Series: 21 CC - 22 CC (Volumes 21-22)
Scope and Content Note: James Wier letterbooks, 1805-1816, 1816-1824. A native of Ireland, Wier settled about 1788 in Kentucky, where he prospered as a merchant and business entrepreneur with a general store and factories for hemp yarn and bagging in Lexington and a cotton mill in Woodford County. The letterbook copies of his outgoing business correspondence reveal the scope of his trade from Pittsburgh to New Orleans, Nashville, and Charleston; the problems of river transport on the Ohio and Mississippi; his relations with financial houses in New York and Philadelphia; and the types and quantities of merchandise he ordered for his general store. A few letters were written by business associates, most notably Henry Wier beginning in 1816.