1From Thomas Jefferson to William Wood, 17 July 1772 (Jefferson Papers)
I obtained for you last June an order of council against Price for the 234. acres of land caveated by you. You must therefore before the 10th. day of December return to the Secretary’s office a copy of the order of council which will cost you 10/9, a copy of the survey, 5. rights 29/2, the governor’s fee 21/6, and Secretary’s fee 10/6 or the lands will be liable to a caveat. I observe Price...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Wood, 9 March 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been so closely engaged through the day that it has been impossible till this moment to open your letter. the matter which is the subject of it belongs to the department of the treasury the Secretary of which alone can inform you of the terms & conditions on which the lands of the reserve can be disposed of. I must therefore refer you to him, and should any circumstance require it he...
3From James Madison to John and William Wood, 17 December 1805 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
§ To John and William Wood. 17 December 1805, Department of State. “I have recd. your letter of the 2d. inst. [not found]. It may be necessary for you to forward to Genl. Armstrong our Minister in France the papers which substantiate the nature of the voyage, the ownership, capture & disposal of the Schooner Vigilant & Cargo: for if the case is such as you represent, the seizure was illegal....
4From John Adams to William Wood, 6 March 1820 (Adams Papers)
I thank you for your letter of the 2d of this Mongth, and for the Catalogue for the apprentices’ Library—I am highly gratified to see that it already amounts to so respectable a number—as I do not see in the list a Naval History of the United States—I take the Liberty to send you a Copy of that Work—which is at once a Monument to the Glory of our Naval Heroes and a proof of the inattention of...