","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00867","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi00867.xml","title_ssm":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"title_tesim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["40844"],"text":["40844","Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799","3.18 cubic\n         feet","There are no restrictions.","Also available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n","Miscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n","Arranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear.","James Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond.","James Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026 recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026 Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026 ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026 revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026 House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026 certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.","The majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026 window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026 scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026 brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026 west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026 lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026 Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026 west wings (1799 Aug. 17).","The Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026 manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026 Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026 Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026 William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026 quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).","Other public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026 Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026 commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026 Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026 drawings of the Capitol \u0026 Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).","Governor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026 Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.","Timothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026 harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.","James McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).","Samuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026 Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026 House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026 Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).","As senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026 Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.","Significant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William Berkeley, Treasurers.","Archibald Blair \u0026 Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026 Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.","As Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026 the Buckingham\n         Furnace.","John Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026 Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026 John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026 Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026 Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026 John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026 Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).","Maj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026 public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026 medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.","Thomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026 examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026 Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).","Governor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.","Additional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026 certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026 fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026 British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026 Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026 April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026 Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026 survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).","Other noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026 Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026 John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026 John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026 certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026 James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026 Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026 John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026 June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16).","There are no restrictions.","State Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)","English"],"unitid_tesim":["40844"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"collection_title_tesim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"collection_ssim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Governor's Office"],"creator_ssim":["Governor's Office"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acquired prior to 1905."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3.18 cubic\n         feet"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlso available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"simple\"\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n\u003c/item\u003e\n        \u003c/list\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Alternative Form Available\n"],"altformavail_tesim":["Also available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n","Miscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["James Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia. Governor's Office. James Wood Executive\n            Papers, 1796-1799 (bulk 1797-1799). Accession 40844. State\n            Records Collection, The Library of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Virginia. Governor's Office. James Wood Executive\n            Papers, 1796-1799 (bulk 1797-1799). Accession 40844. State\n            Records Collection, The Library of Virginia."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["James Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026 recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026 Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026 ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026 revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026 House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026 certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.","The majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026 window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026 scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026 brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026 west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026 lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026 Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026 west wings (1799 Aug. 17).","The Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026 manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026 Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026 Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026 William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026 quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).","Other public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026 Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026 commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026 Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026 drawings of the Capitol \u0026 Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).","Governor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026 Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.","Timothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026 harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.","James McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).","Samuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026 Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026 House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026 Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).","As senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026 Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.","Significant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William Berkeley, Treasurers.","Archibald Blair \u0026 Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026 Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.","As Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026 the Buckingham\n         Furnace.","John Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026 Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026 John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026 Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026 Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026 John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026 Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).","Maj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026 public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026 medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.","Thomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026 examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026 Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).","Governor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.","Additional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026 certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026 fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026 British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026 Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026 April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026 Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026 survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).","Other noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026 Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026 John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026 John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026 certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026 James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026 Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026 John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026 June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003eState Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["State Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":184,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:59:09.088Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026amp; recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026amp; Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026amp; ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026amp; revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026amp; House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026amp; certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026amp; 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026amp; window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026amp; scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026amp; Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026amp; brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026amp; 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026amp; west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026amp; lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026amp; Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026amp; west wings (1799 Aug. 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026amp; manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026amp; Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026amp; Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026amp; William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026amp;\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026amp; quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026amp; Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026amp; commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026amp; Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026amp; drawings of the Capitol \u0026amp; Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026amp; Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026amp; harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026amp; Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026amp; House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026amp; Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026amp; Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignificant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026amp; Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026amp; William Berkeley, Treasurers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArchibald Blair \u0026amp; Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026amp;\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026amp; Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026amp; Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026amp; 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026amp; the Buckingham\n         Furnace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026amp;\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026amp; Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026amp; John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026amp; Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026amp; 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026amp; Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026amp; John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026amp;\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026amp; Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026amp; public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026amp; 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026amp;\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026amp; medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026amp; Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026amp; 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026amp;\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026amp; examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026amp; 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026amp; Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026amp; William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026amp; 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026amp; 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026amp; certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026amp; fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026amp; British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026amp; Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026amp; Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026amp; April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026amp; Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026amp; 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026amp; 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026amp; Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026amp; survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026amp; Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026amp; John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026amp; John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026amp; certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026amp; James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026amp; 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026amp; Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026amp; John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026amp; June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16).