1From George Washington to James Wood, 12 September 1796 (Washington Papers)
By a recurrence to the Acts of the last Session of Congress, you will find one for disposing of the ungranted lands No. Wt of the Ohio; and for appointing a Surveyor General for the purposes therein mentioned. And you may have heard, that Mr DeWitt, who was Geographer to the Army at the close of the War, after the decease of Mr Erskine, and at present the Surveyor General of the State of New...
2From George Washington to James Wood, 18 November 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly honored with your favor of the 6th, and thank you gratefully for your kind recollection of my interest in the survey made for Mullen on Timber ridge in Hampshire county. The enclosed (left open for your perusal) is a request that Colonel Heth, as Collector, would furnish you with the means for securing the land when the term, limited by law shall occlude Mullen, or any person...
3From George Washington to James Wood, 8 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The letter with which you was pleased to favor me, dated July the 8. came duly to hand; but business with Congress and the Senate (in their executive capacity) multiplying as the adjournment approached —and with the Creek-Indians; placed it out of my power to acknowledge the receipt of it until this time. I perceive by your letter that Thomas Mullen or his representatives, is allowed, by an...
4To George Washington from James Wood, 8 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
I have been Honor’d with your Letter of the 22d Ultimo. I find in the Registers Office the Original Plat of 400 acres Surveyed for Thomas Mullins in the year 1752. This Plat was filed in the Proprietors Office, in a Bundle Marked “Forfeited, the Rules of the Office not Complied with;” but from a Strict Examination of the late Proprietors Office it does not appear that a Caveat was Entered. I...
5From George Washington to James Wood, 29 October 1787 (Washington Papers)
I beg you to accept my thanks for the friendly information contained in your letter of the 20th Instt but from an entire unacquaintedness with business of the land office, since the Alterations which have taken place consequent of the Revolution, I really know not how to avail myself of it. The case you allude to is—on the 2d of April 1752—I surveyed for one Thomas Mullen (under authority of...
6To George Washington from James Wood, 20 October 1787 [letter not found] (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from James Wood, 20 Oct. 1787. On 29 Oct. GW wrote Wood about “your letter of the 20th Instt.”
7From George Washington to James Wood, 12 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
In answer to your favor of the 5th, I have to inform you that I can find nothing in my letter or orderly books confirmatory or disapproving the arrangments which have been made of the Virginia line of the army in the year 1782—the presumption therefore is, if they ever came to hand, that they either obtained a silent acquiescence, or that I did not care to intermeddle in them at all, as part...
8To George Washington from James Wood, 5 June 1784 (Washington Papers)
At the Arrangement of the Virginia Line made at Cumberland Old Court House in the year 1782, a Number of Officers of Different ranks were Declared Superseded, which Bars such Officers from Obtaining Certain Portions of Lands under the Act of Assembly of this State, Provided the Proceedings of the Board of Arrangement were Approved by the Commander in Chief. Applications are Daily Making by...
9From George Washington to James Wood, 2 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have to reply to your favor of the 2nd feby—With respect to the proposition of the Prisoners—tho’ in some instances it might be attended with advantage yet if once the precedent is established the applications of that nature will it is to be feared become general & that the far greatest part of them would have no other intention but to return to the Enemy especially the British; besides,...
10To George Washington from James Wood, 2 February 1782 (Washington Papers)
I think it my Duty to inform your Excellency, that I was Continued On the Command of Superintending the Convention Troops in the State of Pennsylvania, ‘till the 1st of November last, when the Board of War were Pleased to Permit me to Return to Virginia, in Order to my Being Present at the settlement of the Public Accounts, for Provisions furnished the Convention Prisoners while in Virginia;...