Hayman family
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0630
Scope and Contents
Personal papers of the Watson family in Marion County, including a genealogy of the Watson and Haymond families, newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, social and business activities, and European travel. Mention is made of coal mining development in Marion County, strikes, labor meetings, conservation, and improvement of farming practices. There is material on politics, industrial development, early iron mining, Marion county history, the Barrickville covered bridge, Beverly-Fairmont...
Dates:
1869-1953
William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1695
Overview
History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.
Dates:
1893
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- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Barrackville Covered Bridge. 1
- Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coburn's Fort. 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Education 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Europe 1
- Fortification 1
- Fur trade 1
- Genealogy 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Indians of North America 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining. 1
- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) 1
- Ohio River Valley 1
- Palatine. 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Tygart Valley. 1
- Williamstown (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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