Prickett family

Overview

Genealogical information on the following families: Baldwin, Burris, Everly, Garretson, Griffith, Haldeman, Jenkins, Miller, Morgan, Morris, Prickett, Small, Springer, and Thomas. Included among the typescripts are copies of historical documents, Xeroxed photographs, and copies of articles and other printed material.

Overview Three ledgers of Henry Prickett (1803-1894) of Marion County, WV, great-grandson of Captain Jacob Prickett Sr. (1722-1798) of Prickett's Fort fame. 1) 1825-44, 250+ pages, recording technical information such as tables of measure for currency, land, cloth, weights, etc.; also records transactions of his tanning business. 2) 1845-70s, ca. 300 pages, recording business transactions and personal and community events (including births, weather, visits by relatives, poetry, etc.). 3) 1880-1886,...

Overview Genealogical material regarding the Popenoe (Papineau, Popino, and other spellings) family and related families (including the Burris, Davis, Dent, Evans, Judy, Martin, Morgan, Prickett, Scott, and Snider families), compiled through the research of Oliver Popenoe. The Poponoe family in North America is traced back to Jean Papineau, a French Huguenot who immigrated to Massachusetts ca. 1700. His son Peter settled in what would later become Monongalia county in the 1770s. This collection...