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Place of Publication: Morgantown
Index Card Notes: To road contractors. /Morgantown? 1828./ 6 1/4 x 7 5/8. Signed: Dudley Evans, Matthew Gay, Thomas P. Ray, Anthony Smith. Dated: June, 1828.
Notice of contract sales to build the Smithfield-Morgantown Road.
Transferred from Monongalia Co. Ct. Records 1960 Jun 30
Env. 356. Scott, Jacob vs. West, David
Signers Evans, Gay, Ray & Smith/ all Monongalia County Residents.

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Harrison County Index Card Notes: To the honorable the general assembly of VA., the memorial of the undersigned, citizens of Harrison, respectfully represented, request your attention to this their petition which has the recommendations of the governor and the engineer of the state, who made the survey our the country between the valley and the Ohio River... Your memorialists have felt for a long time the need of a good road passing from the town of Winchester in...

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Subject(s): County petitions, political circulars, transportation.

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Place of Publication: Monongalia County
Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. Your petitioners beg leave to represent... A road located from Smithfield by way of Morgantown, to the mouth of Fishing Creek, will not exceed 84 miles, which will be 7 miles less to the Ohio River than by the national road to Wheeling... At a place to which steamboats can ascend and descend...etc.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Harrison County Index Card Notes: Memorial. To the honorable the general assembly of Virginia, the undersigned, citizens of Harrison County, respectfully represent: Your memorialists have long felt the want of a good public road, passing from the town of Winchester, in the county of Frederick, to some point on the Ohio River, opposite Marietta, or between that point and the town of Parkersburg...etc. Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Monongalia County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The undersigned citizens of Monongalia County humbly represent to your honorable body that a few years ago the principal engineer of the state surveyed and reported on a route for a road from the mouth of Fishing Creek... by Morgantown and Brandonville to Smithfield on the Greak Cumberland Road leading from Cumberland to Wheeling... Your petitioners represent that the inhabitants along s said...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Tyler County Index Card Notes: To the general assembly of Virginia. The undersigned citizens of Tyler County humbly represent to your honorable body tat a few years ago the principal engineer surveyed and reported on the route for a road from Fishing Creek by Morgantown and Brandonville to Smithfield to Wheeling..... Your petitioners represent that inhabitants along said route are unable to take a sufficient quantity of stock to entitle them to the benefits of the...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Brooke County Index Card Notes: To the hon. speakers and senate and house of delegates. The petition of your subscribers citizens of Brooke County sheweth that in 1807 when the said county was erected, the seat of justice was placed at Wellsburg....etc. Brooke County is so situated between PA. and Ohio that a convenient shape cannot be given to it by conveniences under which parts of the people labor except by a division of the county...etc. Xerox copy...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Hampshire County Index Card Notes: To the honorable, the general assembly of Virginia: the undersigned petitioners would humbly represent to your honorable body, the necessity of an act for the further protection of game. The practice has become prevalent in our section of the state, of running deer with dogs, to the very great injury of the farming interest, and will go to destroy entirely that species of game from our forest... tearing down fences and tramping...

Scope and Contents Place of Publication: Brooke County Index Card Notes: To the honorable Senate and House of Delegates of Virginia now in session: Your memorialists, citizens of Brooke County, have gotten up a petition to be laid before your honorable bodies, praying that a new county not be erected from the upper part of Brooke owing to the improper location of the county seat... We are opposed to so small a territory being erected into a new county. Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library...