Deakins, Francis.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Deakins Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0624
Scope and Contents
Additional Deakins family papers, consisting of correspondence, bond of conveyance, deeds, surveys and plats. [ALS] to Colonel Francis Deakin from John Compton, 1793, relative to surveys made by John Compton in 1792; bond of conveyance for land in Randolph County owned by Deakins heirs, 1809; five deeds for land owned by the Deakins family in Randolph and Preston counties W. Va., 1808-1885; 1848 deed from Francis Deakins to Northwestern Turnpike Co.; seven surveys and plats for lands in...
Dates:
1778-1881
Preston County Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0956
Overview
Papers from the Leroy Bucklew Museum in the Preston County, West Virginia, courthouse. The collection includes early papers relating to land, court cases, mills and furnaces, post offices, inns, mineral development, Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Company, roads, the Virginia-Maryland boundary, and estate settlements. There are photographs of Preston County and Kingwood, and maps of Kingwood, Bruceton Mills, Rowlesburg, Manheim, and of Berkeley Springs, Morgan County. Also includes...
Dates:
1775-1918
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- Subject: Land. X
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- Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Bruceton Mills (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Court records 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Land records and papers. 1
- Land. 1
- Maps. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Postal service 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Rowlesburg (W. Va.) 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Transportation 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia-Maryland boundary. 1 + ∧ less
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