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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

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.

Surveyed February 21st 1816.

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 (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 356, 375, 379; Rodney H. True, “Minute Book of the Agricultural Society of Albemarle,” 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).

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Enclosure: William Woods’s Survey of Land in Dispute between James Monroe and William Short, 21 February 1816
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Woods, William
Date
February–April 1816

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“Enclosure: William Woods’s Survey of Land in Dispute between James Monroe and William Short, 21 February 1816,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-09-02-0453-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 9, September 1815 to April 1816, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 662.]