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Berkeley County Petition, 1834 January 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: A petition, to the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned, citizens of Berkeley County, beg leave to present to the view and attention of your hon. body, a series of grievances, which they have heretofore long borne -- under the influence of strong persuasion, that you will take their case into consideration... the formidable Mts. and streams that must be traveled to get to the county seat and voting places......
Dates:
1834 January 16
Jefferson County Petition, 1834 February 24
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Jefferson County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable senate and delegates of VA. Your memorialists of Jefferson Co. feel that a bank established at Harpers-Ferry would benefit the whole state.
Your memorialists also pray that you will enact a law, directing the court of Jefferson County to appoint an inspector who shall examine all flour and corn meal brought to Harpers-Ferry for sale or exportation according to the provisions of the inspection law.
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Dates:
1834 February 24
Circular on Transportation to the West, 1834 May 20
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Wheeling, Ohio County
Index Card Notes: Transportation to the West. Wheeling, Times press. /1834/
9 3/4 x 8. Signed: Knox & M'Kee. Dated: Wheeling, May 20, 1834. Caption title. Photostat copy.
Notice of commission and forwarding merchants on shipment of goods to the west.
Loan. Delf Norona 1956 Oct 26
Dates:
1834 May 20
Hampshire County Petition, 1834 December 04
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Hampshire County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA. Your memorialists citizens of Hampshire Co. respectfully represent that all taxes imposed upon the people of VA. that upon law process is the most unjust and unequal... it is a tax imposed upon the poor for the benefit of the rich... who are most interested in the speedy collection of debt... your memorialists respectfully pray a repeal of all laws imposing taxes upon law process in...
Dates:
1834 December 04
Hampshire County Petition, 1834 December 13
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Hampshire County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA.: The undersigned respectfully represent that they have always conceived it to be the duty of the legislature to watch over the interests of the honest, industrious and unsuspecting part of the community with peculiar care... of late years a system of fraud, sanctioned by the law of the land, which produces ruin and injustice to others... a man sees he cannot pay his debts, selects a...
Dates:
1834 December 13
Berkeley County Petition, 1834 December 20
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of Virginia: Your memorialists pray that a law may be passed, limiting the amount to be assessed upon the titheables of the county, and authorizing, in aid of that fund, an assessment upon the land -- upon the rents of the houses and town lots of the county, and upon such other taxable property as is now charged for the support of the government.
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Dates:
1834 December 20
Ohio County Petition, 1834 December 27
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the senate and house of delegates of VA. In the general assembly met. The memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of Ohio County respectfully represents, that on Dec. 8th 1832, an act was passed by the legislature selecting commissioners to select a county seat for Ohio Co. They selected Elizabethtown and laid out and obtained the ground for said purpose. But the court, under bias for the interest of Wheeling, have...
Dates:
1834 December 27
Berkeley County Petition, 1835 January 13
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: Petition. To the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned citizens of Berkeley County, beg leave to present to your attention a series of grievances... there is but one good highway we travel formidable distances to get to our courts and elections... there are many large mt. streams to cross... we need our election precincts nearer to home... we pray you grant a separate election district...etc.
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Dates:
1835 January 13
Jefferson County Petition, 1835 January 13
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Content Warning: this broadside contains content discussing the enforcement of chattel slavery.
Place of Publication: Jefferson County
Index Card Notes: To the legislature of VA.: The memorial of sundry citizens of Jefferson County, assembled at Charlestown, respectfully sheweth: That your petitioners are owners of slaves, the rightful property which is sanctioned by time, constitution and laws of this state... they would respectfully suggest the propriety of asking of congress the...
Dates:
1835 January 13
Wood County Petition, 1835 February 09
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Wood County
Index Card Notes: Memorial. To the honorable, the senate and house of delegates of the state of Virginia.
The undersigned memorialists, residing in the town of Parkersburg and its vicinity, believing that the establishment of a bank in this town would greatly advance the commerce, the agriculture and mechanical arts of this section of the state.
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Subject(s): Bank.
Dates:
1835 February 09