Watson, Thomas.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Martha Dent Watson (1837-1905) Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1798
Overview
Diary written in Fairmont by an unmarried daughter of Thomas Watson and Rebecca Haymond Watson, the youngest sister of James Otis Watson. Comments concern the Civil War, the Southern cause, Lincoln and his assassination, and the attitudes of Fairmont residents toward Southern sympathizers and returning Confederate soldiers.
Dates:
1864 December 31 - 1865 December 21
Records and Manuscript regarding Early History of Aurora, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0906
Scope and Contents
Deed for 800 acres on Foleys Meadows in Monongalia County, to Thomas James Goff, June 25 1787; tax receipts of 1829 and 1843 for Thomas and James S. Watson; a bill of goods of Stephens, Miller & Co., Baltimore, 3 May 1865, to Messrs. Wotring Co., Aurora, W.Va.; a manuscript plat for unidentified land.
Dates:
1787-1865
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1815
Scope and Contents
The collection includes 57 letters (1795-1871) to or from Benjamin H., Henry, James G., James O., Rebecca D., and Thomas Watson; 3 land grants on sheep-skin (1787-1798) Monongalia County; 25 articles of agreement (1812-1875), manuscript; 4 manuscript wills or copies of wills (1852-1862); 32 surveys, maps, and plats of coal fields (1798-1892); 99 tax receipts (1807-1865), manuscript and printed forms; 44 receipts for clerking fees (1815-1845) manuscript and printed forms; 79 receipts, bills,...
Dates:
1798-1902
Watson Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1949
Scope and Contents
The collection includes manuscript materials (correspondence, land warrant, accounts, receipts, petition and will) and printed and typescript materials (invitations, broadside, newspaper and magazine clippings). Subjects of the various items include sale and survey of land; schools, churches, estates, comment on and description of agriculture, social and economic conditions in Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, California, Morgantown, Fairmont, and...
Dates:
1694; 1783-1878; 1926
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- Agriculture 2
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 2
- Fairmont. 2
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 2
- Land. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Account books 1
- Aurora (W. Va.) 1
- Barrackville Covered Bridge. 1
- Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike. 1
- California 1
- California -- Gold discoveries 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Covered bridges 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Europe 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Georgia 1
- Illinois 1
- Iowa 1
- Ireland 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Louisiana 1
- Missouri 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- South Carolina 1
- Taxation 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1 + ∧ less
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