UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Entry #1

Author: Various.
Title: Virginia political papers, 1778-1872.
Description: 26 items. Manuscript.
Summary: Includes correspondence, 1824-1845, of Charles Fenton Mercer, regarding naval appointments, an election in Loudoun County, Va., the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, a subscription to a paper published by Gales & Seaton, and financial matters; correspondents include Samuel L. Suthard, Joseph Gales, Alexander Macomb, Gales & Seaton, and Maholon Dickerson.
Other forms: Monroe items. Also available on microfilm, Manuscript Division reel #M-1963.
Call No.: MSS 7224.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/. Document #1 also found in NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #2

Author: Potomac Company.
Title: Papers relating to the payment of workers and two promissory notes, 1785-1788.
Description: 5 items. Manuscript.
Summary: The collection contains papers relating to the payment of workers, 1785-1788, and also two promissory notes of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company (which later absorbed the Potomac Company). A 1785 October 24 document is signed by George Washington.
Call No.: MSS 6044.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/.

Entry #3

Author: Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858.
Title: Papers of Charles Fenton Mercer, 1810-1856.
Description: 10 items. Manuscript.
Summary: U.S. representative from Virginia; president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Mercer discusses national politics including the election of 1856, slavery, emancipation and the Chesapeake and Ohio canal.
Call No.: MSS 1471-b.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/.

Entry #4

Author: Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858.
Title: Letters to various recipients, 1824-45.
Description: 7 items. Manuscript.
Summary: Concerns a midshipman's commission, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, letter recommending Henry Fairfax for the navy, business accounts, etc.
Call No.: MSS 7224.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/.

Entry #5

Author: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
Title: Letters concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, 1828-1829.
Description: 3 items. Manuscript.
Summary: In a letter, 1828 September 4, John Cox, Mayor of Georgetown, forwards to the Board of Alderman and the Board of Common Council several documents from the Board of Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company which he has received from General Smith.
In a letter, 1829 June 28, Charles Fenton Mercer, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, writes to Thomas P. Cope, of the Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, concerning the services of Judge Wright [on the Delaware and Chesapeake canal ?] as he is needed on the Chesapeake and Ohio. He discusses his own workload, loans from Cope’s bank, the resultant building boom in Georgetown, and the renewal of the bank's charter.
In a letter, 1829 November 9, J. Hoge writes to General Walter Smith concerning C&O stockholders who have not paid their installments.
Call No.: MSS 12265.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/. Document #6 also found in NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #6

Author: Cabell, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1813-1889.
Title: Correspondence of James Lawrence Cabell, 1829-37.
Description: 89 items. Manuscript.
Summary: Correspondence with his uncle, Joseph C. Cabell, during the period of Cabell’s pre-medical and medical studies at the University of Virginia, the Baltimore Alms-house, and in Paris, containing observations on student life, expenses, national politics, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and travel between Princeton and Philadelphia.
Call No.: MSS 1640, MSS 3894.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/.

Entry #7

Author: Patterson, Robert Maskell, 1787-1854.
Title: Correspondence of Robert Maskell Patterson and his son Thomas Leiper Patterson, 1834-47.
Description: 5 items. Manuscript.
Summary: Regarding the latter's student escapades at the U. Va., and his career as engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Holographs signed.
Call No.: MSS 2779.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/.

Entry #8

Author: Spates, Alfred.
Title: Papers concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 1843-1909.
Description: 307 items. Manuscript.
Summary: The collection contains correspondence, other records, and printed items pertaining to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and particularly its president in the 1860’s, Alfred Spates. There is information on successive and antagonistic company administrations, the canal's role in Maryland politics, financial manipulations, and on its management by Federal military authorities, 1861-1865. Company presidents A. P. Gorman and Lewis Cass Smith are mentioned.
Call No.: MSS 554.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/. Document #9 also found in NUCMC/OCLC.

Entry #9

Author: Howard, Henry, 1792-1874.
Title: Journal of Henry Howard, 1856-1873.
Description: 1 v. Manuscript.
Summary: University of Virginia Professor of Medicine, 1839-1867. The journal contains small accounts with newspaper publishers, the University of Virginia and its proctor R. R. Prentis, Socrates Maupin, Christ Church, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company. Label of Ebenezer Watts, Bookbinder, of Charlottesville.
Call No.: MSS 12684.
Location: Special Collections SC-STKS-X, University of Virginia Library, P.O. Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904.
Source: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/. Document #10 also found in NUCMC/OCLC.