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Box 1

 Container

Contains 131 Results:

Item 8. Letter -- (Copy) P. Henry to Lt. Colonel George Rogers Clark authorizing him to raise five companies of Virginia Militia and transport them down the Ohio River to attack a British outpost, 1778

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1778
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 9. Letter -- (Copy) L.E. Davisson to his nephew Frederick Augustus Davisson informing him of the death of his grandfather Daniel Davisson, 1819

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1819
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 10. Militia Fine -- (Typed Copy) Cabell Tavenner fined by G.H. Beall, County Clerk, for failing to attend Regimental muster in Captain P. Cox's Company, 1837

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1837
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 11. Letter -- (Typed Copy) C. Tavenner, Clarksburg, to his father (T. Tavenner) discussing land and deed issues;, 1845

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1845
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 12. Letter -- (Typed Copy) C. Tavenner, Weston, to his father, (Thomas Tavenner) discussing pending court case of land issue, 1846

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1846
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 13. Letter -- Rufus Maxwell to Stage Agent, Clarksburg, Virginia asking for information for shipping a box containing a patent model to the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. via Cumberland, Maryland, 1848

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1848
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 14. Letter -- Rufus Maxwell to Commissioner of Patents, Washington, indicating that he will send money to his Congressman to pay the patent fees and filing costs for his patent. He visualizes his patent object sitting in the great depository of American Skill and Genius, 1848

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1848
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 15. Letter -- Rufus Maxwell to the Honorable Robert A. Thompson, mailing him $30.00 to pay his patent application fee, 1848

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1848
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 16. Letter -- (Typed Copy) Jennet (Tavenner), Weston, (West) Virginia to her father, Colonel Thomas Tavenner, telling of the events of the evening leading up to her husband's death, ca. 1849

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: ca. 1849
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)

Item 17. Letter -- (Typed Copy) Jennet (Tavenner), Weston, to father (Col. Thomas Tavenner) regarding a decision about being the executrix of her husband's estate and problems associated with it, 1850

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates: 1850
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center / Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Tavenner Family Papers and Other Material / Series 2. Correspondence, Box 1, Folders 2-6 (73 items)