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Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records A&M 1455

Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records A&M 1455


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Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 1455
Title
Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records 1743-1882
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/198319
Quantity
10.9 Linear Feet, 10 ft. 11 in. (21 document cases, 5 in. each); (3 document cases, 2 1/2 in. each); (4 small flat storage boxes, 3 1/2 in. each); (1 small flat storage box, 5 in.); 1 reel of microfilm
Creator
Woodbridge Mercantile Company
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English .
Abstract
Letter and account books, clipping scrapbooks, and miscellaneous family papers of a pioneer, Ohio Valley, general merchandise firm founded by Dudley Woodbridge, Sr., at Marietta, Ohio, and operating under various names for a period of more than sixty years. The collection also includes the account books of Daniel, Richard, and John Greene, 1808-1844; account books of F.B. Loomis, 1842-1844; a medicinal formulary book; the estate records of John Brody; records of a pension and bounty land claims agency operated by George M. Woodbridge, 1861-1864; and justice of the peace accounts, 1832-1863. Subjects include the development of river markets, transportation, and the livestock industry in the early Ohio Valley; fur trade and commerce with England and Europe; the Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company; Kanawha and Sciota salt works; Ohio Company lands; Woodbridge-Harman Blennerhassett partnership; ginseng trade; Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company; ropewalk and shipbuilding in Marietta; military land warrants; estate of George Morgan; career of William Woodbridge, United States senator and governor of Michigan; pioneer education; Meadville Seminary; Ohio University; Miami University; Marietta Collegiate Institute; Belpre, Ohio; American Catholic missions; early history of Marietta; the American Colonization Society; Washington County Colonization Society; churches; Washington County Tract Society; recruiting in Marietta during the Civil War; impact of the War of 1812 on westward migration and labor; and Woodbridge family affairs. Letters are addressed to merchants in London, France, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Charleston (West Virginia), Lexington and Louisville (Kentucky), Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans, Washington, Detroit, and Baltimore. Correspondents include Lewis Cass, Philip Doddridge, and Benjamin Reeder.

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Woodbridge Mercantile Company Records, A&M 1455, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

These are the records of the Woodbridge Mercantile Company and related businesses operated in Marietta, Ohio from the years 1743 to 1882. Woodbridge began the business, which included trade up and down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to Kentucky and points in between. George M. Woodbridge's business dealt in real estate, and so indicates the growth of the area west of Marietta. The growth of river trade and the types of goods traded are described extensively in the collection. Other topics include aspects of life in the early nineteenth century Ohio River Valley, real estate, and other business concerns. Prominent names in the collection include D. Woodbridge, George M. Woodbridge, and Harmon Blennerhasset.

Subjects found in collection:

Ships and shipbuilding – Volumes 1, 6, 8, 14, 31, 37, 53, 132

Transportation of goods, overland and by river (Ohio and Muskingum) – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 123, 124

Harmon Blennerhasset and Blennerhasset Island – Volumes 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25

Land values and transaction of land – Volumes 56, 79, 81, 89, 131

Bank of Marietta – Volumes 2, 6, 9, 98

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Account books
  • American Colonization Society
  • American ginseng
  • Baltimore (Md.)
  • Brody, John.
  • Cass, Lewis.
  • Charleston.
  • Church buildings
  • Churches -- Roman Catholic
  • Churches -- Roman Catholic, American missions
  • Cincinnati (Ohio)
  • Detroit (Mich.)
  • Doddridge, Philip, 1773-1832
  • Drugs and druggists.
  • Education
  • Education. SEE ALSO Schools.
  • England
  • Europe
  • France
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Fur trade
  • General stores
  • Greene, Daniel.
  • Greene, John.
  • Greene, Richard.
  • Justices of the peace
  • Kanawha.
  • Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor
  • Land.
  • Lexington (Ky.)
  • Livestock
  • London (England)
  • Loomis, F.B.
  • Louisville (Ky.)
  • Marietta (Ohio)
  • Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary
  • Marietta and Susquehanna Trading Company
  • Meadville Seminary
  • Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine.
  • Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
  • Michigan
  • Missionaries
  • Morgan, George
  • New Orleans (La.)
  • New York (State)
  • Ohio Company.
  • Ohio River Valley
  • Ohio University
  • Philadelphia (Pa.)
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.)
  • Politics and government.
  • Reeder, Benjamin.
  • Rivers and river valleys.
  • Saint Louis (Mo.)
  • Salt industry and trade
  • Schools. SEE ALSO Academies
  • Scioto River (Ohio)
  • Slaves and slavery.
  • Transportation
  • Unions.
  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States -- History -- War of 1812
  • United States. Congress. Senate
  • Universities and colleges
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Washington County Colonization Society
  • Washington County Tract Society
  • Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Company
  • Woodbridge Mercantile Company
  • Woodbridge, Dudley, Sr.
  • Woodbridge, George M.
  • Woodbridge, William.
  • Woodbridge-Blennerhassett.

