Monongalia County (W.Va.)

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Includes grants for land in Monongalia County to James Calbreath, assignee of Joseph Tidball; William Austin, assignee of Thomas Laidley; Samuel Hanway; and Zackquil Morgan, signed by governors Henry Lee, James Monroe and James Barbour.

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A grant to John Simpson for four hundred acres of land in Monongalia County, signed by Benjamin Harrison, governor of Virginia.

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A copy of a list of taxable property in Monongalia County, 1783, signed by J. Pendleton, Auditor, giving names and number of tithables and number of head of livestock.

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Monongalia land grants, 1784-1841. See inventory sheet for a list of grantees and assignees. The collection also includes a few grants for Montgomery County.

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A writ issued in the suit of L. S. Laidley V. Nehemiah Youst, for debt. Signed by Waitman T. Willey, clerk of court.

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A schedule of the personal property of Hezekiah Catlett; bond of Jesse Wright to Sine & Co.; a writ of the circuit court summoning William Price to testify in the suit of Enos Myers v. Jacob Myers.

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A sketch, written about 1920 by Hu Maxwell, of a land office operated in the home of Col. John Evans late in the eighteenth century, near Morgantown.

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One Monongalia County voter registration book, Morgan district, precinct #22, dated 1934: Certificate of Result for election, 1940: Certificate of Result for election in 1942: Certificate of Result for the election of 1944: Sample ballot dated 1944: Official ballot, Democratic Party, 1944: Official Ballot, Republican Party, 1944.

Overview Work sheets from a survey of approximately twenty churches in the Grant and Cass districts of Monongalia County, West Virginia, in 1913 and 1914. Work sheets document the religious conditions in these churches by surveying the value of church facilities, church finances, membership and attendance, activities, and growth. More specific topics include a description of church grounds and buildings, including the parsonage and any amenities such as a library or auditorium; the cost of operating...

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Newspaper clippings of death notices and political affairs chiefly related to Monongalia County and West Virginia state politics. Clippings include articles about Mayor Terence D. Stewart and obituaries of prominent citizens in Monongalia County, including Civil War veteran D.B. Stewart.