\u003c/p\u003e"]}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00867_c11"}},{"id":"vi_vi00867_c15","type":"Series","attributes":{"title":"1799","breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00867_c15#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vi_vi00867_c15","ref_ssm":["vi_vi00867_c15"],"id":"vi_vi00867_c15","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00867","_root_":"vi_vi00867","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00867","parent_ssi":"vi_vi00867","parent_ssim":["vi_vi00867"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vi_vi00867"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"text":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799","1799"],"title_filing_ssi":"1799","title_ssm":["1799"],"title_tesim":["1799"],"normalized_title_ssm":["1799"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"collection_ssim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":8,"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"sort_isi":176,"_nest_path_":"/components#14","timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:59:09.088Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi00867","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00867","_root_":"vi_vi00867","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00867","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi00867.xml","title_ssm":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"title_tesim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["40844"],"text":["40844","Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799","3.18 cubic\n         feet","There are no restrictions.","Also available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n","Miscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n","Arranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear.","James Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond.","James Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026 recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026 Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026 ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026 revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026 House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026 certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.","The majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026 window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026 scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026 brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026 west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026 lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026 Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026 west wings (1799 Aug. 17).","The Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026 manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026 Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026 Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026 William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026 quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).","Other public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026 Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026 commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026 Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026 drawings of the Capitol \u0026 Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).","Governor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026 Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.","Timothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026 harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.","James McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).","Samuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026 Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026 House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026 Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).","As senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026 Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.","Significant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William Berkeley, Treasurers.","Archibald Blair \u0026 Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026 Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.","As Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026 the Buckingham\n         Furnace.","John Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026 Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026 John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026 Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026 Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026 John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026 Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).","Maj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026 public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026 medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.","Thomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026 examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026 Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).","Governor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.","Additional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026 certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026 fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026 British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026 Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026 April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026 Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026 survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).","Other noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026 Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026 John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026 John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026 certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026 James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026 Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026 John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026 June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16).","There are no restrictions.","State Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)","English"],"unitid_tesim":["40844"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"collection_title_tesim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"collection_ssim":["Governor James Wood Executive Papers,\n         \n         1796-1799"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Governor's Office"],"creator_ssim":["Governor's Office"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acquired prior to 1905."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3.18 cubic\n         feet"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"altformavail_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eAlso available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003clist type=\"simple\"\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n\u003c/item\u003e\n          \u003citem\u003eMiscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n\u003c/item\u003e\n        \u003c/list\u003e"],"altformavail_heading_ssm":["Alternative Form Available\n"],"altformavail_tesim":["Also available on microfilm - Miscellaneous Reel 5215-5222.\n","Miscellaneous Reel 5215 - 1796 Dec. 1-1797 July 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5216 - 1797 Aug. 1-1798 Mar. 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5217 - 1798 Mar. 16-May 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5218 - 1798 June 1-Sept. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5219 - 1798 Oct.-1799 Jan. 29\n Miscellaneous Reel 5220 - 1799 Feb. 1-June 15\n Miscellaneous Reel 5221 - 1799 June 16-Aug. 31\n Miscellaneous Reel 5222 - 1799 Sept. 1-Dec. 6\n"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically by date of document with undated\n         items arranged to the rear."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["James Wood, Jr., was born in Winchester, Virginia, on 28\n         January 1741, to Col. James Wood and Mary Rutherford. His\n         public service began at a young age as deputy clerk and deputy\n         surveyor for Frederick County, while also serving as clerk of\n         the vestry of Frederick Parish. In 1766, Wood began his first\n         term as a representative to Frederick County in the House of\n         Burgesses, serving in that capacity until 1775. Wood married\n         Jean Moncure of Stafford County in 1775 and settled at\n         Hawthorn, the home built on his family's estate of Glen Burnie\n         in Winchester. Wood had a distinguished military career\n         beginning as a captain during Dunmore's War and continuing as\n         colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment Continental Line during\n         the Revolution. In 1779, Wood became Post Commandant of the\n         Albemarle Barracks in Charlottesville which accommodated the\n         Convention Army Guard created to guard the prisoners taken\n         from John Burgoyne's army on 17 October 1777.In 1781, he was\n         named Commissioner of Prisoners for Virginia and Maryland. By\n         the end of the war, Wood had obtained the rank of brigadier\n         general of Virginia troops. Wood was also a member of the 1st\n         (1774) and 5th (1776) Virginia Conventions. He served two\n         terms in the House of Delegates in 1776 and 1784-1785. During\n         the interim, Wood was a member of the Council of State,\n         serving as Lieutenant Governor, the head of that body, for\n         several terms. As Lieutenant Governor, Wood performed the\n         duties as governor on a number of occasions, most notably\n         during the long absence of Governor Henry Lee in 1794. The\n         pinnacle of Wood's long public service came on 1 December 1796\n         when he was elected by the General Assembly to succeed Robert\n         Brooke as governor of Virginia. Wood was reelected for two\n         additional one-year terms until 6 December 1799 and his\n         governorship was distinguished by the construction of the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and Manufactory of Arms. Following his\n         terms as governor, Wood returned to service on the Council of\n         State until his death on 17 June 1813. Wood is buried at St.\n         John's Church in Richmond."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eVirginia. Governor's Office. James Wood Executive\n            Papers, 1796-1799 (bulk 1797-1799). Accession 40844. State\n            Records Collection, The Library of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Virginia. Governor's Office. James Wood Executive\n            Papers, 1796-1799 (bulk 1797-1799). Accession 40844. State\n            Records Collection, The Library of Virginia."],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["James Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026 recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026 Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026 ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026 revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026 House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026 certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.","The majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026 window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026 scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026 brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026 west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026 lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026 Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026 west wings (1799 Aug. 17).","The Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026 manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026 Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026 Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026 William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026 quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).","Other public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026 Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026 commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026 Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026 drawings of the Capitol \u0026 Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).","Governor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026 Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.","Timothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026 harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.","James McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).","Samuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026 Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026 House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026 Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).","As senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026 Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.","Significant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William Berkeley, Treasurers.","Archibald Blair \u0026 Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026 Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026 Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.","As Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026 the Buckingham\n         Furnace.","John Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026 Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026 John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026 Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026 Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026 John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026 Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).","Maj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026 public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026 medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.","Thomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026 Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026 examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026 Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).","Governor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026 William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.","Additional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026 certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026 fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026 British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026 Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026 Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026 April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. Wallace as\n         Commandant of the State Arsenal (1798 May 8); Lawrence H.\n         Wells, Robert Gwathmey, \u0026 Edward Johnston regarding the\n         formation of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues (1798 June 28);\n         John Dawson regarding the claim of the Executive against the\n         United States (1798 July 19 \u0026 20); James Garrard, Governor\n         of Kentucky, regarding a free negro boy purchased by Brian\n         Stone (1798 Aug. 27); Samuel Mulford, Superintendent of\n         Quarantine at Rockett's Landing, regarding the quarantine of\n         the Sloop Johns (1798 Sept. 6 \u0026 8); James Talley asking\n         permission for the water from his grist mill to pass down a\n         run on part of public ground to the river including a map\n         (1798 Sept. 7); Elisha C. Dick, Superintendent of Quarantine\n         at Alexandria regarding a house for quarantine and yellow\n         fever (1798 Oct. 10); William B. Giles resigning his seat in\n         the House of Representatives (1798 Oct. 2); John Dundas, Mayor\n         of Alexandria, regarding the petition for the establishment of\n         Craney Island as a permanent place for quarantine on the\n         Potomac (1798 Nov. 14); John Taylor Gilman, Governor of New\n         Hampshire, regarding resolutions from Virginia (1799 Jan. 19);\n         Creed Taylor enclosing a letter from the Commissioners of\n         Kentucky for ascertaining the boundary line with the state of\n         Virginia (1799 June 23); Alexander Quarrier regarding shingles\n         purchased for public buildings in Richmond (1799 Sept. 7);\n         Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026 Creed Taylor enclosing\n         a report, map, \u0026 survey of the commissioners with respect\n         to the boundary line between Virginia \u0026 Kentucky (1799\n         Dec. 4).","Other noteworthy items include: proceedings of a meeting of\n         the President \u0026 Vice-President electors from Benjamin\n         Temple (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oaths administered to\n         Meriwether Jones \u0026 John Pendleton as Privy Councilors\n         (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath administered to James\n         Wood as Governor (1796 Dec. 7); certificate of the oath taken\n         by John Mayo as Privy Councilor (1796 Dec. 28); bond of\n         William Price \u0026 John Harvie to record all grants, plats,\n         \u0026 certificates of survey in the Land Office (1797 Jan.