Watson Family Papers A&M 1949

Watson Family Papers A&M 1949


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Repository
West Virginia and Regional History Center
Identification
A&M 1949
Title
Watson Family Papers 1694 1783-1878 1926
URL:
https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/198805
Quantity
0.1 Linear Feet, Summary: 1/2 in. (1 folder)
Creator
Watson family
Location
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Language
English

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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Watson Family Papers, A&M 1949, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.


Scope and Contents

The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and Wheeling, WV, and Ireland; westward migration [1849]; gold mining, enslaved Africans; and business and family affairs.

Correspondents include C.J. Cox, James and Louisa Creegan; Bridget Flinn; Creed Haymond; Archbishop John Hughes; James D. Lamb; Harrison Low; William Macdonnell; Asa Squires; W.O. Tarleton; Zephaniah, Mary L., Sophia, Mary G., Delia, & Benjamin H. Watson; and A. M. Wheeler. Persons receiving correspondence, mentioned, or commented on, and persons or organizations, parties to various business or legal papers include Abraham and Muriel Brookbank; Orestus A. Brownsun; Matthew Campbell; Cornelius B. Carney; Isaac and William Collins, Susanna Cook; Joseph Cunningham; Thomas Dison; Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Co.; Peter Flinn; Thomas Fowler; Abraham & Jacob S. Hayden; W. C. Haymond; Jeremiah Highfield; Martin Hurley; Basil Patterson; George W. Paris; Joseph and Charles Peach; Benjamin Reader; Margaret Reeves; Richard Smith; Thomas G. Steele; James Eliazor; and Azariah, Zachariah, Elizabeth, Sarah, James, Ann, Dent, Thomas, Henry, and Louisa Watson.

Related Material

630, 1815, 1949

Subjects and Indexing Terms

  • Account books
  • Agriculture
  • Barbour County (W. Va.)
  • Barrackville Covered Bridge.
  • Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike.
  • California
  • California -- Gold discoveries
  • Church buildings
  • Coal mining.
  • Covered bridges
  • Education
  • Europe
  • Fairmont and Palatine Bridge Company
  • Fairmont.
  • Frontier and pioneer life
  • Georgia
  • Harrison County (W. Va.)
  • Haymond, Creed, 1836-1893
  • Haymond, W.C.
  • Hughes, John, 1797-1864
  • Illinois
  • Iowa
  • Ireland
  • Kentucky
  • Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor
  • Land.
  • Louisiana
  • Marion County (W. Va.)
  • Missouri
  • Morgantown (W. Va.)
  • Politics and government.
  • Randolph County (W. Va.)
  • Schools. SEE ALSO Academies
  • Slaves and slavery.
  • South Carolina
  • Travel accounts.
  • Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads.
  • Union names.
  • Unions.
  • Watson family
  • Watson, Benjamin H.
  • Watson, Henry.
  • Watson, Thomas.
  • Wheeling (W. Va.)

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

  • Barbour County (W. Va.)
  • California
  • California -- Gold discoveries
  • Europe
  • Fairmont.
  • Georgia
  • Harrison County (W. Va.)
  • Illinois
  • Iowa
  • Ireland
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Marion County (W. Va.)
  • Missouri
  • Morgantown (W. Va.)
  • Randolph County (W. Va.)
  • South Carolina
  • Wheeling (W. Va.)

