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Content warning: the contents of this folder contains a broadside soliciting the capture of an enslaved person. Subject(s): County petitions, transportation.

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Place of Publication: Clarksburg
Index Card Notes: To Road Makers. Text begins. Clarksburg? 1850. Signed: H.L. Hoff, Superintendent. Norice to receive bids on the Clarksburg and Philippi Turnpike.
Transfer. A&M 1366. John J. Davis Family Papers Added: Nov 9, 1960

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Mason County Index Card Notes: To the members of the House of Delegates and Senate of Virginia: your petitioners, citizens of the counties of Mason, Jackson, Wirt and Gilmore, respectfully represent that the legislature at the session of 1847 passed an act authorizing construction of a turnpike road that the citizens of Mason have declined to subscribe for their amount of stock and still decline...your petitioner deprecate further delay in construction and pray...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Harrison County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: the undersigned, citizens of Harrison County, respectfully represent, that in February, 1851, a charter was granted, authorizing the construction of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad from Parkersburg on the Ohio River to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at or near the mouth of Three Fork Creek, in the County of Taylor, and a provision was inserted in the said charter, by the city of Wheeling,...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Ohio County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the senate and house of delegates of Virginia: the undersigned, citizens of Ohio County, beg leave to remonstrate against changes proposed by the council of the city of Wheeling, in that part of the charter relating to license for ordinaries and places where spiritous liquors are sold...loss of revenue...etc...the undersigned desire that the sale of spiritous, vinous, and malt liquor may be subjected to regulations,...

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Place of Publication: Clarksburg, Virginia
Index Card Notes: Notice. Clarksburg, 1850. Signed: Joseph M'Carty. Dated: Clarksburg, July 26, 1850. Caption Title. Text begins: All persons having accounts with M'Cary & Werninger, at the store of Swishers Mills, in Harrison County... Notice for debtors to declare their liabilities.
Original and Photostat positive. Purchase. Alvin John Hagerstown, MD 1926 Jul 20

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Marshall County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: the undersigned, citizens of Marshall County, respectfully ask the renewal of charters of the merchants and mechanics Bank of Wheeling, and the Northwestern Bank of Virginia, at Wheeling, may be granted, as prayed for by said banking companies, and now pending before your body, and as in duty bound they will ever pray. Xerox Copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74 Subject(s):...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of Va.: The undersigned, citizens of Berkeley County, respectfully represent: That the inhabitants of the western part of Berkeley Co., of the southern part of Morgan, and of the northern parts of Frederick and Hampshire counties, are for the most part without any convenient outlet to market...your memorialists pray that an act may be passed to incorporate a company to construct a turnpike...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia: the petition of the undersigned, citizens of the counties of Berkeley, Morgan, Frederick, Hardy and Hampshire, respectfully represents: that the construction of a graded road connecting the town of Martinsburg, in Berkeley County, a point upon the line of the B&O Railroad, with a point near or at the Canon Bridge upon the Winchester and Parkersburg road...etc...and pray that...

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Place of Publication: Martinsburg?
Index Card Notes: To the voters of the 10th Congressional District of Va. Martinsburg? 1851. 4 cols. Signed: Chas. Jas. Faulkner. Reply to a handbill of Henry Bedinger over the question of Faulkner's speeches on the Mexican War. FAULK
Photostat neg. Loan. Joan Deel Nerona 1956 Oct. 26 Original & Photostat Pos. Source: Unknown.