\n         30); certificate of election for Thomas Evans as a member of\n         the U.S. House of Representatives for York District (1797\n         March 27); order for a warrant from the Auditor for the\n         Lunatic Hospital in Williamsburg (1797 April 21); proclamation\n         by Governor Wood regarding a reward for the capture of William\n         Compton, alias Smith, convicted of murder (1797 May 18);\n         articles of agreement between the Governor \u0026 James Swan of\n         Boston to furnish 4,000 stand of arms for Virginia (1797 May\n         N.D., 1798 Jan. 16, \u0026 1798 April 10); certificate of\n         Alexander McRae as a member of the Privy Council (1797 June\n         1); list of persons who qualified as citizens at Richmond\n         District Court (1797 Aug. 31); bond of William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Jan. 12); report of the state of the Treasury\n         at the death of Jaquelin Ambler (1798 Jan. 10); report of John\n         Guerrant \u0026 Samuel McCraw on the Arsenal at Point of Fork\n         and recommend the erection of a stockade (1798 Feb. 6);\n         resolutions of the Massachusetts House of Representatives\n         regarding an amendment to the Constitution concerning the\n         eligibility of the President, Vice President, etc., as natural\n         born citizens at the time of the Declaration (1798 June 28);\n         proclamation calling the General Assembly into session on 3\n         September (1798 July 7); account of James Breckinridge for\n         iron purchased by the Director of the Penitentiary Building\n         (1798 Oct. 13); bond of William Berkeley as Treasurer (1799\n         Jan. 4); certificate of oath to John Allen \u0026 John White as\n         Privy Councilors (1799 Jan. 24); statements of arms issued\n         from the Public Arsenal to the militia since 1792 (1799 April\n         17 \u0026 June 22); election certificate of Henry Lee to the\n         U.S. House of Representatives (1799 May 2); and bills of\n         lading for shingles to the Penitentiary House (1799 Sept.\n         16)."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are no restrictions.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["There are no restrictions."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003eState Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)\u003c/physloc\u003e"],"physloc_tesim":["State Records Collection,\n         Office of the Governor (Record Group 3)"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":184,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T10:59:09.088Z","scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJames Wood's Executive papers are organized chronologically\n         with undated items arranged at the end of each year. These\n         papers primarily consist of incoming correspondence during\n         Wood's three one-year terms as governor between 1 December\n         1796 until 6 December 1799. The correspondence in this\n         collection relates to a variety of topics including\n         appointments \u0026amp; recommendations for state positions; the\n         construction of the Virginia Penitentiary \u0026amp; Manufactory of\n         Arms; the Point of Fork Arsenal; foreign vessels in Virginia\n         waters; resignations; arms \u0026amp; ammunition; the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia; extraditions; state expenses\n         \u0026amp; revenue; quarantine of vessels; elections; Presidential\n         electors; the Capitol Building; the militia; and others. In\n         addition to correspondence, there are resolutions from\n         Congress and the Virginia Senate \u0026amp; House of Delegates;\n         accounts; oaths; contracts; pardons; proposals; receipts;\n         election returns \u0026amp; certificates; qualifications; lists;\n         proclamations; petitions; reports; appointments; resignations;\n         bonds; commissions; orders; proceedings; applications;\n         opinions; and other sundry items.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe majority of correspondence relates to two significant\n         building projects commenced during Wood's terms in office: the\n         Virginia Penitentiary and the Virginia Manufactory of Arms.\n         The Governor received numerous letters of application and\n         recommendations for architects and superintendents for the\n         construction of the Penitentiary. Benjamin Henry Latrobe was\n         eventually named architect and Thomas Callis as superintendent\n         of the project. Included is a letter from John Barret offering\n         lots on the street opposite Hay Market for the site of the\n         Penitentiary (1797 Jan. 11). Especially valuable is Thomas\n         Jefferson's letter to the Governor on 31 March 1797 regarding\n         his design of a prison which includes notes and an estimate\n         for its construction. Many individuals submitted proposals for\n         such tasks as laying bricks (1797 March 27, July 14 \u0026amp; 20,\n         Oct. 9), furnishing bar iron (1798 June 4), and woodwork (1798\n         July 28). In addition, on 12 June 1798, John Mills and John\n         Atkerson write agreeing to undertake the digging of the\n         foundation. Thomas Callis also writes regarding laying the\n         foundation (1797 Aug. 3), an estimate of the whole expense of\n         erecting the Penitentiary (1797 Dec. 5), an account of the\n         carpenter's work and an estimate for framing the roof (1798\n         May 26), the contract for the doors \u0026amp; window frames and\n         slate for the roof (1798 July 3), the account of Reuben George\n         for timber plank \u0026amp; scantling (1798 Nov. 30), and an\n         account of the receipts given Harvie \u0026amp; Winston (1799 Feb.\n         14). Benjamin Latrobe periodically reports on topics including\n         the foundation (1797 Aug. 7), his bill as architect (1798 Feb.\n         14), directions for the stone \u0026amp; brickwork (1798 March 10),\n         the account of slate for the roof including a small sketch\n         with measurements (1798 July 10), the arch of the cellar under\n         the kitchen and the proposal for carpenter's work (1798 July\n         9), the new road to the Penitentiary and sewers including a\n         rough drawing (1798 Sept. 3 \u0026amp; 8), an account of the stone\n         work and an estimate of the expense for altering the design of\n         the roof to a gable roof (1798 Sept. 22), the conduct of a\n         blacksmith who assaulted some workmen (1798 Oct. 26), the\n         progress in the Penitentiary since 1797 with specific work\n         done on the east \u0026amp; west wings, the gate, and the men's\n         court including the expense of the work (1798 Nov. 28), and a\n         request for a leave of absence until Christmas (1798 Nov. 30).\n         Latrobe's letter dated 1798 Sept. 8 also discusses the\n         Council's proposition to remove him as architect. In another\n         letter dated 23 Feb. 1799, Latrobe communicates the completion\n         of his work on the Penitentiary, problems with his work in\n         Philadelphia on the Bank of Pennsylvania which has delayed his\n         return to Richmond, instructions to the bricklayer, and a\n         recommendation for William Callis as Superintendent. Other\n         miscellaneous items regarding the Penitentiary include letters\n         from John Harvie regarding a draft from the Treasury to\n         purchase oyster shells for lime in the construction (1797 May\n         11), an account of Augustine Davis for various work (1797 July\n         10); a letter from Samuel Dobie requesting compensation for\n         his plan of the Penitentiary submitted to the Council (1797\n         Aug. 17); a recommendation of Harry Tetherston as blacksmith\n         for the iron work (1798 March 6); prices for scantling and\n         plank from Ebenezer Maule (1798 March 10); letters from John\n         Clarke concerning bricklayers and a supply of iron for the\n         blacksmiths (1799 June 22), shingling (1799 Sept. 14), and an\n         estimate of bricks \u0026amp; lime to complete the building (1799\n         Sept. 28); and letters from Jesse Bowles \u0026amp; Nathaniel\n         Quarles on the walls, arches, etc. (1798 Aug. 16) and the east\n         \u0026amp; west wings (1799 Aug. 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Manufactory of Arms is the other major\n         building project during Wood's governorship. In 1796, the\n         House of Delegates passed resolutions for employing additional\n         artificers at the Point of Fork Arsenal and for ascertaining\n         the best location in Richmond for an arsenal \u0026amp; manufactory\n         of arms (1796 Dec. 26). John Clarke was appointed\n         superintendent of the armory in 1798. Clarke visited the\n         armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Cecil Iron Works\n         in Maryland. He writes the Governor on 7 March 1798 from\n         Philadelphia regarding his trip. He again writes on March 10\n         concerning his failure to have 4,000 stand of arms\n         manufactured in Philadelphia and considers the possibility of\n         having arms imported from France. On 10 April 1798, Clarke\n         informs Wood about his delay in reaching Springfield. On 23\n         July 1798, Clarke remarks on the cost of the houses, water\n         works, etc., for the manufactory of small arms. Shortly\n         thereafter, he comments on the cost of stonework (1798 July\n         27). Lastly, Clarke writes on several occasions respecting the\n         digging of the foundation by Moses Bates (1798 Nov. 19, 1799\n         March 21, June 15, \u0026amp; Aug. 20, Oct. 19). Other items\n         related to the Manufactory include a letter from John Hardien\n         \u0026amp; Benjamin Hailey proposing to furnish bricks for the\n         armory (1798 Aug. 21); the bond of Jesse Payne, James Mann,\n         Daniel Burton, \u0026amp; William G. Payne to furnish timber \u0026amp;\n         plank for the machinery (1798 Nov. 20), a report of the\n         Committee of the Executive appointed to examine the progress\n         \u0026amp; quality of the masonry (1799 Aug. 27), and Ninnan Wyse's\n         stonework contract (1799 Nov. 16).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther public projects continued during Wood's tenure as\n         governor with work on the Capitol Building. The Directors of\n         Public Buildings, including Daniel L. Hylton, William Foushee,\n         William Hay, Richard Adams, Robert Goode, and Robert Mitchell,\n         provide the Governor with periodic updates on the status of\n         repairs to the Capitol, particularly the roof. On 31 August\n         1797, the Directors write regarding an advance with the\n         undertaker to finish the outside of the Capitol and the\n         problems with the slate roof. The Directors request additional\n         warrants for funds on 11 Oct. 1797, 12 Dec. 1797, and 24 July\n         1798. An abstract of the proceedings of the Directors from\n         William Hay provides an excellent summary of their activities\n         between 1779 and 1793. On 5 Feb. 1798, the Directors enclose a\n         report with a general account of transactions and the probable\n         estimate to finish the Capitol. Goode \u0026amp; Foushee also write\n         on 27 Aug. 1798 regarding the construction of two reservoirs\n         on the Public Square. Additionally, the Directors write\n         concerning the sale of public lead, as well as compensation to\n         the directors \u0026amp; commissioners (1798 Oct. 20). Finally,\n         Foushee writes regarding the completion of the Capitol roof\n         and a warrant for $1000 for Henry Robertson to finish the\n         outside of the Capitol (1798 Oct. 23). Other miscellaneous\n         documents relating to the Capitol include a letter from John\n         Johnson offering to contract to fill up the ravine near the\n         Capitol (1797 Oct. 5), a letter from William Foushee regarding\n         compensation for the Directors of Public Buildings (1798 Feb.\n         5), the account of Wyse \u0026amp; Hope for rebuilding the stone\n         wall near the Capitol (1798 April 18), a letter from William\n         Hay recommending Benjamin Latrobe to inspect the Capitol's\n         roof (1798 Aug. 9), and a letter from William Hay regarding\n         the plans \u0026amp; drawings of the Capitol \u0026amp; Public Prison\n         sent from Paris by Thomas Jefferson (1799 March 18).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Wood's Executive Papers also include\n         correspondence from the United States government. Wood\n         received letters from Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State;\n         James McHenry, Secretary of War; Samuel A. Otis, Secretary of\n         the Senate, John Beckley \u0026amp; Jonathan W. Cody, Clerks of the\n         House of Representatives, Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President,\n         and Virginia Delegates in Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTimothy Pickering writes the Governor on 26 June 1797\n         enclosing an \"act to provide for the further defense of the\n         ports \u0026amp; harbors of the United States.\" Pickering also\n         transmits sets of acts passed in the 1st session of the 5th\n         Congress on 26 Oct. 1797, as well as the first volume of the\n         acts of Congress on 8 May 1798. On 28 Sept. 1798, Pickering\n         requests the Governor to convey a piece of land to the U.S. at\n         Old Point Comfort for the purpose of building a\n         lighthouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames McHenry, on 1 August 1797, remarks on the act\n         authorizing a detachment from the militia of the United States\n         passed 24 June 1797. On 14 January 1798, he writes Wood\n         recommending Robert McCormick to establish a manufactory of\n         arms in Virginia. McHenry also writes regarding field\n         artillery belonging to the federal government and the sale of\n         cannon to the War Office (1798 Aug. 3).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel A. Otis, John Beckley, \u0026amp; Jonathan Cody\n         periodically transmit journals of the proceedings of the U.S.\n         Senate \u0026amp; House of Representatives (1797 April 22, 1797 May\n         1, 1797 July 10, 1797 Aug. 16, 1799 March 31). In addition,\n         Otis \u0026amp; Beckley write on 31 Jan. 1797 regarding the\n         amendment to the Constitution on the suability of states. Otis\n         submits a resolution on 24 Jan. 1799 notifying the Governor of\n         the death of Henry Tazewell, U.S. Senator from Virginia.\n         Similarly, both Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Delegates in\n         Congress write letters informing Governor Wood of Tazewell's\n         death (1799 Jan. 24).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs senators from Virginia, Henry Tazewell \u0026amp; Stevens\n         Thomson Mason write the Governor concerning an amendment to\n         the U.S. Constitution (1797 March 2). In a letter dated 10\n         July 1797, Tazewell discusses the exemption of arms imported\n         by the state from duties, as well as Governor William Blount's\n         plan to invade the Spanish Territories on the Mississippi and\n         his impeachment. In another letter from 7 February 1798,\n         Tazewell remarks on the contract with James Swan for arms,\n         Pennsylvania laws, foreign affairs, the cession of western\n         territory to the U.S., and the amendment to the Constitution\n         concerning the suability of the states.