Container List

Forms: Land warrant (manuscript); Persons: to Richard Smith, surveyor for Thomas Dison [sic]; Places: St. Mary's County, MD; Subjects: Land -- sixty acres to be surveyed by Dison
1694
Forms: Proposal for school (Manuscript); Persons: Basil Patterson; Places: [St. Mary's County, MD]; Subjects: School -- proposal by Patterson to conduct a subscription school to teach Psalmody on alternate Saturdays in Chaptico & Toma Cokan [sic] (No Subscribers' endorsements)
1783
Forms: Certificate of account (manuscript); Persons: James Green Watson to Jeremiah Highfield; Places: Charles County, MD; Subjects: School, certification of the account of Watson to Highfield for tuition due him for teaching Highfield's son for half a year, 1784
1789
Forms: Account (manuscript); Persons: Peter Wood, Sr. to James G. Watson; Places: No place listed; Subjects: Rental -- account and receipt for 2 year's' rent owed by Watson to Wood
1790
Forms: Account (manuscript); Persons: James G. Watson; Places: No place listed; Subjects: School -- account for tobacco due Watson for teaching; shows number of days taught, names of persons responsible for payment, number pounds tobacco due, and receipt of payment
1795
Forms: Will (manuscript); Persons: James Watson (deceased), sons (Eliazor, Azariah, Zachariah, James Green, Joseph, and Henry), Margaret Reeves, Susanna Cook, Muriel Brookbank, and daughters (Elizabeth, Sarah and Mary Watson); Places: St. Mary's County, MD; Subjects: Will -- leaving all property to children named
1795
Forms: Memo (manuscript); Persons: Robert Crain to [?]; Subjects: Rental -- regarding acceptance of 550 pounds of tobacco rental for property for one year
1795 November 30
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Zephaniah Watson to "Brother" James G. Watson; Places: [Kentucky] -- "Mason County Vicinity of Washington" to Charles County, MD; Subjects: Kentucky -- conditions in, Georgia -- comparison of land to that in Kentucky, Port of New Orleans -- comment on benefits felt by Kentucky trade to free navigation of the Mississippi River, family affairs
1804 January 27
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Zephaniah to James G. Watson, Abraham Brookbank; Places: Lees Creek, Mason County, KY to Morgantown, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Kentucky -- crops and health, family affairs
[1800 or 1808] August 21
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Zephaniah to James C. Watson; Places: Mason County, KY; Subjects: Kentucky -- crops and health, family affairs (copy of letter above)
1804 January 27
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Zephaniah to James C. Watson; Places: Lees Creek, Mason County, KY; Subjects: Business affairs -- money due James G. Watson
1812 March 10
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Asa Squires to James G. Watson, Benjamin Reader [sic]; Places: Lewis County, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Land -- inquiry regarding sale of 400 acres on Salt Lick Creek
1817 March 28
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Thomas H.R. Fowke to [James G. Watson]; Places: Nanjemoy, Charles County, MD; Subjects: Land -- inquiry regarding purchase of land in Monongalia County, South Carolina -- comment on political unrest, family affairs
1832 December 29
Forms: Will (manuscript); Persons: James Green Watson (deceased), wife Ann, daughters (Margaret Cox, Mary Green Watson), sons (James Dent Watson, Thomas and Henry Watson); Places: Monongalia County, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Will -- real and personal property (land, household goods, livestock, and enslaved Africans)
1834 January 13, Probate date: March 1834
Forms: Printed invitation (2 items); Persons: W.H. Postlewait, R.L. Berkshire, William H. Jarrett, Jehu Chadwick, James Evans, S. Lamb (Managers of Tippecanoe Party) to Delia and Elizabeth Watson, Mrs. Mary Jarrett; Places: Morgantown, VA [now WV]; Subjects: "Tippecanoe Party" -- invitation (to be held at Mrs. Mary Jarrett's)
1840 December 02
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: "Sister" from Mary L. Watson; Places: Morgantown, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Family affairs, Morgantown -- social activities, temperance and society, religious society, etc.
1841 December 22
Forms: Power of Attorney (manuscript); Persons: Mary G. Watson to Henry Watson; Places: Monongalia County; Subjects: Slave -- to take up and sell a runaway enslaved African, John
1842 August 09
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: C.J. Cox to Louisa Watson; Places: Wheeling, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Family affairs -- Church; Wheeling -- comment on
1843 July 16
Forms: Tax statement; Persons: James G. Watson; Places: Monongalia County, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Taxes -- real and personal property
1826
Forms: Tax statement; Persons: James G. Watson; Places: Monongalia County, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Taxes -- real and personal property
1833
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: W.O. Tarleton to Benjamin H. Watson; Places: Warren Hill, CA; Subjects: California -- comment on mining, weather, etc., friends mentioned
1843 December 10
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: James Creegan to Louisa [Watson]; Places: Elizabeth, Jo Davies County, IL; Subjects: Illinois -- comment on land mining, agriculture, etc.
1845 May 04
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Sophia to Louisa [Watson]; Places: Morgantown, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Morgantown -- marriages, Temperance Society; family affairs
1845 June 15
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Louisa Creegan to "Sister"; Places: Burlington, IA
1845 October
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: Travel -- Wheeling, VA [now WV] to Keokuk, IA by boat, Keokuk to Burlington, IA by stage; traveling conditions; comment on Cinn. [Cincinnati], OH and St. Louis, MO; description of cathedral in St. Louis; mention of St. Patrick's church; comment on Keokuk; disturbance at Nauvoo and comment on the temple; comparison of Iowa to Virginia; and family news and friends.

Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Delia Watson to "Sister"; Places: Pine Grove, Marion County; Subjects: Local and family news
1846 January 11
Forms: Autographed letter signed (copy); Persons: A.M. Wheeler to Delia Watson; Places: Potomac View, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Family affairs
1847 January 15
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: James Creegen to Henry Watson; Places: Burlington, IA; Subjects: Land -- regarding sale of land in Iowa purchased by James [Watson]
1847 August 19
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: B.H. Watson to "Sister"; Places: Wheeling, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Wheeling -- travel to by boat, Catholic Church -- building cathedral in Wheeling, services
1848 May 08
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: B.H. Watson to Delia M. Watson; Places: Burlington, IA
1848 May 19
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: Travel -- Wheeling, VA [now WV] to Burlington, IA by boat (name of steamboat given); Cincinnati, OH (comment on Catholic churches, museum); Andrew Jackson (comment on A.J.'s role in the Battle of New Orleans, LA); Louisville, KY (comparison to Cincinnati); St. Louis, MO (comment on business as compared to Cincinnati); stage coach travel; Nauvoo (comment on the Mormon temple); Burlington, IA (comment on size in comparison to Morgantown, VA [now WV]); description of farm (wheat growing on prairie land, description of soil); and family news (Harrison and James mentioned regarding their business).

Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Bridget Flinn to [Peter Flinn]; Places: [Ireland]; Subjects: Ireland (crop failure, potato blight, wheat failure), emigration to America, request for financial aid
1849 May 17
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Careed Haymond to Thomas F. Watson; Places: [Sacramento, CA] to Fairmont, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Enslaved Africans -- regarding runaway enslaved Africans and sale of an enslaved African contrary to Haymond's wishes
1852 March 14
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Creed [Haymond] to [?]; Places: "'Steamboat Elvira' 250 miles above St. Louis." Subjects: Personal affairs (payment of a debt and false reports regarding his drinking and gambling)
1852 April 18
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: James D. Lamb to [?]; Independence, MO; Subjects: Personal affairs
1852 April 21
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: James D. Lamb to [?]; Places: Independence, MO; Subjects: Comment on members of party traveling to California
ca. 1852 April 30
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: "Creed & James" to Carney and Watson, Creed Haymond, James D. Lamb, Martin Hurley, Isaac and William Collins, Jacob S. Hayden, George W. Paris, Abraham Hayden, and Joseph and Charles Peach (members of traveling party to California); Places: "Haymond & Lamb's Camp," Nebraska Territory
1852 May 06
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: travel -- comment on members of party going to California; number of miles traveled per day; camp and traveling routine; comment on sickness of wagon train people; number of wagons; estimate of time it will take to reach California; and prices of supplies.

Forms: Autographed signed letter; Persons: James Creegan to Benjamin Watson; Places: Nevada and California; Subjects: Mining in Nevada -- comment on gold mining in the northern mountains
1853 February 09
Forms: Autographed signed letter; Persons: Creed Haymond to Cornelius B. Carney and Thomas F. Watson, Jacob and Abraham Haydon; Places: Ophir, Placer County, CA; Subjects: Gold mining -- comment on prices and gold mined, weather, comment on the activities of the Haydens (who traveled with him to California), miners returning east
1853 March 11
Forms: Printed receipt; Persons: F. & P. [Fairmont and Palatine] Bridge Company to Henry Watson and son Thomas; Places: Fairmont, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Fairmont and Palatine Suspension Bridge -- receipt for payment of $1.00 toll entitling Watson and son to passage over the bridge for 1 quarter
1853 April 04
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Burt Brothers & Co. to B.H. Watson; Places: New York, NY; Subjects: Business -- regarding order for paper boxes and cash payment policy of the company
1854 April 20
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: John Hughes, Archbishop of N.Y. to B.H. Watson; Places: New York, NY
1854 April 29
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: the church -- NY vice (answer to letter from Watson calling the Bishop's attention to the vice prevailing in New York City); suggests pecuniary aid to the church to combat the problem would be welcome; comment on large number of immigrants arriving in city daily and difficulty "to preserve them intact, poverty and many other causes conspiring to their destruction;" and hope to remedy this condition in part by erection of Magdalen Asylum.

Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: William Macdonnell to B.H. Watson, Creed Haymond and Tom Watson; Places: Fairmont, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Magazine -- Politics -- regarding subscription to the "American Celt," comment on the meeting held by the "Know Nothings" in Fairmont, comment on the health of Creed Haymond and Tom Watson
1854 August 01
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: William Macdonnell to Ben. [Watson], Thomas G. Steele, Tom Fowler, [Crestes Augustus] Brownson, Joseph Cunningham; Places: Fairmont, VA [now WV]
1854 August 03
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: politics; "Know Nothings" -- the Irish in America -- Catholic Church; intolerance of Americans for the Irish as a class; opinion of the conduct of Irishmen; opinion on the platform of the Know Nothings; comment on hostility of political parties to Catholics; dislike of Brownson's action on the Know Nothings, his extremes in upholding the Catholic Church; and intention of not supporting the Whigs if they identify with the Know Nothings: "...the American people as a Nation are the most entensely [sic] intolerant of all people under the sun..."

Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: B.H. Watson to "Mack" [William Macdonnell], Thomas G. Steele; Places: Wheeling, VA [now WV]
1854 August 04
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: Catholic Church and the Know Nothings; comment on Steele being refused membership by the Know Nothings in Fairmont, VA [now WV]; opinion on Catholicism and Protestantism and persecution of the Catholic Church; opinion on Brownson's article; comment on the foreign populations, the industrious labor class, and wish they would come as fast as steamers can bring them; the American people who are ruled by their prejudices maltreating and abusing the privileges of the foreigner; prejudice against the Catholic Church adversely affecting the business affairs of the Catholic; and advises silence rather [than] ineffectual efforts to remedy the situation, trusting that the "Church must and will triumph as she has ever done."

Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: William Macdonnell to Ben. [Benjamin H. Watson], Dr. Campbell [Matthew Campbell]; Places: Fairmont, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Personal affairs and mention of Dr. Campbell
1854 August 23
Forms: Broadside; Persons: Thomas F. Conaway, Sheriff of Marion County, and administrator of the estate of W.C. Hymond, deceased; Places: Fairmont, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Enslaved Africans -- sale of four enslaved Africans, part of the estate of Haymond
1858 May 19
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Harrison Low to Thomas Watson, Henry Compston; Places: Big Oak Flat; Subjects: Land -- regarding sale of land
1860 July 30
Forms: Autographed letter signed; Persons: Harrison Low to [Thomas] Watson; Places: Oakflat, Pendleton County, VA [now WV] Subjects: Politics -- election (mention of Lincoln, Douglas Breckinridge Lane), Onego, [Pendleton County] mentioned
ca. 1860
Forms: Printed receipt; Persons: Fairmont and Palatine Co. to T.H. Watson; Places: Fairmont, WV; Subjects: Toll Bridge -- receipt for a $2 fee entitling Watson and family to use the bridge from October 1868 to March 1879
1878 October 01
Forms: Petition (manuscript); Persons: Robert L. Blaney, John M. King, Daniel McGinty, Joseph S. Morris, John Dodger and 18 other signers to Charles A. Wickliff, Post Master General of the U.S.; Places: Fairmont, VA [now WV]; Subjects: Postal Service -- petition to have post office at Fairmont discontinued and all Fairmont mail be received and distributed at the post office in Palatine Hill
undated
Forms: Typescript; Places: Fairmont, WV; Subjects: "A Brief History of Christ Episcopal Church" (6 pp.), Church -- Episcopal -- Fairmont
1926 October 24
Forms: Newspaper clipping; Persons: Nathan G. Goodman; Places: Baltimore, MD; Subjects: "The Death-Marked Trail of '49" by Nathan G. Goodman, The Baltimore Sun (Westward Migration, 1849 -- Article, 1 pp. pictures, 1 pp.)
undated
Forms: Picture with manuscript notes; Persons: Franklin D. Roosevelt; Subjects: Roosevelt, F.D. -- picture (manuscript notes on picture are almost all unreadable), "That tired old man is here again, Workman working while the …[?]"
undated
Forms: Clipping; Persons: No persons listed; Places: No place listed; Subjects: "The Republicans Talked…" (incomplete article from unidentified source), Republican administration -- Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
undated
Forms: Pamphlet; Persons: The Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company; Places: Philadelphia, PA; Subjects: "What's Ahead?"
ca. 1925