Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

John Hooe, Jr., Papers, 1685-1855, Accession #11357, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These papers were purchased by the University of Virginia Library from Jerry N. Showalter, Bookseller, Rare Books and Autographs, Ivy, Virginia, on November 4, 1997.

Scope and Content Information

The papers of John Hooe, Jr. of Prince William County, Virginia, who served as a delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates, consists of ca. 150 items (1 Hollinger box) ca. 1685-1855, and contains correspondence, legal & financial papers, and three bound volumes, including two account ledgers from Hooe's blacksmith shop. The earlier blacksmith account ledger, ca. 1812-1832, also contains copies of wills, "A List of Voters in Prince William County April 5, 1819," farm records concerning wheat, corn, and hogs, mentioning Bradley Farm, Graham Park, Yorkshire Farm, Locust Grove, Hansfarm, Cancer Farm, and Bloom's Grove, miscellaneous recipes and notes, and a slave hire for John from Mrs. Susannah F. Graham (1831 Jan 7). The farm ledger, 1842-1845, belonging to [John Hooe, Jr.?] also has accounts for the Toll Road [Hunting Creek Turnpike ?].

Other families represented in the collection include the Beverley, Blackburne, Gaines, Mason, Reid, Wickcliffe, Kincheloe and Foote, from Prince William, Stafford County, Fairfax, Fredericksburg, and surrounding counties.

The folder of general correspondence is chiefly concerned with farm business, land deeds and sales, and legal cases. A letter to the sitting judges, 1802 September 17, refers to the completion of the court house at Hay Market, Virginia, for the Fredericksburg District Court, and a draft of a letter, 1849 April 18, discusses a railroad bill in the Virginia House of Delegates.

The folder of the correspondence of Richard Foote, John Gibson, and Philip Harrison is totally concerned with the collection and payment of debts.

The correspondence of John Hooe, Jr., 1819-1845, is also chiefly concerned with business matters, but also includes letters concerning the need for Virginia to support Henry Clay (G. Sweeny, 1828 Oct 29); a letter referring to an attempt to establish a new county to be called Warren County, made from Frederick County and Shenandoah County, which actually took place in 1836 (1833 Dec 12); notification of a Whig barbeque sponsored by the Tippecanoe Club of Occoquan (1840 Jun 26); and Hugh Bernard informing his uncle about his plans to marry into the family of Dr. Hall (1841 Nov 3).

The legal and financial papers of Richard Foote include an account with [John?] Gibson, Jr. (1821); receipts for legal fees paid to the court for Spotsylvania County and Fauquier County (1832-1834); receipt from Basil Gordon (1835); a promissory note to Jacob Weaver (1834); an account of A. Sinclair against the estate of Richard Foote (1834 May 20); and an account of sums paid by H. Foote, as administrator for Richard Foote, who was a trustee on behalf of L.H. Fitzhugh and children (1834 Aug 7 through 1836).

The legal and financial papers of the Hooe family include an order to survey land from John Hooe to John Moffett (1775); a deed of lease and release between George Mason and John Hooe (1777); agreement to sell a crop of wheat from Bernard Hooe, Jr. to James Smith (1801); a survey plat by R.B. Ratcliffe (1804); indenture between Isaac & Mary Davis and Bernard Hooe, Jr. (1807); George Tebbs release to Matthew Gregg (1809); accounts (1813, 1826, 1836); Mutual Assurance Society receipts (1821); copies of the courses of tracts of land owned by James Bland and George Reeves for Bernard Hooe, Jr.(1822); land plat, Hanbrough to Hooe (1823); receipts (1824, 1841, 1844); indenture between William H. & Eliza Thacker Fowle, Margaretta Susanna Hooe, and Thomas P. Hooe (1832); indenture between executors of estate of Alexander Henderson and John Hooe (1833); complaint against John Hooe, Jr. (1843); Hayden vs Hooe (1845); estate of John Hooe, Jr. (1845-1847); Buckner v. Hooe (1847); and two plats of land purchased by John Hooe from John Linton along King?s Creek (undated).

The remaining legal and financial papers include: deeds & indentures between Martin Scarlett, Stafford County, and Edward Barton (1685 Jul 8); Leonard Helms, Stafford County (1726 Jan 25); Thomas Daven and Margaret Evans (1739 May 30); Thomas Davis and William Bird (1740 Jul 22); Harrison Manly and Thomas Hammet (1773 Aug 31); Mary & William Champ, Culpeper County, and Lewis Willis (1779 Sep 7); Arrington Wickliffe to Moses Wickliffe (1799); Cornelius & Dorcus Kincheloe, Fairfax, and Moses Wickcliffe (1801); the will of Edward Barton, Stafford County (1712 Jan 10); particulars concerning the Fairfax land purchased by Governor Lee (1729); bonds between Jacob Gibson and Richard Blackburne (1735 Jul 29); William Waller & Ann Beverley, Spotsylvania County and William Beverley, Essex County ([post 1832] Jun 26); lawsuit of Richard Marshall Scott, trustee of Elisha Janney, vs Samuel Dunlap (1809 Dec 13); boundaries and description of the Pope Castle Land (ca. 1816); documents concerning the estate of Augustus Gains, William Brawner, administrator (ca. 1817-1826); promissory note between Thomas & William Brawner and James Taliaferro, Jr. (1823); land grant to Mark Chilton, Stafford County (copied in 1825); report on the estate of Slighter Smith by B. Hooe, listing slaves John, Nace, and Felicia (1842 Dec 22); property tax book, below Cedar Run (1847 Aug 18); Bloom's Grove tract of land (n.d.); and land grant to Robert Carter for the Bull Run tract (n.d.).