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSignificant correspondents from Virginia State government\n         include Archibald Blair, Clerk of the Council; Samuel Coleman,\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council of State; Robert Brooke,\n         Attorney General; John Stewart, Clerk of the House of\n         Delegates; Humphrey Brooke, Clerk of the Senate; Robert\n         Quarles, Superintendent of the Point of Fork Arsenal; Thomas\n         Newton, County Lieutenant \u0026amp; Superintendent of Quarantine\n         for Norfolk; Samuel Shepard, Auditor of Public Accounts; and\n         Jaquelin Ambler \u0026amp; William Berkeley, Treasurers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArchibald Blair \u0026amp; Samuel Coleman, as Clerk \u0026amp;\n         Assistant Clerk of the Council, communicate with the Governor\n         regularly through the Council Office. Blair submits the advice\n         of council on such issues as the petition of the Mayor of\n         Alexandria for the Superintendent of Quarantine to provide\n         nurses (1798 Oct. 27) and the appointment of Jesse Bowles\n         \u0026amp; Nathaniel Quarles to count the number of bricks laid in\n         the walls of the Penitentiary according to the contract of\n         Harvie \u0026amp; Winston (1799 March 30 \u0026amp; 1799 Aug. 13). On 7\n         July 1798, Blair submitted a circular directing the Deputy\n         Adjutant General to order the commanding officers of regiments\n         to appoint a field officer to inspect the arms received from\n         the public arsenals. Samuel Coleman encloses a return of arms\n         issued to the militia including brigade, regiment, county in\n         which the officer resides, names of officers receiving the\n         arms, number of arms issues, number of arms returned, and\n         number of arms still to be accounted for (1798 July 6). He\n         also writes on 27 June 1798 on behalf of Simon Morgan,\n         Adjutant General, regarding a general order to Col.\n         Lambert.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs Attorney General of Virginia, Robert Brooke writes the\n         Governor on several occasions. On 20 January 1797, Brooke\n         remarks on the land entered by General Clarke in Kentucky on\n         behalf of Virginia, as well as his appointment as commissioner\n         to adjust the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Maryland.\n         Brooke also provides his opinion regarding the claim of land\n         in Kentucky within the territory ceded to the Chickasaw Nation\n         by treaty (1797 Feb. 21) and the revision of the Arsenal Act\n         (1798 March 10). On 20 August 1798, Brooke requests papers\n         from the clerks of courts in criminal cases to be sent to the\n         Attorney General's Office. On 15 February 1799, Brooke writes\n         Governor Wood concerning the settlement of the account of\n         James Reveley as Superintendent of the Foundry and the\n         indebtedness of John Ballandine \u0026amp; the Buckingham\n         Furnace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Stewart, Clerk of the House of Delegates, and Humphrey\n         Brooke, Clerk of the Senate, often submit legislation and\n         qualifications of election to the Governor. Stewart \u0026amp;\n         Brooke transmit a resolution regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1796 Dec. 13). Stewart also\n         transmits resolutions related to the appointment of Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); arms distributed from\n         the Point of Fork Arsenal (1799 Jan. 7); and the printing of\n         the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, the\n         Amendments, and the Alien \u0026amp; Sedition Acts (1799 Jan. 24).\n         Included are notices for the following elections: Meriwether\n         Jones, John Pendleton, \u0026amp; John Mayo to the Council of State\n         (1796 Dec. 6); John Guerrant, Jr., \u0026amp; Alexander McRae to\n         the Council of State (1796 Dec. 8); Jaquelin Ambler as\n         Treasurer (1796 Dec. 23); James Wood as Governor (1797 Dec. 7\n         \u0026amp; 1798 Dec. 7); George Conway Taylor \u0026amp; Samuel McCraw\n         as members of the Privy Council (1798 Jan. 10); Meriwether\n         Jones \u0026amp; John Dixon as Public Printers (1798 Dec. 6); Henry\n         Tazewell as U.S. Senator (1798 Dec. 12); John Allen as a\n         member of the Privy Council to replace Meriwether Jones (1798\n         Dec. 14); John White as a member of the Privy Council to\n         replace George C. Taylor (1798 Dec. 28); William Berkeley as\n         Treasurer (1798 Dec. 31); John B. Scott as Brigadier General\n         of the 11th Brigade (1799 Jan. 5); John Brown as Brigadier\n         General of the Brigade composed of Hampshire, Hardy, \u0026amp;\n         Pendleton (1799 Jan. 24); John Preston as Brigadier General of\n         the district composed of Wythe, Montgomery, \u0026amp; Monroe (1799\n         Jan. 24); Wilson Cary Nicholas as Senator to supply the\n         vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Tazewell (1799 Dec.\n         5); and James Monroe as Governor (1799 Dec. 6).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaj. Robert Quarles submits quarterly returns of arms,\n         ordnance, \u0026amp; public stores at Point of Fork (1796 Dec. 31,\n         1797 March 31, 1797 July 1, 1797 Sept. 30, 1797 Dec. 31, 1798\n         July 1, 1798 Oct. 1, 1799 April 1, \u0026amp; 1799 July 1). In\n         addition, Quarles writes on such topics as the employment of\n         additional artificers (1797 Jan. 16), contracts for rations\n         (1797 Oct. 30, 1798 Oct. 13, 1798 Nov. 7, 1799 Oct. 1 \u0026amp;\n         28), payment for a contract for timber to erect a stockade\n         around the arsenal (1798 March 30), the shipment of 250 arms\n         to Richmond (1798 June 18), an inventory of the boxes of arms\n         sent to Richmond (1798 July 31), artificers at Point of Fork\n         (1798 Aug. 14), medical attendance \u0026amp; medicines for the\n         soldiers (1798 Oct. 1), and the receipt of arms (1799 Oct.\n         10). Additionally, Quarles writes the Governor on 12 April\n         1798 applying for the appointment of Major Commandant of the\n         State Arsenals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas Newton, Jr., County Lieutenant \u0026amp; Superintendent\n         of Quarantine for Norfolk Borough, frequently writes the\n         Governor concerning the quarantine of vessels. On 5 May 1797,\n         Newton informs the Governor of the purchase of five acres of\n         land to perform quarantine. The following month, Newton\n         comments on the house to be built on the land he purchased for\n         performing quarantine (1797 June 2). He also notifies the\n         Governor of the payment to William Willoughby as undertaker to\n         build the house (1797 July 1). Newton also often informs the\n         Governor of possible infectious diseases in the West Indies\n         and other places (1797 July 17 \u0026amp; 28, 1797 Aug. 28, \u0026amp;\n         1798 Aug. 2). On 16 November 1799, he requests to discharge\n         the quarantine boat from service. Lastly, Newton encloses a\n         letter from Dr. J. K. Read along with a report of vessels\n         entered \u0026amp; examined by the health officer (1799 Nov. 14\n         \u0026amp; 27). Other sundry correspondence from Newton includes\n         information on the suit of John Hamilton \u0026amp; Co. against him\n         (1797 Nov. 11) and a warrant for the Dismal Swamp Company\n         (1799 April 7).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Wood corresponds often with Samuel Shepard,\n         Auditor of Public Accounts, and Jaquelin Ambler \u0026amp; William\n         Berkeley, Treasurers, regarding various financial matters.\n         Shepard regularly encloses accounts of expenses for forwarding\n         notices, executions, etc. (1797 March 16, 1797 Sept. 7, 1798\n         Sept. 1, \u0026amp; 1799 April 5). Additionally, John Carter\n         submits lists of warrants issued through the Auditor's Office\n         (1797 April 1, 1797 July 6, 1797 Oct. 17, 1798 Feb. 1, 1799\n         March 8, 1799 April 6, 1799 Aug. 29, \u0026amp; 1799 Nov. 10).\n         Jaquelin Ambler reports to the Governor on attempted robberies\n         into the Treasury and suggests alterations to the building to\n         prevent theft (1797 May 5). William Berkeley was appointed\n         Treasurer upon the death of Jaquelin Ambler in 1798. Berkeley\n         writes the Governor on 9 November 1799 requesting a wooden\n         chest to hold receipts until the iron one arrives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdditional significant correspondence includes the\n         following: Robert Brooke enclosing a list of furniture in the\n         Government House (1796 Dec. 19); William Price, Register of\n         the Land Office, regarding an estimate of the time to record\n         the plats \u0026amp; certificates of survey (1797 Jan. 16); James\n         Garrard enclosing resolutions of the Kentucky Legislature on\n         the report of the commissioners for ascertaining \u0026amp; fixing\n         the boundary line between Virginia \u0026amp; Kentucky (1797 Jan.\n         2); James Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky,\n         regarding a claim in that state (1797 Feb. 2); James Penn\n         regarding the New London Armory and the manufacture of arms in\n         Virginia (1797 Feb. 20); William Lindsay regarding the\n         suspected privateer Neptune (1797 March 16); Harry Toulmin,\n         Secretary of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line between\n         Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1797 March 23); Edmund Randolph\n         regarding the title of Dr. Philip Turpin to the garden in the\n         Governor's possession (1797 April 12); Louis-Etienne Duhail,\n         Vice-Consul of the French Republic at Norfolk, to Gen. Thomas\n         Mathews regarding the blockade of two French frigates in\n         Norfolk by the British (1797 May 29); Thomas Mathews to\n         Timothy Pickering enclosing a letter received from Governor\n         Wood and a letter from Duhail regarding armed vessels within\n         U.S. jurisdiction (1797 May 30); Brig. Gen. Thomas Mathews\n         regarding letters from Louis-Etienne Duhail concerning the\n         rules for foreign ships departing U.S. waters (1797 June 19);\n         Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina, regarding Robert\n         Wheatley, committed to one of the jails in Virginia for horse\n         stealing (1797 June 27); Thomas Mathews enclosing his letter\n         to the commanding officers of the French \u0026amp; British ships\n         of war within Virginia to prevent any violation of the rights\n         of the United States as a neutral nation (1797 July 10);\n         Robert Johnson to Archibald Stuart regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia and settling claims in the\n         disputed area (1797 Aug. 9); James Robertson regarding\n         possible quarantine of vessels from Philadelphia at City Point\n         (1797 Aug. 31); Archibald Stuart, Joseph Martin, \u0026amp; Creed\n         Taylor, Commissioners of Kentucky, regarding the boundary line\n         between Kentucky \u0026amp; Virginia (1797 Sept. 18); James\n         McClurg, Mayor of Richmond, enclosing a resolution of the\n         Common Hall regarding protecting Richmond from the spread of\n         infectious disease (1797 Sept. 19); James Allan, Jr.,\n         Superintendent of Quarantine in Fredericksburg, regarding\n         yellow fever in Philadelphia, Baltimore, \u0026amp; Norfolk (1797\n         Sept. 25); Vice-Consul Duhail regarding French ships of war\n         (1797 Oct. 26); John Dawson recommending Robert McCormick to\n         establish a manufactory of arms in Virginia (1798 Jan. 12);\n         Edmund Randolph regarding his opinion on the refusal of the\n         clerk of the District Court of Henrico to issue a writ of ad\n         quod damnum for the Arsenal (1798 Feb. 1); Charles Lee\n         regarding the dismissal of the suit by the Indiana Company\n         against the State of Virginia by the Supreme Court (1798 Feb.\n         14); Robert McCormick proposing to manufacture 4,000 stand of\n         arms (1798 Feb. 23); Elisha White applying to be Director of\n         the Penitentiary House (1798 Feb. 27); William B. Wallace\n         applying for Superintendent of the Arsenal created by an act\n         of Congress (1798 March 5); John Steele regarding progress in\n         settling the accounts of Virginia with the U.S. (1798 March 23\n         \u0026amp; April 12); Henry Lee recommending William B. 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Included is an untitled article about the University of Virginia Hospital with many stereotyped references to African Americans and mountain whites. Also of interest is a speech on the problems of the short story writer given at the University of Virginia Colonnade Club.\n","The collection also contains copies of some Elinor Wylie correspondence and reminiscences of her by Winifred Welles Shearer.\n","The collection also contains correspondence with publishers about financial arrangements and other matters, and fan letters from readers, chiefly regarding  The Prodigal Women.  Correspondents include Frank Crowninshield, Junius Fishburne, Arthur Krock, Dave Randall, Charles Wertenbaker and John Hall Wheelock.  There is also a letter to Max Perkins from Evelyn Scott Metcalfe reviewing Hale's  Never any more.","Miscellaneous items include a printed copy of  Siva  by her son William Wertenbaker, photographs from a production of a play and a review of  The Prodigal Women  by André Maurois.\n","3646","3646","3646-e","3646-e","3646-a","3646-a","3646-a","3646-d","3646-e","3646-f","3646-f","3646-f","3646-f","3646-f","3646-f","3646-f","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-c","3646-d","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-d","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-d","3646-c","3646-d","3646-d","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-f","3646-d","3646-e","3646-e","3646-f","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-c","3646-d","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-c","3646-d","3646-d","3646-d","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-e","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-f","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-d","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e With TLS 5 Oct. 1948 Henry Volkening to\n               Mrs. Bowers and TLS 1 Oct. 1948 Gus to Henry\n               Volkening","3646-c","3646-e With TLS 17 June 1938 Bruce Gould to\n               Miss Elizabeth Nowell and TLS 20 June 1938 Elizabeth\n               Nowell to Nancy Hale.","3646-d","3646-c","3646-d With 6 pp. of AMs notes.","3646-d","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-d","3646-c","3646-f","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-e","3646-d","3646-e","3646-d","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e","3646-d","3646-d","3646-d","3646-e","3646-c","3646-c","3646-c","3646-e With TLS 28 July 1938 Elizabeth Nowell\n               to Charles Wertenbaker and TLS 28 July 1938 Elizabeth\n               Nowell to Nancy Hale and TLS 11 July 1938 V. 