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Baltimore (Md.)
  • Charleston.
  • Cincinnati (Ohio)
  • Detroit (Mich.)
  • England
  • Europe
  • France
  • Kanawha.
  • Lexington (Ky.)
  • London (England)
  • Louisville (Ky.)
  • Marietta (Ohio)
  • Michigan
  • New Orleans (La.)
  • New York (State)
  • Ohio River Valley
  • Philadelphia (Pa.)
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.)
  • Saint Louis (Mo.)
  • Scioto River (Ohio)
  • United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
  • United States -- History -- War of 1812
  • Washington (D.C.)
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Container List

Series 1. Letter Books
Mixed Materials Box: 1a-1b 1801–1836
Scope and Contents

This series includes volumes 1-10, which are letter books dating from 1801 to 1836. These books contain copies of correspondence mostly regarding business matters of Woodbridge Mercantile Company. Subjects discussed include goods traded, ship building, river traffic and overland transportation of goods, impact of the War of 1812, Blennerhasset Island, purchases of stock in local banks, and land sales.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1a Folder: 1
    Volume 1
    1801 October 21–1803 December 31
    Scope and Contents

    Letters signed D. Woodbridge, Jr. and D. Woodbridge and Co. Includes 52 letters to Harman Blennerhassett re. company business, goods ordered, and ship building, launching, and voyages. Cargo mentioned includes skins, hemp, ginseng, and pork taken in trade and purchased for sale in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Also, letters to James Converse, Joseph F. Munro, Mrs. Mary Jourdan (Philadelphia agent for Woodbridge & Co.), James Backus, William Woodbridge, Joseph Clarke, Jacob Burnet, John Daman, Andrew and John Oliphant, R. Caldwell, and Capt. William Latimer. Subjects include purchasing and selling various goods, shipbuilding, ropewalk business in Marietta, river traffic, instructions to agents, and Sciota Salt Works.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1a Folder: 2
    Volume 2
    1811 October 31–1814 August 11
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects include dissolution of D. Woodbridge & Co. partnership, purchase and sale of goods, transportation by wagon and riverboats, salt received on commission from Donnally and Steele (Kanawha Salt Works), transactions on Ohio Company lands, ropewalk in Marietta, purchase of shares in Pittsburgh manufaturing company, settlement of Col. George Morgan estate, transactions involving sugar and cotton in New Orleans and Kentucky, riverboat accidents and loss of cargo, effects of war on emigration to Ohio, the shortage of labor, Ohio banks, purchase of stock in a Canal company, and barge building in Marietta. Correspondents include: Moses Dillon, Jeffry Price, Sen. John Lambert, John Tilford, James Mountain, Harmon Blennerhassett, George Morgan, Philip Doddridge, Capt. Daniel Greene, Jonathan Buitteau, Benjamin Morgan, and Thomas Butler. Locations include: Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, Charleston, Lexington, Zanesville, and New Orleans.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1a Folder: 3
    Volume 3
    1816 June 13–1816 December 7
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects include fur trade with London and French merchants, purcahse and sale of ginseng and other products, and re. conduct of storage and commission business. Names include: Thomas Morgan, Samuel Murdock, Thomas L. Pierce, Sevil Scovil and Co., John Barr, and L. Barber. Places named include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Lexington, New York, St. Louis, and London.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1a Folder: 4
    Volume 4
    1818 August 18–1820 September 25
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects include currency exchange, shipping conditions, marketing information, rental of Blennerhassett Island, and mercantile business. Names and firms: Moses Dillon, James W. Biddle & Co., Steele, Donnally & Steele, Thomas Baker, S.&G. Trotter & Co., and Gelman and Ammidon. Places named include: Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1a Folder: 5
    Volume 5
    1820 June 23–1821 February 19
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects include routine business letters, the Lucy Backus Woodbridge estate, family correspondence, resignation of William Woodbridge from Congress, rental of Blennerhassett Island. Business firms mentioned: Benjamin J. Gilman, W. Wilson & Co., Robert Fulton, R. J. Meigs, Clarissa Backus, J. W. Biddle & Co., and John Sproule. Places of business include: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Frankfort, Lexington, Washington D.C., Zanesville, Chillicothe, Detroit, Clarksburg, and Parkersburg.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1a Folder: 6
    Volume 6
    1821 February 19–1821 December 12
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects include purchase of bank stock, estate of Lucy Backus Woodbridge, currency exchange, steamboat building, and family and business affairs. Correspondents include: Jesse B. Thomas, Benjamin Reeder, E. Buckingham Jr. & Co., Elihu Chauncey, Henry Strong, Daniel Converse, Joseph Willard, Sam A. Wescott, and Henry Northrup. Places addressed: Washington D.C., Norwich, Lexington, Philadelphia, Pitssburgh, Wheeling, Clarksburg, Frankfort, St. Clairsville, Steubenville, Zanesville, and Cincinnati.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1a Folder: 7
    Volume 7
    1826 March–1829 February
    Scope and Contents

