Pendleton County (W. Va.) Court Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0038
Primarily includes marriage bonds (including parents’ consent to marriage), indentures, bonds, debt cases, military commissions signed by Virginia governors, and capiases.
Highlights include:
Several envelopes across all three boxes of original materials (and their corresponding microfilm) include indentures, which bound someone to contract labor (indentured servitude?) as an "Apprentice." Several (perhaps most or all) of these contracted individuals are "poor" children. Envelopes 21 and 23, in Box 3, have a few indentures of free Black persons. These records appear to be similar in wording, though not of an identical nature, to the older indentures more notorious from the 18th century in Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Envelope 3 in Box 1 contains three bastardy cases, which each include two court summonses.
Some boxes have military commissions signed by Virginia governors, including Henry Lee.
Almost all of the original materials are duplicated on microfilm. Only Envelope 24, which contains a single item (a small piece of paper that is a memo of debt), in Box 3 was not microfilmed.
For materials in Boxes 1-3 and the Assessment Book, researchers should use microfilm.
Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.
1.69 Linear Feet (Summary: 1 ft. 8.25 in. (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (3 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each))
English
Court records pertaining to Pendleton County, (West) Virginia from 1789 to 1880. Includes bonds, marriage bonds, capiases, affidavits, indentures, and military commissions signed by Virginia governors.
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: West Virginia & Regional History Center
Gift of Calhoun, Harlan M., 1936 October (Boxes 1-3).
Gift of Woods, Samuel V., 1957 October 27 (Assessment Book).
In order to determine scope and contents, the processor examined the contents of all envelopes in Box 1, then sampled three envelopes each from Boxes 2 and 3 (from the beginning, middle, and end of each box).
It has been decided to merge A&M 676 (a single Assessment Book) with this collection because, while they have two separate donors, both collections are from Pendleton County and entirely to do with the county’s court records. Additionally, the numbering of the microfilm assumes that A&M 676 and A&M 38 are already a single collection (seeing as A&M 676 is represented by PEN-1, and then A&M 38 starts at PEN-2 rather than restarting the count).
Part of the West Virginia and Regional History Center Repository