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He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n         he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n         Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n         6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n         Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n         against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n         In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n         in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n         Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n         respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n         Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n         Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n         served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n         years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n         Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n         in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n         Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n         the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n         Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n         a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n         American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n         affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n         Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.","The \n         M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n         Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n         into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n         releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n         constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n         Vice President; impeachment of President\n         Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n         Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n         for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n         Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n         Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n         generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n         the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n         Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed.  The gradual donation of materials over a period \n  of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n  are mostly described down to the folder level.  The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n  Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n    box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n          invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n          and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n              GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n              and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n            National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n            Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n            Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on  Face the Nation   to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n               arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n               location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n               topical index is present in addition to the\n               chronological listings that are available for all of the\n               years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n               inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n               during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n               generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n               of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n               before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n               The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n               alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n               through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n               to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n               (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n               and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n               chronologically and their indices provide brief\n               summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n                Members Personal Voting\n               Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n               First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n               Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n               cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n               Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n               page number, description, and members response. Each\n               record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n               to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n               congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n               personal voting record for this time.","The \n                Constituency Correspondence is\n               almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n               Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n               favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n               There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n               of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n                Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n               Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n               a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n               proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n               committee that investigated and voted on the \n                impeachment of President Richard M.\n               Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n               in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n               break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n               Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n               of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n               impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n               personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n               Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n               Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n               papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n               general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n               materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n               correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n               Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n               process, and these cassette recordings are included\n               here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n               present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n               project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n               1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n                Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n               from the period of the impeachment of\n               Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983.  Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n                           1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n                            Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n                           1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n                           1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n                           1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n                            I: Presidential Statements \n                            II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n                            III: Supplementary Documents \n                            IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n                        Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n                        of the United States Senate, November\n                        13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n              Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n            diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n            ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n            of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n            way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n            recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n            network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n            spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n            to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n            an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The  Roanoke Times , \n            also published in the  Virginian-Pilot  of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n            Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n            events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n            drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n            be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n            of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n            the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n            articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n            of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n            of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n             individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n            Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n            in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n            telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n            transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n            individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n            of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n              are not government documents. There are copies of  Time, Newsweek,  and\n               Life  magazines from the time of the impeachment.  There are also books and \n              a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n                Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n               cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n               drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n               as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n               present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n               markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n               memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n               hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n               Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n               supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n               relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n               three major components: 1)general materials in\n               ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n               assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n               \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n               materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n               easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n               A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n               Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n               provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n               Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n               perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n               arrangement of these records and includes references to\n               the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n               staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n               the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n               helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n               Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n               establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n               This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n               5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n               72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n               up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n               and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n               61 of the \n                American Bar Association\n               Journal (October, 1975).","The \n                general materials have been\n               removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n               hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n               corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n               housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n               printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n               Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n               the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n               numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n               Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n               16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n               235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n               comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n               2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n               is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n               notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n               versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n               \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n               general materials described above) contains the index to\n               the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n               information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n               for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n               section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n               Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n               Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n               on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n               divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n               municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n               subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n               Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n               Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n               numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n               statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n               drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n               proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n               is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n               with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n               drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n               reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n               alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n               correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n                         March 19-June 14, 1971 \n                         September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n                         December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n                         April 10-May 1, 1972 \n                         June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n                         October 9-10, 1972 \n                         November 13-14, 1972 \n                         December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n                         December 4-5, 1972 \n                         January 15-16, 1973 \n                         February 22-24, 1973 \n                         March 15-17, 1973 \n                         April 12-14, 1973 \n                         June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n                         (B) \n                         (C)","(A) \n                         (B) \n                         (C)","(E) \n                         (F) \n                         (G) \n                         (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n                        32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n                        carton 49.","(A) \n                         (B) \n                         (C)","(A) \n                         (B)","(A)","(B) \n                         (C)","(A) \n                         (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n                      Source 14 322-323 \n                      Source 15 336 \n                      Source 20 412-415 \n                      Source 23A 502 \n                      Source 50 549;554-555 \n                      Source 30 587-588 \n                      Source 31 595-596 \n                      Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n              ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n                        Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n               Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n               concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n               for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n               authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n               papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n               hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n               re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n               the Legal Services papers.)","The \n                Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises  Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n                National Bankruptcy Review\n               Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n               member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n               materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n               memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n               members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n               that report.","Box 91 includes audio cassette of\n                  \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.","Bicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.","Navy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.","Contents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.","There are no restrictions.