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Place of Publication: Harpers Ferry
Index Card Notes: The pleasure of your company is respectfully solicited at a ball, to be held at Mr. George Little's on Tuesday.... /Harpers Ferry? 1832/
7 7/8 x 4 7/8. Signed: P.W. Ward.../and others./ Dated: Harpers-Ferry, July 20, 1832
Source: A&M 1188

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monongalia County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the senate and house of delegates of Virginia. The petition of the undersigned, citizens of Western part of Monongalia county, shewth, that in consequence of the very extensive territory and numerous population of said county, the docket of the county court is constantly crowded with business so that delays in justice are proverbial... many jurors have to travel a distance of 30 miles...etc. We humbly pray of a...

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Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: An act to provide for the location of a site for the permanent seat of justice for Ohio County, passed December 8th, 1832. /Text begins/ /Wheeling? 1833/
12 1/4 x 7 1/2. Signed: George W. Munford, C.H.D. & Keeper of the Rolls of Va. Dated:... second day of January 1833. Bottom section of sheet headed: To the People of Ohio County.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Jefferson County Index Card Notes: To the senate and house of delegates of the commonwealth of Virginia in general assembly convened, the memorial and petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the county of Jefferson respectfully represents: that there is, in the opinion of your memorialists, scarcely any subject more imperiously demands grave and deliberate investigation by the legislative bodies, than the question of the adequacy of salaries of our judges... the...

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Place of Publication: Wytheville, VA
Index Card Notes: To the voters of Frederick County. One 6 in. x 11 in. black & white handbill announcing the candidacy for U.S. Congress of Charles J. Faulkner, March 8, 1833.
Purchase, Bookworm & Silverfish
P.O. Box 639
Wytheville, VA 24382
1996 Jun 18

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Place of Publication: Mason County
Index Card Notes: Memorial of the citizens of Mason County, to the legislature of VA. the undersigned appointed by the citizens of Mason a committee to represent to the legislature the views and wishes of the people in relation to the construction of a turnpike road from some convenient point of the present state turnpike down the Kanawha River to Point Pleasant... etc. Xerox Copy.
Subject(s):Road, Turnpike.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Chesterfield, VA Index Card Notes: To the speaker of the house of delegates of Virginia. The petition of the undersigned, citizens of Sundry Counties on the south side of James River, respectfully represent: the general assembly of the 20th January, 1802, passed an act incorporating a Co. to construct a turnpike along said road (Buckingham to Manchester) allowing the company such tolls as were considered reasonable... at the last session of assembly, on petition of...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Frederick County, VA Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA. The remonstrance of the undersigned, inhabitants of Frederick County, respectfully sheweth -- that your remonstrants view with regret the efforts of a portion of the inhabitants of said county to establish within its boundaries two distinct and separate counties, to both which objects your remonstrants respectfully protest...etc. Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: To the people of Ohio County. The commissioners for locating the seat of justice for the county of Ohio, having fixed upon a site for the public buildings in the town of Elizabeth at the flats of Grave Creek, and reported their proceedings according to the act of the assembly authorizing the adjustment of this question... they now take leave to present the reasons which have actuated them in coming to this result...etc. (This...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The petition of the undersigned citizens of the county of Ohio respectfully represents: That at the last session of the assembly, an act passed appointing commissioners to select a sit for the court house in this county the commissioners met in the month of May last, and fixed upon a site in Elizabethtown... Elizabethtown is not the center of population, the center of the territory, or the...