    Unsigned letters, mainly from Pt. Harman, ordering goods for the D. Woodbridge Store. Also some letters concerning tobacco, ginseng, dried fruit, skins, beeswax, rags, feathers, and other products shipped to eastern markets for sale.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1b Folder: 8
    Volume 8
    1827 December 29–1834 September 16
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects: principally rountine business correspondence, but also includes letters to Wheeling seeking wool. Names of steamboats and captains are mentioned in various letters. Names of persons and companies addressed: J.J. Jackson, Luther Edgerton, Jones, Tyson & Co., W. Palmer, and D.T. Chambers. Letters addressed to: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Sistersville, Wheeling, Louisville, Pt. Harman, Salem Ripley, and McConnelsville.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1b Folder: 9
    Volume 9
    1829 August 10–1836 August 19
    Scope and Contents

    Subjects: family affairs, religion, William Woodbridge's office as U.S. Judge in Michigan, Wheeling Cotton Manufacturing Co., stock in Bank of the U.S. and other banks, the Morganza Tract in Pennsylvania, churches, missionary societies,Collegiate Institute, property in Marietta, and business opportunities. Correspondents include: Lewis Cass, Thomas McKennan, Waterman Palmer, Thomas Morgan, Rev. R.H. Bishop, William Holyoke, Rev. Artemus Ballard, Joseph Gales, and Rev. James Laurie.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 1b Folder: 10a
    Folder 10a -- Includes notes on Marietta schools, plats, printed matter, and some letters, bills, and memos.
  • Mixed Materials Box: 1b Folder: 10
    Volume 10
    1833 December–1836 October
    Scope and Contents

    A few letters dated at Pittsburgh to merchants and business houses in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. Also includes a cash book spanning Jan. 1834 to Oct. 1836.

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Series 2. Daybooks
1788–1862
Scope and Contents