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["004"],"normalized_title_ssm":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n         1945-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n         1945-2006"],"collection_ssim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers \n         1945-2006"],"repository_ssm":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Law School"],"acqinfo_ssim":["This collection was given to the library by M. Caldwell\n            Butler in 1980-1983,1997,1999, 2004 and by his estate in 2015."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This collection\n         consists of ca. 93 cubic feet of materials."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe Ford medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["The Ford medical and financial records are closed."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eManley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n         Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n         July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n         he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n         in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n         School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n         produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eButler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n         1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n         Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n         he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n         Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n         6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n         Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n         against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n         In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n         in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n         Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n         respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n         Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n         Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n         served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n         years 1995-1997. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026amp; Hazelgrove of\n         Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n         in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n         Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n         the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n         Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n         a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n         American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n         affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n         Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Manley Caldwell Butler was born June 2, 1925 in Roanoke,\n         Virginia, where he lived most of his life until his death on \n         July 28, 2014. Following service in the Navy in World War II,\n         he received his A.B. from the University of Richmond\n         in 1948 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law\n         School in 1950. Butler married June Nolde in 1950. This union\n         produced four sons: Manley, Henry, James and Marshall.","Butler served as the City of Roanoke Representative in\n         1960-1961. In 1962 he was elected to the Virginia House of\n         Delegates. He was elected Minority Leader in 1966, a position\n         he held until 1972 when he was elected to the 92nd U.S.\n         Congress from the 6th District of Virginia. Butler served the\n         6th District for a decade. While serving on the Judiciary\n         Committee, Butler participated in the impeachment action\n         against President Richard M. Nixon during the summer of 1974.\n         In the aftermath of Nixon's resignation, Butler was involved\n         in the confirmation hearings of Gerald R. Ford and Nelson\n         Rockefeller to serve as President and Vice President\n         respectively. Butler was a principal architect of the\n         Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. He was also a member of the\n         Committee on Government Operations. In retirement, Butler\n         served on the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the\n         years 1995-1997. ","A partner in the firm of Woods, Rogers \u0026 Hazelgrove of\n         Roanoke, Virginia from 1983-1998, Mr. Butler held memberships\n         in the American Bar Association, the Virginia State Bar, the\n         Roanoke Bar Association, the American College of Bankruptcy,\n         the Raven Society, the Order of the Coif, and the Board of\n         Directors of Dominion Bank Shares Corp of Roanoke. He was also\n         a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Director of the\n         American Bankruptcy Institute. His fraternal organization\n         affiliations include Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Kappa Alpha, Omicron\n         Delta Kappa and Phi Gamma Delta."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eM. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n            Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n            University School of Law, Lexington, VA\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["M. Caldwell Butler Papers, 1945-2006, Ms 004,\n            Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee\n            University School of Law, Lexington, VA"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe \n         M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n         Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n         into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n         releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n         constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n         Vice President; impeachment of President\n         Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n         Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n         for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n         Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n         Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n         generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n         the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n         Congress - 97th Congress).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe refinement levels of processing are mixed.  The gradual donation of materials over a period \n  of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n  are mostly described down to the folder level.  The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n  Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n    box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBiographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n          invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n          and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n              GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n              and related materials.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n            National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n            Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n            Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMost of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese also document his official activities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recordings range from appearances on \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eFace the Nation \u003c/title\u003e to local forums.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eSpeeches\u003c/emph\u003e(1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n               arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n               location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n               topical index is present in addition to the\n               chronological listings that are available for all of the\n               years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n               inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n               during processing and added to the finding aid.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNewsletters\u003c/emph\u003e(1973-1981)were\n               generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n               of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n               before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n               The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n               alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n               through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n               to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n               (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n               and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n               chronologically and their indices provide brief\n               summaries of the topics discussed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eMembers Personal Voting\n               Record\u003c/emph\u003ecovers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n               First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n               Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n               cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n               Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n               page number, description, and members response. Each\n               record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n               to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n               congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n               personal voting record for this time.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConstituency Correspondence\u003c/emph\u003eis\n               almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n               Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n               favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n               There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n               of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials concerning the \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eConfirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n               Vice President\u003c/emph\u003einclude: correspondence, memoranda,\n               a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n               proceedings during the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFord medical and financial records are closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n               committee that investigated and voted on the \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eimpeachment of President Richard M.\n               Nixon\u003c/emph\u003e. The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n               in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n               break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n               Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n               of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n               impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n               personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n               Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n               Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n               papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n               general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n               materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n               correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n               Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n               process, and these cassette recordings are included\n               here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n               present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n               project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n               1974.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnrevised and unedited\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003ePrinted Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare primarily government documents\n               from the period of the impeachment of\n               Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983.  Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n                           1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n                           \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eBook II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n                           1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n                           1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBook IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n                           1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n                           \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eI: Presidential Statements \n                           \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eII: Papers in Criminal Cases \n                           \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIII: Supplementary Documents \n                           \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eIV: Political Matters memoranda\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExecutive Session Hearings Before the Select\n                        Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n                        of the United States Senate, November\n                        13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n              Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n            diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n            ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n            of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n            way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n            recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n            network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n            spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n            to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n            an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eRoanoke Times\u003c/title\u003e, \n            also published in the \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eVirginian-Pilot\u003c/title\u003e of the same date.