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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1021 | Title: | Barker Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Barker Family | | | | Dates: | 1821-1917 | | | | Abstract: | The Barker and Donaldson families resided in Huron County, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, military papers, account books, school register, and deeds, promissory notes, and other legal papers. Persons represented include Daniel Gilbert Barker, his wife Eliza Baker Barker, his father Ephraim Foster Barker, and his daughter and her husband, Lura Barker and John H. Donaldson. Includes letters from Eliza's sisters and their husbands, Amanda and Leonard Colburn and Almira and Amos Thomas. | | | | Call #: | MS 3416 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Barker family. | Donaldson family.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1025 | Title: | Washington Township, Ohio School District Records
| | | | Creator: | Washington Township, Ohio School District | | | | Dates: | 1857-1887 | | | | Abstract: | Washington Township School District No. 4 is located in Carroll County, Ohio. The collection consists of a bound volume containing minutes of meetings of qualified voters and directors, and some financial accounts, of School District No. 4, Washington Township, Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 3420 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Subjects Washington (Carroll County, Ohio) -- Schools
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1028 | Title: | Ohio City, Ohio, Records
| | | | Creator: | Ohio City, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1836-1851 | | | | Abstract: | Ohio City was annexed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1854. The two cities occupied opposite banks of the Cuyahoga River. The collection consists of documents relating to a loan negotiated by Ohio City (1834), amendment to the act which incorporated Ohio City (1837), abstract of votes for and against the union of Ohio City and Cleveland (1851), and a memorandum of agreement concerning the annexation of Ohio City to Cleveland (1854). | | | | Call #: | MS 3423 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Ohio City (Cleveland, Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1029 | Title: | Margret S. Ferguson Correspondence
| | | | Creator: | Ferguson, Margaret S. | | | | Dates: | 1846-1861 | | | | Abstract: | Margret S. Ferguson was a resident of Ways Station, Bryan County, Georgia. Her son, C.W. Ferguson, served in the 8th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the American Civil War, and was stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia, in 1861. The collection consists of letters received by Mrs. Ferguson, including some from her son, C.W. Ferguson. | | | | Call #: | MS 3424 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Ferguson, Margret S. | Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 8th. | Women -- Georgia -- Correspondence. | Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1030 | Title: | Chillicothe, Ohio, Records
| | | | Creator: | Chillicothe, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1846-1849 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of lists of the number of horses and other domestic animals sold at auction within the city of Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, signed by various auctioneers and justices of the peace. | | | | Call #: | MS 3425 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Domestic animals -- Ohio -- Chillicothe. | Chillicothe (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1035 | Title: | Ira Wright Field Notes
| | | | Creator: | Wright, Ira | | | | Dates: | 1804-1806 | | | | Abstract: | Ira Wright was an Ohio surveyor who worked for Abraham Tappan. The collection consists of six booklets of notes taken while surveying land adjacent to the Portage Path between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers. The booklets are signed and dated by Abraham Tappan. | | | | Call #: | MS 3430 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wright, Ira. | Tappan, Abraham, 1779-1855. | Surveyors -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Surveys.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1038 | Title: | Joseph Buell Papers
| | | | Creator: | Buell, Joseph | | | | Dates: | 1806-1812 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph Buell (1763-1812) was a soldier in the United States Army and the Ohio Militia, a politician and jurist, and an early settler and prominent citizen in Marietta, Ohio. He served in the Regular Army of the United States (1787-1788), arriving at Fort Harmar, near Marietta, in 1786. Before leaving the Army in 1788, Buell purchased land in the Symmes Purchase of the Ohio country, returning to settle in Marietta in 1790. Buell served as a state senator (1803-1805) and an associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County (1803-1810). He was also appointed Major General in the Ohio Militia. In this role, he participated in the seizing of boats under construction for Aaron Burr and Harmon Blennerhassett near Marietta in 1806. He proclaimed martial law in Marietta in December 1806 and instituted a blockade of the Ohio River, requiring all vessels to put into Marietta for inspection until Burr and Blennerhassett were arrested in 1807. Buell, under orders of Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War, disposed of the seized property. The collection consists of an Ohio arrest warrant for Harman Blennerhassett (1806), correspondence (1806-1807), a fair hand copy of the complaint, motions, testimonies, evidence, and judgment of the lawsuit Robert Miller vs. Aaron Burr before the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County, Ohio (1812), interrogatories and a summons in the treason trial United States vs. Aaron Burr (1807), an inventory of property belonging to and persons employed by Harman Blennerhassett seized by Buell's militia December 13, 1806, and undated and unattributed research notes, hand and typewritten, relating to Burr's application for Army pension (1833) and the divorce action Eliza B. Burr vs. Aaron Burr (1836). Notable correspondents include Edward Tiffin, Henry Dearborn, John George Jackson, Thomas Kirker, and Caesar Augustus Rodney. | | | | Call #: | MS 3433 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Buell, Joseph, 1763-1812. | Blennerhassett, Harman, 1765-1831. | Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836. | Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829. | Jackson, John George, 1777-1825. | Kirker, Thomas, 1760-1837. | Rodney, C. A. (Caesar Augustus), 1772-1824. | Tiffin, Edward, 1766-1829. | Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807. | United States -- History -- 1801-1809 -- Sources. | Marietta (Ohio) -- History. | Ohio River -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1040 | Title: | Francis M. Leonard Papers
| | | | Creator: | Leonard, Francis M. | | | | Dates: | 1831-1869 | | | | Abstract: | Francis M. Leonard (b. 1816) was the postmaster of Thompson, Ohio (1869). The collection consists of a journal of Leonard's experiences at religious and social meetings throughout northeastern Ohio, particularly Geauga County, (1831-1836), copies of two speeches (1833, 1839), and Leonard's appointment as postmaster of Thompson, Ohio (1869). | | | | Call #: | MS 3435 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Leonard, Francis M., b. 1816. | Postal service -- Ohio -- Thompson -- Postmasters. | Ohio -- Religious life and customs. | Ohio -- Social life and customs.
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