Box 1
Contains 60 Results:
Verso of handbill lists property entered by John Lewis, 4466 acres of land on five treasury warrants; and John Marks, 2600 acres on five treasury warrants. Describes location of properties [Lexington, Virginia?]. (2 pages), ca. 1784
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Handbill [from above], Joseph Hudson and Co. [Lexington, Virginia?]. Opening next door to Scott and Co.’s Store “A very extensive assortment of merchandise Will be sold cheap for cash.” Lists articles for sale. (2 pages), ca. 1784
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis to “Moste Loving Mother” Mrs. Lucy Marks, Wilks County, Georgia. “What Language can express the Anxiety I feel to be with you when I sit down to write but it is now a thing impossible.” He says Mrs. Mecray is on her way to “Caintuc.” He informs her of the health of all her relations and that he has reason to think that Cousin Thomas Meriwether is married. (2 pages, transcript included), 1789 May 12
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis, Cloverfields, Virginia, to Mist. Lucy Marks, the care of J.T. Gilmore, Georgia. States that he met with no accident on the road and arrived at Uncle Gilmer’s the day before Christmas. He discusses various family members, business prospects and the smallpox epidemic in Richmond “which rages with great violence.” He hopes that Reuben is at school and, though he is not at the moment, he and Robert Lewis have applied to Mr. Maury who could not take them until the next spring, and to Mr. Waddle who has no school at present and is not willing to take them. If Uncle Lewis cannot prevail upon Mr. Waddle to take them, they will go to Mr. Williamson, a Scotchman, who teaches within about ten miles of Cloverfields. They have been waiting for three weeks. (3 pages, transcript included), ca. 1791
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis to Reuben Lewis, Wilks County, Georgia. He is sorry it is out of his power to come and see him by reason of being at school. He was at Parson Maury’s until after Christmas, and then fully expected to stay six months longer at least, if not another year “but Cousin William D. Meriwether said that he did not think it worth while as I had got well acquainted with the English Grammar, and mite learn Geography at home.” He will stay at Uncle Gilmer’s and go to school in order to get acquainted with figures. (2 pages, transcript included), [1791] Mar 7
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis to Mrs. Lucy Marks, Wilks County, Georgia. He has received a letter from Uncle John Gilmer about his mother’s welfare and brother’s assiduity and attention at school. His fall vacation was to see his sister and the rest of his relatives “below the little mountains” at Hanover. Mr. Anderson has left Richmond, has discontinued the business of William Anderson & Co., is again living at Hanover and has declared himself a candidate in the next Hanover election. Lewis will be unable to escort his mother to Virginia sooner than eighteen months or two years. Mr. Hastings, who has his father’s power of attorney, is not handling affairs in a satisfactory manner. He tells her that the matter deserves her most serious and immediate consideration. “It is currently reported here that you are Mrs. Harvey.” (3 pages, transcript included), 1791 Oct 16
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis, The Roundabout, to Mrs. Lucy Marks. States that sister, Mr. Anderson and the children are well. Due to his mother’s desire to see his sister and the fact that Mr. Anderson is unable to leave, Lewis had decided to leave school and make preparations for setting out immediately. He will try to set out by 12 May, as a carriage is promised by the first of May but he has yet to purchase horses and collect some money. In the event that he cannot collect sufficient cash on the land, he will dispose of his tobacco for cash. (2 pages, transcript included), 1792 Apr 19
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis, Headquarters, Winchester, to Mrs. Lucy Marks, Albemarle, Virginia. He says, “We shall this day draw all our accoutrements and receive our first lesson. We have mountains of beef and oceans of whiskey and I feel myself able to share it [with the] hartiest fellow in camp.” (2 pages), 1794 Oct 4
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis, Headquarters, Winchester, to Mrs. Lucy Marks, Albemarle, Virginia. Lewis says, “this much may be necessary for your information . . ., that if I possess willingness, I am still blessed with a sufficiency of bodily strength and activity to support the glorious cause of Liberty, and my Country.” Accounts from Fort Cumberland report that the heads of the insurgents have retired and left their followers. Most have returned to their homes but the remainder seem determined and it is not probable the campaign will be shortened. (3 pages, transcript included), 1794 Oct 13
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)
Letter signed Meriwether Lewis, McFarlin’s Farm, Pennsylvania, to his mother. He has for some time been an ensign in the militia but has been appointed to the same command in the volunteer service for six months and must now make some new arrangement for his business. He wishes Rubin to amuse himself with useful books and finish his last year next spring and summer. Mr. Carrell has agreed to undertake Meriwether Lewis’s business for 20 pounds a year and may be displaced at any time that his mother or Cousin William Meriwether think Rubin is adequate to the task. At the expiration of six months, he expects to go to Kentucky and wants papers and information concerning the lands in that country together with sufficiency of money to pay the taxes. “I am quite delighted with a soldier’s life . . .” (3 pages, transcript included), 1794 Nov 24
The Meriwether Lewis Papers is an artificial, or subject-based, collection gathered to record the Lewis and Clark Expedition. During the re-processing of the Meriwether Lewis Collection in 1999, several items were removed from the collection and returned to the archival collection in which they originally belonged. (Please consult the separation record at the end of this finding aid.)