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n            Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n            events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n            drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n            be determined, but not any recordings themselves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n            of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n            the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n            articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n            of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n            of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n             individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n            Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n            in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n            telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n            transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n            individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n            of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eUnlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n              are not government documents. There are copies of \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eTime, Newsweek,\u003c/title\u003e and\n              \u003ctitle render=\"italic\"\u003eLife\u003c/title\u003e magazines from the time of the impeachment.  There are also books and \n              a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBankruptcy Materials\u003c/emph\u003eare 18\n               cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n               drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n               as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n               present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n               markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n               memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n               hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n               Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n               supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n               relevant testimony.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis material was arranged by Butler's office into\n               three major components: 1)general materials in\n               ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n               assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n               \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n               materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n               easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n               A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n               Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n               provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n               Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n               perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n               arrangement of these records and includes references to\n               the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n               staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n               the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n               helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n               Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n               establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n               This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n               5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n               72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n               up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n               and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n               61 of the \n               \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAmerican Bar Association\n               Journal\u003c/title\u003e(October, 1975).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003egeneral materials\u003c/emph\u003ehave been\n               removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n               hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n               corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n               housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n               printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n               Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n               the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n               numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n               Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n               16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n               235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n               comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n               2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAll of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n               is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n               notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n               versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n               \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n               general materials described above) contains the index to\n               the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n               information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n               for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n               section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n               Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n               Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n               on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n               divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n               municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n               subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n               Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n               Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n               numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n               statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n               drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n               proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n               is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n               with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n               drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n               reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n               alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n               correspondence from 1973-1978.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e#I - LII\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 19-June 14, 1971 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSeptember 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 10-May 1, 1972 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOctober 9-10, 1972 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNovember 13-14, 1972 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDecember 4-5, 1972 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJanuary 15-16, 1973 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eFebruary 22-24, 1973 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eMarch 15-17, 1973 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eApril 12-14, 1973 \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJune 7-12, 1973\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(E) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(F) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(G) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n                        32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n                        carton 49.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(B) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(C)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(A) \n                        \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003e(B)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSource 13 260;263 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 14 322-323 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 15 336 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 20 412-415 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 23A 502 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 50 549;554-555 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 30 587-588 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 31 595-596 \n                     \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSource 33 612-613\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBooks for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n              \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePublished by San Diego Urban League,\n                        Inc.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eLegal Services Corporation\n               Act\u003c/emph\u003epapers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n               concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n               for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n               authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n               papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n               hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n               re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n               the Legal Services papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eVoting Rights Act Extension\u003c/emph\u003eseries comprises  Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \n               \u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eNational Bankruptcy Review\n               Commission\u003c/emph\u003epapers are from Butler's service as a\n               member of that body from 1995-1997. These 16 cu. ft. of\n               materials include: correspondence; meeting minutes;\n               memoranda and documents distributed to commission\n               members; and the report of the commission and drafts of\n               that report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBox 91 includes audio cassette of\n                  \"discharge/reaffirmation hearing,\" 1997.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBicentennial of American Revolution Flag; Bicentennial Medal, 1976; American College of Bankruptcy Commendation plaque, March 14, 1998.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNavy hat, brass buttons, insignia, pins and dog tags.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContents: 24\"x36 inch photo of Butler, c. 1961; House Concurrent Resolution 672, July 1, 1976; Washington and Lee University Honorary Doctor of Laws Diploma, June 1, 1978; Birthday card from staff, June 2, 1973; National Small Business Association Certificate of Recognition, October 1978; certificate, Governor George Allen (Virgini) naming Butler to Governor's Advisory Council on Self-Determination and Federalism, November 14, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information","Scope and Content\n              "],"scopecontent_tesim":["The \n         M(anley)Caldwell Butler\n         Papers consist of approximately 96 cu. ft. of materials from 1925-2006. Most of the papers cover the periods 1972-1982 and 1995-1997. The papers are divided\n         into seventeen series: June Nolde Butler papers; correspondence and subject files; military service; appointment calendars; campaigns; scrapbooks, clippings and photos; speeches; newsletters, press\n         releases, radio reports and weekly reports; voting record;\n         constituency correspondence; confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n         Vice President; impeachment of President\n         Richard M. Nixon; Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978;\n         Legal Services Corporation; re-authorization of the Department of Justice\n         for the Fiscal Year 1982; Voting Rights Act extension; the National Bankruptcy Review\n         Commission, 1995-1997; and Artifacts, 1944-1998. With the exceptions of the first six series and National\n         Bankruptcy Review Commission materials, these papers were\n         generated during Butler's terms as U. S. Representative for\n         the 6th Congressional District of Virginia, 1972 -1982 (93rd\n         Congress - 97th Congress).","The refinement levels of processing are mixed.  The gradual donation of materials over a period \n  of 40 years is chiefly the cause. The Nixon Impeachment and Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 materials \n  are mostly described down to the folder level.  The National Bankruptcy Review Commission materials arrived largely self-arranged. \n  Most other areas of the colleciton, however, are largely unprocessed beyond being sorted into tentative series.","This is particularly true of additions made in 2018 through the estate of Butler's son, James. This has resulted in a temporary \n    box renumbering in boxes 1-7. There is also a box of artifacts added at the end of all of the papers.","Biographical materials,general correspondence, correspondence with parents and siblings,Letters, \n          invitations, menus, calendars, subject files, photos, clippings, artifacts, photos scrapbook (1933-1950)\n          and correspondence (1947-1950) with her future husband, M Caldwell Butler","Nixon Impeachment historical studies; Correspondence re publication of book, Stonewall Jim;\n              GOP Gala, 2001; certificates of award and merit; records of naval service; education records \n              and related materials.","Subjects include: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; \n            National Bankruptcy Review Commission; Sarah Butler Memorial; Sam Garrison Bar Discipline; \n            Bankruptcy Law; Watergate/Impeachment; Susan Aheron; Butler for Governor; Newspaper Items; \n            Legal Services Corporation; The Miller Center; and Virginia Cares.","Correspondence, subject files, surveys, election returns, and memorabilia","In addition to campaign and general coverage, these scrapbooks treat: editorials mentioning Butler; economic conferences; farm conferences; HUD and FMHA conferences; Lynchburg Weather Station; minority business conferences.","Most of these appear to have been kept by his Congressional Office Staff. They document his day-to-day official activities.","These also document his official activities.","The recordings range from appearances on  Face the Nation   to local forums.","There is a variety of publications on a variety of mainly political topics. forms of materials include trade books, government documents, brochures, and magazinies. ","Speeches (1964-2001; bulk 1973-1982) are also\n               arranged chronologically. The audience, occasion, and\n               location are usually noted. From January 1976 onward, a\n               topical index is present in addition to the\n               chronological listings that are available for all of the\n               years. Some nine speeches are missing from the original\n               inventory, while others not on that listing were found\n               during processing and added to the finding aid.","Newsletters (1973-1981)were\n               generated by Congressman Butler's staff to keep citizens\n               of the Sixth District of Virginia informed on issues\n               before the House, and on the activities of his office.