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Brooke County Petition, 1838 January 06
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned, citizens of Brooke County, respectfully but earnestly ask, that the road laws of this commonwealth be amended in the following particulars:
1st.--Two dollar poll tax or work on roads...
2nd.--Revision of state revenue assessment...
3rd.--Provisions regulating collection of road taxes be changed...etc.
4th.--Court be authorized to have lands revalued to equalize...
Dates:
1838 January 06
Wood County Petition, 1838 January 20
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Wood County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned, residents of the country lying on the Little Kanawha River and its tributaries, respectfully represent: The valley embraces portions of the counties of Wood, Jackson, Kanawha, Lewis, and Braxton have valuable mineral resources but is still destitute of conveniences and facilities of transportation... your memorialists pray the passage of a law providing for the construction of as...
Dates:
1838 January 20
Ohio County Petition, 1838 February 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned citizens of Ohio County respectfully represent the introduction in the general assembly of a proposition for the improvement of the state upon a scale adequate to the development of her resources... your memorialists believe that a road from Clarksburg to the Ohio River at Wheeling would obviate many of the difficulties under which we lie in this respect...etc.
Xerox copy...
Dates:
1838 February 16
Ohio County Petition, 1840 December 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Ohio County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of the commonwealth of Virginia: The undersigned citizens of the city of Wheeling and Ohio Co. beg leave to respectfully represent that they labor under great inconvenience because, of the prohibition of the banks of this state from issuing notes of the same denomination of those issued by the banks in the neighboring states which have denominations of fives, threes, twos, and ones... Your...
Dates:
1840 December 16
Berkeley County Petition, 1838 March 16
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 the state of Virginia: The undersigned inhabitants of Berkeley County respectfully represent: that the B&O Rail Road Co. Between the present termination of their road at Harpers Ferry and the Ohio River, caused surveys to be made in Virginia, which as your memorialists have understood, have resulted in the discovery of several routes between Harpers Ferry and Cumberland, lying in whole...
Dates:
1838 March 16
The Carrier's Address to the Patrons of the Martinsburg Gazette, 1839 January 01
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Martinsburg, Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: The carrier's address, to the patrons of the Martinsburg Gazette, January 1, 1839.
2 cols. Dated: Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Va. January 1, 1839.
Caption title. Photostat copy.
Loan. Delf Norona.
1926 Oct 26
Source: A&M 912
Dates:
1839 January 01
Brooke County Petition, 1842 February 05
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA: The undersigned, citizens and titheables of Brooke County, humbly and respectfully show... This general road law, passed March 3rd 1835, to a large majority of your petitioners is unjust and burdensome--... The people of this county have agreed and resolved to petition your honorable body to pass a law declaring--...etc.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74
Subject(s):...
Dates:
1842 February 05
Brooke County Petition, 1839 January 11
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the house of delegates and the senate of Virginia, in the general assembly convened: Your memorialists, citizens of Brooke County, respectfully represent that an act, entitled "An Act More Effectually To Enable The County Court of Brooke County to Provide for Making and Repairing Roads and Bridges," was passed at the last session of the legislature...etc... and that the law is burdensome and oppressive on...
Dates:
1839 January 11
The Virginia Petitions; Wheeling Meeting; Resolutions and Address to Petitioners, 1839 January 12
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Wheeling, Ohio County
Index Card Notes: The Virginia Petitions; Wheeling meeting; Resolutions and address of the petitioners [Wheeling, 1839]
Positive photostat in two sheets.
Resolutions adopted by pro and anti slavery groups in Wheeling, at meetings in January and February, 1839, organized by Charles D. Knox, James A. Clark, John Bushfield, and Lyttleton Morris.
1954 Dec 15
Rev. 1955 May 23
Photostat copy lent for copying by Delf Norona,...
Dates:
1839 January 12
Jefferson County Petition, 1839 January 16
Item — Map Cabinet: 2, Drawer: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Place of Publication: Jefferson County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Loudoun, Fairfax, and Jefferson, respectfully represent: That they feel considerable interest in the extension of the Parkersburg road from Winchester to Berryville, in the county of Clarke, a distance of about 10 miles; and pray that it maybe made on state account... this short length is all that is wanting to...
Dates:
1839 January 16