Hi,
    I am researching my family in Virginia and have come across some letters
and documents that mention your family name, apparently they were in business
together in Caroline county, Va.  
    Below is a letter written by Reuben Ellis McDaniel to his wife Delia
while purchasing goods for the store he owned.  
    I have another letter written by Delia McDaniel to her husband (Reuben)
in 1843 from the family's new home in Booneville, Mo. that mentions P.
Woolfolk sending a letter of introduction to Reuben for a Mr. Benneson from
Va.   
    There is also a court record in Caroline county dated 14 June 1837 that
mentions both Reuben E. McDaniel and Pichegue Woolfolk.  Just thought you
might find this stuff  interesting.  Gina Watchous

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Baltimore,  10 Sept. 1836
Dear Delia,
    Since I left home I have been laboring hard in the market seeking cheap
goods and though I have not found them as cheap as I wish I think the great
care we are taking in buying will enable us to vie with any other store.  Mr.
Woolfolk and myself are both well at least as near so as when we left home.
 We leave in the morning for Phila. and New York and will not be able to get
home short of three weeks from the time we left and perhaps not then.  Tell
the boys to send as I directed to Port Royal on Monday next; however that
time will come before this reaches you and it will be innecessary to send
after goods till Monday fortnight, by which time I will be home with the
goods.  I shall however write again.  Tell the boys to open the upper part
marked in my name and mark it at a small profit.  The Russet cost $25
perdozen & the blk with it cost $24 - the small bundle of blk cost $18 and
ought to averaage $2.  I shall send some cotton yarn and perhaps some other
articles which I shall either mark or give a memo at the bottom of the letter
of the price at which it is to be sold.
    You must try your hand at farming while I am gone.  Do not let my fodder
be spoiled.  Write or rather tell Betsy to write Frances Noel and tell her
not to supply herself till she and Eliza come up and that I will show a stock
of goods as Sparta has never seen.
    Kiss the little children for me and when I see you I will repay this;
take care of my man.  Tell him his father has brought him a blanket.  I hope
I shall see a line from you when Seth comes.  
    I remain your afft. husband,  R.E. McDaniel

Memo
Cotton yarn No. 5 & 6    $1.75
      Ditto                   8   $1.80
         "                      10  $1.87  1/2
The flannels, check & bombgette I have marked.