2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Manuscript Document, 3p. folio, 1858, being “Articles of Partnership” between James Woods and A. Erwin Freta in one party and John and Jane Bell in the other with Albert G. payne, who is to receive “an interest of one twelth in all the Lands, Negroes, Stock of every description and debts...that belonged to the late firm of Woods, Stacker & Co. VG. This document is from the Lewis family papers, father of Major Eugene Caster Lewis. John Bell dabbled in Iron Works as evidenced by this paper. The Cumberland Iron Works was seized in the fall of Ft. Donelson as was George Lewis who ran the Iron Works and was present that day. The Iron Works were thought to be making supplies for the Confederacy though there was no evidence of that. Also of interest is that Abraham Lincoln represented the company in a debt lawsuit in the early 1840s.
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