\n               The newsletters(N:) are arranged chronologically with an\n               alphabetical reference index that has been updated\n               through October 1, 1982. This index includes references\n               to Radio Reports(RR#) and Weekly Reports(WR#). News\n               (Press) Releases (1972-1982), Radio Reports (1973-1978),\n               and Weekly Reports (1979-1982) are arranged\n               chronologically and their indices provide brief\n               summaries of the topics discussed.","The \n                Members Personal Voting\n               Record covers the period 1973-1982 (93rd Congress\n               First Session to the 97th Congress Second Session). Each\n               Congress' voting record is divided into two sessions. A\n               cumulative record for each Congress is also present.\n               Included here are: roll numbers, dates, daily record\n               page number, description, and members response. Each\n               record contains a roll call subject guide and an index\n               to the voting record. Although Butler began his\n               congressional term with the 92nd Congress, there is no\n               personal voting record for this time.","The \n                Constituency Correspondence is\n               almost exclusively from the period of the impeachment of\n               Richard M. Nixon. The letters are divided into those\n               favoring impeachment and those opposed to this action.\n               There is also correspondence in reaction to the pardon\n               of Nixon by President Gerald R. Ford.","Materials concerning the \n                Confirmation of Gerald R. Ford as\n               Vice President include: correspondence, memoranda,\n               a briefing book, and transcriptions of testimony and\n               proceedings during the hearings.","Ford medical and financial records are closed.","Congressman Butler sat on the House Judiciary\n               committee that investigated and voted on the \n                impeachment of President Richard M.\n               Nixon . The impeachment materials are 15 cu. ft.\n               in extent and include: narratives about the Watergate\n               break-in and related events, and about the bombing of\n               Cambodia; interview transcripts and recorded testimony\n               of persons involved in Watergate activities; general\n               impeachment inquiry materials(committee notebooks,\n               personal notes, etc.); reports on White House\n               Surveillance activities; Department of Justice/ITT\n               Litigation; Milk Producers Cooperatives investigations;\n               papers re the Judiciary Committee's \"Fragile Coalition\";\n               general correspondence and memoranda; and printed\n               materials. (See also, the series of constituent\n               correspondence that precedes the impeachment materials.\n               Butler kept an audio diary during the impeachment\n               process, and these cassette recordings are included\n               here, as are his written notes from this time. Also\n               present are partial transcripts of an oral history\n               project on the \"Fragile Coalition\" conducted in\n               1974.","Unrevised and unedited","The \n                Printed Materials are primarily government documents\n               from the period of the impeachment of\n               Richard M. Nixon. Below is an enumeration of the titles present from donor gifts 1980-1983.  Titles from additions, 1985-2015 are present in these boxes, but not yet listed below.","Book I: December 2, 1971 - June 17,\n                           1972","Book I: June 19, 1972 - March 1, 1974 \n                            Book II: June 17, 1972 - February 9,\n                           1973","Book III: June 20, 1972 - March 22,\n                           1973","Book IV: March 22, 1973 - April 30,\n                           1973","Appendix: Political Matters Memoranda \n                            I: Presidential Statements \n                            II: Papers in Criminal Cases \n                            III: Supplementary Documents \n                            IV: Political Matters memoranda","Executive Session Hearings Before the Select\n                        Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities\n                        of the United States Senate, November\n                        13,14,15,16, December 4, 11, 1973.","There are three distinct audio recording projects documenting the days of the House\n              Judiciary Committee Nixon Impeachment proceedings in July 1974. The first was part audio\n            diary and part interviews involving Rep. Butler and reporter Wayne Woodlief. This project \n            ran from May to early August 1974, with most of the recordings being from July. The recordings\n            of most of these sessions -- some are missing; it is thought to be few, but there is no definitive \n            way of knowing -- are in audio cassettes housed in box 55. There is a user set of CDs of these \n            recordings in that box, and there are digital audio files of these tapes housed in Box on the Washington and Lee University \n            network. There is also an incomplete set of transcripts for this project in box 54. Woodlief \n            spoke of trying to produce a book at least partially based on these tapes. He sent such a proposal\n            to Butler on July 10, 1975. The only printed product to emerge from these recordings, however, was \n            an extensive article in the July 27, 1975 edition of The  Roanoke Times , \n            also published in the  Virginian-Pilot  of the same date.","The second recordings were much more limited in scope. On July 31, 1974, Butler sat down with\n            Thomas Mooney, a Judiciary Committee attorney, to record on audiotape, their recollection of \n            events as they unfolded on July 22-24. Their primary aim seems to have been capturing the \n            drafting of the articles of impeachment. There are transcripts -- again just how complete cannot\n            be determined, but not any recordings themselves.","The third project was the most ambitious. It was an attempt to record the Nixon Impeachment memories\n            of all of the members of the so-called Fragile Coalition, those Democratic and Republican members of \n            the House Judiciary Committee who held the swing votes on impeachment. They came together to draft \n            articles of impeachment on which they could all vote \"yes\".","The organizers of this project were Thomas Mooney Sr., Stephen Lynch, and Father Donald Shea, longtime chair\n            of the history department at St. Joseph College (Indiana). Mooney was a St. Joseph College alumnus and friend\n            of Father Shea. The project was funded by St. Joseph College, and other private funds were solicited, as well.","The project had two parts. In the first part, the organizers interviewed members of the coalition \n             individually in their Washington Congressional offices in June 1975. This was followed by a retreat on Hilton Head \n            Island, SC in July 1975. Extensive aide memoire printed materials were gathered and given to each member of the coalition \n            in advance. The recordings made there were in panel format only, with all of the Fragile Coalition members present.","There are no recordings from this project in the Butler papers. There are transcripts -- once again, there is no\n            telling how complete -- from both the individual interviews and the Hilton Head panels. There is a third category of\n            transcripts, those with interviewees' corrections handwritten on transcriptions. These corrected copies are from both the \n            individual and group sessions. Some of these transcripts were sent to Butler and the Powell Archives by the University\n            of Maine's Fogler Library which houses the papers of Fragile Coalition member William Cohen.","Unlike the printed materials that are found throughout the Impeachment series, these books and magazines\n              are not government documents. There are copies of  Time, Newsweek,  and\n               Life  magazines from the time of the impeachment.  There are also books and \n              a college thesis giving retropective views on that period.","The \n                Bankruptcy Materials are 18\n               cu. ft. of papers documenting Butler's work in the\n               drafting and passage of the legislation popularly known\n               as the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. Forms of materials\n               present include: minutes of the Bankruptcy Commission,\n               markup books on various versions of bankruptcy bills,\n               memoranda, briefing materials, meetings transcripts,\n               hearing transcripts, conference materials, Congressional\n               Record Notebooks, audio tapes of markup sessions, and\n               supplemental information on bankruptcy legislation with\n               relevant testimony.","This material was arranged by Butler's office into\n               three major components: 1)general materials in\n               ring-binder notebooks to which Roman Numerals were\n               assigned; 2)\"Supplemental Materials: ... \" filed in\n               \"books\" numbered 1-45; and, 3) Ken Klee's research\n               materials. The arrangement of these materials is not\n               easily grasped, but the donor has provided a \"road map.\"\n               A Butler document from around 1980 entitled \"The\n               Narrative History of the Bankruptcy Act Revision\"\n               provides a concise, informal legislative history of the\n               Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 from Mr. Butler's\n               perspective. It also discusses the creation and\n               arrangement of these records and includes references to\n               the Roman numeral numbering scheme employed by Butler's\n               staff. This narrative is found in the first folder of\n               the first box of bankruptcy materials(box 57). A second\n               helpful narrative entitled \"The Establishment of the\n               Commission\" states the reasons that impelled Congress to\n               establish the Commission on Bankruptcy in June of 1970.\n               This can be found in box 71 in the folder titled \"Mun.\n               5.\" Ken Klee's article on bankruptcy legislative (box\n               72) may also be of use in understanding events leading\n               up to the 1978 act. The article is entitled, \"Congress\n               and the Bankruptcy Act of 1976,\" and appeared in volume\n               61 of the \n                American Bar Association\n               Journal (October, 1975).","The \n                general materials have been\n               removed from the ring-binders, but the folders that now\n               hold them are labeled with the Roman numeral\n               corresponding to the binder in which they were formerly\n               housed. Everything from 1971 research materials to the\n               printed public law version of the 1978 Bankruptcy Reform\n               Act can be found here. Books and pamphlets printed by\n               the Government Office of Printing are found in Roman\n               numeral sections I and III-IX. Included here are the\n               Commission on Bankruptcy Laws Report, H.R. 10792, H.R.\n               16643, Hearings on H.R. 31 and H.R. 32, Hearings on S.\n               235, S. 236, H.R. 6, and oversized side-by-side\n               comparisons of VI (H) and XIII of H.R. 31 and 32 and S.\n               2266 and H.R. 8200 (stored in box 75).","All of the \"Supplemental Legislation and Testimony\"\n               is contained in 45 \"books\" and includes correspondence,\n               notes and paste-ups of various sections of proposed\n               versions of the bankruptcy bill. Section \"F,\" of XLIII\n               \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61, Folder 9 from the\n               general materials described above) contains the index to\n               the 45 books. Much of the contents are reiterations of\n               information from the \"Roman numeral\" notebooks arranged\n               for quick reference. Testimony is arranged by bill\n               section.","The Ken Klee's bankruptcy files were created while\n               Klee served as associate counsel for the Subcommittee on\n               Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee\n               on the Judiciary. They are 4 cu. ft. in extent and are\n               divided into three sections: uniform bankruptcy file,\n               municipal bankruptcy file (MUN), and bankruptcy act\n               subject files. An index to Klee's files is contained in\n               Section \"E\" of XLIII \"Conference Materials\" (Box 61,\n               Folder 9). The Uniform Bankruptcy Files are arranged\n               numerically beginning with the number 102 and contain\n               statements, testimonies, correspondence, memoranda,\n               drafts and other relevant materials regarding the\n               proposed bankruptcy rules. The Municipal Bankruptcy File\n               is arranged numerically. The files are designated MUN\n               with a corresponding number. These files also contain\n               drafts, testimonies, statements, memorandums and\n               reports. Klee's Bankruptcy Subject Files are arranged\n               alphabetically. Included here (under 'g') is general\n               correspondence from 1973-1978.","#I - LII","(A) \n                         March 19-June 14, 1971 \n                         September 15,16-November 15, 1971 \n                         December 13-January 30,31, 1972 \n                         April 10-May 1, 1972 \n                         June 12-September 11-12, 1972 \n                         October 9-10, 1972 \n                         November 13-14, 1972 \n                         December 4-5, 1972","(B) \n                         December 4-5, 1972 \n                         January 15-16, 1973 \n                         February 22-24, 1973 \n                         March 15-17, 1973 \n                         April 12-14, 1973 \n                         June 7-12, 1973","(A) \n                         (B) \n                         (C)","(A) \n                         (B) \n                         (C)","(E) \n                         (F) \n                         (G) \n                         (H) -- Side-by-Side of H.R. 31 and H.R.\n                        32 (2 copies) September 2, 1975. In oversize\n                        carton 49.","(A) \n                         (B) \n                         (C)","(A) \n                         (B)","(A)","(B) \n                         (C)","(A) \n                         (B)","Source 13 260;263 \n                      Source 14 322-323 \n                      Source 15 336 \n                      Source 20 412-415 \n                      Source 23A 502 \n                      Source 50 549;554-555 \n                      Source 30 587-588 \n                      Source 31 595-596 \n                      Source 33 612-613","Books for S. 2266 and H.R. 8200; H.R. 31 and H.R. 32\n              ","Published by San Diego Urban League,\n                        Inc.","Enclosed copy of RRRA and RRRRA","Legal Services Corporation\n               Act papers consist of one cu. ft. of materials\n               concerning the authorization of funding for this entity\n               for the fiscal years 1982-1984. Included here are: the\n               authorization bill, itself; correspondence; \"discussion\n               papers\"; press clippings; transcripts of testimony and\n               hearing proceedings. (The one file of material about the\n               re-authorization of the Department of Justice follows\n               the Legal Services papers.)","The \n                Voting Rights Act Extension series comprises  Butler's legislative papers as a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the consideration of the extension of this Act.","The \n                National Bankruptcy Review\n               Commission papers are from Butler's service as a\n               member of that body from 1995-1997. 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