This series includes volumes 11-89. These are all daybooks (blotters) from 1788-1862. Subjects included concern river boats, Harmon Blennerhasset, transactions with various firms, goods traded, land warrants, and land sales.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 2a Folder: 11
    Volume 11 -- Backus & Kindall Store
    1788
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2a Folder: 12
    Volume 12 -- Backus & Kindall Store
    1789–1790
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2a Folder: 13
    Volume 13 -- Waste book
    1791–1792
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2a Folder: 14
    Volume 14 -- Waste book
    1792–1793
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2a Folder: 15
    Volume 15 -- Waste book
    1795 May–1795 September
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2a Folder: 16
    Volume 16 -- Waste book
    1796 May–1796 October
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2a Folder: 17
    Volume 17 -- Waste book
    1797 May 15–1798 March 18
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2b Folder: 18
    Volume 18 -- Blotter (Ebenezer Felch)
    1797–1799
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2b Folder: 19
    Volume 19 -- Blotter (Woodbridge)
    1799 July 17–1799 November 30
  • Mixed Materials Box: 2b Folder: 20
    Volume 20 -- Blotter
    1804 November 28–1805 April 16
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 21
    Volume 21 -- Blotter
    1805 April 17–1805 May 25
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 22
    Volume 22 -- Blotter
    1805 May 27–1805 October 11
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 23
    Volume 23 -- Blotter
    1805 October 11–1806 January 6
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 24
    Volume 24 -- Blotter
    1806 January 6–1806 April 30
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 25
    Volume 25 -- Blotter
    1806 May 1–1806 September 3
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 26
    Volume 26 -- Blotter
    1807 September 30–1808 January 14
  • Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 27
    Volume 27 -- Blotter
    1810 February 22–1811 January 11
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 28
    Volume 28 -- Blotter
    1811 January 12–1812 April 22
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 29
    Volume 29 -- Blotter
    1814 February 1–1814 December 31
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 30
    Volume 30 -- Blotter
    1814 October 7–1816 July 22
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 31
    Volume 31 -- New store blotter
    1815 August 29–1816 August 23
  • Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 32
    Volume 32
    1817 June 30–1818 January 1
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 33
    Volume 33
    1824 April 12–1825 August 24
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 34
    Volume 34
    1825 August 25–1828 March 1
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 35
    Volume 35
    1827 April 5–1828 January 14
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 36
    Volume 36 -- Not Woodbridge's
    1827–1829
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 37
    Volume 37 -- Memoranda books
    1827 December 27–1830 December 30
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 38
    Volume 38 -- Morgan & Woodbridge
    1832 March 1–1832 June 23
  • Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 39
    Volume 39
    1832 June 27–1833 January 19
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 40
    Volume 40
    1832 October 22–1833 March 21
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 41
    Volume 41 -- Woodbridge & Morgan
    1833–1834
  • Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 42
    Volume 42 -- John Brophy
    1834–1835
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 43
    Volume 43 -- Woodbridge & Racer
    1837–1838
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 44
    Volume 44
    1838–1839
  • Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 45
    Volume 45 -- John Brophy
    1838–1841
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 46
    Volume 46 -- Woodbridge & Barber
    1840 February 14–1853 February 12
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 47
    Volume 47 -- D. Woodbridge
    1842 March 26–1843 May 15
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 48
    Volume 48
    1842 May 2–1842 October 12
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 49
    Volume 49
    1842 October 13–1843 May 16
  • Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 50
    Volume 50
    1844 February 9–1845 May 28
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 51
    Volume 51
    1844 March–1845 May 29
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 52
    Volume 52
    1846 September 11–1847 September 10
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 53
    Volume 53
    1848 January 1–1848 October 10
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 54
    Volume 54
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 55
    Volume 55 -- Wm. Woodbridge
    1850 January 1–1850 August 17
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 56
    Volume 56 -- Skinner & Woodbridge
    1850–1851
  • Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 57
    Volume 57 -- Wm. Woodbridge
    1850 August 19–1850 December 31
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 58
    Volume 58
    1851 January 1–1851 July 4
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 59
    Volume 59 -- Skinner & Woodbridge
    1851–1853
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 60
    Volume 60 -- Wm. Woodbridge
    1852 June 17–1852 December 31
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 61
    Volume 61 -- Daniel Theobalt
    1852 August 9–1853 November 18
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 62
    Volume 62 -- Wm. Woodbridge
    1854 April 20–1855 February 5
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 63
    Volume 63
    1855 October 13–1856 June 10
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 64
    Volume 64
    1856 June 11–1856 December 31
  • Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 65
    Volume 65
    1857 October 19–1858 June 26
  • Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 66
    Volume 66 -- Luther Edgerton
    1861 May 8–1862 October 18
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 67
    Volume 67 -- Journal
    1800 March 24–1801 March 31
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 68
    Volume 68 -- Journal
    1801 April 6–1802 August 31
  • Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 69
    Volume 69 -- Journal
    1810 February 22–1812 August 10
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 70
    Volume 70 -- Journal
    1817 May 17–1818 August 4
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 71
    Volume 71 -- Journal
    1820 May 27–1821 July 31
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 72
    Volume 72 -- Accounts
    1826, 1847-1851
  • Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 73
    Volume 73 -- D. Woodbridge
    1826 February 18–1826 May 15
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 74
    Volume 74 -- Woodbridge & Matthews
    1826–1827
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 75
    Volume 75 -- D. Woodbridge
    1827 March 26–1829 February 4
  • Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 76
    Volume 76
    1828 February 1–1829 January 1
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 77
    Volume 77 -- Journal
    1830 April 7–1831 January 27
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 78
    Volume 78 -- Morgan & Woodbridge
    1833 April 13–1833 October 25
  • Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 79
    Volume 79 -- D. Woodbridge
    1836 May 28–1836 October 10
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 80
    Volume 80 -- Woodbridge & Racer
    1837 March 22–1837 September 9
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 81
    Volume 81 -- D. Woodbridge
    1838 January 1–1840 January 1
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 82
    Volume 82
    1844 October 21–1846 February 27
  • Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 83
    Volume 83
    1846 February 28–1847 April 28
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 84
    Volume 84
    1846 May 22–1847 August 28
  • Mixed Materials Box: 23 Folder: 85
    Volume 85 -- John Brophy
    1847 August 27–1849 May 25
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 86
    Volume 86 -- D. Woodbridge
    1848 August 1–1849 July 13
  • Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 87
    Volume 87
    1850 May 4–1851 April 3
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 88
    Volume 88 -- Personal Account Book
    1827 January 2–1861 December 16
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 89
    Volume 89 -- George M. Woodbridge
    1853 July 12–1859 April 9
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Series 3. Ledgers and Accounts
1743–1854
Scope and Contents

