Map cabinet 2

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Place of Publication: Greenbrier County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of VA.: The undersigned inhabitants of the county of Greenbrier beg lease respectfully to call the attention of your honorable body to a subject important to the interests of the state: -- "The removal of the seat of government from the city of Richmond to a more central location." ... etc.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The undersigned freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Berkeley, respectfully represent: That, in their opinion, the existing road system is at once unequal, unjust and oppressive in its operation,... dependent upon a capitation tax alone ... your petitioners pray that an act may be passed authorizing and providing that expenditures in relation to roads and bridges within the county of...

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Place of Publication: Monongalia County
Index Card Notes:
Re: Schools - "Those who created the Literary Fund knew it would be brought slowly into operation. Men of extreme ignorance on one hand and of overgrown wealth on the other would resist until borne down by public opinion." "8,000 poor children were sustained in the year 1824"
See: County Court - Monon. Co. 1824
Re: Philip Doddridge - Congressional Candidate

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Place of Publication: Unknown
Index Card Notes: .../Text begins:/ Dear Sir, I address you this line, to inform you that I intend to be a candidate for Congress... A.G. M'Rae, Printer -- Clarksburg, Virginia. /1824./
Circular letter. 12 5/8 x 7 1/4. Printed on both sides of sheet. Signed: P. Doddridge.
Dated at head of text: Wellsburg, Dec. 24, 1824.
Transferred from Monon. Ct. Ct. Rec. 1960 Jun 30
Original plus photoshoot positive of page 2 of original

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Place of Publication: Monongalia County
Index Card Notes: Reward of merit. This certifies, that / entered in manuscript/ Miss. M. Hughs...
4 1/2 x 4 5/8. Autograph signature: John W. Woodward. Dated in manuscript: 1825. Photostat copy.
Loan. Delf Norona 1956 Jul 26

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Place of Publication: Jefferson County
Index Card Notes:
Source: purchased VA state library

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Jefferson County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia: The memorial and petition of the undersigned, citizens of Jefferson Co., in the tenth judicial circuit, respectfully represents, -- That the people of the thenth judicial circuit have sustained, during the present year great loosed by reason of the suspension of the superior courts of law for two successive terms due to the illness of the judge... The system ought to be changed or the number of...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Berkeley County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Berkeley Co. being convinced that the people ought to be heard upon every question which concerns their own government, and also believing that a large and respectable portion, if not a majority of the good citizens of this commonwealth, are convinced that the present constitution of the Virginia requires amendment, by a convention empowered to frame and to...

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Place of Publication: Wheeling, Ohio County
Index Card Notes: Hymns sung at a union meeting of the Sunday Schools in Wheeling, January 1, 1827. Wheeling ? 1827.
7 3/8 x 6 3/16. 2 cols. Caption title. Photostat.
Loan Delf Norona 1956 Jul 26

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Place of Publication: Martinsburg, Berkeley County
Index Card Notes: The address of the carriers of the Martinsburg Gazette to its patrons, on the commencement of the year 1827. /Martinsburg, 1827/
15 1/2 x 12. 2 cols.
Temp. display in case in WVR.
From: Berkeley Co. Ct. Nwsps. 1955 Dec.