Fairfax, John

Overview Papers of the Fairfax and Warman families of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Morgantown, and Kingwood. There are letters (1811-1874) to Elizabeth Fairfax from family members and friends; papers (1840-1851) of William Warman; papers on the settlement of the John Fairfax estate; a manuscript census book of Preston County for 1830; and an account book (1857-1872) of F.B.F. Fairfax. A few advertising circulars, 1866-1931, are included, as well as clippings on Morgantown and Monongalia County,...

Overview

Typescript copy of the last will and testament of John Fairfax of Preston County, Virginia, now West Virginia, dated 22 December 1843. Details the distribution of Fairfax's estate, including a stone house, slaves, farm, furnishings, land, and animals, to his wife, children, and grandchildren.

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Minutes of a meeting of the Board of Education of Reno School District, 4 December 1880, being a hearing on charges of incomptency of E. J. Jefferys, a teacher in sub-district no. 19; a typescript, "Jacob Guseman and Descendants", (Journal Press, Kingwood, ca. 1912-1915); and typed copy of the will of John Fairfax, 1843.

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A tax book of Monongalia County, 1855, and an estate appraisement of John Fairfax for personal property at the Glades, and Cheat Farm, Monongalia County. The appraisement refers to the sale of eleven enslaved Africans. There are also two lists of delinquent taxpayers; scrip from the Gladesville Furnace, 1877; and a list of the hands at Clinton (Furnace).