This series contains record books other than daybooks, including volumes 90-128, 137, 138, and 141-145. Volumes 90-128 are records of the Woodbridge Company; volumes 137-138 are the records of the Greene Company; and volumes 142-145 are the records of the F.B. Loomis Company. Many of these contain the same sort of information as the day books, in a similar format. Years covered are 1743-1854. Types of books include invoice books, ledgers, cash books, inventory, warehouse books, memorandum books, sale books, receipt books, account books, and alphabetical indexes (volume 141).

  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 90
    Volume 90 -- D. Woodbridge
    1816–1820
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 91
    Volume 91 -- Woodbridge & Morgan
    1828–1831
  • Mixed Materials Box: 24 Folder: 92
    Volume 92 -- D. Woodbridge
    1828–1853
  • Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 93
    Volume 93 -- John Brophy
    1833–1839
  • Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 94
    Volume 94 -- D. Woodbridge
    1836–1841
  • Mixed Materials Box: 25 Folder: 95
    Volume 95
    1840–1847
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 96
    Volume 96
    1844–1849
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 97
    Volume 97 -- John Brohpy
    1851–1854
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 99
    Volume 99 -- W. Woodbridge Invoice Book
    1793–1799
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 100
    Volume 100 -- Woodbridge, cash entries
    1799–1804
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 101
    Volume 101 -- Woodbridge, invoice book
    1806–1808
  • Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 102
    Volume 102 -- Woodbridge, cash entries
    1810–1811
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 103
    Volume 103 -- Woodbridge, merchandise bought
    1813–1814
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 104
    Volume 104
    1814–1815
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 105
    Volume 105
    1815–1816
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 106
    Volume 106 -- Pt. Harmon
    1826
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 107
    Volume 107 -- D. & G. Woodbridge
    1833–1836
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 108
    Volume 108
    1843–1850
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 109
    Volume 109 -- John Brophy
    1848–1850
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 110
    Volume 110 -- Woodbridge, cash entries
    1848–1851
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 111
    Volume 111 -- John Brophy, goods on hand
    1849–1850
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 112
    Volume 112 -- Woodbridge Cash Book
    1826–1828
  • Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 113
    Volume 113 -- Cash Book
    1827 January 6–1828 July 3
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 114
    Volume 114 -- Cash Book
    1828–1832
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 115
    Volume 115 -- Cash Book
    1828–1837
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 116
    Volume 116 -- Cash Book
    1839–1841
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 117
    Volume 117 -- Cash Book
    1848–1852
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 118
    Volume 118 -- Cash Book
    1852–1854
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 119
    Volume 119 -- Woodbridge Inventory
    1832 February 4
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 120
    Volume 120 -- Morgan & Co. Inventory
    1832 March 3
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 121
    Volume 121 -- D. Woodbridge Inventory
    1850 January 7
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 122
    Volume 122 -- Inventory
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 123
    Volume 123 -- Woodbridge Warehouse Book
    1812–1815
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 124
    Volume 124 -- Warehouse Book
    1817–1818
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 125
    Volume 125 -- Wm. Woodbridge Memorandum Books
    1807–1812
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 126
    Volume 126 -- Memorandum Book
    1826–1828
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 127
    Volume 127 -- John Brophy Sale Book
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 128
    Volume 128 -- Morgan & Woodbridge Receipt Book
    1832 August 30–1835 January 22
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 137
    Volume 137 -- Greene Bros. Account Book
    1837–1841
  • Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 138
    Volume 138 -- John & Daniel Greene Account Book
    1808–1836
  • Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 141
    Volume 141 -- Alphabetical index
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 142
    Volume 142 -- F. B. Loomis Ledger
    1842–1844
  • Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 143
    Volume 143 -- F. B. Loomis Daybook
    1842–1843
  • Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 144
    Volume 144 -- Daybook
    1843–1844
  • Mixed Materials Box: 27 Folder: 145
    Volume 145 -- F. B. Loomis Invoice Book
    1842–1845
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Series 4. George M. Woodbridge Pension Books
1861–1864
Scope and Contents

This series contains only volumes 139-140. These are pension claim books of George M. Woodbridge during the Civil War. Dates are 1861-1864 and 1863 respectively.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 139
    Volume 139 -- Pension Claim Book (G.M. Woodbridge)
    1861–1864
  • Mixed Materials Box: 26 Folder: 140
    Volume 140 -- Pension Claim Book
    1863
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Series 5. Miscellaneous Woodbridge Records
1779–1882
Scope and Contents

This series consists of volumes 129-136, which are miscellaneous collections of George M. Woodbridge. Dates run from 1779 to 1882, but most items concern the later time period. Items included are blank notes from G.M. Woodbridge's General Agency and Land Office; Justice of the Peace Accounts, listing notes, cash payments, unsettled notes, etc.; Woodbridge Autobiographical memo, including a sampling of materials found elsewhere in the collection; a prescription book; a newspaper scrapbook compiled in the 1870s; another scrapbook, containing mostly religious material; a U.S. Internal Revenue List of the Several Collection Districts (1870); and an old manuscript book containing copies of anecdotes, stories, diary excerpts, and poems written by George M. Woodbridge. This last includes such titles as "Marietta in 1804 or 1805," "The Blennerhassets," "Ships and Steamboats," and "Steamboats Built at Marietta." There are 34 such writings in the manuscript book.

  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 129
    Volume 129 -- George Woodbridge Receipt Book
    1840
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 130
    Volume 130 -- Woodbridge, Justice of the Peace Accounts
    1832–1836
  • Mixed Materials Box: 20 Folder: 131
    Volume 131 -- G. Woodbridge Autobiographical Book
    1779–1882
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 132
    Volume 132 -- Old Manuscript Book (essays)
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 133
    Volume 133 -- Newspaper Clipping Scrapbook
    1870s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 134
    Volume 134 -- Newspaper Clipping Scrapbook
    1870s
  • Mixed Materials Box: 21 Folder: 135
    Volume 135 -- Prescription Book
    undated
  • Mixed Materials Box: 22 Folder: 136
    Volume 136 -- List of the several collection districts
    1870
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