Enclosure: William Woods’s Survey of Land in Dispute between James Monroe and William Short, 21 February 1816
Enclosure
William Woods’s Survey of Land in Dispute between James Monroe and William Short
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This is a Plat of 68 acres of land lying in the County of Albemarle on the South side of Carters Mountain, & on the east side of Dick’s branch, being the land in controversy between Colo James Monroe & Wm Short Esqr which has been determined by arbitration to belong to Colo Monroe.
Wm Woods. S.A.C.
MS (ViW: TJP); written on a scrap in an unidentified hand; endorsed in same hand on verso: “Colo James Monroe 68 acres Albemarle.”
William Woods (ca. 1777–1849) was the surveyor of Albemarle County, 1796–1828. He became a county magistrate in 1816, served as a colonel in the militia in 1817, and was sheriff in 1837. Woods was a founding member of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle in 1817 and received several awards for his skill in animal husbandry. At the time of his death he owned land worth $4,800 as well as fifty-one slaves and other personal property (Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1918 [1921], 1:269, 314, 315, 330, 345; Albemarle Co. Will Book, 19:347–50, 360–2; Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, 8 Jan. 1850).
, 356, 375, 379; Rodney H. True, “Minute Book of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle,”Index Entries
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